@PlacidPenguin At the risk of metaphorically sticking my fist in a beehive and sending all y’all after me asking for trophies, I will point out that I never specifically said goat trophies would never be sent. Just that unsent prizes from all the contests and shit from when JonT ran things weren’t ever gonna happen. Maybe someday we’ll dig out the goat trophies and find the unused labels and take them in somewhere to get etched (because I sure as shit am not going to dremel 30 more of those dang things). Probably not though. Hope springs eternal!
@christinewas Perhaps you are right about the K’s. Anyway, one day the GoatE badges will outnumber the K’s, and my K will once again be higher on the hierarchy.
@RiotDemon Seems to. The OP, @lisaviolet, looks to have both, but the dead goat icon shows. Good thing meh doesn’t officially recognize me as a past goat.
So if an ex-goat and ex-VMP mehmber gets all the other ex-VMPs (except for @cranky1950) to pony up $4.99 and reinstate their VMP2 status, then that ex-goat would relinquish their ex-goat for a poop emoji?
@narfcake Mehbe the “population” of badges for ranking should be tied only to the qualifying population that have at least one post.
if you don’t post, you don’t exist in the world of “people who need badges when they post in the forums”, so why on everyone else if you didn’t even use it? That doesn’t seem fair.
And if they post, then they get the badge they qualify for and the rankings are affected appropriately upon posting. It’s all kosher.
I’ll give you it’s debatable whether to determine the badge ranking that would apply before a person’s first post, or after (projecting ranking as if they were already included in the qualifying populations).
@narfcake Ask for a raise. Apply for a promotion. Whore your skills upon the public.
You do know I have zero to do with your paygrade there, right?
You described how the badges are determined. So you’re clearly in contact with the people that made that happen. Describe what I’ve posted to them or point them to the post. Seems like an easy mod to deduct users with 0 posts to give.
However, I bet it’s close to that, just not strictly based on numbers in a group. I seriously doubt if membership success became such that ex vmps decreased to the level where there were more ex goats that the expired goat badges would swap to poops. More so that specialty badges are an edge case and the badge is probably determined by something like the following:
If vmp then badge=vmp
If member then badge=member
If exvmp then badge=poop
If ex-goat then badge=dedgoat
If staff then badge=flask
If wootazon then badge=amazon
If volmod then badge=medkit
If goat then badge=goat
If snapster then badge=octopus
So it’s almost the same as rarity, but you’re just sifted through a tree of if statements that check group memberships and the last one that applies to you is the one that wins out.
(Or it could not be like that at all, I’m not a programmer and there’s probably a cleaner way if you know what you’re doing. But this is how I’d probably bodge it together.)
@mfladd@ruouttaurmind@sammydog01 All past scapegoats were on the email list. If you didn’t get the email and want in on the badge, just write into support and let us know.
@PlacidPenguin I’ve actually been keeping an eye for a bargain on a box set. TBH, I’ve only seen eps IV-VI (the “original” three) and I. The appearance of Jar Jar kind of turned me off. If I find a deal on the full set, it’s my intention to watch them all in chronological order in my own private Star Wars marathon.
Maybe I’m paranoid… I’m afraid that my vmp could lapse and I wouldn’t notice until I tried to buy something and not be able to get it back. I have a fear of being herded into the save-a-penny membership.
One day VMP will be more rare than ex-goat status… One day.
@mfladd I’d agree. In theory it was a good idea to have an upside down goat, in reality it looks too close to the real goat. I think the cemetery stone with the G on it would work better. Different shape would help.
@Dave - maybe a box can be put around the upside down goat or something to make it more visually different than the goat? Or put a gold crown around the entire goat for the monthly goat or… something I haven’t thought of… to make them a bit more visually different from each other?
Testing
FWIW, the shirt pictured is this:
https://www.teeturtle.com/products/yassss
What?
@therealjrn You were the first one I noticed to have the badge.
@therealjrn do you see it?
@lisaviolet See what?
@therealjrn arrghhh!!
@lisaviolet heh heh :evil grin:
April 2015 goat checking in and admiring the shiny new badge.
@carl669
So you have a trophy AND a badge.
Enjoy.
@PlacidPenguin yep! and a certificate of goathood.
@carl669 @lisaviolet @OldCatLady @PlacidPenguin still no goat trophy though…
@carl669 @lisaviolet @mikibell @OldCatLady
That’s because @Moose announced that any prizes from before 2018 are no longer happening.
@carl669 @mikibell @Moose @OldCatLady @PlacidPenguin
prized goat trophy
@lisaviolet
I’ve only watched part of the first two Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
@PlacidPenguin Watched and own them all.
@carl669 Fuckin’ A!
@carl669 @lisaviolet You fuckin’ betcha.
@PlacidPenguin At the risk of metaphorically sticking my fist in a beehive and sending all y’all after me asking for trophies, I will point out that I never specifically said goat trophies would never be sent. Just that unsent prizes from all the contests and shit from when JonT ran things weren’t ever gonna happen. Maybe someday we’ll dig out the goat trophies and find the unused labels and take them in somewhere to get etched (because I sure as shit am not going to dremel 30 more of those dang things). Probably not though. Hope springs eternal!
@Moose
So what you’re saying is that I should send you a beehive.
@Moose
We have an ongoing thread here about the Silhouette, “Silhouette Freebies”, if you need any advice.
You’re welcome.
http://thevinylcut.com/etching-metal-with-your-silhouette-cameo-machine/#.WvtPT5dG2Uk
@lisaviolet @Moose I’ll send a Sharpie if that helps.
@Moose Yes you will. It’s the meh-ness of the imperfect engraving that makes them great.
@Moose @narfcake
I
my Bamey Goat trophy.
Every Goat needs a Moose hand engraved original.
@Moose
/giphy so you’re saying there’s a chance
@Barney
@PlacidPenguin Um, not quite, but close enough.
@Barney
What’s not close about it?
https://meh.com/forum/topics/barneys-goat-prize
@PlacidPenguin I think I got the spigots wrong.
@Barney
Your goat has lovely spigots.
@Barney @PlacidPenguin So do the spigots spew coffee? Hot chocolate? Tea?
@Kidsandliz
I can’t address that. @Barney is the one who sees the spigots daily.
@Moose
Can you give us @JonT’s contact information so he can come back and do this job? Only he can do apparently?
@Barney
It just occurred to me that goats traditionally don’t have spigots.
Question: Will @kittysprinkles get two badges?
@narfcake She only has 1 account active so… no.
@narfcake @Thumperchick
One account, multiple personalities. It’s the life for me
This is better than the original goat badge!
Now people that have been goated can change their name and certain people like @mfladd can’t vote them in again!
@RiotDemon But what if the community wants to
punishreward @mfladd with a secondtermsentence?@RiotDemon
But what if he doesn’t enable the badge AND changes his name?
Oh, what a feelin’, when yer goatin’ on the ceiling…
Apparently the VMP badge takes prescient over the K or Dead Goat.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ruouttaurmind you have to respond to the email.
@RiotDemon No soap. I just checked to make sure it didn’t get snagged as spam by Gmail, but no dice.
/giphy not one of the cool kids
@ruouttaurmind I sent my answer via email, but @Thumperchick didn’t get it.
@RiotDemon @ruouttaurmind This is @seeds’ fault.
@RiotDemon @ruouttaurmind @shahnm remember, @Seeds for eternal goat.
Check out my sleepy goat!
@ACraigL All too familiar memory rushing out at 8:00 at night to find a replacement for the “sleepy turtle” before the kid woke up.
@ruouttaurmind
But…
There are no venomous turtles…
I kinda wish it was a goat head with x eyes.
@RiotDemon
@RiotDemon @ruouttaurmind
That would be funny
@Cerridwyn I bodged it up on a lark for @RiotDemon’s amusement, but I rather like the result actually.
Unfortunately, once I apply the shrink ray it’s not as much fun.
Congratulations, fainted goats!
I worked so hard to get my K transferred over from my other account, that I’m thinking about not going with the Goat E badge.
I just dunno.
Edit: Does anyone else think they look kinda, um, weird?
@Barney yes. I wish it was something different. It’s more unique than vmp, so I guess I’ll keep it.
I wonder if they can put the designation on your profile, but not override the K. I guess it depends on the hierarchy.
@RiotDemon I don’t have a clue how all of this works.
@Barney I still think it looks like a caterpillar, or a tomato worm.
@Barney I think the Kickstarter badge might be worth keeping. I’m not that cool, so the new badge was an easy decision.
@Barney @christinewas Goat badge is better. I’ve wanted one since January 2015.
@Barney @RiotDemon
The scapegoat badge would override the VMP badge, there isn’t a work around for that.
@christinewas Perhaps you are right about the K’s. Anyway, one day the GoatE badges will outnumber the K’s, and my K will once again be higher on the hierarchy.
Edit: The last thing I am is cool.
@Barney @Thumperchick but does the scapegoat badge override the Kickstarter?
@RiotDemon Seems to. The OP, @lisaviolet, looks to have both, but the dead goat icon shows. Good thing meh doesn’t officially recognize me as a past goat.
@medz @RiotDemon I’m a VMP as well. I was given the option of the goat. I like the goat.
The option was sent via email.
@RiotDemon It appears that the badge shown is by order of rarity:
@narfcake What is the hierarchy over on Casemates?
@Barney @RiotDemon Yes. The scapegoat badge overrides kickstarter and VMP.
@narfcake there’s more Amazon employees kicking around here than meh employees?
@RiotDemon - ask to see if they can make your K first.
@therealjrn No idea, actually. Maybe I should visit there more than once a
dayweekmonth@RiotDemon Fewer, hence it’s ranked higher.
@Kidsandliz More Kickstarter backers than Goat Emeritus around here, so no, the K will not take precedence.
@Kidsandliz I’m not a Kickstarter.
@narfcake now that I look again, it’s obvious. Excuse the brain fart.
@Kidsandliz @narfcake @RiotDemon @therealjrn
So if an ex-goat and ex-VMP mehmber gets all the other ex-VMPs (except for @cranky1950) to pony up $4.99 and reinstate their VMP2 status, then that ex-goat would relinquish their ex-goat for a poop emoji?
@mike808 In theory, yes. Good luck with that, though, as there are a lot of ex-VMP whom never posted and thus, no way of even knowing who they are.
@narfcake Mehbe the “population” of badges for ranking should be tied only to the qualifying population that have at least one post.
if you don’t post, you don’t exist in the world of “people who need badges when they post in the forums”, so why
on everyone else if you didn’t even use it? That doesn’t seem fair.
And if they post, then they get the badge they qualify for and the rankings are affected appropriately upon posting. It’s all kosher.
I’ll give you it’s debatable whether to determine the badge ranking that would apply before a person’s first post, or after (projecting ranking as if they were already included in the qualifying populations).
@mike808 You do know my paygrade is $0 here, right?
@mike808 @narfcake Yeah, but what about the bennies Narf? Huh?
@narfcake Ask for a raise. Apply for a promotion. Whore your skills upon the public.
You do know I have zero to do with your paygrade there, right?
You described how the badges are determined. So you’re clearly in contact with the people that made that happen. Describe what I’ve posted to them or point them to the post. Seems like an easy mod to deduct users with 0 posts to give.
@mike808 @narfcake
Were the first words on the subject.
However, I bet it’s close to that, just not strictly based on numbers in a group. I seriously doubt if membership success became such that ex vmps decreased to the level where there were more ex goats that the expired goat badges would swap to poops. More so that specialty badges are an edge case and the badge is probably determined by something like the following:
If vmp then badge=vmp
If member then badge=member
If exvmp then badge=poop
If ex-goat then badge=dedgoat
If staff then badge=flask
If wootazon then badge=amazon
If volmod then badge=medkit
If goat then badge=goat
If snapster then badge=octopus
So it’s almost the same as rarity, but you’re just sifted through a tree of if statements that check group memberships and the last one that applies to you is the one that wins out.
(Or it could not be like that at all, I’m not a programmer and there’s probably a cleaner way if you know what you’re doing. But this is how I’d probably bodge it together.)
@djslack
The syntax of that made me frown.
@djslack @mike808 @narfcake
I fixed part of your code.
If ex-goat then badge=emeritus
@PlacidPenguin that last paragraph is just for you
@djslack
By the time I noticed your edit, it was too late for me to edit my comment.
I blame @seeds.
@mike808 Nope. That’s just from looking at who has what badge.
@PlacidPenguin If only there was someone here that you can bother to edit a post after the edit window closes …
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@PlacidPenguin sorry, I won’t tickle you while @djslack writes for you in the future.
@narfcake
Where is @ignorant anyways?
To those who would have preferred a different former goat icon:
@dave was open to suggestions. You should have submitted something.
@PlacidPenguin stfu
@therealjrn
How about YOU stop trolling for unicorns?
@PlacidPenguin
/giphy stop trolling
@therealjrn
@PlacidPenguin @therealjrn What’s going on under that table?
@PlacidPenguin I did!
My problem with all these upside down goats id that the real GoaT doesn’t really stand out anymore.
@lisaviolet I like the way you think.
@mfladd good point. The cemetery stone with the G would have been been differently enough shaped to make it easier to tell the difference.
hmmmm
/giphy upgrade
I feel too sexy now.
I’m here too!
Yeehaw! Whee! Let the tipsy goat party begin!
Testing
@CaptAmehrican
Well? Was the test a success?
@PlacidPenguin well i didn’t get a boat which is sad. I did get a fainted goat which is cool.
@CaptAmehrican Boat, Goat… what’s one letter between friends?
@ruouttaurmind
That’s a question you should ask @narfcake.
@PlacidPenguin @ruouttaurmind More than one. The letters ‘c’, ‘d’, ‘e’, and ‘f’ are in between ‘b’ and ‘g’.
@narfcake Muckraker!
I want to keep my K, but it would be cool if ex-goat showed on my profile along with VMP.
I must be doing something wrong if I am agreeing with @medz.
@Barney
Sorry to read that.
@Barney Don’t know what you mean. I’ve very agreeable and totally not a polarizing user.
@medz Polarizing – that’s the word I was looking for.
https://goo.gl/images/beKYr3
WTF?! Have I been kicked out of the club?
I want a Dark GoaT anyway!
@mfladd Check your email for a permission slip.
@mfladd @sammydog01 I’ve been checking mine all day, and still no sign of anything from meh, save the daily email.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@ruouttaurmind
I’ll sell you my copy of the email for $0.05.
@Thumperchick @narfcake some GEs who didn’t get the email.
@mfladd @ruouttaurmind @sammydog01
“Esteemed Alumni of the meh.com Scapegoat classes of 2014-2018” , obviously @ruouttaurmind just doesn’t fit the category …
@mfladd @mikibell @ruouttaurmind @sammydog01
But then it also says:
@mfladd @PlacidPenguin @ruouttaurmind @sammydog01 BUT, it doesn’t address least esteemed!
@mikibell @PlacidPenguin
@mikibell
You gotta teach me your tricks on how to make @ruouttaurmind cry.
@mfladd @ruouttaurmind @sammydog01 All past scapegoats were on the email list. If you didn’t get the email and want in on the badge, just write into support and let us know.
@ruouttaurmind
@PlacidPenguin
@mikibell Ya, I’ll take this one… @PlacidPenguin has never seen these films. And apparently damn proud of it.
@ruouttaurmind
Fine.
Get my the DVD set of all the movies, and I’ll watch them.
@PlacidPenguin I’ve actually been keeping an eye for a bargain on a box set. TBH, I’ve only seen eps IV-VI (the “original” three) and I. The appearance of Jar Jar kind of turned me off. If I find a deal on the full set, it’s my intention to watch them all in chronological order in my own private Star Wars marathon.
@mfladd How about a semi-dark goat? Also, semi-old goat.
@ruouttaurmind
/giphy heart
This is pretty neat:
Imma “fainting goat” here,
Imma “V-shield” at Morningsave and,
Imma “Kickstarter K” at Casemates.
lol I guess I’m easily amused.
@therealjrn lol…
Geez this is tough, do I want poo or a dead goat?
@cranky1950
@cranky1950 @ruouttaurmind Given the choice - I would take POO everytime!
@mfladd so quit VMP and then tell them you don’t want the goat emeritus. Problem solved. You are welcome. :snicker:
Maybe I’m paranoid… I’m afraid that my vmp could lapse and I wouldn’t notice until I tried to buy something and not be able to get it back. I have a fear of being herded into the save-a-penny membership.
One day VMP will be more rare than ex-goat status… One day.
@djslack
/image winter is coming
@djslack I’m with you. Then again, not my problem.
@djslack Nah all you’d have to do is post and see a poop pile by your user name. Then you’d know immediately.
@Kidsandliz not if I go with goat emeritus.
I’m almost afraid to comment in this thread.
@cinoclav Hmm and why would that be ol’ future goat?
what
@ChosenZero
What?
@ChosenZero @PlacidPenguin
/youtube what what
@2many2no @ChosenZero @PlacidPenguin
/giphy wut
@2many2no @ChosenZero @f00l @PlacidPenguin
Dead goat army unite here? (But stay here!)
I have released the zombified GoaT. It takes away from the real GoaT standing out. It also wasn’t Dark enough!
Or it should say, “I’m V!!!”
@mfladd I’d agree. In theory it was a good idea to have an upside down goat, in reality it looks too close to the real goat. I think the cemetery stone with the G on it would work better. Different shape would help.
@Dave - maybe a box can be put around the upside down goat or something to make it more visually different than the goat? Or put a gold crown around the entire goat for the monthly goat or… something I haven’t thought of… to make them a bit more visually different from each other?
Thanks, by the way, for doing the ex-goat badge.
@dave or a box around the just the active goat since then it would be the only one with that and it would stand out more?