The Escapist: Now With Badges!

[Shadowtek]

yay, wait, now i need to get some clothes to put the badges onto. hey you, come here. i need to ask you something......

ahh, new clothes. with that authentic hobo smell.

 

[Bongo Bill]

Hm. I wonder which ones I have.

Edit: Well, that's pretty neat. Make a game out of posting to keep people sticking around. Good plan!

 

[the-loopy]

This brings back Scout flashbacks.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

It's a satellite. Haile, the artist that did the 'Community' art, was being funny

Ohhhhhhh! Okay, I see it now. I think the blue background threw me off. Thanks!

Socialite, Satellite... I get it now. Ba-doom, *chish*.

 

[the monopoly guy]

No, he didn't get banned for what he was doing--that's the point: just because someone hasn't gotten banned doesn't mean they're a good forum dweller. Like he said, he wants a badge for "toadies and teachers-pets," in other words, people who don't get banned but not because they're well-behaved, but because they're a bunch of suck-ups.

j-e-f-f-e-r-s might not be a troll, but he's the kind of person where if you disagree with him he just stops having a substantive discussion with you and then gets snarky and vindictive. Like he said, he's basically a toadie and a teacher's pet. I don't know why he thinks that's actually a *good* thing to be, or why he can't see the difference between that and someone who is actually well-behaved.

As for the significance of getting banned/probation, there really isn't any anymore. I was on here for 14 months before my first ban...by wilsoncrazybed...less than two weeks after I responded to a post of his with criticism.

So I guess in my case it wasn't so much an issue of arbitrary behavior as much as behavior lacking in integrity.

Or...perhaps, he was just being humorous

 

[sirdanrhodes]

You're missing a few badges..."My first ban" "Ten bans, unpopular" "Perma-ban, why are you still signed in?"

 

[Dommyboy]

Achievement unlocked?

 

[kodiak90]

sweet!!!

 

[flamedance58]

I really like this idea so people can see what they've achieved in the forum other then knowing more about a game then another person. Also glad the staff didn't make a "100/500/1000/10000 post" badge..else there'd be spam all over the place

G'job staffers and kudos.

 

[Thais]

It's a satellite. Haile, the artist that did the 'Community' art, was being funny

Ohhhhhhh! Okay, I see it now. I think the blue background threw me off. Thanks!

Socialite, Satellite... I get it now. Ba-doom, *chish*.

Still looks like a nail through a wire to me.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

The nail is the body of the satellite and the wire is the panels on the side. Once you see it, you'll always see it as a satellite.

 

[flatearth]

Is there some kind of condition for the badges to appear? I think I should have a couple, but they don't appear on my profile. Is there anything that the original badge post did not mention, or just something I missed?

 

[the monopoly guy]

I'm your father (or something like that)
A user's first post is in your thread

That would be a good one, I guess.

 

[Doug]

Ban-fodder: Be the first user to type something along the lines of 'OMG FIRST POST!!!!' in a thread.