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A gold badge? I'd have absolutely no ambitions in that area at all. I'm probably at the time in my commentard career that I'd be looking forward to spending more time with my family. However, if one's friends were to persuade one that the best way one could serve the great institution that is El Reg was as a Gold Badge owner, then one would, reluctantly of course, be willing to take on the responsibility.
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Yeah, as the original story explains, badges are currently given to users who have created their account more than a year ago (along with other restrictions); gold badges are still manually granted by staff.
I cannot confirm nor deny having received any cheques.
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"I would have liked to have seen "JRandomUser's"[0] Up/Down counts before being booted off!"
Honestly? Does it really matter? Why? Some kind of vicarious "us geeks vanquished the vandal in our forum" kind of thing? Do you honestly think that your up or down thumbs have any impact on who is or isn't allowed to post here on ElReg?
[0] Actual name elided because it's not germane to the discussion.
"It does seem odd, however, that everybody can see their own posting statistics, but only see the total number of posts made by another user, and not the up and down vote totals."
Frankly, I couldn't care too much less (and that's a rather minute quantity) about who can view my posts, nor how many of them I have made.
Why, exactly, do you want to see thumbs up/down for other posters? What value is it to you? Consider for a second ... I can downvote every post you have made here on ElReg. And can do it again tomorrow. And again on Thursday. The entire concept of "thumbs" here on ElReg was probably invented to keep the fanbois thumbs-downing instead of wasting the time of the moderators.
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"To know whether I am 'typical' or not, just that really. But I already know that I'm not, so..."
... so why ask? Does it matter?
"Oh, it's you who is doing it, is it?"
No. I did it once, years ago, to prove a point. And still regret it.
"So now the moderators have more time to moderate your posts."
Perhaps they just want to be "first" to read my musings. Who knows.
"By the way, you haven't commented on this story yet, which is in need of some creative comments."
Done. Well, you DID ask ...
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Well when it comes to Eadon, I do not think anyone currently active can garner so much...passion.. and translate it into thumbs, regardless of direction. ( no, not even you , Jake.. :P )
I do think/remember he has been the only one to have reached Gold status [ with gold status set to Editors' Pick or "this is ridiculous"-amounts] at some stage, simply because of the amount of downvotes he got on his posts. On a good day he could hit a couple 100 downvotes, per post.
He really moved the posts when it comes to "tinfoil hattery" and "internet warrior" to near unachievable heights over here.
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I just noticed that for silver you need "2000 upvotes". But nothing about downvotes. Just because someone posts something unpopular doesn't make it false. You're encouraging a typical echo chamber where people only post what they know others will already approve of. Rather than being shit-disturbing muck rakers who MAKE people think about what the hell it is they're reading.
Biting the hand that feeds you rarely garners upvotes. You're only rewarding the kind of behaviour that you yourself decry in other publications. Popularity should never be the sole measure of validity or rewards, especially amongst geeks, nerds, and muck raking journalists.
How about requiring that people also have a certain number of downvotes, just to make sure they're not just agreeable Milquetoasts who just jump on popularity inspired bandwagons rather than put any mental effort into what they post.
(what, you think it's EASY being a raving angry loony?)
Bring on my Brown Badge![0] ... I had well over 4,000 downvotes from a single serial downvoter around 10 years ago. The CowardlyAC[1] seemed to think it could intimidate me into leaving with the obviously bloody useless "thumbs". Didn't seem to work all that well. ;-)
Nobody ever owned up to it, but I still feel very sorry for it's useless fit.
[0] Can we have both gold/silver/bronze and brown, side-by-side? Pretty please? Or are only official ElReg commentards allowed to have two icons?
[1] "CAC", an AC that cowardly serially downvotes (an) individual(s) without owning up to it publicaly.
I'd like (heh, here we go again) something along the lines of 'agree / disagree' in addition to the thumbs up/down option.
I like (or dislike) a joke, but I agree (or disagree) with a statement/point/argument/etc.
Plus this is quite often mixed - I agree with the point made as such, but thoroughly dislike the way it has been made in. Or vice versa. You get the general idea.
It's certainly not 2000 upvotes in total. I've over 6000 upvotes (net) and never had a (worthless) silver badge.. Just reluctantly traded my (worthless) bronze badge in for a new moniker which (hopefully) won't make me cringe quite so much. What's puzzling me is why changing my name got me on the naughty stool... Losing the (worthless) badge I can understand - some small inducement to retain an identity for the sake of "community" or suchlike - but why the naughty stool? Are they expecting me to be so overwhelmed with excitement that I'll be rendered unable to contain some long suppressed latent urge to splaff profanity laden spam? Or have they so much time on their hands at Vulture Towers that there's nothing better to do than "moderate" the banal whiterings of people who've been splaffing away here for years without incident?
My permission to post trivial "advanced" tags has been revoked too, which also seems needlessly harsh :(
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