I'm not really coming late to this party. Have been peeking in the window but didn't want to go in until I read this quote from kleinbl00: Plus what starts in a stall, stays in a stall. 8bit, could you do that and send us the picture. I think you should take it personally in that way. I don't come across too much racist, anti-semitic, anti-Arab, anti-gay crap in my classroom anymore. Mostly because my students are older, but I only let one comment pass unquestioned in the last 35 years -- and at the moment, I'm wishing I hadn't. But what to say? I was walking behind some students (no one that I knew) at the start of the Canada's involvement in Afghanistan -- early 00s I guess -- and I heard one student say to another, "I can hardly wait to get over there and kill some ragheads." I wish I had had a set of comments at my tonguetip. I suppose minimally, I could just name it: "That's a racist thing to say." btw, 8bit, I loved the ironic badging. I wondered if along with the question "Do you want to badge this comment? Yes? No? There could be another option. Do you want to badge this comment? Yes? No? Ironically? and if we choose ironically, it could appear in a non-gold colour. What do you think?On the one hand, 8bit could scrawl "you insensitive racist cracker mutherfuckers" underneath the bathroom graffiti.
That somehow made sense to me. A graffito for a graffito.
Ironic badging does have a history on Hubski, although its use is almost exclusively limited to minimum_wage (will I get one here?!), as far as I've ever seen. I get the sense that m_w uses them both to make fun of the user (as is the case with 8bit's), and to make fun of the imaginary internet points system as a whole. m_w, please correct me if I'm wrong.
pretty sure flagamuffin gets it on with the ironic badges.
Ironic badging is something of an art. The associated comment usually begins "badged ironically." I went looking for m_w's use of ironic badging in order to add the #ironicbadging tag but couldn't find any incidents. I do recall seeing it though and giggling. I'm inclined to agree with kb though. Although it's hard to imagine something with the word ironic in it being misused.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 There might be more, those are the ones that stood out to me. Can't believe I just spent 5 minutes going through badge history and picking those out. Better than working on my exit presentation all afternoon, I guess.I went looking for m_w's use of ironic badging in order to add the #ironicbadging tag but couldn't find any incidents. I do recall seeing it though and giggling.
I actually regret the ironic badge and kinda want to take it back, and I agree with kleinbl00. It's an assholish thing to do and I wouldn't want to do it frequently. I'd rather said badges go somewhere worthwhile. That doesn't make it any less hilarious with the proper timing, though. But hilarious and "a good thing to do" aren't always on one side of the same coin. Dude brings a lot of anger out of me that he doesn't deserve to get, sure as hell doesn't deserve my badges, ya know. That being said, next time someone disagrees with me and does it in a way that I can actually work with and respond to on an intellectual and honest level, that person will be getting an un-ironic badge.
I like to give really terrible drivers thumbs-ups when I'm road-ragin'. And I shout at them, "Good job buddy!" But they can't hear me because even if my windows are down theirs are up. Usually. What 'choo gon do 'bout a thumbs-up, brah? Choo gunna fight? Also it's just really satisfactory because I do believe when most drivers are being shitty, they know they're doing a shitty job - and even if they think they're not doing a shitty job they're usually aware that other people on the road disagree. But I don't have to actively participate in a community in order to earn a thumbs-up to give away, which is why I think badges can be seen as inherently "valuable," and by giving them to shitty content a) you're potentially de-valuing badges and you're certainly altering the meaning of them, and b) the "badges" page becomes shittier browsing material. Although, potentially, funny. I actually regret the ironic badge and kinda want to take it back, and I agree with kleinbl00.
I don't, actually. An ironic badge is the only equivalent we have of a downvote. They're discordant. I think distinguishing between "good badge" and "bad badge" is a quick way to increase the combativeness of the site, which is already up by several orders of magnitude as our immigrants adjust to the culture around here.