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Those of you who've been knocking around the El Reg forums for a while will know that we have a badge system designed to honour invaluable Reg reader contributions to the site, or at least acknowledge a certain degree of commitment to giving forth. To get a foot on the first step on the ladder of glory - the bronze badge - you …

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  1. 0laf
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    Most post moar!

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    Postcount is postcount

    Now I know there is a badge to get....

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    1. Hellcat
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      Re: Most post moar!

      You already have that badge...

      ...and so do I!

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    2. Joe Harrison
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      Re: Most post moar!

      Posting irrelevance just for the sake of getting the badge? Very reprehensible and not in the spirit.

      Did I ever tell you the story of when my grandad was on night duty in Sidi Barani?

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      1. Fink-Nottle
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        Re: Most post moar!

        > Posting irrelevance just for the sake of getting the badge?

        Here, have an upvote.

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        1. lawndart
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          Re: Most post moar!

          But I try to post quality, not quantity*. Bad badge earning decision I suppose.

          *Unless there is a 6Tb WD Black hard drive involved and then the quality setting goes out the window.

          Speaking of which, that was some time ago now and no winner announced...

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        2. Martin Summers Silver badge
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          @Fink-Nottle

          Apparently you owe me one on your earlier comment. Us Bronze club members need to stick together. That is until I get to silver then you're on your own.

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          1. CrazyOldCatMan Silver badge
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            Re: @Fink-Nottle

            > Us Bronze club members need to stick together

            Indeed. Can't have the riffraff hoi-polloi coming in here, polluting our excellence with their non-badgedness!

            Death to the badgeless!

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        3. Psmiffy
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          Re: Most post moar!

          @Fink-Nottle: You sir get an upvote just for your nick, Gussie Finknottle.

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          1. Fink-Nottle
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            Re: Most post moar!

            @Psmiffy : What Ho! Another egg with a whiff of the Drones about him.

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            1. Anonymous Coward
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              Re: Most post moar!

              Is that you Gussie? Bertram told me you were in trouble with the Sheriff of Fife over a policemans cap!

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      2. PNGuinn
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        Stop

        Re: Most post moar! @ Joe Harrison

        Fortunately, no.

        Have an upvote.

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  2. RobHib

    Curious.

    I doubt I'd even respond through embarrassment, it's a credit he did.

    Now it's a story, I'd be curious to match his 'misdemeanour' against his posts.

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  3. James 51

    I wonder how many there are of each of the badgets.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Geesh

    Maybe we could chip in and send D**** a cake with a file in it.

    Open Source, not MS-Office.

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    1. Phil O'Sophical Silver badge
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      Re: Geesh

      Quicktime? Or maybe just one with escape sequences in it?

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      1. Adam 1
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        Re: Geesh

        > Or maybe just one with escape sequences in it?

        Maybe we could all just pick up the \t ?

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Geesh

      Maybe we could chip in and send D**** a cake with a file in it.

      Open Source, not MS-Office.

      And what would he do with a USB stick with a file? Oh, wait, you mean HARDWARE? Ugh.

      :)

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Go

        Re: Geesh

        Etched on the steel in a barcode format (PDF418?) giving you a file on a file

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    3. Terry 6 Silver badge
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      Re: Geesh

      Definitely not a Windows file.

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      1. PNGuinn
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        Boffin

        Re: Geesh @Terry 6

        Have an upvote.

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  5. 2460 Something

    Or use LOHAN to drop him some contraband in... Drones are way too commonplace these days.

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    1. GregC
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      Nah - he'll be out before LOHAN gets it's clearance...

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      @ 2460 Something

      According to a recent article Spanish grannies fannies are the way to go.

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  6. Winkypop Silver badge
    Meh

    Sorry to hear that D****

    Maybe we do need a ne'er-do-well icon for life's less attractive times.

    There are plenty of stories about corporate wrong doing.

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  7. ukgnome

    Well prison and IT departments are quite similar

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    1. chivo243 Silver badge
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      Devil

      Prisons IT Departments, or work? Every day Monday -> Friday I report to jail, doing a life sentence 8 or so hours at a time. When I'm finally paroled, I'll be old, tired and in the way.

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    2. Peter Simpson 1
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      Pirate

      I think we may have accidentally discovered the BOFH's nym.

      The PFY wouldn't have had anything to do with his incarceration, now, would he?

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    3. CrazyOldCatMan Silver badge
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      More freedom to insult the other inmakes in the clink..

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    4. BakedAlaskan
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      I am pretty sure you get neither conjugal visits nor time off for good behavior in IT departments.

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  8. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
    Coat

    Bronze Badge with Oak Leaves, then...

    I will be in the server room, tracing patchcables some ex-popsicle from Pandorum...

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  9. emmanuel goldstein

    "Private Eye" has the Curse of Gnome, maybe there is also a Curse of Vulture?

    Don't worry D*****, been there, done that, and it's not as bad as you may be thinking it's going to be.

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    1. Bob H
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      Flame

      Judging by the name is that a Hackers/Cereal Killer reference or a 1984 reference?

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  10. Anonymous Coward
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    And for a bronze badge...

    You get to share a cell with a man called Bubba?

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    1. Bob H
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      Re: And for a bronze badge...

      Does he talk about shrimp a lot?

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  11. g e

    Huzzah. Badges!

    Must add this to my LinkedIn profile along with Hollowing out Volcanoes & Womble Wrangling

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    1. g e
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      Re: Huzzah. Badges!

      Wait a minute, where's my steenkin' badge???

      Our records show you have been a member since 2007-06-12

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      1. g e
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        Re: Huzzah. Badges!

        Haha. Pillock.

        Was looking for bronze. Didn't spot silver.

        Extreme cognitive bias. now, where's my dingy lair..?

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        1. Danny 2
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          Re: Huzzah. Badges!

          That's why I love you folk. You at your worst remind me of me at my best.

          I was working at a high tech, let's leave it nameless for now, Cisco-kid, and some younger coder was joking away about $ rm -rf and how disastrous it can be. And because he was chatting about it, he did it, took down his own machine, and then groaned and admitted it. My first thought was naturally, 'how stupid can you anyone be?'

          And then I typed it in too because, well, stupidity is recursive and infectious. I'd answered my own unspoken question and took the focus off him.

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      2. Arthur the cat Silver badge
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        Re: Huzzah. Badges!

        In my case:

        Our records show you have been a member since 2008-08-08

        I think the Chinese would regard that as a very auspicious date, but I still haven't got a badge. Probably not that much free time probably.

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        1. Haku
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          Re: Huzzah. Badges!

          I joined on a Friday the 13th...

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          1. CrazyOldCatMan Silver badge
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            Re: Huzzah. Badges!

            > I joined on a Friday the 13th...

            I have no idea when I joined. Obviously I could click on the link against my name but that sounds all too suspiciously like work.

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            1. Shadow Systems
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              @CrazyOldCatMan re Work.

              I thought about starting a Procrastinator's Club but never got around to it...

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            2. Baskitcaise
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              Re: Huzzah. Badges!

              @ CrazyOldCatMan

              Well I just did and apparently in 7 days time I will have been here for 12 years.

              Will have to get up and do some work I suppose.

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        2. Alistair
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          Re: Huzzah. Badges!

          @arthur the cat.

          More like too much 'nip.

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  12. Anonymous Coward
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    Who cares for badges apart from those in the Brownies ?

    Get a life.

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    1. Chika
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      Who cares for badges apart from those in the Brownies ?

      You were in the Brownies too?

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Anonymous Coward

        Yes, I'm Billy Connolly and have been married to the lovely Pamela Stephenson for quite a few years thanks.

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        1. Chika
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          Trollface

          Nae botha, Big 'Yin. Gonna gi' us ten guitars?

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Go

      it's mine prercious of course

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    3. The First Dave
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      "Who cares for badges apart from those in the Brownies ?"

      The Guides, Scouts and Boys Brigade.

      The Army, Navy and Air Force, though in a slightly different way.

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