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It's "Dread..." isn't it?
Do I win a prize?
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 …
@ Ken Moorhouse
So close. "Danny and Dusty" did a brilliant cover of Knocking on Heavens Door, but they (Sid Griffin) wrote an even more apt one, "The Word is out on Me"
"It's like a little village, man!
I was feeling very sad and so low, I went looking for some liquid sympathy
Went and found some bums down at the depot and those commentards went and called the cops on me
...
Seems like lately I've been paying for things I used to get for free
Don't you know I hear the music playin', whoah I know the word is out on me"
Silver gets you on the Special Watch List as a Subversive Element.
Ohhhhhhhhhh fuck.
On the upside, no chance of me getting upgraded to gold. There's no way I'm considered a net positive, given how much of a greenie I was when I joined.
For Silver, a copy of Windows 10.
Even though I only really use Windows for gaming, there's no way I'm putting that spyware on my gorgeous Plasma 5 box.
"
Who is is wearing badges, Who is making love
Who is receiving from up above
talking in a whisper, yeah speaking in tongues
talking of the devil yeah here he comes
badges, badges, we don't need no steenkin' bajees
Walks up to me, makes the sign of the cross,
says Julian H. Cope, you're a real dead loss
"
Okay, the old ones are not necessarily the best, but at least give me a wee bit of credit for getting the Doctor into this spamalot. 'I wanna be the pappa of this whole darn thread'. Ah the fun of drinking songs with friends, worth it even if I won't see your replies or downvotes and I lose my badge.
"Well, I woke up next morning feeling like my head was gone
And like my thick old tongue was licking something sick and wrong
And I told that man I'd sell my soul for something wet and cold as that old cell"
~Voltaire, Candide
>Upvotes are easy.
Just say how wonderful Linux is or how crap windows is. In any article about PC World say how you belittled one of the sales people with your superior knowledge even though you only went in to get out of the rain and wouldn't ever dream of buying anything from them. Deriding Apple products/users also used to be a sure fire winner but that seems to be 50/50 recently.