Signs that You're Addicted to BoingBoing BBS

When you have an “excessive” amount of badges, as my mentor noted over my shoulder while visiting me yesterday.

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You’d invite even the regulars you don’t get along with to a barbeque/fish fry/gathering just to have the familiar faces all together.

As an ‘actually happened’ though I saw my niece riding my pit/border collie mix like a horse and my first thought is ‘Should this go in the ‘show off your pets’ thread, or would i get away with being able to make a specialty pitbull thread?’ Then I realized no camera so wondered if I should just post in the ‘fuck me’ thread instead.

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how many is too many?

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He didn’t specify; he just indicated that I have a lot

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You do, they gamified this pretty well.

Score, another badge for me (the reply by email).

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You have a BBS Mentor?!
Now that’s being addicted.

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*lolz

Not quite.

I have a mentor in meatspace (@ebonstorm) who also happens to be a member of Boing Boing; though he’s not as active on the forum as I am.

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Ha! So I only thought I was joking then! :smile:
:+1:

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I’ve been here half as long as you have, but still have the same number of unique badges:

Although your badges are different and you’ve earned far more of the non-unique ones.

Unless you’re such an addict that you look at the criteria for each badge and just think LOL.

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Wait, where’s my meatspace boingboing member mentor?

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I have a feeling you don’t live near me.

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I don’t live near anybody! All my friends be like, why do you live so far away from everything?

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Yeah, I don’t think we’re even in the same hemisphere.

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Haven’t they contacted you yet? I thought everyone got … uh…never mind.

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Tease. I like you.

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:blush:

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@XantheStone
Robot: “Danger… Danger…”

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You discover you have >100K likes.

(and 6 months of time spent on the site)

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