W00t! I just earned a Popular Link badge!

Hi! To find out what I can do, say @discobot display help.

My most popular (at 396) was a link to tubadiva’s obituary. My top non-depressing link is this:

right after “delete a post” that you have to skip is “UNdelete a post” that you have to skip and despite everything I tried I couldn’t get past that. discobot says sorry can’t help you.

The weird thing is that years-old links still generate views. Some of them aren’t even valid links any longer. I’m wondering who is clicking on them.

I was able to skip that too. Not sure what it going on.

me, neither, but I will take it as a sign to go do something else instead. :wink:

Underhanded webcrawlers or Spammers? That’d be my bet.

I think I found the problem. It doesn’t like you to repeat the same word in the message chain. One can be “skip” and the next “Skip”.

There is also a regular tutorial which gives a different badge on completion. Just leave out the word “advanced” in my earlier directions

Well, I’m not one to toot my own horn, but I’ve earned a number of hard-earned badges, and I plan to have them embroidered on patches which I will adorn on my jacket, much like a boy scout who displays his merit badges. My badges include: Enthusiast, First Emoji, First Link, First Mention, First Onebox (I don’t know what that means, but it sounds prestigious), First Quote, Member, Reader, and last but not least—Popular!

Jealous? I’m sure you are.

It says I earned the Popular badge 8 times! While that seems a lot, I’m pretty sure the software miscalculated that badge number by a digit or two. I’m confident 80, or even 800 is the actual number.

Don’t hate me because I’m popular. I can’t help it.

I apparently have:

Devotee, Aficionado, Anniversary, Licensed, Basic, Certified, Editor, Enthusiast, First Emoji, First Flag, First Link, First Mention, First Onebox, First Quote, First Share, Member, Popular Link (7), Read Guidelines and Reader.

Hmm. First Flag and Read Guidelines, eh? Now I’m jealous.

…how much $ will you take for those?

I’m sorry, I think you’re too popular for those.

Onebox is the little preview box that shows up when you add a link to your post.