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Hey! I've been a member of these forums for over 2 years! How come I don't get a little diploma with "2+ Year Membership" next to my name??
Same here, buddy.Hey! I've been a member of these forums for over 2 years! How come I don't get a little diploma with "2+ Year Membership" next to my name??
Says the mod with the 5+ year member icon Thanks r_salis!The "longevity icons" are being applied through a (slow -- to avoid system slowdowns) batch script to SDNers who have been members 2+ years and had a minimum of 100 posts/year. I'm told they should show up by the end of the month at the latest, otherwise let me know.
The "longevity icons" are being applied through a (slow -- to avoid system slowdowns) batch script to SDNers who have been members 2+ years and had a minimum of 100 posts/year. I'm told they should show up by the end of the month at the latest, otherwise let me know.
Hey! I've been a member of these forums for over 2 years! How come I don't get a little diploma with "2+ Year Membership" next to my name??
Same here, buddy.
I hooked you both up manually. NOW, how about Life Member icons for both of you?? You too, r_salis. I'm hitting up all the practicing docs on SDN.
HA! Yes! I demand that everyone on here marvel at my plethora of icons!
Now....what does becoming a life member entail?
What's this adviser badge business?
We should have one for current students...and yes, I know about the mentor thread...but I'm not sold on it.
It's a one time donation to SDN that confers permanent platinum-level donor benefits. No ads, you get 2000 PM's in your PM box, but best of all you get a cool shield (like mine) that never goes away. Then you'll have as many icons as I do.
We just re-did all of SDN's donor levels: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/payments.php
Life Member is 2nd from the top, right under platinum.
For the record Ken, I will have a 3+ year icon before you. Not to mention the life member icon once my accountant sends the check. If you hurry you could beat me to that one.HA! Yes! I demand that everyone on here marvel at my plethora of icons!
Now....what does becoming a life member entail?
For the record Ken, I will have a 3+ year icon before you. Not to mention the life member icon once my accountant sends the check. If you hurry you could beat me to that one.
Now wait a minute....
What would happen if I were to donate $15 for bronze membership, $30 for silver, $45 for gold, and then $60 for platinum? Would I actually get 4 different shields, or will each increase in donation remove the previous icon? Am I going to lose my smiley face icon?
Grrrrrrrr!!!!
I'm actually waiting to find out what happens if I donate at multiple levels. If I get more than one shield, then I'm going to donate at the bronze, silver, gold, and platinum levels! 4 icons for half the price of a lifetime membership!
YEESSSSS!!
Now that's not very nice.If you get the Life Membership I bet I can rig it so your smiley face stays forever. That way, you'd still have one more icon than Ben does.
Now that's not very nice.
AH HAHAHAHAhahahaha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
Now all you zombies hide your faces!!
(and for bonus points.....who can name the band that sings that song??)
AH HAHAHAHAhahahaha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
Sit on it, Chudner! I demand that you marvel at my virtual cornucopia of merit badges!
Now all you zombies hide your faces!!
(and for bonus points.....who can name the band that sings that song??)
Ok Elder this is war.But since I can't match all of your icons due to that pathetic smiley face, I'll just have to enjoy the fact that my life membership icon is more manly.AH HAHAHAHAhahahaha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
Sit on it, Chudner! I demand that you marvel at my virtual cornucopia of merit badges!
Now all you zombies hide your faces!!
(and for bonus points.....who can name the band that sings that song??)
Ok Elder this is war.But since I can't match all of your icons due to that pathetic smiley face, I'll just have to enjoy the fact that my life membership icon will still be prettier.
Easy one...;-) The Hooters: All You Zombies
Ok Elder this is war.But since I can't match all of your icons due to that pathetic smiley face, I'll just have to enjoy the fact that my life membership icon is more manly.
I recommend that the life membership icon be changed to something much more cool, and then perhaps I will consider a life membership but ONLY in the event that I can keep all my other merit badges!
And now I want to be a staff writer too! how do I do that??
Ken, you crack me up. Just know that no matter how much they change the life member badge, if you keep all of your merit badges you will still look like that little boy scout that wore his uniform with all his patches and merit badges to school. You remember him, don't you? He was last seen getting beat up behind the bleachers by the cool kids.
Thanks! Now that image will be stuck in my head all weekend.I will however admit that sometimes in private, I like to dress up like a GIRL scout and spank myself with a hockey stick.
Hey Ken...check me out now. Remember, it's not what you know or how much you donate, it's how much the mods like you.
Best.Donation.Thread.Ever.
Now get all the other docs on here to donate too!
There currently is too much censorship on this site for me to consider supporting it. I have also yet to see an optometrist interviewed on the front page. There has been at least one ophthalmologist interview which included a childish slam on optometry.
Just as I will tell IU that I will never donate if the class sizes are not capped, I will not donate here unless the censorship is kept in check and MDs(or wannabes) don't have the right to get their jollies off without recourse.
Also, never until the thread:
Do you support Optometrists doing surgery? - ODs allowed to do scalpel surgery in OK!
Is removed as a sticky on the OMD forum.
I'll come up with my own Poll:
Do you support ophthalmologists doing primary eye care since they have very little training in it? I mean that's just as ridiculous.
We have a volunteer for the front page interview. I just wrote the questions and will be sending them out shortly.
I'm in charge of the interviews for the front page. I'll be happy to interview an optometrist.
You are correct that we've had one ophthalmologist interviewed for the front page. You can't extrapolate that into any type of conspiracy to suppress optometrists on SDN. In fact, when we got complaints about the perceived bashing of OD's in the ophthalmologist's profile, we removed those comments: Dr. Ahumada, DO.
There is, as far as I know, no censorship of this Optometry forum. You've got two optometrists and an optometry student modding it, so I'd be very surprised. We don't allow personal attacks, name-calling, the F-word or bigotry. But keeping the forum free of that junk isn't censorship.
We have five optometry advisors on SDN: Ben Chudner, KHE, 362.02, DrGump and Doc Watson. That's more than most professions on SDN have.
If I were to remove the OD Surgery sticky in the Ophthalmology forum, that would be censorship. They are entitled to their opinion. As long as OMD's aren't coming to the optometry forum to bash (and vice versa) everyone is entitled to think what they want and discuss their viewpoints (within the TOS) in their home forums.
I'd love to profile an OD for the front page, so talk amongst yourselves and find someone willing to do it. It isn't anonymous: whoever chooses to be interviewed should be willing to use their real name and provide information about where they work, etc. It doesn't have to be someone currently on SDN. If you know an OD who has a really interesting career and want to ask them, feel free. You can pass along their contact information to me and I'll take care of it.
Thanks, All4 you answered everything I was formulating in my head after I read Indiana's posts. We moderate the OD forum to keep it from turning into a forum like the Princeton Review forum or on some days.. ODwire.
We don't stop discourse. We only step in when it turns into bashing, name calling, misogyny , or bigotry. Usually, the users are good at monitoring themselves.
Thanks, All4 you answered everything I was formulating in my head after I read Indiana's posts. We moderate the OD forum to keep it from turning into a forum like the Princeton Review forum or on some days.. ODwire.
We don't stop discourse. We only step in when it turns into bashing, name calling, misogyny , or bigotry. Usually, the users are good at monitoring themselves.
I am pretty proud of my plethora of SDN badges though.
What does it mean? It says you've only been around for two years so what did you do: Give out four consecutive checks and said, "Where's my badges?"
Careful Ken, someone may make another deal with the mods and have your badges removed for a couple of days.People who have one piddly, measly ol' badge are not allowed to comment.
People who have one piddly, measly ol' badge are not allowed to comment.
Real docs with self respect don't need no stinking badges.
Or to quote a classic: "flair"
Careful Ken, someone may make another deal with the mods and have your badges removed for a couple of days.