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Just noticed that I have a couple of new badges.... Monero Scientist and NEM Supporter.
And then realized it's April 1.  :)

Yeah me too, I do not know clearly what is my badges though I do know that the other one is Ethereum. I think it is a cool way to see my username in every threads, I kind of freaked out when I saw it just these minute.

The other badges are Ripple Ambassador and Synero Flunky.
If you hover your cursor near them, the badges are displayed.

I want to be BTC CEO http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/395184icontwisted.gif

just randomly assigned then?

It's using advanced AI to find all of your alt accounts and give you the correct badges. ;)

I am sorry, I am just using my android phone, so I dont really see it when I click on it, This is my first time hearing those two, thank you by the way.


Though I am really envious you have dash, I also want something popular like Dash, Doge, Lite or even Bitcoin itself though, I think it is really randomly assigned.

Everyone is now looking at the Dogecoin thread to catch theymos's alt... Haha :)

This is a nicer April Fool's prank than last year, when we had the "moondollars" substitution, or some such.  Can't exactly remember.

It's not quite 4/1/17 in my neck of the world, but happy AFD to all.

Really? Nicely Done sir! So the many badges you have, the many alt accounts you have huh? Time to go hunting  8)

Though, does this have meanings, like, what do Ethereum in my badge means?

Busted!! hahahaha  :D

I assume it is random since litecoin is the only alt on my badge list I've ever discussed here.

Yeah, random.
I never heard about Curecoin and I don't know why I would be a monero flunky.
I've talked about ETH and ETC more than any other altcoin, so I think its randomized.

LOLZ

Aside from Dash I don't even have a clue what my other alts are, so yes, definitely.

@FlightyPouch : Not everyone can be a Dash grand poobah, otherwise it would lose its meaning and prestige  ;D.

I've got a Bitcoin Badge! OMG! Hahaha
This forum ( April Fools Special ), Im loving it.

I just noticed a nifty named one: Grand poohbah! :D

Ugh I got gross ones guys. Who want to trade badges? Anyone want to give up a bitcoin?

April fools!!!!

We can share mine bruh, hahaha 😁 I am having so much fun posting showing off my badge, which is a Bitcoin by the way, hahaha 😁

April Fools!

Thank you...!!   ;D ;D

I''ve got three badges: BitCoin FanBoy, a DogeCoin Champion and a LiteCoin Master...

minifrij has four - I haven't seen five as yet.

Shame they done save in archive.is

i think April Fool's :D

I got suprize today i have 4 badges and april mop

These badges are pretty sweet, so I have to post to see what I have..

I got the poobah and ETH..
I can live with that.

i'm loving these cute badges. lol

i am being 'considered' as a dash developer. ??? if yes, i would be very intelligent to the programs, unfortunately i am not. from theymos, he said the amount of altcoin means how many alts you have (i have 1)? btw i want a customised badge. lol.

Which badge I have???I never seen this alt coin

Nice feature, can anyone tell with sure if the badges are random or not?

You know, I learned about Melon Classic today and I got a good laugh.  :D

Some have more than 5 badges, others have none or at most 1.

I think the badge riches should donate some to the poors

I'm a Monero fanboy LOL

Somebody has a sense of humour.

~BCX~

I remembered when all user became Legendary rank for a day.

April Fools!!

as Ethereum super-CEO and ETC co-cospirator, i'm at the same time against and for hard fork, i'm a turing complete Roger Ver.

I don't even know what YbCoin is lol

Looks funny :D how can i get more badges?

LOL! Its funny.
I've got three, ETC Expert, PIVX president and AEON flunky. Just as I saw them I ran for "Meta" to see what's going on.  :D

That resulted in some people trying to sell their accounts.  ;)
Nobody is going to pay more money for these funny badges.  ;D

Lol, I like your play on words there.

Kind Regards
Panthers52

The badge kinda cool  :o Just that I thought Its April 1 today, April Pools Badges.  I've been thinking why do other members have many badges? when the others have only  one badge just like mine hmmm...

SingularDTV ceo , pivx , dash fan , etc expert
i got 4 badges

The Blockchain Entertainment Studio SingularDTV recently expanded into the Cryptovalley, ... entertainment industry", says Zach LeBeau, CEO of SingularDTV.

whats that ...

Ohh today date 1 St april
I checked meta section is any new option came haha....

What is EDR anyway? Electronic Data Recording? Laughing but confused...

Hope an official thread/topic  about this new badges will be posted. So that we will know what they really are.

They are a joke

Indeed the new badges will be cool if it will become permanent in each account. I wonder what badges will i have after posting this message. Well anyway have fun every one and happy april fools.

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Only steem master :(

Monero   GRAND   poobah  8)



Badges are permanent. The joke is you think it is not. ;D

I thought that I was hacked. Firstly I tried to see if someone has changed my profile information and I decided that was time to change my password. I had completely forgot that was the April's fool day till now I read the thread. Have a nice day, good joke Mods.

You are a supporter of BITPAY  ;D

hahaha...good luck  ;)

Excusme...  Steem Master , Dogecoin Expert, BelaCoin co-conspirator, ETH grand poobah. HERE~

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Apparently i become a ETC Supporter , at first I thought it was because i always end my posts with multiple example and ending with "etc". Then i realized, its freaking April's fools...

Well played Theymos, well played

after april they will be gone?

I hope they are permanent :D

I think it's completely random, I've got the litecoin 'proponent' badges.

Chronobank apologist! Still laughing :D

But seriously, how do we get customized badges after the April Fool's? I know this will be gone by tomorrow but it's kinda cute though. ;)

This "feature" is a complete waste of time, while other issues are ignored as the administration is seemingly 'busy'. My badge is boring as well. ::)

Lol relax, it's April's fool day. I don't think it's a complete waste of time, it's funny.

Well played and here I was coming over to bcttalk after a few days thinking this was some new feature .

Yes, April fools day is for the average Joe aka 'fool' with severely impaired knowledge. Just look at the stupid surge of threads and posts in this section (primarily from people that don't even understand Bitcoin). On other, more important news: Thousands of Bitcointalk accounts hacked (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1826778.0).

The forum that was supposed to be released in 2015 was the new feature.

Was just about to start a thread losing my shit over this.

Thought someone had messed with my account  :D :D :D

Posting to see if I have a badge  ;D

Edit: ooh nice!

this was surprising and funny, i rushed to Meta after i saw the badges under my username to see what is happening, specially since it is an ethereum badge which i hate to be associated with
* at least it is etC not etH :D

Nice troll for April 1st  ;D

Maybe next year it will be awesome if everyone will be Legendary!

That would be the shit to do on April 1st!

Love the badges! I would like to get more and even keep them! :D

Why I only got bitcoin badge while some people have 3-4 badges? I'm not very lucky :/
It always interesting to see such April fools day pranks on bitcointalk every year :D

OMG!!!!!...... I have 2 badges yeah... Nice work theymos

I got "Bitcoin President" (Well haha be nice to me i'm now the new bitcoin president)

And also i got "ShadowCash CEO" ( I like it.... Well done theymos)

Its so nice to see......

#April Fools

the badges was cool. but I dont know where they find out and how do they know that we are holding those coins. but it is very cool and has a lot of things to do with this forum.

Thanks for making my day with this comment :D

wtf theymos, ZetaCrash???  :-\ :P

Ok, these are funny. Wish he had made a little hammer or drill one for fixing things, but they're very cute.

Happy April Fool's day!

This actually seemed like a good idea. I wondered if posts were mined to see which alts you reference the most or something  :D

hahaha
The first joke I've seen today was the Bitcoin expert tag in r/bitcoin, let's see which are my new badges in the forum  ;D

#PotCoin Dev is here boyss

Man, I wish I could keep the Bitcoin master one.

This is cute. Would love to keep the Bitcoin Fangirl though. ;D

Mods are trashing threads without any notice!

i don't even know what one of my badges means!
it says "First blood developer".

is First blood an altcoin, or does it mean a developer who draws first blood in the altcoins battle field :)
i tried googling it but all i got was game related stuff with heroes killing each other!

I know it's only for april fools, but would be a cool new badge feature.

LOL

Nice one  ;D

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Yeah, i would like to see that too  :)

The new badges look great,
Not sure what mine say cause I'm on mobile
It would be good to see them stay after April fools

I'm just a Bitcoin fanboy  :o :o . I want to be a Bitcoin master or bitcoin ambassador. Cool decorations though. Wish i could put lots of logo there.

Dash grand poobah and counterparty apologist... i hate you thermos!!!!!!

Dobbs: "If you're the police, then where are your badges?"

Gold Hat: "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"

 ;D

Looking to buy badges at 0.1btc/badge. Max 50 badges. Pm me!

What I really want to know is who has the most badges on their account: I just want to see all those icons; it'll be so satisfying :)

You are a "Monero amateur" LOL and "Cloakcoin grand poobah" Haw-haw!

"Bitcoin professional"! Oh, I do like that, Theymos! I also like Doge as well, so well-played mate.

Wow, I came here today and I saw great badges, are they only for today?
I didn't know if I was namecoin chief scientist  :D
Funny and good things

I don't have any MNL not even a wallet but my badges says so lol.  These badges aren't accurate to which coin I'm really supporting. If it does put the badges of the coin that we actually support I guess that would also help in improving the discussions here in the forum as it already reveals some information form the users we talk talking to. That would help as to why someone why spread FUD to a coin just upon seeing the badges he wears. :)  Is there any option to change this badges?

ETH flunky here. I was wondering what is the meaning of that? Nice one!

Flunky: a person who performs relatively menial tasks for someone else, especially obsequiously.
synonyms:   minion, lackey, hireling, subordinate, underling, servant, retainer, vassal

I've got two badges,Viacoin advocate and Ethereum flunky it is my first time I know that the Viacoin exists :)

I am known as a Dogecoin facilitator, Bitcoin follower and Dash champion. Dash and moreover Dash confirm that they are assignated randomly. However I love this prank !

And I think altcoins that have a badge can be proud as they are recognised by theymos (even though some are very unknown) !

 Dogecoin investor and Dash advocate. seems my badges are very good,but I had never investing in dogecoin before.

Well that's nice I learned what factom is because of that.

this is hilarious , logged into my account and see something interesting like this .

i would love to see the badge permanently :D seems fit . anyways you may have various badges there , but you can beat mine as bitcoin president , yes i am THE PRESIDENT :D . another nice prank made by this forum.

Just an FYI to you guys that would like to see permanent badges, this is why that is a bad idea.

Badges separate people into camps, those camps get more toxic to each other when the other is immediately identified as being part of a disliked camp.

A perfect example of this is Sites where you see Intel and Amd fanboys at each others throat no matter what the topic is just because they are wearing a badge the other doesn't like.

Badges while looking nice creates a toxic environment. You have all seen the Thiscoin VS thatcoin threads in the alt section, those type squabbles would spill over to completely unrelated threads. It would be nice if everyone on the interwebs were all adults that don't pre judge but that is not the world we live in, it's similar to judging someone when you first see them without getting to know them. And there are a significant amount of adults that do this which is a cause of alot of the strife in the world. Now excuse me while I try to figure out how not to give up the river while making the Mexicans pay for my wall. :P

I like my badges, pretty good addition :))

Maybe if we decide to make it permanent, should be able to choose badges?

Happy April Fools. :)

It was actually 100% random. Each user got between 1 and 4 coins, with fewer being more likely, and for each you would get a random cryptocurrency. I organized the cryptocurrencies into three tiers according to recognizability/popularity: tier 1 coins were more likely than tier 2 coins, which were more likely than tier 3. Then a random title was added to each coin name. There were a little less than 100 coins in total: I took the top 100 based on market cap and discarded a few that seemed to have never had any real interest.

But as I'd hoped, even though it was random, plenty of people just happened to have badges that were complete matches or mismatches. :)

There you go :D

What were the possible titles?

I know I've seen advocate, developer, follower, pooh-bah, flunky and fanboy.

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(Better have been temporary, lest we get an army of "bitcoin developers" teaching newbies how to gamble!)

Lol, right! I don't think I could take staring at Doge Professional for too long. :D

Adherent, advocate, ambassador, apologist, CEO, super-CEO, champion, co-conspirator, defender, developer, "investor", facilitator, fanboy/fangirl, flunky, follower, grand poobah, president, proponent, supporter, expert, chief scientist, professional, amateur, and master.

Nah, I love the forum more :D

http://time.com/4720892/april-fools-day-pranks-jokes-2017/

Busy, missed a funny part that happens once per year and saying lol what - when I read the other topic talking about badges
Any screenshot over here? Edit: found this part
What is theymos & satoshi badges?

Edit: thx heuristic

Theymos was "Doge Chief Scientist".