NEW BADGES!

Who's in your avatar, BTW?

Ninja'd to top the page...

edited 10th Apr '12 10:27:33 AM by BestOf

I dunno. I just found it.

Plus I'm not very good at it either; you saw what happened when I tried to make flags.

@Lock: I'll wait for word from on high that spreading out a badge message between 2 "slots" is alright (thus forceing a person to buy 2 "badges" to instaid of 1 or having to give 2 for the price of 1)

@everyone else: added icons/ideas to OP

Although thinking about it, aren't military insignia government copyrights as well?

I don't think so - can the government have a copyright on a symbol? If so, wouldn't national flags also be copyrighted?

According to what I've read, section 105 of the Copyright Act explicitly says that "a work of the United States government" is not copyrighted, with a couple of exceptions (mostly held by the US Postal Service and the Department of Commerce).

That said, the government can and does hold trademarks on emblems for government agencies, such as all branches of the military.

EDIT: Thus, while they wouldn't copyright a flag, they can trademark the Great Seal of the United States, as well as the emblems of each part of the armed forces.

edited 10th Apr '12 10:59:33 AM by 32_Footsteps

And I learned something today.

And learning is half the batt- -shot-

Got it. Removing that particular suggestion from the OP.

Anyone want to help me pick up his pieces so we don't have to start over again? *

edited 10th Apr '12 11:05:40 AM by Belian

*hands Belian a broom*

Thanks. *cleans up*

Here. Have a piece of this Sandvich I just made as thanks.

Alright, back on topic.

Anyways, is there a practical way in which profile badges can work when a troper attaches an account url to his/her profile?

For media (and this applies to namespace logos as well), perhaps...

• A computer monitor for Web Original, with two comic panels side-by-side inside the monitor for Webcomics?
• An open book with comic panels on each page for Comic Books?

I think up to three badges will show up under the title which is under the avatar. Double clicking the badge (by the owner) will send it back to their badge inventory. Double clicking a badge in inventory will cause it to display on posts, as long as one of the three slots is open.

Badges in inventory will be displayed in columns and rows, say 10 columns. They will be draggable so that the troper can arrange them in ways they find pleasing.

I don't understand the question in #162.

edited 10th Apr '12 1:49:14 PM by FastEddie

Cool. So to remove a badge we have to replace it with another?

@FE: Oh. Sorry I hadn't elaborated about this post from early on. Like if someone would like to link his/her You Tube/Deviant Art/Steam/etc. account, so clicking on the respective badge would link over there.

Yeah, understood.

edited 10th Apr '12 2:25:44 PM by EarlOfSandvich

I think that is something better left for the troper page, but that's just me. Among other things, because you can have links to more than one "place of yourself in the intertubes".

edited 10th Apr '12 2:08:13 PM by SilentReverence

To remove a badge, you double click it. If you want to replace it, you do so from inventory.

I think we'll have to reserve what happens by clicking a badge. So, no badges that link elsewhere.

Forum badges so far:

The last two, is one Anime and the other Manga, or are they just two different options for both?

Second to last one is Japanese for anime over a fan. The last one is Japanese for manga over a fan. They're both terrible puns, but they're different.

Shima, I think the "ma" katakana is マ.

Google says otherwise. I admit to not knowing Japanese though so if anyone has a better version I can tweak it.

edited 10th Apr '12 2:42:13 PM by shimaspawn

Oh, then I might be wrong on that one. I will ask someone who knows Japanese better than me.

漫画, per The Other Wiki. And "anime" is アニメ

The link you put came up here as a translation from Spanish.

edited 10th Apr '12 2:48:36 PM by HersheleOstropoler