User talk:Miss Mondegreen/Userbox me!

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Instructions: Decorate this page, meaning this userpage, not this discussion page with whatever userboxes etc. you think are applicable or silly or funny or whatever. Anything insulting will be reverted. Anything I don't find funny or don't link will be reverted--please don't be offended if your addtions are removed. Any personal information, whether it's correct or not will be removed--I don't do personal information. This is a page for fun.

At some point, some of these userboxes will be featured on my userpage.

Ready, set, userbox!

Instructions: Read before userboxing

Decorate this page with userboxes and banners you think are applicable or silly or funny or whatever. I'll revert anything I find insulting or that I just don't find funny, so please don't be offended if your additions are removed. If you know me or think you know me, don't add personal information to this page--I'll revert it even if it's incorrect, unless it's obviously outright silly. This is a page for fun. So, on your marks, get set, userbox! Miss Mondegreen | Talk   00:54, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

What a great idea! --Flunkybiscuits 08:21, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Here goes...--Flunkybiscuits 09:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

And this user *points to Flunkybiscuits* is a volunteer instruction spotter but fails miserable!!! No, not as funny. Miss Mondegreen | Talk   11:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

*rolls eyes in disbelief*! How many ways are there for interpreting "Decorate this page"??? I'll move them over now, I suppose... --Flunkybiscuits 12:11, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Ahh, but this isn't a user page or a project page--it's a discussion page. What did you think should be done here? Miss Mondegreen | Talk   12:57, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, and do I get extra brownie points for editing the original 'weather spotter' userbox, to reflect you perfectly? --Flunkybiscuits 12:20, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Of course you do! Oooh, I should start a points system. But you lost points for commenting on the user page. Miss Mondegreen | Talk   12:57, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Additional Instructions

Userboxes go on the userpage! This is the discussion page. Here you can find instructions for userboxing, directions to insanity and can discuss your userbox conspiracy. But no userboxing allowed!!! Miss Mondegreen | Talk   11:41, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm a bit confused... (it happens often, nothing to worry about) Do you want the boxes on your MAIN user page, or on the user page you get AFTER clicking on 'view my user page' on your talk page? I'll put them wherever and if you think it's wrong, please move them in the right place, so that it clarifies things. --Flunkybiscuits 12:16, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Moving your comment over from the user page:

Hope this is the right place for these... --Flunkybiscuits 12:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it is. But it's not the right page for discussion!! Miss Mondegreen | Talk   12:57, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

I want them on this userpage! I'm thinking a rolling eyes one and a nitpicky one and an incoherent one all wrapped up into one one.  ???? Beatles? Word association? Ok--the time for one more edit has passed--I really need to go to bed. Ah, but to finish answering your question--I'll probably add a section of userboxes to my userpage for what others think of me and rotate some good ones from here into there. Miss Mondegreen | Talk   12:57, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

unhand me

Ok so I was looking at my watchlist, and this page looks like "unbox me!" which well...I'm sure you see where this is going. Nowhere. Miss Mondegreen | Talk   12:59, 29 March 2007 (UTC) Bold text

this page?

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Hi - I am putting this here in case there's trouble later. Please accept this tireless barnstar thing for all of your wiki-activity. Thanks. Dr Spam (MD) 16:08, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar Mockery

On May 7th of this year, at 14:37, the user page User:Dr Spam (MD) was created. Within a period of 48 hours, User:Dr Spam (MD) had placed approximately 55 barnstars on user pages and user talk pages. Many recipients doubted the sincerity of the sentiments behind these barnstars, in part because of the comments placed by Dr Spam on the barnstars. A sampling of the reasons that Dr. Spam offered for presenting barnstars to editors:

• Hi - I am putting this here in case there's trouble later. Please accept this tireless barnstar thing for all of your wiki-activity. Thanks. User:Dr Spam (MD) 16:08, 11 May 2007

• nice one! User:Dr Spam (MD) 16:51, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

• Hi I am leaving you with this barnstar for you to reflect carefully on. I will provide the citation in a few days once you have had the opportunity to consider why I might think that you deserve it. Peace User:Dr Spam (MD) 16:50, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

• Well done for all of your fantastic editing / writing: you are obviously a genius of our day, shining like the brightest barnstar against a dark barnnight in these new and difficult wiki-times. I therefore award you the surreal barnstar (I can't get the other barnstars to work properly - my apologies.) Please note that you have no right to remove the barnstar, for it is sacred. LEAVE WELL ALONE! Many thanks.

• awesome contribution to this web site! have a lovely barnstar thing User:Dr Spam (MD) 12:01, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

• cool editing

• Awesome

• Cool.

• I am awarding you a surreal barnstar because you obviously deserve it! Keep up the good work - don't slacken off, it'll get harder before it gets easier!

• Hy my cat (the fat white one) is awarding you this barnstar of diligence because he doesn't eat fish either. He just likes to eat biscuits - or so he says. But how then does he get so fat????

Occasionally Dr. Spam's comments did appear sincere (if vague), but a review of the record indicates that sincere-appearing comments were generally generated during a massive cut-and-paste session. There were also many barnstars presented with no comments at all, and even more that User:Dr Spam (MD) presented without signing his name to indicate from whom the award was coming. And some barnstars, praising the editing skills of the recipient, were awarded to editors with one solitary edit to their name.

In response, once this pattern of apparent insincerity was established, a few experienced editors asked Dr. Spam to desist from barnstar spamming, in the belief that randomly awarding barnstars devalues the entire barnstar program. (Indeed, so random was the placement of barnstars, that some were even placed on wiki accounts that had not been active for over a year.) Dr. Spam has now stopped, presumably recognizing that his efforts were not appreciated by the majority of editors.

Most of the barnstars placed by Dr. Spam during his May campaign have been voluntarily removed by the editors on whose pages they were placed. You are receiving this notice because Dr. Spam's barnstar still remains on your page. If you feel that Dr. Spam's barnstar spamming was a form of mockery, you may choose to remove it yourself. But if the way this barnstar was "awarded" does not bother you, you are of course free to keep it on your page. After all, it is your page. This notification was simply for your information. HuskyHuskie 14:11, 9 September 2007 (UTC)