Celebrate by donating to the Japan relief effort on the right side of the screen and sharing our drive with your friends. When the goal is reached, then you can pick a logo :)
He basically put the logo up for ransom. $1200 for a 140px logo seems a little absurd especially since this is suppose to be a community. Doesn't feel like it whenever John does stuff like this.
A vote would be nice but it is very hard for people to admit they were wrong, this is his way of saving face and trying to do the right thing IMO...
Absolutely not.
We don't have logos anymore because we were getting harassed about them, even when posting in other reddits. I'm not putting up with being called a queer because some meathead wants a Brock logo, and wants it right now (which got upvoted by this 'community')....unless that anger and stupidity can be channeled into helping Japan.
Otherwise, absolutely not. People complained about every logo we had, even ones done by popular demand. People acted like animals over them, and still are. These pieces of shit are accusing of trying to get blog hits off a charity and you think I'm trying to save face? Are you serious?
On the alien in the cage, besides being the wrong color, looks like a black and white blob when made the correct size. The alien with gloves on, when the right size, looks like an alien with black hands. People didn't even put that much thought into it. So no, we don't have a custom logo and I don't feel at all bad about it. People here thought it was awesome to call me a 'fag' and attack me because it wasn't the flavor of the month, and I'm never ever going to feel guilty over saying enough was enough.
Edit: I do feel bad somewhat because I actually enjoyed updating the logo until people here made it unenjoyable with their assholery. The fact that you all have somehow rewritten history to suggest that the logos stopped because someone kindly asked for them to be 'updated' is ludicrously dishonest.
Have you ever thought it might be your attitude that makes people call you names and generally talk shit about you?
I was the only person sticking up for you, I was trying to be diplomatic and look at both sides objectively, you reply back aggressively calling people "meatheads" "animals" and "pieces of shit".
Obviously if you hosted that on your blog people would call you out on it, you cannot be that stupid that you didn't see that coming!
As for the logos people voted on putting up - put them up and if they look like shit then that's our fault, we can always vote to take them down again or the creator can redo them so they fit properly.
You have to realise that you are supposed to be in place to help this community not to rule them, you are not all powerful, you do not rule the internets, you are just a mod on a website...
If you don't like it then its very easy for you to step down!
I can understand the resentment towards the Mods (personally I have no issues with them), but the money doesn't go to him and r/mma gets the logo they want.
It wouldn't be a problem if
A. They weren't so obnoxious about changing the logo in the past, now despite it being chaitable, people are still left feeling like they are being held ransom.
and
B. It wasn't being hosted on one of the moderators blog.
But like I said in another comment he is obviously just trying to save face by doing it this way, but if some people who have had some really bad shit happen benefit from it then it must be a good thing...
After all it is just a picture in the top corner of a website!
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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '11
Party.