college postergasm

[Iron Sulfide]

for those of us at a college, there's something i thought of.

(perhaps not your college, but at mine) there is a "registry" requirement for any poster put up. at mine, it's a generic date stamp.

so if you have something similar on your campus, get a clean scan of the stamp, shop it with an appropriate removal date, and post as usual.

should increase the lifespan.

that's all. if anyone has any additional ideas along these lines, post them here:

[LMNO]

Work in the department/club that approves posters.

[Golden Applesauce]

for those of us at a college, there's something i thought of.

(perhaps not your college, but at mine) there is a "registry" requirement for any poster put up. at mine, it's a generic date stamp.

so if you have something similar on your campus, get a clean scan of the stamp, shop it with an appropriate removal date, and post as usual.

should increase the lifespan.

that's all. if anyone has any additional ideas along these lines, post them here:

All ready done that.

For extra fun, change the removal date to something, like March 2012, Sep 10 2001, anything before 1500, etc.

"Did you hear?  The library is, like, haunted by a secret society.  There were all these posters up - but here's the weird thing: they had the Student Leadership and Involvement stamp on them.  But the date was like, the end of the world in the Mayan calendar.  "

(actual testimonial, paraphrased for bad memory)

[rong]

i would appreciate seeing a poster that was just a giant "blow up" of the approval stamp.

[Iron Sulfide]

Work in the department/club that approves posters.

@ my school, such is run my administration, not student gov't.

fascists.

[Triple Zero]

perhaps there is fun to be had by taking off other posters, scanning them, removing the stamp, and putting back up? (a quick way to do it, would be a black & white photocopy, covering the stamp with a piece of paper)

[Iron Sulfide]

000: to what end? they just get taken down.

maybe for the "official" fliers that get put up by student body groups that are officially recognized by the school and have paid for their space fairly...but as far as i know, indiscretions are not taken up with the groups that post fliers at all, they're just removed.

[Golden Applesauce]

NOTE:

If you do invite the student government association to go pranking with you, there's a good chance they'll call the cops on your ass.  Expect them to have "serious concerns."

<= learned this the hard way.

[Cainad (dec.)]

NOTE:

If you do invite the student government association to go pranking with you, there's a good chance they'll call the cops on your ass.  Expect them to have "serious concerns."

<= learned this the hard way.

Ouch. Do nevar trust kids who are buddy-buddy with Teh System.

[nostalgicBadger]

You don't actually need to be involved in the club that approves flyers. Any club will do. There's a really simple trick I used to use all the time before I got too lazy and started using the thousands of pages I had accumulated that I was allowed to print via campus resources to replace every flyer that got torn down with ten or twenty more.

Probably what happens when you get a flyer approved is, you make copies after the stamp has been added, right? So get anything approved, scan it and isolate the stamp. Then add it to any flyer that you want to last. If you're competent with Photoshop, you could pretty easily rearrange the numbers in the date too. When you print the flyers with the forged stamp, it's just going to look like you made copies of a stamped original.

Of course, they'll figure it out eventually, so I would advise that you do this under the cover of darkness.

[Iron Sulfide]

NOTE:

If you do invite the student government association to go pranking with you, there's a good chance they'll call the cops on your ass.  Expect them to have "serious concerns."

<= learned this the hard way.

i recall suggesting the opposite of this.

oh, and...tough break.

[Iron Sulfide]

i would appreciate seeing a poster that was just a giant "blow up" of the approval stamp.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33136543@N08/3084721583/ :

[Iron Sulfide]

apparently, i scored bonus points by posting the above:

after i had posted it, two people came along and saw it while waiting for a class. i overheard one of them say that the student body gov't had been found to be using their funds rather grossly- and were being reviewed by the admin. board.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

  That's awesome.

[rong]

i would appreciate seeing a poster that was just a giant "blow up" of the approval stamp.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33136543@N08/3084721583/ :

10-Q