"For players who visit less than 10 sites in 7 days (but who ARE online during each of those 7 days)"

A little while ago I tried to earn this badge by only logging in to PMOG for a few minutes each day, opening a few URLs for other badges, and logging out. I did this for about 2 weeks straight until I gave up because I wanted to really play PMOG.
Did anyone get this badge and have a strategy to share? Did I incorrectly understand the badge description and you need to be logged in for 24hrsx7days and not a few minutes once a day? Was the badge just not working for a while and I should try abstaining from PMOG another week?

Strategies and discussion...

I got it by a badge-blip - I didn't deserve it. No strategy to share, I'm afraid. I know it wasn't working for a while, so it'd be interesting to hear from people who'd won it recently, and fair&square.

Pmog allows pausing... why not refrain from pmogging during those 7 days and surf as much as you want?

haha nineman I'd say that a majority of pmogers wouldnt get this badge behaving 'normally.' the very nature of the game attracts heavy web users! and if your in university for example the need to research etc may even render this impossible for long stretches of time. I'd just do what chava was doing or possibly pick a week where your net useage will be low. I have exams coming up so i could probably try and get it then. An extra incentive for self control :p

Use a different browser withot Pmog...like IE, or Safari, etc. for your browsing.

@Nieman...this is the Snowglobe badge, not the Indie badge.

I didn't have a problem avoiding the goog for a few days, but I have a big problem only visiting 7 sites for one week.
; )

Pix.. have you tried pausing your game?
or logging out? The snowglobe is a really hardcore badge, so I think I'm going to try for it.

I am under the impression that pausing means that Pmog will not count anything...anything at all..so that you will effectively register as 'logged out' to the Pmog servers.
That's not good.

I would really just use a different browser. Or perhaps a second profile for FF.

I haven't tested this, but maybe using the internet explorer tab extension for firefox may let you work from the comfort of the same browser

Pix... I meant logging in to pmog once a day, visiting one URL and logging off. For a full week!

If you make that one URL PMOG, you can still use the forums, etc, you just can't go out in the wild.

@Chava Honestly, I think that could work...but the rest of them time you'd be doing your normal thing online without getting dp...

I really think, for me anyway, that it would be easiest to just stay logged on the entire time--thus not giving Pmog the chance to disqualify me, and use a different browser.

Everyone I know who had received this badge did this...
; )

(Off topic I know) - I think I got the indie badge because I tend to use https:// for my Google services. Thus the usage wasn't logged.

Might not work, but why don't you make page containing full screen bitty browser. I assume that you can with any number of pages with this. Basically any proxy site should work.

Google translate
http://www.bitty.com/
and such...

I'd say behave normally, and if you don't get the badge, then you don't deserve it :P

The only change I made to get my badges was that I put some of my regular sites on a pmog_badges tag on del.icio.us to open daily because otherwise I was reading them as rss feeds, which don't register on the badge-log.

So, has anyone received the snowglobe badge by logging in, hitting up pmog for a few clicks, and then logging out? I can't tell if this is an ineffective strategy, or if badges aren't updating for me again.

@Squish For some reason I don't think that you can just log in for a few minutes each day and expect that to count...remaining logged in for 7 seven days has been the way that those who earned the Snowglobe have gone.

As with all the badges, the wording is a bit unclear:
"For players who visit less than 10 sites in 7 days (but who ARE online during each of those 7 days)"

Ah, thanks. Now it's time to figure out if it's 8 hours a day, or 24!

Does PMOG itself count as one of the 10 sites?

I would hope so! I would have to have my forums!
And my mines...oooo...my mines...

I mean does PMOG get included in the 10 or is it 10 + Pmog?

"Mine goes to 11."

If you log into PMOG on one computer Monday to Friday and log into PMOG using a different computer on Saturday and Sunday, does that count as 7 consecutive days on PMOG or not?

yes. it's your login that counts, not the machine.

What matters is your account activity--not the computer.
But with that said, it's quite possible that you need to be on 24-7, which would make the two computer strategy impossible.

@sylverling @pixielo
Thank you for your replies, much appreciated.