Q:

We need a Meta sticker

In the latest blog post, Jeff has revealed that he's making some stickers for the SO family sites:

As mentioned on the podcast, we’re working on Stack Overflow Trilogy stickers. I just placed the order with websticker, in fact, and here are the proofs:

And because we fully support members of our League of (web) Justice, I ordered some for our fellow league member, How-To Geek, as well.

(source: stackoverflow.com) 
(all stickers are 4 1/2″ wide, custom die cut white vinyl, and printed in full color)
These will of course be given out at Stack Overflow Dev Days, and in other ways that we haven’t quite figured out completely yet.

There is one family site that's been callously (and intentionally) omitted:

Just to upstage the inevitable request:
No, we won’t be making meta.stackoverflow.com stickers. If you need one of those, just take a stackoverflow.com sticker, hit your head on the desk until you see things in greyscale (and optionally, until your head is bleeding a crimson color) and there you have it!
:)

So the word is no. Why does Meta get the short end of the stick(er)?
Granted, Meta has always been the red-headed stepchild of the sites, but being excluded from the stickers feels like we've been disowned. How can we get Jeff to love us again?
What can we do to change his mind?

A:

Seriously? The meta sticker IS the Stack Overflow sticker -- it's all of them!
Since meta applies to all family sites, it's the same as getting every sticker.
On top of that:

I don't have vectors for the meta logo (or the font), just a bitmap I hacked up
these stickers are not cheap to make, and the 'setup' costs are quite high, meaning we either make 10,000 of them or we plan to make a lot more in the future
I'm not convinced there would be any real demand for the meta sticker over time

update: okay then -- we'll have 50. I'll let you guys fight to the death, Thunderdome style, over who gets the honors..

update: wow, CafePress is fast. This order already shipped. I should have them this week.

A:

I agree.  I consider it somewhat insulting to deliberately alienate and belittle users who make a good-faith effort to improve Stackoverflow through bug-reporting and tracking, retagging, and feature-requests.  I know the signal-to-noise ratio is low; but the entire attitude to meta has been one of "No, no no, never", "Okay, I see we need it.", "Oh my god I hate meta I wish it never existed.".  It doesn't make sense to me.
I suppose the big logical argument against is that it costs money -  $1K a pop for a run of stickers (and $500 for How-to) by my guesstimates.  And there's no "return on investment" for Meta.

A:

http://www.rvenables.com/linkjackandsufferaccidentaldroptable/MetaSticker.png
For the uninitiated:
http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory

