"Member Since" in profile

January 29, 2006 9:43 AM

My Little Pony: show the date that a user last stopped by on their userpage, right underneath the "Member Since" line. This should be visible only to logged-in Mefites.
posted by killdevil to feature requests at 9:43 AM (14 comments total)

Monkeyfilter implements something like this, and I think it'd be a minimally-invasive way to indicate whether a user is still an active participant in the community.
posted by killdevil at 9:46 AM on January 29, 2006

Unless you're an active participant who doesn't check her userpage much. Isn't it just as easy to look at the last time a user made a comment/post?
posted by amro at 9:53 AM on January 29, 2006

Oh, NOW I see what you're saying. Disregard the above.
posted by amro at 9:55 AM on January 29, 2006

I think it's the last time the user stopped by the site as a whole, indicated on their userpage, not the last time they stopped by their userpage that killdevil is looking for.
posted by jacquilynne at 9:56 AM on January 29, 2006

Yep, jacquilynne, I'm a little slow on the uptake today. :)
posted by amro at 9:56 AM on January 29, 2006

I dunno, some people probably wouldn't want the attention of others following them around.

Just the other day out of curiosity, I checked the database entry for an old big personality here and it turns out they still lurk, checking the site everyday even though they haven't left a comment in years. I could see someone like that no wanting this type of feature. Why not let them lurk in peace?
posted by mathowie at 9:57 AM on January 29, 2006

what matt said
posted by matteo at 10:10 AM on January 29, 2006

Date of last comment?
posted by cillit bang at 10:49 AM on January 29, 2006

s'okay, amro, I read it the same way.

And yeah, what cillit bang said -- date of last comment/post seems more reasonably and less stalkerly. Of course, at that point, you could just visit their recent comments and figure it out with a minute's work.
posted by cortex at 11:15 AM on January 29, 2006

Date of last comment/post would be perfect, and would address the privacy concerns mentioned here.
posted by killdevil at 11:19 AM on January 29, 2006

killdevil, the date is already revealed when clicking on their comment history, I'm not going to add it to the page.
posted by mathowie at 11:22 AM on January 29, 2006

*stalks off petulantly*
posted by killdevil at 11:44 AM on January 29, 2006

I really don't want anyone to know when I left this comment, mmmkay?
posted by DrJohnEvans at 2:30 PM on January 29, 2006

That sounds a litte 1984ish. Don't do that. Let us lurk in peace please.
posted by caddis at 6:15 PM on January 29, 2006