Contacting the Admins

May 31, 2006 6:46 AM

There seems to be no clear way to contact the administrators for users who are not familiar with the site. Could we add a contact link up in the top nav section, or somewhere obvious?
posted by spaghetti to feature requests at 6:46 AM (23 comments total)

There's a slightly buried list of contact info in the FAQ but I'm pretty sure mathowie is working on a contact page which is also mentioned in the MeTa thread below this one.
posted by jessamyn at 6:52 AM on May 31, 2006

The FAQ has a perfectly good link to the contact form.

(The link is good. Not the form itself.)
posted by smackfu at 6:59 AM on May 31, 2006

And here is a perfectly good link to a million dollars.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 7:09 AM on May 31, 2006

The link is good.

No it's not. Or were you joking? It's so hard to tell around here.
posted by languagehat at 7:15 AM on May 31, 2006

Yeah, I've been meaning to make a contact form that sends email directly to me and jessamyn, or puts it into some sort of support queue. It would be linked in the footer of every page.

I'll code that up today.
posted by mathowie at 7:42 AM on May 31, 2006

What would be an example situation where one might need to email Matt instead of just coming to MeTa? Or maybe, one wouldn't know to come to MeTa, maybe that's it... like the chicken or the egg.
posted by Witty at 11:39 AM on May 31, 2006

Messed up formatting posts.
posted by Mitheral at 11:55 AM on May 31, 2006

Witty: exactly. Folks who don't know about meta, and don't know who is in charge, tend to be lost at sea.
posted by cortex at 12:10 PM on May 31, 2006

Witty : "What would be an example situation where one might need to email Matt instead of just coming to MeTa?"

Password related issues is one obvious one that comes to mind.
posted by Bugbread at 12:36 PM on May 31, 2006

Folks who don't know about meta, and don't know who is in charge, tend to be lost at sea.

One could reframe the problem so that it becomes a benefit: if you can't figure out how to contact the admins, you probably aren't fit for MeFi.

Such a suggestion will, of course, be highly offensive to a good number of people. But they're probably the same people who can't find the email link, so we can safely discount their opinion. ;-)
posted by five fresh fish at 1:08 PM on May 31, 2006

Brilliant, fff.
posted by IronLizard at 3:43 PM on May 31, 2006

Folks who don't know about meta, and don't know who is in charge, tend to be lost at sea.

Whereas people who know about MeTa tend to be 3 sheets to the wind.
posted by scarabic at 4:33 PM on May 31, 2006

Folks who don't know about meta, and don't know who is in charge, tend to be lost at sea.

if i could figure how to use this comment thingy, i'd tell you what i think of tham gresssssssss

oh man i'm just

ugh

hey

HEY!

YOU DON'T KNOW! YOU DON'T KNOW ME! GET OFFA MY...GET...GET OUTTA HERE DAMMIT I, I—
posted by cortex at 5:38 PM on May 31, 2006

*realizes he quoted the wrong line*

*stumbles*
posted by cortex at 5:39 PM on May 31, 2006

if you can't figure out how to contact the admins, you probably aren't fit for MeFi.

I got a phone call at home from a random mefite once; now that's enterprising. Note: I am not home now, please do not call there.
posted by jessamyn at 5:43 PM on May 31, 2006

That's not enterprising, that's slightly frightening!
posted by five fresh fish at 7:39 PM on May 31, 2006

if you can't figure out how to contact the admins, you probably aren't fit for MeFi.

Brilliant, fff.


Lick me, fff.
posted by Dunwitty at 12:35 AM on June 1, 2006

What would be an example situation where one might need to email Matt instead of just coming to MeTa?

Yeah, spazzy formatting would seem to be the main thing.

Since there doesn't seem to be a way to search for users onsite anymore (*prepares to be corrected*), when I buggered up a comment yesterday, I had to Google the site for jessamyn's name, click through to the first result, click on her username on that page, copy her obfuscated email address from her profile page, paste it into my email client, change it to a proper email address in my email client, write my little message and click send. Then I had to have a lie down and take a dose of smelling salts, so exhausted was I by this process.
posted by jack_mo at 1:56 AM on June 1, 2006

Our info is also on the FAQ page. Once that page gets more flushed out and organized, I'd envision it being a better goto place for "how do I contact the admins" questions
posted by jessamyn at 5:28 AM on June 1, 2006

Dunwitty: [slurp!] [chomp!]

Satisfied?
posted by five fresh fish at 6:04 PM on June 1, 2006

if you can't figure out how to contact the admins, you probably aren't fit for MeFi.

*sniff*

When I signed up I think it took me a few weeks to realise who were the admins round here. I kept seeing their nicks in threads so I just assumed they were regular posters. To my defense, erm, I think the FAQ page was less clear back then and I also never needed to contact them in the first place.

I'll admit I am unfit, though.
posted by funambulist at 10:47 AM on June 2, 2006

jessamyn said 'Our info is also on the FAQ page'

Thanks jessamyn. I too am unfit, it would seem.
posted by jack_mo at 11:02 AM on June 2, 2006

Hey, I'll be the first to admit it's been a bit of a challenge to actually hunt down an admin email. Been there, done that.
posted by five fresh fish at 7:53 PM on June 2, 2006