Collective usernames/passwords for free registration sites

December 3, 2001 10:35 AM

NYT login info: metafilter/metafilter posted by o2b at 7:47 AM PST on December 3:
Perhaps it would help to have our collective usernames and passwords for free registration sites permanently posted somewhere - say on the sidebar?


posted by MiguelCardoso to feature requests at 10:35 AM (14 comments total)

I'd hate to see the official stamp of approval given to this practice. I can't imagine we'd like it much if members of another site shared a username and password to circumvent Matt's signup rules.
posted by rcade at 10:42 AM on December 3, 2001

just use metafi/metafi.
posted by moz at 10:49 AM on December 3, 2001

Metafilter member group discounts to pay sites ? Just a thought.
posted by Voyageman at 10:58 AM on December 3, 2001

Thanks, rcade. Correction: for reading purposes only. To sign into sites where you could join in discussions would indeed be unethical.
Though I doubt any group, no matter how webcammy, who tried that trick here on MeFi would soon be smoked out - I believe is the expression in vogue - by the mighty masses!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 11:13 AM on December 3, 2001

... if members of another site shared a username and password to circumvent Matt's signup rules.
posted by rcade at 10:42 AM PST on December 3

Surely not the same rcade seen here?

;)
posted by mattpfeff at 12:29 PM on December 3, 2001

No need to make it "official". But here's a thought: If you visit a site that needs a registration, try metafilter/metafilter. If it doesn't work, register that name/pass. It'll be like Operation Mayhem--with MeFites spreading their little seeds of anarchy all over the web.
posted by jpoulos at 3:09 PM on December 3, 2001

Mwahahaha.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:51 PM on December 3, 2001

Hey! Why don't we extend that to pay sites too? Free porn for everybody! Yay! The 'merican dream!
posted by fuq at 4:34 PM on December 3, 2001

It'll be like Operation Mayhem--with MeFites spreading their little seeds of anarchy all over the web.

Actually, my first try for logins is always cypherpunks/cypherpunks, which seems to have been created on a surprisingly large number of services (and I believe started as a thing with slashdot users, though I'm not totally sure).
posted by zempf at 4:46 PM on December 3, 2001

So the idea is to collectively circumvent the methods web businesses use to make money on a site that is hosted and coded by someone having difficulty finding good web work?

And you wonder why?

So which of our other favorite things can we undermine now that we're through with the web?

Music?

Oops!
posted by internetgeniuses at 5:02 PM on December 3, 2001

Surely not the same rcade seen here?

Ouch. So much for my secret plan to monetize my MetaFilter membership.

For the record, I'm not really giving that guy my username and password. Just my money. So far, he hasn't even billed me.
posted by rcade at 7:21 AM on December 4, 2001

I'm not really giving that guy my username and password.

(I didn't figure you had, just thought the coincidence too funny to pass up....)

Imagine if we did have a karma system, along with closed membership? Then you really could sell a high-karma membership registration, probably for real $. The only problem would be selling it without anyone knowing; otherwise all that karma probably wouldn't last very long....
posted by mattpfeff at 8:12 AM on December 4, 2001

Miguel, what was your login/password again? I forgot. ;)
posted by rodii at 5:54 PM on December 4, 2001

I have tried to set up my own login/password for the NYT for over a year now. It does not work. It's not like it costs me anything to try, but it's *sure* like my system and theirs don't see eye-to-eye, so I can't get there from here.

...At least I couldn't until certain Mission Impossible webloggers gave me the schematics to the NYT's ductworks. Metafilter/Metafilter gives me one more route.

Thanks, gentlefolk.

P.S. Voyageman---I wonder if we *could* set up a group rate for a pay site?...it's not unheard of off-line.
posted by realjanetkagan at 8:48 PM on December 4, 2001