Color coded usernames April 29, 2008 7:58 AM Subscribe
I'm terrible at remembering names. It would be great to have usernames that are favorites show up as a different color. Is there a way? posted by stbalbach to Feature Requests at 7:58 AM (82 comments total)
This Sounds Like A Job For Greasemonkey, basically. posted by cortex(staff) at 8:01 AM on April 29, 2008
This is definitely one of those "greasemonkey should handle this" features because I think it would be distracting and weird to have it be a regular way the site operated. posted by jessamyn(staff) at 8:01 AM on April 29, 2008
In fact, there is a Greasemonkey script that does it -- one color for your contacts, another for people who contact you, a third for mutual contacts. I think it is MeFi Navigator? posted by Rock Steady at 8:10 AM on April 29, 2008
Can I have some of my favorites show up with a different smell? posted by yhbc at 8:17 AM on April 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
As somebody who's also terrible at remembering names, it's probably because you don't really care about other people that much.
Don't sweat it, just call everybody dude or something. posted by signal at 8:18 AM on April 29, 2008 [2 favorites]
This idea is cool. Dibs on one of the first 256 (the rest can suffer in their jocks). I want to be 'earth' colored [I hate that I had to drop the u to be accepted, there are so many things that are Amarentric]. posted by tellurian at 8:21 AM on April 29, 2008
What! You have a problem with the word 'Amarentric'. Well, just talk to me and I'll explain, possibly. posted by tellurian at 8:30 AM on April 29, 2008
I would like to be able to hear the poor, hungry and unjustly treated of the world cry out my name whenever I post a zinger to MeTa. Thanks in advance. posted by Jofus at 8:33 AM on April 29, 2008
I like that one dude's idea upthread. posted by quin at 8:34 AM on April 29, 2008
This is a great idea.
How about having a button on the profile page that would give you a color grid like the one you get to choose text color in Gmail, where any member could choose the color any other member's name would appear in thereafter.
When you go to the profile page the color the user's name appears in changes right now, maybe a spectrum of colors wouldn't be to hard to add.
I'd use it on a per post basis to follow the contributions of individuals and groups of individuals (sort of a low-tech threading) and on a global basis to help make sure I didn't miss the contributions of the people I follow closely. posted by jamjam at 8:55 AM on April 29, 2008
I would like all comments by yhbc to both blink AND marquee. And maybe play the theme from Shaft.
Can a greasemonkey script do this for me, or do I have to hire a backing band? posted by eyeballkid at 9:02 AM on April 29, 2008
Can we get a script that removes some of the smell? Cause when that one dude comes into a thread it gets all stanky. posted by Big_B at 9:08 AM on April 29, 2008
Use a highlighter. That way it's easy to find posters or comments that you want to remember, or that you thought were useful. They make a huge variety of colors now, so it's easy to have a bunch, and you can draw a key on your profile to help you remember which color is which.
I also find it's useful to use an industrial-grade hole-punch to punch the threads for the day so that I can place them in organized notebooks. (My first few months on Metafilter weren't pretty-- little slips of paper all over the place with double posts I'd forgotten to shred, and favorites sticky notes falling off files everywhere and littering the floor!-- and I imagine it's the same for most new MeFites.) It's important to remember to set the printer for double-sided printing, since paper is becoming prohibitively expensive. posted by Viomeda at 9:19 AM on April 29, 2008 [10 favorites]
My username should be replaced by a pair of bulging biceps. posted by robocop is bleeding at 9:20 AM on April 29, 2008
I want a script that turns me into Daniel Craig every time I comment. posted by scrump at 9:23 AM on April 29, 2008
I'd use it on a per post basis to follow the contributions of individuals and groups of individuals (sort of a low-tech threading) and on a global basis to help make sure I didn't miss the contributions of the people I follow closely.
posted by jamjam
Creep-tastic!
/seriously though, do a lot of people do this?
//I'm glad I'm not interesting enough to be cyber-stalk-able posted by Grither at 9:25 AM on April 29, 2008
How about each post assigns a randomly-generated number to a user throughout the post. That way, we never base comments on user personalities- only their written word! posted by jmd82 at 9:48 AM on April 29, 2008 [2 favorites]
"I'm terrible at remembering names."
And I'm terrible at forgetting them. Anyone got a hammer? I have a few ex-girlfriends, ex-crushes, and ex-stalkers I'd like to get rid of.
Yes, I know, eponysterical. Only not, because why the heck do you think I chose the username I chose? posted by Eideteker at 10:00 AM on April 29, 2008
The lyric from Dylan's Brownsville Girl, Well I'm
standing in line in the rain to see a movie
starring Gregory Peck Yeh but you know it's not
the one I had in mind He's got a new one out now I
don't even know what it's about But I'll see him in
anything so I'll stand in line.
sorta describes my adoration of Plutor's scripts. I really thought I had them all, but somehow I'd missed this one. posted by dawson at 10:02 AM on April 29, 2008 [1 favorite]
How about each post assigns a randomly-generated number to a user throughout the post. That way, we never base comments on user personalities- only their written word!
I'm in with you 100%, user Z8732592/0137/55B. posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:19 AM on April 29, 2008
I'd like each username to be replaced with the first result from a Google image search for it.
Can ve haf ein script zat automatically highlightz ze contributions off ze Jews?
Remind me, are you a Jew so this has some sort of ironic humor value or a non-Jew so I can tell you that I'm a Jew and don't find you very funny? posted by jessamyn(staff) at 11:48 AM on April 29, 2008
I'm like OJ Simpson—Not a Jew.
But here I was thinking I was making fun of Germans, as a German. posted by klangklangston at 11:56 AM on April 29, 2008
Can I have a Greasemonkey script that replaces "klangklangston" with "Colonel Klink"? posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:06 PM on April 29, 2008
I'd like each username to be replaced with the first result from a Google image search for it.
"Can I have a Greasemonkey script that replaces "klangklangston" with "Colonel Klink"?"
My secret shame is that I'm more of a Shultz. posted by klangklangston at 1:02 PM on April 29, 2008
Oh, I have this, I wrote a Greasemonkey script that show usernames in different colours depending on whether they are communist, gay, goth, supporters of William III, or members of the Italian national football team.
I'm having some trouble telling the tree-huggers and the Irish apart, though. posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 1:03 PM on April 29, 2008
(Oh, very slightly NSFW!) posted by sveskemus at 2:17 PM on April 29, 2008
If I'm not too mistaken, the first image hit for my username is.... a picture of bongs with Phire written on them? Classy. posted by Phire at 2:19 PM on April 29, 2008
I searched Google Images on 'klangklangston' and found Cary Grant, Shane from the L Word, and a dance line made up of ladies in Nazi uniforms. I think this bears further investigation. posted by Blazecock Pileon at 2:21 PM on April 29, 2008
Let the record show that I fully support Willem III aka King Gorilla. Especially on Koninginnenacht (noisy people in the street). I imagine like Steve Ballmer doing the monkey dance. posted by jouke at 2:25 PM on April 29, 2008
I imagine him like... posted by jouke at 2:29 PM on April 29, 2008
I'd like each username to be replaced with the first result from a Google image search for it.
I searched Google Images on 'klangklangston' and found Cary Grant, Shane from the L Word, and a dance line made up of ladies in Nazi uniforms. I think this bears further investigation."
Yeah, that's pretty much, like, my life, man. posted by klangklangston at 4:09 PM on April 29, 2008
On the first page of image results for jessamyn there is also that famous chicken. I'm sure all of the other Jessamyns of the world are stoked. posted by popechunk at 6:01 PM on April 29, 2008
I'd like each username to be replaced with the first result from a Google image search for it.
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
-posted by dobbs at 8:39 PM on April 29
Oh. Oh my.
-posted by cortex
Can I just say that after these two comments the level of dramatic tension about what the implied search would reveal was SKY HIGH. posted by Rock Steady at 8:30 PM on April 29, 2008
mine is... my metafilter user image. Huh. posted by fermezporte at 8:36 PM on April 29, 2008
I want a script that turns me into Daniel Craig every time I comment.
Once wouldn't be enough?
And I want my username to show up in orange. posted by orange swan at 9:12 PM on April 29, 2008
And I want my username to show up in orange.
Well, I just added you as a contact, and due to how I configured my little Greasemonkey script, it does show up in orange for me. So there you go. posted by Rock Steady at 9:19 PM on April 29, 2008
Also, I've sent Plutor a MeMail saying as much, but might as well go for the public callout: you're awesome. posted by middleclasstool at 6:32 AM on April 30, 2008 [1 favorite]
Yeah at some point we need to have a OMGPlutor thread, I'm not sure we have had one in MeTa yet. posted by jessamyn(staff) at 7:26 AM on April 30, 2008
I'm pretty sure we could do that with greasemonkey. posted by cortex(staff) at 7:43 AM on April 30, 2008
I'd like each username to be replaced with the first result from a Google image search for it.
And I want my username to show up in orange. Double. posted by tellurian at 9:11 AM on April 30, 2008
jessamyn: Yeah at some point we need to have a OMGPlutor thread, I'm not sure we have had one in MeTa yet. cortex: I'm pretty sure we could do that with greasemonkey.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:01 AM on April 29, 2008