Should I be ashamed of my 13k member number?

July 13, 2002 3:46 PM

Should I be ashamed of my 13k member number?
posted by folktrash to etiquette/policy at 3:46 PM (35 comments total)

A 13k starting a thread? Not on my watch! I say we segregate metafilter.
posted by geoff. at 3:51 PM on July 13, 2002

Folktrash: No.

Everyone else: Please let's not have this discussion again.
posted by Su at 3:52 PM on July 13, 2002

The chiding and bragging about user numbers is very tongue-in-cheek. I know I very seldom check anyone's user number unless they post something really whack or their name is new to me. It does serve as a reminder to go easy on someone if they are new.
posted by Kafkaesque at 3:54 PM on July 13, 2002

What's strange is I never noticed until I read that thread, and started hovering over names, and lo, you can see numbers, and lo, they seem to be in order, and lo, the lower the number the older the member.

For the last 30 minutes or so, since reading about that post, I haven't been able to stop peeking at everyone's number.

Someone help me!
posted by folktrash at 3:57 PM on July 13, 2002

Just don't start lording it over those of us in the 14,000's.
posted by timeistight at 4:01 PM on July 13, 2002

And just to chime in, almost completely off topic, in the whole why do you love mefi thing...

I'm reading through all this, it's usually it's quiet, and suddenly I burst out in a hefty chuckle. I love that.

(on preview: good size chuckle at timeistight. Not quite as hefty as at this, but perdy close.)
posted by folktrash at 4:03 PM on July 13, 2002

The chiding and bragging about user numbers is very tongue-in-cheek.

Although a two-digit user number is a sign of a robust intellect and massive sex appeal...
posted by jonmc at 4:12 PM on July 13, 2002

"Although a two-digit user number is a sign of a robust intellect and massive sex appeal..."

...except when combined with an almost pathological need to wear flannel.

I kid jonmc, because I heart jonmc. He's a simian brother.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:23 PM on July 13, 2002

It's still tongue in cheek. It's just when you get to the really low user numbers it's a different kind of cheeks.
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:42 PM on July 13, 2002

oh my goodness
posted by folktrash at 4:44 PM on July 13, 2002

I'm #101 on blogroots, so I could care less about my MeFi #....
posted by mkelley at 5:11 PM on July 13, 2002

Should I be ashamed of my 13k member number?

I feel dirty just talking to you.
posted by holloway at 5:15 PM on July 13, 2002

I'm ashamed every time.
posted by eyeballkid at 5:43 PM on July 13, 2002

(i kid because i'm an evil snarky bastard)
posted by eyeballkid at 6:08 PM on July 13, 2002

Should I be ashamed of my 13k member number?

Yes.

Right up until the point when you jump in and really participate. Just talk. Number 1 is cool, as are most, if not all, of the other 14,000+. Everybody here also has their own, very distinct, personality, and a newer personality is (I hope!) no worse than one that has been around for awhile - just different.

Also, thanks for the shout-out, matteo, and the opportunity to toot my horn where appropriate.
posted by yhbc at 6:21 PM on July 13, 2002

I am not a number, I am a human being!

Similar things were discussed quite a while back.
posted by mkn at 7:17 PM on July 13, 2002

Don't give the user numbers any thought.
Mostly, people still judge each other based on the size of their genitalia.
posted by dong_resin at 7:18 PM on July 13, 2002

this place is funny
posted by folktrash at 7:28 PM on July 13, 2002

Three digit MeFi members do it better.
posted by ZachsMind at 8:34 PM on July 13, 2002

...except when combined with an almost pathological need to wear flannel.

I kid jonmc, because I heart jonmc. He's a simian brother.

Heart me,Heart my flannel...else I cut ya, brotha crash

:)
posted by jonmc at 8:40 PM on July 13, 2002

Should I be ashamed of my 13k member number?

No, but this...this is a whole different ball of wax. As it were. ;-)

I'm #101 on blogroots, so I could care less about my MeFi #....posted by mkelley

Heheh, I never noticed this before, and I dunno if Matt did this or if it's just coincidence, but my number there is 420. bwhahahaha.
posted by dejah420 at 8:42 PM on July 13, 2002

I'm #101 on blogroots, so I could care less about my MeFi #....

I am not a number, I am a human being!

Speaking of which and oddly enough, on Blogroots, I am Number Six.

(I got up early that morning.)
posted by mcwetboy at 8:46 PM on July 13, 2002

I'm #101 on blogroots, so I could care less about my MeFi #..

Yeah, the hazing got to me though. I couldn't eat a 3rd the pig brains you did.
posted by holloway at 9:08 PM on July 13, 2002

Heck, I think higher numbers are cooler.
There are fewer of us in the 14,000's than there are under 1000-- plus since registration is closed, having a 14,000+ user number means we're either super cool or super sneaky/stealthy/smart.
Or all of the above.

posted by bonheur at 9:29 PM on July 13, 2002

Should I be ashamed of my 13k member number?

As member #12990, I say yes. (Phew. Just made it under the line...)
posted by jokeefe at 9:35 PM on July 13, 2002

having a 14,000+ user number means we're either super cool or super sneaky/stealthy/smart


You new users need to be whipped into shape. I mean look at the quality of your front-page posts! Monkey-posts of all things!

Do not fear, I've taken it upon myself to have a chat with this particular user
posted by vacapinta at 9:55 PM on July 13, 2002

Um, ok, so the chat was before the post. Sue me.
posted by vacapinta at 10:30 PM on July 13, 2002

You new users need to be whipped into shape.

Whips and chains exci--- crap. Forget it.
posted by gummi at 12:24 AM on July 14, 2002

Should I be ashamed of my 13k member number?

As member #12990, I say yes.

Aww... you took my joke.

(#12997-- even closer to the cutting edge!)
posted by nath at 12:43 AM on July 14, 2002

It's the people who have user numbers that aren't the product of two prime numbers that I feel sorry for.
posted by iceberg273 at 11:17 AM on July 14, 2002

You product-of-two-primes users are so pathetic.
posted by nicwolff at 1:46 PM on July 14, 2002

I agree with iceberg. (41 and 317... hoo-ah!)

(I have too much time on my hands.)
posted by nath at 7:36 PM on July 15, 2002

having a 14,000+ user number means we're either super cool or super sneaky/stealthy/smart.

Hear, hear
posted by dg at 8:27 PM on July 15, 2002

I agree with iceberg also - 11 and 1289
posted by dg at 8:29 PM on July 15, 2002

See, the thing about the numbers is not that they're one, two, three, or even four digits long. (although all you post - 999 digit people, I feel for you, I do)

It's the combination that matters. I mean, 123, ya'll. Look at it, it's like perfection.. it seems to be so simple, yet without that simple, perfect series, no other numbers would follow. Each number announcing its position, relative to the series. 1+2=3, 3-2=1. Ah, the symmetry!

And no flannel required.

Don't mess with perfection.


posted by rich at 7:26 AM on July 16, 2002