Who can I email to edit my link?

April 1, 2003 10:49 AM

Who's a trusted user? I need someone to edit my link here from "http://www.metafilter.com/www.agsfb.com" to "www.agsfb.com"
i tried looking all over mefi to see if i could find anyone to contact instead of posting here first...thanks
posted by car_bomb to Etiquette/Policy at 10:49 AM (36 comments total)

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If you find any errors, or have any suggestions of what you'd like to see to make this site better, feel free to email.
- Matt Haughey

posted by riffola at 10:57 AM on April 1, 2003

thanks. done AND done.
posted by car_bomb at 11:02 AM on April 1, 2003

trust no one.
posted by crunchland at 11:07 AM on April 1, 2003

Fixed. You know a project has grown to a certain size when members don't have any idea who runs the place, or how it is run.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:13 AM on April 1, 2003

In "The Tipping Point", Gladwell talked about Gore-Tex and how every time one of their facilities hits 150 employees, they split it off into another facility. That's the point where everything goes cattywumpus, apparently.

Perhaps that point for Metafilter is 15, 564 people, and perhaps that explains the new rash of *Filters.

It could just be that I've overthought this.
posted by padraigin at 11:18 AM on April 1, 2003

I'm sure you're right, padraigin.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 11:27 AM on April 1, 2003

everytime one of my thoughts reaches consciousness, i split it off into another pre-concscious thought.

um, what?
posted by quonsar at 11:45 AM on April 1, 2003

OT: 'cattywumpus'? Word of the week, thank you.
posted by punilux at 11:53 AM on April 1, 2003

... or as we used to say in Ohio, whopperjawed.

(actually, we used to say "wamper-jawed," but I can't find a reference to that spelling anywhere...)
posted by jpburns at 12:35 PM on April 1, 2003

Gladwell talked about Gore-Tex and how every time one of their facilities hits 150 employees, they split it off into another facility. That's the point where everything goes cattywumpus, apparently. Perhaps that point for Metafilter is 15, 564 people, and perhaps that explains the new rash of *Filters.

I would venture that the number of active members (those who visit more than once a day and post regularly) is right around 150.
posted by kindall at 1:57 PM on April 1, 2003

yep, finding the contact person is hard...We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting-- By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,-- But by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major issues...
posted by th3ph17 at 2:02 PM on April 1, 2003

'cattywumpus'?!?

Oh yes.
posted by i_cola at 2:11 PM on April 1, 2003

I would venture that the number of active members (those who visit more than once a day and post regularly) is right around 150.

Interesting estimate - it sounds about right. I'm curious though, how could we ascertain exactly how many people read and post daily?
posted by elwoodwiles at 2:13 PM on April 1, 2003

We could have dg count them all. He seems to enjoy that sort of thing.
posted by yhbc at 2:16 PM on April 1, 2003

Count Miguel's posts and extrapolate.
posted by konolia at 2:16 PM on April 1, 2003

MetaNicity: the odd feeling you get when you make a joke on MetaFilter at EXACTLY the same time as someone else.
posted by yhbc at 2:17 PM on April 1, 2003

cattywumpus

we say fehblundgett, but now that I think about it, we never spell it. I have no idea what that word is supposed to look like.
posted by jessamyn at 2:26 PM on April 1, 2003

Not to put too fine a point on it car_bomb, but the 'trusted user' is you, and you failed.

Welcome, anyway.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:28 PM on April 1, 2003

it occured to me that perhaps nobody has explained to car_bomb WHY his link got munged.

www.whatever.com is insufficient. you must include the http:// or else you'll end up 'linking' to a non-existing page on metafilter.com.
posted by quonsar at 2:44 PM on April 1, 2003

Well, quonsar. Aren't you fancy.
posted by padraigin at 2:51 PM on April 1, 2003

no, don't tell him! he'll grow up wanting to design web sites. leave him in pre-protocol innocence.

incidentally (and as damning evidence against my argument a sentence ago), am i the only person doomed to work with a designer who is html illiterate? (like, asking me what "a" meant?).

harumph. bloody guis. kids are spoilt these days.
posted by andrew cooke at 2:55 PM on April 1, 2003

Well, quonsar. Aren't you fancy.

wow! i didn't think anybody had noticed! i had the lace borders done last week, and these racing stripes make me look sleek!
posted by quonsar at 3:00 PM on April 1, 2003

What does "a" mean?
posted by elwoodwiles at 3:42 PM on April 1, 2003

"What does "a" mean?"

Asshat.

Thanks for the setup, elwood.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 4:23 PM on April 1, 2003

elwoodwiles: how could we ascertain exactly how many people read and post daily?

could we use the Mefi Contribution Index?
posted by philcliff at 6:05 PM on April 1, 2003

What, quonsar, no speed holes? They make you go faster, you know.

And any true MeFite knows what "a" REALLY stands for.
posted by adamgreenfield at 7:34 PM on April 1, 2003

Yeah. What he said. All of you fake MeFites would sure love to know what "a" stands for, but all of us true MeFites aren't going to tell you.
posted by iconomy at 8:28 PM on April 1, 2003

"a"sshole
posted by jmd82 at 8:56 PM on April 1, 2003

"I'm curious though, how could we ascertain exactly how many people read and post daily?"

We coud screen scrape to get an exact count on posters. We'd have to guess at the number of readers.

Matt says the site is getting 7 gigs of transfer per day (holy shit).

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/3136#66044

Which is 7*1048576 = 7,340,032K. If we assume each page averages 30K, and a "regular user" loads 100 page views a day, we get 2446 regular users. If we get more conservative, and assume an average page is 60K, and a "regualr user" loads 300 page views a day, we get 407 regular users.

If I was to eyeball that I would guess about 1500 regular readers.
posted by y6y6y6 at 9:18 PM on April 1, 2003

Naw, that can't be. That's about what I pull, throwing aggregators and sundry robots into the count. MeFi's gotta draw somewhere between ten and one hudnred times that.
posted by adamgreenfield at 9:33 PM on April 1, 2003

"hundred."

I see where the confusion lies. I'm a fairly regular, non-lurking reader, and I mmmmmay load twenty MeFi pages a day. That's an order of magnitude off your high-end estimate already.
posted by adamgreenfield at 9:35 PM on April 1, 2003

some of things I bought earlier in the year are no long useful, and will be discarded.
posted by mcsweetie at 10:04 PM on April 1, 2003

does anyone wanna go hang out at the airport with me?
posted by mcsweetie at 10:08 PM on April 1, 2003

Sure, if you bring the surgical masks.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:31 PM on April 1, 2003

Apropos of what has gone before, a little, I do notice at regular intervals (and more so in the last few months) that I'll mouseover an unfamiliar name and discover it's someone who's been around since well before me. This actually happens almost every day lately.

Which could mean that I'm getting alzheimer's, which is possible. Or that there are possibly a few hundred (I think that's a reasonable number) of crack-pipe bogarting addicts, of which I am one, but many hundred more casual crackheads, who pop in and out and only occasionally drop a comment in. And then there's the Cabal™, of course.

What were we talking about again? Thread drift? Or crack?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:35 PM on April 1, 2003

Well, quonsar. Aren't you fancy.

wow! i didn't think anybody had noticed! i had the lace borders done last week, and these racing stripes make me look sleek!

*amberglow bedazzles quonsar, and adds some appliques--a "keep on truckin'" and a smiley face*
posted by amberglow at 6:03 AM on April 2, 2003