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September 4, 2003 9:01 AM

Metafilter thread and user growth stats have been updated, along with the top 20 charts. Five consecutive months of no new users means less overall threads and comments, but the Blogstop acronym thread broke the top 3 most commented entries and Tom Swifties broke the top 20.
posted by waxpancake to MetaFilter-Related at 9:01 AM (72 comments total)

Thanks, Andy - interesting stuff.
posted by jonson at 9:04 AM on September 4, 2003

Sincere thanks. Update fairly frequently.
posted by msacheson at 9:11 AM on September 4, 2003

I'm sure i can move Tom thread up to top ten.
posted by carfilhiot at 9:52 AM on September 4, 2003

ps. could you not do user stats. most posts, most comments? active users?
posted by carfilhiot at 9:56 AM on September 4, 2003

and a pony.
posted by crunchland at 10:04 AM on September 4, 2003

carfilhiot, try here.
posted by timeistight at 10:07 AM on September 4, 2003

hey thanks! that's cool too.
posted by carfilhiot at 10:11 AM on September 4, 2003

41. 2.76 WolfDaddy
42. 2.69 dash_slot-
43. 2.65 mediareport
44. 2.64 amberglow

QUEERCONSPIRACYFILTER QUEERCONSPIRACYFILTER

[/preemptive]
posted by WolfDaddy at 10:20 AM on September 4, 2003

You're gay? Who knew?
posted by timeistight at 10:30 AM on September 4, 2003

I ♥ waxpancake!
posted by Lynsey at 12:05 PM on September 4, 2003

Yay waxpancake!

The contributor index is (just slightly) out of date: I'm actually even with foldy on number of FPPs (49).
posted by me3dia at 12:29 PM on September 4, 2003

Er, nevermind, it's now updated. Magic!
posted by me3dia at 12:31 PM on September 4, 2003

I think it updates a user's stats when someone queries that user.
posted by timeistight at 12:33 PM on September 4, 2003

ooo, it's like we're a gang!
posted by amberglow at 12:39 PM on September 4, 2003

Can we be gangbangers? Headbangers?

*rimshot*

(pun oh so very definitely intended with much love to timeistight)
posted by WolfDaddy at 1:17 PM on September 4, 2003

Wow. I've been on "LURK MODE" for nearly a year and I'm still in the top thirty.

I think I owe my last employer an huge apology.

Hey, who are all these whippersnappers? Where's my pills? I need a sweater.
posted by ColdChef at 2:05 PM on September 4, 2003

Five consecutive months of no new users means less overall threads and comments

Fewer overall threads and comments... :)

Anal retentiveness aside: it seems to me that the past month has seen a great MeFi revival. The site is filled with interesting links. The past three days, especially, have been a huge time sink for me. I'm astounded at the stuff that's being posted. Part of this is due to the decline of the Warfilter stage. Is part of it also due to the death of new users?

Or am I imagining things? That's always a possibility.

Now please excuse me. I have to go read about Disneyland obsessives and boy geniuses and Luddites and the Cincinnati subway and...
posted by jdroth at 2:21 PM on September 4, 2003

Wow. I've been on "LURK MODE" for nearly a year and I'm still in the top thirty.

Any advice for those who would follow in your footsteps? I'm rather embarrassed that I keep showing up in the top 25...
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 2:24 PM on September 4, 2003

It took an intervention for me. No, really.

"Step away from the keyboard."

I miss the near-constant posting days of yore, but I no longer wake up in the middle of the night and check to see if I've gotten any responses. So, I've got that going for me.

You've admitted that you have a problem, so you're on your way. Just don't fall into the trap of thinking that people "need" you to post.

When you start thinking of it as a responsibility, it loses its fun.
posted by ColdChef at 2:37 PM on September 4, 2003

Either that, or get yourself put on double secret probation for filling a thread with stupid, unfunny poems.
posted by ColdChef at 2:39 PM on September 4, 2003

Step away from the keyboard now Coldchef.
posted by carfilhiot at 2:47 PM on September 4, 2003

I myself am disturbed that despite being on a Marathon for the last week and a half, Carlos Quevado still has more posts than I do.
posted by Stan Chin at 2:51 PM on September 4, 2003

Admitting you have a problem is the first step to truly, deeply, and wantonly enjoying it.
posted by WolfDaddy at 3:07 PM on September 4, 2003

Is part of it also due to the death of new users?

So that's what's been happening to them. Drastic, but the results have been good. I approve.
posted by languagehat at 3:09 PM on September 4, 2003

Part of this is due to the decline of the Warfilter stage

well, there actually was a war going on, the "Warfilter stage" was a natural consequence of the fact thet MeFi cannot exist in a void (whatever you do, don't think about elephants...)

but it's impossible not notice how the posse of rabid Bush cheerleaders who used to hang around here wrapped in their made-in-China Stars and Stripes and noisily crap on Iraq threads are presently going through a pretty unhappy phase, like, the war they've been so bloodthirstily advocating has turned into a messy, dangerous, one-dead-GI-a-day, 4-billion-dollars-a-month, let's-finally-ask-those-commies-at-the-UN-for-some-help endeavor.

rest assured that if WMD's are finally (after a 5 month and counting search) found, or if Saddam/Osama is found, they'll come back to enlighten us with their RNC-approved, arrogant and jingoistic wisdom
posted by matteo at 3:47 PM on September 4, 2003

Yes, it's obvious that the right wing causes all the problems here. There's just too darn many of them.
posted by timeistight at 4:00 PM on September 4, 2003

posted by poopy at 5:32 PM on September 4, 2003

it's not what I said, timeistight. it's not what I said.

what I said is, some right-wing members have often been very unpleasant in their support of the White House "war effort", really stirring the shit (do you want me to deluge you with links to prove this point? really?) and now they have disappeared.

what a coincidence, huh?

they were all over the site when they could rub other members noses in the big Republican victory at the midterm elections (not to mention their glee at the SCOTUS "5-4" heist).
now that there's not much to brag about, they've disappeared. but feel free to consider it a coincidence.
these are hard weeks for right-wing trolls, sadly. not even their bad faith can spin the Iraq adventure (or that big-ass deficit) into a victory for their buddies in Washington.

and please, the "you're all commies" argument is plainly defeated by a simple perusal of the contribution index / most comments posted charts. you'll see that right-wingers and Conservatives are all over those charts.

in the top-ten you have MiguelCardoso (who likes Bush and Thatcher and proudly admits of being a Zionist, so I guess he'll pass a "patriotism" test even if he's a furriner, no?), hama7
(not a commie, I'd say, what do you think?), dhartung (who I'd say is a centrist Democrat, certainly not a Chomsky-loving Green), ParisParamus ('nuff said, he's also number 6 for most MeFi comments, number 6 man), mathowie (really a non-ideological centrist, not even Bill Frist could seriously consider him a radical), and rushmc

in the top 20 there's the right-now-desaparecido Steve at Linnwood who for many months was all over the site with his quite shrill case of Bush-love and commie-hate

and let's not forget Postroad's almost 300 fpp's -- is he a liberal too? I didn't notice, silly me

so please, tell me again how those darn liberals drown out the more conservative voices here?

on the other hand, if you want to argue that MeFi's conservatives are often shrill and aggressive, it's an hypothesis we can find quite a few links to support
posted by matteo at 5:43 PM on September 4, 2003

I hate Thatcher.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 5:47 PM on September 4, 2003

but she loves you.
posted by crunchland at 5:51 PM on September 4, 2003

and that's what counts, Miguel.

plus, how in the world is it possible to hate Thatcher and love Bush at the same time escapes me, also kind of strikes me as inconsistent but it must be my fault, I'm probably too narrow-minded

posted by matteo at 5:54 PM on September 4, 2003

I'm sure you commies also distinguish between Lenin and Mao.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 5:58 PM on September 4, 2003

like, we can tell which one was Asian?
posted by matteo at 6:00 PM on September 4, 2003

Hey, where can you see this top poster list?
posted by namespan at 6:02 PM on September 4, 2003

Ummmm... nevermind, I must be ponyblind or something.

and the Bush economy ate my homework
posted by namespan at 6:04 PM on September 4, 2003

that may not be exactly what you said matteo, but it was certainly insinuated:

'the posse of rabid Bush cheerleaders who used to hang around here wrapped in their made-in-China Stars and Stripes and noisily crap on Iraq threads...'

'...rest assured that if WMD's are finally (after a 5 month and counting search) found, or if Saddam/Osama is found, they'll come back to enlighten us with their RNC-approved, arrogant and jingoistic wisdom'

after a very questionable listing of so-called 'right-wingers and Conservatives' (minus an obvious few) to refute the ubiquitous liberal crowd, you then exclaim, 'on the other hand, if you want to argue that MeFi's conservatives are often shrill and aggressive, it's an hypothesis we can find quite a few links to support.'

you're all over the place. so what is it then? (1) there is a representative conservative crowd that possitively contributes to mefi, (2) there is a representative conservative crowd that negatively contributes to mefi or (3) there is a not-so-representative 'conservative' crowd that supports both (1) and (2)?

personally, i think that anyone (no matter their political bent) can be an ass. no further comment.

oh, and thanks waxpancake, great stuff. sorry for the derail.
posted by poopy at 6:34 PM on September 4, 2003

you're all over the place. so what is it then? (1) there is a representative conservative crowd that possitively contributes to mefi, (2) there is a representative conservative crowd that negatively contributes to mefi or (3) there is a not-so-representative 'conservative' crowd that supports both (1) and (2)?

poopy, those are false exclusions.

(1) there is a representative conservative crowd that possitively contributes to mefi, [Yup]

(2) there is a representative conservative crowd that negatively contributes to mefi [Yup]

(3) there is a not-so-representative 'conservative' crowd that supports both (1) and (2)? [Yup]

No "or" is necessary, because the above three comments don't contradict or exclude the possibility of each other. I think, to some degree, matteo is right. Evidence by opposition is that fold_and_mutilate has not been posting as much (or as shrilly as before).
posted by Wulfgar! at 7:51 PM on September 4, 2003

Great job, matteo. Now can you break down the top Chevy and Ford posters? How about Coke and Pepsi? Paul and John?
posted by timeistight at 8:05 PM on September 4, 2003

Wulfgar!, that was basically the point i was trying to make (albeit, not very good obviously. and yes, i should've used and/or instead). you're exactly right, they don't contradict one another but matteo does.

his initial comment was a blatant attack on the right-wing conservative crowd:

...but it's impossible not notice how the posse of rabid Bush cheerleaders who used to hang around here wrapped in their made-in-China Stars and Stripes and noisily crap on Iraq threads are presently going through a pretty unhappy phase...


timeistight's response:

yes, it's obvious that the right wing causes all the problems here. There's just too darn many of them.

followed by a defense:

it's not what I said, timeistight. it's not what I said.

what I said is, some right-wing members have often been very unpleasant in their support of the White House "war effort", really stirring the shit (do you want me to deluge you with links to prove this point? really?) and now they have disappeared.

followed by a bizarre 'statistical analysis' of the mefi right-wing demographic:

in the top-ten you have MiguelCardoso (who likes Bush and Thatcher and proudly admits of being a Zionist, so I guess he'll pass a "patriotism" test even if he's a furriner, no?), hama7
(not a commie, I'd say, what do you think?), dhartung (who I'd say is a centrist Democrat, certainly not a Chomsky-loving Green), ParisParamus ('nuff said, he's also number 6 for most MeFi comments, number 6 man), mathowie (really a non-ideological centrist, not even Bill Frist could seriously consider him a radical), and rushmc...

and ending with another attack:

on the other hand, if you want to argue that MeFi's conservatives are often shrill and aggressive, it's an hypothesis we can find quite a few links to support

timeistight called matteo on his biased attitude and matteo's response was full of contradictions: [paraphrasing} 'thats not what i said', 'there are plenty of conservative mefi members', but 'there's plenty of evidence to back up my belief that mefi conservatives are assholes'.
posted by poopy at 8:31 PM on September 4, 2003

I just remembered why I don't come around much any more.
posted by ColdChef at 10:21 PM on September 4, 2003

Fisking is so 2002.
posted by waxpancake at 10:29 PM on September 4, 2003

Geez, I'm #18 in most MeFi threads, but my contribution index is still less than 1.0? Sometimes it sucks to be old.
posted by wendell at 12:30 AM on September 5, 2003

And sometimes it just sucks.
posted by Dagobert at 1:46 AM on September 5, 2003

poopy, timeistight,

I appreciate that you don't agree with me, but why would it be "full of contradictions"?

contribution numbers demonstrate that many of MeFi's hardcore users are right wing/conservatives, and at the very least aren't certainly liberals. I'm not just saying that, check out again the contribution indexes. or do you think that the Top Ten users I named are in fact flag-burning, Nader-voting Greens?

hence, the "MeFi as liberal/radical mob" theory doesn't hold water.

many of these conservatives/right wingers have shown in the past a certain taste for the verbal brawl, and a bad habit of trying to ruin war/Bush/whatever threads by derailing, insults, etc. (there's hundreds of links to back up this statement, or are you denying that?)

as wulfgar pointed out, all you guys can do is try to prop up false exclusions. and various straw-man arguments. plus, you keep putting words in my mouth (I never said "assholes", you did poopy, your opinion not necessarily mine)

the fact that our right-wing friends have either disappeared or gotten a little less shrill, again, is not my opinion, is a fact -- take the time to read the site, you'll notice that. my theory is that they're not around much because they have little to brag about at the moment. they'll come back if/when the Iraq situation gets better, or if/when there's a new attack on America

but if you want to keep believing that this is a commie clique where polite conservative voices are constantly drowned out, go ahead. just don't use my comments to confirm your demonstrably weak argument
posted by matteo at 2:40 AM on September 5, 2003

Paul and John?
well that's obvious. conservatives (if they even like music) would prefer Paul, liberals prefer John, one of the coolest human beings ever imho.
posted by carfilhiot at 6:45 AM on September 5, 2003

You evil people!
Don't leave ColdChef. We miss you.
OK I do.
posted by ginz at 7:04 AM on September 5, 2003

matteo: I agree that the conservatives have been less in evidence around here, but I disagree with your analysis (which I suspect is driven by your own views); I think they've gotten tired of being constantly piled on whenever they open their mouths (or hit Post). I rarely agree with what they have to say, but they have made me think, and for me MeFi is a less interesting place without them (or with so much less of them). I don't understand the mentality that wants to be surrounded with nothing but agreement (not aiming this at you in particular, but you have to agree it's a common feeling around here).

Oh, and ColdChef, please don't go!
posted by languagehat at 7:43 AM on September 5, 2003

Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions"?
posted by timeistight at 8:33 AM on September 5, 2003

I was astonished to see myself listed at #70 for threads on the MeFi contribution list. I had no idea that I had, er, contributed that much. On the other hand, I'd like to say that I miss you too, ColdChef! I thought many of your comments were either insightful or hilarious, sometimes both, and I'd love to see more of them.
posted by Lynsey at 11:19 AM on September 5, 2003

I rarely agree with what they have to say, but they have made me think, and for me MeFi is a less interesting place without them

really?
posted by matteo at 12:15 PM on September 5, 2003

hehe, matteo, that's good.
posted by poopy at 12:34 PM on September 5, 2003

Really. The fact that Steve_at_Linnwood once told you to fuck off is neither here nor there. MetaFilter is not the most polite of venues; judge any of us by our least polite moments, and who should ’scape whipping?
posted by languagehat at 1:04 PM on September 5, 2003

The fact that Steve_at_Linnwood once told you to fuck off is neither here nor there

not once, languagehat, quite often but what can you do,

it's not my fault if he is very gullible and has terrible manners to boot

I used to be amused by his tantrums, now they've gotten a little old.
posted by matteo at 1:50 PM on September 5, 2003

matteo, i truly wanted to let your earlier statement rest and not argue it any further, but your being so damn pig-headed and disrespectful to others (in this thread and the other meta one) that i'm very curious about one thing.

do you agree or disagree with this statement: 'yes, it's obvious that the right wing causes all the problems here. There's just too darn many of them.'
posted by poopy at 2:54 PM on September 5, 2003

Why don't we let the whole thing drop, poopy? I'm sorry I ever questioned the balance and fairness of the MetaFilter community. I intend to recite ten "Hail Matteos" and ten "Our Quonsars" in penance.
posted by timeistight at 3:20 PM on September 5, 2003

ok, timeistight, i'll drop it. but that's only because i have a crush on you ;)

but i do want to say that i was more than willing to let it drop last night until i saw matteo once again tossing around inflammatory remarks which served no purpose other than to piss certain people off. personally, i see this as just another little indicator of the bigger problem of 'newsfilter': that we contradict (yes, contradict) ourselves with talk of tolerance and community when we decide to attack those of a different political/religious/economic background than ourselves. jeez, talk about exclusion.
posted by poopy at 4:27 PM on September 5, 2003

ok, timeistight, i'll drop it.
for future reference poop. normally when you drop things, you stop there.

Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions"?
Typical conservatives, thinking a sound bite is an argument.
posted by carfilhiot at 4:57 PM on September 5, 2003

Seriously, I've never really understood the cannonization of Lennon. Is it "he was miserable, so he must have been a real artist"? McCartney is at least a very talented musician; Lennon was little better than a dabbler.
posted by timeistight at 5:25 PM on September 5, 2003

lennon had cool shades. martyr points for being assassinated.
posted by poopy at 5:37 PM on September 5, 2003

Typical conservatives, thinking a sound bite is an argument.

No, Typical conservatives politiks, thinking a sound bite is an argument.

And this coming from a flaming lefty.
posted by Ufez Jones at 1:17 AM on September 6, 2003

Sunday Sunday Sunday! It's monster post MAYHEM!

See the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy jump the tire... over a FLAMING LEFTY... eating a CARDBOARD BOX... covered in SYRUP!

See all and sundry... bait 111... and see him take take TAKE that bait!

And see quonsar... post an IMAGE... that nobody but him UNDERSTANDS! You think it's a SEQUITIR, but it's NOT!

PLUS!! An innocent statistical thread CRUSHED by the awesome horsepower of Political Grudgefoot! And a guest performance by... Limozeen!

Sunday! Sunday! Someday!
posted by arto at 2:55 AM on September 6, 2003

Funny how I don't even recognize some of the names on the highest contributors list, while there are lower-ranking others whom I know all too well.

It's not how often you speak, but what you say and what impact it has on others.
posted by orange swan at 6:44 AM on September 6, 2003

miserable? do you know what misery means?
dabbler? if John was a dabbler then the Pope is an atheist.

tit you're trolling and i'm hungover. [insert obligatory winston churchill quote here]
posted by carfilhiot at 8:12 AM on September 6, 2003

you're trolling

A bit, perhaps. I don't think McCartney gets his due though.
posted by timeistight at 9:25 AM on September 6, 2003

"The only thing you ever done was... Yesterday"
Lennon - How do you sleep?

Yeah john could be a bastard :) but i think most people (including me) appreciate the paul is a great song-writer.
posted by carfilhiot at 9:45 AM on September 6, 2003

…singer, piano-player, guitarist, bassist and drummer. (When a reporter asked Lennon if Ringo Starr was the best drummer in rock and roll, he replied "He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.")
posted by timeistight at 11:06 AM on September 6, 2003

yes but whether you can write a song is what ultimately defines you as musician.

Lennon knew that, otherwise he would've sung 'the only ever thing you done was play really good drums'
posted by carfilhiot at 11:22 AM on September 6, 2003

Pish-posh. I mean, I've got mad respect for truly great songwriters, but would you consider Sinatra a lousy singer because he didn't write his own material? Or Perlman a lousy violinist, or Joe Pass a sub-par guitarist? Although you may have a point when it comes to rock & roll.
posted by arto at 3:07 PM on September 6, 2003

madonna is still hot. that is all.
posted by poopy at 3:36 PM on September 6, 2003

Lennon, hell, everybody knows Peggy was carrying her other two sisters for years...
posted by wendell at 3:00 AM on September 7, 2003

And without Myron Floren's accordion, the entire Lawrence Welk empire would've collapsed...

hello... anybody there? have I killed another thread?
posted by wendell at 4:51 PM on September 7, 2003

Wow, #22. I should really spend more of my work time working, I guess.
posted by dg at 5:01 PM on September 7, 2003