User number thread October 3, 2003 4:32 AM Subscribe
What's Your Number? Got bored and found out the comments for a thread that is my user number is this. Is yours a fun thread or are you one of the dreaded 5 comment losers?
posted by Dagobert to MetaFilter-related at 4:32 AM (65 comments total)
yes. i am dreaded... posted by mokey at 4:38 AM on October 3, 2003
Shit. Mine (4123) is about marijuana legalization.
Which I oppose, by the way, in case you're wondering why I am bummed out about my # being "linked" to it. posted by davidmsc at 4:40 AM on October 3, 2003
This thread also links to user Monstah and an article about Fighting Spam with Silly Human Tricks. And this < ...> has a callout at the bottom which seems to predate your idea by two years. posted by seanyboy at 5:17 AM on October 3, 2003
For some reason, I seem to recall that a certain Portuguese author's thread was about the new Defense of Freedom medal ... posted by yhbc at 5:21 AM on October 3, 2003
Holy shamoley. We even both used the ellipsis as a link. posted by yhbc at 5:22 AM on October 3, 2003
Heh - see out the window there... Up a bit.. to your left... That telescopic glint. That's me. I'm watching. posted by seanyboy at 5:39 AM on October 3, 2003
Mine appears to be a CF error. posted by monkey closet at 5:58 AM on October 3, 2003
Well, I suck. posted by Dagobert at 6:03 AM on October 3, 2003
I think it looks like a B-shaped electrical outlet, or at least like the thing on an extension cord that you plug into. posted by rory at 6:09 AM on October 3, 2003
A member of the 16000 generation, mine is David Rees and Get Your War On, where a dozen people went "That's nice." posted by spartacusroosevelt at 6:21 AM on October 3, 2003
Mine's about AOL employees having to use AOLmail for their e-mail. That just sucks. posted by vraxoin at 6:22 AM on October 3, 2003
Nothing to see here, move along...
You've stumbled upon a non-existent post, or one that was deleted for various reasons. posted by rushmc at 6:29 AM on October 3, 2003
davidmsc: you're not alone. All the people who sell marijuana are against legalisation too. Isn't it nice to know that someone is on your side? posted by walrus at 6:48 AM on October 3, 2003
Funkalicious. I think we should have a rave in rushmc's honour.
*hands out glowsticks* posted by walrus at 7:17 AM on October 3, 2003
Sigh. I was deleted as a double. Though, I gather from the comments, it was rather more than just the second time it had been posted. posted by jacquilynne at 7:20 AM on October 3, 2003
Huh. I get a thread about Hollywood conservatives that actually didn't turn into a total slapfight. I guess Metafilter really was better back in the day.
I am the MetaFilter footer...I help people navigate around the site as well as informing them of their copyright.
Sleek, efficient, functional...how I wish *I* were those things in real life. posted by filmgoerjuan at 8:25 AM on October 3, 2003
a thread about how the New York Times outted us about pirating music. posted by crunchland at 8:29 AM on October 3, 2003
I'm a two-comment post on the politics of Central Asia, posted two years ago to the day (and very close to the hour/minute)! posted by jazon at 8:37 AM on October 3, 2003
My God! No-one ever answered this important question:
I can only imagine the carnage that resulted from such apathy.
Let me finally say it: Yes! Let them bungee jump! Preferably into swimming pools filled with alligators and angry eels.
...or maybe No! For god's sake, no! posted by Kafkaesque at 8:39 AM on October 3, 2003
mine's not too bad... it's about mp3 downloads which is always topical, but it's on the short side. however, mathowie graces it with 2 comments and mentions one of my fave canadian bands. so it's entertainment related, short, and canadian, just like me. posted by t r a c y at 8:51 AM on October 3, 2003
How does Cardoso do that? Dude's everywhere. posted by gleuschk at 9:06 AM on October 3, 2003
My post had some pretty interesting/shocking links — and they all still work, too, if anyone wants to check it out. Unfortunately, it only got four comments, probably because of the confusing formatting. Let this be a lesson to us all. posted by Johnny Assay at 9:08 AM on October 3, 2003
Mine's just sort of random. Despite being a "news" link, it's still a working link. posted by Karmakaze at 9:29 AM on October 3, 2003
rushmc just doesn't want us to know that he's a post about Ecstasy.
Oops, my mistake. I was searching for my MetaTalk post. Thanks for the correction. posted by rushmc at 9:36 AM on October 3, 2003
Holy crap. Mine has George W. Bush, Michael Moore, and Ralph Nader all within the post text and the first comment. posted by brownpau at 10:16 AM on October 3, 2003
Mine is a two comment loser on dutch stickers or stencils or something. Hooray for ignominity! The page the post links to doesn't even come up anymore.
If only I was 13243, a mysterious deleted post. Interestingly, fenrir, user 13243, has only posted once. posted by insomnyuk at 11:24 AM on October 3, 2003
Mine, about a notion posted on /. by Jon Katz that there are/were 9 continents on the Internet superplanet, was posted by jkottke and commented in by mathowie & jjg. It's interesting to contrast how people viewed the Internet 3 years ago, as opposed to now. Also interesting, no one complained then about posting something seen on /.. posted by Lynsey at 11:38 AM on October 3, 2003
The page the post links to doesn't even come up anymore.
For some reason I find the words "De pagina is niet gevonden" much more dark and foreboding than the English 'Page Not Found". posted by anastasiav at 11:49 AM on October 3, 2003
Great, just great. Incidentally, this is from about 2 months after I joined, so had I been quick on the uptake, I could potentially have posted my own user number. posted by inpHilltr8r at 12:37 PM on October 3, 2003
My thread has one comment. Quiet and irrelevant-- I suppose it's fitting. posted by nath at 1:02 PM on October 3, 2003
There's few comments, but I claimed it for my own in those heady days when we were youthful and daring and traipsed across the far lands of old threads with wild abandon.
I did that too, ebk, only to be busted by a walrus.
Oh and 34 comments, genetically modified cats, posted by the howie. posted by Ufez Jones at 1:35 PM on October 3, 2003
I am the Shotgun Rules, posted by Matt and commented by nobody (and the site link is MIA... you'd think something that important would be on the web forever).
At least, now I have the expressed right to insert a comment into any thread that simply says: "SHOTGUN!" (And you thought I was annoying before...) posted by wendell at 1:34 AM on October 4, 2003
I hope this isn't some kind of portent... posted by hughbot at 6:26 AM on October 4, 2003
Good and bad news for my number thread. Good: it was posted by mathowie. Bad: it has no comments. But it is unusually topical, given what's been posted here in MetaTalk. Clearly this signifies I am always on the cutting edge of MetaFilter trends... posted by adrianhon at 7:51 AM on October 4, 2003
The waybackmachine still has the all important shotgun rules, thank goodness. posted by dabitch at 10:18 AM on October 4, 2003
Does this make the dewd one of the cooler members by the way? posted by dabitch at 10:21 AM on October 4, 2003
I wouldn't exactly call that a "cool" thread to be associated with... posted by Johnny Assay at 10:33 AM on October 4, 2003
i was taking the piss. posted by dabitch at 11:02 AM on October 4, 2003
My number's MeFi thread, dated January 26th 2000, posted by "Mark from Michigan," was about BudBowl.com which no longer goes anywhere, and the thread had no comments in it, which I find quite fitting considering the treacherous terrain as akin to endless Great Taste Less Filling arguments. More interestingly though, my MetaTalk thread is much more interesting. It's been two and a half years, and some of these points are still being "belabored." Not one of SpecialK's prouder moments.
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posted by mokey at 4:38 AM on October 3, 2003