Talkin' 'Bout My G-G-G-Generation

August 31, 2003 7:46 PM

The 10K Generation, to which I belong, being member 10947 of September 3, joined MetaFilter between August 1 and September 5 2001, just before the 9/11 influx, and is currently enjoying its second anniversary here. Does each generation, according to how and when they joined, have its own personality? Mine, I would say, judging by a quick survey, is moody, quiet and difficult. What's yours like?
posted by MiguelCardoso to MetaFilter-Related at 7:46 PM (124 comments total)

Mine kicks ass over all of yours. Look up all the good words in the OED, at the least the good words that are adjectives, and that would describe the personality of the 14K.
posted by jonson at 7:48 PM on August 31, 2003

We've got spirit, yes we do, we've got spirit, how 'bout you?
posted by namespan at 8:04 PM on August 31, 2003

What jonson said. We're irascible, boisterous and annoying. We're funny, irreverent and quick-witted, or at least we think we are. We are 14K, and we are all young and full of piss and vinegar, even when we're not, technically speaking, all that young at all.
posted by yhbc at 8:04 PM on August 31, 2003

. . . moody, quiet and difficult.

And here I thought we were witty, intelligent, not at all prone to {News|OpEd|IP|Iraq}Filter posts, and devilishly handsome to boot.

But I can go with moody, quiet and difficult. (Guilty.)
posted by mcwetboy at 8:06 PM on August 31, 2003

miguel! i can see your navel from up here!
posted by quonsar at 8:31 PM on August 31, 2003

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UPP
posted by machaus at 8:38 PM on August 31, 2003

ha ha, I'm a tool...
posted by machaus at 8:38 PM on August 31, 2003

Maybe it has something to do with how logins were managed in each generation? I lurked through months and months of disabled logins before finally begging for an account. I've sensed that some 14kers have a sense of entitlement (or maybe investment) because they made donations. Otherwise, I don't really have a good feel for my generation.
posted by subgenius at 8:38 PM on August 31, 2003

I signed up during that period. I've made 215 comments (inclusive) but I've never posted on the front page. I like "moody, quiet and difficult."

But how does that explain gabby, erudite MiguelCardoso? Was he left to us by gypsies?
posted by coelecanth at 8:51 PM on August 31, 2003

Crap, I feel "old."
posted by davidmsc at 9:37 PM on August 31, 2003

I like to think us 16K'ers (and low 17'ers!) are enlightened enough to care little about the whole user-number-snobbery thing. And we will firmly remain so until some newbies come along to feel superior to.

(Except of course that user #16684. He's a facile jerk who's nowhere near as funny as he thinks he is. But 16683 and below, and 16885 and above? Golden, baby.)
posted by arto at 9:43 PM on August 31, 2003

!
posted by clavdivs at 9:51 PM on August 31, 2003

16792, guess I'm lucky I managed to get in at all. Looks like it currently goes up to 17342. I started lurking back here and didn't know what the hell was going on the next day, when the site was totally different and all colorized and whatnot. And I'm still lurking today, except for right.. now!
posted by duckstab at 9:56 PM on August 31, 2003

The 10K Generation, to which I belong,....

People Gonna Give You Hell
(Talkin' MeFi Generation)
If You're Newer Than Miguel
(Talkin' MeFi generation)...

**swings mouse cable, rams keyboard into CPU**
posted by jonmc at 10:15 PM on August 31, 2003

hope i die
before the blue and gold
posted by quonsar at 11:06 PM on August 31, 2003

I hate all of you.
posted by interrobang at 11:08 PM on August 31, 2003

moody, quiet and difficult

Who the fuck you calling 'moody', bitch? - luv m . ;-P
posted by mischief at 11:13 PM on August 31, 2003

14K: Moody, loud, and difficult.
posted by IshmaelGraves at 12:42 AM on September 1, 2003

What's yours like?

8.5 inches, cut. Why'd ya ask, big boy?

I'm also nineteen. As far as you know, at least.
posted by WolfDaddy at 12:50 AM on September 1, 2003

Don't really associate people with their UNs, so I couldn't tell what the 3K crowd personality is like.
posted by tonelesscereal at 1:06 AM on September 1, 2003

quiet?

ahem. with stats like those, miguel...
posted by triv at 2:49 AM on September 1, 2003

/awaitting Miguel's next MeTa thread asking about commonalities between people with compound words for nicknames vs. those who use spaces.
posted by Space Coyote at 4:02 AM on September 1, 2003

happy anniversary 10kers! How differently do you see this place now compared to then?

and what everyone else said about us 14kers, except i think it's investment due to the waiting for signups to be reopened for so long rather than entitlement...i don't think most of us donated (sorry Matt)

speaking of generations, when are the 17.5-20kers coming?
posted by amberglow at 6:30 AM on September 1, 2003

Generations are overrated. But we won't hold Miguel against the rest of you 14K'ers.

We don't--well, I don't really hate you, Miguel. The cool kids made me do it!
posted by DaShiv at 7:39 AM on September 1, 2003

It seems to me that 11kers don't comment all that much. Hey! 11kers! Where are you?!!?
posted by ashbury at 8:01 AM on September 1, 2003

14K all the way!

(props to my July 28, 2002 brothers: jonson and amberglow)
posted by filmgoerjuan at 9:01 AM on September 1, 2003

15k. representing.
posted by poopy at 9:08 AM on September 1, 2003

Juan, where's the love?
posted by ursus_comiter at 9:20 AM on September 1, 2003

Juan, where's the love?

You know, HANSON was asking me that very question yesterday....

(props to my July 28, 2002 brothers: jonson, amberglow and ursus_comiter)
posted by filmgoerjuan at 10:53 AM on September 1, 2003

we might as well make Miguel an honorary 14ker too...he doesn't seem to fit with his moody, quiet, and difficult cohorts. Welcome aboard!
posted by amberglow at 11:21 AM on September 1, 2003

For all this talk of the pent up desire built by the long lockdown on user accounts leading to such fantastic contributors among the 14K group, I wonder how many of the 1000 accounts between 14K & 14,999 are still in use on a regular (let's say post a comment more than once every two months) basis. It seems like 14K is heavily represented among the active user base, but then again, that's a thousand people we're talking about, and only maybe 50 or at most 100 of them are really using those memberships.
posted by jonson at 11:23 AM on September 1, 2003

*chants*
I'm here! I'm 14K! I'm something or other that rhymes with K!
posted by soundofsuburbia at 11:29 AM on September 1, 2003

I'm a 17ker. That means devil worshipper to you.
posted by angry modem at 11:30 AM on September 1, 2003

i bet that's true for all Ks tho...only 50-100 regularly contribute (probably less than that)...I think we're just bigmouths : >
posted by amberglow at 11:31 AM on September 1, 2003

It seems like 14K is heavily represented among the active user base, but then again, that's a thousand people we're talking about, and only maybe 50 or at most 100 of them are really using those memberships.

Given that there are probably fewer than 200 currently active posters, that's a pretty big proportion.
posted by timeistight at 11:34 AM on September 1, 2003

Hey! 11kers! Where are you?
*sshhh*
posted by ginz at 12:10 PM on September 1, 2003

600s rule. But only 1s have Spirit Foam.
posted by dhartung at 12:20 PM on September 1, 2003

1K on the cusp of 2K -- old enough to know better, still young enough not to care (but just barely)
posted by briank at 12:37 PM on September 1, 2003

Hmm... I feel old. :)
posted by jca at 12:51 PM on September 1, 2003

Before you people brag too much about low user numbers, remember that a certain flaming rabbit had one in the 4000's.
posted by konolia at 12:57 PM on September 1, 2003

Never see any of the 12k squad around, either.
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 1:02 PM on September 1, 2003

9k here, don't know any others, not all that chatty myself. I managed to rouse myself to comment today because I think most of my generation came bashing through the doors on the heels of Kaycee Nicole.

New user signups were off and I think I remember the front page being mostly static unless you were logged in. Someone slipped in MeTa and mentioned new users were still getting in by signing up for accounts at another of Matt's sites. Off I went, and here I am. Happy.
posted by donnagirl at 1:29 PM on September 1, 2003

.986K! w00t!
posted by quonsar at 1:30 PM on September 1, 2003

Wow, two years already.

moody, quiet, and difficult cohorts

Fuck you too!

exeunt, sulking
posted by inpHilltr8r at 1:47 PM on September 1, 2003

The 11K group are all loud, obnoxious drunks. They tend to have oversized genitalia and are not shy about sharing them with others. When poked with a stick, the 11K group withdraws into a shell constructed of pork rinds, and foments plans for retaliation that seldom amount to anything more than heaving feces thither and yon. 11K'ers are prone to ingrown toenails, post-nasal drip, and, in the case of the females, raging yeast infections.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 1:53 PM on September 1, 2003

And before we 14k-ers go getting uppity, it's worth remembering that one of the more spectacular flameouts in recent memory was one of ours. Although the user in question was somewhat "new" at the time.

Makes me wonder what kind of fireworks we'll get if Matt ever opens the door again.

Off-topic: The "posted by" links turn into links to the "named" pages rather than the "numbered" pages when previewing. Odd.
posted by Johnny Assay at 2:00 PM on September 1, 2003

Yeah, I noticed that too.
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 2:24 PM on September 1, 2003

The 14k generation does seem to be more active than other brackets, even after 12 months or so. This could be because most of them had to actually go through some sort of trial to get here (either by dollars or by break-and-enter), so have more invested in their membership. I imagine that there were a lot of potential members who wandered off into the wilderness during that time because they did not have the fortitude to keep trying.

To ensure that any future new members have the same level of investment, we should insist on some sort of ritual shaming for potential newbies in future.
posted by dg at 4:04 PM on September 1, 2003

[ritual shaming is good]
posted by quonsar at 4:14 PM on September 1, 2003

I think that many of the 1K generation feel that they don't have to post and that it is somewhat demeaning to mingle to mingle with the proletariat.... shit, nevermind.

Oops.
posted by cedar at 4:31 PM on September 1, 2003

Down with 10K! Vote 14K for President!
posted by mokujin at 4:33 PM on September 1, 2003

Makes me wonder what kind of fireworks we'll get if Matt ever opens the door again.

we should insist on some sort of ritual shaming for potential newbies in future.

We can combine it into a ritual shaming fireworks extravaganza!
posted by amberglow at 4:38 PM on September 1, 2003

Great idea, amber! Maybe we could call it "burningman".
posted by yhbc at 4:53 PM on September 1, 2003

9129. Discovered MeFi during the Kaycee Nicole (scandal? brouhaha? mess?) thing. At the risk (nay, certainty) of ridicule, I have to admit that I cherish my membership here.

(laugh sign flashes for studio audience)
posted by swerve at 5:02 PM on September 1, 2003

I seem to be the only person left from the Yahoo! Internet Life influx. Anyone else buy that magazine? Anyone know why it was pulled?
posted by feelinglistless at 5:13 PM on September 1, 2003

8K here. The Kaycee Nicole era. Mostly, we sit in the corner, drinking Jim Beam and calling preachers after we track down their home phone numbers from a tiny, upside down reflection in a picture of a stained glass window stolen from an old lady in El Paso. Seriously. We're all like that.
posted by headspace at 5:52 PM on September 1, 2003

how do you find out what number you are?
posted by Keyser Soze at 6:07 PM on September 1, 2003

I know im a high number. I got here just after 9/11 and didnt even get an account until much later. Ive had my moments of stupidity, and my moments of feigned intellect. I was kicked once for being fucked up (drunk, bad stuff happened) and I apologized and got back in. So I guess if you were to take me and generalize my generation, I guess you could call us the upwardly mobile gets drunk and spews wild shit sort of members.
posted by Keyser Soze at 6:11 PM on September 1, 2003

Hover your mouse over your user name and run a hot shower full blast. Your user number will appear in the fogged over bathroom mirror. If this doesn't work turn off the lights and say mathowie three times and your number will appear in the mirror.
posted by elwoodwiles at 6:12 PM on September 1, 2003

Anyone know why it was pulled?

yup

It was pretty good..I still have some of those tear-out pages of links.
posted by amberglow at 6:15 PM on September 1, 2003

and you're one of us keyser : >
posted by amberglow at 6:17 PM on September 1, 2003

The 3K took my baby away. ;-(
posted by mischief at 6:26 PM on September 1, 2003

1k's are crotchety.
posted by bshort1974 at 6:48 PM on September 1, 2003

3K's in the hizzouse!
posted by gen at 7:29 PM on September 1, 2003

I was one of 33 Mefites to sign up on 4 September 2001 (10966-10998). It's not the most exciting cohort in the world, I have to admit - only a handful of us have even commented in the last six months, two of us only became members to comment once that same day and then promptly disappeared forever, and maybe 20 or so members from that day never posted or commented on anything. Some of them don't even have contact info or websites - they are complete and total ciphers. I can only assume they became members after that long dry spell when Matt's server was overwhelmed, to hedge against another members-only access period. So, perhaps we 9/4/2001 people can be characterized as quiet, mysterious, and opportunistic.

And of course, 4 September 2001 is the day that mefi joined MeFi.
posted by skoosh at 7:48 PM on September 1, 2003

12kers enjoy flash fridays, walks along the beach, the movies, mac news, the underdogs, personal creativity, whimsy, quippage, midori snyder, madamejujujive, plep, and mefite high drama dummy spits.

12kers wonder why the ideal of "self policing" is so hard to attain and follow by the other generations, who often blame bad performances on alcohol (nice crutch that it is) and those unruly, uncontrollable "emotions" of theirs.

12kers are quiet because adding to the noise would be irresponsible and total anathema to their maturity and majesty.

Behold the 12k!
posted by elphTeq at 7:57 PM on September 1, 2003

i'm also a 9k kaycee nicole era product... i think i managed to get a then-closed login through the backdoor too.
posted by lotsofno at 8:00 PM on September 1, 2003

why is it, every month or so, there needs to be a metatalk thread extolling the virtues of whichever thousandth user people end up being, and how one thousandth is somehow better or different from any other thousandth?

I mean, for pete's sake, people, who really cares besides Miguel?

boycott miguel.
posted by crunchland at 8:12 PM on September 1, 2003

No other 2K'ers making any noise? Too late to be an early adopter, too early to be trendy.

I just looked +/- a dozen numbers from mine, and all those excluding me posted a single comment ever, total.
posted by NortonDC at 8:17 PM on September 1, 2003

I think the character of MeFi has shifted subtly over the years and "generations" of members.

I'd break it down like this:
< !-- begin sweeping generalizations -->

0-3K
Very short FPP with a link to an interesting non-news site. Not many comments, if any.

3K-10K
The Golden Age. FPP growing longer. Intriguing posts, insightful discussion, and comments that add perspective make it a best-of-class site.

10K-14K
More personalized posts (ex. I really like this type of band, and if you do, you can learn more on this site.) Noise level increases faster than signal.

14K-present
NewsFilter and the rise of the alpha-posters. FPP becomes increasingly breaking news-oriented. One-liners and "chatter" dominate the comments.

< !-- end sweeping generalizations -->
posted by stevis at 8:20 PM on September 1, 2003

Not that I actually read this, I just wanted to be part of this thread before it gets pushed off the page.
posted by Mack Twain at 8:45 PM on September 1, 2003

Right here with you, NortonDC. Word to the third (millennium).

Here's an exercise I've been meaning to suggest for a few weeks now. Especially apropos for us anciens, but perhaps useful for others.

Take a look at the posts on Metafilter the day or two around when you joined.

Me, I signed up on December 21, 2000. I was visiting my sweetie's house in Minnesota (sssh, don't tell her). On that day, there were 15 posts on the front page (random side note: please do fucking not call them FPPs), by 12 different members. An archaeology site, the trailer sites for Traffic and Memento, Jenna Bush, Bonsai Kitten, hemp, three news stories, an obituary thread for a musician, Santa Tracking, and a couple of linkylinks from /usr/bin/girl and mister pants.

It's the variety that did it for me. I remember very clearly, sitting in her kitchen, thinking, "My god. Together we can cover anything. Together we know everything."

I don't think I believe that anymore. It makes me very sad.
posted by gleuschk at 8:55 PM on September 1, 2003

Barney: Spell Relapse!
Lisa: R-E-L-A-P-S-E.
Barney: Thats what beer has done to me! Sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me sock it to me....
posted by Keyser Soze at 9:19 PM on September 1, 2003

boycott miguel.

boycott crunchland.
posted by timeistight at 9:25 PM on September 1, 2003

posted by angry modem at 9:44 PM on September 1, 2003

posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 9:51 PM on September 1, 2003

7K: Half as pissed off as 14K, twice as funny and insightful as 3.5K. Which is to say, just fuckin' right. Gnaw on that, you turdburglars! Woot!

Boycott the Miguel Boycotters! Counterboycott!!
posted by UncleFes at 10:49 PM on September 1, 2003

Never see any of the 12k squad around, either.

I'm here. Found the site just post 9/11... missed out on new user signups, though; got closed out 'til December.

Spent about nine months away from the site starting last August or September (mostly due to fear of grades slipping). Returned in summer.

One of the last 12kers, and proud to say I've posted the second-most comments of anyone in the 12990s. (Taking this comparison to its extreme.)
posted by nath at 10:53 PM on September 1, 2003

Is there some kindof goddam stock photography database of women holding cardboard signs?
posted by namespan at 11:08 PM on September 1, 2003

posted by namespan at 11:28 PM on September 1, 2003

They must be Miguel's ex girlfriends.
posted by ginz at 11:46 PM on September 1, 2003

Is there some kindof goddam stock photography database of women holding cardboard signs?

there's a database of women holding something, doesn't look much like cardboard signs though.
posted by sgt.serenity at 4:30 AM on September 2, 2003

posted by dg at 5:31 AM on September 2, 2003

Much has been accomplished. Thank you, Miguel, for bringing up such an engaging question. I will sleep well tonight.
posted by Tacodog at 6:14 AM on September 2, 2003

what crash said. especially the ingrown toenails part. a doctor once explained to me how these characteristics stem from a traumatic event which occured during our fetal state.
posted by danOstuporStar at 6:49 AM on September 2, 2003

"He stopped crying. You have replaced him as it were. The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased."

Waiting for Godot
posted by madamjujujive at 8:02 AM on September 2, 2003

Dammit, we fourteen-kays are bloody well entitled to a lot 'round here. It takes a lot of blood and sweat to carve an account out of enforced nothingness. Me, I hit up in the humid days of August of '02, during that nonsense with a limited number of new account signups each day. Took me a couple weeks and far too much of my employer's bandwidth before I captured that which was, and always will be, righteously mine. Now where's my cheque?
posted by DrJohnEvans at 8:31 AM on September 2, 2003

Think you were the only ones to ever wait for an account? Oh the hardship.
posted by walrus at 8:55 AM on September 2, 2003

posted by y2karl at 9:04 AM on September 2, 2003

Me, I hit up in the humid days of August of '02, during that nonsense with a limited number of new account signups each day.

Ha! You 14300's had it easy. Back in May '02 we had to sift through Haughey's garbage in the dead of night searching for clues to the secret signup page.
posted by timeistight at 9:06 AM on September 2, 2003

1k's are crotchety.

are not
posted by t r a c y at 9:25 AM on September 2, 2003

Pre-k's in da house, reprazent! :) Still youthful in outlook and optimism, no haters here, except user #31 when he gets a heater on.
posted by Lynsey at 10:06 AM on September 2, 2003

Interesting trivia, NortonDC. I just looked at the 5 users before me, and the 5 after. The 5 before have contributed 3 links and 180 comments; the 5 after, nothing, notta. Kinda makes me wonder why we joined at (approximately) the same time, which kinda makes me wonder why I joined at all. Oh yeah, Miguel. No, wait ...
posted by Wulfgar! at 10:28 AM on September 2, 2003

I find that the 10557s are thoughtful, generous and quite attractive.
posted by me3dia at 11:47 AM on September 2, 2003

Back in May '02 we had to sift through Haughey's garbage in the dead of night searching for clues to the secret signup page.

I wish that a simple touch of espionage had been all I needed to sign up. Competition among those who wanted one of the limited spots was bloodthirsty. You have no idea how many routers I had programmed to fail at noon to prevent my rivals from signing up. Those were long, long days that summer: five minutes spent trying to register, and twenty-three hours fifty-five minutes spent trying to prevent others from registering the next day.

Finally, at high noon on the first of August, with the entire world incapacitated thanks to my efforts, it came down to myself, a co-worker, and a fifty-metre dash to the nearest workstation.

Thank God he tripped.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 11:56 AM on September 2, 2003

boy, i'm glad i got in a few days before the Dr.

It did alter how we see membership though, i think...it was hard to snag one of those spots (that said, i envy the secret backdoor people)
posted by amberglow at 12:15 PM on September 2, 2003

MetaTalk: Envy the secret backdoor people
posted by danOstuporStar at 12:32 PM on September 2, 2003

Judge's wife cried, "Let that man go free!"
posted by timeistight at 12:44 PM on September 2, 2003

10628s represent!

Moody? Frequently.
Quiet? Intermittently.
Difficult? Hell yes.

(and mad props to tha fellow 10Kers, especially Daddy Migz...*pours Port on ground*)
posted by Vidiot at 2:06 PM on September 2, 2003

Inspired by Wulfgar!, I checked the ten members closest to my number, and discovered that fully half of them have not used their accounts at all (and the rest not much more). Why would you go to all that trouble (I had to sit outside Matt's apartment for weeks with a pathetic handmade sign) and not use your hard-earned membership?
*shakes head, meditates on humanity's perversity*
posted by languagehat at 4:04 PM on September 2, 2003

high resale value on eBay?
posted by crunchland at 4:29 PM on September 2, 2003

Immediately pre and post of me
Nuthin ...... not a word.
But then 2 before Big Kev.
posted by johnny7 at 5:00 PM on September 2, 2003

Funny thing. I walked right into MetaFilter one day, got one of the 10 free signups, and all was right.

I've actually thought of auctioning off my MeFi name on ebay. It's a pretty generic nickname that anyone could take over, although I'm a bit attached to the nick, and I guess I do use it on slashdot, too.... still, for 5 figures, I think I could part with it.
posted by namespan at 7:33 PM on September 2, 2003

orange swan, at #15969 you are right in my hood - almost next door! Come on over for cocktails!

But #15970 is an abandoned building and it's dragging down the property values.
posted by madamjujujive at 7:50 PM on September 2, 2003

I have an extra one but nobody in their right mind would want it. Matt is free to auction it off if he likes.
posted by konolia at 7:50 PM on September 2, 2003

what's the user number konolia? I'm not right minded...
posted by namespan at 8:01 PM on September 2, 2003

I got mine on the second try. The first day, I uh, got back late from lunch (yeah, that's it). The next day I got ane of the noon signups, and from the look of it, not a week too soon!

Of course, I'm late for *everything*, sooo....
posted by notsnot at 8:02 PM on September 2, 2003

3K's are a quiet lot
Happy enough with what they've got
Far from triple-digit cool
But swam once in a smaller school
Keeping up is so much work
Mostly we prefer to lurk
But now and then we brave the brown
Silence follows -- we sit down....
posted by BT at 9:31 PM on September 2, 2003

again! again!
posted by amberglow at 9:49 PM on September 2, 2003

obligatory .986K self promotion
posted by quonsar at 11:33 PM on September 2, 2003

Hey. September 3rd. Happy Metafilter Birthday, migs. Seven hundred & thirty days, four hundred & forty six MeFi/MeTa posts, and some five thousand seventy three comments later. Has it all been worth it?
posted by jonson at 11:57 PM on September 2, 2003

for amberglow:

14K is mighty brash
we cover the Filter like a rash.

Itchy and scratchy as we are,
to some it seems we've gone too far;
the thinner the skin, the stronger the notion
to just douse the place in kalamine lotion.

But, despite temptations to eject us,
you must admit we are infectious.

posted by taz at 12:05 AM on September 3, 2003

Bravo Taz! Never has it been better said. I'm tempted to footnote up the poem with specific references to individual members of the mighty one four. But I won't.
posted by jonson at 12:11 AM on September 3, 2003

Noble, gracious, strong and stoic,
With a patience quite heroic,
We members of the zeroik.
posted by rory at 3:05 AM on September 3, 2003

what's the user number konolia? I'm not right minded

4927. I warned you.
posted by konolia at 5:29 AM on September 3, 2003

Wow, madamjujujive, I never realized that you became a member slightly after me. You're so well known here and I would have assumed you were at least below 10k.

But yeah, #15970 is deadweight - not even a user name.

Speak, oh anonymous, silent one!
posted by orange swan at 6:55 AM on September 3, 2003

thanks taz : >

now we all need to do a battle of the network stars-type thing
posted by amberglow at 8:03 AM on September 3, 2003

Hey. September 3rd. Happy Metafilter Birthday, migs

Thanks, Jonson - it is indeed my second MeFi birthday today!

For my third year, I shall be making a special effort to wrest back my lawful crown from that cheeky, no-good coffee-snorting objectionist and to ---------------------(withheld by popular request)-----------------.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 8:19 AM on September 3, 2003

I have an extra one but nobody in their right mind would want it.

not in working order
posted by timeistight at 8:27 AM on September 3, 2003

< 1K's hate all of you. But mostly we just wallow in our own self-loathing.
posted by jennyb at 8:27 AM on September 3, 2003

I am one of the last active regular >200's (I'm 131) I think...
I think most of the >200's are mostly silent now, their accounts rusting over, silent, perhaps never to be used again.

Back then in 1999 and 2000, it was all weblog talk, who was doing what, why they were doing it, what sucked, who sucked and why they sucked. One thread that springs to mind is the one where Srini Mumar of unAmerican.com threw a kitten out of a window. Hmmm.
posted by tomcosgrave at 10:16 AM on September 3, 2003

We 200s are really bad at the less than greater than part of elementary math.
posted by jennyb at 11:04 AM on September 3, 2003

decimals are the shizz.

--.986K
posted by quonsar at 11:48 AM on September 3, 2003

1k's are crotchety.

are not

Are too! Don't make me come over there.
posted by beth at 2:25 PM on September 3, 2003