MetaTalk posts tagged with account

Crowded behind the green curtain.

carsonb — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:49:13 -0800

From a profile:
I inherited this account from my mom who died three years ago. I am, apparently, a sub-par contributor.
(My Dad uses it sometimes, too. He's the one with the more intelligent comments)
(Later. At this point, several, well, three or five, people are using this account but none will ever match the original account holder in terms of The Right Stuff)
I don't think there's a guideline for multiple people using one account, but maybe there should be? [Not a callout, hence no link.]

Account Closing Protocol

sluglicker — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:41:11 -0800

What would be the reason someone would want to close their account? If someone didn't want to "belong" to this "community", wouldn't someone just quit posting to the site, and reading it? And what of the posts someone has previously posted? Would a request to delete all of someone's own posts be complied with? In the footer of all the sites here you'll see "All posts are © their original authors." As with text postings on mefi, you own whatever you upload, retaining full copyright....meaning that someone could revoke Metafilter's permission to publish? We'd rather not delete posts after the fact if at all possible....meaning you'ld rather not, but you will if asked to do so?

God be wi'ye.

youarenothere — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:41:26 -0800

Alas poor hermitosis! We knew him, Mefites: Twas a fellow of infinite jest, of moste excellent fancy...oh, yeah, and he was a total favorites whore.

'Gift account' confirmation

tellurian — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:17:25 -0800

Can anyone confirm that they have successfully used 'give a gift account'? I ask because of 1, 2.

Gifting a Metafilter account

Saucy Intruder — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 07:47:33 -0800

Can I give the gift that keeps on giving? Meaning, a mefi account? As it stands I could pay the five bucks and sign somebody up, but the giftee wouldn't have any control over her username or password and can't change them after the fact.

Fun with statistics

Quartermass — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:31:47 -0800

Fun with statistics: I have always been curious to the percentage of "ghost accounts" on MeFi, and so today I decided to find out! I took a random sample of 263 (95% +/- 6) user accounts, and discovered that 61.2% of registered users have never commented or posted. Of the 38.8% who have posted, 45.1% have posted less than 10 comments, 42.2% have posted between 10 and 99 comments, and 12.7% have made more than 100 comments.

My name is demo, for we are many

demo — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 06:37:15 -0800

please oh please would someone enable new users on mefi again. the shame and humiliation of posting as "demo" is monumentally soul-destroying. Won't anyone think of the children?

hax0r warning

insomnyuk — Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:56:52 -0800

Somewhere between 9:49 a.m., Jan. 23, and 1:01 p.m., January 24, a l33t hax0r took over Enginebeak's account.