MetaTalk posts tagged with newusers

Post deletion

JD Rucker — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:26:07 -0800

Not sure why, but my first post was deleted. It was about the News Corp discussions with Microsoft. Definitely not spam, so I'm not sure what happened.

MeFi's 2d wave turns three.

Tommy Gnosis — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:02:32 -0800

Happy birthday Generation Y MeFites! You're three now (11/18/2004). What do you have to say for yourselves?

famous blue website

lalex — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:20:31 -0800

IdleCuriousityFilter: What media mentions of MetaFilter have generated significant numbers of new accounts? Reading jennydiski's lovely London Review of Books essay, I wondered if any of the magazine's readers would be tempted to come sign up for a MeFi account. So now I'm curious - have there been print/TV/whatever mentions of MetaFilter that have caused a huge spike in new member signups?

Tony Wilson

Myeral — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:14:00 -0800

I'm too newbie to post to the front page, but would like to know: is anybody gonna give a shout to Tony Wilson?

Hey new user! Ask Metafilter is part of a larger site, with history and community!

potch — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:05:56 -0800

With AskMe getting lots of press (as in here) as a unit seperate from Metafilter (meaning, blue, grey, white, mauve, etc.), there should really be a message on ask letting the droves of new users know that it is a part of a larger community, with other features, a resource for post discussion and discourse, and a user base not completely dedicated to the green. People who enter through Angel Island should know New York exists. /metaphor)

Quality Vs. Quantity, n00b edition

StrikeTheViol — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:19:13 -0800

So I found two cool sites, dealing with entirely separate things that could make meaty FPPs. I just don't have the time to do the research to flesh them out right now. Should I make a pair of posts, or one post connected in a jokey or left-field way? Should I just make follow-up posts in my own thread as I find more stuff, or would you prefer the style of my previous posts, in general, even if it means I forget about stuff that may potentially be cool? I see a massive variety of styles, but I figure I may as well sound the hivemind out. Please feel free to ignore me if I'm being too n00bish.

spam spam spammity spam

toxic — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:16:06 -0800

This is a spammy self-link in the comments of the green, from a shiny new user. The poster almost asked permission in the gray (the thread just below this one), but I suspect that this isn't quite what #1 had in mind when he said to go ahead and make the post.

Closing New-User Signups

Effigy2000 — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:44:39 -0800

With the increasing number of stupid call outs on MetaTalk of late, the general lowering of the standards of debate in MeFi and seemingly more and more attacks on #1 and #292 for their admin decisions, I respectfully and tentatively suggest that now may be the time to close off new user sign-ups for a while.

Proposal - Mefi Mentorship for new users

JMOZ — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:04:00 -0800

Encouraged by one supportive comment here, I am proposing the MeFi Mentorship program for new users. The idea is to ease new users into the MetaFilter community and avoid the kind of ugliness that happens when newbies don't understand how MetaFilter works. [more inside]

An air of prestige and exclusivity

The Jesse Helms — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:47:45 -0800

If you close signups for a couple of years it will lend an air of prestige and exclusivity to Metafilter.

Welcome to new users

Saucy Intruder — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 15:06:26 -0800

I, for one, welcome our 30ker n00b overlords. Especially this one.

I don't get it

ToasT — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:56:24 -0800

Just so I, as a relatively new user, can understand: how exactly is this not a self-link, but my question was? (No hard feelings - I really would like to know.)

I think that NickDouglas wants me to get my own blog.

PhatLobley — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:24:23 -0800

I think that NickDouglas wants me to get my own blog.
As something of a noob, I'm curious as to what the consensus is on what makes a "get your own goddamn blog and quit bothering us" post. I've done a little back reading on MeTa and finding a consensus is difficult. Help me not do it again. Thanks.

So I shouldn't talk about guns or declawing cats. What else should I know?

jhilton — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:35:05 -0800

I have some ideas about getting rid of religious fundamentalism, winning the War on Terrorism, and inoculating our nation against ever electing anyone like George Bush to the White House again -- all at the same time and using nothing more lethal than words and a few diagrams.

I'm new here, and I would appreciate suggestions on what I should particularly avoid doing in discussing such matters in this group.

I am also from an older generation, and I am extremely upset about the current atmosphere in Washington, if any of this helps to explain the kind of answers I need.

Attention first-time posters

languagehat — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:51:26 -0800

Attention first-time posters: hpsell recently made a hideous front-page post that violated just about every possible rule. Inevitably, he was greeted with a barrage of negative responses: [bad bad bad], "I'm not going to make fun of you because I strongly suspect that you're retarded," and the like. Did he whine, counterattack, or curl up into a ball and hide? No, he said "i didnt mean to ruffle any feathers... ill try to do better with the grammar." [more inside]

No one complains about newsfilter when people die

davy — Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:09:44 -0800

About today's earthquake/tidal wave post : today I read the New York Times site before Metafilter, but I dismissed the possibility of posting about it because of the recent snarking against linking to current news articles in front page posts.

Then I clicked on my Mefi tab to discover somebody had posted about it, and nobody's posted any "NewsFilter" gripes yet. Is it that the 0ldB33 Snarkers Committee really means "...to news articles we don't like (and you have to read our minds)", or is there a policy of ranking the human costs of natural disasters somewhere above doggie dildos after all?

As for that thread's content, I was little dismayed about the comments where people's big concern was for one dried-up (and never very good) Sci-Fi author (the movie "2001" was Kubrick's doing, y'all), but I withheld my remarks about that failure of etiquette and (as I see it) morals from the Blue -- as, as of this typing, so has everybody else.

But then of course I'm still a "n00b".... Are concerns like those I've expressed here today okay, or should I first submit my MetaTalk thread ideas to some MetaCognoscenti as well?

Can we close signups now?

jpoulos — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:01:13 -0800

Can we close the door now? I'm genuinely happy to have some new blood, but here's the problem. Pretty much everyone who's been reading the site with their noses against the glass has been let in. Hereafter, we're going to get a bunch of folks who happen to be wandering by, and know nothing of how things are done around here. (I don't know if that's the case with notmtwain, I'm only using his/her post as an example because it glares so.) We can always open it up again later, but can we have a moratorium on new users? Just for now? Please?

the consensus is: MetaFilter is not a soapbox

blacklite — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 22:13:04 -0800

I am new. There is a lot of Meta Talk about politics.

Apparently, "The quickest way to get a label you'll never be able to shake here is to engage in political threads."

For a long time, I couldn't figure out why people freaked out so much about mentions of politics, but I've been reading this thread, and I'm almost three-quarters through, finally, and it looks like the consensus is: MetaFilter is not a soapbox, and your primary subject should be links, not opinions.

That's cool with me, I'm just curious if I've got it properly nailed down.

A Word of Advice for New Users, From Your Uncle y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:43:20 -0800

A few words to our new users, from someone hardly qualified to give them. [more inside]

MeFi by invitation only?

tenseone — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 07:26:36 -0800

I believe this has been discussed before, though my clever attempts at searching MetaTalk yielded no aid in framing a picture for reference. (The thread I seem to recall was in response to Kuro5hin toying with the same concept I wish to put forth for discussion.)

It is a seemingly accepted dogma that MetaFilter may be better off with new members, although prior attempts at acquiring new friends have proved to be problematic. So we've thought of using invitations from existing members as a means to introduce new points of view. ?

way to go on scaring the new guy

vacapinta — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 22:05:10 -0800

Now that we have all read and agreed with Taz's post, lets put it into practice: User posts first Front-page Post. The Post is great and well-received. New user even explains where he got it from (not that he had to). Everything's great so far so...let's call him out because it appeared in some older comments AND let's accuse him of outright stealing it! Good work!

what is the system bottleneck that makes new users a bad thing?

scarabic — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 23:45:40 -0800

Matt - speaking curiously, what is the system bottleneck that makes new users a bad thing? I presume it's database load, because the logged-in user enjoys comment counts and other database-intensive features that are demanding to serve. The static, logged-out homepage is easy to serve, even to a large number of visitors, by comparison, right? The real danger number to watch is the pageviews by logged-in users (please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm totally guessing). Are there features we could sacrifice for the sake of an open reg? What are you all willing to give up to open the gates? User comment history? Custom timezones and comment previews...?

Did anyone else noticed the membership count changing in the blue?

phyrewerx — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 00:19:03 -0800

Did anyone else noticed the membership count changing in the blue? It seemed like it dropped from the 17000's down to 16896.

From the outside looking in

Steve_at_Linnwood — Fri, 11 Jun 2004 15:49:39 -0800

“Much as I hate to admit it, I like Metafilter and I wish that I could become a member so that I could participate in yet another failed attempt to acheive concensus in our grand extended mediated public conversation thing we got going on here (or, from a different perspective, this fantastically successful attempt to foster fractious contention).”

“Listen, not everyone is meant to be ‘With It,’ right. Long ago I decided that the least I could do to stand up for all that divides us is to refuse to be the kind of person who milled in line in front of the club whose cache was primarily granted by the fact that you (and the likes of you) couldn't get in. The rest of us have two choices. We can mill around in the line, playing the fools to justify the chosen types, or we can go it alone.”

“And thus meta-meta-metafilter is born. Metafilter already has a meta-Metafilter, Metatalk, so I had to take the next step down.” [more inside]

One asshole ruining it for everyone

mathowie — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 16:11:15 -0800

Yesterday I said jokingly "I'm not a big fan of gatherings -- it seems when you get enough people together in one place, the chances of one asshole ruining it for everyone goes up exponentially." and someone went and proved it. This is why letting new users can be problematic.