MetaTalk posts tagged with username

Vote history username bug

Paragon — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:33:56 -0800

A bug in Projects: clicking on the usernames in someone's vote history leads to a 404 every time.

aff-row-BLAHN-co, where 'blahn' rhymes with 'tron'

Afroblanco — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:28:01 -0800

How do you pronounce your username? Of course I sound it out in my head, but I want to know how you say it.

Facebook Knows Me By Name, Not Number

sjuhawk31 — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:47:27 -0800

PonyUpdate Request: The "Also On..." section of user profiles should allow you to link to your fancy new Facebook username. I just updated my social networks on my profile by adding my Twitter username, but while I was there, I thought I'd change my Facebook link to my new username. I was told that my change caused an error, and I don't know what profile number I just deleted. Can one of the admins figure out a way to link to Facebook profiles by using the username?

What's in a name?

iamkimiam — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:38:54 -0800

No, really. What is the deal with your nickname? Just so I don't have to spend time checking each profile individually to amuse myself on slow Metafilter days, I want to know the story behind your username. Spill it.

Search favorites by user name?

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:19:47 -0800

Can we search our favorites by user name? If not, can we get that feature added? So I'm searching through My Favorite Comments for a comment made by a particular user and I'm getting nothing. However, if their name is mentioned in the comment, then it's found. Anyway we can search for comments made by the actual user?

username search function

mdn — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:22:05 -0800

On the change to the search function re: usernames... It used to be one could search for comments by people using the username and something from the comment, i.e., to find the quote about hamsters by weirdo9, you would search for "weirdo9" and "hamsters" and voila, multiple options would come up. Now only those options come up where someone has responded, "weirdo9, your thoughts on hamsters intrigue me..." - that is, the username no longer seems to be included in the search (as confirmed here). Is there any plan to fix this? It was very useful to be able to look up a particular comment this way, as well as to browse what so-and-so has said about topic X over the years.

MeFi Mail Feature Request

spock — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:27:09 -0800

MeFi Mail feature request: Under the Contacts tab you find the person's username as a link to their User page. I'd love to see that in the Inbox and Sent mail tab's use of the username, as well.

How do I find a lurker?

JohnFredra — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:05:57 -0800

In the absence of a known user ID, how can I locate the profile of a particular lurker? This person has absolutely no posting/commenting history that I know of, and I've tried all of the search mechanisms for their username. Apologies in advance if I'm missing something obvious!

Sometimes I am someone else

lobstah — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:15:05 -0800

For a moment, I was logged on as another user (darthduckie ? sp) It happened on AskMe, but when I came here, I was lobstah again. I didn't try to post as that user, so I'm not sure how deeply I was logged in. Does this happen much?

Username appearing variously with titlecase and lowercase

Stynxno — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:30:43 -0800

Why does my username appearing in the top left corner not match the name that is posted when I comment? My login username is lowercase while the one that appears in comments is titlecase. Live preview displays my name in lowercase as well. I think I used a capital S when I first signed up (which was stupid since I prefer the lowercase s).

Want usernames spelled out

interrobang — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:07:56 -0800

It would be nice if one's username pointed to the spelled-out version somewhere on the front page—maybe on the upper right—so it could be easily found. It's useful for typing in other users' names when you want to see what they've been up to. Much more useful than, say, this.

Can I change my username on MeFi?

twiggy — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:04:40 -0800

Chameleon-Pony Request: Can I change my username on MeFi, or would it forever ruin the MeFi/google/other balance and you'd prefer I don't?

I really don't use this username like... anywhere anymore... I've been around MeFi for a few years now I think, and even back when I registered I was considering ditching this dumb nickname.

Aside from recent weeks where I've been AskMeFi crazy, I've been lurk-ish enough that I highly doubt anyone has any real association with my name (I'm not like ParisParamus, for example) so I don't think it would throw anyone off, really.

I behaved myself, but there seem to be loopholes

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:20:05 -0800

Having just made an FPP, I can still get to the posting page by pasting the "post_good.mefi" link. I can also put in any user id and it still gets me into preview. I didn't dare to hit post though to see if that works, but I thought I'd point it out.

Why does mousing over a user's comment show username instead of user number?

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:24:50 -0800

In Metatalk and Ask Metafilter, when previewing a comment, mousing over a username produces their /username.mefi/username, instead of their user number. Why? [more inside]

Why does my username appear as it does?

PenguinBukkake — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:03:15 -0800

My username is PenguinBukkake, capital "P" capital "B". But my comment box, in Safari, reads,

Posting as: penguinBukkake (logout)

comment:
.

Why?

Can we move the byline to the top?

Quietgal — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:43:05 -0800

Suggestion for a small format change: how about putting the byline on top of the comment in discussion threads? This would allow us to efficiently skip comments from users we don't want to hear from without resorting to user killfiles, and without wasting precious seconds of I'm-surfing-at-work-and-I-really-shouldn't-be-doing-this time to realize that this is a comment from that guy. Having the byline at the top would save a bit of scrolling and skimming, since you'd know what you're getting into right from the start. Also, some MeFites are "must-reads" for me and I'd like to make sure I don't blow past them.

But not nearly as awesome as "King Shit of Dickmeasure Hill"

voltairemodern — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:52:40 -0800

This thread, interesting in its own right, merits a few callouts for best usernames ever.

The username/logout bit aren't working for me on the blue.

biffa — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 03:15:30 -0800

The username/logout bit aren't working for me on the blue. Running the cursor over them looks like it can't detect they should hyperlink. Something to do with the Red Cross donation thing perhaps?

unable to add gratefuldead as tag

grateful — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:12:59 -0800

Strange problem adding tags to a post in the blue.

special fancy characters in username

delmoi — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:23:41 -0800

well, now this is certanly ??.

Announcement: sockpuppet given as gift to lurker

me3dia — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:27:10 -0800

Attention: Per this thread, I have relinquished my puppet account, Voice of God.
It is now run by a long-time lurker who wishes to remain nameless. [MI]

how to lookup user pages by user name

jonson — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:35:17 -0800

I used to be able to lookup user pages by user name, with the URL "http://www.metafilter.com/username.mefi/mathowie" but now, when I put that in, it resolves to "http://www.metafilter.com/user/1" I know this has been mentioned before, but I can't find the discussion; is there any way to lookup a user's page if you only know their user name (and not their user number), and you can't find a comment they made (in order to just click on their name)?

Profile URLs now going to names not numbers?

interrobang — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:06:14 -0800

I keep a bookmark that ends in the spelled-out version of my username so that I can go to it and type out other users' names at the end if I don't know their user number. Tonight, going to it to find some other user's page, it took me to the page with the URL ending in my user number rather than the word "interrobang".

In the past couple of days, I've also "moused" over other people's names to see who they were--mainly in ask metafilter--and gotten the URL ending in the name spelled out rather than the number. Is this because the standard is soon going to be user pages with URLs ending in names, rather than numbers?

suspicions of transfered username

betaray — Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:17:11 -0800

I have my suspicious that a recently more prolific username is being used by someone other than the original registrant. Are we even concerned about people giving or possibly selling thier usernames?

How can I fix my misspelled user name?

Woolcott'sKindredGal — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:45:57 -0800

I am an idiot and misspelled my user name. I ignored it first and now it is really bothering me. I need to add another L in the middle, it should be Woollcott'sKindredGal. Any idea how I can fix this without being a pain in the ass to Matt?