I'd just like to take a moment to misuse MetaTalk and draw your attention to this lame gawker list type post revealing the origin of MetaFilters own Astro Zombie.
posted by Artw on Oct 12, 2009 - 52 comments

For the upcoming meetups, or more exactly for press and blog coverage of upcoming meetups, could PB or Cortex or somebody gin up a kind of graph or visualization of brute quantities of user signups over time, along with user numbers? [more inside]
posted by joeclark on Jul 2, 2009 - 54 comments

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.]
posted by carsonb on Jun 20, 2009 - 103 comments

Pony request: can following all anonymous posts (or maybe, more widely, following a specific user) be integrated into MyAskMefi? [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Jun 9, 2009 - 29 comments

Metafilter is flirting with disaster. Just in case.
posted by Who_Am_I on Feb 14, 2009 - 26 comments

AskMeFi pony request: list members who frequently answer threads with a particular tag [more inside]
posted by nitsuj on Nov 1, 2008 - 37 comments

Disabled accounts show up in "nearby users." I clicked on this profile and then had to click on this username (because, WTF? Was santorum taken?). Well, to make matters slightly weirder, a search for santorum brings up the username and the user's "real" name, though it's no longer visible in the profile.
posted by desjardins on Oct 10, 2008 - 14 comments

Lately, I've noticed that quite a number of people whose presence I've enjoyed have disabled accounts. Are the majority of those people closing accounts leaving of their own accord?
posted by fake on Oct 3, 2008 - 138 comments

I'm tired of the word 'user'. can we use 'members' or 'readers' instead when referring to them e.g. "X users favourited this" etc? [more inside]
posted by infini on Aug 24, 2008 - 179 comments

Whoa - security/cookie issues? [more inside]
posted by jkaczor on Jul 21, 2008 - 17 comments

I'm looking for a member's homepage that was a collection of weird and interesting facts. Can anyone point me in the right direction? [more inside]
posted by 517 on Jun 29, 2008 - 15 comments

Is there a way to see how many of a person's AskMeFi comments are marked as best answer? [more inside]
posted by phunniemee on Jun 5, 2008 - 41 comments

Which AskMe threads have been most dominated by the OP? [more inside]
posted by kittyprecious on Jun 3, 2008 - 5 comments

Growth [more inside]
posted by Cranberry on Apr 13, 2008 - 150 comments

Pony request: Ability to add questions from particular members to "My Askme." [more inside]
posted by brevator on Apr 7, 2008 - 7 comments

I tried to gift a membership to a minor internet celebrity, but I got the message "It appears your friend already has an account, as this email address is in use". Really? That's cool -- now who is it? Can there be a way of entering in an address and getting a username back, so I can add that account to my contacts?
posted by ewagoner on Feb 22, 2008 - 74 comments

What happened to koeselitz? Come back! I always appreciate your intelligent, thoughtful, learned comments. [more inside]
posted by nasreddin on Feb 14, 2008 - 91 comments

Didja know Metafilter's own hermitosis has been writing articles for AMC's website (mostly in the MonsterFest blog)? Hey check it out, it's ColdChef! (With awesome photo) [more inside]
posted by nanojath on Jan 15, 2008 - 37 comments

Is there an alphabetical list of MeFi usernames anywhere? I have a vague recollection of a username I'm trying to recall and I know what letter it started with, but I'm stuck there. This wouldn't be hard to compile, it would just take a numerical increment and a simple web scraper. Just wondering if anyone's ever done it. Thanks! [more inside]
posted by scarabic on Jan 11, 2008 - 55 comments

Spot-the-Mefite: "American Libraries " edition [more inside]
posted by cosmicbandito on Jan 9, 2008 - 56 comments

Please, for the love of humanity, erase this MeFi user from my brain. [more inside]
posted by DarlingBri on Nov 28, 2007 - 134 comments

Your favorite sockpuppet sucks.
posted by SassHat on Nov 15, 2007 - 52 comments

The undoubtedly charming, but thus far silent johngaymon is the sixty-thousandth member of this fair site. That's a lot of plates of beans.
posted by Schlimmbesserung on Oct 20, 2007 - 119 comments

Favoriting users? [more inside]
posted by greta simone on Oct 11, 2007 - 35 comments

I'll be doing a short, on-air, phoned in interview with Ronald Jenkees of youtube fame this Wednesday starting at 3pm (eastern standard time). You can listen to it live here. There will be a recording on that site shortly thereafter. If there are any questions the MeFi crowd would like me to ask, post them.
posted by phrontist on Sep 9, 2007 - 21 comments

We've began updating the metafilter KML file again. If you're using Google Earth, point it at metafilter.com/metafilter.kml to get the latest data (it's about 3Mb so it'll take a while). It'll be automatically updated once a week from here on out.
posted by mathowie on Aug 28, 2007 - 36 comments

I imagine that some of my fellow mefites, collectors of the Best of the Web, would have great del.icio.us accounts for me to pick through. I'm not getting enough use out of their networking feature, either. Link your profiles! Here's me.
posted by tylermoody on Aug 1, 2007 - 118 comments

Aww man... Priyatam was the man. His UG Krishnamurti links were the best things I have ever seen on mefi.Wasn't permanent bannination a little harsh? Damn Jess - why you gotta be so gangsta? How about banning me, and letting him come back?
posted by vronsky on Jul 20, 2007 - 1 comment

I'm a heavy user. I read a LOT of posts. So, I'm amused at how my usage of this site has developed and cycled, and I'm interested in hearing anecdotes from others about patterns or changes in their mefi experience. More inside.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur on Jul 3, 2007 - 95 comments

ParisParamus made MetaFiler more interesting. He's been banned too long. Can ParisParamus be unbanned?
posted by orthogonality on May 15, 2007 - 122 comments

100 / 1000 / 10000 / 20000 / 40000 - yet 30000 and 50000 are suspiciously absent. Coincidence or conspiracy? You decide.
posted by (bb|[^b]{2}) on Mar 27, 2007 - 49 comments

Initium Sapientiae Timor Domini (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13...)
posted by phaedon on Feb 20, 2007 - 48 comments

A new milestone passed. Say hello to elricky, roustem, antareus, waitingtoderail, Koko, pjlennon, missouri_lawyer, nikirobertson, and esolo: among the first of metafilter's 50kers.
posted by cortex on Feb 19, 2007 - 155 comments

I remember a mefite having to spend some days in jail. It was via an askme question about what should this member do with her/his time.

I searched a couple hundred posts, and I tagged jail, prison, and bighouse. I can't find this person.

1. Who was this?
2. Did this person get out?
posted by YoBananaBoy on Jan 31, 2007 - 7 comments

Cancergiggles has passed away this month. I found this out when browsing ask.me cancer posts, one of which linked to his blog.
posted by ruelle on Jan 30, 2007 - 56 comments

Callout time- I'd like to publicly thank both Aidan Kehoe and Your Time Machine Sucks for taking time from their busy lives to help me remember some good times and help bring some memories for me into better focus.
posted by pjern on Jan 27, 2007 - 8 comments

I swear I remember a way to find users from a specific locale- but I can't seem to conjure up a search-string that will do what I want, which is to find users in and around Munich and Berlin, Germany.

The rasion d'etre of my search is that I've found some 1500 photographs I took there 30 years ago, and I'd like some assistance in determining locations/stories.
posted by pjern on Jan 17, 2007 - 20 comments

Is there a page that links to all user profiles? Just curious.
posted by snsranch on Jan 12, 2007 - 15 comments

Okay, fess up.

Who are you, with no comments, posts or anything else, but 19 favorites (and counting?)

Hmmm?
posted by yhbc on Jan 6, 2007 - 53 comments

Is the Multiple Account Rule still in effect?

I keep holding off on posting a question to ask metafilter because I'm afraid of using up my one good question that week. And the continuous hold off makes me miss out on asking so many questions that I need answers for.

I'm not out to break any of metafilter's rules, but it would be really nice if I could ask at least two questions a week. Or hell, if there was a program I could queue up questions to have them automatically submitted.
posted by jasmeet on Jan 5, 2007 - 100 comments

Stavros...? Is that you?
posted by ODiV on Dec 24, 2006 - 24 comments

Matt, can I have a pony for Christmas? Nothing too fancy, just some public statistics. Boingboing, for example, uses AWStats, which provides a delicious smörgåsbord of information. It doesn't sound too difficult to use, I've set up similar things on sites of my own.
posted by Spike on Dec 23, 2006 - 33 comments

PonyFilter: Can we have RSS feeds for users' answers/posts? It'd be nice if you like a person's brand of answers and want to keep abreast of them, but are the kind of person who lives and dies by RSS feeds. Plus, y'know, well, there's this.
posted by WCityMike on Dec 14, 2006 - 13 comments

Similar names. There are multiple active users with my name or a variation of my name. I'm SpecialK, there's Special-K, and SpecialK420. I've had people email me about askme questions and answers posted by both of these other users.

I obviously wouldn't ask anyone to give up their identity, but in the future can we get some sort of policy from admins? I mean, otherwise, I'm going to start snapping up names like Ouonsar and mattowie before they're all gone...
posted by SpecialK on Dec 12, 2006 - 125 comments

Which MetaFilter members can you identify by their writing style/content combination alone? [more inside]
posted by louigi on Nov 29, 2006 - 184 comments

I hope this is the right place to do it... I just would like to give a great big shout-out to everyone who took time to answer my newspaper job interview and tryout questions.

I'm hired!!!

You all rock, but CunningLinguist, croutonsupafreak, frogan, M.C. Lo-Carb! and game warden to the events rhino rock lots.

Thank-you.

And thanks Mr Haughey for making a place where, within minutes, people who had the exact answers I needed were chipping in advice, reassurance and perspective from all over the world. That's pretty damn amazing. You rock too.
posted by t0astie on Nov 13, 2006 - 20 comments

Metafilter and Metachat's own matildaben makes an appearance in today's New York Times technology section! (The article is about Flickr and geotagging, and even includes pic of matildaben in photog mode. (Article is on page C9 in the print edition.)
posted by BoringPostcards on Nov 2, 2006 - 21 comments

Is there a ranking somewhere of who has had the most comments or posts favorited?
posted by empath on Nov 2, 2006 - 53 comments

"This is a sock pupped account for potentially embarassing posts and also for when my other account has used up its weekly question."

Is the AskMe question limit per user, or per account?
posted by four panels on Oct 26, 2006 - 51 comments

Is there a list somewhere out there of the users with the most double posts to their name? Or the highest ratio of doubles to legitimate posts?
posted by chunking express on Oct 2, 2006 - 33 comments