User number thread

October 3, 2003 4:32 AM

What's Your Number? Got bored and found out the comments for a thread that is my user number is this. Is yours a fun thread or are you one of the dreaded 5 comment losers?
posted by Dagobert to MetaFilter-Related at 4:32 AM (65 comments total)

yes. i am dreaded...
posted by mokey at 4:38 AM on October 3, 2003

Shit. Mine (4123) is about marijuana legalization.

Which I oppose, by the way, in case you're wondering why I am bummed out about my # being "linked" to it.
posted by davidmsc at 4:40 AM on October 3, 2003

Worst movies of the 20th Century. With 81 comments. Not bad, not bad at all.
posted by seanyboy at 5:10 AM on October 3, 2003

This thread also links to user Monstah and an article about Fighting Spam with Silly Human Tricks. And this < ...> has a callout at the bottom which seems to predate your idea by two years.
posted by seanyboy at 5:17 AM on October 3, 2003

For some reason, I seem to recall that a certain Portuguese author's thread was about the new Defense of Freedom medal ...
posted by yhbc at 5:21 AM on October 3, 2003

Holy shamoley. We even both used the ellipsis as a link.
posted by yhbc at 5:22 AM on October 3, 2003

Heh - see out the window there... Up a bit.. to your left... That telescopic glint. That's me. I'm watching.
posted by seanyboy at 5:39 AM on October 3, 2003

Mine appears to be a CF error.
posted by monkey closet at 5:58 AM on October 3, 2003

Well, I suck.
posted by Dagobert at 6:03 AM on October 3, 2003

I'm a no comment looser.
posted by dabitch at 6:05 AM on October 3, 2003

Blogger redesigns.

I think it looks like a B-shaped electrical outlet, or at least like the thing on an extension cord that you plug into.
posted by rory at 6:09 AM on October 3, 2003

boring...
posted by corpse at 6:17 AM on October 3, 2003

i'm being forced to recite the pledge of allegiance. well, my thread is, anyway.
posted by pxe2000 at 6:20 AM on October 3, 2003

A member of the 16000 generation, mine is David Rees and Get Your War On, where a dozen people went "That's nice."
posted by spartacusroosevelt at 6:21 AM on October 3, 2003

Mine's about AOL employees having to use AOLmail for their e-mail. That just sucks.
posted by vraxoin at 6:22 AM on October 3, 2003

Nothing to see here, move along...

You've stumbled upon a non-existent post, or one that was deleted for various reasons.
posted by rushmc at 6:29 AM on October 3, 2003

davidmsc: you're not alone. All the people who sell marijuana are against legalisation too. Isn't it nice to know that someone is on your side?
posted by walrus at 6:48 AM on October 3, 2003

I'm a post about Baseball! Hurray!

or, possibly, I'm an anti-smoking thread

Great idea for Friday, Dagobert
posted by anastasiav at 7:11 AM on October 3, 2003

Nothing to see here, move along...

rushmc just doesn't want us to know that he's a post about Ecstasy.
posted by anastasiav at 7:13 AM on October 3, 2003

Funkalicious. I think we should have a rave in rushmc's honour.

*hands out glowsticks*
posted by walrus at 7:17 AM on October 3, 2003

Sigh. I was deleted as a double. Though, I gather from the comments, it was rather more than just the second time it had been posted.
posted by jacquilynne at 7:20 AM on October 3, 2003

Huh. I get a thread about Hollywood conservatives that actually didn't turn into a total slapfight. I guess Metafilter really was better back in the day.

:: sigh :: I am so close to winning Metafilter.
posted by furiousthought at 7:26 AM on October 3, 2003

I am the MetaFilter footer...I help people navigate around the site as well as informing them of their copyright.

Sleek, efficient, functional...how I wish *I* were those things in real life.
posted by filmgoerjuan at 8:25 AM on October 3, 2003

a thread about how the New York Times outted us about pirating music.
posted by crunchland at 8:29 AM on October 3, 2003

I'm a two-comment post on the politics of Central Asia, posted two years ago to the day (and very close to the hour/minute)!
posted by jazon at 8:37 AM on October 3, 2003

My God! No-one ever answered this important question:

Should five-year-old kids be allowed to be bungee jump?

I can only imagine the carnage that resulted from such apathy.

Let me finally say it: Yes! Let them bungee jump! Preferably into swimming pools filled with alligators and angry eels.



...or maybe No! For god's sake, no!
posted by Kafkaesque at 8:39 AM on October 3, 2003

mine's not too bad... it's about mp3 downloads which is always topical, but it's on the short side. however, mathowie graces it with 2 comments and mentions one of my fave canadian bands. so it's entertainment related, short, and canadian, just like me.
posted by t r a c y at 8:51 AM on October 3, 2003

Asbestos. Figures.
posted by vito90 at 8:51 AM on October 3, 2003

The post number that matches my user number is fitting. There's few comments, but I claimed it for my own in those heady days when we were youthful and daring and traipsed across the far lands of old threads with wild abandon.
posted by eyeballkid at 8:58 AM on October 3, 2003

How does Cardoso do that? Dude's everywhere.
posted by gleuschk at 9:06 AM on October 3, 2003

My post had some pretty interesting/shocking links — and they all still work, too, if anyone wants to check it out. Unfortunately, it only got four comments, probably because of the confusing formatting. Let this be a lesson to us all.
posted by Johnny Assay at 9:08 AM on October 3, 2003

I'm a no-comment loser. On the plus side, it's one of matt's.
posted by jonmc at 9:21 AM on October 3, 2003

Mine's just sort of random. Despite being a "news" link, it's still a working link.
posted by Karmakaze at 9:29 AM on October 3, 2003

rushmc just doesn't want us to know that he's a post about Ecstasy.

Oops, my mistake. I was searching for my MetaTalk post. Thanks for the correction.
posted by rushmc at 9:36 AM on October 3, 2003

Holy crap. Mine has George W. Bush, Michael Moore, and Ralph Nader all within the post text and the first comment.
posted by brownpau at 10:16 AM on October 3, 2003

As usual, flying pigs.
posted by liam at 10:47 AM on October 3, 2003

brownpau, I think you meant this one.

Mine has George W. Bush, Michael Moore, and Ralph Nader all within the post text and the first comment.

And it was from November, 2000! Gosh - what do you think were the odds on that?
posted by yhbc at 11:17 AM on October 3, 2003

Boring!
posted by jennyb at 11:22 AM on October 3, 2003

Mine is a two comment loser on dutch stickers or stencils or something. Hooray for ignominity! The page the post links to doesn't even come up anymore.

If only I was 13243, a mysterious deleted post. Interestingly, fenrir, user 13243, has only posted once.
posted by insomnyuk at 11:24 AM on October 3, 2003

Mine, about a notion posted on /. by Jon Katz that there are/were 9 continents on the Internet superplanet, was posted by jkottke and commented in by mathowie & jjg. It's interesting to contrast how people viewed the Internet 3 years ago, as opposed to now. Also interesting, no one complained then about posting something seen on /..
posted by Lynsey at 11:38 AM on October 3, 2003

Dubya Warmongering Thread. Dullsville.
posted by Shoeburyness at 11:46 AM on October 3, 2003

The page the post links to doesn't even come up anymore.

For some reason I find the words "De pagina is niet gevonden" much more dark and foreboding than the English 'Page Not Found".
posted by anastasiav at 11:49 AM on October 3, 2003

Donny Darko. I understand there's a bunny in it .
posted by konolia at 11:52 AM on October 3, 2003

i am a stephen king thread with zero comments.
posted by quonsar at 12:04 PM on October 3, 2003

Thanks for the catch, yhbc. I kiss you.
posted by brownpau at 12:29 PM on October 3, 2003

American Taliban

Great, just great. Incidentally, this is from about 2 months after I joined, so had I been quick on the uptake, I could potentially have posted my own user number.
posted by inpHilltr8r at 12:37 PM on October 3, 2003

My thread has one comment. Quiet and irrelevant-- I suppose it's fitting.
posted by nath at 1:02 PM on October 3, 2003

There's few comments, but I claimed it for my own in those heady days when we were youthful and daring and traipsed across the far lands of old threads with wild abandon.

I did that too, ebk, only to be busted by a walrus.

Oh and 34 comments, genetically modified cats, posted by the howie.
posted by Ufez Jones at 1:35 PM on October 3, 2003

I'm so cool, oldskool, and hardcore, my number hits the land of no post at all. It was not posted on October 14, 1999, my brother's 22nd birthday.
posted by palegirl at 1:50 PM on October 3, 2003

i am a walter lord obituary with 6 robust comments.
posted by rhapsodie at 1:58 PM on October 3, 2003

The 5th Aniversary of the Cool Site of the Year Award, which is such a great post that it has comments by both Kottke and Zeldman. Chuff!
posted by Jimbob at 3:59 PM on October 3, 2003

Army Men, shortish and full of nostalgic destructiveness. Yay!
posted by casarkos at 6:58 PM on October 3, 2003

damn.
posted by starscream at 7:16 PM on October 3, 2003

I am the Shotgun Rules, posted by Matt and commented by nobody (and the site link is MIA... you'd think something that important would be on the web forever).

At least, now I have the expressed right to insert a comment into any thread that simply says: "SHOTGUN!" (And you thought I was annoying before...)
posted by wendell at 1:34 AM on October 4, 2003

I am a deleted thread.

I hope this isn't some kind of portent...
posted by hughbot at 6:26 AM on October 4, 2003

Good and bad news for my number thread. Good: it was posted by mathowie. Bad: it has no comments. But it is unusually topical, given what's been posted here in MetaTalk. Clearly this signifies I am always on the cutting edge of MetaFilter trends...
posted by adrianhon at 7:51 AM on October 4, 2003

The waybackmachine still has the all important shotgun rules, thank goodness.
posted by dabitch at 10:18 AM on October 4, 2003

Does this make the dewd one of the cooler members by the way?
posted by dabitch at 10:21 AM on October 4, 2003

I wouldn't exactly call that a "cool" thread to be associated with...
posted by Johnny Assay at 10:33 AM on October 4, 2003

i was taking the piss.
posted by dabitch at 11:02 AM on October 4, 2003

How come this thread reads like people discussing their Sleep Comfort Number?

My number's MeFi thread, dated January 26th 2000, posted by "Mark from Michigan," was about BudBowl.com which no longer goes anywhere, and the thread had no comments in it, which I find quite fitting considering the treacherous terrain as akin to endless Great Taste Less Filling arguments. More interestingly though, my MetaTalk thread is much more interesting. It's been two and a half years, and some of these points are still being "belabored." Not one of SpecialK's prouder moments.

And who is Alex Clausen? Cuz this MeTa thread is his.
posted by ZachsMind at 1:10 PM on October 4, 2003

Is this horse dead yet?
posted by ook at 3:51 PM on October 4, 2003

Alterslash takes all the hard work out of reading Slashdot.

Not sure if that is good or bad.
posted by dg at 3:14 PM on October 5, 2003

god, i must have the worst. not only was it about Lance Bass, but it was deleted, too!
posted by bhayes82 at 8:21 PM on October 5, 2003

What's not to love about Convicted murderer wants taxpayer-financed sex change?
posted by taz at 9:54 PM on October 5, 2003