11/05/24
April 02, 2004
Just a note to say that Mefi memberships are sort of open again.
posted by BigCalm to navel gazing at 02:08 AM - 20 comments
I don't see why people want to get in there so much. Plus they will have an embarassingly high user number. Ph33r my 204.
posted by corpse at 09:48 AM on April 02, 2004
It's still the best place to go for intelligent discourse on the web. It's understandable that in an elction year the partisan bickering steps up a notch, but it is my first stop every day. And Ask MeFi is absolutely frikkin great.
posted by vito90 at 09:51 AM on April 02, 2004
Like I said in another thread, the green is the new blue. Ask anyone in the grey. ;) The irony of this post being that MeFi is down yet again without any notice on status.metafilter.com
posted by scully at 10:06 AM on April 02, 2004
AskMefi is really the best part of that site now. I don't even bother reading the FPP regularly.
posted by jerseygirl at 10:08 AM on April 02, 2004
Only 20 new signups a day... Seems like I'll still be on the outside looking in for a while yet *sigh*
posted by Jugwine at 10:11 AM on April 02, 2004
I'm one of the one's who paypalled my way in, only to see mefi become embroiled in Iraqfilter discussions for 18 months solid. Sigh.
posted by BigCalm at 02:15 PM on April 02, 2004
I (finally) got in. Yay.
posted by jeffmshaw at 02:33 PM on April 02, 2004
Bah, Sprotsfilter* is easily the best of the *filters anyway. I'm waiting for the day when we have 18K+ users here so I can lord by 3 digit user number over them even though I'm, at best, a marginal Sprotsfilter user. *- I'm spelling it that way on purpose 'cause I had a sudden flashback to the day when I was knee high to a grasshopper and I accidentally spelled "sports" s-p-r-o-t-s and my dad laughed his ass off at me.
posted by NoMich at 02:33 PM on April 02, 2004
Ahem, the correct spelling is Spr0tsfilter.
posted by Succa at 02:59 PM on April 02, 2004
Well, see, I wasn't very |33+ when I was 6. :^P
posted by NoMich at 03:10 PM on April 02, 2004
MeFi is where I go to read people tell other people that what they posted has already been posted 100 times before. The pretentious attitude f%^$ kills me. So when can I sign up?
posted by usfbull at 05:55 PM on April 02, 2004
so I can lord by 3 digit user number over them even though I'm, at best, a marginal Sprotsfilter user. Don't feel bad. That's typical of the more than two-digit crowd.
posted by yerfatma at 06:02 PM on April 02, 2004
too bad you can't sign up just for AskMe, thats all I really read. I had answers for some of those questions.
posted by lilnemo at 07:24 PM on April 02, 2004
yerfatma, I just checked eBay and surprisingly came back with zero. Auction that off.
posted by usfbull at 10:23 PM on April 02, 2004
They've closed sign ups again, now, anyway.
posted by dng at 05:56 AM on April 03, 2004
Heh. This thread inspired me to finally find my old password, it's been a while since I actually logged in. Result: There have been 9744 links and 253277 comments posted since your last visit
posted by tieguy at 11:09 AM on April 03, 2004
There have been 9744 links and 253277 comments posted since your last visit I swear, only half of that lot came from me!
posted by billsaysthis at 11:42 AM on April 03, 2004
Yeah, axme (hehe) is the best part of the site these days.. Except a filter approach really, really doesn't work - it needs a higher degree of crosslinking to stop upteen posts about what the best cms is..
posted by Mossy at 11:53 AM on April 03, 2004
There have been 9744 links and 253277 comments posted since your last visit Is forks a member over there?
posted by smithers at 02:59 PM on April 03, 2004
That explains why MeFi is down. The deluge of new users must have swamped it.