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12 July 2005
Who gets the last word on MetaFilter? I was curious, so I did a tally to see who's made the last post in the most threads. [mi]
i like threads that have fallen out of favor. it leaves it to the people who care about the topic over people who wanna jump in.
of course i never use the recent comments setting and rarely spend much consistent time at metafilter anymore. i like it in capricious bursts.
Mathowie wasn't even remotely in the running until I got back to the very early days. Over the past year or so, I think Amberglow's the frontrunner by a large margin.
that's very cool. I was afraid I'd be on the list if only because I seem to attend to threads long after they've died.
yeah, me too... it often takes me a few looks before I decide to comment, too, unless there's some little or particularly clear point I want to make. But when it's some 'big issue' type thread, I will often think, no, i'll just stay out of it, but then I keep going back to read and half the time I get dragged in at the end when no one cares anymore.
just last night i updated like 3 week-or-more-old threads.
things move down so much more quickly now that there are so many more members--it used to be that the recent comments view would have things that had already tapered off, but not anymore, i find.
Well, I held the commenting record for so long, it's barely surprising I hold this one too. But look at what amber and trout have done with their 5-digit user numbers!
This is not just because I want to be last in the thread or anything but I always find it a bit funny when people regard the last commenter as the killer of the thread. Or something like that of an antisocial inference.
So many times when I've perused old threads for whatever reason, I've come away from the thread laughing my head off simply because I find that the last comment is funniest.
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