MetaChat - Secret Mecha Valentines!

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14 February 2006

Secret Mecha Valentines! Hey, LoveBunnies! Want to declare your secret heart-on (or heart-felt admiration) for another Metachatter? Today-only, send an anonymous valentine to mecha members via their profile pages. Here's how it works:→[More:]

Click on somebody's user name to go to their profile page (or, in your browser's address bar, type http://metachat.org/users/usernamehere), and you'll see a "send this user an anonymous valentine" link. Just click the link to send your message (type in a short note, and click "send"; no images, html or other formatting allowed). To see your own messages, simply go to your own profile page, and you'll see a "read your valentines" link. Each member sees only his or her own messages from other users. You can send messages for 24 hours, and sent-messages will stay up for about another day, after which they'll be deleted from the database, and everything goes back to normal.

You can admit your crush, declare your appreciation, or just wish someone a happy Valentine's Day, but please use common good sense and your natural bunny sweetness when sending messages (report any abuses to taz - but this won't happen, right?), and if you prefer, you can always sign your valentine's message.

Edit: Also, see this note

Have fun, young lovers!

post by: The Metachat Bunny at: 03:04 | 54 comments

Heh. Heart-on.

posted by mudpuppie 14 February | 03:09

Looks like we might have a momentary problem with the form.... hold on, kids....

posted by taz 14 February | 03:11

Considering that I love all of you so very much, I'm going to have to spend all day sending secret messages. I had planned on working, but umm.

posted by seanyboy 14 February | 03:14

no working for you, seanyboy... must. spread. love.

posted by taz 14 February | 03:21

[Also, since the form isn't working yet, I just want to say publicly that taz and dodgy rock more than the New Hampshire Man in the Mountain who fell off the face of the Earth a few years ago. Seriously. Y'all are too cool.]

posted by mudpuppie 14 February | 03:30

it's all working again!

posted by dodgygeezer 14 February | 03:33

aw, thanks pupps!

posted by dodgygeezer 14 February | 03:34

So. Thought I'd tell a story. I'm not a Valentine getting sort of a guy. Never have been really. So, many years ago I used to live in this shared house. Me and four others. We were a boistrous lot, always taking the mick out of each other, very open with each other. We were good friends. One year I decided that I should, for the first time ever, get lots of valentines, so I lobbied my writing group. Trust me when I said that even though I wanted a tonne of cards, I did it as a joke.

So, on the day in question, I got back from work. Everyone was in the front room. Nobody said anything. I wondered if I'd actually been sent any cards. I watched TV for a while, and then headed to the kitchen. And there they were. Eight valentines cards. I picked them up, took them to the front room and opened them. Nobody said a word. Not a single "That's a lot of posts."; Not a "You must have concocted a strange plan and asked your friends to send you cards." Nothing.

To this day I don't know why the cards were never mentioned. Was it Jealousy? Did they just reckon I'd sent them myself and they were too embarrassed to say anything? I don't know. I had expected it to be a most hilarious prank with me finally admitting to my little ruse, but in the end I just slunk up to my room. For the other members of the Springfield Terrace Posse, it was like it never happened.

posted by seanyboy 14 February | 03:35

aw, man! Stupid roommates. (If I were your roommate, I'd totally fall for that gag... then come up with something to top it. I'm fun that way.)

posted by taz 14 February | 03:38

also.... Yay, dodgy!!!!!

posted by taz 14 February | 03:40

By the way, dodgy and I aren't seeing the messages. Yes... if someone gets rotten, we can track them down and kill them. But it would take a bit of digging around, so it's not like we're all clicky-clicky - ooh, lets read the secret notes.

We're not checking IDs on anyone, unless we need to send the vampire zombie bunny army special-forces hit squad out for a termination. (And they're, like, having this totally wild Valentine's Day orgy right now, complete with strap-on antlers, so it'd be a real shame to disturb them.)

posted by taz 14 February | 04:30

Aw man. There goes the thrill out of all of the slightly-stalkery mash notes I just sent.

Getting fun is half the caught.

Or something...

posted by mudpuppie 14 February | 04:32

heh. I'm totally stalking. And mashing.

But now I have to go clean the bathroom. Bleh. Double bleh. (Turns out we're going to have a whole parade of people coming through the house today, to confer with the sick mr. taz.)

posted by taz 14 February | 04:41

Awww this is awesome. Cheers!

posted by gaspode 14 February | 08:44

Woots!

posted by me3dia 14 February | 08:50

I choo-choo-choose you.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 14 February | 09:01

awww...i'm getting teary already! thanks all of you!

(i'll be spending all day doing this too, prob--what a wonderful idea!) : >

posted by amberglow 14 February | 09:03

Considering that I love all of you so very much, I'm going to have to spend all day sending secret messages. I had planned on working, but umm.

What seaner said. All the MeCha ladies are teh h0tties!!!

posted by shane 14 February | 09:09

(And you too, amber and Eric and all, of course.)

posted by shane 14 February | 09:12

Wow...this is doing me a world of good. Thanks, Bunny overlords!

posted by Miko 14 February | 09:13

This is way too much fun.

posted by sciurus 14 February | 09:15

Woohoo! This is fun!

posted by sisterhavana 14 February | 09:24

MetaChat is so very, very wonderful.

posted by danostuporstar 14 February | 09:30

Am I the only person who is sitting here looking at that empty valentines box and remembering many, many years of looking at other, empty valentine's boxes? What a drag.

Still, this is a cute idea for other, cute, nonfreak people, Mecha Bunny. Thank you. Dig the suit.

posted by rebirtha 14 February | 09:46

What dano said.

Happy Valentines Day everyone!

posted by mcgraw 14 February | 10:30

This is a brilliant idea, especially considering that crushes are the engine that drives Metachat.

posted by matildaben 14 February | 10:30

This is really, really cool. Who coded this? It's way beyond my very limited scope, so I'm really impressed.

posted by iconomy 14 February | 10:36

I ain't got shit! I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME??

Nah, it's ok really. This is quite cool; I heart MeCha no matter what.

I'm sick anyway, and leaving work to go home and rest shortly. So Happy Valentine's Day bunnies. :)

posted by tr33hggr 14 February | 10:41

Aside - dano, sorry to have missed you in DC; Mrs. tr33 and I were both battling the flu, so wouldn't have been much fun anyway. Another day . . .

posted by tr33hggr 14 February | 10:46

Awwwww, mine were awesome to wake up to.

I love you all!

posted by cmonkey 14 February | 10:52

party people, you are all kicking ass with the rhyming and suchlike.

*tries harder*

posted by gaspode 14 February | 10:57

Indeed, tr33. Feel better.

posted by danostuporstar 14 February | 11:08

Whoo, two people know I exist! And one of them is a Heterosexual MetaChat Dude™!

This is way better than high school. Except for all the hot girls to ogle. We needs more of them in this thread.

posted by Eideteker 14 February | 11:57

I got some. I want more. Now.

posted by dame 14 February | 11:57

Oh man, I haven't been rhyming or anything at all, mostly just blurting out stuff I didn't think I'd ever type.

Are you sure these are completely anonymous?

posted by Specklet 14 February | 12:04

just blurting out stuff I didn't think I'd ever type.

So that was you, Specklet, who sent me "slaiej alifja hujt!"

posted by Eideteker 14 February | 12:19

*makes noise of disbelief* Someone chastised me for smoking! In a valentine! I don't know whether to be amused or scuff my toe on the ground in smoker shame or what!

I don't smoke that much, really! I'm getting better about it, I swear! I'm sorry!

Hee, no, Eideteker, that wasn't me. Check again!

posted by Specklet 14 February | 12:31

Man, I hope these are anon. *blush*

And I can't believe I got any. You like me, you really like me!

posted by deborah 14 February | 12:38

Gee, I wonder which of these is from Specklet? Could it be the one that mentions whuffling? From the Whufflemistress herself? Nooooo!o?

Glad to hear I'm not the only one chastising people for smoking in secret!

OOPS! I suck.

posted by Eideteker 14 February | 12:42

"...in secret for smoking."

Eh, whatev.

posted by Eideteker 14 February | 12:45

Oh, grammar! I love you!

posted by Eideteker 14 February | 12:49

I'm going to just go ahead and assume that every one of you tried to send me a secret Valentine, before discovering that my profile is still unavailable.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 14 February | 12:50

I did! I did, IRFH!

posted by Specklet 14 February | 13:07

Poor Flo. You can have OmieWise's since he's out of the country and probably won't see them before they're deleted.

posted by danostuporstar 14 February | 13:24

I just want to say I have a bunch from I don't know who but they are all nice. I'm pretty sure I know who sent the Italian one though.

posted by dame 14 February | 13:40

To all the bunnies:

Bunnies are cute
And zombies crave brains
You're better than boots
And more refreshing than rain

I love my Valentines! (and deepest apologies to my jilted latin lover.)

posted by mosch 14 February | 14:25

I love this!

Flo, I'll just send mine publically, since I'm being so cruelly thwarted:

You're the top!
You're warp engine drive!
You're the top!
You're Cher, circa '75!
As modest as a Phil Glass symphony
You're a dancer by Degas
Wayne Newton in Vegas
A day living in infamy.
You're a lake
Ablaze in Hoboken
You're the spake
Zarathustra hath spoken
I'm slow as molasses, cornier than Kansas
and the all kids von Tropp
but if I'm the bottom, Florence, you're the top!

posted by melissa may 14 February | 14:26

Aw - ya'll are sweet! And melissa - that totally made my morning!

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 14 February | 14:31

OMG...late to the party as usual..., but i got some! Me? Yay!!!! Thank you, whoever you all are, you made my day!!!
*sniff...*

posted by ramix 14 February | 15:19

This is, by God, the best Valentine's Day good karma-creator I have ever seen. Bravo, bunnies!

posted by steef 14 February | 16:50

Wow, I got one. Weird!

Thanks?

posted by interrobang 14 February | 19:22

Taz is drunk, I think. Which means we have about... 17 minutes before all our secrets are out.

posted by Eideteker 14 February | 20:51

Aw. I just had to check and found I got a nice valentine, too. Thanks, music lover.

And no, interrobang and I are not sending each other valentines, thankyouverymuch.

posted by yhbc 14 February | 21:56

Am I the only person who is sitting here looking at that empty valentines box and remembering many, many years of looking at other, empty valentine's boxes? What a drag.

Well, almost - I got one, which is one more that I would expect. Not including that one, I have had a total of two valentines sent to me in my 44 year-ling life. Both of those came from my partner before we got over all that lovey dovey crap and settled into a complacent dislike of one another.

A drag for sure, but life goes on. And on. And on ...

posted by dg 14 February | 22:10

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