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30 August 2007

Why MetaChat Should Have a Cool Tagline: So it can get on lists like this. Actually, it's a kind of a lame list; we can do much better.[More:]
No MetaFilter on the list, but before he hardcoded "Community Weblog", Matt had rotating tags including "More Addictive Than Crack". And AskMe's "Querying the Hive Mind" is as good as most of the lines in that list.

And, as Yeti himself noted, the tagline chosen from Defective Yeti is not the best of his rotating lines:
Haphazardly Spellchecked Since 2002
Sturgeon’s Law Strictly Enforced
The Buckhorn Beer Of Weblogs
Thinking Outside The Pants
Funny Strange Meets Funny Ha-Ha
Cthulhu Fhtagn And All That Jazz
More Interested In The Rock Of Ages Than The Age Of Rocks
Putting The “i” Into “Teaim”
Now With 15% More Me
Where MeFites Let Their Hare Down
OMGWTFLOL
Yackety Yack — Do Talk Back!
We Never STFU
Mathowie's Bastard Child
Verbal Diarrhea 24/7
posted by rob511 30 August | 19:13
What's wrong with

"METACHAT. MetaChat is an informal place for MeFites to touch base and post, discuss and chatter about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter. Questions? Check the FAQ"?

I think that tagline is clever, not to mention hilarious.

Haphazardly Spellchecked Since 2002

Wouldn't that be funnier if one of the words was misspelled? Or...er...maybe one of the words *is* misspelled, and I'm an idiot.

Where MeFites Let Their Hare Down

That's good!
posted by iconomy 30 August | 19:21
I've been doing the tagline thing myself for a long time...
These are mine from WendellWit.com:
Blogging Irregularly Since 1999
Putting the W in WTF?
For Treatment of Conjunction Junction Misfunction
Watch This Space (But Not Too Closely)
A Floor Wax AND a Dessert Topping AND a Bass-O-Matic
They Know What Causes That Now
They Have Treatment for That Now
Not to Be Taken Internally or Seriously
Sanitized for my own Protection
Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe
The Hokey Pokey Is NOT What It's All About
What Was the Best Thing BEFORE Sliced Bread?
Alleging on my own Time
You Can't Get Here from There
Schroedinger's Blog
Old Kid on the Blog
The Blogger Formerly Known
Are We Having Blog Yet?
Tagline! You're It!

and more a disclaimer than anything else...

May Contain Traces of Puns
Extended use may cause chuckling, groaning, eye-rolling, snorking and other hilarity ensuing, time waste, mild urges to tell your friends, and questioning by government agents investigating 'people who think they're funny'.

Also my FunnyPaperless.com has "Because ComicStripMall Was Taken" and my ArmageddonOrNot.com rotates "Not The End Of The World, But You Can See It From Here", "Dancing the Apocalypso!", "The Omens Room" and "Armageddon the Joke?"

Feel free to steal whatever may fit...
posted by wendell 30 August | 19:29
The tagline currently in use at the blog my oldest friend Elli and I share:

Elli and Elsa: joined at the un-hip.
posted by Elsa 30 August | 19:37
The rotating taglines at Defective Yeti caught my attention early on, since they're actually funny, with the occasional sop in the form of a seemingly inexplicable line that rings old bells for to long-time readers.

My brother's family blog does pretty well with the rotating taglines, too. I'm particularly tickled that, shortly after the birth of his second child, he went in and re-tagged "Now 33.3% appendix-free" to "Now 25% appendix-free."
posted by Elsa 30 August | 19:43
How 'bout . . . MetaChat: Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash?
posted by MonkeyButter 30 August | 19:43
"Rum, sodomy, and the lash," while a sound guiding principle for life, unfortunately guides my geeky head toward:
Metachat: The boot, the bat, and the bastinada.

I'm now seriously considering making rotating taglines on my blog using just the punchlines from jokes I don't know:
Metachat: 20 bucks, same as in town.

But really, what sums up Mecha for me:
Metachat: Taz's secret treehouse.
posted by Elsa 30 August | 19:55
MetaChat: It's an irritating meme that they made up over at metachat.
That's got my vote.
posted by iconomy 30 August | 19:57
MetaChat: Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash?

For some reason, my mind started substituting MeChan nicks for "Lash" in that one... "Rum, Sodomy and ThePinkSuperhero", "Rum, Sodomy and LipstickThespian"... and the idea hit me: mashup taglines with randomly selected usernames (maybe weight the more active users for more frequent use, but give everybody a chance)

So, instead of "OMG! Bunny!", it's "OMG! jonmc!" or "OMG! mudpuppie!"
Instead of "Overthinking a plate of beans", it's "Overthinking a plate of taz"
Instead of "This will Wendell"... "This will seanyboy" or something.
posted by wendell 30 August | 20:04
I rather like that idea, wendell.
*considers "Overthinking a plate of MonkeyButter."*
posted by MonkeyButter 30 August | 20:14
My blog's (really bad, spur-of-moment) tagline is "D. Boon was a fucking hero, and if you don't know who he was, fuck you."

And I like wendell's idea, too.
posted by BitterOldPunk 30 August | 21:37
My blog hasn't had a tagline since the last redesign, but it used to be "blue and white and read ...sometimes."

I think wendell's rotating member name is great -- it should just cycle through the member list, with a link to their profile. That'll expose a lot of lurkers, and be a fun way to get to know each other even more.
posted by me3dia 31 August | 00:42
I like this idea. Of course, the "Edit comment with image" bug took me two weeks to fix and I'm still working on "lofi-metachat" after about a month (working's not the exact word I'd use, but it'll do), so you may need to wait a good old time to see it. And that's if taz decides it's a go.

Given that I've a new found respect for getting the time and motivation for coding features into websites, I think that I should define the unit of measurement used to say how long they will take as a Mathowie. So, this feature here. That'll take 3 Mathowies to do.
posted by seanyboy 31 August | 02:17
We should decide what bits of quotery should have the names inserted... MeCha injokes only or MeFi stuff too?
posted by wendell 31 August | 04:25
Garlic. It's not just for breakfast anymore.
Two words: Gasoline. Matches.
What job?
We're out of catnip.
posted by chewatadistance 31 August | 08:53
This post is a semi-crackpot rant that may make no sense at all. || I hate to admit it.

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