Yay! My rude jabbing and stabbing has prodded a response from Sassmews. Mission accomplished! Hopefully s/he will now realize we're mostly harmless, if sometimes rude and too boisterous, and join in the fun.
Seriously Sass, my apologies if I poked too hard. I just tend to assume that the prolific word-listers and the prolific commenters are the same. I was pleasantly surprised to see otherwise, and wanted to draw you into the fold.
Above all, please don't be scared off, and do what you want with Wordie. It's like that. (And it likes that, too.)
Hey!! I see that somebody has taken a jab at me for sitting quietly. I just found the site this past weekend, so it should be permissible for me to lurk for a little while. Besides, nobody has made any comments on my words. Although someone did correct my misspelling of "absit invidia" - thanks. I was sort of hoping someone would make some suggestions for my word lists. Anyway, hello!
Wordie launched on Friday, November 24, 2006, the day after Thanksgiving. I always think it was around longer too, but before that my list was just a lonely text file.
I think people should use Wordie for whatever they feel like at any given time. I slip back into lurker status every once in a while when other things demand my attention. Though it's hard to stay away from you wingnuts :-)
I also lurked for a long time before I started commenting. And now sometimes I revert to lurker status because I can't be bothered thinking of anything to say.
I agree with reesetee. Wordie is what you make of it, whatever that may happen to be.
But I do believe that Wordie is at least two years old. I remember using it when I was still working on my B.A., and I graduated from that college in May 2006.
(My memory is notoriously unreliable, though. I could easily be confused about this.)
Ptero, I don't think Wordie has reached its second birthday yet. Has it, John?
Anyway, I've always believed that one of the best aspects of Wordie is that you can make what you want of it. If you'd rather just list words, that's okay (unless, of course, we snag your list and give it the Wordie treatment). If you'd rather blather with some of us, that's nice too. :-)
I spent two years on this site, and listed several hundred words, before I ever paid any attention to the comments. Did this behavior make me an unwordie user? I don't think so. I wasn't looking to chat, back then -- I just needed a place to keep my words.
But I do wish I'd paid attention to the comments right from the start. I missed so many lovely conversations!
*lurks*
Awww...John thinks we're wingnuts. There's no higher compliment. :-D
Thanks for that screen shot, ptero. I'd forgotten the way it looked when I signed on. Amazing to see how it's changed in such a short time!
Yay! My rude jabbing and stabbing has prodded a response from Sassmews. Mission accomplished! Hopefully s/he will now realize we're mostly harmless, if sometimes rude and too boisterous, and join in the fun.
Seriously Sass, my apologies if I poked too hard. I just tend to assume that the prolific word-listers and the prolific commenters are the same. I was pleasantly surprised to see otherwise, and wanted to draw you into the fold.
Above all, please don't be scared off, and do what you want with Wordie. It's like that. (And it likes that, too.)
"Now let's go and visit plethora" was my 1500th comment.
It was me :-) now, let's start vivisecting your list.
Hey!! I see that somebody has taken a jab at me for sitting quietly. I just found the site this past weekend, so it should be permissible for me to lurk for a little while. Besides, nobody has made any comments on my words. Although someone did correct my misspelling of "absit invidia" - thanks. I was sort of hoping someone would make some suggestions for my word lists. Anyway, hello!
Λάθε βιώσας, "live hiddenly".
Wordie launched on Friday, November 24, 2006, the day after Thanksgiving. I always think it was around longer too, but before that my list was just a lonely text file.
I think people should use Wordie for whatever they feel like at any given time. I slip back into lurker status every once in a while when other things demand my attention. Though it's hard to stay away from you wingnuts :-)
I also lurked for a long time before I started commenting. And now sometimes I revert to lurker status because I can't be bothered thinking of anything to say.
Now let's go and visit plethora.
Interesting that the two s-words were slugging it out even then.
Yikes! That's....rustic! I like it soooo much better this way!
Well, it's a pleasure to be proven wrong in this case -- it shows that I have difficulty imagining life without Wordie. :-)
Anyone else remember when Wordie looked like this?
Thanks, Pro. I did remember that it was sometime around Thanksgiving when it launched, and I remember we celebrated Wordie's first birthday....
Ptero, once you're out of college, your memory evaporates. It's a fact. ;-)
November 23-24, 2006.
I agree with reesetee. Wordie is what you make of it, whatever that may happen to be.
But I do believe that Wordie is at least two years old. I remember using it when I was still working on my B.A., and I graduated from that college in May 2006.
(My memory is notoriously unreliable, though. I could easily be confused about this.)
Ptero, I don't think Wordie has reached its second birthday yet. Has it, John?
Anyway, I've always believed that one of the best aspects of Wordie is that you can make what you want of it. If you'd rather just list words, that's okay (unless, of course, we snag your list and give it the Wordie treatment). If you'd rather blather with some of us, that's nice too. :-)
Ptero's right. It's hard for noobs to follow the comments and it does take a while to graft the Wordie ethic to your persona.
I spent two years on this site, and listed several hundred words, before I ever paid any attention to the comments. Did this behavior make me an unwordie user? I don't think so. I wasn't looking to chat, back then -- I just needed a place to keep my words.
But I do wish I'd paid attention to the comments right from the start. I missed so many lovely conversations!
(Oh well. There's always Wordieternity.)
That's very unwordie and I think we should consider that it might be an act of treason. Lurkers!
We usually start stalking them after their second/third comment.
Has anyone else noticed that there are some people on Wordie who just, you know, list words? Instead of plastering the site with inane comments.
Three of the wordiest Wordies at the moment seem to have said nary a peep (or just one peep among them, really): myriasofo, mouserie and Sassmews.
Weird. Neat words though.