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• 6 months ago gangerh said:
  I played with your name.
• 11 months ago fbharjo said:
  see drower for explanation to previous question
• 11 months ago sionnach said:
  Hi VO:
  
  I'm sorry if my comment on your OCSJTS list gave offence. Sometimes I'm just too smart-assed for my own good. Please know that I value and enjoy all your contributions to Wordie greatly.
  
  Foxy.
• about 1 year ago vanishedone said:
  I think I'm going to join in, this being my profile and all. (Who wants to be listmaster for 'What Wordies Like'?)
  
  VanishedOne likes philosophy and conlangs he'll never find time to learn. Oh, and as chained_bear said, tags.
• about 1 year ago prolagus said:
  And what about Prolagus?
  Prolagus likes cheese, bread, Ancient Greek, his motherland, and Belle and Sebastian.
  And Wordie.
• about 1 year ago jenso said:
  Yes, I did. But I only signed up today and maybe I've got it wrong?
  
  
• about 1 year ago bilby said:
  Also: lant.
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  Oh! Add that to Pro's list!
• about 1 year ago plethora said:
  "Whichbe likes ponies and demons"
  
  Now, that I want on a t-shirt.
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  (I knew that. :) I was trying to highlight the fact that, on the Internet, no one knows if you're a bear.)
• about 1 year ago vanishedone said:
  I'll lay out some more chairs, shall I...? (Male, by the way.)
  
  Lists can be sorted alphabetically as viewers wish; tags are public meta-data, though, so protocols tend to emerge around them (see OCSJTS). Trying to use a general-purpose tag like an initial letter indicator as an alternative means of organising one's own lists won't work, because nothing's stopping other people using the same tags (edit: okay, a per-user filter exists, but since tags display without attribution on word pages, their function is necessarily to provide information about the word); it only makes sense if you're going to embark on tagging the entire site in that way, and frankly it takes enough obsession just to tag all the plural nouns one comes across...
• about 1 year ago reesetee said:
  C_b, I liked your answer so much that I ditched mine. :-)
• about 1 year ago chained_bear said:
  Mechanolatry, I didn't take VO's comment on your profile page (the one about "wondering" about tags) as any kind of personal attack. You probably weren't aware, being new (and welcome) around here, that lots of "regulars" have areas of expertise or interest. Reesetee's a nut for birds. I'm a nut for history. Whichbe likes ponies and demons. Sionnach and bilby like teasing each other. VanishedOne likes a lot of different stuff too, but he/she is also really interested in tags.
  
  To answer the question you did NOT ask, but which I suspect is at the root of the one you did... Lots of new users find Wordie and have a grand time at first entering definitions for every word they list or can think of. Sometimes they don't really get the site, and wonder what they're supposed to do or where they can go for info (the answer is "nowhere," though faq can help). Sometimes they don't realize there are a dozen dictionary links on each page, plus a WordNet definition on most. Sometimes they don't read the page they're commenting on so they repeat things that were already said. Sometimes they use people's profiles here like the Wall on Facebook, and don't realize that on this site, most people prefer to keep an entire conversation on the same page. Sometimes they don't know that every comment they make scrolls by on the front page so everyone else can read it, which is not a big deal (of course) unless they enter a hundred mundane definitions in a row without noticing that other people are commenting on their stuff, or responding to the comments. Sometimes they don't realize that long URLs (for example) can bork up pages.
  
  Nobody was trying to irritate you. My guess is that a couple folks saw you were new, and thought you might like a welcome message and some info.
  
  Also: poop.
  
  P.S. VanishedOne, sorry we're flubbing up your profile. *big cheery grin*
• about 1 year ago whichbe said:
  Using the everyone superlative in this sense is a set-up. If any of us argue and say that we "aren't uptight," by arguing we still demonstrate that we are. Therefore, to *not* argue is an argument, but paradoxically it is also tacit acceptance. Likewise, your uptightness regarding "all of our" (since I obviously speak for every user on this site) uptightness is also an act of uptightness and therefore VanishedOne is your mirror, mechanolatry, that which responds to that which is done. Also: fart.
• about 1 year ago mechanolatry said:
  FART. as you asked.
• about 1 year ago mollusque said:
  It's easy to undo: reenter the tag window for a word and delete the tags.
• about 1 year ago erich13 said:
  Re: tagging a word (for example, about) with so many irrelevant tags is liable to get you accused of spamming and subjected to the Wordie treatment.
  
  Thanks, I did not mean to do that and I don't know how to undo it. I'll keep poking around.
• about 1 year ago whichbe said:
  You're a entredentolignumologist. Admit it.
• over 1 year ago telofy said:
  Hi, great blog, I especially like your diction and those long sentences. :-)
• over 1 year ago emilytherese said:
  Thanks for the correction on how to identify my blogger user information.
• almost 2 years ago thebighenry said:
  I'm a Durham (U.S.) physicist, and my wife is a grad student working for a Ph.D. in linguistics. Small world.
• almost 2 years ago spoonyalchemist said:
  Haha, you got me. Well, it's a FFIV and Fullmetal Alchemist fusion.
  
  And wow, I'm 7,000? I wouldn't have noticed if you hadn't pointed it out (I'm still getting familiar with the workings of this site). I am honored! XP
• almost 2 years ago reesetee said:
  I noticed that "short story" too, VO. I considered editing, but figured I'd leave it as it was for other Wordies to enjoy. ;->
• about 2 years ago lain said:
  Heh, you are making sense, but it's neither of those things. Alizz is from Alice, which was a character of a 'novel' I wrote years ago, and Lain is just because I like it, and because it starts with the same letter as my real name. :)
• about 2 years ago treeseed said:
  I loved those Cannon Fodder videos. You rock.