Unrelated but quasi-relevant... I'm hoping to get a seed account when they go on sale. (Still curious about the number of other people interested in the same limited-quanity honor, but I guess we'll see when the time comes.) This brings up a number of questions.
1. I signed up on DW with OpenID to help keep track of community posts and stuff. (It's just nifty how well that works.) I just noticed that my LJ-based OpenID has DW user # 3333. That is cool. Well, it's cool in general that there are already over 3k users (even if many of them are duplicate accounts). But it's personally cool to have that number. Is there any way I could quietly subsitute my new (real) account for my (temporary) Open ID so that I can keep the number? 2. Why does it think that account was created on 3/12 instead of 3/30? 3. I need a new username by 4/30. I suck at thinking up new usernames. Help? Anyone? 4. Does buttering up the site owners increase your chances of getting an invite code? 5. On a completely unrelated note... that font looks beautiful on you. Going sans-serif is very slenderizing. I'll bet you'd look great in a dipthong. 6. Dammit, I had a real question. But, for all my fillibustering, it doesn't seem to be coming back. *kicks memory* 7. Buying gift certificates for people who don't have accounts yet? Good way to get money and accounts. And important, given the limited quantity of free accounts. But... how does that work, now? I'm assuming something like the Amazon model, where the gift certificate just gets sent to a given email address. But what if the user doesn't want to sign up? What if they don't want to use that email address? Doesn't it seem a little imposing/presumptive? I guess it shouldn't be any more so than any other gift certificate, so maybe I'm just thinking about it funny? 8. TBH, that whole bit where you thanked me for saying you were prompt and informative and such made me do a bit of a mental double-take. I'd thought of it as a statement of fact. I mean, emtpy compliments are against my religion, but I hadn't actually thought of that statement in terms of a compliment. 9. Kicking one's memory seems to be counter-productive. You'd think I'd have remembered that. ... I give up. Whatever my other question was, it's not coming back. But there's enough here that I actually want answered that I guess I'll just send this. 10. Okay, I don't quite give up. Looking back over things, it's clear I wanted to ask something else about a seed account. And thinking about that brought up a new question. So... let's say that I want to help DW get off the ground, but that seed accounts sell out before I can get one. I've discovered, however, that I don't really use paid account features. Making a one-time payment and getting status/bragging rights in return sounds like a good transaction to me, but I'm not sure what my fallback option should be. That random user sponsorship thing sounds nifty, but any other suggestions? Also, how much paid time can you buy at once? Is 12 months the max? Paul
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