What inspired the fluther creators to include the greetings?

Pure silliness.

Fluther creators wanted to be friendly and cordial? They thrive on praising the very individuals that help make their website such a success story? Pure silliness? (Whoops, that’s been mentioned. Sorry @asmonet) :P

You know, everyone in life goes around with an invisible sticker on their backs, which goes something like “Love me, Notice me” . Everyone likes to be acknowledged and appreciated. And when you see the greetings, subconsciously, it does work!!

I absolutely love those! They’re one of the reasons I stuck around and looked further into the collective, I wanted to see how many super great things they had to say to me :D
That and the, “add yourself to your fluther”, that’s priceless.

haha! i laughed really hard when i tried to add myself.

I recall reading an old thread, where users gave suggestions and some of those suggestions were put to use.

This thread.

@Nimis / @casheroo:

Yeah, but that isn’t how they were created in the first place.

@asmonet Good point. They were already in place before the greeting contest thread.
I think it just goes well with the branding/identity they were looking to create for the site?

@Nimis: Maybe, too bad andrew isn’t here to answer, or ben. They’re off acting like children elsewhere. ;)

To the best of my memory, we had a playful greeting on the original site, then I played some You Don’t Know Jack and was inspired by Jellyvision, so we created a few random ones to keep it interesting. When we redesigned the site, we moved it over to the dashboard.

@andrew Is it too soon to have a History Of Fluther: A Retrospective of The Collective? I’d be curious to see how the site looked/felt in ye olden days.

@Nimis
take a look

@phoenyx wow. that’s very….cold.

@phoenyx Here’s a better look as well.

And here‘s a shot with the greetings. Looks like it took us a few months to put them in.

@phoenyx and @andrew
Interesting! Thanks!
It’s like I’m in a Fluther time machine!