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The MetaFilter banner (with the logo in the masthead) has had some variations in the tagline. Long ago, they rotated randomly among the first few below, but it's been "Community Weblog" for a long time.

The dates listed are approximate, drawn from the Internet Archive.

These images are now gone from the live site; if you'd like to see them, see the old version of this wiki page, courtesy of the Internet Archive.

http://images.metafilter.com/mefi/metafilter.png For comparison, the current version - "Community Weblog"

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_banner.gif From 2000 - "It's your web, log it"

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_conversation.gif 2000 - "weblog as conversation"

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_meta.gif 2000 - as meta as we wanna be

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_metamadness.gif 2000 - meta-meta-meta-madness

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_crack.gif 2001 - "More addictive than crack"

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_self-policing.gif 2001 - self-policing since 1999

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_together.gif 2001 - we're all in this together

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_base.gif 2002 - "All your post are belong to us"

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_bert.gif October 2001 - "More addictive than crack" with Bert

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_halloween.gif Nov 2001 - SpookyFilter. Forget politics, today's about gorging on candy.

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_plastic.gif 2001 - the Plastic.com it's okay to like

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_wrong.gif 2001 - you're wrong. no you're wrong!

http://www.metafilter.com/images/taglines.gif 2001 - just the taglines

http://www.metafilter.com/images/new_mefi.gif 2002 - now wasting 12% more work hours

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_self-policing.gif From 2003 - "Self-Policing since 1999"

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_pirateday.gif 2004 - MetaFilt-ARR - dead posts tell no tales

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_pirateday2.gif 2005 - ditto?

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_fair.gif 2005 - "fair and balanced"

http://www.metafilter.com/images/mf_voted.gif 2005 - I voted AND IT TOTALLY SUCKED

If you want to make one, there's a generator. (defunct as of 2013-07-09 - the site's been squatted, with possible malware)