June 29, 2006

7:46 AM

I posted a question in AskMe yesterday. How long before I can post again - i.e., does it take 7 calendar days or reset on a given day, for example? My wife & I are traveling to Asheville next Tuesday for 3 days and I'd love to ask for suggestions on places to go/things to do (other than Biltmore).
posted by Pressed Rat to etiquette/policy at 7:46 AM (21 comments total)

It's a week, unless you have access to multiple users.
posted by Tacos Are Pretty Great at 7:50 AM on June 29, 2006

I wish the "you can't post" page said when you could post again.
posted by smackfu at 7:53 AM on June 29, 2006

It's calendar days.
posted by CunningLinguist at 7:58 AM on June 29, 2006

Yes, 7 calendar days--to the minute.

I wish the "you can't post" page said when you could post again.

Me too. I woud love it would just say, "You can't ask again until" ________.
posted by dobbs at 8:08 AM on June 29, 2006

It's not calendar days, it's 168 (7*24) hours. I've made a Greasemonkey script for the mathematically differently-abled.
posted by Plutor at 8:27 AM on June 29, 2006

White water rafting is pretty cool.
posted by Pacheco at 8:58 AM on June 29, 2006

Done.
posted by geekyguy at 9:18 AM on June 29, 2006

geekyguy, all the strikes and corrections make that one of the most confusing sentences I've ever seen. Bravo.
posted by Plutor at 9:21 AM on June 29, 2006

Yeah, that needs a cleanup.
posted by smackfu at 9:41 AM on June 29, 2006

Thank you, geekyguy!
posted by Pressed Rat at 9:48 AM on June 29, 2006

I gave up my weekly MeTa to save keswick's ass and now I can't invite D.C. people to come say 'hi' to me on the Mall during the Troops Home Fast.

I'll be in Lafayette Park during daytime hours from July 4-6 . . . D.C. people I hereby invite you to come say 'hi' to me!
posted by If I Had An Anus at 10:09 AM on June 29, 2006

geekyguy, do you want me to clean up the strikeouts on that post? I think it really makes it a pain to read.
posted by jessamyn at 10:26 AM on June 29, 2006

I thought the week thing worked on some fractionated version of a lunar cycle, taking into account longer days during harvest season.
posted by Falconetti at 10:43 AM on June 29, 2006

meh.
posted by 517 at 11:08 AM on June 29, 2006

Falconetti writes "I thought the week thing worked on some fractionated version of a lunar cycle, taking into account longer days during harvest season."

So not quite as bad as luck in NetHack (where the contents of your pockets and the phase of the moon partially determine your luck) but close.
posted by Mitheral at 11:12 AM on June 29, 2006

I'll be in Lafayette Park during daytime hours from July 4-6 . . . D.C. people I hereby invite you to come say 'hi' to me!

MeTa.
posted by hangashore at 12:00 PM on June 29, 2006

"do you want me to clean up the strikeouts on that post? I think it really makes it a pain to read"

1 vote for keeping it as is. BeggarsPeople who get posts proxied can't be choosers, uh ... choosers.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 12:25 PM on June 29, 2006

So not quite as bad as luck in NetHack (where the contents of your pockets and the phase of the moon partially determine your luck) but close.

Matt is hard at work on DHTML code that will scan the contents of users' pockets, I'm sure of it.
posted by Johnny Assay at 3:53 PM on June 29, 2006

"I wish the "you can't post" page said when you could post again.

There's a greasemonkey script that will do it.
(but it would be nice to not need greasemonkey)
posted by zerokey at 5:13 PM on June 29, 2006

If you can get around the guidelines this blatantly, doesn't it make the guidelines seem unfair when applied? And we all know the more subtle ways of circumvention, right? So why not have a banking feature for two or three Asks, so if you haven't posted an AskMe in several months, two in a row wouldn't get anyone's diapers poopy? We users could police this and flag the abusers.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:53 PM on June 29, 2006

Here you go. Actually, I wouldn't have seen this without the Meta thread and now I have a nice thing full of links I can send anyone who wants to visit.
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:08 AM on June 30, 2006