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September 19, 2008 8:25 AM

Stack Overflow's latest podcast features discussion of Metafilter and community moderation with Cortex. [Previously]
posted by togdon to MetaFilter-related at 8:25 AM (18 comments total)

I listened to it last night and thought it was pretty dang good.
posted by mathowie at 8:29 AM on September 19, 2008

Cortex comes in around the 20:00 minute mark, but there's some interesting discussion before that point...
posted by togdon at 8:30 AM on September 19, 2008

I listened to it yesterday afternoon, he done us proud.
posted by jessamyn at 8:31 AM on September 19, 2008

Is Cortex cheating on us?
posted by inigo2 at 8:33 AM on September 19, 2008 [2 favorites]

IT MEANT NOTHING TO ME! I STILL LOVE YOU, BABY!

Yeah, it was a good time. I still love that Jeff responded to my "man, this seems fiddly and I have Considerable Doubts about their reputation system" with "hey, awesome thread, come on the show!" Definitely good sports.

And I'm cracking out on SO for the last couple of days. Interesting open questions aside (and there are a lot, though it was nice to see how much of that is very much on Jeff and Joel's minds), it is indeed working the gamer instincts in me fairly well.
posted by cortex at 8:59 AM on September 19, 2008

He sounds a lot less donut-y than I'd imagined.
posted by CKmtl at 9:26 AM on September 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

I feel that I both have to and never can change my profile photo.
posted by cortex at 9:28 AM on September 19, 2008

everyone forgets about vacapinta :(
posted by boo_radley at 10:02 AM on September 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

I don't think I mentioned Paul either, during the show. In my defense, [insert plausible defense here]. I shouted 'em both out in the comments on Jeff's podcast blog post.

Also, the intro announcer guy called me "MILL-erd". I should put a pronunciation key up on my profile. On the bright side, nobody got to contradict my pronunciation of mefi, so that was a win.
posted by cortex at 10:06 AM on September 19, 2008

Plausible defense is plausible.

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ME-lair?
posted by boo_radley at 10:07 AM on September 19, 2008

mih-LARD. Adopted as a stagename by German Jews a few generations back because nobody wants to see, like, The Amazing Meinzes. If I remember the family history right.
posted by cortex at 10:13 AM on September 19, 2008

Can we see some "first askme post" email that made you spit-take? I think it's awesome that such a system's in place.
posted by boo_radley at 10:18 AM on September 19, 2008

> The Amazing Meinzes

Well, if that isn't a great side project band to perform barmitsvah rock, I don't know what is.
posted by mrzarquon at 10:56 AM on September 19, 2008

Just for today is it Mill-arrrrrd?
posted by Cranberry at 11:36 AM on September 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

Secretly, he wants it to be pronounced "my Lord".
posted by flashboy at 2:59 PM on September 19, 2008 [1 favorite]

Praise the (Mil)lard!
posted by lukemeister at 4:09 PM on September 19, 2008

For some reason it was vastly amusing to me that neither Jeff or Joel really seemed to get the deliberate (relative) smallness of Metafilter and the self promotion ban around these parts. (good chaps and all, just a bit engineery)
posted by alan at 4:42 PM on September 19, 2008

Yeah, I actually had a kind of nuanced argument I wanted to make about vectors of success in social vs. utile vs. scale vs. traffic contexts, but the conversation was very sort of naturally tangenty and that among other things got left by the wayside. I'm not sure it would have been interesting to listen to, but I could have talked with them for another hour easily.
posted by cortex at 5:23 PM on September 19, 2008