It's certainly a fishy request.

September 25, 2009 12:34 PM

Sidebar nomination: Author of Salmon fMRI paper (MeFi's own prefrontal) pops in to MetaFilter thread to answer questions. Awesome!
posted by grapefruitmoon to MetaFilter-related at 12:34 PM (13 comments total)

I think it was sidebarred a few hours ago...
posted by muddgirl at 12:36 PM on September 25, 2009

Yep, it's quite clearly already there. This is a bit like Minority Report, but instead of crimes it's sidebar posts, and instead of before it's after.
posted by Mons Veneris at 12:38 PM on September 25, 2009

No no, it's more like Memento, but instead of figuring out who killed his wife, he's figuring out who sidebarred the post.
posted by cashman at 12:40 PM on September 25, 2009

On a similar note, the animator who created the Molecular Visualizations of DNA that I posted earlier this week has joined the thread to answer questions. Not requesting a sidebar, just pointing it out for those who might be interested.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:43 PM on September 25, 2009

It's more like Primer, but the sidebar is like in a box or something and there's two of them
posted by Greg Nog at 12:44 PM on September 25, 2009

(although while we're talking about subjects of threads popping in, I was delighted to see Voice Farm's Charly Brown sign up for an account!)
posted by Greg Nog at 12:46 PM on September 25, 2009

when he posted that people could ask him questions, I wanted to respond with:

"yeah, I have a question. buh... what?"

you know, because I don't get the sciencey stuff, y'see.
posted by shmegegge at 12:46 PM on September 25, 2009

It's more like my browser didn't pick it up or something or my brain has a lot in common with that of a dead fish in terms of total function.

FAIL.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 1:01 PM on September 25, 2009

It's Raining Florence Henderson: "On a similar note, the animator who created the Molecular Visualizations of DNA that I posted earlier this week has joined the thread to answer questions."

that post is so fucking cool, by the way.
posted by shmegegge at 1:08 PM on September 25, 2009

I never see cool stuff before it's already sidebarred, but I hear the proper way to do this is to e-mail or memail one of the mods.
posted by graventy at 2:23 PM on September 25, 2009

No no, it's more like Memento

[writes DON'T BELIEVE HIS LIES on Polaroid of Cortex.]
posted by Horace Rumpole at 3:04 PM on September 25, 2009 [1 favorite]

Yes it is already there thank you!
posted by jessamyn at 5:10 PM on September 25, 2009

S/he answered one question. Obviously there's no obligation for him/her to answer any, but this was a rather premature callout / sidebarring, with the benefit of hindsight.
posted by Busy Old Fool at 6:12 AM on September 29, 2009