Links for the Memories

December 10, 2009 12:12 PM

The welcome-back message on the front page reads 'x links and y comments posted since your last visit' (except, y'know, with numbers). But most posts contain more than one link. Would it be better to have it read 'x posts and y comments'? There's probably a downside I'm not seeing.
posted by box to Feature Requests at 12:12 PM (38 comments total)

Hm. My browser reads x posts y comments.

(This might be the result of GM scripts, though)
posted by Dumsnill at 12:32 PM on December 10, 2009

Oh, sorry, on the blue it does indeed say x links y comments.
posted by Dumsnill at 12:34 PM on December 10, 2009

The downside you're not seeing is that IT WOULD RUIN EVERYTHING and would be yet another example WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.

yeah, I see no downside either and it's more consistent with site lingo
posted by Kattullus at 12:37 PM on December 10, 2009

Mine says "pousts" and "coumments".

(But seriously, it's probably just a holdover from the olden days.)
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 12:45 PM on December 10, 2009

This irks me also, I think it would be a good change. Meta says "posts" already.
posted by oulipian at 12:54 PM on December 10, 2009

Tiny pony is tiny.
posted by Rhomboid at 12:56 PM on December 10, 2009 [1 favorite]

Yes, I think we should consider prohibiting multiple-link posts.
posted by Wolfdog at 1:07 PM on December 10, 2009 [1 favorite]

It's time for a change!
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:09 PM on December 10, 2009

Oh well, let's make the revolution permanent.
posted by Dumsnill at 1:13 PM on December 10, 2009

Can it instead quantify based on number of references to Sarah Palin and/or font critiques?

'12 LOLPALINS and 34893083 ZOMGCOMICSANS posted since your last visit'
posted by haveanicesummer at 1:16 PM on December 10, 2009 [1 favorite]

I propose "has posts and comments"
posted by davejay at 1:18 PM on December 10, 2009 [11 favorites]

"Dude, where the fuck you been? You missed x totally awesome vids and y bitchfights!"
posted by Eideteker at 1:33 PM on December 10, 2009

poftf and commentf
posted by [@I][:+:][@I] at 1:38 PM on December 10, 2009

They still call it figure skating even though they don't compete the figures anymore.
posted by JanetLand at 1:40 PM on December 10, 2009

The link is not to the content of the post, it's to the "more inside". Therefore it is correct.

QED.
posted by blue_beetle at 1:41 PM on December 10, 2009

A pony of sorts. That is all.
posted by fixedgear at 1:42 PM on December 10, 2009

I like posts and comments, ideawise.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:42 PM on December 10, 2009

poftf and commentf

As someone who works extensively with 18th century books, I would just like to take this opportunity to point out IT'S A LONG S NOT AN F FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST! LOOK AT THE CROSSBAR! DOES IT GO ALL THE WAY ACROSS? NO, IT GODDAMN WELL DOES NOT! IF ONE MORE STUDENT ASKS ME "WHY DO THEY USE Fs INSTEAD OF Ss?" I'M GOING TO GO ALL SAMUEL JOHNSON ON YOUR ASS!!!11!
posted by Horace Rumpole at 2:01 PM on December 10, 2009 [17 favorites]

Mine says "pousts" and "coumments".

goodnewsfortheinsane, I don't want to alarm you but your computer may have been hijacked by French Canadians.
posted by mannequito at 2:17 PM on December 10, 2009 [1 favorite]

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necefsary for one people to difsolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to afsume among the powers of the earth, the feparate and equal ftation to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they fhould declare the caufes which impel them to the feparation.

I came across a copy of a certain document when I had just learned to read, and went for years under the impression that English used to be spoken with a lisp.
posted by zennie at 2:34 PM on December 10, 2009

I foresee a long discussion over the precise wording, resolved by pb implementing a preference to set in the user profile - which will enable users to choose between
"x posts and y comments"
"x links and y comments"
nothing at all
and, for some reason, Esperanto ("x ligoj kaj y komentoj").

There will then be a debate as to whether the Esperanto for "x posts and y comments" should have been included, followed by another one about what precisely the Esperanto for "post" is.
posted by Electric Dragon at 3:04 PM on December 10, 2009

and went for years under the impression that English used to be spoken with a lisp.

Common misconception. It's just that at that age it was fashionable to be eating popcorn all day long.

What's on the back of the declaration of independence is not a fancy map. It's just a lot of greasy fingermarks.
posted by qvantamon at 3:39 PM on December 10, 2009

postλ and commentλ
posted by davejay at 4:08 PM on December 10, 2009

My first thought - "This sounds like a job for - Greasemonkey!" was closely followed by "At what point does using Greasemonkey become abusing Greasemonkey?"

Also: "ye olde postes & commentes."
posted by Pronoiac at 4:18 PM on December 10, 2009

One time I served on a jury for a greasemonkey abuse trial. The defense had a pretty good attorney who got a lot of the physical evidence thrown out so they needed the poor little greasemonkey to testify. He was all like, "Yeah at first it was pretty innocent, we were all just doing the usual things -- you know, adding quote features, showing deleted posts. We all had a pretty good time. But later they started mixing mojitos and taking huge bong rips, and I'd never done that before and didn't want to seem lame so I just went along with it. It got real late and then this one guy told me we should listen to records in his room, but when we got there he made me do strange things like automatically ZALGOify words for him and change the Post Comment button into a picture of a unicorn. I was humiliated but I was so blasted that I couldn't refuse. Then his friend came in and they held me down and forced me to do drawings with Unicode characters of penises. They told me if I didn't do it they'd tell everyone that I was a huge tease for offering to change the word 'faved' to 'hamburger' and then not being able to go through with it. I picked up my scripts and just ran out of there crying. I couldn't even leave my house for three days after that." True story.
posted by Rhomboid at 6:15 PM on December 10, 2009 [3 favorites]

I demand someone link me to this unicorn-picture-button userscript.
posted by subbes at 7:11 PM on December 10, 2009

Enjoy
posted by Rhomboid at 8:05 PM on December 10, 2009 [2 favorites]

I do enjoy!
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:11 PM on December 10, 2009

I foresee a long discussion over the precise wording

Nah, just one quibble: If it changes to "posts and comments" drop the "posted," so "10 posts and 540 comments posted since your last visit" becomes "10 posts and 540 comments since your last visit." Much cleaner. Heck, "posted" could be dropped even if it doesn't change.
posted by mediareport at 8:27 PM on December 10, 2009

I first read that as "welcome back massage" and wondered if MeFi had started giving out back rubs to those of us who kept coming back day after day. Sitting in front of the computer all day does take its toll.
posted by misozaki at 9:53 PM on December 10, 2009

IT'S A LONG S NOT AN F FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST

And, ſince you can eaſily enough type it in Unicode, I ſee little reaſon to uſe lowercaſe fs inſtead.
posted by RogerB at 10:55 PM on December 10, 2009 [1 favorite]

I do enjoy!

ſquee!

Now I want it on a t-shirt.
posted by zennie at 12:04 AM on December 11, 2009

If I can't get 'x posts and y comments since your last visit,' unicorn post button is a hell of a consolation.
posted by box at 5:53 AM on December 11, 2009

ΔPosts = x and ΔComments = y
posted by Godbert at 7:32 AM on December 11, 2009 [2 favorites]

ſquee!

rofl
posted by tarheelcoxn at 12:27 PM on December 11, 2009

proffeſſional white background, too.
posted by subbes at 5:24 PM on December 11, 2009

Brings back memories of college, discussing Lavoisier based on a reprint of a very old edition, wondering who would be the first to trip and and mention something being fucked up a glass tube.
posted by moss at 12:02 PM on December 12, 2009

Or ſucked, I guess. Sorry, Rumpole.
posted by moss at 12:03 PM on December 12, 2009