Comments on: How to count favorites.

How to count favorites.

benito.strauss — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:13:00 -0800

FAQ: "There is an upper limit of 100 favorites per day". What's a day?

Just curious. I'm going favorite-crazy in the Curiosity thread, and I've reached my limit -- twice today! I had thought we would get 100 favorites allocated each day, but now it's looking more like each new favorite is checked over the total given over the last 24 hour moving window. Which is it?

By: pb

pb — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:15:31 -0800

It's a 24-hour moving window. Each time you add a favorite the site looks to see how many you've added within the past 24 hours. If it's at 100, you can't add the favorite.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:16:36 -0800

Rolling 24 hours. Oh hi pb, the source I was citing.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:17:18 -0800

Woah there, turbo.

According to this previous thread, it's a rolling 24 hour period.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:17:24 -0800

bah.

By: andoatnp

andoatnp — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:21:49 -0800

I'm assuming my Kerri Strug joke didn't get more favorites because everyone ran out.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:26:15 -0800

But what is a day on Mars?

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:29:09 -0800

Sorry I missed that earlier AskMe; I only looked in the FAQ.

Thanks for the response, pb. I tried to favorite it, but, well, yeah.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:31:15 -0800

Mars ain't the kind of place to favorite your kids.

By: laconic skeuomorph

laconic skeuomorph — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:35:18 -0800

I'm enthralled by the Mars landing but am puzzled by that thread being so big. This is not a criticism in any way, I'm just Curious. What is it that you've run out of favorites for? What thousand comments are to be made less than 24 hours after launch beyond individual expressions of "wow"? We're not a community of astrophysicists with inside baseball to discuss. If I had tried to guess I would have said it would be 100 comments, 150 tops. What are y'all on about?

By: SpacemanStix

SpacemanStix — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:37:11 -0800

To celebrate the mars landing, though, it's been temporarily changed to every 24.6229 hours (1 mars day).

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:39:22 -0800

We're not a community of astrophysicists with inside baseball to discuss.

No, but several of us are Martians.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:43:53 -0800

I'm enthralled by the Mars landing but am puzzled by that thread being so big.

Pretty sure it was the livebloggy aspect of it. Most of the time if someone makes a "Hey important thing is going to happen soon, let's watch..." we'll axe it and tell people to post when there's some there there. In this case, the post was decent and it wasn't going to be a trainwrecky thing [i.e. not some "let's see if the crazy bill passes/fails" situation] and we talked and decided to leave it up. That sort of post (see also: many of the Game of Thrones posts) tends to get a lot of rapid comments as opposed to other sorts. That's my best guess anyhow, I wasn't really working so I just watched it on the TV and missed all the online buzz til today.

By: laconic skeuomorph

laconic skeuomorph — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:48:42 -0800

Ah, cool. Yes, I overlooked the liveblog angle.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:51:46 -0800

Neptune is coming.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:08:01 -0800

Rolling 24 hours. Same as in town.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:12:10 -0800

Also I had photos of Mefites freaking out cause SPACE

By: charmcityblues

charmcityblues — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:15:35 -0800

I think in honor of the Mars landing, a "day" on MetaFilter should be 24h 37m 22.663s.

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:41:22 -0800

A day is how long it takes the Earth to turn 361 degrees.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:50:48 -0800

Mars needs favourites.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:59:00 -0800

jessamyn certainly identified my situation. Sometimes posts become more of a conversation, and in those cases I "abuse" favorites to say "yes, I agree with you."

Also, OMG SPACE!

By: littlesq

littlesq — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:10:35 -0800

I was following the post live, and I really thought I was going to hit my favorite limit at one point. I didn't, but I feel like I was dangerously close. I mean, 800+ post about LANDING ON MARS = *squee* I LOVE EVERYTHING.

Seriously though, thanks Mods for keeping the post up. I really had a fantastic time watching the Curiosity landing with my fellow Mefites :)

By: special-k

special-k — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:57:25 -0800

What's a day?

That'd be 69583989.2 tehloki minutes.

By: benito.strauss

benito.strauss — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:16:50 -0800

Oh, and while we're on the subject, I was wondering if that post put any noticeable stress or load on the MeFi servers. It seemed like the "X new posts" alerts were getting batched up and maybe delayed a little, but it's pretty subjective and hard to say.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:58:03 -0800

Mars barred.

By: Tell Me No Lies

Tell Me No Lies — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:29:01 -0800

But what is a day on Mars?

A day? That's nothing!

It takes at least six days to do the Red Planet properly.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:40:38 -0800

Whoa there, turbo.

By: Kevin Street

Kevin Street — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:08:46 -0800

Yeah, it was sort of liveblogging a completely positive event that everyone could enjoy, unlike many similar posts that occur during disasters or crisis events. And there was also the masterful Introductory FPP by ddbeck that showed everyone exactly what was going to happen and why it was significant. Both fpps enhanced each other.

By: hippybear

hippybear — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:19:00 -0800

There's a few things which MetaFilter liveblogs well. I still have a lot of fondness for the 2011 Eurovision contest post(s) which allowed us watching it live to chatter about it in real time. This Curiosity Landing post felt much the same way to me.

I know it isn't something to be allowed for everything, but there are certain things which it works well for, even in the context of MetaFilter (which isn't really a lifeblogging platform).

I thank and applaud Team Mod for letting such things happen from time to time. It makes the place feel even more like a community, which I think is positive in every aspect.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:25:46 -0800

Whoa there, turbo.

Take a breather, nitro.

It's "Woah".

By: unliteral

unliteral — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:35:54 -0800

Where does 'Woah there, turbo' come from? Google just gives me some Mario YouTubes.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 23:26:49 -0800

I think of the Simpsons..."Woah there tubby, we ain't on the moon yet!'

By: Jofus

Jofus — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:57:12 -0800

It's "Woah".

Whoa or death.

WHOA OR DEATH!

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:27:22 -0800

Apropos of nothing in particular, this comment definitely deserves a few more favorites if anybody has spares.

By: Decani

Decani — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:59:08 -0800

If you're giving 100 favourites a day you're far too easily pleased.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:25:57 -0800

woah
whoa

By: Grither

Grither — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:38:56 -0800

iamkimiam: "I think of the Simpsons..."Woah there tubby, we ain't on the moon yet!"

I think of American Gladiators. So does carsonb, apparently.

By: rtha

rtha — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:51:54 -0800

Woah is trying to giddyup but whoa is still way ahead.

What's going on with giddyup/giddyap starting in about 1930? Lots of cowboy movies? Louis L'Amour books?

By: desjardins

desjardins — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:28:33 -0800

Put me in the "whoa" camp. "Woah" just looks wrong, like "wierd."

By: Helga-woo

Helga-woo — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 06:47:01 -0800

Woah vs whoa - it's a British thing.

By: rtha

rtha — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:09:56 -0800

Whoa is still more common in British English by a lot, though. Although the British corpus lacks the dramatic leap the American one has in the 1930s.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:14:13 -0800

Woah vs whoa - it's a British thing.

I enjoyed that. "I cling to my 'being right' memories with the tenacity of a starving octopus."

By: Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish

Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:35:55 -0800

It's a period of time in which the planet Earth makes a full rotation about its axis (plus or minus 7.9 seconds), but that's not important right now.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:43:35 -0800

Sidereal or solar?

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:45:46 -0800

"Woah vs whoa"

It's Whoa. No matter your dialect.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:02:44 -0800

OI!

"Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal."

-Fred Rogers

By: Aquaman

Aquaman — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:29:56 -0800

Whoa is the sound you make when you want something (i.e. a horse, a conversation, an ill-advised action, etc.) to pause for a moment.

Woah is the sound Tintin's dog Snowy makes.

By: zamboni

zamboni — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:24:06 -0800

Woah is the sound Tintin's dog Snowy makes.

In the English editions I'm used to, it's woah, or wooah, but it varies according to language. Eddie Izzard does a bit on it. I had assumed that "woah" was the typical French onomatopoeia for barking, but the quite extensive Cross-linquistic onomatopoeias wikipedia article suggests that it's ouaf ouaf, or wouf wouf. Wikipedia might be wrong, or it could be a Belgian French/Walloon idiom.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:33:59 -0800

laconic skeuomorph, if you thought that thread got a lot of comments in a hurry, just wait until the Nibiru thread.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:17:03 -0800

Whoa. Of course, in Britain we all get our footman to shout it. A mannered person doesn't raise one's voice unless one is at the races.

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:35:09 -0800

iamkimiam: "I think of the Simpsons..."Woah there tubby, we ain't on the moon yet!'"

But that one's actually "Slow down tubby! You're not on the moon yet."

In case you ever want to say it to your boyfriend.

That goes over well, by the way.

(Just kidding - we used to say that to each other all the time in jest -- which is how I know that. Yes, I'm a Simpsons quote pedant and a big time pie eater, lock up your sons and daughters.)

By: carsonb

carsonb — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:47:39 -0800

Your goldamn-ed PREscrpitivisms, teh lots of youse!

By: Celsius1414

Celsius1414 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:07:55 -0800

It's "Woah".

Might be pronounced that way by Southies, but not out here in the rest of the world.

By: Tell Me No Lies

Tell Me No Lies — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:26:15 -0800

Whoa is what Keanu says.

And what Keanu says, goes.

By: maryr

maryr — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:44:00 -0800

Woah is what Keanu says.

By: maryr

maryr — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:44:09 -0800

Woe unto us all.

By: Curious Artificer

Curious Artificer — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:57:13 -0800

24 hours, SAIT.

No one else made that joke yet? We're slipping.

By: Night_owl

Night_owl — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:44:44 -0800

When someone says woah, for some reason I think of Full House. Whoa is right.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:23:27 -0800

Right. What's a cubit?

By: zamboni

zamboni — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:34:35 -0800

I used to know what a cubit was...

By: MCMikeNamara

MCMikeNamara — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 16:50:26 -0800

Night_owl: "When someone says woah, for some reason I think of Full House. Whoa is right."

Probably because you are confusing late 80s/early 90s John Stamos and Joey Lawrence.

Which means your brain might have been replaced by the Trapper Keeper I kept hidden under my bed.

By: laconic skeuomorph

laconic skeuomorph — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:48:44 -0800

if you thought that thread got a lot of comments in a hurry, just wait until the Nibiru thread.

And Mitt's VP announcement!

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:55:13 -0800

*whimpers*

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:16:14 -0800

* hides *

By: Tell Me No Lies

Tell Me No Lies — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:31:13 -0800

Wimps. Besides, what can people say about Bachmann that they haven't already covered?

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:57:29 -0800

I'm most looking forward to the concern trolling.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 20:25:27 -0800

I may just go hide in a cave.

By: furiousxgeorge

furiousxgeorge — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:04:16 -0800

100 really is too low. It should really be at least 250.

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:20:34 -0800

I had assumed that "woah" was the typical French onomatopoeia for barking

I'm not really one for travel, so on the one occasion I visited Europe for a work project I was both surprised and amused to find that German cows really do speak with a German accent. If the cows here made the same noise as the cows there, I'm quite sure we would also transcribe it as "muh".

By: kenko

kenko — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 21:54:37 -0800

A mannered person doesn't raise one's voice unless one is at the races.

Nor does a mannered person change the subject of his sentences around willy-nilly.

By: arcticseal

arcticseal — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:01:06 -0800

Kind of rude of you to point that out. I shall have my footman berate you.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:19:21 -0800

But what did the German cows say????

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:22:44 -0800

Zhaozhou answered the young monk: "mü."

By: Splunge

Splunge — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:23:19 -0800

mr_crash_davis: "laconic skeuomorph, if you thought that thread got a lot of comments in a hurry, just wait until the Nibiru thread."

I was going to post this. Seeing it here already, I was like, "Whoa!"

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:32:22 -0800

what did the German cows say????

Imagine Ahhhnold going "moo".

By: maryr

maryr — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:42:07 -0800

Wouldn't those be Austrian cows?

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 07:52:40 -0800

I suppose they could have flown north for the winter.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:26:09 -0800

Metatalk: Cow-tipping German bovine.

By: deborah

deborah — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:16:14 -0800

furiousxgeorge: "100 really is too low. It should really be at least 250."

Agreed. Quite often I read several days worth of posts at one time and when I do that there always seems to be several really good threads and I inevitably run out of favourites. /sigh

By: cmoj

cmoj — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:13:11 -0800

I thought it was a 4 corner simultaneous same earth rotation.