MetaTalk Getting Crowded

April 21, 2001 11:04 PM

Whoa! What's up with MetaTalk all of the sudden? Now we're getting multiple posts per day in several categories?! I count 12 (now 13) today alone. Is MetaTalk getting too crowded? The quality of the posts and discussion here is really going downhill. Remember when every post was on-topic, relevant, and well thought out? It just seems like posts are tossed up without thinking and comments get even less consideration. It's really wearing me out.
posted by daveadams to MetaFilter-Related at 11:04 PM (9 comments total)

It looks like just today that's it's gotten so active. Too early to worry?
posted by aaron at 11:27 PM on April 21, 2001

It's never too early!

Thank goodness for 1142.
posted by daveadams at 11:46 PM on April 21, 2001

MetaTalk: the new MetaFilter.

On a serious note - would an advice.metafilter.com solve the slight off-topic nature of some threads?
I'm guilty myself of asking advice (the best place I figured would be 'weblog grab bag'), simply because I feel that MeFi members will offer the best advice.
But I realise Matt's a busy man.
posted by williamtry at 2:30 AM on April 22, 2001

advice.metafilter.com

That's fine, so long as we also have a blank.metafilter.com for threads like these.
posted by daveadams at 10:13 AM on April 22, 2001

I'm not interested in running an advice.metafilter.com site, it's already enough work to run metafilter and metatalk. It would be like piling on the work of maintaining an open topic mailing list (a lot more work than a focused list).
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:03 PM on April 22, 2001 [1 favorite]

Dave, you're not supposed to give the secret code word out so easily. People have to work for it.

By the way, your a-list membership is now looking very, very doubtful.
posted by Neale at 6:56 PM on April 22, 2001

Whhoooppps!

Oh please, forgive me, Neale.
posted by daveadams at 10:01 AM on April 23, 2001

bootlicker
posted by lagado at 12:05 AM on April 24, 2001

Yeah, and?
posted by daveadams at 9:58 AM on April 24, 2001