Is this really appropriate for AskMe? (!)

January 15, 2005 10:13 AM

Is this really appropriate for AskMe? (!)
posted by ac to Etiquette/Policy at 10:13 AM (13 comments total)

Is Ask Metafilter a big green Classifieds page? mudpuppie's "question" isn't really one at all...
posted by ac at 10:14 AM on January 15, 2005

yeah, that's a lame misuse of ask metafilter. Deleted.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:25 AM on January 15, 2005

I should add that eventually there will be a way to list job openings to other folks on MetaFilter.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:30 AM on January 15, 2005

Was thinking of calling that one out myself.

I should add that eventually there will be a way to list job openings to other folks on MetaFilter.

Very cool. Would this be under the proposed Metafilter Projects subsite?
posted by Ryvar at 11:10 AM on January 15, 2005

Naw, a separate but equal section tentively titled "jobs filter"
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:50 AM on January 15, 2005

Can I take this opportunity to once again make a pitch for different names for the ComingSoonFilters?

Instead of "Metafilter Projects": "Tell MetaFilter"
Instead of "jobs filter": "Hire MetaFilter"

Not sure if the "craigslist-esque classifieds" would be better as a "MetaMarket" or "MetaTrade" or if I'm too unclear on that subject.
posted by wendell at 12:00 PM on January 15, 2005

Sorry folks. Didn't occur to me that it was inappropriate. I did it that way instead of posting the html in question and asking for a once-over because it took up less space.

I see your point, though.

Apologies.
posted by mudpuppie at 12:46 PM on January 15, 2005

I'm extending my moving sale to tomorrow--when do we get a section for those ?
posted by y2karl at 2:30 PM on January 15, 2005

What about job filter? You know, for the suffering?
posted by metaculpa at 3:04 PM on January 15, 2005

What did mudpuppie post?
posted by crazy finger at 11:52 PM on January 15, 2005

He posted basically a classified ad stating that he was looking for someone to do web work for him, for free. Wholly inappropriate, and in no way can even be defined as a question. It's ASK metafilter. Hard to understand what people are thinking when they post something like that.
posted by ac at 2:04 AM on January 16, 2005

You know, I'd much prefer "MetaJobs" (and make it the red, please, heh) because it's not a filter (anyone can post), but it is somewhat meta.
posted by abcde at 12:03 PM on January 16, 2005

He posted basically a classified ad stating that he was looking for someone to do web work for him, for free. Wholly inappropriate, and in no way can even be defined as a question. It's ASK metafilter. Hard to understand what people are thinking when they post something like that.

That's not accurate. I was asking someone to proofread some HTML code (yes, for free), and instead of posting the looooong code, I asked people to email me if they were willing. My question, essentially, was "is this proper html?"

Anyway, I apologized above. I see how it was taken the wrong way, now that it's been pointed out to me. However, I wasn't placing a classified. Sorry it sounded that way. Just needed feedback on some code.

You hopefully now understand what I was thinking.

And by the way, I'm not a 'he.'
posted by mudpuppie at 9:45 PM on January 16, 2005