Fireside Chats with MeFites

June 14, 2005 5:07 PM

Every once in a while, I find myself wanting to ask questions in Ask Metafilter that would fall under the category of "chat filter." I wonder how successful/productive a section of Metafilter resembling Coffee Talk with Linda Richman (you know, "Talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic.") would be. Is there, by chance, any effort to produce such a section in the works?
posted by Crushinator to Feature Requests at 5:07 PM (17 comments total)

Go to metachat and yak it up, Crushinator. You will be amongst friends.
posted by melissa may at 5:14 PM on June 14, 2005

Try this. Just include a link.
posted by mischief at 5:28 PM on June 14, 2005

It depends what type of chatfilter question you ask. Some will be allowed to stand, others will be called out and you will be dragged in here and you will be labeled a moron or similar.

There is an expression, perhaps you have heard it before, "It all depends on how you spell your last name."
posted by mlis at 5:30 PM on June 14, 2005

I'm not really interested in a chat parlor, but metachat is there if you want to know everyone's favorite color.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:34 PM on June 14, 2005

Dude. Thanks melissa may, exactly what I was looking/hoping for (a place to discuss things that may not belong on Metafilter).

Not, *Metafilter*...but thanks anyway, mischief.
posted by Crushinator at 5:36 PM on June 14, 2005

THE FIRST RULE OF METACHAT IS DON'T TALK ABOUT METACHAT!

Oh, crap. *Vanishes in a puff of irrationality, logic-loops spiraling and recursing into nothingness*
posted by loquacious at 5:53 PM on June 14, 2005

THE FIRST RULE OF METACHAT IS DON'T TALK ABOUT METACHAT!

Dude, if anything, the first rule of Metachat is to talk about Metachat.

Come on in, Crushinator, the water's fine.
posted by me3dia at 6:58 PM on June 14, 2005

Why not, crush, everybody else does. ;-P
posted by mischief at 7:55 PM on June 14, 2005

/me points at the joke zooming over me3dia's head.
posted by loquacious at 8:01 PM on June 14, 2005

mathowie writes "I'm not really interested in a chat parlor, but metachat is there if you want to know everyone's favorite color."

oh, ouch.
posted by OmieWise at 5:31 AM on June 15, 2005

Metachat is a soution but the beauty of the MeFi stable is it's simplicity. Unfortunately the Metachat screen is a bit of a visual mugging.
posted by i_cola at 6:42 AM on June 15, 2005

and today, it seems matt's favourite colour is black.

on preview: MeFi stable?!
posted by andrew cooke at 6:54 AM on June 15, 2005

and today, it seems matt's favourite colour is black.

As in black-on-white. Actually, I think we should start talking about MetaFilter in its down state as "the white."
posted by grouse at 7:05 AM on June 15, 2005

I'm rather partial to sea green.
posted by Tarrama at 9:09 AM on June 15, 2005

mathowie: ask and ye shall receive.

Not that he really asked, but still.
posted by deborah at 10:26 AM on June 15, 2005

My favorite color is pancake.
posted by loquacious at 1:11 PM on June 15, 2005

Pancake is not a colour, you idiot - it is a state of mind.
posted by dg at 4:57 PM on June 15, 2005