Ask MetaFilter etiquette - timeframe of questions

August 10, 2005 11:36 AM

Ask MetaFilter etiquette: I've got a ton of built-up questions and only found MeFi a couple months ago. Is it ok to post weekly (as often as I'm technically allowed), or should I give the space/attention to others with perhaps more immediately vital questions?
posted by Kickstart70 to Etiquette/Policy at 11:36 AM (27 comments total)

Definitely the second one. Go ahead and post your most pertinent question.
posted by tweak at 11:39 AM on August 10, 2005

Make sure you scour the archives for answers before you post a question. You'll save yourself and everyone else time. It seems to me I'm seeing more and more dupes these days.
posted by orange swan at 11:48 AM on August 10, 2005

If they're good questions, post away.
posted by smackfu at 11:53 AM on August 10, 2005

Also, there are likely to be other places you could ask some of them. If you have that many questions, you could try asking some on topic-specific sites and bring the ones you couldn't get answered to AskMe. Just a suggestion.
posted by cali at 12:04 PM on August 10, 2005

Post as often as you need. I bet your questions are more worthy than some that are asked.

I have a stack of unanswered questions, but before I ask any of them I have to make sure that I've searched for answers, checked any other more specific fora, etc. This takes a while, and usually keeps me from asking weekly questions.
posted by grouse at 12:37 PM on August 10, 2005

If you were supposed to wait longer than a week, the posting restriction would last longer than a week.
posted by jjg at 1:09 PM on August 10, 2005

Thanks all, that gives me the answers I need.

I will:
- Search to see if they've been asked before or are better answered elsewhere
- Ask the most important questions first
- Not worry about my questions being just a week apart

Cheers!
posted by Kickstart70 at 1:38 PM on August 10, 2005

What jjg said.
posted by knave at 1:39 PM on August 10, 2005

Also, be aware that if you ask what you should do while visiting New York I will murder you.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 1:48 PM on August 10, 2005

*scratches off one from his stack of questions*
posted by grouse at 1:53 PM on August 10, 2005

Huh. I remember when "get murdered" was one of the things to do while visiting New York.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 1:54 PM on August 10, 2005

Yunno, Optimus... You and me have had our differences, but word boogie. Unless you are forced to (or visiting family), don't go to New York on a trip. Go somewhere awesome. Maybe it's just the New Yorker in me, saying that. What a shitehole this place is. I see tourists here and I just think, man those bootleggers on Canal street got it twisted, they should be selling this shit wherever these dudes are from. Actually I gotta run to askme and ask why it is that people go to New York City on vacation. 'Scuse me.

Kickstart70:

Just give back and you can ask up to the one a week limit with no feelings of guilt.
posted by Divine_Wino at 2:22 PM on August 10, 2005

Divine_Wino: "Yunno, Optimus... You and me have had our differences, but word boogie. Unless you are forced to (or visiting family), don't go to New York ona trip."

I think the Primester was referring to the fact that the question has been asked about a hundred times.
posted by Plutor at 3:05 PM on August 10, 2005

I was wondering. . .

I am about to go on my first trip to "New York," but I have no idea what to do when I get there. Any suggestions (note: I don't like eating out, or taking in any entertainment. Also, I hate crowds, and I don't want to see any tourist type attractions. Also, any suggestions must be pro-vegan, pro-feminist, gay friendly and it must be something I can do on a budget of $10 dollars a day).
posted by Quartermass at 3:43 PM on August 10, 2005

Well... You could get killed by Optimus Chyme?
posted by Catfry at 5:01 PM on August 10, 2005

Post as often as you can, that's what the limit is for. Also, Yahoo is seeming to have a better archive of AskMe questions than Google does, so if you want to be extra-careful, you can search there too. I am going to NY over Labor Day, Optimus Chyme, will you murder me?
posted by jessamyn at 5:53 PM on August 10, 2005

When a girl asks like that, how can one say no?
posted by weston at 7:08 PM on August 10, 2005

10 bucks a day is easy Quarter : >
posted by amberglow at 7:38 PM on August 10, 2005

Divine_Wino: I think they must not be getting their annual quota of getting yelled at...so they come to NY and act like fucktards...
posted by schyler523 at 7:56 PM on August 10, 2005

Optimus Chyme, will you murder me?

That sounds like something out of the world's worst Valentine.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 9:27 PM on August 10, 2005

I can think of worse. Don't tempt or prod me. It'll be messy.
posted by loquacious at 10:58 PM on August 10, 2005

I think the Primester was referring to the fact that the question has been asked about a hundred times.

I know, but in asking the question, people are trying to end up in New York. Unless you are visiting friends or family, I just see no good reason to come here. It's like taking the family to the cooling pond for a nuclear power plant when you could go the ocean instead.
posted by Divine_Wino at 8:14 AM on August 11, 2005

That sounds like something out of the world's worst Valentine.

My Bloody Valentine, even.
posted by ludwig_van at 9:47 AM on August 11, 2005

Divine_Wino, are you trying to take over Faze's position as Boring I-Hate-NY Guy? Because I don't really see the point.
posted by languagehat at 10:26 AM on August 11, 2005

No no no, I love New York, have lived here my whole life and despite several lives elsewhere, keep coming back. I must just have the summertime in the city blahs, too much grit. Most of my metafilter foolishness comes out when I try to have a conversation with myself, rather than with others. Which is what was happening here.
posted by Divine_Wino at 11:53 AM on August 11, 2005

I read "Primester" as phologically similar to "trimester" and just about peed my pants.
posted by cortex at 12:41 PM on August 11, 2005

D_W: That's cool, all true New Yorkers occasionally hate the place. Especially in the summer. I may just be oversensitive because I'm in exile in the country. Trees... too many trees...
posted by languagehat at 2:38 PM on August 11, 2005