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January 31
There has been enough delay and debate! The time is ripe for a MeFi meetup here in Ottawa, Canada! I expect all three of us will have a great time.
posted by Jairus to MetaFilter gatherings at 11:32 PM PST - 61 comments
So, was fivefreshfish's post deliberately deleted as a double to taumenson's, or are whole threads disappearing too?
posted by cosmonik to bugs at 8:58 PM PST - 7 comments [closed]
It was discussed in the Philly meetup thread, but this is the official thread complaining about the fact that the "crush" contact option doesn't seem to work.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero to bugs at 8:57 PM PST - 12 comments
I inserted a single quote in a post on accident and the MeFi code that normally would be the rest of the page (i.e. all the buttons and such) showed up in my preview textbox.
posted by taumeson to bugs at 8:05 PM PST - 4 comments
I am a graduate student at the
University of Michigan School of Information studying human-computer interaction. I am posting this thread to let you know that I will be studying MetaFilter this semester for an e-communities class project. My term paper will describe MetaFilter’s purpose, the technologies used, roles, identifiers and identities, intergroup relations, norms of behavior, and governance mechanisms. For more information about the course, see
http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick/courses/winter03/684/
I will make my findings available at
http://www.noor.bz/ecommunities. Feedback would be welcome any time. I have also included information there about how your privacy will be protected.
If you have any concerns about how I am conducting this study, you may contact me by email at nooraz at umich dot edu.
Thank you!
posted by nalihasan to MetaFilter-related at 2:48 PM PST - 123 comments
As MeFi grows, charts become a compelling possibility. I think it would be interesting to graphically chart (is that redundant?) MeFi posts on the basis of number of responses, keywords, and dates. It might be instructive/interesting to see what subjects touch nerves, and whether an idea that hits a sensitive spot in 2000 has the same effect in 2005 (and so on).
posted by humannature to feature requests at 1:11 PM PST - 17 comments
Facts On Farts was deleted within ten minutes of posting. In point of fact, the double post alluded to was all about turds. I checked it myself. Is there some sort of automatic feature that sniffs out identical URL's? Because this was in error, even though I was warned before posting that it looked like a duplicate (but wasn't). FWIW, the fart site actually was written to address a lot of things that any reasonable person might be curious about.
posted by docpops to etiquette/policy at 12:31 PM PST - 28 comments
January 30
What's inappropriate?
Is there a guide for how racy a post can be? I posted a fairly racy (but funny, or at least I thought so) thing eariler and it was taken off. Did I step over the line?
posted by Shanachie to etiquette/policy at 4:59 PM PST - 6 comments
Have I been banned, or is "preview comments" simply not working?
Trying to add a comment to:
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/39106
Hit "preview" and I get a "Preview Comment:" but no preview, and then the "Home About Archives MetaTalk Post Customize Search Etc " navbar.
Is this a bug, or by design?
posted by meehawl to etiquette/policy at 1:29 PM PST - 3 comments
January 29
Sometimes, whilst searching the archives, I find stuff
like this -- just a heads up.
I've also found dead links in some older threads, that's probably inevitable. I wonder if they could be purged somehow and replaced with a nice mefi- message?
posted by gsb to bugs at 11:35 PM PST - 5 comments
I read a post the other day (maybe two?) that included a link to gruesome pics of Iraqis killed in the Fallujah siege and ensuing massacre. I added a comment to the post, asking whether anyone with any forensic expertise might be able to reveal how the dead had been killed, because it looked as though they were not victims of conventional firepower (could it have been gas?). When I went back to see if anyone had responded to the original post had been deleted alongwith its accompanying commentary. Does anyone here know why the post was removed and based on what policy? Thanks in advance.
posted by Azaadistani to etiquette/policy at 7:23 PM PST - 21 comments
Disappearing comment in
this thread: I posted a perfectly normal comment after 40 Watt's
first comment, and I know that I did indeed
remember to hit "post" because, well, I actually saw the comment posted on the screen. But just now, going back to the thread, my comment is gone. Are gremlins afoot? Because certainly my "hey, thanks for the reminder, I'm going to get this for my nephew" couldn't be considered worthy of deletion...?
posted by scody to bugs at 1:54 PM PST - 25 comments
January 28
No. No, no, no. Frustration with ineffective enforcement procedures might be an excuse for revolution in a country, but this is a community website. Chill.
posted by stonerose to etiquette/policy at 5:23 PM PST - 98 comments
jessamyn will be in NYC next weekend, and she's free on Sunday evening, 6 Feb. If we take her out for drinks, maybe she'll let us touch the ban-hammer! (Or at least the delete-mallet.)
posted by nicwolff to MetaFilter gatherings at 1:42 PM PST - 36 comments
When I click on the username in this archived MeFi thread I am taken to an old post with the same number as the user, i.e. the url says 'mefi' instead of 'user'. Only true for the original post, not for comments.
posted by Pigpen to bugs at 10:10 AM PST - 4 comments
Suggestion for a policy discussion: In AskMetafilter, if somebody asks a question, and you have a related question yourself, up to what point is it okay to seek help for your own question in that thread? Theoretical examples provided within.
posted by Hildago to etiquette/policy at 10:04 AM PST - 14 comments
How about a proper RSS 2.0 feed? The existing .91 feed doesn't provided authors or even datestamops. Also, the
existing ATOM feed doesn't
validate properly and doesn't work in the two RSS readers I use (NetNewsWire and Thunderbird).
posted by xmutex to feature requests at 9:45 AM PST - 8 comments
Savannah MeFi, reveal yourselves! According to the zip code neighbor-finder, I'm the only MeFite in Savannah, GA. I'm hoping this isn't true, so I propose a gathering within the next few weeks. Post if you're nearby and interested.
posted by still to MetaFilter gatherings at 8:40 AM PST - 7 comments
I know there's already a NYC Meetup scheduled for Feb., but I just saw that MeFi darling Kaki King is playing every Tuesday in February at the Knitting Factory. Any interest in either changing the meetup (disclaimer: I discovered I can't make the previously-arranged one) or having another brouhaha?
posted by mkultra to MetaFilter gatherings at 7:53 AM PST - 15 comments
January 27
Everytime I view a MeFi/MeTa/AskMe page, it brings me to the first time I viewed the page that day. I can reload the page and see new posts and/or comments, but if I leave that page everytime I go back it displays the first load of the page, not even the most recently viewed version. [MI]
posted by raedyn to bugs at 3:13 PM PST - 7 comments
January 26
My plot spoiler in skallas' AskMe thread wouldn't have been so bad if it were in ROT-13. It was just my luck that I didn't stop to consider it at the time. I'd like to plea Mea culpa, and request my comment be
pbeerpgrq jvgu nyy gung hygen-frperg, rapelcgvpny glcr ubbqbb, if possible.
posted by Smart Dalek to etiquette/policy at 11:57 PM PST - 21 comments
MeFi CD Mix Exchange... please let me know if this is an inappropriate place for this question. A while back there was a sign up for a MeFi CD Exchange. I haven't heard anything about it again. Any idea if this was legitimate and is still going on?
posted by spicynuts to MetaFilter Music at 9:08 AM PST - 16 comments
Having some problems with making links in AskMe, tried to add a couple to this
post but preview reorganises the html, seemingly at random, ie added two links, one worked, one didn't, went back to fix (then delete) one then other one went wrong, even after I switched to cut and pasting a couple of symbols were added to the end of the URL.
posted by biffa to bugs at 3:39 AM PST - 3 comments
Just let me know when your in town
Because your playing in the playground of the internets
Dude your going WAY out of your way to insult me personally
So I think your going over the top here
Jonmc your joking, right?
only
you can prevent "
your" abuse. for fuck's sake, please. [
mo' inside]
posted by Hat Maui to etiquette/policy at 2:28 AM PST - 83 comments
January 25
Is there a way to alter the tags once a post has been made? I posted
this with the tags "new orleans jazz funeral" and in hindsight, New Orleans and jazz funeral are single entities. Should they have an underscore? Should there be a way to group them? Suggestions?
posted by Igor XA to MetaFilter-related at 12:42 PM PST - 22 comments
What is the policy on giving away usernames? I purchased a spare during the Great November Influx and now its just sitting there, rotting on Matt's server. I really have no use for it. It was an impulse buy and I'd like to give it away.
posted by KevinSkomsvold to MetaFilter-related at 9:25 AM PST - 26 comments
There's been an awful lot of talk about levels of enforcement on MeFi of late, it seems, and it occurs to me that we maybe need to come up with more constructive means of dealing with the issues. [MI]
posted by ChrisR to MetaFilter-related at 6:47 AM PST - 34 comments
January 24
Broken Posts: add them here. I also found a couple of threads that went wonky after adding keywords (
1,
2). If anyone else has any nasties, we might as well batch them here.
posted by taz to bugs at 11:20 PM PST - 7 comments
In
this post a number of comments that (at least in my opinion) were legitimately funny but a little tasteless were removed without notice. Two questions - (1) would it make sense to have a "comment deleted" notice so that meta-comments make a little more sense, and (2) why were they deleted if none of the
guidelines were violated?
posted by thedevildancedlightly to etiquette/policy at 10:33 PM PST - 53 comments
Speaking of which, how
do you add tags to a post? If I look at the list of posts I've made, and click on "add tags to this post", I just get what seems to be the regular comments page. (URL is different, though.) Am I just being obtuse?
posted by Vidiot to bugs at 8:53 PM PST - 9 comments
Is there any call for a "quote" tag? I think threads would look spiffy(er) if the style of quoted text were consistent. For instance:
johnnyEloquent: "Don't bet against yourself, you risk winning."
Hope this isn't a doublepost
posted by Popular Ethics to feature requests at 9:16 AM PST - 36 comments
Why is it that whenever someone asks a question about psychological issues and says s/he doesn't want meds, all the pushers show up? Whenever it goes the other way, those who take meds attack whoever might suggest they aren't best. Is it too much to ask for the same respect you demand?
posted by dame to etiquette/policy at 7:15 AM PST - 55 comments
January 23
Right now, the
top-150 tag page seems like sort of a novelty. "Art", "music" and "flash" are going to be huge, but the vast majority of tags seem to get shunted into the lower mid-range such that there's not a lot of perceived difference tag-to-tag or day-to-day. Over time, I'd imagine we'd see the same sort of homogeneity that characterizes the Flickr tag sizes.
The idea is to add some more dimension to the information display, showing not only popularity, but time-based "freshness" of tags and ordering them alphabetically rather than hierarchically for easier browsing ala the full tags listing. If time could be added as an organizational principle, people who aren't obsessive readers of mefi could use the top-150 page as a viable entry point to the site for finding new posts of interest.
Quick-and-dirty
HTML example here. (or
screenshot).
posted by Jeff Howard to feature requests at 9:31 PM PST - 19 comments
Have the recent changes included removing the "B | I | Link" buttons from the comment boxes? (Because they're gone).
posted by MikeKD to bugs at 3:13 PM PST - 18 comments
Right now I see three "January 23" headings in AskMe, atop three "January 22" headings. Prior days display just fine. What's the story, Morning Glory?
posted by killdevil to bugs at 2:32 PM PST - 6 comments
Revisiting
this.
Metafilter is the biggest site that I can edit a page (my user page) on. I'd like to have "I am the [my name] that went to so and so school, and so and so high-school and did so-and-so" so that if someone googled my name looking for me, they could find that. However, userpages are marked NOINDEX for robots, for to stop villians from using google to harvest stuff, I assume. Given that it would be trivial to write a script to go through all the user pages and snarf anything, and given that these are The Internets, is there a reasonable expectation that an email address or other information you put on a publicly viewable page will *not* be harvested? Doesn't everyone have a spam-catcher address for this purpose?
posted by Capn to MetaFilter-related at 2:01 PM PST - 7 comments
The MetaTalk front page currently reports two new comments but only shows me one. Obviously, a thread that has scrolled off the page is still active. How do I find out which one it is?
posted by timeistight to feature requests at 1:09 PM PST - 5 comments
Quick! - tell me - without clicking through - is this MeTa post open or closed? Well, which is it? Open or closed? You can't tell, can you? Sucks, doesn't it? You'd think a pop star tag junkie could spare an ASCII spangle to mark molested threads. But Nooooo. Crazy fascist likes to lure you in and jump out at you like a jack-in-the-box Mussolini. Sad. I spoke to his mother. She tells me he used to be such a good boy.
posted by Opus Dark to feature requests at 4:33 AM PST - 28 comments
January 22
January 21
January 20
MetaTalk is a discussion area for topics specific to MetaFilter itself
However, it seems like half (or more) of the MetaTalk posts lately are actually specific to AskMetafilter. (more inside)
posted by yhbc to etiquette/policy at 8:16 PM PST - 27 comments
MeFi posts show incorrect number of "new comments" on main page next to the number of comments link to the discussion itself.
posted by odinsdream to bugs at 2:12 PM PST - 8 comments
In
this AskMe post, ad hoc asked whether or not people would accept an offer of immortality. Rushmc dubbed it a "chatfilter" question. Vacapinta pointed out that rushmc had asked a
similar question ("what poetry books do you like?").
Here is rushmc's response to Vacapinta's accusation:
...That question was of direct practical benefit to me, as I discovered new-to-me poets to investigate and bought five of the works recommended in the thread, which was my purpose in asking the question. Immortality is not an option, so debating its desirability leads to no practical outcome.
[MORE INSIDE.]
posted by grumblebee to etiquette/policy at 1:31 PM PST - 97 comments
Having a public argument among a few people limits the ability of everyone else to continue a discussion. If you need to have an intense back and forth, please consider moving your discussion to another forum. Please also consider limiting the number of comments you make in a thread so that others may have the chance to voice their opinions.
posted by spaghetti to etiquette/policy at 11:23 AM PST - 25 comments
What's the policy on posting links you found on Fark, Slashdot or BoingBoing? I read through each of these daily, and constantly find links on MeFi that were posted earlier on one of those other three sites. I've refrained from posting info that I found on those other sites because it seems to easy. If you get the info from one of those other sites, shouldn't you do a "via xxx?"
posted by boymilo to etiquette/policy at 10:33 AM PST - 19 comments
Skoosh's reply
here reminded me - could the blue have a 'spoiler' tag added to the [B][
i][link] tags by the reply box?
By using blue text on a blue background then anything spoilerish for Flash games (etc) would only be visible to those who highlight the text with their mouse.
posted by twine42 to feature requests at 5:33 AM PST - 28 comments
Do we need to find a special code for stating "girl grossness/irrelevant to men talk inside, boys kindly stay out" for askme? Seems no matter what one puts in the question, some poor lad will walk in the room and have to share his screams of ick with everyone. We know you'll be peeping anyway, but sharing what you think about it does not follow the
please limit comments to answers rule. ta.
posted by dabitch to etiquette/policy at 5:03 AM PST - 218 comments [closed]
January 19
Wording in user profiles seems to be off:
abiku has posted no links 8 comments to MetaFilter
and no threads and no comments to MetaTalk
I believe there should be an "and" in between "links" and "8" on the first line.
posted by abiku to bugs at 8:30 PM PST - 6 comments
I swear that there was an AskMe today regarding changing the stylesheet on user profiles. I can't remember who posted the question, but they linked to a few profiles that they liked. Now I can't find the question. Was it deleted or am I experiencing hallucinations?
posted by Juicylicious to MetaFilter-related at 2:49 PM PST - 31 comments
Wondering if any of MeFi's up-and-coming screenwriters / tv writers are planning on entering Nicholl or Austin this year and if they'd be interested in helping each other punch up their scripts. (Feedback from the working pros is appreciated as well, of course.) {more}
posted by dobbs to MetaFilter gatherings at 1:19 PM PST - 9 comments
The
thread on copyright was closed to comments after 24 hours. I assume that either there is a bug that made the thread think it was 30 days old, or Matt has decided that all that needed to be said has been said. Either option points to a problem with the system somewhere.
posted by willnot to bugs at 7:32 AM PST - 14 comments
January 18
I'm in the process of adding
keyword tags to MetaFilter. Right now, you can go back and tag all your old posts. Please, help me make this a useful feature by tagging your stuff with descriptive keywords that help people find other related posts. We could really turn this into something useful if we stick to that. I'm still working it into the new post form and working bugs out of the display end, but the basics are now there. Go forth and help make this useful.
posted by mathowie to feature requests at 4:14 PM PST - 178 comments
For those involved in the
MLK Weatherman fired thread, I call your attention so some
first hand action.
I point this out because while poo will always be flung around here, gems like this can only be found on blogs such as here and help to keep this place awesome. Plus, there's nothing like quelling rumors that will naturally arise with firsthand accounts
posted by jmd82 to MetaFilter-related at 4:04 PM PST - 12 comments
tagging comes to metafilter test post for the tagging system
posted by mathowie at 1:06 AM PST - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Well I know
my interest is certainly piqued. Dish, dish!
posted by squirrel to feature requests at 1:16 AM PST - 38 comments
Bug: old threads have the
poster username linking to the
thread with the same number as their usernumber.
Example (working).
Example (nonworking). Only in the post; the username links in comments are fine.
posted by dhartung to bugs at 12:07 AM PST - 2 comments
January 17
Is there some significance or explanation to the finding that metafilter.org looks like mf.com, except for the fact that I can't log in to .com and I can to .org?
Part of the reason I asked is that for two months, since joining, I have tried in vain to log in to Metafilter.org, which was what my bookmark pointed to, and I accidentally went to the .com site and had no problem. I admit I'm not always very savvy with these things.
posted by docpops to bugs at 3:16 PM PST - 8 comments
I have only been a member since Jan. 1, but today for the first time my firewall program alerted me that Ask Me was attempting to send information in the "private information" category (my home address) to the Ask MeFi site. Has anyone else noticed this? Why is this being done?
posted by MLIS to bugs at 1:40 PM PST - 11 comments
What's with the one question per week? I am an active Ask.Mefi user and often have many questions (to the tune of 2-3 per week) that get awesome responses. Anyone know of comparable places to ask on a wide variety of subjects?
posted by omidius to etiquette/policy at 7:59 AM PST - 41 comments
Multi-questioned AskMe post. It's a particularly (IMHO) obnoxious kind of transgression, in that there's no way to claim it's anything other than an attempt to circumvent policy that's in place for good reason. Can the post page make the "one question per post" point more clearly?
posted by mkultra to etiquette/policy at 7:24 AM PST - 22 comments
January 16
I'm getting an Error # 4096 while trying to post a comment to Ax Me right now.
posted by SpecialK to bugs at 3:04 PM PST - 5 comments
"There have been 979 new questions and 15866 comments posted since your last visit." I'm pretty sure this is an error, I've only been gone for a few weeks.
posted by Mean Mr. Bucket to bugs at 1:23 PM PST - 15 comments
I may be in D.C. for the
inauguration. Anyone else? I've never been to Washington. Any tips for travellers? Or tips for someone going to a public gathering like this? I've been to a football game before, but I imagine this is a different type of get-together.
posted by airguitar to MetaFilter gatherings at 6:26 AM PST - 21 comments
January 15
Timezone confusion; though my prefs are set for Eastern time, timestamps are coming up PST. ?
posted by nj_subgenius to bugs at 5:51 PM PST - 7 comments
January 14
Here we have a short (and fairly dull) Wired article, a link to Google News, a
repost, and a bandwidth-exceeded Geocities site. I'm new(ish), but, best of the web?
posted by alsorises to etiquette/policy at 10:58 PM PST - 7 comments [closed]
I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank Matt for deleting the Invisibility/Flight thread in Ask.Me
posted by esch to etiquette/policy at 9:35 AM PST - 134 comments
Any or all of the following additional sections would be most welcome: MetaFilm, MetaLit, MetaDesign, MetaMusic. They could be discussions on current trends/reviews in the chosen fields and/or critiques on Mefi members ventures in these areas. I know this is more like a herd of ponies and most likely not forseeable in the immediate future but I thought we could at least talk about it.
posted by poopy to feature requests at 4:59 AM PST - 24 comments
January 13
January 12
On Ask MetaFilter I appealed for advice on how to get around being banned from a blog. It seems the thread has been deleted. Why?
posted by lacus to etiquette/policy at 10:43 PM PST - 1 comments [closed]
I'm going to be trying out for Jeopardy at 2:30 PM, February 11th in Atlanta. Would anybody be up for doing coffee during the evening of Feb. 11th or 12th? It'd have to be coffee, as I am not of legal drinking age. And if I could perchance find a mefite who could put me up on the night of the 12th I'd be even happier.
posted by u.n. owen to MetaFilter gatherings at 12:11 PM PST - 34 comments
January 11
MetaFilter gatherings are common, and often planned weeks in advance. In that amount of time, the related threads are pushed off the front page. Is there a system we can work out where they become sticky? Maybe be posted on the sidebar until they happen?
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood to feature requests at 3:20 PM PST - 23 comments
January 10
January 9
MeFiSF Reminder :: Friday, Jan 14, 7 PM,
Toronado. This place has everything. 60 million beers on tap, a back room we can stretch out in a bit, loads of nearby food options, and convenience to Muni (Fillmore route and the N train). We see dozens of new additions to MeFi in our nearby zip codes - please come out and say hello!
posted by caitlinb to MetaFilter gatherings at 10:33 PM PST - 19 comments
January 8
Cashmere sweaters, rare organic green tea, fine arts photography, designer sex toys. This, and much more, just happened at the First MeFi International Transoceanic Interfaith Metrosexual Milan Meetup. More inside.
posted by matteo to MetaFilter gatherings at 10:46 AM PST - 32 comments
January 7
January 6
Am I the only one having FireFox crash while trying to load the
y2karl thread below?
posted by fenriq to bugs at 11:05 PM PST - 21 comments
IE for Mac occasionally mangles posts with quotation marks, apostrophes, etc. For example: “Y’all must stay non-nuclear, but we’ll have as many nukes as we want. We’ll make new nukes but keep the old. And if you don’t like it, just take a good look at Iraq, because you could be next.�
posted by Miss Bitchy Pants to bugs at 1:37 PM PST - 25 comments
The UNICEF ad on (not logged in) MeFi is a little funky. I think they were expecting a white background. As it is, the child's face and the "relief" text to the left of it are obscured.
Not a big deal, just thought I'd mention it. So this isn't just a complaint, I'm happy to copy/modify/send it somewhere, but I don't know to whom that'd go.
posted by Alt F4 to bugs at 11:38 AM PST - 9 comments
There should be a comment limit per thread in MetaTalk. There are people who made 50+ comments in the Alex Reynolds thread. That is just wrong. No one should be allowed to make more than a fixed number of comments per MetaTalk thread. I say five. Pile ons are not cathartic releases, mob psychology is not self-policing. This place has gone from Harrison Bergeron meets Lord of the Flies to The Jerry Springer Show meets the Married With Children studio audience. It's a waste of bandwidth, creates nothing but ill feeling and a collective sense of entitlement to say shitty things. We might as well be bearbaiting or throwing cats into bonfires.
posted by y2karl to etiquette/policy at 9:39 AM PST - 245 comments
Not my call, but I don't think that "Asses of Evil" blogad does anything for MetaFilter's aesthetic, perceived image or credibility.
posted by nthdegx to etiquette/policy at 5:03 AM PST - 19 comments
In light of the recent tragic events in AskMe, and on MeFi, I move that we enable some kind of vote-banning system, or just close new user signups altogether until inbreeding causes us to become one eyed, immune-system-less pedigree albinos.
posted by armoured-ant to feature requests at 2:15 AM PST - 102 comments
How to say "thanks Ask MetaFilter"
I recently asked a question and and amazed with the help I recieved. Should I just smile, post in the thread (but who would see it?) or email individual posters? Or just shut up?
posted by cccorlew to etiquette/policy at 12:25 AM PST - 13 comments
January 5
January 4
As per last month's teaser, the
Swap is back, better than ever and super sex-ay with the php/mysql automation-fu for the new year. Check the latest news before signing up, and have fun with it, kids.
posted by Dreama to MetaFilter Music at 10:07 PM PST - 25 comments
I know someone has posted a self-link as a FPP and hasn't identified it as such (he has also done it in comments). I think it is because he wants to keep his anonymity. I don't want to out him, but at the same time I think it isn't right to post a link to a site that is your own (esp. without disclosure). Should I just email him to let him know I know? Should I email Matt directly about it? Thoughts on how best to handle?
posted by evening to etiquette/policy at 1:06 PM PST - 62 comments
This is probably an annoying pony to add, but is there any way we can get a flag added to MetaTalk posts so that they'll only be visible to a user who is logged in?
posted by bshort to feature requests at 8:20 AM PST - 31 comments
While the fact that it's tasteless and clearly a case of a user just trying to troll and stir shit for entertainment isn't technically an offense,
this thread is also a case of "ChatFilter" that really serves no purpose in AskMe. There's no problem to be solved here.
posted by XQUZYPHYR to etiquette/policy at 7:02 AM PST - 72 comments
January 3
Are one link posts on Metafilter taboo these days? I often see it listed in complaints for bad FPPs. I couldn't find anything in the posting guidelines. Just curious.
posted by agregoli to etiquette/policy at 2:04 PM PST - 126 comments
January 2
MeFiSF: We'd talked a bit about January 14, and it sounded like some neoFites were on board, too. Is there is momentum? Or shall we just meet in Berkeley at the end of the month?
posted by caitlinb to MetaFilter gatherings at 10:22 PM PST - 7 comments
Minor bug ... all text at AskMe is bold starting with the "I need a case for my iPod. [+] posted by Who_Am_I at 7:45 AM PST - 8 comments" - and below.
posted by ericb to bugs at 11:22 AM PST - 31 comments
January 1
I believe the deadline for the MeFi Design Contest has passed. Does anybody who entered have the nerve to show off their actual entries to the MeFi public? I have half a notion to, but I don't want to be the first (or anything before sixth) to expose my web design shortcomings...
posted by wendell to MetaFilter-related at 10:13 PM PST - 132 comments
Ask has 3 December 31sts. Matt - i'm sure you'll catch it. But I figure you might come here first.
posted by filmgeek to bugs at 9:35 AM PST - 25 comments
