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February 28
Hotlinking... In the
Ryan thread, I listed the direct links to the movie files in response to a request. Afterwards, I wasn't sure if this was proper. I flagged my own post, and searched Metatalk, and didn't find anything for hotlinking.
posted by adzm to Etiquette/Policy at 9:21 PM PST - 13 comments
You all remember how
u.n. owen was set to
audition for Jeopardy a couple months back? Recall how a string of bad luck
kept her from doing so?
Seems things are
still bad for her. When I saw this post in AskMeFi I contacted her just to check in and see how things were going. She's in a bit of a bind and I hope it doesn't embarrass her, but I thought there might be a few MeFites with a little extra pocket cash. Anyone feeling altruistic? [Details inside]
posted by FlamingBore to MetaFilter-Related at 4:03 PM PST - 151 comments [closed]
Metafilter fascism: Please click on the link at least once *before* filling up the thread with stupid comments. In this case, the poster (matteo) merely quotes pieces of a work of
fiction before delmoi and TargetPractice jump in with knees in full-jerk mode.
posted by vacapinta to Etiquette/Policy at 2:33 PM PST - 30 comments
Hypothetical question (brought to mind by a recent post) : Is there an expiration date for news-related posts? Is something that was published last weekend still front-page worthy today?
posted by grapefruitmoon to Etiquette/Policy at 8:58 AM PST - 19 comments
After flagging a post I got this message: "Error Occurred While Processing Request... Element SITE is undefined in URL". Not sure if the flag registered or not, or if anyone else is seeing this message.
posted by taz to Bugs at 5:24 AM PST - 3 comments
February 27
Pre-emptive congratulations- okay, even for a Sunday, only two FPPs with the day half over is low. Fess up, guys- who's just waiting to see if they can sneak in post #40000? ;)
posted by XQUZYPHYR to MetaFilter-Related at 9:48 AM PST - 38 comments
February 26
To my knowledge, posts/comments flagged 'fantastic' only seem to decide towards sidebar announcement. How about a page where all posts flagged as such are listed? [+]
posted by Gyan to Feature Requests at 7:16 PM PST - 30 comments
Petty Pony Request: Although it's easy to find out a persons AskMe ratio of questions to answers, I think it'd be nice to see that information on the comments page. It sounds quite childish, but I'd rather focus any answers I have towards those who themselves answer questions.
posted by seanyboy to Feature Requests at 4:44 PM PST - 47 comments
February 25
I have a proposal for political arguments that might make them more productive: a limit on how far one particular detail can be discussed. A problem I noticed on
this thread is that nothing gets resolved because the discussion revolves around one minor detail.
posted by [expletive deleted] to Etiquette/Policy at 9:34 PM PST - 62 comments
There are some interesting goings-on at my university that I'd like to post about. However, they regard a service which is currently under my jurisdiction on student council. My name might appear in some of the links, but none of them are BY me. I also don't intend to specify who exactly I am. Would that be considered a self-link?
posted by BuddhaInABucket to Etiquette/Policy at 5:47 PM PST - 19 comments
This is my greatest stolen modified idea today. Metafilter hitpoints! We all get 5000 to start. Once you level up via unattacked thread posting, you can cast healing spells on your favorite, but
inexplicably hated MeFi pals, or do double damage with Fireballs. Anybody who reaches zero has their account closed, unless someone ells resurrects you by sacrificing 3/4 of their remaining points.
posted by thirteen to Feature Requests at 12:34 PM PST - 153 comments
As a sop to us nit-picking philosophers, could the Religion & Philoso
py category be renamed "Religion & Philoso
phy"? Sorry, I know painquale already mentioned this in a comment in another thread, but that was months ago.
posted by bricoleur to Bugs at 5:57 AM PST - 15 comments [closed]
Another metafilter-like site, this time in Russian, which I don't think has been noted here before:
Dirty.ru. It looks like a well-established place & claims over 7,000 users.
posted by misteraitch to MetaFilter-Related at 12:54 AM PST - 38 comments
February 24
Pony, pony, pony. Everyone wants a Pony. Here's the one I'd really like: The introduction of the [!] is nice. But I am way more interested in seeing the best, most interesting comments than I care about bad ones getting taken out behind the woodshed. If there has to be a [!] could there also be a [!!!]? In my pony dreams this spits out to a page like the del.icio.us popular list. Or something like that.
posted by limitedpie to Feature Requests at 10:12 PM PST - 18 comments
February 23
Invalid CFML construct error on the MeFi front page when not logged in. Happens in both IE6 and Firefox.
posted by neckro23 to Bugs at 4:23 PM PST - 3 comments
Sorry if this has been covered, but will we have the chance to go back to our old AskMe posts and not only tag them (as is currently possible) but also put them in the correct category, as as currently not possible? And is there any volunteer effort being organized to go through and tag (and/or categorize) old posts that have not been tagged by their creators?
posted by stupidsexyFlanders to Feature Requests at 12:38 PM PST - 25 comments
February 22
meta-meta-question -
I nearly hit "post" a few minutes ago
here, but I stopped myself because I was asking follow up questions, only slightly off-topic. Good ones I think (and the simple thread is nearly worn out). I can't post another question for another 6.5 days. Shouldn't I just ask the questions in the thread while it's a fresh topic instead of posting a new question in a week? Or should I just suck it up and wait?
posted by hellbient to Etiquette/Policy at 10:18 PM PST - 7 comments
Discussion of y2karl's small quote posting style in
this thread got me thinking. I wonder what a pie chart or Venn diagram showing a breakdown of his contributions to MeFi into quotes, small quotes, alt-text quotes, his own words, etc. would look like.
posted by techgnollogic to MetaFilter-Related at 9:31 PM PST - 189 comments
Something on the "Showing results ... of ... answers by ..." pages seems to be broken.
This page should be my 50 most recent answers, and it is, but
this page does not show answers 51 - 100 like its supposed to, but rather shows answers Most Recent - 100. Clicking either page number or NEXT yields the same results.
Also, Matt, as I post this -- should the dead blogroots.com link still be on the Metatalk posting page?
posted by anastasiav to Bugs at 8:52 PM PST - 4 comments
Inspired by
this thread, I've set up
MefiLawyers, a Google Groups mailing list for the lawyer and lawyer-wannabe Mefite community. Given that Metafilter is growing in leaps and bounds, e-networking in subcommunities of shared interests seems like a good idea, so I figured I'd start the avalanche. Matt, if this is a pony that you'd rather take in-house, that would be cool too.
posted by Saucy Intruder to MetaFilter-Related at 5:39 PM PST - 20 comments
Minor issue with Ask Mefi posting page: the blurb under the field for your main question (the part that posts to Ask Mefi's front page) says that it will be part of the "more inside".
posted by tracicle to Bugs at 3:50 PM PST - 6 comments
Can't log out of the site. Both at w*rk and a 'Net cafe, clicking "logout" doesn't actually log me out -- just takes me to the front page. Right-clicking "logout" and opening it in another window does seem to actually log me out. FYI.
posted by Vidiot to Bugs at 12:03 PM PST - 4 comments
Hiya folks! (Say it all together now, okay?: "Hi, Shane." Thanks, that made me feel good.) I've taken an interest in ADD/ADHD lately and I seem to remember a really good AskMe thread that I can't find now. It looks as if it was deleted. More inside.
posted by Shane to Etiquette/Policy at 10:47 AM PST - 42 comments
February 21
"Stories like this in the Hunter S Thompson thread make it a real gem." Blue's front page side blog could use a direct link to the specific story. Ta.
posted by Feisty to MetaFilter-Related at 7:22 PM PST - 5 comments [closed]
Tiny Lost Password Pony Filter: Failed login attempts from an Ask.Me page request that you email number one for password help. The main page has a handy-dandy 'email me my password' field. (I said tiny pony...)
posted by nathan_teske to Bugs at 4:47 PM PST - 5 comments
Uno tiempo mas con seriedad -- there are more than 30 of us in the Pittsburgh metroplex judging solely by those who've given zip codes. Is there
any interest in a meetup? It's grey, it's cold, it's damp, we're entitled to a little fun, aren't we? (Related question: should we attempt to work through the rubric of
meetup.com? I'd be happy to organize, fwiw.)
posted by Dreama to MetaFilter Gatherings at 9:51 AM PST - 5 comments
February 20
"Didn't check google before posting"
Can this be added as a reason to flag an AskMe post? Or is this already covered by "it breaks the guidelines"?
posted by rajbot to Feature Requests at 7:33 PM PST - 59 comments
Minature Horse Request: When you add a contact and when you flag a comment for review, a new browser window pops up to continue on to the next step. Is there any way that this could be changed so that it continues in the same window? I know this is minor, but it's driving me batty.
posted by amandaudoff to Bugs at 6:39 PM PST - 12 comments [closed]
Mathowie & Jessamyn, thank you for all of your work on the site.
This thread is not for complaints, but for all of us who appreciate everything that you have done to express our appreciation. If you have complaints, please find another thread for them.
posted by spaghetti to MetaFilter-Related at 1:14 PM PST - 146 comments
I Like Ponies: On the user page, where it says "posted X questions and X answers to Ask MetaFilter", it would be very nifty to add a counter of how many "best answers" this user has received on AskMe. It'll be a positive way to increase the signal/noise ratio -- and while it may provoke some competition, it'll be competition to be the most helpful and comprehensive, which should lead to good things for Ask MeFi.
This is a post from Jairus , who cannot post due to MetaTalk posting limits. Ironically, his last post was about changing the posting limits on MetaTalk.)
posted by LouReedsSon to Feature Requests at 11:30 AM PST - 55 comments
Why are metatalk threads disapearing? Though I may not always agree, I do understand why mathowie would desire to close some. But deletion, as if they never existed? Is server space at such a premium?
Without some continuity, the site feels like a book with pages ripped out, or a newspaper that has been chopped up for a school project.
posted by jb to Bugs at 10:51 AM PST - 5 comments [closed]
You can now flag posts or comments you find problematic, distasteful, illegal, off-topic, whatever. Just click on the little [!] links and record your reasons. [more inside]
posted by mathowie to Feature Requests at 1:26 AM PST - 92 comments
February 19
I'm rescinding my offer to contribute to
the Metafilter scholarship. I don't like the direction in which the site is going, and I won't be participating any longer. I would email Matt directly, but I made the offer in open forum, so I feel it's only fair to withdraw it here as well. I promise not to let the door hit me in the ass on the way out.
posted by mr_crash_davis to MetaFilter-Related at 6:19 PM PST - 372 comments [closed]
Mefi London meetup disappeared from this page within 24 hours, due to a load of navel-gazing posts to MeTalk. Here's a reminder: P_G wants it to be Vaguely Competent this time, OK?
PS: I suggest Friday 25th March: venue - that's up to you.
posted by dash_slot- to MetaFilter Gatherings at 3:41 PM PST - 22 comments
Anyone get the feeling that the overall appeal of Metafilter threads has sharply degenerated in the past few months? I used to think $5 for posting priveleges was a bargain. Now I think it's about right. So much trivia. So little time. Maybe there should be some rating system for threads like Slashdot has for its posts?
posted by DirtyCreature to Etiquette/Policy at 12:15 PM PST - 76 comments
I would like to set up my computer so it captures images of MeFi throughout the day. I am hoping to save local copies of comments/posts that are later deleted. Is there a way to do this?
posted by mlis to MetaFilter-Related at 10:20 AM PST - 20 comments
MeFi Ottawa: 11 members, spousal units and lurkers made it to
Pub Italia last night, where we consumed obscure beers, made boisterous small talk, annoyed other patrons with our flash photography, and crafted inappropriate shoutouts. So far,
sboivert's photos and
my photos have been posted to the
MetaFilter pool on Flickr; aedra's photos, containing many more shoutouts, will be up once I let her have some time in front of this computer.
posted by mcwetboy to MetaFilter Gatherings at 9:09 AM PST - 33 comments
February 18
Calling myself out. Kind of unusual, I know. But I looked back at
some of my recent comments and I realized that I've been a butthead and a troll lately. If anyone wants to take exception with my bad behavior, feel free to do so here. And in the effort to make things better- has anyone else fallen into such a rut? Any ideas about how to get out?
posted by Doohickie to Etiquette/Policy at 8:48 PM PST - 48 comments
How about a Portland meetup? The limitedpie family just moved to PDX from NYC and would love to meet Pacific Northwest MeFites. And to the New York meetup veterans: we miss you already, have a deep fried Mars Bar for us!
posted by limitedpie to MetaFilter Gatherings at 4:28 PM PST - 81 comments
Once per week questions: Once per seven days or once per calendar week? Did I miss something on the first post page that said if I post, I can't post again for the next 7 days? (I'm normally attentive, but the first I noticed about this was just trying to post and being denied). Is once per week really appropriate on AskMe? Questions tend to bunch up, but then there are long quiet periods - how about no more than 4 times per month instead?
posted by Caviar to Etiquette/Policy at 3:27 PM PST - 16 comments
Something is screwy with AND-ed tag lookup on AskMe. The count seems correct but the result list is either empty or shows a post that is tagged with neither tag. Examples:
art+music,
mp3+music.
posted by smackfu to Bugs at 11:22 AM PST - 1 comments [closed]
Uhm, everyone using
[more inside] in Ask MetaFilter sort of defeats the purpose if it and looks, err, bad, does it not? Is there anything to do about it?
posted by xmutex to Bugs at 10:41 AM PST - 32 comments
Really basic question, bear with me, I'm a relatively new user. Someone links me in their profile as an "acquaintance" and I have never met or heard of this individual before in my life. Can I get this erroneous association removed somehow?
posted by grapefruitmoon to MetaFilter-Related at 10:05 AM PST - 53 comments
If anyone captured the Cat Fight Club rules before they were deleted from the Cat Fight thread, could you email them to me at mischief at mail dot ru , please? Apparently, my asking for this list in a separate question was also deleted. I would really like to have that list. Thank you. ;-)
posted by mischief to Etiquette/Policy at 8:19 AM PST - 54 comments
February 17
Question: what constitutes a double-post? This is easy to answer for
websites, but it seems to be harder for NewsFilter posts. One person recently argued that a second NewsFilter post on a previously discussed topic isn't a double if it offers a different
perspective. However, I'm not sure that argument can be made for the topic of
this post, which has already been
discussed twice. So is
every news article on a topic fair game for its own post? Early returns indicate that the discussion isn't going to be much different from the first two go-rounds, so what's the point? (yes, I know this is a
double post).
posted by casu marzu to Etiquette/Policy at 9:03 PM PST - 11 comments
Matt seems to be going gangbusters on new features, so I'm not sure if this is the best or worst time to request another pony. This one is for some more RSS feeds...[more inside]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken to Feature Requests at 6:26 PM PST - 30 comments
Did the new AskMe ponies break AskMe RSS? I get invalid XML errors in T-Bird. Browsing to the XML file results in broken badness.
posted by mnology to Bugs at 4:06 PM PST - 3 comments [closed]
Are there, or should there be, rules governing the materials (specifically photos) on user pages? I ask because
at least one user page I stumbled upon today would be considered NSFW at my place of employment, and I was at work at the time. If not rules, perhaps a way for users to mark their own user pages as NSFW?
posted by terrapin to Etiquette/Policy at 12:02 PM PST - 39 comments
What freen said.
or, in his own words: Why is dios's continual rude and offensive behavior tolerated? The vast majority of his comments are caustic and intended to be insulting. His behavior is not new and surely not unnoticed. Does he have some asshole pass from Matt?
And stop the "queen" shit too--it's offensive.
posted by amberglow to Etiquette/Policy at 11:23 AM PST - 171 comments
Something is deeply wrong with MeFi... the front page is simply
choc-a-bloc with great links!
posted by five fresh fish to Bugs at 10:24 AM PST - 24 comments
I have some ideas about getting rid of religious fundamentalism, winning the War on Terrorism, and inoculating our nation against ever electing anyone like George Bush to the White House again -- all at the same time and using nothing more lethal than words and a few diagrams.
I'm new here, and I would appreciate suggestions on what I should particularly avoid doing in discussing such matters in this group.
I am also from an older generation, and I am extremely upset about the current atmosphere in Washington, if any of this helps to explain the kind of answers I need.
posted by jhilton to Etiquette/Policy at 9:35 AM PST - 55 comments
My first pony request: in addition to the HTML shortcut buttons that currently exist below the preview field—bold, italic, href—it would also be useful to have buttons for 'blockquote' and 'small' since those tags often get used for quoting news sources. Failing that, what other buttons would be useful?
posted by dhoyt to Feature Requests at 8:55 AM PST - 20 comments
Ottawa meetup reminder: tomorrow night (Friday Feb 18), 7:00 pm,
Pub Italia, 434½ Preston St. They don't take reservations so we're winging it, but there are a lot of big tables there. I'll try to teach the hostess what a metafilter is.
All the cool kids are coming.
posted by mendel to MetaFilter Gatherings at 6:47 AM PST - 0 comments
February 16
This is the Ask MetaFilter is totally broken bucket. Please leave all refuse here, and I'll do my best to fix it in the next 24 hours. I just made the new posting page live and will try and get everything up and running before I got to sleep in a couple hours, but I'm sure I'll miss a lot. Help me here.
posted by mathowie to Bugs at 11:32 PM PST - 32 comments
SecondTryFilter: After today's updates, the Anonymous AskMe link is gone from the post-a-question page.
posted by agropyron to Bugs at 10:32 PM PST - 1 comments [closed]
I've started tagging my AskMeFi posts and realized that in some instances, the resulting answer(s) would serve as valuable tags. Not knowing what the answers are going to be when asking a question, I hope we'll eventually be able to change/add tags once a live question has been answered.
posted by Robot Johnny to Feature Requests at 7:02 PM PST - 6 comments
Every time you click "comments" to see the answers in Ask Metafilter, the page that loads says "Nothing to see here, move along... You've stumbled upon a non-existent post, or one that was deleted for various reasons."
posted by nooneyouknow to Bugs at 5:53 PM PST - 5 comments [closed]
Why was my comment in
this thread deleted? My comment was "How much do you make?" and I was serious. Is that somehow not appropriate? Does jessamyn or Matt get to decide what might be an appropriate conversation starter?
posted by fixedgear to MetaFilter-Related at 4:08 PM PST - 14 comments [closed]
Is there a way to see an aggregate of all the silly one-liners where someone takes a comment from higher up in a thread and posts "Metafilter: Blah blah blah blah"? I tried the search page with the query "metafilter:" but it just dropped the colon and returned everything that had the word metafilter in it. This is probably a futile request but I thought maybe someone either had a hack or was collecting them offline somewhere for his/her own amusement.
posted by matildaben to MetaFilter-Related at 2:54 PM PST - 14 comments
The HTML markup of Metafilter proper ("the blue") differs from the markup of Metatalk and Ask Metafilter. Given the upcoming changes to Metafilter's look, can we expect similarity in markup across the site, or should we explicitly not rely on undocumented features of Metafilter? [mi]
posted by orthogonality to Feature Requests at 12:46 PM PST - 8 comments
For the samaritan looking to knock off a good deed for the day (and for symmetry, how I love thee), how about an AskMe button that shows only
unanswered questions?
posted by mzurer to Feature Requests at 12:15 PM PST - 14 comments
I noticed an AskMe
thread with two "Best Answers". Is the ability to mark more than one answer as "best" intentional, or is this a bug? I'm sure there are going to be cases of ties, so perhaps this isn't a bad idea.
posted by tommasz to Bugs at 11:26 AM PST - 11 comments
It's really frustrating that so many Mefi people don't have e-mail addresses posted on their member page. In fact, it's really inexcusable given the ability to obtain free secondary and terciary e-mail addresses.
While no one can be forced to read their e-mail (or have the Mefi address mails forwarded to a primary one, I think Matt should require an e-mail address to be posted.
posted by ParisParamus to Feature Requests at 9:40 AM PST - 87 comments
February 15
Should I worry or not?
Given the large response to the thread about the closure of LokiTorrent and an anonymous comment in AskMeFi on the 11th I thought I'd let the good users of MeFi know about this. It came from my ISP today. I'm in London England for reference purposes. I've also removed sensitive bits. The file (movie) in question was however a 'Hollywood Blockbuster'. I got 15 mins through it and ditched it it really was S**t.
Just to let you know I have only downloaded 2 movies in 3 years, this one I consigned to the recycle bin the other I bought on DVD as it had some merit! [
full email]
posted by darksmiler to Bugs at 9:21 PM PST - 52 comments
Boo. There were a lot of fairly well-thought out and witty references to MetaFilter history, past and present, in that thread before it was closed to further comments and had its middle taken out.
Not every thread here should be a linear progression from a problem to a solution. There should be some room for frivolity and banter. Without it, we lose our sense of community and shared experience.
Discuss.
posted by yhbc to Etiquette/Policy at 8:31 PM PST - 153 comments
Is there any way to add a title tag to AskMe posts? A title would make it much easier and faster to bookmark well-answered posts.
posted by AlexReynolds to Feature Requests at 5:45 PM PST - 2 comments [closed]
I'm assuming it's related to
this, but when I'm not logged in, each thread in the blue ends with the "This thread is archived and is closed to new comments" message, instead of the "Register or login to comment" message.
posted by Vidiot to Bugs at 3:47 PM PST - 1 comments [closed]
I'm getting nothin' but CF errors when I try to access Mefi. Can still go here and to AskMe.
posted by PinkStainlessTail to Bugs at 11:28 AM PST - 4 comments
When viewing a deleted thread (While logged in) I see a bit at the bottom that says "You are not currently logged in. Log in or create a new account."
I can confrim that this is happening in every thread that is currently missing off of the front page.
Firefox 1.0, WinXP, &c.
posted by ChrisR to Bugs at 6:42 AM PST - 9 comments
February 14
Upon refreshing the home page, I noticed that MeFi has "Connection Timeout members". Searching the archives makes it seem like I may be unique in seeing this minor bug.
posted by johannes to Bugs at 4:38 PM PST - 6 comments
Kevin Kelly does a great newsletter called
Cool Tools where he normally reviews hard-to-find stuff and geek gadgets. Today he offered up a nice review of Ask MetaFilter. It's not on the site yet, so
here's a screenshot from email. I thought it got to the heart of Ask MeFi pretty well, especially the part about reading it for questions you didn't know you wanted to know, but were dying to find out the answers to.
posted by mathowie to MetaFilter-Related at 1:47 PM PST - 25 comments
I want to pass on some info to someone regarding their expired (and kind of unfulfilled) AskMe question, but there's no email listed on his/her contact page. Is it within MeFi etiquette to post an open note here on MetaTalk for
nakedcodemonkey?
posted by blueberry to Etiquette/Policy at 9:17 AM PST - 5 comments
Happy Valentine's Day! Any hope of making "crush" work again? No response from Matt
here or
here, nor to my email a couple days ago. Is this feature disabled for a reason?
posted by scarabic to Bugs at 8:12 AM PST - 20 comments
February 13
Time for YA
MeFi Seattle wingding? Early March. I suggest we try
the Big Time in the University district, which is well lit, not smoky in the front, and advertises free wifi. A recent Saturday evening scouting trip with jimfl and Danelope revealed an uncrowded, quiet scene. Also, they have good beer.
Discuss.
posted by mwhybark to MetaFilter Gatherings at 1:04 PM PST - 21 comments
Genuine question here - and not meant to be a "call out".
When exploring the
Text Adventures post I noticed that the Photopia hyperlink was to a .zip file.
I am cautious about clicking on any .zip and .exe files online. Is there any protocol about linking to such on an FPP? At the very least shouldn't one note that the hyperlink is to a .zip by indicating so (i.e. Phototopia [note: .zip file])?
posted by ericb to Etiquette/Policy at 7:17 AM PST - 15 comments
February 12
If an anonymous question is posted to AskMeFi which is deemed inappropriate for the page, do the administrative powers e-mail the original poster to explain why?
posted by TeamBilly to Etiquette/Policy at 12:02 PM PST - 12 comments
If someone posts a link to the front page that ends in a question mark, are they really linking to the best of the web, or are they just asking a leading question in order to generate discussion of their pet topic? And should we disallow front posts that are just trollish leading questions because they weaken the mefi brand and more importantly drive me nuts?
posted by craniac to Etiquette/Policy at 7:26 AM PST - 21 comments
February 11
Just noticing a quirk: The thread IDs of the anonymous AskMe posts seem to reflect the number that would be assigned to them had they been instantly posted at the time of submission. The three latest threads on AskMe are 14998,15006,15016 (all Anon threads) followed by normal threads 15032, 15031...etc.
posted by Gyan to Bugs at 12:16 PM PST - 13 comments
February 10
Another pony is roaming free. It's now possible to mark great answers to questions you've asked on Ask MeFi. Details and screenshot inside.
posted by mathowie to Feature Requests at 9:55 PM PST - 79 comments
I'm going to combine two questions into one here since they're related:
1. When did "mark as best answer" show up in AskMe? Sometime in the last few hours, if I'm not mistaken. What is the effect of marking something as the best answer? (Apologies if I missed an announcement)
2. Does asking a question, and then having it deleted, still use up your AskMe quota?
posted by kenko to MetaFilter-Related at 9:47 PM PST - 6 comments
what? posts around here have often had lots of extra links about a topic, but is it too much to ask that the text of a post at least make sense? Personally, I'd like to get a clear idea of what I'm clicking on (even if it doesn’t elucidate the full scope) in mefi posts.
posted by delmoi to Etiquette/Policy at 2:01 PM PST - 16 comments
Is the
aforementioned NYC meetup, 6pm at the Magician this Saturday (02/12), still on? Or did everyone just go to
suck up to greet Jessamyn last weekend instead?
Just kidding about the sucking up :D I would probably have gone too if not for a prior engagement.
posted by cyrusdogstar to MetaFilter Gatherings at 9:53 AM PST - 57 comments
Atlanta Mefi Meetup Reminder!
Hey guys, remember tomorrow to be at Manuel's Tavern in Midtown at 7pm!
and bring a jacket! By Atlanta terms, it's going to be cold."
posted by Hands of Manos to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:06 AM PST - 10 comments
I hit the blue page the other day and saw a JUST POSTED story that was
nothing more than a link to a page where you can buy a t-shirt with a design/slogan on it. (I'm not mentioning/linking-to which one it was because that isn't the purpose of this post). The FPP was deleted within minutes (from when I noticed it). However, today I see that it is listed in the Blogads on the front page. All is as it should be - I'm not complaining - I just think it is interesting that self-linkers apparently (sometimes?) get the opportunity to
purchase an ad that they were trying to get for free.
posted by spock to Bugs at 7:07 AM PST - 19 comments
February 9
Small bug: on the "all of a user's comments to MeFi" page (search_comments.cfm), if one has commented more than once in the same thread, the article appears once per comment, each with one "jump to the comment in this thread" link. I'm pretty sure this is new behavior. Ask.Me and Metatalk responses are still grouped together.
posted by Zed_Lopez to Bugs at 1:23 PM PST - 1 comments [closed]
Getting an error when I submit an anonymous AskMe question. (Yes, I have an embarrassing question to ask.) [mi]
posted by agropyron to Bugs at 11:28 AM PST - 3 comments
Now that bloglines is away to new corporate overlords (hopefully, to not be destroyed in the process), I find myself wondering when the other services I like will get gobbled up.
Personally, I'm curious - Matt, will you ever sell Metafilter?
posted by Caviar to MetaFilter-Related at 10:39 AM PST - 53 comments
Is a
triple post okay if you
knew it
was one? (The person who posted this must have known, since the
search included in the post shows it.) Is it okay if there are a few more links included this time, and the text is on a different site now? Finally, is it okay if the goal is simply to elicit more discussion on the topic, as it seems to be here?
posted by koeselitz to Etiquette/Policy at 9:20 AM PST - 17 comments
Trying to get to the blue ... my default view is 20 most recently commented threads... get
Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Invalid column name 'link_day'.
posted by crunchland to Bugs at 8:29 AM PST - 6 comments
February 8
Is there etiquette on commenting in your own posts (FPPs?)? I'm exercising restraint - don't want to end up on
Noobs Gone Wild. Looser in the green than the blue?
posted by hellbient to Etiquette/Policy at 7:08 PM PST - 23 comments
Maybe this was covered and I missed it, but why do individual AskMe threads not have unique titles? When I bookmark a Metafilter thread, it has a unique title but when I bookmark an AskMe thread, I have to change the title.
posted by agregoli to Feature Requests at 8:33 AM PST - 10 comments
i just had a realization: my nick is idiotic. can i change it?
i've only been a member for a week, and only posted about 3-4 comments.
posted by Silky Slim to Etiquette/Policy at 4:01 AM PST - 52 comments
February 7
Two things:
1) When is turning a
comment into a
FPP okay? The poster acknowledges it as such in the FPP itself and the old thread is still open for new comments. Shouldn't the new links be added to the old thread?
2) Also,
pepsi blue.
posted by Stynxno to Etiquette/Policy at 3:16 PM PST - 47 comments
I just updated the server to CFMX 7. If you see any obvious weird errors, toss them in here.
posted by mathowie to Uptime at 3:15 PM PST - 39 comments
Hi Mefites. I'm sorry I won't be able to make the Atlanta meetup or the Jeopardy tryouts. I'm really upset...I was hoping to meet all of you and see Atlanta, but it's just not going to happen. Some unexpected money things have come up and it's one of those really-bad-timing things. If the tryout was a month later, it'd be no problem. As it is, it's impossible. Thanks for all the good wishes. I'm sure I'll try out sometime in the next year, somewhere, somehow.
posted by u.n. owen to MetaFilter Gatherings at 10:04 AM PST - 5 comments
The person posting
this today seems to have made similar mistakes in links as the person who posted
this five days ago. Just wondering if the mistakes can be identified and better avoided.
posted by mediareport to Bugs at 8:42 AM PST - 29 comments
February 6
Ok Ottawa MeFites: Here are the details of the upcoming Meetup:
Date/time: Friday, February 18 @ 7:00 p.m.
Location:
Pub Italia, 434½ Preston St.
Hope everyone can make it!
posted by nyxie to MetaFilter Gatherings at 3:38 PM PST - 8 comments
There was a thread a while ago (on the green I believe) about a mefi member who had a friend who was considering becoming a police officer. I've tried searching for the thread, but can't find it. Does anyone have a link for it?
posted by drezdn to MetaFilter-Related at 2:26 PM PST - 3 comments
Last alluded to
here: None of the redesign entries (unless I missed something) addressed the
"comments by user" page, which is probably the clunkiest and least usable feature on the site.
Long comment histories take forever to load (and tax the server); and you can't actually see any of the comments without clicking on each individual link. I think pagination, plus an ability to preview the actual comment, would be a great help.
posted by Saucy Intruder to Feature Requests at 7:27 AM PST - 17 comments
A baby
eohippus, neatly saddled with a bar napkin inscribed with my name, just pranced by on the thinnest of air and winked at me, whereupon I had a pony shot in celebration.
posted by Opus Dark to Feature Requests at 1:42 AM PST - 17 comments
February 5
Natalie dee now has her very own dog. It's too bad she had to " stone-cold quit my job".
Does
This combined with
This really belong on the front page?
What _is_ the best way to address this stuff without seeming like a jerk?
posted by edgeways to MetaFilter-Related at 7:11 PM PST - 35 comments
I'm highly interested in the new design of Metafilter. Is there any chance we could get a preview? I understand that we were able to view the winning designs, but I was under the impression that it would incorporate elements from all of the good ones, so I'd like a peek, as I'm sure the rest of the site would.
posted by angry modem to MetaFilter-Related at 1:56 PM PST - 1 comments [closed]
PST slippage in the blue... Occasionally my time reference on MeFi gets whacked back to PST, though my preferences are EST. When I see the problem, I edit my profile (changing nothing), submit and ta-da, EST. Don't need no pony, just bringing it up. Happens ~ once a month.
posted by nj_subgenius to Bugs at 10:28 AM PST - 7 comments
Hey, why is there no link to askmetafilter on 'the blue' as you metatalk hipsters call the main page? You have to click metatalk and then click askme.
FIX IT
posted by delmoi to MetaFilter-Related at 12:41 AM PST - 69 comments
February 4
Despite some recent messiness, snarking and call-outs on the green and the grey, I (as a noob) am impressed with the recent examples of true connection and "kinship" as exhibited by the
life altering experiences thread in Ask MetaFilter (and discussed further
here) and the
heartfelt advice given to a frightened 20-year old who is about to enter a treatment center.
In the same spirit of recalling
favorite migs moments, can some of the longer-term folks share memorable moments where MeFi has demonstrated such “poignancy” and support to fellow MeFites?
posted by ericb to MetaFilter-Related at 5:52 PM PST - 34 comments
I've been too busy to hang out on the metafilter irc channel, so I just wanted to say hi to all the cool people there. Is there any way one can access that without downloading an irc client?
posted by dios to MetaFilter-Related at 1:07 PM PST - 35 comments
Given the fairly high usage and value of many of the threads, isn't it time for Ask Metafilter to be promoted to be listed on the Blue? The link in the sideblog to
this amazing thread is a clear sign that it's ready for primetime. How about it Matt?
posted by tommasz to MetaFilter-Related at 6:09 AM PST - 36 comments
Now that the sideblog is back in action, would it be possible to get an RSS feed for it? If this would involve a lot of work, just put it somewhere on the list of Ponies, but I'm wondering if, since the sidebar is powered by Blogger, there might not already be some sort of automatically generated feed that I just need to point my reader at.
posted by yankeefog to Feature Requests at 3:01 AM PST - 4 comments
February 3
This will be my last MetaTalk post for the next seven days, because MetaTalk is now subject to the same time limits as Ask MetaFilter.
posted by me3dia to Etiquette/Policy at 8:12 PM PST - 49 comments
Can we lose
orange clock and keep
chicobangs, please? Okay, that's not the best way to say it. I am no angel myself, but this beyond-the-pale swipe at chicobangs and mathowie - from a member of dubious contribution overall (IMHO) - should not go ignored.
posted by scarabic to Etiquette/Policy at 11:30 AM PST - 100 comments [closed]
February 2
Matt, I'm not trying to be irritating here; but I am wondering, if you're not going to update the sideblog anymore, is there any reason to keep it? (And for the more anal among you, yes I'm well aware that it can be collapsed).
posted by Wulfgar! to MetaFilter-Related at 3:52 PM PST - 8 comments [closed]
Matt's clearly not being compensated adequately for the time and $$ he spends on this place, and the avenues open to him are apparently distasteful to many of us. As fun as it is to complain about SG, it might be even more fun coming up with a way to replace the SG revenue ourselves. -->
posted by stupidsexyFlanders to MetaFilter-Related at 12:22 PM PST - 116 comments
So yeah,
suicide girls. After some teeth gnashing, and asking all my female friends about taking on suicide girls image ads on mefi, I decided to take them (they seem tasteful to me -- I dropped the ones showing too much skin) with the caveat that a simple click and anyone could hide them forever.
Here's what I said when I took their first textad long ago and the same applies here. They are as racy as I will go, and this won't start a slippery slope as they're the exception to the rule.
posted by mathowie to MetaFilter-Related at 12:27 AM PST - 649 comments [closed]
February 1
Count of posts tagged with a
particular word isn't accurate. The count is how many times the tag appears, even if it appears more than once in a given post. This would throw off the "most popular tags" statistics.
posted by odinsdream to Bugs at 6:55 PM PST - 7 comments
Does anyone besides me find it ironic that our spell checker doesn't know the word "MeFi"? and... scary that the suggestion for the correct spelling is "Mafia"
Is there a way to add words to the spell checker???
posted by HuronBob to MetaFilter-Related at 5:15 PM PST - 13 comments
"I'll take swords for 2 million, Trebek"
Calling all Atlanta Mefites: Come see if U.N. Owen
owned at her try outs to be on Jeopardy. We'll meet at Manuel's Tavern in Midtown on Feb 11th at 7pm!
posted by Hands of Manos to MetaFilter Gatherings at 2:33 PM PST - 17 comments
I don't think the site in
this deleted thread belongs to the poster. The names don't match up, and neither do the writing styles. He just improperly quoted the phrase "The Goleta Air & Space Museum is just my web site." While not formatted very well, I think the link holds up to scrutiny.
posted by zsazsa to MetaFilter-Related at 8:50 AM PST - 6 comments
