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On the green... why do we have a duplicate post? As in, word-for-word duplicate
posted by dirtynumbangelboy to Etiquette/Policy at 9:15 PM PST - 7 comments [closed]

Would it be a huge inconvenience to actually have Post Titles heading posts on the blue? Yea, I understand the face of the blue is tried and true, however, some, if not all, posts need "Headlines". Why even have them if they only show up AFTER you check into the post/thread? (not complaining, I love Mefi!)
posted by snsranch to Feature Requests at 8:41 PM PST - 27 comments

There have been a few tweaks to tagging, flagging, and posting. [more inside]
posted by pb to Feature Requests at 4:26 PM PST - 35 comments

Congratulate me! I just got my first deleted FPP, courtesy of cortex!
posted by saulgoodman to MetaFilter-Related at 12:04 PM PST - 28 comments [closed]

Strangely, my answer to this ridiculous question was favorited 17 times, then deleted. The answer was sincere, if not hyperbolic. Should I just email the admins directly next time I disagree with what I perceive to be out of control heavy-handed decimation? Thanks.
posted by four panels to Etiquette/Policy at 10:56 AM PST - 246 comments

I just wanted to point out the cydonian's fantastic observations in this post that he made yesterday, and thank him publicly for his efforts. thank you!
posted by hadjiboy to MetaFilter-Related at 4:13 AM PST - 11 comments

Why is this thread on "penalties for abortion" still here? And the FPP is a Youtube one-link yet.
posted by davy to Etiquette/Policy at 9:56 PM PST - 131 comments [closed]

Here's show 12 of the podcast, with melissa may as our featured guest. It was recorded on July 27, 2007, and is about an hour long.
posted by mathowie to MeFi Podcast at 5:44 PM PST - 48 comments

9 months ago I mentioned my Black Book Art Circle Project, and sent out a whack of books to MeFites. So far, none have come back. I did move in the meantime, but paid for mail forwarding to my current location, just so there would be no lost art. That service is about to expire. Does anyone know the status of the books they received?
posted by Kickstart70 to MetaFilter-Related at 3:48 PM PST - 37 comments

I would like to know what the standard is for obituary filter. Scores, nay hundreds, of semi-famous people die every day. Can we do a thread about each and every one of them on MetaFilter? I hope not.
posted by Meatbomb to Etiquette/Policy at 11:45 AM PST - 109 comments

A MeFi bicycling challenge was mentioned here and if it was mentioned in other places as well, I apologize-- I couldn't find it. So, who is up for a bicycling challenge similar to what those wacky runners have going on? I am pretty sure we can use a website such as We Endure or similar to start a group and track our progress. Any takers?
posted by sneakin to MetaFilter Gatherings at 10:09 AM PST - 111 comments

We're near the end of the month which means Metafilter run 5.0 for mefites with the nike+ kit is almost over. I'll post the final July standings in this thread in a couple of days. As always, if you want to take part in the next mefi running challenge, post your nike+ screenname in this thread, and I'll send you an invite. (FAQ : yes, it only works with the ipod nano; no, you don't need nike shoes) - (Previous challenges : 1.0.,2.0.,3.0.,3.1.,4.0.) However, we're a little bit in a existential crisis. Some fine mefites joined the running challenge, but proved to be formidable long-distance walkers, crushing all the other running competitors distance-wise. How do we keep it interesting for everybody? Separate MetaWalk challenge?
posted by pj_rivera to MetaFilter Gatherings at 3:29 AM PST - 40 comments

For Oklahoma's centennial, I was thinking the Okie Mefites (resident and expatriate) could contribute a set of FPP posts on the state leading up to Statehood Day (November 16). Non-Okies invited, too.
posted by dw to MetaFilter-Related at 3:12 PM PST - 29 comments

I don't like the question. Either lizzicide is a very clever troll, or she is a very foolish person. I put in an answer mostly to highlight the overall foolishness of her position, but it appears that despite clear reasons that her hypothesis (tasting less=eating less) is not a good one, she seems more convinced than ever that her idea will work. What if someone else comes along and is convinced by her "reasoning" and does this very, very stupid thing? Apparently, it's not all that acceptable in the AskMe itself to berate the questioner. So let me come out on MeTa and say it, lizzicide: your idea is bad, and you should feel bad.
posted by Deathalicious to MetaFilter-Related at 12:19 PM PST - 140 comments

The 1^st ever Santiago, Chile meetup. Somewhere in Providencia on the 16^th of August. dhruva, andrew cooke and myself will be there, anybody else in the neighborhood welcome.
posted by signal to MetaFilter Gatherings at 11:45 AM PST - 15 comments

I'd just like to say something nice about grumblebee.
posted by StrikeTheViol to MetaFilter-Related at 10:44 AM PST - 88 comments

What used to be a forum for bugs, feature requests, and the occasional callout for really egregiously bad behavior has devolved into a whinefest for anyone with a keyboard and a grudge. YOU ALL NEED TO STEP AWAY. Can we shut down MetaTalk for a week? I'm completely serious. The contact form is still there for emergencies.
posted by mkultra to MetaFilter-Related at 8:13 AM PST - 82 comments

Cortex, can you chill out? More inside.
posted by blacklite to Etiquette/Policy at 8:34 PM PST - 143 comments

I am so goddamn tired of being rickrolled in the comments. I think somebody spilled some 4chan on my metafilter.
posted by tehloki to Etiquette/Policy at 3:54 PM PST - 111 comments

Crawl over the grass at a moderate pace, beating your forehead against the ground at one-second intervals. The place where your head rests when you lose consciousness may be the approximate location of your septic tank. Or it may not.
posted by The Confessor to Feature Requests at 12:27 PM PST - 47 comments

Something about the most recent Alberto Gonzales post really irks me: people linking to their deleted posts in comments. It seems to me that this (a) just fundamentally defeats the point of the deletion, (b) lowers the incentive to make a good post in the first place -- since you can always link to it if it gets canned, and (c) is contrary to at least the tacit reasons underlying the no-double-post policy. (Obviously, there's a separate PoliticsFilter issue here, and the problems are related, but I would like to focus on the linking-to-deleted-posts issue and get a clarification on it.)
posted by spiderwire to Etiquette/Policy at 4:43 PM PST - 165 comments

I'm trying to add someone as a contact, but when I hit the "Add Contact" button I get a white screen that says "Wrong username and password, please try again." What gives?
posted by sourwookie to Bugs at 7:39 AM PST - 34 comments

The subject of rewriting the guidelines is something that comes up from time to time. As MetaFilter evolves as a community, it is good to rewrite the guidelines to reflect evolving standards. I have been thinking about how to write new guidelines on and off for the last week and here's my proposal. [more inside]
posted by Kattullus to Etiquette/Policy at 9:30 PM PST - 113 comments

This deletion of a post on Christians United for Israel was way over the line. We leave in a Lindsay Lohan linkfest, but we take down a newsworthy post about how people who happily look forward to Armageddon are influencing our country's foreign policy. Max Blumenthal may be an arrogant documentary film-maker, but the footage is still important.
posted by jonp72 to Etiquette/Policy at 5:09 PM PST - 220 comments

What are the chances of getting a random result on the green, for setting as my homepage?
posted by arimathea to Feature Requests at 1:12 PM PST - 78 comments

When I used Ask Metafilter to learn about the housing situation in Ottawa, several people proposed a gathering of MeFites in this most bureaucratic of cities. Now that I am here, I would definitely be up for it. Is anyone else interested?
posted by sindark to MetaFilter Gatherings at 12:10 PM PST - 56 comments

Cookout at my place, Saturday August 4th. Grilling starts at 5 or so. Drive-in movies at 8-ish assuming the chosen films aren't totally awful. Rain plan is drinking and Scrabble/Boggle/old Connections episodes. Details to follow in the comments once we know who's coming.
posted by jessamyn to MetaFilter Gatherings at 9:52 AM PST - 61 comments

Does anyone here want an invite to pownce? If so, I have 6 invites up for grabs.
posted by chunking express to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:13 AM PST - 3 comments [closed]

Dallas meetup. Saturday, August 4th. tog is coming down and she's bringing her Wii! Anyone that didn't get blown up in yesterday's asplosion is welcome to join in the revelry. (more inside)
posted by Ufez Jones to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:00 AM PST - 20 comments

mefi weirdness. I can't seem to comment on the blue. The site shows me as logged in, but every time I hit post on a comment (within the past 5 minutes. it's been fine till now) I get sent to a login screen. And if I login, and then try to post again, I go back to the login screen again. Opera 9.10 on OSX. Is this happening to anyone else? Posting on the gray is fine.
posted by shmegegge to Bugs at 12:48 PM PST - 48 comments

Community-based interactive pony request: With all our new doodads, favorites, flags, and feeds Metafilter is crying out for some cool ways of visualizing our community and content, ala dig labs. The only thing I have seen along these lines is this contact map made with ManyEyes. Some potential ideas for neat visualizations inside, but does anyone have the skills/interest to put something snazzy together?
posted by blahblahblah to Feature Requests at 10:47 AM PST - 49 comments

Almost all the answers in this thread are wrong and bad.
posted by Meatbomb to Etiquette/Policy at 2:57 AM PST - 103 comments

Meeting my nephew for only the second time in his very young life, I will be in my hometown of Berkeley, California from Friday, July 27. Is there any interest in a Berkeley/Bay Area Meet-up? First round is on me! I suggest Triple Rock Cafe on Shattuck and Hearst on Saturday evening, but other thoughts duly welcomed.
posted by parmanparman to MetaFilter Gatherings at 9:56 PM PST - 13 comments

You know, as the guy who has trouble pointing out that you just cut in line in front of him, I gotta say wtf davy? Is it that hard to imagine that there are people who actually are insufficiently assertive—problematically so—and that this may cause trouble with partners who don't feel they're 'manly' enough? The world doesn't view everyone the same way so it's a bit too much to ask that everyone refuse to project anything besides hesitant soppiness.
posted by Firas to Etiquette/Policy at 5:23 PM PST - 80 comments [closed]

Photos from the Copenhagen meetup of 20 July. [more inside]
posted by gramschmidt to MetaFilter Gatherings at 4:27 PM PST - 19 comments

Smart logins: It's been mentioned before and didn't quite happen. Matt, can you please just sit down and do this instead of redirecting to the front page? If I'm on a page I want to [comment on/flag/favorite] I [am too lazy to/don't want to/will explode if you make me] use the back button to go back to the original page.
posted by kyleg to Feature Requests at 3:40 PM PST - 37 comments [closed]

I noticed in this askme thread some comments that were against the guidelines, so I flagged and moved on. Jessamyn posted and both posters responded to their deleted comments here and here, couching their previous complaints into something resembling more of a proper AskMe answer, progosk perhaps more flagrantly. Consider this a callout on the seemingly accepted practice of providing an AskMe derail, as long as you also provide a throwaway answer. Also consider it a callout to users to just swallow their objections and move on, rather than a complaint against moderators (I know we've discussed editing half a post in similar situations before and don't necessarily want to go there). On preview of the thread again, the OP has been forced to respond, and progosk is still arguing their point.
posted by artifarce to Etiquette/Policy at 2:51 PM PST - 18 comments

If you asked a question on AskMe a while ago and got not-so-good* answers, would it be bad form to ask the same question again? Should it be disguised so as to not seem to be the same question? * to put it politely.
posted by signal to Etiquette/Policy at 10:56 AM PST - 46 comments

I got an email from Amazon regarding a new question-asking site called Askville. So far it doesn't seem as nice as our own AskMe, but I thought I'd bring it to everyone's attention.
posted by armage to MetaFilter-Related at 4:50 AM PST - 4 comments [closed]

Self-link policy question: I'm one of the creators of a site that features a lot of user-generated content (and has been discussed on MeFi before). One of our users recently made something that I thought was pretty cool, and I'd like to share. The problem is that I have a conflict of interest here -- of course I want to drive more traffic to my site in general, but then I genuinely think this particular thing that a complete stranger made is pretty neat and people would find it enjoyable. Any opinions?
posted by xthlc to Etiquette/Policy at 2:37 AM PST - 25 comments

Chapeau! To Mefi's brilliant doggerel-smiths who have once again made a thread far exceeding the link that began it. I've been laughing all day, and I needed it — thanks.
posted by Wolfdog to MetaFilter-Related at 12:37 PM PST - 3 comments [closed]

SansPoint's limerick post needs to get sidebarred hard.
posted by boo_radley to Feature Requests at 12:31 PM PST - 74 comments

Is this adamgreenfield?
posted by four panels to MetaFilter-Related at 8:56 AM PST - 66 comments

What's with the PageFlakes ads? I dont really care if they are there, I just posted this so some other people can vent if needed.
posted by wheelieman to MetaFilter-Related at 6:54 AM PST - 43 comments [closed]

Followup to this post, the personal blimp hits the Boston Globe (video).
posted by plinth to MetaFilter-Related at 5:37 AM PST - 11 comments

Hastings Meetup pics. My camera battery died on Saturday afternoon, so these are from Friday night and Saturday morning. Many more photos were taken by other attendees. A good time was had by all.
posted by essexjan to MetaFilter Gatherings at 4:42 AM PST - 11 comments

So, the call went out, and the call was answered: we got us some fine and snakey new songs around MeFi Town. 'Bout half as many as poured in for the previous water theme, but I reckon that's to be expected, sophomore slump and all. Just wondering, now that we're two days past the serpentine deadline, what's the next MeFi Music Challenge, admins?
posted by flapjax at midnite to MetaFilter Music at 1:27 AM PST - 33 comments

IraqFilter Is Awful. Is there some wide swath of MeFi users who derive a lot of enjoyment or benefit out of posts like this, which seem to surface whenever somebody pens an op-ed that criticizes the Iraq war (i.e., fairly frequently)? Here's the pattern: (1) op-ed is published; (2) op-ed is copied to MeFi; (3) posters say how bad President Bush is; (4) a poster or two will defend the administration; and (4) posters will attack the defenders until they no longer respond. Am I the only one who thinks that is tedious?
posted by Slap Factory to MetaFilter-Related at 7:51 PM PST - 416 comments

Shetland Ponyfilter: small feature request, it may be time to surrender to the litigiousness of the modern world and add a disclaimer to AskMe thread pages.
posted by Riki tiki to Feature Requests at 6:40 PM PST - 38 comments

Ok, lets try this again.. Who's up for an opening night (that's tuesday, as in 49 hours from now) Shakespeare in the Park mefi meetup? Its at 8pm in the Boston Commons. I'll be getting coffee after, if I can find anywhere that's open past dark (this f-in city doesn't know how to drink coffee, I swear). The play is Midsummer Night's Dream. I hear its good ;) I could be up for another night, but I have guests coming in & I'm not quite ready to expose them to MeFi yet, so Tuesday's my preference.
posted by devilsbrigade to MetaFilter Gatherings at 3:33 PM PST - 6 comments

Would it be hard to enable AskMe's tagging system with a bit of AJAX so existing tags are pulled from the database as you type them -- kind of an "auto-recommend" feature -- in order to prevent redundancy?
posted by deern the headlice to Feature Requests at 1:05 PM PST - 18 comments

I strongly disagree with This Thread being posted.
posted by sgt.serenity to Etiquette/Policy at 9:09 PM PST - 211 comments

So I am a new member. I am having a hard time getting the link option to work. I click on the blue "Link" link, enter the link, then preview it and I get the full html in the preview. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks!!
posted by Climber to MetaFilter-Related at 8:02 PM PST - 9 comments [closed]

I count 7 sex-related questions on askme today. What's up with that? Desirous of titillation, I frequently check the 'sex' tag for askme. For weeks it's been fairly devoid of new questions. Then, bam, today... everybody wants laid. Is it seasonal? Or is it just folks who're triggered to write a sex question by seeing one earlier?
posted by Netzapper to MetaFilter-Related at 6:57 PM PST - 38 comments

LA Meetup. Dear LA MeFites, let's have a meetup next weekend, on Saturday, July 28th! In case, you don't consider the success of the last one a good enough reason, DaShiv will be in town and wants to make good on his promise.
posted by epimorph to MetaFilter Gatherings at 12:04 AM PST - 35 comments

Aww man... Priyatam was the man. His UG Krishnamurti links were the best things I have ever seen on mefi.Wasn't permanent bannination a little harsh? Damn Jess - why you gotta be so gangsta? How about banning me, and letting him come back?
posted by vronsky to Feature Requests at 7:25 PM PST - 1 comment [closed]

I'm living in Las Vegas for awhile. I don't know anyone here. Meetup?
posted by ludwig_van to MetaFilter Gatherings at 6:35 PM PST - 11 comments

It's been at least a few days since I saw a posting for the last NYC meetup, so thought I'd try again here, shooting for mid August. Unfortunately, the last couple occurred during the week, which is unfortunately out of the question for a working schmuck like me. So, I ask you all, who is game for a meetup on the night of Friday, August 10, in a place convenient for all our Manhattanite, outer borough and tri-state MeFites?
posted by psmealey to MetaFilter Gatherings at 5:59 PM PST - 43 comments

What's the line between axegrinding (this axegrinding ? or some kind of GodWin rule ? ) which caused the deletion of this post of mine and showing the psycological troubles of bunch of indoctrinated kids that are just parrotting talking points ? It this better and/or acceptable , because it clearly (?) shows a nascar redneck or because he makes fun of Michael Moore, therefore it must be "republitard" BUT it fits under "satire/comedy ?" I tolerate deletion with no problem, and may even accept that I was deemed brutal and deleted, but I would like to understand where the borderline could be, according to you guys.
posted by elpapacito to Etiquette/Policy at 9:40 AM PST - 261 comments

Is there a meta-index of banned users? I got a strange e-mail about a month ago from someone who claims to have an account but 'cannot post this week'. It was stupid and I wrote back that I thought the link was very commercial. It got me thinking: is there an index to check whether a user name has been banned?
posted by parmanparman to MetaFilter-Related at 9:11 AM PST - 67 comments

This post links prominently to this URL, (which redirects to this Blogspot site). A rudimentary glance at the source code reveals a rather obvious favicon icon almost certainly belonging to this first-time poster.
posted by dhammond to Etiquette/Policy at 1:47 AM PST - 29 comments [closed]

Photos of last weekend's Portland meetup.
posted by DaShiv to MetaFilter Gatherings at 10:45 PM PST - 78 comments

Soooo...what happens when we get a much better post on the exact same topic just a few minutes later?
posted by allkindsoftime to Etiquette/Policy at 8:59 PM PST - 38 comments

The Meta chain Gang weekend. 21st -22nd July weather for our meet-up in my house! (Hastings, UK)
posted by Wilder to MetaFilter Gatherings at 3:32 PM PST - 24 comments

Amazing sidebar-worthy gilbert and sullivan-esque riff on lbertarianism
posted by lalochezia to MetaFilter-Related at 2:33 PM PST - 23 comments [closed]

Go to this link and check out who the photo and caption are by.
posted by konolia to MetaFilter-Related at 12:38 PM PST - 74 comments

Update: Bejing's counterfeit pork dumplings [referenced in a prior food thread] have been discredited as byproducts of the monkeyfishing industry.
posted by Smart Dalek to MetaFilter-Related at 9:29 AM PST - 19 comments

What on earth is this?
posted by Optamystic to MetaFilter-Related at 7:32 AM PST - 48 comments

At what point do you get a perma? I'm not going to link back to the post, but Reklaw's Harry Potter post was out of line on a major level. Am I overreacting?
posted by Lord_Pall to Etiquette/Policy at 6:32 AM PST - 86 comments [closed]

Can we please please please have a moratorium on Harry Potter related FPPs for the next, say, year? And not just because I don't participate in this ubiquitous and frankly downright embarrassing pop culture phenomenon. It sucks that even on Metafilter I can't escape earth-shattering news about Weasleys and Dursleys.
posted by inoculatedcities to Etiquette/Policy at 6:24 AM PST - 78 comments

I had a dream about Metafilter. I think that's sort of meta, so I'm sharing it here.
posted by Deathalicious to MetaFilter-Related at 1:50 AM PST - 42 comments

This post was deleted for the following reason: seen it. -- jessamyn Huh?
posted by homunculus to Feature Requests at 9:39 PM PST - 149 comments

New feature: RSS on all threads. If you're using IE7, Firefox, or Safari, open any thread on mefi, ask mefi, metatalk, music, or travel and you'll see a small RSS icon in your address bar. Click that, and you'll find a feed of the post and all comments. We'll soon add explicit links on the pages themselves, but for now the autodiscovery tag should work. Use this feature to track new comments on questions you've asked, threads you were interested in hearing followups, and any other thread you'd like to stay up to date on in your RSS reader.
posted by mathowie to Feature Requests at 6:55 PM PST - 54 comments

My post titled "The Most Dangerous Video on the Internets" was pulled after appearing for a mere 10 minutes or so. In addition to that, jessamyn's posted "reason" was a cheap resort to name-calling. The video to which I was linking is 2 hours long. How can you possibly have decided that it was worth censoring after a mere 10 minutes? Are Metafilter readers really unable to decide for themselves whether or not they should view the video? I've received an email reply from jessamyn which I appreciate, but believe her reasons to be without merit. I like Metafilter a lot (it's my homepage), but really don't like censorship which is exactly what this smells like. I'd like to know more about this decision.
posted by msquare to Etiquette/Policy at 5:42 PM PST - 113 comments [closed]

I'm logged into Metafilter as myself (Ramix) however when I click on the metatalk/askme links from Metfilter, it shows me logged in as user oxfcaf. Strangely though it shows me logged in as ramix as i am posting this thread. However when i navigate to askme from this posting page (metatalk) it shows me logged in as oxfcaf! What's going on?
posted by ramix to Bugs at 3:57 PM PST - 18 comments

This page appears to be borked. (Firefox 2.0.0.1 / OSX 10.4.9. Also in Safari 2.0.4)
posted by dersins to Bugs at 11:37 AM PST - 5 comments [closed]

A few hours ago I posted a question at ask.metafilter.com. An hour later nobody's answered so I resume my Googling for an answer. Number three in the list of results is my very question! And it's on a different site! I'm shocked Google updates its index so fast, but, more than that, why is my question on a different site?
posted by deeper red to MetaFilter-Related at 11:35 AM PST - 70 comments

Any mahjong playing MeFites in Brooklyn/NYC? [more inside]
posted by nevercalm to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:13 AM PST - 10 comments

I'm looking for a puzzle that was linked to in one of the askme comments a little over 6 months ago...
posted by 517 to MetaFilter-Related at 11:39 PM PST - 13 comments

I want to use a song from Music.Mefi, but the creator (Vicarious) doesn't have an e-mail!!! Is there any way to contact said creator, or maybe the musicians could add a creative commons tag so others could use their work, and attribute appropriately? I wanted to use the song in a video that I'm making.
posted by bjork24 to MetaFilter Music at 9:57 PM PST - 15 comments

Well, it's official, my house is on the market as of yesterday, and it looks like we'll be moving out to the east coast sometime this fall. I'd like to meet up with my Mefi friends for at least one last big bash. What say ye, Madison, Wisconsinites?
posted by thanotopsis to MetaFilter Gatherings at 12:08 PM PST - 18 comments

Hay guyz, I wanna open a really sensitive document that I've been working on for the last few years. Not only do I not have any of the software I had been using, I don't really know what software it was! KTHXBUY
posted by unixrat to Etiquette/Policy at 11:04 AM PST - 49 comments

Quite a while ago there was a FPP that had a link to a website that listed the rates for hundreds of musical artists, plus their contact info or a link to their agent. As it turns out, a friend needs this to book an act. Does anyone remember this website?
posted by Kickstart70 to MetaFilter-Related at 9:23 AM PST - 6 comments

Okay - it looks like there's mixed reception for the 27th in Chicago and I won't be there anyway. Are there any MeFites going to HostingCon that would like to connect there - or alternatively anyone down for grabbing a beer on Sunday July 22? Flexible to locations that are public transit friendly. Northside or Downtownish preferred.
posted by FlamingBore to MetaFilter Gatherings at 7:59 AM PST - 29 comments

A recent AskMeFi question: Should I have this affair?. Some responses: Is there any personal honor left in this world? Have you no sense of decency? Your tone is one of weakness before you fuck up his life with your own selfish interests Question 1: Why are some people in this community judgemental? Question 2: Do people practice what they preach? Has anyone ever given advice that does not reflect the way that they themselves live their life?
posted by pollystark to Etiquette/Policy at 6:42 AM PST - 351 comments

Looking for a quote from Metafilter comments from less than a month ago. About calling a lawyer a jerk. I paraphrase badly: "If you think the defense is wrong then attack the defense. If you think the facts are wrong then argue the facts. If you've got nothing then call the other lawyer a jerk."
posted by uncanny hengeman to MetaFilter Gatherings at 12:06 AM PST - 9 comments

I cannot access any of the metafilter sites when using Firefox. It works in IE (what I am using right now) but in firefox I get an error message page that reads as follows: [more inside]
posted by DetonatedManiac to Bugs at 5:27 PM PST - 8 comments [closed]

Is there room for personal preference in the "users close to you box"?
posted by dame to Feature Requests at 4:58 PM PST - 53 comments

Chicago--Friday night, July 27th. Original thread is closed, but if you're up for a meet-up at the Rock Bottom Brewery (due west of Navy Pier), I'll be there around 8 p.m. for some food, drinks, and a camera for pics.
posted by misha to MetaFilter Gatherings at 2:34 PM PST - 24 comments

Turtlegirl and I will be in DC this weekend and will be hanging out at Atomic Billiards in Cleveland Park on Friday, July 20, from about 6 p.m. Drop by if you are interested in grabbing a few beers or getting your ass kicked on the pool table.
posted by terrapin to MetaFilter Gatherings at 11:40 AM PST - 20 comments

Our own fandango_matt, of Metafilter design contest and multiple pissing elephant fame, has come up with his own Boy Scout inspired Metafilter safety guide.
posted by Krrrlson to MetaFilter-Related at 10:25 AM PST - 188 comments

I remember reading a few years back on the blue a link about incidents of accidental criticality, or some similar title. The page was a list of all (unclassified?) incidents in US laboratory history where a critical mass of fissionable material was brought together in a lab and what happened. My Google-fu is failing me, in part I think because this predates titles and tags...
posted by Xoder to MetaFilter-Related at 10:13 AM PST - 5 comments

Twitter on steroids? I have five Pownce invites left if anyone is interested. Looks pretty good, but its still kind of early for me to have put it to any good use.
posted by phaedon to MetaFilter-Related at 9:09 AM PST - 59 comments

Mefi knitters! Do you guys want to start a group on Ravelry? The site's still in beta, hopefully going public soon, but if anyone was fortunate enough to get an account already you can find me under the username "mimsie". I also posted this topic in the Remnants forum if you'd like to respond there.
posted by like_neon to MetaFilter-Related at 7:36 AM PST - 45 comments

Copenhagen is an extraordinary city of note and repute. It deserves a meetup.
posted by gramschmidt to MetaFilter Gatherings at 3:39 AM PST - 36 comments

I distinctly remember reading a thread in AskMe a few weeks (?) ago, where someone was asking, in a nutshell, 'how do I get sent to Iraq as a defense contractor?' It might not have been that, exactly, but it related to jobs as a defense contractor, or maybe overseas jobs in general, or maybe just 'dangerous jobs.' I think it specifically mentioned the idea of defense contracting (Blackwater, etc.), and the question related to how one gets their foot in the door. I can't find this, using any combination of searches or tags, looking under all the logical terms (jobs, employment, iraq, all combinations thereof). Does anyone else remember or have a link to this thread? Or did I just totally hallucinate it?
posted by Kadin2048 to MetaFilter-Related at 1:22 AM PST - 9 comments

I could swear I saw an FPP arguing that Dubaya isn’t really there at all in the conventional sense of being there. Then I left and came back, and it wasn’t there anymore. So is this an in joke with the moderators or what?
posted by Huplescat to MetaFilter-Related at 6:17 PM PST - 29 comments

It is afternoon in Portland, Oregon. Where are the pictures from last night's big 8th anniversary meetup? Lynsey and da shiv and maybe others had cameras there. Skip the photoshopping and just post the pictures, please.
posted by Cranberry to MetaFilter Gatherings at 1:36 PM PST - 49 comments

Happy Blogiversary, Metafilter! Metafilter gets a mention in a Wall Street Journal article celebrating 10 years of blogs. (WSJ subscription required)
posted by dcjd to MetaFilter-Related at 6:40 AM PST - 38 comments

Mirror Pond please! (Or do you have better ideas? If I were at Ground Kontrol, what would I drink? Should I talk to strangers or play video games? People are scarrrryyy!!!)
posted by croutonsupafreak to Bugs at 11:00 PM PST - 65 comments

I'm visiting Portland, OR from July 21 to July 27, and it would be really groovy to meet up with some MeFites while I'm up there. Any takers? Suggestions on location and time welcome. Also, I'll be at the Grand Hallows Ball in Los Angeles on July 20, ready to get my grubby hands on my copy of Harry Potter and the Somethingsomethingwhatever. There's a good chance I'll be wearing a cape. Any LA peeps who'd like to join me would be good company.
posted by fuzzbean to MetaFilter Gatherings at 9:23 PM PST - 57 comments

Anybody want to go to Shakespeare in the Park's performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Parkman Bandstand on the Boston Common? I propose any of these times: Friday, July 27 @ 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, July 28 @ 3:00 p.m.; Saturday, July 28 @ 8:00 p.m.; Sunday, July 29 @ 7:00 p.m. Approximate running time for each performance is 2 1/2 hours. We'd probably want to meet early to find each other, and get good seats.
posted by joannemerriam to MetaFilter Gatherings at 11:59 AM PST - 11 comments

a'splain.
posted by poweredbybeard to MetaFilter-Related at 2:13 AM PST - 26 comments

Is anybody doing anything in Portland before the big party tomorrow? I've been traveling the western states with my camera looking for interesting sites to see, and I will be driving from Seattle where my parents are to Portland tomorrow. I'm just not sure if it's worth getting to town before 7 or not.
posted by willnot to MetaFilter Gatherings at 7:06 PM PST - 23 comments

So you've been planning for years to be the first person to make a post concerning scanning cats tonight. I can personally tell you, it is like joining a very prestigious and sexy VIP club. Oh the massages and seafood buffet! Don't forget though, in the spirit of friendly competition, the MeFi Server time is in a Particular Time Zone. Or else we'll laugh at you until universal heat death. Game on.
posted by Stan Chin to MetaFilter-Related at 4:26 PM PST - 43 comments

Have a look at BBC Prom 6 from 10.15pm on the 17th July. Interested? I'm going to suggest a mini London MetaProm6 meet-up somewhere near the Royal Albert Hall. [MI]I'm free from 5.30. The Hubby can be here from 7. How about a mini-meet-up that ends up with Prom 6? (as opposed to the debauched ending our London Meet-ups normally have?)
posted by Wilder to MetaFilter Gatherings at 1:38 PM PST - 31 comments

Why is a partial list of unavailable leet vanity plates in Virginia sidebar fabulous?
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur to MetaFilter-Related at 12:43 PM PST - 52 comments

"This post was deleted for the following reason: Wingers, wingnuts, wikipedia, wikipedia. I'm not sure where the quality content is supposed to be, here. -- cortex" Can we get a ruling on what constitutes "quality content" given the crap linked to in some of these posts? Or is it just that gossipy "outing" posts can only be made about Republicans?
posted by loquax to Etiquette/Policy at 11:54 AM PST - 228 comments

I seem to remember an AskMe post regarding the bell-like, bubble-ish synth noises that Radiohead (and others) coax from their machinery, and how to replicate them, but i cant find the post using my limited google/AskMe-fu. Anyone remember this and can point me in the general direction?
posted by provocateur to MetaFilter-Related at 10:17 AM PST - 4 comments

I'd love to see a button (part of the 'best answer list') in an ask.mefi question that allowed (after say 7 or so days) a question to be 'relisted.' Maybe the 'cost' should be less than 7 days wait (or the same as.) I wonder/think that some questions scroll so fast, that people may miss it; and a 'repost' question' would be helpful. Thoughts?
posted by filmgeek to Feature Requests at 9:41 AM PST - 29 comments

i didn't want to derail this post about singleness either, so i thought i'd clarify my statement here.
posted by violetk to MetaFilter-Related at 9:28 PM PST - 85 comments

Fresh Haughey sighting in the wild: confirmed. Dispatch all units.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken to MetaFilter-Related at 9:11 PM PST - 30 comments

As I was previewing the corrected link for this post, the post was deleted. Of course Jessamyn had no way of knowing, but it's emphatically not a "snuff film". Perhaps it wouldn't have been deleted with such alacrity if someone else had posted it.
posted by orthogonality to Etiquette/Policy at 8:26 PM PST - 66 comments

Anyone else see a weird display bug with this comment? In both IE and Firefox, the "posted by" line (and only the posted by line) for that comment (and only that comment) is not indented at all. I'm not familiar with the Metafilter code, but when I view source it looks like all the rest of the comments.
posted by Kwine to Bugs at 8:09 PM PST - 3 comments [closed]

Any chance that the mods could sidebar this post by Asparagirl? It was a fantastic post, with great clarity, structure, and purpose, as well as being critically important to most Americans.
posted by SeizeTheDay to MetaFilter-Related at 6:46 PM PST - 28 comments

wow. anonymous - despite having a bunch of issues with sex, relationships, health, work, depression, relationships, marriage, dating, jobs & love - sure has a hell of a lot of sweetheart, muse, date and spouse contacts! how can i emulate this alchemical transmutation of general leaden fuckedupness into popularity gold?
posted by UbuRoivas to MetaFilter-Related at 5:46 PM PST - 34 comments

I'm not snark-honing here, but... seriously? If it's not deletion-worthy due to general craziness, it's now just a chat.
posted by Aloysius Bear to Etiquette/Policy at 3:44 PM PST - 292 comments

Amsterdam meetup pictures. Not so many people (and jouke didn't really want to have his picture taken) but a huge lot of beer (not pictured).
posted by snownoid to MetaFilter Gatherings at 3:22 PM PST - 22 comments

My puppy & I will be in San Diego for a few days this weekend/early next week to take care of my mom. My second order of business will be to overdose on Roberto's food, but I'm also going through withdrawal for a good San Diego margarita, though. Anybody up for joining me?
posted by miss lynnster to MetaFilter Gatherings at 11:20 PM PST - 59 comments

A coupla years ago, a very nice Mefi user, whose user name began with A, (I think) made Metafilter pins and he sent me some. I can't for the life of me remember his name. Does anyone remember who made the neat-o Metafilter pins?
posted by Lynsey to MetaFilter-Related at 8:52 PM PST - 19 comments

I was kind of peeved when Technorati dropped the book category from their popular page and list. I've also noticed a lot of requests for book recommendations on AskMiFi. Bunches of book or bookish tags. Mefites seem a bookish crowd. A fascinating Librarything group. Might it be worth considering expanding the book conversation specifically? We have a Music page. Why not a Books page? Rather than posting music files or lists, we could link to Amazon or Powells or Libraything or Google Book Search or WorldCat or blogs or reviews. There's a movement to react to the old media's abandonment of book coverage by encouraging more online coverage. Is this worth investigating for Metafilter?
posted by Toekneesan to Feature Requests at 6:51 PM PST - 31 comments

I smell a shitty viral campaign!
posted by adamgreenfield to Etiquette/Policy at 2:26 PM PST - 54 comments

Is it just me, or has the Blue been replaced by a default apache loading page?
posted by falconred to Uptime at 1:05 PM PST - 34 comments

Feature request: Some visual way to easily tell where the original poster has posted a follow-up comment. Often in reading an Ask MeFi question, I have to scroll back up and down a few times to get the name of the original poster and then do a search to see if they posted a follow-up. Perhaps a different color for the original poster? It works well for comments marked "best answer". (Oh - and a pony)
posted by kdern to Feature Requests at 12:06 PM PST - 24 comments

This is why jokey answers are bad in AskMe.
posted by dersins to Etiquette/Policy at 11:16 AM PST - 109 comments

A personal request: If you think the formatting or content of your post needs defending (newsfilter and single-link youtube posts seem to be the prime offenders here), make your justifications in the first reply to the thread instead of pointing it out in the FPP itself.
posted by empath to Etiquette/Policy at 11:15 AM PST - 39 comments

Just wanted to give massive shout-outs to everybody at MeFi who have patiently answered many of my questions about moving from the US to Canada. I'm a week away from that move, way nervous, but infinitely better prepared due to your valuable feedback. Thank you!
posted by the dief to MetaFilter-Related at 8:24 AM PST - 6 comments

The recent Wendell kurfuffle brought to mind a very simple rule of email that is quite easy to remember and it is amazing (and annoying) that so few people actually use it. So I share it here in the hopes that anyone emailing more than one MeFi user will use this technique, in the future:

If you ever want to email more than one MeFi user*: send the email to yourself and put the list of people you are sending to in the Bcc field. Any moron recipient who hits "Reply to All" will send their reply to an audience of ONE (the original sender) and (additionally) no recipient can see the other recipients' email addresses.

This is simple, basic stuff. *Obviously this applies to any email you send to more than one recipient, not just MeFi users.
posted by spock to Etiquette/Policy at 8:22 AM PST - 68 comments

NYC Meetup Reminder: Friday, July 13th, 7pm at d.b.a.
posted by mullacc to MetaFilter Gatherings at 5:58 AM PST - 14 comments

I once found (and bookmarked) this page of all of chococat's music. I like it because it has the little flash player, so I can listen to all of his tunes. How do I get to the same kind of page for other MeFi Musicians? I've tried looking on members' profile pages, but the link to all of their songs goes to the music parts of their Activity pages. Thanks.
posted by bluefly to MetaFilter Music at 7:18 PM PST - 11 comments

1000000!
posted by jessamyn to MetaFilter-Related at 6:22 PM PST - 132 comments

A Hipper Crowd of Shushers featuring one JW. NYT - registration required
posted by lalochezia to MetaFilter-Related at 2:10 PM PST - 7 comments [closed]

CLEANUP: to a rape victim in this AskMe. [mi]
posted by cobra_high_tigers to Etiquette/Policy at 5:24 PM PST - 114 comments [closed]

Possible to see members whose comments/FPPs you have favorited, who have themselves favorited one or more of your comments/FPPs?
posted by davejay to Feature Requests at 2:32 PM PST - 50 comments

Fine, already. Here's a MeTa thread for all the derailing going on here.
posted by pineapple to Etiquette/Policy at 10:55 AM PST - 219 comments [closed]

Seriously, though. What was this all about?
posted by Dr-Baa to MetaFilter-Related at 10:51 AM PST - 132 comments

The rss feed for "ask metafilter" tagged empty sets returns an error. (For Example.) I wanted to add a bunch of esoteric tag links to google reader that would allow me to answer those questions that I consider myself an expert in. This works fine in those situations where questions currently exist for the specified tag, but not so good when nobody has asked a question about that subject before.
posted by seanyboy to Bugs at 4:44 AM PST - 11 comments

Just wondering what happened to my Metafilter post (why it got deleted). Did I do something wrong? I checked my email and there was no reason given over there too. Sorry if I'm being a bother Jess; just wanted to know if there was something I could've done better to make the post stay up (liked the andaman site that I'd linked it to).
posted by hadjiboy to MetaFilter-Related at 2:26 AM PST - 35 comments

I know it is very short notice, but any NL dwellers interested in meeting in Amsterdam on the 10th, 11th, or 12th?
posted by Meatbomb to MetaFilter Gatherings at 10:22 AM PST - 24 comments

UPDATE: My SO with the aneurysm survived brain surgery. I didn't know if this was appropriate to post here, but the askme response was so comforting. It was the middle of the night and I felt really alone. Now she's home, having survived a craniotomy, and doing great. So, it's late at night again and I'm awake and she's asleep with her giant Frankenstein scar and I wanted to say thank you.
posted by generic230 to MetaFilter-Related at 11:42 PM PST - 56 comments

Another Ask site appears: Fluther. Fluther. I'm sure it is no AskMe.
posted by k8t to MetaFilter-Related at 8:23 PM PST - 29 comments

This is the source of the "Dramatic Chipmunk" clip that everyone loves so much. It's actually a prairie dog.
posted by delmoi to MetaFilter-Related at 7:17 PM PST - 12 comments [closed]

Moderators edit comments?
posted by Methylviolet to Etiquette/Policy at 2:37 PM PST - 308 comments

The first Metafilter Music Challenge, "water", has officially deadlined, with 27 entries as of this writing. Fantastic! A whole lot more below the fold, so come inside!
posted by cortex to MetaFilter Music at 9:52 AM PST - 19 comments

Woo woo! Jessamyn is in the NYTimes.
Jessamyn West, 38, an editor of “Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out” a book that promotes social responsibility in librarianship, and the librarian behind the Web site librarian.net (its tagline is “putting the rarin’ back in librarian since 1999”) agreed that many new librarians are attracted to what they call the “Library 2.0” phenomenon. “It’s become a techie profession,” she said.
In a typical day, Ms. West might send instant and e-mail messages to patrons, many of who do their research online rather than in the library. She might also check Twitter, MySpace and other social networking sites, post to her various blogs and keep current through MetaFilter and RSS feeds. Some librarians also create Wikis or podcasts.
A Hipper Crowd of Shushers
posted by gen to MetaFilter-Related at 11:29 PM PST - 102 comments

Here's show 11 of the podcast for July 6, 2007. It's about an hour long.
posted by mathowie to MeFi Podcast at 3:53 PM PST - 71 comments

Thanks, miss lynnster. Are Cadbury sales down yet?
posted by rob511 to MetaFilter-Related at 8:37 PM PST - 179 comments

Help me tame this pony...ok, so I'm a bit addicted to adding favourites. I know I have a problem, but gosh darn it, why does there have to be so much great stuff!? Does anyone have any scripts, apps, anything that can help me deal with the backlog of my favourites? I've googled and searched but haven't checked Projects as much - has someone created something there to deal with favourites? It would be neat to be able to export them or bulk add them to del.icio.us, or something...export them to an XML file (if that's possible) or CFM or whatever format and somehow create a hack to manage them. Does something to manage them exist? Is it on the horizon? Should it be? Discuss. Thanks muchly.
posted by rmm to Feature Requests at 3:45 PM PST - 20 comments

Would it be possible to have more accurate counts of the number of new posts in a thread based on my most recent comments? I know currently it's generated based on a cookie, but that doesn't work if you read MeFi from multiple computers or if you don't look at the frontpage. It also doesn't take into account my comments like the Recent Activity page does. If there are 33 new comments, but comment #17 is mine, shouldn't the count reflect that? (33 comments (16 new)) instead of thinking all 33 are new?
posted by blue_beetle to Feature Requests at 1:11 PM PST - 23 comments

Was there really a good reason why every post in this AskMe thread was deleted? Looking at the question, it looked as though the poster was looking for A) good tech news sites and B) whether it would be worth it to start one. Not my fault it turned into a fight.
posted by parmanparman to Etiquette/Policy at 10:52 AM PST - 70 comments

I think the moderators should please actually READ the question before deleting it. I asked a valid question about dinner table conversation, and the moderator deletes it on reading the word "troll". I cry unfair!
posted by markovich to Etiquette/Policy at 7:29 AM PST - 80 comments [closed]

Music Challenge: what is the last day of the Water Theme?
posted by chuckdarwin to MetaFilter Music at 3:10 AM PST - 25 comments

Denver MeFites are the best MeFites of all Denver Meetup Photos for your enjoyment
posted by fieldtrip to MetaFilter Gatherings at 10:17 PM PST - 21 comments

There's a minor bug in the activity page. It says "Displaying comments 1 to 50 of 490" while my profile page says I have 507 comments. Perhaps it's printing the number of total threads in which I've commented instead of the total of comments I've made?
posted by null terminated to Bugs at 5:46 PM PST - 27 comments

Are we deletion-worthy sure that this guy is blind based on an anonymous comment on another site? Especially after jourman2's examples showing a bad photographer is likely to blame for the image?
posted by hermitosis to Etiquette/Policy at 1:27 PM PST - 64 comments

A few days ago, I made my very first post to Metafilter, giving links to several different kinds of interactive film. It didn't get deleted, but there was almost no response. Was the topic just that boring? Or could I have done better in my post? Suggestions welcome.
posted by honest knave to MetaFilter-Related at 5:26 PM PST - 97 comments

I'm a heavy user. I read a LOT of posts. So, I'm amused at how my usage of this site has developed and cycled, and I'm interested in hearing anecdotes from others about patterns or changes in their mefi experience. More inside.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur to MetaFilter-Related at 4:30 PM PST - 95 comments

Update to the White Glove Tracking project: Movies and raw data are now available.
posted by gwint to MetaFilter-Related at 11:20 AM PST - 21 comments

Fucking flag it and move on. It's not about YOU.
posted by mkultra to Etiquette/Policy at 8:16 AM PST - 173 comments

Can we get someone else to do it?
posted by 517 to Etiquette/Policy at 9:15 PM PST - 188 comments

pictures: grand rapids mefi meetup 7/2/07
posted by quonsar to MetaFilter Gatherings at 9:07 PM PST - 16 comments

Our fearless leader stars in "Recording Of Tmobile Trying To Prevent Matt Haughey From Cancelling For An iPhone" a chilling adventure of talking to a guy named Vic.
posted by tiamat to MetaFilter-Related at 6:19 PM PST - 64 comments

This is a great freakin question. I'd just like to use it to once more point out that we really should be able to reopen this discussion for a more full, rounded finalization.
posted by allkindsoftime to Etiquette/Policy at 5:01 PM PST - 33 comments

Portland meetup party is less than two weeks away, and I need to do a head count. If you're attending the 8th anniversary party, please RSVP on this page. Thanks!
posted by mathowie to MetaFilter Gatherings at 3:17 PM PST - 126 comments

The poster of this question has clearly stated, "I'm not trying to solve their problems, I'm looking for specific recommendations for a marriage counselor. You know, like a name. If I wanted advice about 'how do I deal with my friends' psychotic marriage problems,' that's the question I'd have asked." I've flagged the responses that judged the poster rather than answering the question, and several of those comments were deleted, but many of them remain. I'm curious about where that line was drawn. Also, if people really feel the need to question the poster's judgment, hopefully they can do it here and leave the thread with less noise.
posted by vytae to Etiquette/Policy at 12:50 PM PST - 59 comments

LA Meetup photos: Only four turned out for me (I do have a fair number of drunkish blurred shots of my feet). I hear that there were more, and even voice recordings. If you've got the missing photos, please post inside!
posted by klangklangston to MetaFilter Gatherings at 12:22 PM PST - 21 comments

I've submitted this to Projects since I think the issue has nation-wide interest, but I also wanted to shout out to the Baltimore & D.C. area mefites whose backyard this is happening in and invite you all to come along. If you haven't been following the Silver Spring photo debacle covered by the Washington Post, DCist, DC Metblogs (disclosure: that's me) and others, you might not be aware of our planned gathering on July 4th. We've scheduled it at Noon so you still have time to leave and head off to whatever BBQs and fireworks watching you have planned for the evening and the location is just two blocks from the Silver Spring metro.
posted by phearlez to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:41 AM PST - 17 comments

OLYTP (one link youtube post)...i know, but I feel really bad for Matt. Such a shiny new toy and it doesnt even work.
posted by ShawnString to MetaFilter-Related at 8:06 AM PST - 62 comments

This is my first time posting to the gray, but I thought the swift deletion of the 7/11 - Kwik - e - Mart story was uncalled for. I expected to see some discussion of the odd marketing being done, as the cost for this were picked up by 7/11, not Fox studios. Granted, there was the previous post about the movie site going live, but this felt worthy of being a post, and it didn't even link to YouTube!
posted by efalk to MetaFilter-Related at 10:22 PM PST - 85 comments

My wife and I are having friends over for a beignet brunch on the morning of the 4th. I'd love it if any Louisiana MeFites could join us. Drop me a line and bring your favorite additive.
posted by atchafalaya to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:17 PM PST - 26 comments

I loves me some Metafilter and AskMe - but I can't keep up! I use Google Reader to keep things nice and condensed, but if I go more than a full work day without checking in on the Blue and the Green posts seems to easily creep over the 100+ mark. The deluge is kind of diluting the whole Metafilter experience for me 'cause it's starting to feel like there's too much to keep up with. Anybody out there use any tricks or methodologies to keep their required Meta-reading under control? I'm glad I'm not an admin! disclaimer - this is not one of those 'please limit the posts' posts, as I'm all for them. I'm just looking for a way to keep things more manageable.
posted by matty to MetaFilter-Related at 2:25 PM PST - 50 comments

Meta Music filter. As a newbie, I was a touch underwhelmed by the recent song challenge. "The theme of water" seems so broad as to be kind of, well, boring. Why not 'love' or 'nature' or 'loneliness.' Might I suggest something a bit more kooky, esoteric, and actually challenging for the next one. Something along the lines of, "you make me touch your hands for stupid reasons." (via) Maybe nothing that gimmicky, but come on! Can't we do better?
posted by es_de_bah to MetaFilter Music at 9:23 AM PST - 31 comments