Anonymous category in AskMe?

September 11, 2006 3:04 PM

PonyFilter: could we make "anonymous" a category at the top of the "Posts by category in the past month:" list in the sidebar on AskMe? The results, of course, would be questions from anonymous.

Dunno about other people, but I often find those the most interesting questions to browse.
posted by scrump to Feature Requests at 3:04 PM (33 comments total)

Hello bookmark?
posted by Mid at 3:06 PM on September 11, 2006

Subscribe.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 3:14 PM on September 11, 2006

Both interesting suggestions that have nothing to do with what I'm asking for, and both of them require me to do things in the browser client rather than using the site's innate navigation.

I like the click-to-see-this-category thing. It's convenient. Given that we already have, in a roundabout way via the userpage, a way to see questions asked by anonymous, I was suggesting making it more direct.
posted by scrump at 3:19 PM on September 11, 2006

It's not in the site's innate navigation because "posted by anonymous" is not a category. Seems confusing to me if I tacked on a link to all anon questions next to the actual category names.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:28 PM on September 11, 2006

Stop with the helpful suggestions already. You bastards.
posted by Roger Dodger at 3:28 PM on September 11, 2006

KTHX, mathowie.

Roger Dodger, if I'd been asking for help, they'd have been great. I wasn't. I was ASKING for a PONY GOD DAMMIT JESUS YOU PEOPLE ARGL

*foaming at mouth*
posted by scrump at 3:29 PM on September 11, 2006

a username is not a category, even though we could put it on the sidebar and make it look like a category, it is not a category. there are already ways to solve your problem.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:32 PM on September 11, 2006

posted by Rhomboid at 3:32 PM on September 11, 2006 [1 favorite]

I have a crush on my muse, Anonymous Ask Metafilter.
posted by dersins at 3:38 PM on September 11, 2006

there are already ways to solve your problem.

Yes, but they require a prescription.
posted by scrump at 3:45 PM on September 11, 2006

o jen, ride the horse
o jennifer connelly
ride that fucking thing
posted by cortex at 4:32 PM on September 11, 2006 [1 favorite]

Sing it cortex, sing it!
posted by loquacious at 4:53 PM on September 11, 2006

sings along bum bum bums during the chorus.

god I love that gif.
posted by carsonb at 6:13 PM on September 11, 2006

That gif needs a metafilter sticker photoshopped on that pony and ceiling cat poking out in the background. THEN it would be perfect.

And maybe a small elephant pissing in the corner.
posted by Rhomboid at 6:18 PM on September 11, 2006

Can we have a "hot busty girl riding a pony" category? Because I promise I'd spend a lot of time there.
posted by Kickstart70 at 6:34 PM on September 11, 2006

where is that image from?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:47 AM on September 12, 2006

It's from a movie called "Career Opportunities."

Here's a YouTube link to the pony ride...
posted by dersins at 8:53 AM on September 12, 2006

I'd like to think that, in another ten or twenty years, there will be a new bit of jargon in cinematography: "gif ready". You frame your shot static and get something compelling and cyclic in the frame, firm in the knowledge that somewhere, someone will make a looping animated gif out of it and post it on the Internet.
posted by cortex at 12:07 PM on September 12, 2006 [2 favorites]

Wasn't she the ass-to-ass girl?
posted by bob sarabia at 12:17 PM on September 12, 2006

Yes. Yes she was.

mmm, gif ready.
posted by mysterpigg at 2:54 PM on September 12, 2006

enjoy
posted by Rhomboid at 3:16 PM on September 12, 2006

That gif needs a metafilter sticker photoshopped on that pony and ceiling cat poking out in the background. THEN it would be perfect.

And maybe a small elephant pissing in the corner.

posted by scrump at 4:12 PM on September 12, 2006

Argh. Trying again:

That gif needs a metafilter sticker photoshopped on that pony and ceiling cat poking out in the background. THEN it would be perfect.

And maybe a small elephant pissing in the corner.

posted by scrump at 4:15 PM on September 12, 2006

Add anonymous as a contact. Done.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:27 PM on September 12, 2006

posted by cortex at 5:03 PM on September 12, 2006 [2 favorites]

GOD DAMN YOU CORTEX
posted by scrump at 6:19 PM on September 12, 2006

I expect to see that one used the next time someone whines "is this really the best of the web?"
posted by Rhomboid at 6:22 PM on September 12, 2006

Oh, and I'm really digging on ceiling cat's rhythmic poking too.
posted by Rhomboid at 6:22 PM on September 12, 2006

Lyrics by cortex.



Stupid by me.
posted by scrump at 7:04 PM on September 12, 2006

Ha!

I like how my musical antics have made it so that those words are seen as lyrics and not as what they were intended to be: lousy internet haiku. Suckas!
posted by cortex at 7:13 PM on September 12, 2006

Seriously. Will you fucking asshats stop with the lame, played-out, been-posted-everywhere-around-the-internet-including-six-goddamn-times-here-today-already inline images? Even if they do involve gurls and boobz huh huh uhhuh?

Please?

Fuck.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:15 PM on September 12, 2006

stavrosthewonderchicken writes "Will you fucking asshats stop with the lame, played-out, been-posted-everywhere-around-the-internet-including-six-goddamn-times-here-today-already inline images?"

Whoa, the MetaFilter colored "Best Of The Web" version of the Jennifer Connelly pony riding gif has been posted everywhere around the internet?
posted by Bugbread at 8:27 PM on September 12, 2006

ad nauseam.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:57 PM on September 12, 2006