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July 28, 2005 8:32 AM

I'd like to give a thanks to the new "your link has been found in another post" feature, and a pox to those people who don't use tags.
posted by Citizen Premier to MetaFilter-Related at 8:32 AM (27 comments total)

To "give" someone a pox you have to have a pox, yourself. Ew.

Now what's this new feature, here? The post submission form has always searched old posts for the URL you try to submit. Is it also searching comments, now, or what?
posted by scarabic at 8:45 AM on July 28, 2005

Wouldn't this be better if it were discussed on IRC?

You still don't really understand the whole MeTa "thing" do you?
posted by bshort at 8:52 AM on July 28, 2005

Tags are lame.
posted by xmutex at 8:58 AM on July 28, 2005

It's old, been around for 3-4 years.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:13 AM on July 28, 2005

Well I believe this is a new feature, that was implimented along with the insta-preview feature, and I'm giving a thumbs up, and asking that people add tags.
posted by Citizen Premier at 9:17 AM on July 28, 2005

It hasn't been around for 3-4 years, unless it's prone to malfunction, because it let my engrish post through for one thing.
posted by Citizen Premier at 9:19 AM on July 28, 2005

Uh, Citizen Premier , dude - you're telling the guy who codes the site that he's wrong about when he implemented it?
posted by Zetetics at 9:24 AM on July 28, 2005

noob
posted by crunchland at 9:30 AM on July 28, 2005

matt-- I love the new "Bold" and "Italics" features that I can use to change the way my text looks! I don't have to remember HTML or anything!
posted by Kwantsar at 9:46 AM on July 28, 2005

I was thinking about a new tag-related feature and it is probably on-topic here:

Couldn't we let a FPP Tags list be editable by any logged user? My reasoning is that correctly classifying any given piece of data is a very hard job (the main job of a librarian is not, as it may appear sometimes, to keep teenagers quiet in a book-filled room, but to correctly "tag" each book, magazine, article etc, so that information can be retrieved quickly). As the userbase grows, it is doubtful that the average user will be able to correctly tag his/her post (and more doubtful that he/she will be able to do it correctly and completely). I understand that it would leave the tags open to trolling, but it probably can be minimized by registering the user responsible for any addition or deletion (and banning the mistaggers) and by the collaborative dynamic itself (Wikipedia suffers this same problem, but the users quickly correct any attack).
posted by nkyad at 9:47 AM on July 28, 2005

Citizen Premier stole my truck.
posted by soyjoy at 9:59 AM on July 28, 2005

bshort writes "Wouldn't this be better if it were discussed on IRC?

"You still don't really understand the whole MeTa 'thing' do you?"


I'm perfectly happy to admit ignorance on that, being a relative noob. What is the whole "MeTa 'thing'" that makes this inappropriate? It's about the site, isn't it?
posted by solotoro at 11:02 AM on July 28, 2005

it's not inappropriate at all--people are just being bitches.
posted by amberglow at 11:47 AM on July 28, 2005

*grabs popcorn*
posted by Rothko at 11:52 AM on July 28, 2005

Fortunately, that sort of thing only happens on days that end in "y".

Being bitches, that is - not grabbing popcorn.
posted by yhbc at 12:04 PM on July 28, 2005

for fucks sake, Citizen Premier. Take a week off or something.
posted by puke & cry at 12:15 PM on July 28, 2005

I hear the NBA mandates an age minimum. Players are supposed to grow up before taking the floor...
passes Rothko a Dr Pepper
posted by Cranberry at 12:16 PM on July 28, 2005

Well, this was all very edifying.
posted by bshort at 12:24 PM on July 28, 2005

I agree tags should be mandatory.

Take it to SportsFilter, Cranberry. No seriously, we need you.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 12:33 PM on July 28, 2005

So now that we're giving thanks to features, can we just get on with it and make a golden Matt or something to dance naked around? And chant?
posted by hototogisu at 1:05 PM on July 28, 2005

You mean you're not all already naked?
posted by bshort at 1:07 PM on July 28, 2005

Of course we are. The thing is that we would be dancing, too...
posted by hototogisu at 1:19 PM on July 28, 2005

Citizen Premier stole my clothes.
posted by soyjoy at 1:41 PM on July 28, 2005

soyjoy gets points for his first comment but loses them for the not-nearly-as-funny second comment. =/

And yea, bickering with #1 about site features == hilarious. I feel kinda like I'm on SomethingAwful. "Thread--SUBSCRIBED!"
posted by cyrusdogstar at 1:56 PM on July 28, 2005

Citizen Premier stole my sense of humor.
posted by soyjoy at 2:10 PM on July 28, 2005

He tried to sell it to me, but it turned out it was broken anyway.
posted by nebulawindphone at 2:13 PM on July 28, 2005

Hello? Did someone call me?
posted by goosestepping poxi! at 1:53 AM on July 29, 2005