Couch in the Ladies' Room. Am I the only one who thinks a chatfilter thread devoted to stereotyping and generalizing men and women is a bad use of AskMe? I'm more troubled that it's such a popular thread. What am I missing?
posted by jabberjaw on Nov 20, 2009 - 273 comments

I tag chatty questions and they almost always get deleted. Sometimes, though, I think a question is chatty but it doesn't. That's fine of course - I might just be wrong. [more inside]
posted by fritley on Sep 10, 2009 - 81 comments

Open-ended chatty questions on AskMe [more inside]
posted by mhjb on Jul 10, 2009 - 148 comments

Question deleted...not sure why? [more inside]
posted by Not Supplied on May 9, 2009 - 230 comments

Just curious and trying to understand the norms here: would this ask me medical question be chatfilter if instead of asking for reader's reactions to a given medication, it had asked for something else, say, "your experience with going to Stanford"?
posted by peter_meta_kbd on Apr 12, 2009 - 79 comments

You have got to be shitting me.
posted by KokuRyu on Dec 17, 2008 - 122 comments

Barack Obama's initials are not a smell. [more inside]
posted by wfrgms on Oct 7, 2008 - 195 comments

I posted a question in AskMeFi and can't find it. What gives? [more inside]
posted by reenum on Oct 7, 2008 - 49 comments

Obviously we all love Metafilter or we wouldn't be here posting and reading day after day... But, if there was one thing you could change/modify about your Metafilter experience, what would it be?
posted by amyms on Oct 4, 2008 - 260 comments

Will someone please tell me how this is not chatfilter? [more inside]
posted by youcancallmeal on Jul 31, 2008 - 74 comments

In the "Do chinese people get sick of eating chinese food?" AskMe discussion, which might have had a germ of a worthwhile idea behind it, the OPP has essentially come out and said "my question is chatfilter."
posted by adamrice on Jun 12, 2008 - 77 comments

I asked a question and many of the responses were that I am "biased." Is a judgement of character a prerequisite for answering a question?
posted by plexi on Jun 10, 2008 - 74 comments

AskMe Chatfilter Rescue: Disadvantages of being male [more inside]
posted by kookoobirdz on May 29, 2008 - 3 comments

Is it wrong to call out a post that's trying to find happiness? [more inside]
posted by sjuhawk31 on May 27, 2008 - 56 comments

Isn't How is the downturn in the US economy affecting you chatfilter? [more inside]
posted by krautland on May 5, 2008 - 67 comments

Is this chatfilter? [more inside]
posted by dhammond on Apr 3, 2008 - 79 comments

Matthew: For a long time, I have been sad at the loss of HypotheticalFilter. When AskMe was young, such questions would arise. But those days are gone now, as the site matured. It's simply not done, you'd say. It floods the page with nonsense. It makes the real questions get lost. Still, I thought, I want to know how to dispose of a body, or how long we'd survive without the sun. Who would win in a fight? A squirrel, or a squirrel's weight in ants? [more inside]
posted by John Kenneth Fisher on Apr 3, 2008 - 97 comments

I don't know what to make of this AskMe post. [more inside]
posted by farishta on Mar 13, 2008 - 152 comments

"Chatfilter" is not one of the reasons included in the drop-down flagging menu on ask.me and I think it should be.
posted by zadcat on Feb 12, 2008 - 29 comments

I propose that a new flag be added to AskMe posts: "OP has shown that he/she does not have a genuine interest in getting this question answered."
posted by bingo on Jan 30, 2008 - 39 comments

It's chatfilter because "major issues" is objective and undefinable, or if not undefinable, a distasteful acceptance of political groupthink. Well, anywho, it's standing, so let's put discussion here. [more inside]
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur on Dec 14, 2007 - 60 comments

My 5 year old needs an answer to "What is the weirdest thing you've ever heard of?". Would this be considered chat-filter on AskMe (and therefore inappropriate)?
posted by Brocktoon on Dec 11, 2007 - 75 comments

Some people feel this question violates the guidelines. I disagree. [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Dec 2, 2007 - 250 comments

So, apparently AskMe is not the place for this question. Where should it have gone instead?
posted by JDHarper on Nov 17, 2007 - 70 comments

What makes this kind of ask.me post not chatfilter? There is no real answer to this kind of thing, it's just "hey, we got a new car, help us be cute!"
posted by zadcat on Oct 9, 2007 - 42 comments

How was the AskMe about "your favorite frugalities" chatfilter? Seemed like a legitimate question to me with some decent, interesting answers. Bad deletion.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on Sep 7, 2007 - 80 comments

i imagine that kelvin-helmholtz is so long because there's some kind of balance related to radiation pressure (vaguely vaguely like eddington limit?) but i may be way off - never thought about it before. if it is radiative pressure (or anything related to being hot) that holds things up that means that you'll still get an initial collapse and ignition. so i think initial "inner" thermal equilibrium will be much faster, but final steady state could take a long time. and why on earth (or sun) is this chatfilter? delete the stupid answers, not the question. i realise it's not one of your valued "what stupid piece of crap for my kitchen should i waste money on today because i can't cook for shit but boy i know how to use my credit card like a pro?" questions, but it still has a valid answer.
posted by andrew cooke on Sep 4, 2007 - 100 comments

This is a great question but it didn't include the obligatory "For the purposes of a work of fiction..." disclaimer to keep it from being deleted as hypothetical filter.
posted by allkindsoftime on Aug 10, 2007 - 31 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 on Jul 12, 2007 - 292 comments

I'd really like to talk about this sleep question.
posted by dame on Jun 26, 2007 - 63 comments

Instead of continuously derailing the question about questions, we may as well move discussions of said-questions here.
posted by Ms. Saint on Jun 24, 2007 - 161 comments

Awesome.
posted by jayder on Jun 14, 2007 - 24 comments

What's your favorite simile about dumb people? Is this seriously not ChatFilter? It's a subjective question with a link in the post to a Google search with a ton of answers to choose from.
posted by 0xFCAF on May 23, 2007 - 69 comments

Why did the "what would the scientific name for zombies?" question on AskMe disappear yesterday?
posted by andrewzipp on May 16, 2007 - 75 comments

ComicGeekChatfilter
posted by Doohickie on Apr 10, 2007 - 94 comments

In honour of the 1st, we're revisiting the "deliberately flameworthy hypothetical AskMe question thread" over at MetaChat. Feel free to join in with fake questions or answers.
posted by orange swan on Apr 1, 2007 - 20 comments

Regarding philosophical AskMe questions and answers to philosophical questions... [far too long for anyone to want to read]
posted by ontic on Feb 18, 2007 - 117 comments

This was definitely not chatfilter! I am working on putting together a class about good and bad "radical" radio and want some listener opinion besides my own. Can we reinstate the question, please?
posted by parmanparman on Feb 9, 2007 - 16 comments

AskMe Guidelines: "If I like x, what will I also like?" Chatfilter or just supremely irritating? Or do I just have a pickle up my ass again?
posted by grapefruitmoon on Jan 30, 2007 - 39 comments

So my question was shut down and this one isn't? I'm not asking for this one to be shut down, just an examination of policy, please.
posted by Lucie on Jan 8, 2007 - 88 comments

Simply because I've always been disappointed we never got to discuss this question, I'm going to go ahead and ask whether the same ban reason should apply to this one.
posted by allkindsoftime on Jan 5, 2007 - 70 comments

ChatFilter
posted by Stynxno on Dec 27, 2006 - 52 comments

Again with the quick hook on a chatfilter judgment call?
posted by frogan on Dec 14, 2006 - 50 comments

Just curious:
How come the "Why are so many purported "animal lovers" pro-spaying/neutering?" askmefi wasn't deleted as chatfilter?
posted by Brandon Blatcher on Dec 9, 2006 - 1 comment

This smells like chatfilter--the circumcision of Stalin's declawed cats kind of chatfilter.
posted by fandango_matt on Dec 8, 2006 - 27 comments

Deleted?
This post was deleted for the following reason: chatfilter. What's the problem you're trying to solve again?

This isn't "chatfilter" this is an age-old question that could be served well by the hive-mind (community). Philosophical = Chatfilter?
posted by snsranch on Oct 24, 2006 - 58 comments

why? I was looking forward to reading this one and had marked it as a favorite (as had others). Do we have to explain why we ask each and every question now?
posted by lemonfridge on Oct 3, 2006 - 112 comments

Chatty open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of Ask Metafilter. Questions with no problem to be solved or where the problem is some variant of "I'm curious if other people feel like I do"
posted by prostyle on Sep 29, 2006 - 21 comments

An interesting post that became ChatFilter. A subsequent post that IS chatfilter. What bothers me is the trend. More questions are becoming increasingly open-ended. (I don't think that occhiblu's phrasing was particularly wrong, but I think that a lot of people, just because they're guys, thought that their opinion was useful) Which allows people to simply take a stab in the dark, offer their "off the cuff" insight, or otherwise just give an unresearched opinion. IMHO, this sort of thing defeats the purpose of an answer-oriented site.
posted by SeizeTheDay on Sep 27, 2006 - 24 comments

this isn't going real well ... no, sir, not at all
posted by pyramid termite on Sep 21, 2006 - 92 comments