I'd like to post a "What's your favorite X" AskMe. I'm using it to find the one answer I need for a specific use (and I'd be happy to update about my project in the thread later), but I think talking about my use in advance would bias people toward a too-narrow set of responses.
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posted by kalapierson
on Mar 26, 2013 -
60 comments
I'm a reporter and think an ongoing story in my neck of the woods would make for a decent post on the blue. I am fully aware of the rules against promoting one's own work, but would it be acceptable to post about a topic I've covered, provided that none of the links go to that work, nor to anyone I am or have ever been affiliated with?
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish
on Jun 10, 2011 -
33 comments
I think that there ought to be a caveat somewhere about AskMe questions, pseudonymity, privacy, and social network scraping tools.
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posted by XMLicious
on Feb 17, 2011 -
62 comments
Just to engage in a probably-futile disagreement with cortex's decision
here. Yes, granted, I understand not wanting to get into the classifieds business. But this isn't trying to use Mefi instead of craigslist
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posted by crayz
on Jun 30, 2010 -
78 comments
This comment in an
AskMe thread posted by a gay veteran wanting suggestions for how to convince his military friends of the importance of considering gay issues in the coming election may not break the guidelines, but it's incredibly wrong-headed and I wanted to take issue with it here.
posted by orange swan
on Sep 5, 2008 -
83 comments
This post is distinctly spammy. The pleasure of answering questions and helping people in AskMeFi is the reward, not offers of free stuff.
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul
on Sep 3, 2008 -
38 comments
Stop
breaking the rules! Do not post a comment if you don't have an answer or are helping to look for one. That the asker is breaking the rules isn't an excuse.
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posted by ODiV
on Aug 13, 2008 -
219 comments
I don't understand why
some of the answers to
this question aren't being deleted. They are expressing their opinions about whether or not it's appropriate to give children psychiatric drugs, or what drugs have worked for children they knew, and that wasn't what was asked.
posted by desjardins
on Jun 10, 2008 -
114 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?
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posted by John Kenneth Fisher
on Apr 3, 2008 -
97 comments
It seems like there have been several questions lately about how to do things that make it easy to do illegal things or hide one's identity generally in a way that does not seem to have a legitimate purpose, or at the very least seems to only have a vague "I want to avoid harassment" or "I want to protect my privacy" purpose. What gives?
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posted by iknowizbirfmark
on Jan 31, 2008 -
110 comments
I'm uncomfortable that this
"How Can I Be Homeless?" question was approved. Seems to me this person should not be helped to pursue a course of action that is not only dangerous but which will almost certainly involve his making use of resources intended to help people who truly have nowhere to turn.
posted by orange swan
on Jan 15, 2008 -
125 comments
MeFi's Eternal September is nigh, what with the holidays coming and Mac market share rising. Is there anything we can/should do to head off the inevitable flood of "I just got my Mac, now what?" questions that are already asked over and over in AskMe?
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posted by mkultra
on Dec 18, 2007 -
80 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
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
Bad day for posting here, but I'm miffed. How many chances do/should people get to drop insulting hurtful shits in AskMe threads of all places before they're just banned? I don't want to institute a talk nice policy, but being a dick to an OP looking for a psychiatrist or similar is, to me, a higher crime than just crayoning the walls, it's really demonstrating a bad fit here.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur
on Aug 2, 2007 -
38 comments
Should I post to Ask or Jobs? Long story, short explanation: I'm looking for someone who can help me understand how my small business can implement a database-driven website, and I'd potentially like to hire that same person to do a relatively small, one-time piece of work based on what I learn.
posted by chudmonkey
on Aug 1, 2007 -
10 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
on Jul 24, 2007 -
46 comments
I am finishing work on a short python program for my master's thesis. I am a newbie at python, and would like to ask for help optimizing the program in AskMe, by posting the actual script and having people with more experience give it a look. 2 questions:
1) does this sound too do-my-homework-ish?
2) the program is about 130 lines, would it be kosher to post the whole thing inside the question (not on the front page, obviously)? Or should I just link to the .py file on a server?
posted by signal
on Jun 10, 2007 -
20 comments
Is there a policy about possibly slipping self-links in via AskMe instead of the blue? For an example, see
this post
posted by Justinian
on Jun 3, 2007 -
92 comments
