I'm looking for the thread in which a person was interested in putting the music in movies, and wanted to know what that occupation was called/how to get there. Thanks!
posted by biochemist on Oct 9, 2009 - 8 comments

So it turns out if they close your AskMeFi after 3 minutes, they take your week from you. If anyone is interested. [more inside]
posted by jfrancis on Sep 16, 2009 - 58 comments

Let me know if this is the wrong forum, but in this AskMeFi thread the OP apparently executed a script someone wrote him. Judging from one of this follow-up comments, he had no knowledge of Windows batch files. I'm a little disturbed. Am I paranoid?
posted by d. z. wang on Sep 12, 2009 - 35 comments

What is the typical (is there such a thing?) MetaFilter gestation period? [more inside]
posted by Drasher on Sep 6, 2009 - 86 comments

This AskMeFi question has 5 identical answers from 5 different users. Huh?
posted by tiamat on Aug 27, 2009 - 175 comments

I am wondering if people could assist me in locating Ask Metafilter questions along the lines of this and this. I know it's a concept frequently asked about, but evidently the concept's too amorphous for tags to be of help, Related Questions just circularly refer to each other, and I can't find the right Google-fu for this one. [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Aug 6, 2009 - 11 comments

Can someone help me find the Ask MeFi post where someone asked for general advice for a college freshman? [more inside]
posted by biochemist on Jul 30, 2009 - 8 comments

PonyRequest : When we have an AnonAsk refused, could we have a reason sent to the asker as a matter of course, so that the asker could (a) know that it's been refused and can use their weekly on something else and (b) have some idea of what they did wrong and consider if/how they should rewrite it? [more inside]
posted by twine42 on Jul 5, 2009 - 24 comments

I'm trying to get feedback/helpers on a collaborative Google Map of bike paths in the Boston area. It's pretty small and unambitious, hardly something I've spent "a few months" on. Is this appropriate for MeFi Projects? [more inside]
posted by Muffpub on Jun 18, 2009 - 32 comments

Pony request: can following all anonymous posts (or maybe, more widely, following a specific user) be integrated into MyAskMefi? [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Jun 9, 2009 - 29 comments

A minor enhancement for Ask (maybe).. [more inside]
posted by a non e mouse on Jun 9, 2009 - 18 comments

have pros and cons ever been discussed for separating AskMe's into segregated categories for ( "what do you recommend I do during my three months in X / can anyone recommend a good shoe repairmen in X" ; "radioactive Y on my eyeball when I woke up-- should I see a doctor?" ; and "need help with Z computer-ish code-ism/softwareness" )? [more inside]
posted by candyhammer on Jun 4, 2009 - 50 comments

Why can't I make my AskMeFi question anonymous? Was this changed and I missed it? I searched, but to no avail.
posted by phaded on May 25, 2009 - 4 comments

I posted an AskMefi question yesterday but now it's gone. So how do i know whether it's been officially deleted or not? I went to My Profile; under 'Contributions', I clicked on the 'questions' (number 40) and brought up the questions I've asked. The one i posted yesterday is not on the list. I also did the search: http://www.metafilter.com/activity/29435/posts/ask/ as suggested in the FAQ and also came up blank. However, when i go to the 'new question' page on AskMefi, it says i've posted in the last week. I know for sure that I haven't posted anything in the last week other than the question i posted yesterday. I'm ok with deletion, but it would be nice to know the reason for future reference.
posted by storybored on May 21, 2009 - 19 comments

So I've asked a few AskMefi questions now, and have noticed that they tend to get responses for about five hours, give or take, then the responses stop. When is the optimal time during the week to ask my AskMefi question, so that I get the maximum number of eyeballs looking at my question, and thus, get the maximum number of answers. I know that this may not necessarily increase the quality of the answers I get. I am talking about sheer quantity. Thanks!
posted by Sully on May 20, 2009 - 40 comments

Ask MeFi's "Felon Bueller" thread gets picked up by Mental Floss and Jezebel.
posted by Joe Beese on Apr 28, 2009 - 113 comments

Ask.Metafilter is over 5 years old now, with volumes of suggestions and helpful ideas. philosophistry sorted through the years of posts categorized as Human Relations and Work & Money, and created ranked listings of the books people recommended the most often: Human Relations, Work & Money. Note that each little thumbs-up icon is a link back to the post which referred to the book in question. Posted originally in Mefi by filthy light thief, but deleted. [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Apr 16, 2009 - 34 comments

Jezebel discusses this Ask MeFi question previously grey-ed here. [more inside]
posted by Joe Beese on Mar 19, 2009 - 1 comment

I wanted to say something about the discussion happening in this AskMe, but in a way that does not derail the thread itself. So, here I am. [more inside]
posted by prefpara on Mar 17, 2009 - 321 comments

My Askmefi question only recieved one answer...I realize that this must just happen every so often, but I'm wondering, a) how I might avoid it, and, b) can I ask the same question again in the hopes of getting more answers? [more inside]
posted by Griffinlb on Mar 15, 2009 - 67 comments

$5 is a bargain [more inside]
posted by werkzeuger on Mar 12, 2009 - 87 comments

I've just been noticing a recent pattern in Ask, which got me thinking about patterns in ask. Possibly NSFW. [more inside]
posted by gryftir on Mar 6, 2009 - 63 comments

I was hoping you could help me find a specific recent Job / Career Search MeFi question. One of the answers was a list of several job search sites. [more inside]
posted by veronicacorningstone on Feb 11, 2009 - 9 comments

Not seeing immediate "best answers" when page refreshes after marking them [more inside]
posted by maxwelton on Jan 30, 2009 - 5 comments

How to find old AskMeFi answers? [more inside]
posted by devnull on Jan 29, 2009 - 12 comments

"Well it appears I accomplished exactly what I wanted when I posted (what I obviously knew to be) a contentious question. I left out some details initially..simply because I wanted to see how much people were willing the assume about my friend's relationship (and my problem with it)..." [more inside]
posted by chunking express on Jan 27, 2009 - 100 comments

I had a suggestion for Ask Metafilter: a field for a one-sentence summary. [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Jan 20, 2009 - 24 comments

Metafilter Gray. [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Jan 2, 2009 - 25 comments

I remember an Ask Metafilter question in which it was asked whether, if the current Queen of England went by a name based on her forename and surname (the format many of us go by, such as "John Smith" or "Jane Doe"), what that name would be. I can't seem to find it under the "queen" tag or via a Google search. [more inside]
posted by WCityMike on Dec 10, 2008 - 69 comments

The Future of MeFiMusic: Video? [more inside]
posted by ageispolis on Nov 10, 2008 - 23 comments

AskMeFi pony request: list members who frequently answer threads with a particular tag [more inside]
posted by nitsuj on Nov 1, 2008 - 37 comments

Do people's just not read through the questions on AskMefi before leaving answers? [more inside]
posted by youcancallmeal on Sep 27, 2008 - 118 comments

The question on the page is not always the question that is really being asked. [more inside]
posted by troybob on Jul 3, 2008 - 48 comments

Matt. Yo MATT. Askmefi rss is borked again. I think.

XML Parsing Error: syntax error
Location: http://ask.metafilter.com/rss.xml
Line Number 1, Column 1:Connection Failure
posted by filmgeek on Jun 1, 2006 - 7 comments

That said, Jesse Helms is full of crap.
posted by The Jesse Helms on Mar 31, 2006 - 141 comments

How anonymous is an anonymous question on AskMe?
posted by sjvilla79 on Mar 9, 2006 - 31 comments

WTF is going on here?
posted by scratch on Sep 26, 2005 - 45 comments

"Criminal incompetence is probably not an impeachable offense, but something has to be done about Bush." Please keep your politics out of Ask Metafilter questions. (And another.) It tends to attract the wrong kind of answers.
posted by smackfu on Sep 2, 2005 - 25 comments

GoingBlindFilter: Is anyone else seeing the green Ask Mefi header but on Metatalk? Here's what I mean
posted by vacapinta on Apr 21, 2005 - 6 comments

Does this belong in the top 25 best responses in Askme?
posted by Keyser Soze on Jun 6, 2004 - 27 comments