This
question was asked, and some respondents have been raising concerns that it might violate the student's honour code. Is there an express policy about this?
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posted by ageispolis
on Mar 2, 2013 -
51 comments
I'm going bananas trying to find a comment that I *think* I read on the green. The story was about an intro at a conference, or maybe at just a business meeting? And the person giving the talk lead with a pretty raunchy or out-there joke or anecdote, after which half the people balked and left and the other half stayed and had like, the best conference ever. I seem to remember that the joke-teller was a woman in a male-dominated field, but I could be wrong about that. IIRC, this story was told reverently, not disparagingly, and I think it appeared within the last two years. Is this ringing any bells?
posted by Charity Garfein
on Feb 18, 2013 -
14 comments
I like to post AskMes at around 10 am on Tuesdays.
If I have my post ready at 9:15 or 9:30, I'm prevented from posting until it's been a full 168 hours since my last post.
I think the one-post-a-week rule works really well, but it would be nice if it were a little less strict.
Would you consider changing it from 168 hours between posts to 160 hours or 162 hours or even 166 hours?
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posted by kristi
on Jan 26, 2013 -
120 comments
Within (I think) the last couple years, someone had asked in Ask MetaFilter something to the effect of, what new cars are the Apple products of cars? That is, what cars these are Apple-like in designs and details, quality of materials, user-friendliness, etc. I can't find this thread now—does anyone remember it? Thanks.
posted by jroybal
on Jan 25, 2013 -
5 comments
I thought there was a question recently from someone looking for a job that basically said - "Here is where I'm looking online...is this the best I can do?" Someone in the 3rd or 4th comment provided a list of other job boards to look for work. I think the search and the boards were all IT/tech related but can't remember exactly. I've tried some key word and tag searches and have scanned ask questions though mid-December but can't seem to locate the question. The searcher might have been located near Chicago or the west coast.
posted by victoriab
on Jan 24, 2013 -
4 comments
From the FAQ: "Do not post a question to AskMetafilter assuming you can have it removed once it has been answered. This is unfair to the people who answered the question and diminishes the usefulness of the site. "
Yet the poor soul who wasn't getting the answers they wanted was able to delete
">their question without a problem? What gives?
posted by Grither
on Dec 19, 2012 -
15 comments
There must already be Ask questions about how to increase business/get more clients as a freelancer, but I'm not hitting the right search terms or something. Can anyone point me? Thanks!
posted by SampleSize
on Aug 22, 2012 -
3 comments
Can someone point me to a post (in ask.me I think) that featured examples of good science-fiction in non-Western Europe settings?
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posted by oddman
on Aug 17, 2012 -
24 comments
This AskMe thread is just fantastic. A not-simple question with so many great, empathetic, caring suggestions from people who were at one point up a similar creek trying to fashion any sort of paddle. POSITIVE THREAD CALLOUT. EVERYBODY HUG.
posted by davidjmcgee
on Jun 11, 2012 -
39 comments
Is there a way to look at popular AskMe questions
in a particular category, either in the recent past or over time? The
infodumpster almost does this, but not quite.
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posted by ocherdraco
on May 19, 2012 -
16 comments
Apropos of
this thread, I'm trying to find a MetaFillter comment from a few years ago in which the commenter related a story about a friend or family member whose company made a product that Walmart became interested in selling.
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posted by Miko
on May 8, 2012 -
23 comments
I like to read interesting Ask Metafilter questions, although I rarely post anything myself. The
Popular Favorites page is a good way to find these, but I've also noticed that questions with a lot of answers (say, over 50) are usually worth checking out too, even if they don't necessarily get a lot of favorites. Is there any way to view the AskMe site/feed in a way that only shows questions that have received more than a certain number of answers?
posted by theodolite
on Apr 23, 2012 -
14 comments
Ugh, I'm just going to say it: continuously posting to
this breakup advice in Ask is lazy and more often than not it doesn't really fit the situation. I wish people would speak to the actual specific break-up someone is asking about or just stay out of it.
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posted by nanojath
on Apr 6, 2012 -
90 comments
Ask Metafilter is becoming less useful as the site grows.
As the site has grown in popularity and more people join just to ask questions, the ratio between people who are knowlegeable and people who ask questions has fallen. This means that the questions on AskMe are coming in so thick and heavy that questions are buried before they can get answered properly.
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posted by dunkadunc
on Mar 26, 2012 -
130 comments
In answering AskMes, can we please try harder not to make presumptions that are absent from the question's details,
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posted by mreleganza
on Feb 27, 2012 -
74 comments
About a year and a half ago, I asked
this question trying to identify a dj-mix I had heard on the radio. It remained my great personal unsolved ask-me-stery, the only Q that truly stumped the masses - until a few hours ago. Praise
ooklala!
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posted by mannequito
on Oct 19, 2011 -
31 comments
I find myself thinking of questions I want to ask when it's been only 5, 7, 9 days from my last question. Then day 10 rolls around and I can't remember what it was. Then something else comes up, and I ask a question about it, and like clockwork the next day I remember what that VERY IMPORTANT (but not urgent) question I want to ask was. Would it be possible for us to save a draft of a question or of multiple questions while we are working on them/formulating our thoughts/waiting for the clock to run out?
posted by bq
on Sep 19, 2011 -
56 comments
Why are some people so good at answering human relations AskMe's? How do you do it? And why do you do it?
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posted by Tin Man
on Aug 10, 2011 -
84 comments
The
sidebar (see Apr 12) featured
this post, in which someone's seemingly obscure question was answered in just six minutes. I think MY
experience was even more amazing (as my question was more obscure), though it did take Gator an hour and ten minutes to cough up an answer. What are some other AskMe Astounding Stories of Snappy Answers to Obscure Questions?
posted by grumblebee
on May 13, 2011 -
47 comments
I don't usually have time to read all of the questions on AskMeFi, so I rely on the Popular Favorites (24 hours) tab to screen the submitted questions for those found most interesting by other MeFites. The problem is that because of the way they are sorted I sometimes miss some.
Would it be possible to sort them chronologically by the time and date of submission, the most recent being at the top of the list? That way I could scroll down the list until I get to the question I remember from my last browsing session.
What do others think? Thanks!
posted by Daddy-O
on Apr 14, 2011 -
12 comments
I'm a graduate student in library science and am conducting a research study project for one of my classes. Any volunteers interested in participating in a brief email interview about why you like to answer questions on Ask MetaFilter?
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posted by anderjen
on Apr 6, 2011 -
79 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
Taxfilter? Mefitax? I know this isn't our domain, per se, but I think it is the type of thing we're great at. And there's plenty of askmefi history to warrant the discussion.
What is the proper place for tax questions in metafilter? Is there a proper place? Is there a better forum? Really better?
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posted by es_de_bah
on Feb 13, 2011 -
27 comments
Facebook has an open position for a
Questions Community Manager. The text itself is pretty fascinating with superlatives like"anything you can dream up", "thousands of moderators" and "the full resources of Facebook at your disposal". I obviously thought about AskMe and Jessamyn, and she agreed it was an interesting Meta post.
Knowing that communities start from the ground up, I am especially interested in thoughts about how such a gigantic operation can be handled, if it can at all.
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posted by bru
on Nov 1, 2010 -
24 comments
Improper grammar on the Ask MeFi New Question page when you've already posted a question?
You may ask another question in: 1 days, 5 hours, 55 minutes, 57 seconds.
I think so. It would be nice if this could be fixed.
posted by antgly
on Oct 30, 2010 -
112 comments
