MetaTalk posts tagged with best

Best of Metafilter: Food Edition

symbollocks — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:58:02 -0800

Best recipes, food ideas, cooking hacks of ask metafilter? I'm putting together a collection of recipes and other cooking related ideas into a small booklet that I can copy, cut, staple and use as a stocking stuffer for my immediate and extended families for christmas. What are the recipes on metafilter that have most changed your cooking and appreciation for food? And not just recipes... anything, from simple kitchen hacks to specific combination of ingredients that you never would have thought of. I'm mining this thread, at the moment.

Way to go guys!!

pearlybob — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:34:27 -0800

Time Magazine's 50 best Websites of 2009 Metafilter is number.....FOUR!! Way to go guys!! I'm proud to be a small part of such a fabulous community!! Hugs all around!!!

There's a reason we didn't give you that pony, Timmy.

not_on_display — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:56:20 -0800

We can browse users' favorited posts/comments via their profile pages pretty easily. So, I'd like the same functionality when it comes to "best answers": ability to click on the number of "best answers" given to a user, and see which of their answers have been marked as such. I figure something as obvious as this would have been built in by now, so why ain't this pony prancing? Here's why I think this is a "Good Idea": • We can already see which of their answers have been favorited by other thread-readers, but not necessarily by the OP. If we're quantifying things like that (no, I know that favorites mean many things to many people), then shouldn't the OP's opinion should be given similar weight, if not more? • If it has something to do with people playing the system, the only effect I can see is that AskMeFites would be more likely to want to give great answers to boost their numbers and/or esteem. Result: better answers. (...or just more convincing answers? I'm pretty gullible.) • As an answer can be marked "best" only once, it would negate any incentive to give an answer just to garner high numbers. (...and favorites already provides that incentive.) (• While we're at it, I'd also like the same ability when it comes to seeing which of a user's MeFiMusic submissions have been playlisted.) The profile page, as I envision it being revised, would look like this:

MeFi: 12 posts, 1234 comments MetaTalk: 0 posts, 666 comments, 2 flameouts ha ha Ask MeFi: 23 questions, 68413 answers, 3 marked best answer Music: 18 posts, 145 comments, 1 playlist, [on 15 playlists?] Projects: 0 posts, 3 comments, I keep forgetting it's even here even tho it's awesome Jobs: 0 posts bueller, bueller [or maybe have it down here:] Favorites: 86 billion (yes this is tehloki's page) Favorited by others: 765 Best Answers: 3

In short, please direct me to the conversation y'all had where you said, "No, uhhh, we shouldn't do that," and then you shot this pony! I can't believe you people would be so cruel. I'd like to at least visit its grave.

What is the ideal time fo the week to ask a Ask Mefi question to maximixe views and responses.

Sully — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:16:46 -0800

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!

It ain't me

telstar — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:54:46 -0800

This thread achieves orbit. That is all.

What are your odds of winning December's "best post" contest?

Joe Beese — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:12:42 -0800

What are your odds of winning December's "best post" contest?

Check for Ticks: Direct linking to best answers

zamboni — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:02:09 -0800

When an AskMe question has a comment marked as a best answer, a little tick/check appears next to the post on the front page. What do people think about making that tick a link to the first best answer comment?

What is AskMe best at?

desjardins — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:00:24 -0800

Which topics is AskMetafilter best at answering? I'm not referring to specific questions for which you've received the most helpful response; rather I'm wondering if people find that (for example) computer hardware questions receive more accurate and helpful answers than medical questions, or that AskMe is particularly bad at answering another type of question. Please correct my poor grammar; I know the question was badly phrased.

I predict the answer will be neigh...

twine42 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:06:03 -0800

Two Shetland ponies for you. One's cute and cuddly... the other one you may not like... Pony One : Can we have an extra bit on the profile that lists any askme answers have been marked as 'best'? It's possibly a bit popularity contest-y, but no more so than the favourites counters. It would be cool to see the great things people have said (including your own). Pony Two : Instead of just killing all spammers, how about a wall of shame type pages that lists the names of the spammer and the name of the site they spammed for (but no link). It would be interesting to see just how much spam we kill and could (possibly, maybe) be an warning to people who keep trying it. Maybe the page itself can be behind a nofollow to stop Google et al indexing the page.

MetaFilter: It is what it is

spock — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:39:47 -0800

MetaFilter: It is what it is? I'm curious as to what the membership (and particularly the MODS) thinks of the sentiment of this comment. Yes, I come to MeFi for links to things I may not have been aware of in the past. (Even the most dedicated web addict can't have seen everything. "New products are arriving daily!") But the main thing I come to MeFi for is to see and sometimes participate in a level of discourse that you don't find everywhere. I hate the "Farkification" of MeFi as much as anybody and ONLY turning every thread into a LOL opportunity gets a little old. But if I learned anything recently, it is that even a comment thread that starts out appearing to be insipid can be redeemed by the signal overcoming the noise (even getting a comment side-barred). I guess what I'm saying is that each of us can be part of the problem or part of the solution.

Meh.

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:07:05 -0800

Perhaps this does not belong on the front page. Grainy, sensationalist video footage of someone having a violent nervous breakdown does not make for a decent Metafilter post, in terms of quality or subject matter, though this might do just fine on another site. Perhaps the post could be removed, to make room for better posts?

Best MeFi conversations?

prefpara — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:34:04 -0800

I know... it's about the links, not the discussions... nevertheless, I come here 60-70% for the conversations, and the links are only the icing on my personal metacake. I am trying to explain to one of my friends why it is that I like this place so much. I looked at the previous best of mefi threads and skimmed my own "files." I culled and forwarded about a dozen fantastic posts and askmes, and he liked them a lot. However, I feel like I came up with fewer examples of the great discussions that happen on MeFi than I could have. Can anyone remind me of (or introduce me to) threads that showcase the great conversations that sometimes happen on MeFi? Previous threads I found that have a related but different purpose: 1, 2 , 3 (On preview, metacake reads a lot like meatcake, and I can't decide whether or not that sounds delicious.) Thanks!

BragFilter

dersins — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:16:35 -0800

What's the best thing (post, comment, question, answer, song, whatever) you've posted to Metafilter?

Best Of The MetaFilter

lostburner — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:02:30 -0800

Something amazing is happening on the Blue. I'm just calling this out because I think the Pulp Shakespeare thread is one of the awesomest things I've ever seen on MetaFilter, and (most of) it isn't links to external content. It's straight from the talented minds that constitute this community.

Best Answer AWOL?

beagle — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:09:10 -0800

This AskMe post shows on the front page as having a Best Answer, but on the inside page nothing is so marked. Did a Best Answer get deleted?

Boobs + Cured meat /= Best of the Web

SassHat — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:18:39 -0800

A new low...the one link Flickr post. This is actually a pony request...allow us to flag a thread for each infraction as opposed to just the most egregious. Thx.

Best posts on depression?

PinkButterfly — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:15:11 -0800

Which is the best thread/comment related to depression on AskMe? There have been a million threads/comments on AskMe related to depression so I don't want to start up another one. I figured that asking for people to point me toward what they figure to be a standout thread or a specific comment would be more helpful. Yes, I did a search and was overwhelmed by all of the posts/comments, which is why I am here in MetaTalk. I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.

It was the best of MeFi. It was the worst of MeFi.

amyms — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:10:52 -0800

If you were showing the MetaFilter Universe (including the main page, Ask, Talk, Projects, Music, everything) to someone for the first time, what threads would you choose as examples of MeFi at its best and at its worst?

I want to read more awesomeness.

allkindsoftime — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:26:17 -0800

Shamelessly self-promote your best lesser-known work...to me? Comment favorites are pretty much my favorite thing about the blue/green, guiding me like a treasure map to the best stories, jokes, answers and whatnot that the hive has to offer. Something struck me recently, however. Surely there must be great responses out there where the author came to the party a little late, and the greater community missed said greater comments, leaving a vacuum where many favorites should have been added. The perfect answer to a question, some subject matter expert weighing in on a topic on the blue, or perhaps just a really creative story. Things like that. Care to share your best that got missed? And if not here, would you at least consider me-fi mailing me? I'd of course promise not to even favorite it if you didn't want it coming to light. (And, apologies if this isn't a first on MeTa but I couldn't find anything too similar in my search.)

Policestate Filter is not Best of the Web

Cool Papa Bell — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:29:38 -0800

Policestate Filter is not Best of the Web. I do not wish to discuss the topic of the post here. Nor do I wish to rehash arguments about police in general. Rather, like Britney/Paris/Lindsay and the various other topics that are derided as newsfilter and chatfilter, I propose that the "cops suck amirite" topic is simply played out. It should no longer be considered MeFi's Most Wanted. I know I'm posting this only after taking (a small) part in the poo-slinging in that post, but I've had a change of heart and think that these posts are no longer worthy in general.

Fundamentalist Metafilterism

WCityMike — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:27:10 -0800

Fundamentalist Metafilterism? A few days ago, I had a post deleted. I'm actually not complaining about that (hey! don't jump on me! I'm not! read this before yelling at me!), but that, combined with the belovedness of this post, made a question form in my head. The crack about "fundamentalist Metafilterism" is not meant seriously, but it's shorthand for a longer concept. If you say the words "chatfilter", "LOLXians", "LOLBush", etc. — or something mentioned in the guidelines or in the "bad post" page of the wiki — they instantly bring "what a crap post" associations with the subject, sometimes even faster than it would take to actually check out the link. A more recent example: although some thought this question to be on the fence, there were quite a few comments in the MeTa thread that felt that some pretty amazing stories were told there. I'm advancing a theory that perhaps Mefi users aren't willing to consider the possibility that we could have a "best of the Web" post that is a bit chatty (on Ask.Mefi) or addresses humorously the topic of Christians or Bush, or in some other way deals with a verboten subject. In and of that, I think that's a bit fundamentalist — in the sense of "strong adherence to and unwilling to re-examine a set of beliefs." Please, I'm firmly NOT saying my deleted post was "best of the Web." I'm curious about the process-mindset-reaction, not defending my actual post. This isn't a "my post was a shining beacon of goodness and the ol' nasty people beat me up" thing, and I'm very much not here saying it shouldn't be deleted. (I once did that on MeTa a while ago and in retrospect still wince at what a horribly bad move it was.) But what I'm wondering is if stuff that falls in the category of chatfilter, LOLXians, LOLBush, or another "unpopular subject" listed in the pages referenced above even has a chance to be considered as a "good post" by the community, or if these guidelines are entirely and completely absolutely maintained in the community's eyes with rigorous, inflexible borders — in which case it really would be Mefilterian fundamentalism, wouldn't it? To clarify: admin enforcement is of course another clear matter, but I'm talking about approval of the majority of the Mefi community. How people react to a post, and not necessarily whether that post falls outside the guidelines that it'll be zapped. Short version of my blabbing: would this even have a chance of going as far as it did nowadays? Or would we have seen "chatfilter" and "Metafilter: life-exchanging experiences for your son"-style comments that would've torpedoed it even before it was put to sleep?

Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Readin

Armitage Shanks — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:26:14 -0800

#23: Every year I sneak a reference to Metafilter onto this list. And every year a Metafilter post ridicules its inclusion -- can't wait to see this year's! Have at it, inclusoridiculists.

Just a "mefi awesome today" post

takeyourmedicine — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:56:35 -0800

Today has been the best day in terms of FPPs in living memory. The sort of day that will keep me coming back for years to come. Can Fridays always be dedicated to the very best of the web? And statistically - what day has provided the most favourites?

Best no more.

croutonsupafreak — Fri, 18 May 2007 11:16:55 -0800

Now that we have this new interface for viewing our comments, I can no longer easily scroll through my ask.metafilter answers and see if any new ones have been marked as best. The word "best" appears, in small gray text, but the cool check mark that made me feel special is gone. :(

When is the best time to ask?

rbs — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:10:01 -0800

Do we have any data about what the best time of day is to ask an AskMe? Maybe even sliced and diced by tag or geography of respondant? Like, say I had a question about American law, when would be the best time of day (perhaps through some proxy measure like more responses is better, but maybe it could be smarter and be based on favorites or checked answers) to post it? Posts made around 1am Central might not be ideal cause they may slide off the page by mid morning, right? And they may be less interesting to Euros or Asians who are reading. (Sorry, but I don't know how to do a more inside)