MetaTalk posts tagged with bots

38: Zombie Bot Army

mathowie — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:30:29 -0800

First episode after the great server hackening, this podcast covers activity across MeFi for the month of February. It was recorded on the 25th of February and runs about an hour.

direct link Helpful links Podcast Feed MeFi Podcast on iTunes Direct mp3 download MeFi Music mentioned Saint V. Massacree by The White Hat Mefi Rock On by BrnP84, from the February challenge MeFi Jobs Design the cover of a MeFi collaborative fiction project Interactive Fiction-o-rama MeFi Interactive Fiction Contest (MetaTalk thread with a MeFi demo, a MeFi thread about IF, Don't Shit Your Pants IF game thread.) MeFi Projects Things My Beard Can Lift (fake beard lifting, awesome socks) Look at This Cat! (this cat) j, a cd command that learns MetaFilter posts Döner mit alles! Letter People (graphic of all Letter People) The McNuggetini A detailed history of miniature golf (which is in response to the Time Magazine 25 top blogs article -- MetaTalk post about the Time article that prompted this post, MetaTalk post about the Slate Ask MeFi article) The President's Desk post Hey, look at this cat! (penned by jessamyn) User Friendly copy/paste comics snafu Ask MeFi questions What should I know before I shave my head? What is it like to dream? Slate guy commented in the thread after we started recording. What is the best order of blog comments? (hint: not YouTube's model) What are "taters"? Easy conversation starters? How can I be a good grandfather? Best documentaries about assholes?

Why all the crashes?

empath — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:03:20 -0800

Why is metafilter so slow and crash-prone? I know it gets a huge amount of traffic, but what causes the regular outages? Do you guys need a new server or what? I can't think of another major site that experiences as much downtime as metafilter does. (i'm not criticizing, I know how difficult it is to run a site of this scale... just curiouis)

Vandalbots on the wiki

hoverboards don't work on water — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:08:51 -0800

The MetaFilter Wiki is being destroyed by vandalbots.

As recently as yesterday I used it to look something up, but its brain has been mostly melted. Can it be rolled back to an earlier snapshot? And can you make it so that only registered MeFi users can edit it?

Tips for hiding email addresses from spam bots

riffola — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 15:27:21 -0800

Zeldman offers some tips and tools on hiding email address from spam bots. Maybe that could be used instead of the %40?