You know the number that tells you how many new posts have been added? Sometimes mine works, sometimes it doesn't. Most of the time, it just tells me the number of posts in the whole thread, even if I've responded. Is there way to reset it, or get it to count correctly?
And am I in the right place to ask this question?
posted by MoxieProxy
on May 22, 2013 -
37 comments
I have a vague unsubstantiated feeling that some comments I've written got tossed into the memory hole. Am I being paranoid, or is this normal with some justification I'm not aware of?
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posted by MikeWarot
on May 9, 2013 -
460 comments
Hey, what's the deal with a joke comment being deleted from this
recent MetaTalk thread? It was mild joke and I thought the bar for deleting comments from Metatal was much higher. I would ask in the thread, but when someone else did that, their comment was deleted, so here we are.
posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Apr 25, 2013 -
16 comments
You know that one comment you read once, maybe about the kindergarten teacher who speciously reassures you, "I always put on a condom before I teach?" Maybe the all-time perfect Ask Me flowchart for reconciling your career decisions with your sexual kinks?
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posted by grobstein
on Mar 22, 2013 -
79 comments
Can we have less comments
like this, please? It doesn't really add anything to the discussion, and I'm glad that most people ignored it, but I'm having trouble just letting it go.
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posted by MattMangels
on Feb 28, 2013 -
62 comments
I seem to remember a comment on MetaFilter on the subject of "fake geek girls", that stated that actually women were the first geeks and vastly outnumbered men in the early scifi conventions. Does anyone remember the comment?
posted by Deathalicious
on Jan 16, 2013 -
26 comments
I have a vague recollection of a comment in AskMeFi about how to best document one's progress/achievement at work on a regular basis that I'd like to find. I seem to remember it was a suggestion about emailing your boss at the end of the week to let them know everything you'd accomplished that week and what your next steps were. Does this sound familiar to anyone? I thought I'd added it as a favorite, but no such luck. Thanks for any tips for where to find it!
posted by Neely O'Hara
on Jan 7, 2013 -
5 comments
What is the longest amount of time you've seen between posting a comment and someone marking it as a favorite?
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posted by reenum
on Dec 22, 2012 -
55 comments
To people who have done this;
why did you create Front Page Post(s) on MetaFilter? The motivations are interesting in themselves, and may also provide positive reasons for people to cross the rubicon
from lurker to poster.
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posted by Wordshore
on Dec 7, 2012 -
122 comments
Ajax updates that allow us to see new comments without reloading an entire page have been a wonderful addition to this site. Any chance we could get Ajax posting as well? This would be really helpful in long threads which can crash my browser after I post a comment.
posted by grouse
on Nov 7, 2012 -
49 comments
We just added the ability to edit comments for five minutes across all MetaFilter sites.
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posted by pb
on Oct 1, 2012 -
1009 comments
Where is that comment which wonderfully explains why women from conservative American families tend to have children much earlier than other women? It's probably at least a couple of years old, but I think it was heavily-favorited.
posted by swift
on Jul 26, 2012 -
15 comments
Someone once posted a link to or description of a good response to 'what's your greatest weakness' that remained polite while pointing out to the interviewer that it is maybe not a great question.
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posted by tulip-socks
on Jul 20, 2012 -
18 comments
I'm looking for a comment that I just can't find and want to read again. It detailed a version of Sex In The City as performed as a Beckett-like Black Box stage production. The women wailed a chorus of " THE SHOES" someone said " I fear I am not fecund". I have tried every permutation I could think of with no success. I'm 99% sure I read it here.
posted by The Whelk
on Jun 23, 2012 -
74 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
Is there much in the way of comment fiction? Has anyone collected it? Thinking about things like
this.
posted by curious nu
on Feb 8, 2012 -
86 comments
A while back on Metafilter somebody in a comment gave a name to the phenomenon where a naive computer user would go through a crazy number of steps to achieve a result that a user who knows what they're doing would get in a much more straightforward manner. So, to manipulate an image they'd found online, they might print it out, then take a photograph of it, then email the JPG file to themselves, then etc., etc...
This sort of thing.
Does anybody remember the comment I'm talking about, and the name it gave for this? I think it may have been a comment by one of the mods, but I can't quite remember it or find it by searching. Thanks!
(I ask because I'm sure it'll be a perfect description of the map on
this page.)
posted by Richard Holden
on Dec 8, 2011 -
139 comments
Pony request: In an effort to save people from their own mistakes how about an extremely minimal editing ability for comments?
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posted by RolandOfEld
on Nov 30, 2011 -
56 comments
Recently active pony: Is there a way to see recent activity since specific, non-self comments? Or some other way to bookmark threads?
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posted by Westringia F.
on Nov 19, 2011 -
16 comments
Sometime within the last six or months or so (I think?) there was a post on Ask MetaFilter about eating or dieting or ways to lose weight or something to that effect. One of the commenters said something about how he or she says something like, "does this taste as good as it would feel" or something like that. It may have been marked as a Best Answer, which means it wasn't in an anonymous thread and I think it had a number of favorites. I can't find it now, but does anyone remember where that comment was? Anyone? Thanks!
posted by jroybal
on May 29, 2011 -
36 comments
Is it okay to post a comment in your own thread with one of your sockpuppets to support your side of a discussion/argument?
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posted by fieldtrip
on Apr 11, 2011 -
119 comments
Can you help me find this comment that described how software for the Space Shuttle is written?
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posted by nomadicink
on Dec 11, 2010 -
21 comments
I appear to have just gotten my first comment deletion, out of this
thread. Out of concern about aggressive moderation and love for the MetaFilter community, I have several pony requests.
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posted by eschatfische
on Dec 6, 2010 -
192 comments
Teeny tiny pony: remove the #commentpreview anchor in the header redirect after posting a comment.
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posted by kmz
on Aug 26, 2010 -
30 comments
