MetaTalk posts tagged with comment

JRun Error of 2009?

rollbiz — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:38:26 -0800

Problems Posting a Comment. I've tried several times to post a comment to the "I Wish I Was Special" post, and it's not going well. I've logged out and back in, I've tried switching browsers (Firefox to Safari), and it's just sitting and wanting to load and failing. All other sites load fine, and for that matter Metafilter loads fine. I just can't post a comment, apparently. Sorry if this is lacking as a troubleshooting/bug post, I've never made one before.

Search Through User's Activity?

MikeHarris — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:18:01 -0800

Would it be possible to have a search box on Activity subpages -- in other words, a search function that limits itself to a single user's comments or posts? I think this'd be a useful tool because, as one example, a lot of people may remember threads by virtue of author and comments -- "oh, this thread I half-remember, that was where Joe said 'flippy'" -- and being able to comment search would be useful to allow users to themselves coax partial memories out themselves without MeTa or admin assistance. I do see how it could be abused for stalkerish purposes, but we've not let that get in the way of implementing other existing conveniences such as per-user RSS post feeds, Google Earth KMZ links in profiles, and so on.

Great read!

four panels — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:26:10 -0800

Hi, just wanted to say how great (I think) this story comment is. I don't get to read everything on the site, and maybe someone missed this like I miss other things.

RSS comment count?

Baldons — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:44:35 -0800

Since yesterday, I haven't been seeing the comment count in the RSS feeds anymore. I've tried in the main metafilter feed and in the popular posts feed. Is it a bug, an oversight, a suppressed pony? Is it just me? Thanks for listening.

DU's 10,000th comment

Joe Beese — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:56:46 -0800

DU's 10,000th comment.

deleted comments show up in side bar

idiopath — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:53:12 -0800

I can see the favorites this comment has, and it shows up in my side bar because it was made by a contact, but the comment has been deleted.

I'm unable to comment in Projects

tellurian — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:37:50 -0800

I can't post a comment to Projects. OSX 10.5.7 Safari 4.0.1 and Firefox 2.0.0.14. The comment previews okay but after hitting post it returns an empty text input box and no comment is posted.

Giving the gift of Metafilter, with words

Lemurrhea — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:13:50 -0800

Can we add a message field to the gift membership form? When using the gift membership form, we are limited to just entering their email address. Could we add a field, even just a couple hundred characters, for a message to this person? Then they'd get, with italics the new section: "Metafilter member ***** has given you the gift of a Metafilter account! Metafilter is a community weblog. Message from member ***** follows:
Hi! I met you at the club last night, we danced all night and now I'd like you to join my ~~cult~~ community weblog!
To activate your account, visit the following URL: http://www.metafilter.com/gift.mefi?invite=************ Welcome! --- By the way, you can check out *****'s profile on Metafilter here: http://www.metafilter.com/user/*****"

Play me off

The Whelk — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:43:37 -0800

Did I hallucinate a Metafilter comment? I remember reading the line "Play him hither, Lute Cat" on Metafilter recently and though it was so hilarious I needed to illustrate it. I wanted to give credit to the original commenter, but I can't for the life of me find the comment. All my styles of google-fu have failed me. Did this comment actually exist?

It actually is kind of serious business.

2or3whiskeysodas — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:25:18 -0800

I, too, am trying to find a comment I'm almost certain I read on the Blue. It was a refutation of the glib, "The internets is serious business!"-style dismissal of people who would deign to take anything said online to heart. The tone of the comment was something to the effect of, "Sure, it's no big deal, it has only connected much of the world's population in ways only dreamed of," or something. I'm not doing it justice, nor am I trying to. The commenter might have been quoting someone else. Many thanks to anyone who can locate this!

Thanks for my pony?

butterstick — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:43:03 -0800

Thanks for my pony? So early last year I asked for a pony, and I just recently noticed this functionality is in the RSS feed now. Is this a recent addition or have I just not noticed? Do I thank pb/mathowie or feedburner for this one?

Chrome Needs Polishing

Pater Aletheias — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:39:49 -0800

Links to specific comments don't work for me when using Chrome (with Vista). On both my desktop and laptop machines, clinking a link to a specific comment on Chrome takes me to the right page, but nowhere close to the right comment. This happening to anyone else?

Editorializing about Optimalized Recent Activity

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:31:12 -0800

Changed interface in Recent Activity!
"78 total comments. 5 since the last comment you read. 20 since your most recent comment, last 10 shown below..." This? Is very cool! Thanks! Very much!

Why it's rational to believe what scientists say

Jaltcoh — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:05:34 -0800

I'm looking for a comment on Mefi or AskMe where someone gave an extended quote from a scientist/commentator (maybe Richard Feynman), explaining why it's rational for a layperson to believe what scientists say, even if you haven't figured out the mechanics of how they arrived at their conclusions. The gist was that it's sufficient just to know that the scientists are generally skilled at figuring things out. (That's probably oversimplifying, which is why I want to find the actual passage.) I forget if this was in AskMe or the blue. It was a long paragraph, probably taking up about 10 or 12 lines. It may have been all italicized, and it probably had some favorites. I believe the comment was in the middle of a long thread. I've been Googling around but haven't found it. (A search for feynman science site:metafilter.com turns up 387 results.)

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hal_c_on — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:42:00 -0800

Whats with the period? I've started to notice a lot of posts that are made up of only a ".". I don't want to call anybody out because I may just be uninformed and there may be a purpose to it that I don't understand. Whats up with that? Is there a purpose to that, or is it just to be seen, or in agreement of the last post, OP, or what? It doesn't contribute anything to the community...as far as I know. I really don't understand. Thanks in advance to all the mefites who will respond with a simple ".".

Who watches the Watchmen comments?

Bango Skank — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:19:23 -0800

I finally got to see Watchmen last night and in talking about it afterwards, I was reminded of a comment I read on the blue that I cannot for the life of me find again. I have been looking for a couple of hours now and beginning to wonder if I made the whole thing up. Please help. The basic argument of the comment was that the person who should have directed Watchmen is some kid whose still in high-school right now and has been watching and critiquing superhero movies his whole life. The comment suggested that this hypothetical director has been making his own movies in the backyard and if given another decade to hone his craft would be the ideal film-maker to properly bring Watchmen to the screen. I think that I have probably paraphrased that pretty poorly. I remember the comment as being fairly long and getting a pretty good number of favorites. I have tried a bunch of different search terms and have been reading through the old Watchmen threads with no success, maybe someone out there is better at this than I am.

Collecting Specialness

Toekneesan — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:24:28 -0800

I noticed Neatorama had another post from Metafilter on their site (previously), but then looked closely and noticed it wasn't Metafilter they were linking to. All of the collections featured seem to have a corresponding entry to a comment in the Metafilter post or the original Smithsonian article. Okay, so maybe there really are only so many special collections to feature, and it doesn't appear to be lifting the comment text, but it does seem to be letting someone else do the work. The site is also awfully suspicious in that this is the only thing on it. No this isn't illegal and maybe only borderline unethical, but it is annoying. Could it be that User Friendly is branching out into diploma milling?

Why do Americans always dance around singing the same song?

miss lynnster — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:57:41 -0800

The Sound of Music-oblivious Salzburg Lady. I decided to scan in a bunch of old photos to share with friends today, and figured I'd share one with Mefites too. Since y'all loved that story so much I figured I should give you a visual image to put with it. Adorable, ja?

Danke

pianomover — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:38:12 -0800

Thank you for deleting me. I was following this link and still am, but got caught up in a wild veer from the post. When I woke up the next morning I felt like an idiot for going off topic, but all trace of said idiocy was gone. Thanks

Is something up with the AskMe database?

vsync — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:24:13 -0800

It seems like half the time I try to post an answer on the green, it will show up saying it was successfully posted, then disappear. This isn't just in preview, it POSTs the comment and I get a full HTML page back with the new comment included. But if I look later, anytime between minutes and hours later, the comment's gone. It disappears from my posting history too, and I've gotten no mail from admins or anything like that. This doesn't seem to happen on the blue.

Comment Search: The Specificking

joelhunt — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:25:14 -0800

I read an Ask Metafilter comment a while back that was an awesome recreation of what would happen if men actually verbalized their moment-to-moment thoughts to their significant other. It involved, as I remember, copious references to wanting to see other people naked and boss/co-worker killings. I really want to find the comment again to share it with a friend, but my search skills are not up to the task. If anyone can help me locate it, I promise to favorite it so this will never happen again. Oh, and if this is an innapropriate use of MetaTalk, please feel free to flag this post for deletion and/or mock me mercilessly. Or mercifully. It's up to you. Thanks!

Where's that post about what happens in the ER?

desjardins — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:53:35 -0800

I can't find the comment about what happens when you show up at the ER for a mental health issue. I'm pretty sure it was in an AskMe thread posted by an anonymous person with bipolar symptoms, and I'm pretty sure it was sidebarred. (Is there a sidebar archive? Pony request!) Thanks in advance.

waaahaaaa there's no comments on tag view please advise

Memo — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:53:50 -0800

So, is there any reason why the tag view (example) has no comment count?

Fight iPhone Lag, disable comment autopreview

Good Brain — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:29:46 -0800

iPhone-y pony please: a way to supress the automatic inline comment preview to mitigate typing lag. Entering text into a plain text area like this one works pretty smoothly from my iPhone. Entering text into the comment fields on posts is miserable and laggy (which isn't good for accuracy). I strongly suspect the lag is due to the javascript that updates the live preview. Therefore I am asking for an easy way to disable the live preview. Basing it on automatic browser detection would be even cooler.