So, even outside of election years browser crushing 3000+ post megathreads are now a not uncommon thing - should we be looking at pagination at the 2000 comment mark? And if not pagination what else could be done to make them less of a browser crushing experience, especially on mobile?
posted by Artw
on Apr 18, 2013 -
93 comments
In a recent comment, someone mentioned an online EMDR site that they found beneficial. I've Googled and found several such sites, but am specifically looking for the one that is MeFite-approved. Can anyone direct me to it?
posted by Wordwoman
on Mar 18, 2013 -
1 comment
I made an ill considered remark in timsteil's
folkstreams post and he made a polite response which made me feel ashamed after I saw his consternation. I wanted to clarify my harsh out and went to make a clarifying comment when my computer crashed and I had to reboot. And when I got back, I made my comment and then saw his was already deleted. I am getting so sick of the editing of our conversations.I really think sometime that there should be placeholders for all deletions you make. You are overdoing it, in my estimation.
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posted by y2karl
on Mar 17, 2013 -
54 comments
A minor petition to MeFites at large: if you're the first person to comment on a thread, please don't start out negative, because that tends to bring the whole conversation down from the get-go.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Mar 1, 2013 -
163 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
I subscribe to AskMe via Google Reader, and the bottom of each post provides a link to the post. The link reads "X comments on this item," where X is always 1 more than the actual number of comments. Not a huge deal, but something I wonder about ever so often. Bug? Ghosts of comments past?
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posted by illenion
on Nov 4, 2012 -
6 comments
Assuming any MetaFilter users are interested in writing posts or comments during voting and counting, how will this bloggie handle what will be its 4th US presidential election?
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posted by Wordshore
on Oct 30, 2012 -
80 comments
Quick question about protocol on the human relationships section of AskMeFi. If someone asks a question there which can potentially be answered by just a yes/no answer, is it okay to just answer it with a yes/no, or should one always add reasoning to your answer?
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posted by Wordshore
on Oct 21, 2012 -
22 comments
Edit?...Edit!?!...EDIT!! Are pigs flying now? Is Ahab no longer Ahab? Or I meant to say-- "Thank you for the new 'Typo? Edit your post' button which I only now just noticed."
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posted by seasparrow
on Oct 12, 2012 -
161 comments
With the political season upon us like a vicious ape clinging to our backs, our long, long coupla thousand comment threads are a beast to load, especially on mobile devices. Is there a way to have a user-set preference to fold all but the last, say, 100 comments so that they don't have to load up each time?
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posted by klangklangston
on Oct 3, 2012 -
56 comments
We should have a best comment contest. I don't know how it would be decided exactly, but presumably the mods have come up with some criteria for the best post contest, so perhaps they could be applied to comments.
posted by desjardins
on Aug 20, 2012 -
98 comments
The good news: MetaTalk has over 1,000,000 comments as of today. The bad news: the millionth comment was apparently deleted.
posted by double block and bleed
on Jun 12, 2012 -
103 comments
"This" considered harmful? I've noticed that it's fairly common when linking to something, that the link is given a non-description. This seems prone to cause problems with link rot. I know Matt has a
long bet in place that link rot isn't a major issue, but I know I've stumbled onto dead links when looking at old AskMe answers. Should we consider links without description bad form?
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posted by borkencode
on May 2, 2012 -
45 comments
Ya'll are being strange and interesting again. Two
recent AskMe questions are about whether to correct someone close to you and the answers, along with their reasoning, are fascinating.
posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Apr 27, 2012 -
149 comments
Perhaps I don't have enough experience on the site to gauge this, but does anyone else find one liner meta comments about threads really annoying and useless? Perhaps this is something that should be mentioned in the guidelines?
From the negative "This will not go well." to the typical sarcastic "This is thread is going nowhere..." to the positive "I'm surprised this went well!", they seem out of place and more about the person writing it than the topic at hand.
When I remember, I'm going to start marking all of these as noise.
posted by smidgen
on Apr 19, 2012 -
108 comments
Have you ever favorited yourself, i.e. a comment or a post? Why did you do it, and what happened?
Something makes me feel it is a no-no, but just curious.
posted by polymodus
on Mar 24, 2012 -
144 comments
Is there weirdness occurring with the "new since last visit" numbers on the front page in Chrome?
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posted by obloquy
on Mar 10, 2012 -
6 comments
A couple changes to make making Greasemonkey scripts more straightforward, please?
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posted by Flunkie
on Nov 22, 2011 -
8 comments
Has site commenting become less frequent? It seems like threads are shorter on average these days, especially in the last few months. Is this due to the loss of a few prolific people?
posted by desjardins
on Oct 25, 2011 -
112 comments
I've been noticing more and more lately that many people who comment in a thread are not reading the thread very closely, and as a result they end up repeating things that other people have already said. This was especially apparent in
this thread about the animal escape in Ohio, but it's by no means the only example. Can we do a better job?
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posted by albrecht
on Oct 20, 2011 -
154 comments
Feature Request: AskMeFi "amendments," long after a thread has been closed. Maybe 3% of the questions I've answered, life goes on, I learn, and I wish I could add something to the boneheaded advice that was supplied by an earlier me, so future searchers see it.
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posted by zeek321
on Sep 26, 2011 -
39 comments
How can I access popular comments on the non-mobile interface?
posted by bq
on Aug 13, 2011 -
18 comments
Is there something broken with comments? When I hit "post", the page reloads, but my comment doesn't appear for a good 30-60 seconds, and then I have to either reload the page again or hit the Load New Comments button before my comment appears in the thread. This is decidedly not the functionality I'm used to on this website.
posted by hippybear
on Aug 7, 2011 -
56 comments
"Please refrain from bicyclist vs. driver discussion here. This post is about recovering from a serious injury."
Sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that... as such, I'll flag this comment and stay out of the thread.
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posted by Nanukthedog
on Aug 4, 2011 -
88 comments
I remember (but can't find) an AskMe comment where someone said she had slept with her male, virginal friend "to boost his confidence" or something, but that ultimately it changed nothing and 10 years later he still hadn't slept with anyone else. Anyone remember where it was/have better search skills than me?
posted by needs more cowbell
on Jul 24, 2011 -
33 comments
When the "x new comments" link is clicked, does it also magically pull out deleted comments as well?
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posted by nevercalm
on Jun 28, 2011 -
30 comments
I noticed that the
posting guidelines suggest looking at posts with 10 - 20 comments as examples of posts that spark a decent amount of discussion. These numbers seem out of date to me. Maybe they should be changed to 40 - 50 comments?
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posted by yellowbinder
on Jun 13, 2011 -
40 comments
