Metafilter's Own™ fake won an Epilog laser cutter for his DIY book scanner. Awesome job! [more inside]
posted by odinsdream on May 23, 2009 - 22 comments

MeFi's own EmpressCallipygos and Greg Nog appeared on Good Morning America during the Bacon Takedown on Sunday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. [more inside]
posted by Optimus Chyme on Apr 1, 2009 - 48 comments

Announcing the first ever MetaFilter Interactive Fiction Contest, March 1st-31st. During the month of March all MeFites are encouraged to try to write an interactive fiction game or play games submitted by fellow MeFites. If you want to vote on the games or you want to submit a story, please visit the contest website and register. [more inside]
posted by Deathalicious on Feb 26, 2009 - 100 comments

Most of this podcast covers the Best Posts of December Contest as we determine our favorites and come up with a list of winners (results are inside), then follow it up with favorite posts from other sections of the site. Recorded on January 2, it's just under an hour long.

direct link [more inside]
posted by mathowie on Jan 2, 2009 - 57 comments

What are your odds of winning December's "best post" contest?
posted by Joe Beese on Jan 1, 2009 - 80 comments

And the winner of the 2008 MetaFilter Election Prediction Contest is... [more inside]
posted by gsteff on Nov 5, 2008 - 33 comments

Web-goddess regained the Mefi distance running title (previous challenges : 1, 2). Amazingly, she racked up 77.21 kilometer in 14 days. Silver and bronze medals go to AJR (76k) and Sanjayafan (75k). During the remainder of this month, we'll find out who's the fastest mefite (speed challenge over 5k). Previous participants have been invited to this new challenge via the Nike+ site. If you've got the Nike + Ipod sport kit and want in, post your Nike+ screenname in this thread.
posted by pj_rivera on May 15, 2007 - 38 comments

What about an Astronomy Day post contest?
posted by freebird on Apr 17, 2007 - 17 comments

When I was younger I entered a lot of bi-weekly music competitions. During the first week people would make songs using only a provided pack of samples. The people who entered would vote on the best ones the second week. It gave me a lot of practice, I met a lot of new people, and it was fun. How about something similar for MetaFilter Music?
posted by cmicali on Jan 4, 2007 - 25 comments

And the winner of the 2006 MetaFilter Election Prediction Contest is...
posted by gsteff on Nov 8, 2006 - 27 comments

It would be fun to have some sort of halloween contest next Tuesday. The most spirited post would win some sort of prize? What would the prize be? I suggest five pounds worth of candy shipped to the winning poster. What do you all think?
posted by wheelieman on Oct 24, 2006 - 32 comments

Yahoo! Answers UK 5 million answers challenge-a gimmicky promotion for a not-very-good service, but it gave me an idea:

What if we had a contest for unanswered AskMe questions (those that haven't had a best answer marked) older than, say, a month? Suggested prize: choice of free Metafilter account or $5 for each unanswered question that was resolved favorably. Of course we would need a special page where we could view lingering unanswered questions. Which would be a pretty decent idea anyway; I would certainly read it.
posted by evariste on Sep 4, 2006 - 33 comments

Sidebar says "CONTEST. Best post of the day wins $30, all August." Out of (by my count) 73 posts on August 23 and 24, there were none that were any good?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on Aug 26, 2006 - 61 comments

The contest results for August are all posted here. There's a small marker at the end of the post noting the winners and the runner ups for each day (we'll pick three good ones, and one winner from that). So far, no one is putting their paypal info in their profile, so I haven't sent out one red cent, so get to updatin' your profile already (the paypal info isn't displayed anywhere on the site).
posted by mathowie on Aug 4, 2006 - 34 comments

So, about this best post of the day thing.. are you announcing it on MeTa every day?

I think it would be kind of cool if you also highlighted it on Metafilter, ala AskMe favorited comments. That way, scrolling back a day or two on the front page I'll be able to tell the winning posts at a glance.
posted by graventy on Aug 1, 2006 - 9 comments

How about a contest where candidate posts are judged on quality, the winner of which gets to be posted as item 50000? This would avoid the contention and possible server disruption likely to occur in the coming days, which will only be distracting, anyway. We could pre-emptively make this energy positive. Unless there are plans already, in which case, hurry up and delete this thread. (inspired by this comment)
posted by cacophony on Feb 28, 2006 - 51 comments

Just a reminder: The Projects grand opening contest ends today. If you were procrastinating, now's the time.
posted by smackfu on Dec 9, 2005 - 8 comments

Results for Chili question on AskMe
posted by RustyBrooks on Nov 26, 2005 - 23 comments

Last week's fundraiser became a sad debacle, and there's certainly no point retreading that ground. But I really like the idea of MeFites raising money for charity, and I think it's fun to make it a competition. I came up with an idea for a new, and hopefully friendlier and less divisive, contest for charity. I'd like to hear what you folks think. [more inside]
posted by Faint of Butt on Oct 24, 2005 - 55 comments

Now that the other contest is over, and since we're building up to Halloween, what sort of contest can we come up with to encourage 11 days of the creepiest/scariest posts ever?
posted by kimota on Oct 22, 2005 - 23 comments

Hey, Matt, everyone else doesn't think the contest is great. You might know that, of course, if you could manage not to close a thread as soon as you don't like the direction in which it turns. [mi]
posted by dame on Oct 22, 2005 - 164 comments

"You guys have some sense of outrage over something that was a goof".
O.K., let's play, then, since it's such a funny a goof, apparently. I volunteer for the next MetaSurvivor round -- let's give my many MeFi friends a nice fat chance to vote me off the island. Two requests, though. 500 dollars are bad for my ego, let's make it 1,000. And I don't care enough about CreativeCommons (sorry!), so if you want to kick me out you have to donate to these guys. Who wants to play with me?
posted by matteo on Oct 21, 2005 - 66 comments

Holy crap, the BATTLE IS OVAH!!!
posted by mathowie on Oct 21, 2005 - 60 comments

I suggest we do another contest like amberglow's, on October 1 prehaps? There wouldd be no prizes from me but if someone else steps up and offers that would be ideal. I wont be posting anything because frankly I suck at posts lately. Anyone up to this? After all the crap/shit posts lately, we need happier MeFi days here!!
posted by wheelieman on Sep 19, 2005 - 28 comments

Just a quick thumbs up to the MeFites - skimming the blue reveals a large number of posts that are, a. reasonably interesting and b. well supported with lots of links. I feel like Mefi has been consistently stronger of late, perhaps fallout from the 8/1 contest? Anyway, just wanted to spread some love.
posted by jalexei on Aug 18, 2005 - 27 comments

Post any complaints about the contest or any nice compliments here. Be nice little trolls noe!!
posted by wheelieman on Aug 1, 2005 - 59 comments

anastasiav is offering cash moneya gift certificate for the best link posted on 1 August 2005, as judged by her.
posted by kenko on Jul 28, 2005 - 50 comments

The election contest item in the sidebar is pretty old now. Is it still there for a reason?
posted by freebird on Jan 12, 2005 - 4 comments

I believe the deadline for the MeFi Design Contest has passed. Does anybody who entered have the nerve to show off their actual entries to the MeFi public? I have half a notion to, but I don't want to be the first (or anything before sixth) to expose my web design shortcomings...
posted by wendell on Jan 1, 2005 - 132 comments

I'm hereby announcing the MetaFilter design contest. Post any questions here.
posted by mathowie on Nov 21, 2004 - 53 comments

Is anyone interested in helping to organize a MeFi Searchathon? [More inside.]
posted by MiguelCardoso on Sep 15, 2004 - 29 comments

Last year and the year before, in May, jbushnell started a MetaFilter thread asking what the coolest thing you could find on the web for X amount of dollars was, and offered to buy the thing he himself deemed "the coolest". jbushnell hasn't contributed to MetaFilter since last October, and May is just about over, so I doubt he plans to show up to post this challenge again. (more inside)
posted by iconomy on May 31, 2002 - 16 comments

This thread is for the discussion of the suggested MetaFilter World Trade Center Design Contest (I'm not even going to attempt an acronym for that one)

Please comment and criticize away. Particulars that need discussion include: how to enter? how to judge? etc.
posted by Ptrin on Jan 21, 2002 - 14 comments

A Member of the Month. With software for voting.
posted by ParisParamus on Oct 8, 2001 - 19 comments

Did you win a TiVo? Post your winning essay here to compare and contrast.
posted by mathowie on Sep 26, 2000 - 63 comments