MetaTalk posts tagged with doubles

RTFT, tl;dr McLazypants

the latin mouse — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:59:19 -0800

Why do people do this? How can I persuade them to stop? "I just got to this thread, and I haven't read through all the comments, so I apologize if my comments have been voiced already." "Sorry if someone posted this already; I haven't read this whole thing." "I haven't read this whole thread, but I wanted to stop by to say that this is dumb."

This site may harm your computer

KokuRyu — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:13:59 -0800

Google is broken.

Two heads are better than one

mwhybark — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:44:13 -0800

I just wanted to be sure everyone gets the memo. "Web zaphods," is that clear?

Standards.

gman — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:23:06 -0800

While I understand that this was a "stunt post", why are some threads deleted and others are simply closed to new comments? And why was this post, which was pointed out as a double and starts off with the same five words as this post, allowed to stay? Although the old link was broken, that's an easy fix.

Double the AskMeFi goodness in my RSS

prophetsearcher — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:03:12 -0800

Anyone else getting double AskMeFi RSS posts? Anyone else getting double AskMeFi RSS posts? Mac OSX.5, Freebie NetNewsWire, refreshes feeds every 2 hours. I'm not getting doubles of a recent individual thread I subscribed to, however.

travel laziness

vacapinta — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:52:46 -0800

This might be a better suggestion for the upcoming Travel site, but is it appropriate to suggest to people before they post looking for things to do in a new city, that they: A) Tell us as much about themselves as possible, B) Have perused all the previous threads relating to that city? (more inside)

Double-Post Culprits

chunking express — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:49:18 -0800

Is there a list somewhere out there of the users with the most double posts to their name? Or the highest ratio of doubles to legitimate posts?

Undeleted double post.

antifuse — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:24:04 -0800

Undeleted double.

Why does the link search find things the site search doesn't?

Gamblor — Thu, 04 May 2006 08:33:52 -0800

Why does the link search find things the site search doesn't?

Knowledge building over time.

Eideteker — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:29:25 -0800

An interesting aspect of the "filtration" on MetaFilter is chronological; and this aspect I think is often ignored, overlooked, or deprecated. [moronic inside]

Duplicate Posts: Keep the First One, or Keep the More Thorough One?

mkultra — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:44:23 -0800

The other one should be axed, not this one. I couldn't agree more. I know this has happened before- someone writing a well-crafted post is beaten (by about ten minutes) to the punch by a hastily-made, one-link post. I realize that technically, the "first" post wins, but shouldn't exceptions be made for cases like this? It's rewarding speed over substance.

There's good and there's bad.

Citizen Premier — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:32:01 -0800

I'd like to give a thanks to the new "your link has been found in another post" feature, and a pox to those people who don't use tags.

Deleted Double-Posts

brain_drain — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:47:43 -0800

After a double post is deleted, how about adding a link in the original thread pointing to the deleted thread? [more inside]

Statute of limitation on double posts?

chrid — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:21:03 -0800

A repost this may be, but it's highly worthy and should stay on the front page, because the chap has made more 'critters' since I last saw the site, and I very much appreciate being reminded of it, and for flip's sake, it was last posted in 2002.

[more inside]

How can I avoid making double posts?

moonbird — Sat, 17 Jul 2004 13:27:38 -0800

Drat! Foiled again! If anyone needs a pony that helps prevent doubleposts, it's me. I search (google) and search (MeFi), come up empty, post, and soon discover that I've been had. We've talked about such a pony that uses a keyword, category, or subject engine... how's it coming?

Quick and lazy newsfilter posts.

insomnyuk — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:19:44 -0800

Double-posts leak in. (1, 2)

Doubleposting Policy

crunchland — Wed, 10 Sep 2003 06:56:17 -0800

So I'm guessing that we've adopted a new unwritten policy on doubleposts?
[example, example, example]

What happened to my Black Friday post?

hockeyman — Sat, 23 Nov 2002 08:40:37 -0800

I posted a thread about retail price plans for major retailers being publsished on websites ahead of time. The retailers were ticked. The story questioned if this was a freedom of speech issue or did the retailers have a right to demand the information be removed.
The thread was removed. Was it the subject or the link to an audio news story?

What's the MeFi duplicate FPP record?

nathan_teske — Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:40:40 -0800

Triple? Quad? What's the MeFi duplicate FPP record?

Just wondering why this post was killed.

beth — Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:12:18 -0800

Just wondering why this post was killed. I can't fathom how it became controversial enough (or whatever enough) to be deleted, since the description reads:

"
Paper enables a certain kind of thinking. Picture, for instance, the top of your desk. Chances are that you have a keyboard and a computer screen off to one side, and a clear space roughly eighteen inches square in front of your chair. What covers the rest of the desktop is probably piles—piles of papers, journals, magazines, binders, postcards, videotapes, and all the other artifacts of the knowledge economy. The piles look like a mess, but they aren't. From The New Yorker."

Are people ever going to mellow out on the double post callouts?

mathowie — Fri, 18 Jan 2002 18:43:26 -0800

jesus christ. Are people ever going to mellow out on the double post callouts? A couple times in the past week, I've met someone that knows about the site, and their first comment to me is "everyone there loves to bitch about a double post, I never post there because of it"

Is there a statute of limitation on double posts?

solistrato — Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:04:55 -0800

Seeing this thread regarding the hoary old chestnut (you know, back in 2000) of Steve Albini vs. The Music Biz and Courtney Love ripping him off begs the question:

Is there a statute of limitations on double-posts?

Since TiggleTaggleTiger is a new user (May 2001), should he get cut slack? What if a newbie - new to the Web, new to MeFi - posts this link to a great site he found called fray.com? What's the correct procedure here?

Request: link to deleted double threads in the main one.

greyscale — Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:59:25 -0800

I'd like to request that when a post is removed because it is a double-post, can it simply be removed from the index page and a link to it inserted into the comments for the post that is retained? Is this possible?

Better search, fewer doubles

mathowie — Sat, 03 Nov 2001 11:10:02 -0800

I improved the search "previously found" feedback. Here is what you see if you search for something that was posted less than 5 times in the database, and here is what you see if you post a URL that is in there more than that. Hopefully this will cut down on double-posts.

What happened to this post?

HeikoH — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 23:44:13 -0800

does anyone know what happened to the oct 23 thread about kimble's megacar? was it removed?