BUSTED! A follow up! My father found out what the mysterious substance was, but I didn't tell him... [more inside]
posted by sixcolors on Feb 18, 2009 - 3 comments

Jesus f*ckin' wept. Has half of AskMe gone off its meds today?
posted by flabdablet on Jan 18, 2009 - 463 comments

this personal drama thing that dirtynumbangelboy has got going needs to stop - this whiny victim playing has utterly wrecked this thread and it's getting ridiculous just.stop.it.
posted by pyramid termite on Jul 4, 2008 - 134 comments

What's going on with these two relationship threads? [more inside]
posted by mudpuppie on May 1, 2008 - 100 comments

WTF Matt? [more inside]
posted by Doohickie on Jan 26, 2008 - 119 comments

Why so defensive, sequential? Lord knows we're just trying to help, but you're making it kinda difficult.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero on Dec 14, 2006 - 79 comments

This is what email is for.
posted by salvia on Oct 25, 2006 - 65 comments

Was high school really this complicated? It's been so long I can't remember. Officially contains one of my favorite sentences of all time: "Fast-forward to grade 11."
posted by dgeiser13 on Oct 13, 2006 - 86 comments

Somebody's cranky. I tried disciplining him myself, but he's made me take the unprecedented step of dragging him to the principal's office.
posted by jonmc on Jan 25, 2005 - 63 comments

There should be a comment limit per thread in MetaTalk. There are people who made 50+ comments in the Alex Reynolds thread. That is just wrong. No one should be allowed to make more than a fixed number of comments per MetaTalk thread. I say five. Pile ons are not cathartic releases, mob psychology is not self-policing. This place has gone from Harrison Bergeron meets Lord of the Flies to The Jerry Springer Show meets the Married With Children studio audience. It's a waste of bandwidth, creates nothing but ill feeling and a collective sense of entitlement to say shitty things. We might as well be bearbaiting or throwing cats into bonfires.
posted by y2karl on Jan 6, 2005 - 245 comments

This thread is leaving a bad taste in my mouth for a number of reasons. I don't really like the author of the FPP, and I have some pretty fundamental disagreements with his opinions. However, for the most part, the thread is less about the links than about mob character assassination.

To what degree should a long-standing history of conflict here and the author's identity be permitted to drive discussion?
posted by KirkJobSluder on May 14, 2004 - 214 comments

at the emailed advice of a fellow mefier, i need to say something to all of you. no, this isn't a stunt for attention, or yet another thread to stir it with a stick...he tells me that my entry back into mefi has been rude, and he questioned why i did it the way I did. when I told him, he said i should tell the rest of you . more inside...
posted by bunnyfire on Feb 22, 2002 - 14 comments

Too many threads on one subject at one time ruins Metafilter.

I cannot help but acknowledge how stupid and trivializing it is to get wrapped-up in the (real or fictional) illness of someone through the Web when there are REAL people in distress near where you live (real caring and concern requires more than typing on a keyboard).

My main point is that Metafilter should not be taken over by multiple threads on the same topic, or discussions about threads on one topic: it ruins the place.
posted by ParisParamus on May 22, 2001 - 4 comments