MetaTalk posts tagged with filter

DrossFilter - brute force thread cleanser

hifimofo — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:09:21 -0800

As a bit of a brain saver I've made a GreaseMonkey script that hides every comment in a discussion on mefi that has less than 5 favourites. It was the anencephalic baby thread that drove me to it. I was thinking about writing a snark filter, but, you know, natural language parsing and all that, so I decided to make it simple and dumb. And it works. Only quality snark makes it through. And if you ever find yourself thinking "I can't believe I just spent thirty minutes reading 180 comments about W, which was mainly X, Y and Z bitching", you might also find it handy. Naturally, if you wish to fully participate in a thread you will have to turn the script off. Here is the script. It is based on someone else's script that highlighted favourited comments. Future developments I will never get around to implementing:

Scale the cut-off point to the length of the thread
Add a show all comments button

Why "Filters" before questions?

dicetumbler — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:41:32 -0800

This is probably obvious, which is why I couldn't find it in the FAQ or the search. Why do people preface their questions with "[blank] filter:"? Does it help future searches and RSS filters?

How can I filter my personal view of MetaFilter?

kalessin — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:48:46 -0800

I'm not going to say it on the AskMe thread, because that's not the place for it, but we are getting REALLY WEIRD about food and diet. Is there a reasonable way I can filter specific posting topics or tags out of my personal view of MetaFilter? I read the whole thread, diet question, off the cuff ED diagnosis and diet advice with this dawning sense of surreality. Grains have been a staple in the human diet for millennia. They're not a vice! 400 calories you don't need? What? I'm starting to get the feeling I should try to mentally or somehow greasemonkey-wise just filter health posts out of my personal view of MetaFilter. This method of not interacting with the Internet has always helped keep me out of needless flamewars in the past. Is that already technically possible and I don't know it? The main problem I have with that method is that some health-related AskMe questions are interesting to me, and not diet-related. But whatever. I'd be okay just losing health entirely if I could avoid this surreal diet talk, seriously. Suggestions?

Favorites Filter

Dave Faris — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:08:36 -0800

Filter filter. Assuming that favorited comments are better than non-favorited comments, wouldn't the next logical step for the favorites system be to provide a way to distill threads down to their essential goodness? How about adding a drop down box at the top of each thread, letting the reader choose to filter out all the comments that don't make the grade -- displaying only the comments that have X number of favorites or more.

Topic-specific filter sites

Miko — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:21:38 -0800

FilteredFilters? How would the community view a site that catalogued posts from MeFi on a specific subject? OK, it's likely I'm way behind the curve here, but does anyone catalogue MeFi posts on a separate page that they maintain? For instance, I was thinking about how much I'd enjoy keeping a catalogue of links to just the folklore and culture posts at MeFi, and how much folklorists would enjoy this pre-filtered Filter. It could even be in the form of a blog linked directly to the threads. I know there are many spinoff sites such as SportsFilter, but they seem to collect new content, rather than just presenting a set of selected MeFi links. TravelFilter is an 'official' project of MeFi, and I don't think FolkFilter would ever garner that status (the demand is, uh, a lot smaller). But I can imagine interest from outside the daily participant community in something like LibraryFilter, DesignFilter, etc. So what would be the protocol here? I don't want to be hurting MeFi. And it's not likely that I'll actually have the time to do this...I just like to think about it in that abstract one-day-project way.

Filtering Posts

avriette — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:46:29 -0800

Is there a way to not receive posts matching a given tag? [details inside]

Split AskMe

interrobang — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:54:16 -0800

Instead of having this ridiculous two-week wait between questions, which makes the site practically unuseable, why not split AskMe into two separate sites?

How to stop the spread of "_____Filter"

dh65 — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:32:31 -0800

How to stop the spread of "_____Filter" in subject headings?
The wiki says (under the heading "inside jokes") that "___Filter" is used to indicate that a topic is so over-discussed as to risk taking over MetaFilter altogether. Examples are IraqFilter and NewsFilter. But current (and increasing) usage seems to be just an effort to be cute: BSDMFilter, CondomFilter, UmbrellaFilter, etc. I, for one, find this annoying and stupid and think it should be discouraged. It's like one of those things that is mildly amusing the first couple of times and thereafter just idiotic. I think that the WhatIsAGoodPost, WhatIsAGoodComment, WhatIsAGoodQuestion entries should be altered to discourage people from this dumb practice.

AskMe sorting and posting

filmgeek — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:34:51 -0800

1 Etiquette, 1 request.

Etiquette - are you allowed to post to ask.mefi with no comments at all in threads? (looked all over etiquette questions+wiki couldn't find the thread/answer)
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Request:
Any way to filter Ask.ME questions to those questions with <5 (or 10) answers with no best answer?br>
It'd be very useful to see all the questions with only one to four responses...that often get scrolled by.

What is this filtering you speak of?

Misciel — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 08:51:47 -0800

I just saw a comment on Metafilter today, I think it was, talking about another "[Fill in the blank] Filter" website, but saying that "Not much filtering was going on..." As a neophyte, I'd need some explanation about "filtering". It seems to be far more than, say, censorship or limiting access... but I was wondering if somebody could offer a more complete definition that covers specifically how Metafilter and other sites like it are "filtering". Thanks!!

Simultaneous callout and feature request

PrinceValium — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:09:23 -0800

mattslist.metafilter.com?

*Filter

ZachsMind — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:14:24 -0800

IT'S ON! ...okay. I'll bite. It's on what?

No more xFilter, please

grumblebee — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:27:40 -0800

I vote for a moratorium on prefacing posts with xFilter (i.e. foodFilter, sexFilter, tivoFilter, etc.) Maybe in a few month it will be amusing again, but at the moment it just makes me tired.

It used to be frowned upon to post links from other link agregators/filters. Has it changed?

SiW — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 08:17:30 -0800

When I used to read MeFi regularly, it was generally accepted that you didn't post anything from "the usual suspects" such as memepool, boing boing, b3ta, etc. because they themselves are weblogs about interesting, offbeat links and most readers read them as well as MeFi. Seeing as this "LSD art" story has been the top item on memepool for a week, I guess this policy has changed. (This is really not meant to sound rude or snide, apologies if it's taken that way)

Filtering the 'Filter

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 11 Sep 2003 20:10:24 -0800

Now that MeFi Distilled has been dormant throughout September, how are time-challenged and reassurance-seeking users to know what's worth reading on MetaFilter? I wonder how many readers rely on extraneous filters to get a handle on what to follow here. MeFi Distilled is good. Are there any other time-saving devices for those of us too occupied to read every single word?

We don't ALL live in California or care about the election

riffola — Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:42:02 -0800

While it is admirable that so many people on MeFi care about their local elections. Is there really a need for the numerous threads regarding the upcoming California election?

So the blogstop thread is still going strong.

taumeson — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 13:11:36 -0800

So the blogstop thread is still going strong. Somebody who's been here longer than me...has something like this happened before? This could be a precedent.

So, is it possible to create another precedent? Namely...posting another FPP, specifically so that people have somewhere new to go to comment, instead of trying to comment in the extant thread?

Surely this place is a FILTER and not a discussion board, but seeing how so many of us are still fooling around on that thread, I thought it'd be nice to have it "refreshed", so to speak.

thisisgettingalittleold-filter.com

johnny novak — Fri, 30 May 2003 09:24:25 -0800

I'm getting tired of the increasing tendency to add "filter.com" as an implied criticism of the theme of a thread or post, e.g. in this thread we start off with two - northkoreafilter.com and iranfilter.com. Is it just me, or does anyone think this getting a little old.

Standards for *Filter

danOstuporStar — Wed, 02 Apr 2003 10:00:26 -0800

Got Standards? With a least two "metafilter-like" open source projects currently in active development and potentially hundreds of foofilters on the horizon, isn't it time we began discussing at least the standard parameters for submitting to a foofilter site? (more inside)

*Filter

kaibutsu — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 04:59:11 -0800

So we've all seen BookFilter and WarFilter, but have you seen MusicFilter or KittenFilter? With FreeFilter 0.3 coming soon, one can't help but wonder what this will mean for the ancestor... Furthermore, Could the MetaFilter interface become the "killer app" in community weblogging?

Will we spin ourselves off with all these spinoffs?

MiguelCardoso — Sun, 23 Mar 2003 11:31:06 -0800

Already there are BookFilter for books; SportsFilter for sports; a 9622.net and 1142.net for chattiness and fun. Not to mention the increasingly vigorous #mefi chatroom and other offshoots I may be unaware of. There's been talk of a MovieFilter and a News and/or PoliticsFilter. The admirable FreeFilter project makes it easy to set up other special-interest, breakaway micro-MetaFilters.
Is it possible that all this syphoning-off will one day syphon off the core of MetaFilter itself? Or are all these spin-offs mere adjuncts? For what it's worth, I'm plainly on the side of eclecticism and inclusiveness.

Can we have an alternative frontpage where all the posts which mention Iraq are filtered out?

sebas — Sat, 22 Mar 2003 03:21:33 -0800

Can we have an alternative frontpage where all the posts which mention Iraq are filtered out? I'm getting a bit tired of this war thing and would like to enjoy my MetaFilter Iraq free. Something like www.metafilter.com/noiraq.mefi would be greatly appreciated!

if you could filter mefi, how?

andrew cooke — Fri, 04 Oct 2002 03:40:38 -0800

if you could filter mefi, how? more inside.

My triangle of sources

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:20:26 -0800

Gotta ask: how many of us poor souls are now lost in the certainly blessed, aesthetically coherent but ultimately life-consuming Bermuda Triangle of Sportsfilter; Blogroots and MetaFilter?

Preview does not match post

nicwolff — Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:40:42 -0800

This post had a white background when I previewed it (like this one still does), but it disappeared when I posted it. Shouldn't "Preview" mean "show me what I'll get if hit Post now"?

The HTML filter appears to have elided the "style=" and quote marks from the tag.