What happened to
put quotes in italics?
posted by nax
on Feb 23, 2008 -
128 comments
I made a FPP (
Stern Review of global warming) linking to Wikipedia using the
^ - for stylistic reasons, I wanted to emphasis the second link in the FPP and not the Wikipedia link, which is the first link, and so wanted to keep it small and unobtrusive. Someone< ?> then changed it and made it a full link. Is there a style-policy? Is it documented anywhere?
posted by stbalbach
on Oct 30, 2006 -
51 comments
Can some sort of rule/guideline/something be considered, stating that FPP's shouldn't have
a bajillion links, one in each individual word?
I know it's not a serious thing, and a programmatic solution isn't the way to go, but when I see posts like this it drives me nuts. Am I the only one?
posted by pdb
on Apr 29, 2006 -
57 comments
Cleanup on aisle
50764.
While I appreciate what a fun fireball the thread might turn into, the subject of the FPP is miffed by syntax in the FPP which might be construed as attributing a quote to her (when in fact it is a quote by someone else whom she is disagreeing with), and the FPPer has also said he/she has no problem changing the syntax, so in the name of avoiding nuclear fallout, could Jessamyn or Matt edit the FPP?
posted by Bugbread
on Apr 9, 2006 -
44 comments
When y2karl quotes 4000 words of an article, it's really annoying. Just link to it. Thanks.
posted by The Jesse Helms
on Nov 19, 2005 -
25 comments
I think the "(via)" cuteness is not as useful as
"(via BoingBoing)", just to give a common example. Frequently, I'll think "is this the link I already saw, or another one on the same topic?" and having to actually mouseover to find out is just too strenuous.
Is it just me?
posted by Aknaton
on Nov 17, 2005 -
63 comments
Interesting post (maybe) - hoist by it's own petard.
Initial comments ignore the substance - format impedes discussion.
Administrators - PHM!
posted by dash_slot-
on Oct 15, 2005 -
19 comments
A suggestion to improve Metafilter: When a poster replies to his own post, would it be possible to mark it as such, such as starting out the post with "Poster: ", or maybe each poster could do this manually to make the thread more readable. Just an idea.
posted by cincidog
on Jul 22, 2005 -
25 comments
"
The post is what you bring to it."
What's the consensus? I find these 'random word links' very annoying. Can we at least have some etiquette rule that says if you have more then a hand full of links, the text of the link must reflect the content of the linked-to page? Or something?
posted by delmoi
on Apr 4, 2005 -
53 comments
When a FPP doesn't start
with a link I get confused. It looks like a continuation of the previous FPP, sometimes. And I can't tell what the featured post should be. Maybe it's just me, but I've noticed this with greater frequency lately.
posted by Slagman
on Mar 19, 2004 -
32 comments
Crazy idea: What if Matt removes the paragraph/linefeed tag from the front page and all text formatting and adds a 'first post/more inside' box to the post a link page? The front page is simply cluttered and annoying when people have a lot to say directly on the front page. Perhaps even a character limit. The less of
this the better.
posted by skallas
on Aug 14, 2002 -
64 comments
is there any good way to encourage people to post real descriptions (of any kind!!!) to
front page posts? please? it's tiring wanting to click a link without having any idea what the post is actually about. and the comments on that thread (at least the first few, when i saw it) don't exactly help.
posted by dogmatic
on Aug 31, 2001 -
78 comments
