In a FPP, how appropriate is it to post links to something, and then give additional information about the subject from a first hand perspective?
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posted by kimdog
on Jul 22, 2009 -
70 comments
A few years ago someone posted a link to a site which featured comic strips of embarrassing stories from people's school days. Does anyone remember the site?
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posted by popcassady
on Apr 4, 2009 -
21 comments
This is more a question in general than it is an effort to poop on a particular post.
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posted by dawson
on Jan 15, 2009 -
68 comments
Whenever I preview a post—at least on the front page and MeTa—any
&langs in my links became
〈.
posted by Korou
on Nov 14, 2008 -
15 comments
Just out of curiousity, tomorrow, there's going to be about five million, four hundred thousand, six hundred fifty-two attempts to write a "first black President" FPP. Do the mods have any specific plans, or is it going to be whomever jumps the gun first? And are you guys going to be able to enjoy the festivities, or are you going to be too busy deleting everyone's massively respawning dupes? ;-)
posted by WCityMike
on Nov 3, 2008 -
107 comments
Lest anyone miss it on the blue,
this post needs to be added to the list of those that are referred to whenever someone asks what an excellent FPP looks like.
posted by allkindsoftime
on Jul 3, 2008 -
195 comments
My question is a two parter. I spend way too much time surfing the net, and sometimes come up on "stuff" that I think might make a good post here, but because I am fairly new by Metafilter standards, I am not sure it would be a good post. Is there a way for me to "unofficially" run my thoughts through someone PRE-post? I would rather not be humiliated publicly, which is why I ask. Secondly, even if I was feeling up for a good potential whipping on any given day, I am pretty bad with the technical aspects here. I would really do so much better if I had some one on one help.
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posted by LiveLurker
on Mar 25, 2008 -
84 comments
Should we FPP the Obama speech?
Some debate here.
On the one hand it seems like it would be doomed to deletion as we have two open Obama related threads.
On the other hand it's a really big deal, and (IMHO) rises above NewsFilter into Best Of The Web because it's such an incredibly good speech. Also those other threads are way below the fold.
Thoughts?
posted by Artw
on Mar 18, 2008 -
419 comments
I'd like to see a place where users can submit FPP requests to the general MeFi populace, and where users can respond at their will to said requests.
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posted by not_on_display
on Mar 3, 2008 -
58 comments
Why do we not want most popular comments from all time available, the way it is for posts?
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posted by nzero
on Feb 19, 2008 -
44 comments
The Mitchell Report is a big deal (if you care about baseball or American sports, anyway). We should have a post about it that, y'know, links to it, or at least some substantive analysis of it, not a
post that links to one guy's stats and a 100-word "article" that refers to things it's rumored to contain, followed by an unattributed list of names.
posted by dersins
on Dec 13, 2007 -
82 comments
So
this and
this were posted this morning, and, being that I loathe YouTube only posts in the first place, it got me thinking...Why isn't there a policy against YouTube-only Posts?
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posted by taumeson
on Nov 20, 2007 -
170 comments
I'm as big a fan as anyone of the LOL-christian/republican-does-something-out-of-character story, but
this is in poor taste.
posted by Saucy Intruder
on Oct 12, 2007 -
554 comments
Great thread and everything, but shouldn't we be a bit concerned that the post itself is just the first two paragraphs (even the same links) of the main
atlantic article, without even attribution? Seems a bit off to my delicate sensibilities.
posted by Sparx
on Sep 6, 2007 -
64 comments
RedundancyFilter: is it called a Front-Page-Post because there is some ninja-stealth method for posting to "inside" pages? (But then that would just be commenting, right?) Sure, MeFi has its structural and terminological idiosyncracies, but FPP just always seemed... off the mark.
posted by progosk
on Aug 2, 2007 -
89 comments
What are the rules for posting to MeFi? Ive noticed that many posts are news articles and many of the op/ed posts get snarked or berated for not being newsworthy... I thought this was "best of the web"?
I for one will read digg if I want news and MeFi if I want to find interesting web articles...
posted by subaruwrx
on Aug 1, 2007 -
134 comments
I am wondering what happened to Live Preview on the MeFi posting page. I miss that feature and it skips an extra click. But one of Admins probably has an answer involving a lot of Tech Mumbo Jumbo, or someone will kindly (hopefully) direct me to the previous MeTa thread regarding this.
posted by wheelieman
on Jun 20, 2007 -
37 comments
So despite reading the MeFi Wiki and crunchland's profile, I managed to screw up my FPP (
this one ) and it now appears on the home page without a title.
Would one of the admins be kind enough to correct the link title of the post?
You may also suggest suitable means of atonement for this extremely n00b-ish screwup.
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek
on Mar 14, 2007 -
22 comments
Possible FPP for somebody? I don't feel quite up to making a good FPP out of
this, nor do I want to "clutter" the Blue with a one-link "newsfilter" item. But I do think that this smacks of an underhanded attempt to restore involuntary servitude, especially given the booming prison population thanks to harsh drugs laws etc. (I also wonder why the damn "farmers" can't simply put Help Wanted ads in the paper; they are willing to pay a decent wage to get their crops tended, right?)
posted by davy
on Mar 4, 2007 -
12 comments
I don't usually call out bad posts in MeTa, but a
Single Link Op Ed (to the WSJ OpJournal, no less) by the author of the classic racist screed "The Bell Curve" (though I Foody may disagree) which is a classic of "stating the obvious" ("Half of all children are below average... except in Lake Wobegon") is NOT the Best of the Web. It's not even worthy of me making a smart ass comment in the thread. Delete with extreme prejudice, mattamyn.
posted by wendell
on Jan 16, 2007 -
80 comments
After another
four times dead post on the home page, I have a little suggestion to people out to FPP that someone is still dead.
posted by dw
on Jan 14, 2007 -
5 comments
Can we have an election day thread? Is that too NewsFilter? I can't think of what would make an appropriate link for an FPP on the blue, but
here's the Tradesports lines at least. (Predictions, drinking games, oh yeah, and news/links are probably in order as well.) (And popcorn.)
posted by spiderwire
on Nov 7, 2006 -
81 comments
This really isn't a pony request, but it would be cool to see what FPPs and AskMe questions had the longest time period between their initial posting and the final response. I'm amazed that there continue to be posts regarding
Mark Foley long after it's dropped off the front page.
posted by Kickstart70
on Oct 2, 2006 -
25 comments
My
front page post seems to have lost its title, which was "'In Connecticut, it shouldn't take more than a short ride to get to another hospital' -- Joe LieberMAN"
posted by orthogonality
on Sep 22, 2006 -
18 comments
My
FPP was deleted (not complaining; I agree with the reasoning). Aren't I supposed to get an email about this? I didn't. Forgive me if that's not the policy. I thought it was.
posted by grumblebee
on Sep 22, 2006 -
13 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
BugFilter: I'm trying to post something to the front page of MeFi but after preview I keep getting this error ( Error Executing Database Query. / [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]String or binary data would be truncated.). I've deleted cookies, tried different browers, etc. Is this on my end or not?
posted by mattbucher
on Jul 26, 2006 -
7 comments
Mmmm. A one-link post to a mediocre commercial.
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posted by mathowie
on Jun 13, 2006 -
235 comments
Bug: You can attach the same tag multiple times to a post.
Pony: Title attribute on FPP link field?
posted by blue_beetle
on May 1, 2006 -
13 comments
Why do you need to have a certain amount of comments in order to be able to post a link to the front page?
I've just come across this
brilliant documentary about Richard Feynman, but I'm not allowed to post it.
You cannot post to the front page at this time. This can be due to one of several things. You may not have been a member long enough, you may not have posted enough comments, or you may have already posted a link in the past 24 hours.
I've been a member for quite a while and haven't posted any link on the front page yet, so the reason must be that I lack the required number of comments. I understand that people need to have an idea what kind of links are appropriate on the front page; the question is whether the amount of comments one makes is a good metric to determine this. I don't often feel the need to comment on front page postings.
posted by koenie
on Apr 17, 2006 -
42 comments
In response to the inordinate number of doubles recently (
e.g.) which begin:
MeFite A:
Look! This is my link!
MeFite B: This is nice
MeFite A:
sorry, double, delete
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posted by NinjaPirate
on Jan 12, 2006 -
28 comments
