MetaTalk posts tagged with goodolddays

Upsetting the plate of beans.

roofus — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:53:56 -0800

I miss the old metafilter. I liked it when lame FPPs sometimes got no comments. I liked it when you still had to write "email's in profile". I liked it when profile pics didn't have to be 140x140 pixels. I liked it when we LOLed at cats in scanners more often than cats with captions. I liked it when we were still proud to be accused of having a blazecock pileon. (The concept, not the person) Most of all I liked quonsar. I am hugely supportive of the work that goes into maintaining the site, and I know that the site is bound to evolve over time. However the many changes made in the last year seem, to me at least, to be insidiously eroding what, for want of a better phrase, has been called our culture. The last week in particular has been tumultuous. Is it possible to have greater consultation with users before implementing pony requests and other changes?

have we completely given up on any standards in the Blue?

Seth — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:01:23 -0800

Matt, have we completely given up on any standards in the Blue? Is the whole "best of the web" standard officially dead? It seems so, but I would like to hear it from your own mouth.
One look at the wonderful posts on the blue today which will surely continue the so pleasant conversations we have had:
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Imminent demise of Metafilter predicted in 2002....

rcade — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 11:53:08 -0800

Imminent death of MetaFilter predicted.