Is it really necessary to have more than one logout link when you are posting a comment or post? I refer to the
Posting as: [username] (logout) right above the post textbox. More than once recently I have been aiming for the textbox with the mouse and clicked on the logout link by mistake. (Why anyone would actually want to log out of Metafilter is beyond me, but also fodder for a different post.)
Seriously, once a page up at the top is enough, no? Logging out should be a deliberate act.
posted by pjern
on Apr 14, 2013 -
84 comments
Rhomboid asked
this question about a link on the blue which switched from liveleak to YouTube. I'm curious about this as well, and a little ... concerned? Anybody know what's up there?
posted by Apropos of Something
on Feb 16, 2013 -
29 comments
To people who have done this;
why did you create Front Page Post(s) on MetaFilter? The motivations are interesting in themselves, and may also provide positive reasons for people to cross the rubicon
from lurker to poster.
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posted by Wordshore
on Dec 7, 2012 -
122 comments
So, I made a
post last week and now the main link (the only one above the "more inside") is broken. It's a youtube video that was apparently removed by the copyright holder. What is normally done in these situations? Do y'all summarily delete? Ignore? Is it at all possible (or even worth it) to re-work the post?
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posted by zarq
on Nov 5, 2012 -
11 comments
Pony Request - is it possible to automatically fix broken URLs that omit the "http://"?
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posted by Magnakai
on Jul 16, 2012 -
23 comments
Remember when someone made that quiz about MetaFilter members on that website where you can make quizes? Can I get that link again? Just the main site works too since that's what I really want.
posted by theichibun
on Feb 9, 2012 -
32 comments
Back in November of 2007 I came across
jonson’s
fpp about
Geoff Manaugh’s
blog post on a photographer named
Shaun O’Boyle. I really liked the photographs, and sometimes my job allows me to develop a book. So I did. Kind of about that link. I asked Geoff Manaugh to write the
intro to the book, and he said yes, and then he surprisingly
cited an unrelated Metafilter
comment in the essay he submitted.
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posted by Toekneesan
on Oct 13, 2010 -
17 comments
After I updated my iPhone to iOS4, the "skip to menu" link at the top of the pages of the mobile site no longer works after a page has been reloaded.
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posted by BitterOldPunk
on Jul 13, 2010 -
24 comments
Long shot - looking for a (flash?) link that was posted a couple (several?) months ago in the blue. All I remember: inside.
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posted by aberrant
on Jul 7, 2010 -
12 comments
I'm looking for a sire mentioned on metailter or askmefi long ago. It was a site designed for people looking to build their vocabulary (or people who just like words). It allows a user to keep lists of words on the site and links to definitions. Users can also view lists created by other users. This seems like it would be relatively easy to find but I am striking out. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
Thanks!
posted by btkuhn
on Jan 27, 2010 -
10 comments
I'm looking for a link that I'm pretty sure I found on MeFi, but searches are failing me. It was an all Flash site with a series of videos and documents connected together as a sort of flowchart. Viewing each of these revealed portions of a mystery. Videos were displayed on a cube, with different camera angles on different sides of the cube. Anyone remember what I'm talking about? Thanks.
posted by endquote
on Jan 25, 2010 -
8 comments
Why are there two places to click? Why does the "[more inside]" link point to the same place as the "XX comments" link?
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posted by Drasher
on Jan 14, 2010 -
40 comments
Idea: the Metafilter link-checker. Take the part of the 'new post' process that double-checks against prior posts, add the part of Mefi that conjures up the related posts, put a link to the feature up on the two lines of links near the logo.
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posted by WCityMike
on Sep 18, 2009 -
42 comments
I think it was here that I came across a great webpage listing forum trolling techniques that read like an academic listing of informal logic fallacies. It had things like finding errors in small and irrelevant details, ad-hominem attacks, using provocative and loaded terms, shifting claims, concern trolling etc... I've looked for it several times recently and can't find it. Anybody remember the link?
posted by srboisvert
on Aug 2, 2009 -
25 comments
The AskMe link entry control generates malformed HTML when fed a URL containing double quote characters.
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posted by flabdablet
on Jul 14, 2009 -
32 comments
What do I need to do so that links in AskMeFi open in a new page, instead of taking me away from AskMeFi? Links on pages from other sites do.
posted by qsysopr
on Mar 2, 2009 -
20 comments
Is there some behind-the-scenes Youtube link changing going on? (not that there's anything wrong with that)
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posted by niles
on Mar 1, 2009 -
4 comments
Anyone else see that Neatorama linked to the oval office desk post? Though they don't really give credit where credit is due.
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posted by Toekneesan
on Jan 29, 2009 -
23 comments
Within the past few months someone posted a link to either a graph or (an article containing a graph) that showed that GDP calculated within a few months of the time period in question bears no relation (no statistical correlation) to GDP calculated with more complete non-estimated data two years down the line. I would like to find this graph.
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posted by If only I had a penguin...
on Jan 23, 2009 -
4 comments
Pony request: I seem to be eternally replying to something in Recent Activity, only to find I've actually responded to the wrong thread. I'm not sure I'm entirely alone in this...
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posted by Artw
on Jan 12, 2009 -
39 comments
Is there a way to link to a comment only? For a blog, for instance. A bonus for certain comments who have over 100 favorites maybe.
posted by Bitter soylent
on Oct 10, 2008 -
25 comments
My little pony: how much work would be required to turn the "contains answers marked as best" checkmark on the front page of AskMe into a link to the first best answer?
posted by flabdablet
on Mar 27, 2008 -
18 comments
Very short question. Why does it say 'X
new links' when most posts here don't have links? Shouldn't it say 'X new posts or X new flameouts/hugesexismthreads/podcasts'?
posted by Memo
on Nov 27, 2007 -
36 comments
could someone please direct me to an explanation about how to enter links or urls so they are highlighted?
thanks
posted by Rain Man
on Aug 3, 2007 -
1 comment
Small request: could we have a link to our userpage (ala the "
x members | You are logged in as:
x / logout" seen on the mefi/ask/metatalk homepages) on post comment pages (and possibly all deeper pages) as well as on the front pages?
posted by item
on Jun 21, 2007 -
9 comments
I download what I imagine might be legally construed as "copyrighted material" all thie time. But I'm actually upset with this post because I know some people that worked on
US v. John Lennon. (Double standard, I know.) So are there any guidelines about posting full-length, copyrighted movies? Is this post this even in good taste? Where's the context? Does it have
any intent other than to illegally distribute a movie? Is this even a problem?
posted by phaedon
on Jun 3, 2007 -
55 comments
So, I was all set to take the survey which is mentioned at AskMe (
right-hand side, under the list tags/post block)
"MetaFilter Readers. Support this site and its advertisers by participating in a brief survey: questionmarket.com."
Unfortunately, this is the result when clicking on the link: "The website you're looking for cannot be found. The website may no longer exist, or may have moved."
posted by ericb
on May 21, 2007 -
17 comments
