MetaTalk posts tagged with meta

20,000 and still counting...

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:39:35 -0800

delmoi has posted 20,000 comments to Metafilter. (Previously)

I'll take "SEO spammer" for $5, Alex.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:15:56 -0800

So you think you know Metafilter? To repent for not being able to make it to any of this weekend's festivities in person, I made you all a silly little gift: a Metafilter Quiz. 30 questions, 50 points is a perfect score. Play it at the meetup! Or in the quiet comfort of your easy chair! The link is at the end of the [more inside]. Some quick notes: -Googling, Wikipedia-ing or even clicking away from the quiz tab or window is of course ~~frowned upon with extreme prejudice~~ strictly forbidden in the interest of sportsmanship. -I tried to tune the difficulty so that it would be impossible for noobs and a breeze for die-hards. You may well disagree. -It's perhaps understandably biased towards the last five years or so (when I've been around), but I tried to put some old-timey stuff in there too. -Correct answers are worth between one and three points, and I tried to sequence the questions so that they very vaguely rise in difficulty. This is of course very arbitrary and subjective. -Something so inside-baseball-ish as this should of course come with specific feedback and background (and links!) per question, but the free version of ClassMarker (which I used) won't allow it. Perhaps if there is interest we could make a page on the wiki or somewhere where questions and answers are explained. -If you spot an error of any kind, let me know via MefiMail. Thank you for everything, Metafilter, and here's to another ten years! NOW PLAY.

MetaMetaMetaMetaTalk

wendell — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:20:29 -0800

Coding Horror Guy celebrates MetaFilter's 10th Birthday by making a post with the title Meta Is Murder and bringing in cortex to explain how MetaTalk "is key to the success of the site because it's a sort of release valve." So relieve yourselves here. Consider this post a place to spout off on anything that doesn't fit in with the Totally Awesome 10th Anniversary Meetups this weekend or just to point out that wendell screwed up again.

Metafilter post about Ye Olde Metafilterre. Help?

unknowncommand — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:54:49 -0800

Looking for a Metafilter post that was about a gentlemanly journal(?) in the 1800's(?) that was kind of like Metafilter. It was recently digitized, I believe. And then also there was a part in it that was also like AskMetafilter. Anyone remember this better than I do?

When the Blue's About the Blue

l33tpolicywonk — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:31:02 -0800

The direction of the teen modeling post went really Meta and callout-y really fast ... do we have informal standards to apply here? (While trying not to call out anyone in particular, because I think all sides are at least partially to blame). I'm dismayed by how fast the thread became not about the article (nor even about whether its concerns were legitimate) but about whether various commenters in the thread were sexist or said sexist things. If chunkling_express was a new member, I think a thread breaking down like this would be really discouraging to his posting again. I think if a new visitor saw the thread, they would get a bad impression of Metafilter as a snarky, angry place. I'm not saying "flag it and move on", but I think I'm saying "flag it and steer the conversation back to the FPP." Am I way off base here?

Nesting posts

carsonb — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:15:09 -0800

Posts within posts? I was doing a little digging around the MeFi archives today and found a great post on pre-cinema devices from madamjujujive. A few comments into the post snez drops in all disappointed, saying he'd been working on a pre-cinema post himself. He then goes ahead and contributes everything he'd been working on, effectively making a post within a post. I've definitely seen this type of thing before, though I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head and can't imagine how to find more on my own. So I'm asking, Do you know of other similar occurences?

Aggregate the alcohol advice, please. Thank you?

christhelongtimelurker — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:00:23 -0800

Which is the best thread/comment related to ~~depression~~ alcoholism on AskMe? I have a million questions on the topic but don't know where to start. Aside from giving credit to Pink Butterly for giving me words to use where I have none. I know the topic is contentious so rather than original advice, I would prefer that people who post to this thread focus on comments from outside of this thread and don't argue. There have been a million threads/comments on AskMe related to depression alcoholism. I figure that asking for people to point me toward what they figure to be a standout thread or a specific comment would be more helpful. Yes, I did a search and was overwhelmed by all of the posts/comments. I figure if something is important to my life there are no stupid questions. I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.

You got your MeTa in my Projects!

middleclasstool — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:21:25 -0800

Weird. Metatalk threads can be loaded with podcast URLS. Found this via Google, actually, while surfing for a question about navigating MeFi in Opera Mini.

Problems with Metatalk Backtagging

nanojath — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:38:35 -0800

Presumed site-performance related glitch with MetaTalk Back-Tagging I'm posting this rather than emailing as I imagine ongoing site performance issues may affect others doing this work and I'd like official advice about what to do with it. I was back-tagging MetaTalk (per this and this) and when I submitted some tags it got hung up (stalled with message "saving'). I opened a new tab and found that I couldn't open MetaTalk, as has been happening from time to time since the recent exploit-related problems. But when Metatalk came back the tagging submission remained stalled. I waited a while, then reloaded the page, and ended up with a whole new page. This raised some questions for me: 1. Should I have waited longer? Finished the other threads on the page and hit "Give Me More?" Just hit "Give Me More" with what I had done? 2. Did the tags I'd already submitted get saved? At what points are submitted tags actually added to the threads? Do you have to hit "Give Me More" or does it register as soon as you hit the "add tags" button for a particular post? Is anything lost if you don't select "Give Me More?" Does it cause any problems to do only half of a batch of posts? 3. Any guess on when the performance stability issues are likely to be resolved?

The MetaTalk taggr utility is lonely and needs some attention.

CKmtl — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:46:33 -0800

The MetaTalk tagging, titling, and general archive-diving reminder. Just a heads-up to all the participants out there: the project has stalled at a little over 30% complete. Completion may or may not lead to animated gifs.

Mefi Suggestion Box

amyms — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:16:16 -0800

Obviously we all love Metafilter or we wouldn't be here posting and reading day after day... But, if there was one thing you could change/modify about your Metafilter experience, what would it be?

Why not MyMeta?

desjardins — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:46:53 -0800

We have MyAsk. Why not MyMeta? How about a tab that filters by tags. Example: ignore anything with linux or politics. Keep anything with maps or art.

Spam from a MeFi user.

stbalbach — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:32:38 -0800

I don't know what the policy is on this but I just got this spam via MeFi email from someone I don't know or care to know: You have a new message from MeFi member br0chet: Hi, I'm a distributor located in province of Quebec. If you're looking for games like gba, ds, xbox 360, ps3, wii, bluray disc or dvds movies i can probably help you. I sell a lot to online sellers and always looking for new clients. I agree payment via paypal without a trouble. -- br0chet http://www.metafilter.com/user/77481

eh ?

sgt.serenity — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:28:17 -0800

Does anyone know what is happening in waraws thread below ? As far as I can tell stynxno did something , someone got banned from mefi during it, I could be wrong but it would help us all as a community to clarify what happened - let the healing begin ! On another note is there an actual #mefi channel anymore ? I looked at the wiki but there didn't seem to be anything.

It's "great" !

Turtles all the way down — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:50:45 -0800

Anyone want to start a grammar nazi site? I see writing all the time, not only on Metafilter but everywhere, that is mangled and misspelled. Since I'm an active member of MeFi, it breaks my heart to see these things. I want to correct them, but always feel that I am being a pedant and that a corrective comment would be intrusive or unwelcome. I suspect others feel the same way. I propose we start a website of like-minded people to, unapologetically, promote our agenda. Anyone with me?

a wink and a nod.

boo_radley — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:26:34 -0800

Coincidence? Dictionary.com's word of the day is fustian. I think we know who to blame.

MetaFilter History

SpacemanStix — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:59:37 -0800

Is there interesting MetaFilter history that newcomers wouldn't know about, but might find interesting? I'm relatively new here, but I always enjoy hearing back-history of social places that people who are new are not privy to. For example, if you join a new group somewhere, there's always an interesting history connected with the participants, including inside jokes, social drama, etc., that the average person joining wouldn't be aware of (I do know there is a place that describes the inside MeFi references). It could be something deep within the archives of MetaFilter (like the discussion thread where Woz showed up), or something that has no paper trail, but makes for interesting lore anyway. I'm not necessarily talking about a "best posts" thread (although it could be related I suppose) as much as the culture and happenings related to the board. What is your best or most interesting story about MetaFilter that the average person on the street wouldn't know about?

Jessamyn's talk at SxSW

Argyle — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:21:04 -0800

Jessamyn spoke at the SxSW panel on User Revolts today. Here are her notes on The Day They Tested the Manifesto, as was shown during the panel. Most of you MeTa types are infovores, so I thought I'd share. Obv, she rocked the house.

crazy posts

puke & cry — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:05:26 -0800

I think metatalk might have a problem with repeated entries.

Can we bump the number of posts on MeTa up to 20 or 30? Please and thanks.

disillusioned — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:06:17 -0800

Can we bump the number of posts on MeTa up to 20 or 30? Please and thanks.

metametameta

yonation — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:00:03 -0800

what's up with all the apologetic posts lately? since when did metafilter become a religious site where communal acceptance depends on strict penitence?

wrecking the weekend record

yhbc — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:24:02 -0800

hey whats the lowest number of metatalk threads ever posted over a two day period or maybe a weekend? TIA

On the unbearable anonymous of being

Deathalicious — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:41:21 -0800

I'm interested in knowing what it's like to be unanonymous on MetaFilter. I'm thinking about finally disclosing my identity and announcing who I am on my profile. I know there are some MeFites who have always been public about who they are, but I'm guessing that there are others who might have started out anonymously and then finally outed themselves. I'm wondering if they can share their experiences of what it was like to become unanonymous and what the ramifications were, if any. Did it force them to change the way they posted? Did anyone lose their job because of it (obviously, one result would be that I would no longer be able to post or favorite something during business hours, har har). I'm asking because on my return to the States I will probably start going to meetups and I might want to set up my own website and johnhdoe.com (not my real name) is more appealing than somethingdumbandhardtoremember.com. So odds are very good that very soon people will know my terrible, terrible secret identity.

If you press the preview button this will disappear

sveskemus — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:21:59 -0800

When you preview a comment the post's title disappears both in the browser's title bar and at the top of the page. Is that supposed to happen? Because it seems weird to me.

MeTa Wormholes Redux.

potch — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:04:38 -0800

Dragging a prior request onto the table: MeTa notifications in MeFi/AskMe threads. The idea had a lot of positive support, and there seemed to be some misunderstanding from mods on what I was proposing. This is not a Talk page for every post. Here's the idea: -User A wants to make a MetaTalk post about Thread X -On the post form in MetaTalk, there is a field that can be filled in with the post number (and subsite name) -In Thread X, a message appears notifying the commenters that that thread is currently being discussed in MetaTalk (see cortex's mockup) -Possible further derails/fistfights are more efficiently routed to the MetaTalk thread. I know we use a linked "MeTa" as a perfectly functional version of this idea, but an official notice would hopefully attract more eyeballs.