Geoff. broke the pile. His user page throws an error.
posted by SpecialK
on Jun 13, 2004 -
15 comments
MeTa seach seems to be broken. The results come up, but clicking them gives an error.
posted by Orange Goblin
on Jun 13, 2004 -
1 comment
1,
2,
3. How many consecutive Abu Ghraib posts will it take to fill the entire front page? [guesses inside]
posted by eyeballkid
on May 11, 2004 -
57 comments
Is MetaTalk a good place to point out that the verdict described in
this thread was just
overturned?
I often find follow-up material like this long after the original thread is gone. It doesn't seem worth a whole new FPP, but I do think that people who read the original post would want to know. FollowupFilterSidebar?
posted by alms
on May 4, 2004 -
14 comments
With all the huff and puff about quality, how about a facility in the blue for viewers of threads to rate them? This would have the benefits of indicating examples of quality (to newbies, oldbies with bad memories, etc..) and perhaps the possibility of searching for only threads rated over 7.0 or something. Whaddayasay?
posted by boneybaloney
on Apr 8, 2004 -
79 comments
More than any other community weblog,
MetaFilter and
MetaTalk are associated with drunkenness and even alcoholism. This is an honest question: do most members here drink more than others/they ought to/than what's good for them? Is it OK to post while drunk, unless you really foul up? Is it considered funny or something? Why are there (comparatively) few other drugs extolled here? In sum, is MeFi quickly becoming MeFried?
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Mar 21, 2004 -
94 comments
I've been getting, interesting behavior using metafilter through a proxy server. (The reason I'm using a proxy has to do with some annoying behavior by both Opera and Mozilla under FreeBSD.) wwwoffled just doesn't get the page at all. apache2 running as a proxy does get the page after more than two minutes. This behavior appears to be unique to metafilter.
Turning off proxying for metafilter in the browser works much better. I'm mostly satisfied with this arrangement but the nerd in me is curious as to why. (And the community-oriented person in me wants to describe this problem for other folks who may need to search for this problem.) Any clues?
posted by KirkJobSluder
on Feb 29, 2004 -
5 comments
I notice the copyright information on The Grey, The Blue and The Green all say 2000-2003.
posted by terrapin
on Jan 17, 2004 -
7 comments
Would it be possible to get plaintext versions of MeTa and AskMe, which could be tied to our selection of same for MeFi in our profiles?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken
on Jan 13, 2004 -
8 comments
Shouldn't MetaTalk, recently flooded (and, imho, diluted) by AskMe queries, be about MetaFilter alone and AskMe have a reflective sidekick of its own? [
More inside.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Dec 29, 2003 -
52 comments
The older and newer links in the bottom of MeTa threads are pointing to AskMeFi threads rather than MeTa ones. I think the plumbing's exposed.
not that I'm complaining. I love our pony
posted by bonaldi
on Dec 11, 2003 -
5 comments
The post below by five fresh fish is a joke. Use of MetaTalk is getting out of hand.
posted by Frasermoo
on Nov 7, 2003 -
26 comments
The topmost thread on metatalk has tons of white(gray) space between the description and the comments/timestamp line. The space seems to coincide with the sidebar. Only when I'm not logged in, using Mozilla Firebird .6 through .7.
posted by angry modem
on Nov 4, 2003 -
30 comments
The
Pollo Campero discussion is a nice example of members drowning out
derailing attempts without resorting to MetaTalk (at least until I fucked it up by bringing it here). Would MetaFilter be better off without an etiquette/policy section in the gray?
posted by rcade
on Nov 1, 2003 -
69 comments
Considering the increasing amount of recent MetaTalk posts that have been deleted or generally derided, perhaps the time has come to propose that some
Posting Guidelines, similar to those which already and profitably
exist for MetaFilter, could be useful here too. Following the same dichotomy ("What makes a good thread post to MeTa?"/What makes a bad post to MeTa?"), what essential, make-or-break, very general guidelines (in the "minimum of hard rules" spirit of this community) would users suggest?
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Oct 20, 2003 -
43 comments
The DHTML popups are driving me batty, and they won't go away. More inside.
posted by o2b
on Jul 30, 2003 -
10 comments
Trivial pony: when inside MeTa threads, could we have a count of total comments, like we do in the Blue? I know the comment counts are there on the MetaTalk home, but it might be nice, even if only for consistency of UI, to be able to tell how many comments without having to back out and re-enter.
posted by jonson
on Jul 3, 2003 -
17 comments
Let's say a MetaFilter member is going to be on a game show in a month... a game show where one answers in the form of a question...
Would it be wrong to ask the various MetaDenizens for great links to quizzes and other sources that might help one prepare for such an undertaking?
(Just a hypothetical question here, no real reason...)
posted by jpburns
on Jun 25, 2003 -
53 comments
Dear Matt: given that most people here use IE, when will you modernize the MetaTalk posting page? You've known for ages that anyone hitting the "Back" button to edit their post will lose everything because of IE browser settings.
When will it be as easy as the MetaFilter one? How is someone who knows no HTML supposed to post to MetaTalk with the appropriate links, bold and italic emphases and whatever?
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Jun 19, 2003 -
53 comments
A forlorn plea: is there any chance of reinstating on MeTa the weblog-related category?
Blogroots is just not the same - or even vaguely similar. MetaFilter is where so many bloggers hang out and, imho, discussions of blogging are part of the history and character of this place. As it is, items which would have been posted to the old MetaTalk category - such as
this one - are showing up on the blue. I doubt whether many users here have the patience and fortitude to take them all the way to Blogroots.
posted by MiguelCardoso
on May 9, 2003 -
35 comments
Is the graveyard dead? I tried this
link and got this cryptic error about the link being refused by "urlscan".
posted by Irontom
on May 5, 2003 -
6 comments
Are people who are not logged on, or who do not have accounts, allowed to see MetaTalk threads? I just sent my husband, who is a recording engineer and he got a message saying he didn't have permission to view it.
posted by Lynsey
on Apr 15, 2003 -
13 comments
The common wisdom is that MetaTalk is more for venting than preventing; that it's read by an (obsessive) minority of users and that its suggestions and strictures are ineffective. And yet...[
More inside.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Apr 12, 2003 -
91 comments
MetaTalk is Three Years Old today! (Finally out of its terrible twos)
So, how do you think we're doing? (inserts can of whoop-ass into electric can opener, flees kitchen)
posted by wendell
on Mar 3, 2003 -
178 comments
If you're going to frame a link entirely in terms of how it
relates to MetaFilter, doesn't it belong in MetaTalk's MetaFilter-related category?
posted by rcade
on Feb 27, 2003 -
18 comments
Someone claiming to be a close friend of the guy that died on IRC asked me to remove
the thread about it, so I obliged before reading what was said. After reading it all however, it seems like it's full of a lot of useful information. So what to do? Bring it back or keep it away?
(also keep in mind that although I don't think it would happen in this case, but I have been threatened with a lawsuit for not removing requested material before)
posted by mathowie
on Jan 22, 2003 -
75 comments
This is a
double-post. Presumably the author wasn't told because he used "http://idea-a-day.com" while the first post used "http://www.idea-a-day.com". Perhaps a little bit of code could be implemented to solve this problem?
posted by Pretty_Generic
on Dec 15, 2002 -
30 comments
Is there a lofi for MeTa? If not, what happens to posts that get deleted (like the one that was just here, for example?) Is there any archive, anywhere? For that matter, what exactly is the point of Lofi? Sorry if this has all been explained before - I did search, but couldn't find anything.
posted by jonson
on Dec 13, 2002 -
15 comments
After seeing
this thread denigrate into a debate over the question of whether it was a good FPP or not, I started wondering: is a metatalk thread an appropriate vehicle for trying to divert etiquette debate out a blue thread even when the metatalk thread itself is likely to turn into a rehash of a zillion other metatalk threads?
posted by boltman
on Dec 7, 2002 -
19 comments
Hey - if this isn't a new feature, or if I missed a memo, please tell me, but does each thread have it's own title now? I only ask because when I just thought better of posting to the "pancakes" thread and saw "Prattling On About Pancakes" up in the title bar, it startled me a wee bit, and now I see that each thread is similarly titled. New thing?
posted by yhbc
on Nov 12, 2002 -
20 comments
Metafilter: Remixed -- a collaborative filter for MeFi. Several people have suggested in the past some sort of
"[this is good]" button people could use to vote for excellent posts; I know Matt's busy, so I went ahead and made one. Let me know if you find any problems with it.
posted by webmutant
on Oct 27, 2002 -
132 comments
Hi....I posted a URL the other day that was similar to metafilter, and so I thought MeFi was hacked for a minute there. When I realized the typo, I was relieved! I wondered if other people had found similar sites. But the post isn't there. I'm just wondering if that was a server glitch or just a lame post that was pulled. No worries, just curious for my own edification.
posted by Modem Ovary
on Oct 25, 2002 -
26 comments
We've got a new stylesheet, and one on the way for MeTa. So, are there any plans to apply user preferences to MetaTalk?
posted by Yelling At Nothing
on Oct 23, 2002 -
9 comments
How about a MetaFilter user survey about some of the ideas that have been bandied about in MetaTalk lately: recommending or rating posts, enforced posting delays, giving better posters higher posting frequency, etc.
posted by timeistight
on Oct 8, 2002 -
24 comments
