This post got me wondering if anyone has tried to buy Metafilter, how much an honest value would be, and if people would leave if a similar entity to Yahoo bought the Blue.
posted by Renoroc
on May 19, 2013 -
160 comments
Good evening. I am considering the purchase of an account on MetaFilter for my fiancee. She may find it of use for work (academic librarianship, cataloging), domestic (cats, pies) and leisure; I've sent her pointers to FPPs on here which she has found of interest, and she may be able to contribute questions and comments to AskMe. But...
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posted by Wordshore
on May 10, 2013 -
131 comments
Buy A Shirt - how long has that black shirt been there? Did it used to be a different color? I need to know if it's new or if I have absolutely horrible observational skills.
posted by nooneyouknow
on Apr 16, 2013 -
32 comments
I have been a longtime lurker here on MetaFilter who just recently registered and I thought it would be a fascinating subject to dive into for my master thesis.
In order to get a better understanding of user activity on MetaFilter, I created the following survey:
Master Thesis Survey About MetaFilter
As I mention in the introductory text, the survey is completely anonymous and IP addresses will NOT be saved.
I hope you take the time to submit your response and help a fellow MeFite out :)
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posted by RIABAMFR
on Apr 15, 2013 -
119 comments
I've had it, I'm done.
Callouts for excellence: Pope Guilty, Drinky Die, Malor, Mayor Curley, delmoi, lupus_yonderboy, Meatbomb, AElfwine Evenstar, hippybear, BitterOldPunk, Civil_Disobedient, thsmchnekllsfascists, ioerror, loquacious, Joe Beese, Trurl, Blazecock Pileon, and orthogonality. I may have forgotten some.
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posted by dunkadunc
on Mar 26, 2013 -
1 comment
@mathowie: "I think RSS is so important that I'd take a job (leaving MeFi) at any startup aiming to make an improved Google Reader (w/ social features). [...] I'm serious, and feel free to email me. MetaFilter can continue with the employees running things."
I think that this maybe merits some serious discussion here, pronto.
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posted by Rhaomi
on Mar 14, 2013 -
203 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
Last night I dreamed that Metafilter introduced premium comments that you had to pay to view, and some company posted a very long comment that was listed at $2.5 million. There was wild speculation as to its contents, and the motivation behind the high price, but of course no-one could afford it, so we never found out what it said.
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posted by PercussivePaul
on Jan 30, 2013 -
94 comments
Sometimes when I load Ask Metafilter the green color will show up washed out, but I can open it up in a new tab and it is now a different shade. Usually scrolling down the desaturated page or selecting text will change it back to a more saturated green. Any reasons for this? Safari OSX.
screenshot
posted by travis08
on Jan 17, 2013 -
59 comments
In an effort to enhance your overall Metafilter Experience, I present the preliminary Metafilter
Achievement System Slash Drinking Game. Comparing
Achievement score is a widely accepted method for determining respectability, one's contributions to society, and for enhancing self esteem. Feel free to contribute suggestions, modifications, or cash. Bonus points for obscure references to Metafilter history.
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posted by Justinian
on Jan 16, 2013 -
132 comments
Out of curiosity (or work deadline avoidance), anyone know why the MetaFilter entry on Wikipedia suddenly get a lot more "readership" or views than normal for the
five days of January 5th to 9th inclusive, then suddenly go back down to the previous background level?
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posted by Wordshore
on Jan 15, 2013 -
55 comments
It's been over a year since we first made the
Metafilter Frequency Tables available, and now they're updated with word frequency information for all of 2011 and 2012 as well, bringing the total number of words up to six hundred and thirty-six million. Gosh! (Is a word we've collectively used 5,707 times since 1999!)
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posted by cortex
on Jan 14, 2013 -
99 comments
Maggie from Rookie gave MetaFilter yet another shoutout in her article about
TV mythologies. Scroll down or search the page for "grumblebee".
posted by pxe2000
on Jan 9, 2013 -
16 comments
We're rolling out titles to the front pages of Ask, MetaTalk, and MeFi today (all the other subsites have titles on their front pages). In addition, we've revamped the posting pages on those subsites in order to make the title more obvious and prominent (along with improved helper text).
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posted by mathowie
on Jan 7, 2013 -
1923 comments
Yay for secretquonsar! Got my gift today! Hoping mine wings its way on time.
posted by infini
on Dec 15, 2012 -
3 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
Is there a good way to have volunteer Mefites critique my grad school personal statement without asking an AskMe?
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posted by Katine
on Nov 27, 2012 -
32 comments
Grease my monkey, guvnor: Greasemonkey scripts get talked about a lot in Metatalk comments, and they seem pretty useful. I would like to ask our more Greasemonkey-oriented friends to recommend the best ones and discuss their experience of installing and using them.
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posted by MuffinMan
on Nov 27, 2012 -
79 comments
Now that Florida has finished counting votes (always a challenge for us), the
2012 presidential election results are 332 electoral votes for Obama and 206 for Romney -- barring faithless electors. The popular vote is 50.6% Obama, 47.9% Romney and 1.5% other. The Nate Silver Medal for Political Prognostication goes to
JKevinKing. J. Kevin was one of 15 people to tie for first in the electoral half of the contest with a perfect prediction. He finished third in the popular vote half, ahead of
I am the Walrus and
UrineSoakedRube who tied for ninth. The $50
Threadless gift certificate and
life-size cardboard Joe Biden are on the way to JKevinKing as soon as I send them. Please keep Joe in the lifestyle to which he has become accustomed.
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posted by rcade
on Nov 12, 2012 -
26 comments
The
pundits and
psychics have already weighed in. Now it's your turn in MetaFilter's (mostly) quadrennial presidential prediction contest. The winner will receive a $50
Threadless gift certificate and a
life-size cardboard Joe Biden. To enter, predict the percentage of the vote that President Obama, Mitt Romney and Everybody Else will receive and the number of electoral votes that Obama, Romney and Everybody Else will receive. Entries must be submitted before Dixville Notch, N.H., reports its vote early Tuesday morning.
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posted by rcade
on Nov 5, 2012 -
368 comments
What's the plan for US Election Day? Is there going to be one thread continuously updated with the election results or a bunch of them. Conversely, will there be no talk of the 2012 election at all? Do the mods have the day off and will the site be inactive?
posted by Renoroc
on Nov 5, 2012 -
172 comments
Does anyone remember a post on the Blue, or the Green, or maybe it was here on the Gray, about differences in cover stories published in North America and international editions of news magazines?
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posted by MelanieL
on Nov 5, 2012 -
4 comments
My Google-fu is failing me: someone posted a comment a while back, probably on the Blue, ranting against the privileged idiocy of "minimalism"/"simplifying your life". It brought up the privileged idiot's Macbook Pro several times, and how they'd like everything in life to be more like it, not realizing that their smooth-lined aluminum shit costs money and most people don't have that. If anyone remembers the comment, I'd greatly appreciate a link!
posted by randomname25
on Nov 2, 2012 -
69 comments
Assuming any MetaFilter users are interested in writing posts or comments during voting and counting, how will this bloggie handle what will be its 4th US presidential election?
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posted by Wordshore
on Oct 30, 2012 -
80 comments
After a few wonderful years on MetaFilter, I think I've picked up on a frequent thing that we tend to do when discussing power inequalities, i.e. sexism, racism, class and wealth, etc. I'd like to propose a 2x2 model for describing the possible perspectives that the analysis of the problem can take. Based on this model, I believe I have discovered something that MeFi "doesn't do well" - all possible conclusions are shot down as talking about the wrong thing. Hopefully, as a community we can recognize this and either "solve" the problem presented by the model, find alternative conclusions when using it, or at the very least stop using the model in the future.
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posted by rebent
on Oct 26, 2012 -
362 comments
Is there a community consensus about best practices for disseminating subscription-only journal material in threads? Also, what can we do to improve access within the community to primary research?
Blasdelb's excellent comment in the Lenski thread prompted me to ask about this.
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posted by Scientist
on Oct 8, 2012 -
41 comments
It's a
cartoon by
Oglaf that could have been drawn for Metafilter! [First link is a work safe image at the current time, site as a whole is totally nsfw.]
posted by pharm
on Oct 6, 2012 -
107 comments
Bearing in mind how
this AskMeFi query turned out
in the end, is there a word, saying, acronym or something that means "A win for the MetaFilter community"? If not, could or should there be one?
posted by Wordshore
on Oct 1, 2012 -
59 comments
The Kiva team is now 301 members and $73,000ish of total lending. As a purely online lender pool it has maintained its position in the top five lending clubs for three-and-a-half years. It has been enshrined as the second most successful campaign for Kiva, but it has stopped growing. What could be next? Should it keep going?
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posted by parmanparman
on Sep 18, 2012 -
24 comments
