We're adding a short blurb and checkbox to the MetaTalk New Post form that reminds people the Contact Form is an option.
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posted by pb
on Jun 18, 2013 -
54 comments
It's a holiday weekend in the US and we're turning on the MetaTalk Queue.
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posted by pb
on May 23, 2013 -
107 comments
I'm referring to
this question and
this response. Look, Unified Theory, I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt here, and assume that maybe you didn't read the entirety of a rather long and rambly OP. And I actually agree with parts of your post - I hated the way the question was phrased as well, and I agree that the assumption that it's automatically creepy for an older guy to be attracted to a younger woman is both sexist and ageist.
And, I agree with the many other posters stating the the OP that she handled the situation in a very naive way, and needs to give serious thought to how she sets her own boundaries in situations like this.
But.
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posted by Broseph
on May 10, 2013 -
420 comments
I don’t want to point out anyone or any thread in particular, but something I find odd; In almost every MT thread associated with any small controversy (and they’re all small) someone will jump in, usually right away, with "we should close this up", which as far as I can tell is not up for vote but at the discretion of the mods.
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posted by bongo_x
on May 2, 2013 -
264 comments
Hey, what's the deal with a joke comment being deleted from this
recent MetaTalk thread? It was mild joke and I thought the bar for deleting comments from Metatal was much higher. I would ask in the thread, but when someone else did that, their comment was deleted, so here we are.
posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Apr 25, 2013 -
16 comments
As a compromise over the recent release of titles, we've added the ability to set your title font faces and sizes just like the body and byline fonts/size options on the preferences page.
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posted by mathowie
on Jan 9, 2013 -
720 comments
We're going to be queuing MetaTalk posts from December 24th to January 1st.
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posted by pb
on Dec 21, 2012 -
41 comments
With US Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, it's time for another MetaFilter holiday tradition: The MetaTalk Queue.
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posted by pb
on Nov 21, 2012 -
112 comments
If something needs to go to Metatalk, it seems to me it doesn't need
mods discussing
it in thread while paying lip-service to the Blue/Grey distinction. If people need to defend their decisions, they can surely just direct the conversation here, not do what looks a bit like a drive-by on a Blue thread.
posted by howfar
on Oct 26, 2012 -
78 comments
MetaTalk posts will be queued this weekend starting this evening and ending late Monday.
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posted by pb
on Aug 31, 2012 -
134 comments
I'm looking for a comment that I just can't find and want to read again. It detailed a version of Sex In The City as performed as a Beckett-like Black Box stage production. The women wailed a chorus of " THE SHOES" someone said " I fear I am not fecund". I have tried every permutation I could think of with no success. I'm 99% sure I read it here.
posted by The Whelk
on Jun 23, 2012 -
74 comments
The good news: MetaTalk has over 1,000,000 comments as of today. The bad news: the millionth comment was apparently deleted.
posted by double block and bleed
on Jun 12, 2012 -
103 comments
Summer approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, and that means it's time for camping, barbecues, and the MetaTalk queue.
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posted by pb
on Jun 11, 2012 -
74 comments
I'd like to know the reasoning behind keeping some posts up while deleting others, especially as it pertains to these particular threads.
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posted by misha
on Apr 20, 2012 -
268 comments
A very happy MLK Weekend to our intrepid moderators! As we know, the holiday weekends can sometimes be problematic, and I'm pleased that the queue you set up worked as planned to give you all a stress-free long weekend.
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posted by Curious Artificer
on Jan 16, 2012 -
54 comments
It's almost time for another major US holiday and we're trying something new here at MetaTalk this Thanksgiving: a post queue.
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posted by pb
on Nov 22, 2011 -
241 comments
I'm in the very early stages of developing a web app. Its not close to being ready for MeFi projects, imo, but I'd love to get some MeFite feedback on what I have so far! What is the proper channel for something like this?
posted by AceRock
on Nov 10, 2011 -
18 comments
We just added (staff) markers in the bylines here in MetaTalk if the commenter is a mod.
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posted by pb
on Oct 4, 2011 -
279 comments
"Yeah, yeah. Having a section of the site dedicated to talking about the site I originally designed that just to keep people from jabbering about like fonts that they didn’t like in the middle of a thread about some news event, and just being like shut up, don’t do that; having a place dedicated has been great because then people can talk openly about lots of things."
The July 1st
SitePoint podcast is a panel discussion on "...the profession of Online Community, how it’s grown in importance and profile, and what it means to today’s Web," conducted by
Patrick O'Keefe, founder of the iFroggy Network: with Venessa Paech, Lead Community Manager of
Community Engine; Sarah Hawk, Community Manager of
SitePoint; and our own intrepid
mathowie.
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posted by zarq
on Jul 12, 2011 -
10 comments
Bug-Filter: Recent Meetups pane only shows one meetup per city per day even if multiple meetups occured.
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posted by kthxbi
on Nov 12, 2010 -
11 comments
Pony of Indeterminate Size: I'm not sure if we've discussed this before, but would it be okay to add a "Jobs Wanted" side to the Jobs area?
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posted by Madamina
on Aug 26, 2010 -
39 comments
There is no way of knowing whether or not the original poster of
this question has any idea that many so-called "conflict free" diamonds are
anything but or even if it matters to him. But in case he
does care and
has been convinced that conflict free diamond certification means anything (like many people in the thread seem to have been), how is the information not pertinent to his question? Further, why is it okay for people to tell the poster to buy conflict free diamonds, but it's not okay to point out how difficult this is?
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posted by eunoia
on Apr 27, 2010 -
82 comments
Request: could important posts about the site be pinned to the top of MeTa for a little while? Or sidebarred? Or something? They tend to get lost in the shuffle, and then you have those "Hey, whatever happened to [whatever]?" posts that get closed.
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posted by katillathehun
on Nov 2, 2009 -
39 comments
clavidvs didn't do it this year, so I will.
How many Trick-or-Treaters did you have come by this Halloween?
-and-
What did you give out?
posted by yhbc
on Oct 31, 2009 -
159 comments
I am writing a dissertation about online communities, and MetaFilter will serve as the primary focus of my research. I need your help to better understand why MetaFilter functions better than so many other online communities. Can you spare 15-30 minutes to complete a short survey to improve our understanding of online communities?
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posted by lewistate
on Oct 20, 2009 -
818 comments
Text display issues in MetaTalk (and MetaTalk only) after upgrading to Safari 4 beta. (Leopard)
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posted by emelenjr
on Feb 24, 2009 -
19 comments
I know we're all excited about tags at the moment but
this comment got me looking at the 'MetaFilter gatherings' category.
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posted by tellurian
on Oct 30, 2008 -
12 comments
On the front page sidebar, it says "1, 2, 3, 4, 5 years ago"—links to Metafilter, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years ago. Could we please have this feature in Metatalk?
posted by interrobang
on Apr 30, 2008 -
37 comments
