MetaTalk posts tagged with moratorium

Glenn beck ate my metafilter

boo_radley — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:36:00 -0800

Can we just get off glenn beck please fffffuck that site is tiresome already, stop it please just stop it. You know your post ain't gonna last, it's just making metafilter stupid.

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Afroblanco — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:53:35 -0800

Could we please have a moratorium on comments to the effect of, "OH NOES I HAVE HAVE TO CLICK ON THE NEXT PAGE LINK! YOU DIRTY BASTARDS ARE TRYING TO GET AD REVENUE!!!" Every time there's a link to an article that has no Printer-Friendly option, there's always some incredibly insightful fellow who feels the need to spout off about it. It's kind of like "this post sucks," only worse because it doesn't even attempt to address the content of the link. Furthermore, this statement presupposes that there's something inherently rotten about wanting to collect ad revenue from site content. Finally, it's just an incredibly trite complaint. I mean, really? Clicking on the "next page" link is just that much of a hassle for you? You poor poor thing. Those starving children in the Sudan have nothing on you. Anyway, it's not an original complaint, you're not adding anything to the discussion, and you probably didn't even read the full article. To wit, complaining about pagination is on par with posting "FIRST!" On my off days, I suspect people only do it because it's a cheap way to pick up favorites.

Request: A moratorium on Harry Potter related FPPs

inoculatedcities — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:24:11 -0800

Can we please please please have a moratorium on Harry Potter related FPPs for the next, say, year? And not just because I don't participate in this ubiquitous and frankly downright embarrassing pop culture phenomenon. It sucks that even on Metafilter I can't escape earth-shattering news about Weasleys and Dursleys.

658 days until the 2008 US elections

dios — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:54:13 -0800

There are 658 days between now and the 2008 election in the United States of America. Can we please not start the daily posting of unpostworthy campaign minutia 658 days out? Can we at least hold off until, say, 3 months prior to the election? I shutter in fear at the prospect of having this stuff devour Metafilter for the next 658 days, as we know from experience it will.

The subset of people who are ~~boring~~ ~~obsessive~~ interested enough in this to already care about this us-centric minutia are certainly the same subset of people who already read political blogs. Why does it need to be here?

Please save us, mathowie. You are our only hope.

There's been an awful lot of Obits lately.

icosahedral — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:21:19 -0800

I don't mean to be insensitive, but can can we give ObituaryFilter a rest ?

This "wins" meme is stupid.

Optimus Chyme — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:42:25 -0800

I know I'll probably get a lot of shit for this, like I do for every MeTa thread I post, but can we please please please put a moratorium on the phrase "X wins the thread" and all variants thereof?

Okay now please commence with snark and then others can quote that snark and say "[snarker] wins the thread" hooray!

How to stop the spread of "_____Filter"

dh65 — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:32:31 -0800

How to stop the spread of "_____Filter" in subject headings?
The wiki says (under the heading "inside jokes") that "___Filter" is used to indicate that a topic is so over-discussed as to risk taking over MetaFilter altogether. Examples are IraqFilter and NewsFilter. But current (and increasing) usage seems to be just an effort to be cute: BSDMFilter, CondomFilter, UmbrellaFilter, etc. I, for one, find this annoying and stupid and think it should be discouraged. It's like one of those things that is mildly amusing the first couple of times and thereafter just idiotic. I think that the WhatIsAGoodPost, WhatIsAGoodComment, WhatIsAGoodQuestion entries should be altered to discourage people from this dumb practice.

Fighting off a viral infection

dejah420 — Mon, 23 May 2005 12:43:49 -0800

Could we perhaps have a voluntary moratorium on viral contest entries from Contagious Media?

Can we declare a moratorium on teh?

Zurishaddai — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:35:19 -0800

Can we declare a moratorium on teh? In the words of a recent double post, I'm concerned that we may need a refresher course in irony.

Can we close signups now?

jpoulos — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:01:13 -0800

Can we close the door now? I'm genuinely happy to have some new blood, but here's the problem. Pretty much everyone who's been reading the site with their noses against the glass has been let in. Hereafter, we're going to get a bunch of folks who happen to be wandering by, and know nothing of how things are done around here. (I don't know if that's the case with notmtwain, I'm only using his/her post as an example because it glares so.) We can always open it up again later, but can we have a moratorium on new users? Just for now? Please?

Election fatigue.

theora55 — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:22:46 -0800

Election Fatigue. Could we put all the US Election links and discussion in just 1 front page post per day. Tempers are flaring, and the level of discourse is not improving. The moratorium was not successful. Besides, sometimes I want to reference a comment or link, and can't find it in the welter of election postings.

What happened to "Day Without US Politics"?

timeistight — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:04:04 -0800

What happened to the US politics moratorium? Was it a joke all along?

US politics moratorium request

Sidhedevil — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:42:39 -0800

Matt, can we have an official "Day Without US Politics"--perhaps this Friday? I am so sick of the tired wrangling about how much of the site is USElectionFilter, and how wonderful all the random "cool web stuff" used to be. It would be really, really nice to have a one-day moratorium on the political stuff, and on the "too much political stuff?" debates.

Moratorium on 9-11 posts?

JollyWanker — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:42:52 -0800

Matt: Given the insanely redundant traffic it's already generated, how about a several day or weeklong moratorium on Farenheit 9/11 posts, or perhaps a general thread like the Reagan one? Do we really need a new front page post every time somebody farts in Moore's general direction?

Last effective moratoria?

timeistight — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 13:50:56 -0800

Has there ever been an effective MetaFilter moratorium? How long ago was it?

Is it time to declare a moratorium on moratoria?

I'd like to declare a moratorium on comparing things to the Onion

jpoulos — Fri, 27 Feb 2004 06:04:58 -0800

I'd like to declare a moratorium on comparing things to the Onion, as well as nominations for the Darwin Award. [more inside]

U.S.A. bad, kills civilians (again)

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:52:06 -0800

U.S.A. bad, kills civilians. Guess what folks, we've done this before, several times. Isn't it time to declare a moratorium?

The Ebbs and flows at this joint fascinate me.

ParisParamus — Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:21:45 -0800

Am I just imagining it, or is there a lot less posting going on to Metafilter in the last few days. This is not necessarily bad, but the political threads are almost absent, and just the number of contributions is down. The Ebbs and flows at this joint fascinate me.

What happened to the moratorium on op-ed politics pieces?

i_cola — Fri, 01 Nov 2002 07:55:53 -0800

Despite this and this, today we have this.

Is it time to call a moratorium on posts linking to typical op-ed pieces?

mathowie — Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:41:01 -0800

Is it time to call a moratorium on posts linking to typical op-ed pieces? Special ones, outlandish ones, or provacative ones are fine, but one columnist's opinion (often of the "I think he/she/it/foo is bad!" type) doesn't offer much for discussion, they rarely have much in the way of supporting evidence or links, and their appeal is wearing thin.

moratorium on the ME?

BlueTrain — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:05:20 -0800

Is there any way MeFi could have a voluntary moratorium on Middle East threads? Just for a week, a day, or even several hours? I understand that I should ignore them. I do. I don't post them and I rarely comment, if ever. But I can't even go a few threads without seeing another one. And now people are posting each and EVERY detail...come on, for the sake of some sanity, and a chance to reflect, a voluntary moratorium for any given time?

Could we have a moratorium on that Gordon Sinclair piece?

holgate — Sat, 15 Sep 2001 06:29:15 -0800

Could we have a moratorium on that Gordon Sinclair piece? I fear that if I read it for the dozenth time, its intended effect may be somewhat curtailed.

Too much Ananova.

owillis — Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:00:21 -0800

Could we have a moratorium on Ananova links for now? While other news sources have not been dead on, they seem to be way off base more than others. There are quite a few reading Mefi right now, and disinfo from what looks like a credible source could hurt.

Could we maybe get a moratorium on the "My Ads are too Big!" front page posts?

alan — Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:07:21 -0800

Could we maybe get a moratorium on the "My Ads are too Big!" front page posts? Everyone knows ads are getting bigger. Metatalk would seem a better place for that kind of discussion.

So what did you think of the moratorium idea?

Avogadro — Sat, 03 Feb 2001 19:32:05 -0800

And so it has been a week since the suggestion of a voluntary moratorium was proposed and discussed in this thread. Any thoughts about whether a discussion of MeFi protocol should be presented on the home page, or is everything fine and dandy?