MetaTalk posts tagged with posting

$5 wasted?

leotrotsky — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:35:57 -0800

You can't use 2nd account to get around 7 day wait period on AskMe? I was under the impression that one of the things you bought with your 5 dollar sockpuppet account was the ability to post questions with that account. Are you guys actually checking IPs or credit cards or something?

Posting comments from iPhone

empath — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:42:20 -0800

When the iPhone first came out, I wasn't able to post a comment directly from the comment page, I had to preview first. Then pb did something to fix it, and that seemed to work for a few months, but now I'm back to having to preview first -- is anyone else having that problem?

How long do you wait before posting to askmefi?

Admira — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:03:20 -0800

How long do you wait before posting to askmefi? I know in my case I tend to think it over for a few days, try and think if I can figure out what people would say in response ... then post it and be surprised with the results. But I'm curious if other people are more spontaneous.

Opera Mini and MeFi: Two Great Tastes That Taste Assy Together

middleclasstool — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:13:50 -0800

Can't comment from Opera Mini on a Blackberry. I've tried a couple of times to post comments to the blue from two different models of Blackberry (8700 and 8900). Previously was running an older version of Opera Mini (can't recall which) on an old Blackberry 8700, and when I'd try to post a comment to the blue, it would preview just fine, but when I hit the post button it would load the preview page again. Repeated hitting of the post button just continues to preview. Currently running Opera Mini 4.2.14912 on my new 8900, tried to comment in the Dreamcast thread this morning while waiting at the doctor's office, and got the same problem. I haven't tried yet posting to other subsites, and of course I don't want to make an FPP just to test if that functions properly in OM. Anyone else seen this?

@please @make @it @stop!

Antidisestablishmentarianist — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:14:11 -0800

A reminder: @newpeople, using @username as a form of reply is discouraged on @MetaFilter. This isn't @twitter. You are more than free to do it, but know that about 3/4 of the people that read what you wrote are not impressed. In the least. We have a few conventions here, and not using @ to reply to someone is one of them. Try instead: > username: username: That isn't so hard, is it? Posting because this behavior has ramped up the last few months, and this needs restating.

All hail homunculus!

Kattullus — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:28:35 -0800

homunculus has made 1000 high quality posts to the Blue. He has just become the first MeFite besides mathowie to cross into quadruple digits. Quantity aside, his posts are quality.

WANT .img

birdsquared — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:24:36 -0800

Can have .img? We'll pay It has been suggested (we are currently in the midst of the Vancouver mefi10 meetup) that people should be able to pay a nominal fee (say $1.00) to allow them to post an image in a thread - as a "filter" but also as an income source. Can has? Even if not permanent, perhaps a short term fundraiser, or limited to certain specified threads.

Optimum posting time?

pseudostrabismus — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:04:01 -0800

What are the peak hours of MeFi and AskMe? What's the best time (meaning both time of day and day of the week) to post to this site, if you want your post to get tons of traffic and responses? I'm asking because my last two AskMe questions didn't get as many answers as I hoped they might. Both concern phenomena that most users probably have experience with and hypothetically could have weighed in on, but both posts seem to have rolled to a stop with under 20 responses. The questions were read by a lot of people as they were both favourited quite a few times, but I wonder if I'd have gotten more responses if I'd posted at a different time in the week instead of *cringe* Saturday and Sunday evenings. Thanks!

Thread deletion marker pony request

goo — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:25:39 -0800

I can haz pony filter: Some sort of live marker of deleted posts, perhaps in live preview, would be really nice. We spend time composing interesting, referenced, pertinent answers/ posts, and then formatting and posting them - only to find the thread has been baleeted in the interim. A marker of deletedness, perhaps in live preview, would save time and not leave posters with that "Uh, bugger. That was a waste of time and effort" feeling. Not a high priority, but it would be nice to have eventually.

Pony update: editing after posting

Chrysostom — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:33:54 -0800

Is there any update on the "edit your post/comment after posting" pony? Hadn't seen anything since then, unless I missed something.

Is it self posting if my wife is involved.

asavage — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:01:21 -0800

I want to put up an FPP about a not-for-profit that's done something cool, and important, and I want it to get some publicity, because I believe in their mission. But my wife works for them, on a volunteer basis, in a pretty important position.... I'm assuming that it skates too close to the rule for self posting. Or does it? Can I include a disclaimer in the post?

You may make another post in: 19 hours, 7 minutes, 49 seconds.

desjardins — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:48:37 -0800

Can we have a countdown timer for MeFi posts like we do for AskMe posts? How about for MetaTalk?

"Your comment appears to be blank, go back and try again."

russm — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:05:34 -0800

I'm trying to post in this thread... I can preview, but when I try to post I just get "Your comment appears to be blank, go back and try again."... and I'm pretty sure my comment is not blank...

Don't Post MeMail In Threads

scrump — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:58:15 -0800

Don't post MeMail to a thread without the explicit permission of the sender. Like this. This is so very no on so many levels.

Elephant Day celebrated amidst pomp

[@I][:+:][@I] — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:26:26 -0800

Happy metafilter e l e p h a nt day! Any plans for celebration? These guys seem to have jumped the gun by a day, but they were close.

Not feeling good about being mostly a reader

joeclark — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:39:28 -0800

I’m MetaFilter user 250, which makes me officially oldschool, but: I very rarely post on any branch; all my old posts are terrible (I checked); my recent posts on the blue are extremely conservative to avoid being terrible like the old ones (many are obituaries); and I pretty much live for AskMe. I write a ton of things on my own sites, but I never really manage to write very much of use on the various Metas. This at least is my feeling. I won’t insult anyone’s intelligence by asking “Is it really OK just to read MetaFilter?” Of course it is. I am just wondering how many other early members really, truth be told, never got the hang of front-page posts and other high-profile “content.” I’m saying this after reading through the archived contributions from some new people (with userIDs 40 times higher than mine), who are way the hell better at it. “We can’t all good at everything”? Or what? What is the right way to react to this?

Turn and face the strain

pb — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:26:28 -0800

There have been a few tweaks to tagging, flagging, and posting. [more inside]

MetaFilter should really stop following us around and imitating us.

NortonDC — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:52:14 -0800

Onlyconnect and I hosted a gathering yesterday evening starting around 6 pm eastern. Attendees included at least five Mefites. Topics dicussed at that party that have subsequently appeared on the front page through no action of our own include:

An extended discussion of "Freaks and Geeks"
The further creative output of Judd Apatow
Lesbian Until Graduation (LUG)

Look MetaFilter, despite the fact that I wore the new MetaFilter shirt that onlyconnect gave me (a decision driven by its festive coloring and roominess, since I was planning some serious eating), it's time to stop following us around and copying us.

Ask MeFi Experimentation

WCityMike — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:59:14 -0800

Matt, just curious as to a follow-up to this comment of yours.

AskMe posting limits?

wheelieman — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:34:14 -0800

Ok, so now that February is over, what happens to the AskMe posting limits?

Firefox & AskMe problem

IndigoRain — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:33:59 -0800

I can't post on AskMe - on the preview page, hitting Post just reloads the preview page. Firefox 2.0.0.1. Not seeing any error messages either.

Contest Winners!

mathowie — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:20:10 -0800

Winners of the December best-of post contest...and the envelope please...

Code posting woes

AmbroseChapel — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:05:27 -0800

Just when I thought I'd figured out how to post code into AskMeFi ... some feature of the back end is changing two single quotes into one single quote?

Comment post preview acting weird

Malor — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:54:54 -0800

Preview and final post modes have diverged. I keep seeing complaints, after munged or garbled messages, about how 'it looked fine in preview!' [bit more inside]

Headlines cause confusion

nielm — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:44:01 -0800

PonyFilter: CDC Recommends... what?
It is obvious when you open the post because the headline is shown, but in the front page, it is just confusing... Can the headline be included on the front page, or can there be a note in the posting page that the headline is not shown on the FP, and shouldn't be used as part of the post summary