When you're previewing a question in AskMeFi, it tells you to hit back on your browser to tweak the question. When you do, the initial text you wrote no longer appears in the box. (Or is this just me?)
posted by NotMyselfRightNow
on Dec 6, 2004 -
10 comments
I don't care if it
is phrased in the form of a question.
Using AskMe to get in a second post because you "already shot [your] wad today with a different MeFi front page post and thought this merited a posting" is just not on.
posted by mcwetboy
on Nov 28, 2004 -
73 comments
A few words to our new users, from someone hardly qualified to give them. [more inside]
posted by y6y6y6
on Nov 18, 2004 -
116 comments
Since I'm able to post this, I have to assume I have not been banned from Metafilter. And yet, using IE for Mac Classic, I cannot post on Metafilter.
posted by ParisParamus
on Jun 19, 2004 -
28 comments
How important, with MeFi or Meta posts and comments, are extraneous factors like time, caffeine, midwork intervals or alcohol? Is there really a before and after coffee; a morning and late night inflection; according to how long you've been up and what you've ingested to get through the day? I think there is. Is the time-stamp your best counsellor and friend? Specially considering the wildly disparate time-zones? No names mentioned; just saying. In my humble opinion, the hour (and the perceived condition or, more generally, circumstances) says as much as the name. If not more.
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Dec 25, 2003 -
41 comments
I keep getting an error message when I post a new thread.
posted by crunchland
on Jun 23, 2003 -
7 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
You are posting a link without a description, or a description without a link, please correct this The links are included, with brackets and tags, in the description as usual since I joined 2-ish years ago. What are we fishing for here?
You forgot to include a title, please correct this Did no such thing, included the text string "poo969" in the
Link title: field. What are we fishing for here? Have we been studying bondage-and-discipline languages with Bucky Wirth? Just askin'.
PS, Search Metatalk "please correct this" Nothing was found with that search criteria, try searching again.
posted by jfuller
on Jan 11, 2003 -
12 comments
Dragging the dead horse out for it's monthly beating. [more inside]
posted by y6y6y6
on Nov 8, 2002 -
200 comments
I recently posted a
thread about a nike shoe ad that I found interesting, and it did not go over well. How does one post a thread about an ad that you would like to show for the ad's sake, not the product? how do you assure the community that you are not part of some viral ad campaign?
Are there some "hot button" topics that are sure to send any thread into a deadfall?
posted by quibx
on Nov 7, 2002 -
24 comments
Is MetaFilter better on the weekend? [more inside]
posted by mcwetboy
on Nov 5, 2002 -
29 comments
After reading this
article, which was linked at
Plastic, I was tempted to post it here, at MeFi, but then I decided not to. Isn't Plastic a popular site among MeFi readers, and wouldn't posting this link be redundant? Is there a general rule about posting from popular sites, or does it always come down to a hunch?
posted by Beholder
on Oct 24, 2002 -
27 comments
What is this,
RabbitFilter? As of 12:24 EST (9:24 PST, 17:24 GMT), there are 14 threads, 10 of which are related to Flash and/or rabbits. When will the madness end? I'm no cuniculophobe, but could not several of the threads (which are indeed clever, witty, and
linky) have been condensed into one or two good rabbit related threads?
posted by insomnyuk
on Jul 19, 2002 -
72 comments
Can we please have some mechanism to prevent double posts? it's pretty simple to implement, and should'nt increase any load on the server... For example,
this post has many double posts...
posted by arnab
on Apr 20, 2002 -
12 comments
Feature request: a MeFi This! link similar to Blogger's Blog This! feature. The upside: easy to post. The downside: more FFPs on Metafilter. Good idea, or really bad?
posted by jasonsmall
on Jan 28, 2002 -
31 comments
I'm sick of
double posting. I want to stop double posting. How can I be sure, without manually searching the source codes of every month in the archives, that I'm not double posting? And is there any point in telling someone they've double posted when there's no way they can avoid it?
posted by swift
on Jan 28, 2002 -
18 comments
Should I be looked down upon because I rarely post material (other than my own wacky point of view)? I am currently a freelancer and have a girlfriend, so I don't have a lot of time to discover interesting stuff on the Web (at least before everyone else has). Do I get deficiency-filling credit for organizing the NYC Mefi meet this Thursday?
posted by ParisParamus
on Jan 22, 2002 -
11 comments
Anyone else having this problem with Mefi? When I go to 'comments', there's no posting window available and my name doesn't appear. So, I logged in, figuring that would make a difference. No luck. Nothing's changed on my end. So sad when old friends no longer recognize you. :>(
posted by martk
on Jan 11, 2002 -
3 comments
Did I screw up? I was so giddy I found a little scoop about Deputy AG Thompson that I posted it right to the front page -- without noticing the two other Enron threads. Should my post have gone in of the others?
posted by raaka
on Jan 11, 2002 -
1 comment
i'm not grown up enough yet to post to the main page, but i have this fascinating link that's burning a hole in my browser... what should i do?
posted by dorcas
on Dec 11, 2001 -
16 comments
I can't post. :-(
I entered my post, did a preview, and I'm ready to go. I'm at the
http://www.metafilter.com/contribute/post_preview.mefi page and
hit the POST button. It just keeps bringing me back to the same place.
I am running Opera 5.0 under Linux.
posted by chipr
on Nov 3, 2001 -
5 comments
Uh...I know I didn't post that last thread to Bugs. Can anybody else back me up on this?
Is there any way to track if it was somehow (spontaneously?) moved, Matt?
posted by Su
on Oct 27, 2001 -
6 comments
24 hours vs. a day. I really don't like the 24 hour limitation, its not that I want to post twice per day, but I keep odd hours and find some really interesting stuff say in the morning that I'd like to post, but have to wait 24 actualy hours because I posted in the afternoon the previous day.
posted by skallas
on Oct 23, 2001 -
24 comments
I've gone ahead and added the new limit on posting. Only once per 24 hrs now. Let me know if you find any errors.
posted by mathowie
on Oct 12, 2001 -
23 comments
Please delete my silly post from early this morning, before everything went down. In the context of what's happened today, looking at it on the front page makes me feel silly and trivial.
posted by darukaru
on Sep 11, 2001 -
1 comment
Today it's raining outside, but I think it's just a shower. It was sunny yesterday, and I hope it'll be sunny tomorrow. Is summer your favourite season? What sort of weather do you recommend? I like rainbows. They are nice.
posted by holgate
on Sep 9, 2001 -
31 comments
You can't post a link on Opera/Linux: the "Post -> Wait" button just takes you back to the preview page.
posted by holgate
on Jul 23, 2001 -
5 comments
What about
this? Can we frown upon front page posts that consist only of italics? Ouchie.
posted by daveadams
on Jun 25, 2001 -
16 comments
I am using IE 5.0 for Mac. The text formatting commands do not appear at the bottom of the main text box. Any ideas?
posted by ParisParamus
on Apr 6, 2001 -
4 comments
I changed the posting pages to use a new javascript fix, to prevent double posts. If it doesn't let you post comments or new threads, let me know here. I tested it on IE 5.01, NN 4.75, and NN 6.0 on win2k, and it worked fine.
posted by mathowie
on Jan 21, 2001 -
22 comments
With the increase in traffic lately (27 new threads so far today), has it come time to limit users to starting one thread per day?
posted by Aaaugh!
on Dec 13, 2000 -
38 comments
To Do list: disable ability to submit blank posts at thread starters.
posted by mathowie
on Dec 8, 2000 -
3 comments
I tried making a bulleted list, and it broke the page layout and style. (example inside)
posted by cCranium
on Sep 7, 2000 -
3 comments
Yeah, there's a bug where that Steven Den Beste guy gets to post to the front page of Metafilter, multiple times per day, even. Any timeline on when we can expect this to be fixed?
posted by jkottke
on Aug 3, 2000 -
1 comment
so if there were a limit on front page posts, what should it be? 1? 3? 5? no limit?
posted by mathowie
on Jun 21, 2000 -
18 comments
May I humbly suggest a timer for individual posts. Err, that isn't very clear. Lately there's been a rash of people posting 2 or three small items in a row which, imho, really thins out the collective attention on MF which leads to more sparse threads.
What if each user was only allowed to post one new topic per 20 minutes? Or any arbitrary time period really...
Perhaps this should be a feature request?
posted by bryanboyer
on Jun 14, 2000 -
7 comments
I realize I'm probably the last person on the web to have noticed this program, but
HTML Tidy is pretty cool. It's an open source utility for cleaning up HTML: closing mismatched tags, etc. It seems that Haughey currently has to go in at times and close tags that posters leave open. I wonder if filtering entries through a program like this could save him from that chore. I'm sure this isn't the only utility of its type; does anyone know of others?
posted by harmful
on May 10, 2000 -
3 comments
Um, whoops. I think I found a bug. Click "post a comment" on the main page, and then "post a topic" on the top nav, and it goes to MetaTalk, instead of the main blog. Sorry bout that.
posted by endquote
on Mar 14, 2000 -
3 comments
