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Most Favorited Posts By Year?

entropicamericana — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:07:31 -0800

Now that MeFi has over a decade under its belt, can we get "Most Favorited Posts in the Past Year?"

exclusive posts

niyati182 — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:05:07 -0800

is it possible to start a new post that only members can see and answer and wont turn up on google?

Why no airplane terrorist post?

granted — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:41:58 -0800

I'm curious about why nobody posted anything to the front page about the foiled terrorism attempt on the 25th. I know that this site has a complicated relationship with newsfilter-type posts, but traditionally, huge national/world events override any distaste for that sort of thing. After the story broke I visited Metafilter expecting to find a 200-comment discussion, but there was nothing. I thought perhaps someone had made a single-link newsfilter post that had been deleted, but nope. I checked the archives to see if previous, similarly noteworthy terrorism attempts were posted, and they were; in fact the shoebomber was so OMG! that the poster didn't even bother to include a link because it wasn't "on any of the websites yet." True, in those days we were younger and dumber and more lacking in impulse control, but it's odd that an almost identical event doesn't even merit a mention today. Why didn't I post it, you ask. Well, I thought somebody else would. Also, I only had enough time to put together a single-link newsfilter thing and people around here get all mean about that, so I thought I'd wait for someone else to either do a better job or take one for the team. And then later, when I did have time, it had been long enough since the event that I started to worry that maybe there was some reason for its absence that I didn't know about. Which is why I'm posting this, instead of that. In short, I was afraid. Anyway, basically, I was disappointed not to see it because this site has better discussions than anywhere else on the web and I've been spoiled. So, any thoughts as to why it wasn't posted?

Commentary in FPPs?

kylej — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:48:09 -0800

A lot of posts get deleted because they have too much "commentary" but in the metafilter about section it describes an ideal post as a link accompanied by commentary, perhaps this should be changed? The about section is here. It says: Thread: A thread (sometimes called a post) is one of the main messages you see on the MetaFilter homepage. These are the starting points for discussions, and are ideally unique, interesting, valuable links accompanied by commentary that starts an engaging conversation. Maybe this should be changed to "information" or something else, because I feel like commentary implies opinions, which I believe are generally looked down upon in fpps.

I was preparing a post like this!

shii — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:18:53 -0800

Is there any interest in creating a space on the wiki to collaborate on future posts and prevent sniping? Right now, I'm collecting links for a future post. But it's on a current event, so I'm also worried the topic will be sniped by someone else as I'm writing it. If I were to make a wiki page and plop it down there, would people bother looking for it before making their own post? For maximum visibility, we'd have to arrange collaborations by subject, and advertise the wiki page somewhere on the "new post" page, which I realize would further crowd the page.

self-flagging

leotrotsky — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:27:38 -0800

Flagging own comments for deletion? Is there a convention? I made a comment here that, in retrospect, is inaccurate and makes use of the @twit convention. The comment isn't awful exactly, just not particularly helpful. I'm hoping the mods'll kill it, so I flagged my own comment under 'other'. Do we have any convention for self-flagging?

Links for the Memories

box — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:12:54 -0800

The welcome-back message on the front page reads 'x links and y comments posted since your last visit' (except, y'know, with numbers). But most posts contain more than one link. Would it be better to have it read 'x posts and y comments'? There's probably a downside I'm not seeing.

Where do you discover the links you post to the blue?

Pastabagel — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:07:15 -0800

Where do you people find the things you post to the "blue", and how do you consistently find them before the rest of us? Specifically to those of you who make art or photography posts here on Metafilter, where do you first learn of the things you link here? Reddit? Stumbleupon? Digg? Certain blogs? Where is the bleeding edge of the internet? (At a mod's suggestion, I am reposting this now deleted question from AskMe.) This question is motivated by my frustration at having over 20 failed attempts at posting something to the front page only to learn on preview that it was already posted a few days or weeks before. Where is everyone finding all these interesting links?

Search Through User's Activity?

MikeHarris — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:18:01 -0800

Would it be possible to have a search box on Activity subpages -- in other words, a search function that limits itself to a single user's comments or posts? I think this'd be a useful tool because, as one example, a lot of people may remember threads by virtue of author and comments -- "oh, this thread I half-remember, that was where Joe said 'flippy'" -- and being able to comment search would be useful to allow users to themselves coax partial memories out themselves without MeTa or admin assistance. I do see how it could be abused for stalkerish purposes, but we've not let that get in the way of implementing other existing conveniences such as per-user RSS post feeds, Google Earth KMZ links in profiles, and so on.

The Yankees still suck

graventy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:50:05 -0800

I realize we have sort of a policy of not editing posts, but is there any chance an update could be added to the NY Marriage Equality post? Because honestly, I felt pretty good reading the first 200-or-so comments and the letdown really sucked. Also, I sounded like a moron when I proclaimed victory to a friend only to find out many comments later that I was completely wrong.

Guinness record for the Blue?

reenum — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:27:06 -0800

Is there a record for most consecutive days making a meaningful FPP post? Just wondering. I've been making FPP posts of interesting articles and topics I've read over the last week, and they seem to be well received. I have a ton more stuff and will make posts until I run out of cool stuff or the mods tell me to cut it out.

Pinning/sidebarring mod posts?

katillathehun — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:03:39 -0800

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. I guess these kinds of posts (like the changes to the favorites system) aren't made all that often, but when they are, it would awesome if they stuck around in a visible place for a few days. For example: I honestly thought the favorites system was broken when I first noticed the change, and it wasn't until I saw a closed thread with a link to the original that I realized it wasn't. I can't be the only one! or CAN I?

Ui and feature request for Recent Activity page

Brandon Blatcher — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:18:25 -0800

Here's a couple of requests concerning the Recent Activity page and one for errors when previewing. 1. Currently the ability to mange posts removed from Recent Activity is hidden at the bottom of the page. Can we move that link to the top, as in this mock up? 2. If a user makes a comment in a post that they have removed from Recent Activity, can that post automatically be placed back on the Recent Activity page? 3. On preview: I forgot to select a category for this post and was confused about why I wasn't getting a "Post" button. After looking around for a few seconds, I saw the error, which hidden within the page. So could we make that error message more noticeable? Here's the original and here's a revamp.

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.

Can't Find the Right Metafilter Search-Fu For This Question

WCityMike — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:03:52 -0800

I am wondering if people could assist me in locating Ask Metafilter questions along the lines of this and this. I know it's a concept frequently asked about, but evidently the concept's too amorphous for tags to be of help, Related Questions just circularly refer to each other, and I can't find the right Google-fu for this one. Mefites usually have a knack not only for wisdom borne of their own thoughts/struggles/etc. in stuff like this, but also usually for communicating that wisdom both clearly and memorably ... I've come to some (good, helpful) realizations lately and would appreciate incorporating some of that Mefite wisdom early on in the process, but frustratingly, I can't seem to get a read on the location of the stuff I know I've seen.

Deleted Posts Accessible to the User?

WCityMike — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:30:12 -0800

I recently had a MeFi post deleted. I know it will still show up in my Metafilter Recent Activity for a while, but once it goes from there, is there any way to track it and any deleted posts from my past? This is something I thought I knew, but I didn't. The deleted post doesn't show in the post-count for my profile -- which I suppose is probably understandable, since that's publicly accessible -- but for the longer-term, it'd be good to know which posts of yours got deleted, if only to make it easier not to repeat the same mistake in the future ... If not, could this perhaps be a pony request? Having a subpage or some sort of user-accessible linkage to the deleted post, perhaps along with the deletion reason? I suppose it occurs to me that having that information accessible to the user whose post was deleted could be valuable for the site itself, i.e., letting prior deletions serve as self-tutelage for the user. I'd like to think I haven't had that many things zapped over the years, but having them handy would mean I'd be less likely to repeat mistakes in the future.

Just when you thought it was safe to post again

Brandon Blatcher — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:07:56 -0800

Is this post about shark species extinction, and the member who created it (a "Shark conservation biologist"), crossing the line into spamming/schilling? The linked article is weak and has an obvious agenda, the user and the writers of the blog linked have many connections and the username chosen by the poster is based on the title of his upcoming book. I don't think any harm was intended but it sounds like the guy is using the front page to sell himself, his cause and his book. If so, is that ok?

navigating and posting

hammail2001 — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:48:05 -0800

Very new to this site and not good at navigating in general. Would like to know how I go about posting general questions. For instance if I have a question about cars...do I do a search for cars and then post a question in that particular area? Pardon my clumsiness...this site was recommended highly and I've been told, I can't do or say anything stupid or I will be kicked out, so I want to ask before i attempt anything.

Nesting posts

carsonb — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:15:09 -0800

Posts within posts? I was doing a little digging around the MeFi archives today and found a great post on pre-cinema devices from madamjujujive. A few comments into the post snez drops in all disappointed, saying he'd been working on a pre-cinema post himself. He then goes ahead and contributes everything he'd been working on, effectively making a post within a post. I've definitely seen this type of thing before, though I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head and can't imagine how to find more on my own. So I'm asking, Do you know of other similar occurences?

Some posts stay, some posts go, who knows...

sixcolors — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:28:57 -0800

I'm a tad confused. Do all AskMe's have to involve solvable problems, and not random questions to be answered? My understanding is that the AskMe community prefers posts to be solvable problems, but they don't always have to be. I thought it was OKAY for us to throw in a random question, such as the one I made a few weeks ago about prostitutes, which wasn't deleted and the discussion ended pleasantly. On the other hand I notice that sometimes those type of questions are deleted. I think there needs to be clearer guidelines.

Metafilter makes the Jerry Springer show look boring.

sixcolors — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:50:45 -0800

I'm so bored I can shit. I would like some links to some entertaining posts. Thanks. :) I've only been here for a year and read a lot of interesting posts. I know there must be more. I'm looking for entertaining posts that was made before my time or that I have overlooked. I'm looking for stuff along the lines of rare life situations, not those relationshipfilters where someone asks "Does she like me? How do I make a move?" or posts asking for restaurant recommendations. I'm talking about stuff along the lines of... http://ask.metafilter.com/7921/If-you-killed-somebody-how-would-you-dispose-of-the-body-without-getting-caught People are still favoriting scarabic's reply, and the post was created way back in 2004. :) http://ask.metafilter.com/115238/What-are-the-unspoken-rules-inside-a-crackhouse http://ask.metafilter.com/108424/How-to-interact-with-paid-killers http://ask.metafilter.com/78970/Trials-of-a-Responsible-Hedonist A metafilter classic! There was a post with a woman who was kind of convinced that her husband was trying to kill her. There was another post about a member suspecting shady activities going on in the apartment across from her. I just remember people coming up with some crazy and creative possiblities.

Can we revive older Askme posts?

digitalprimate — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:58:12 -0800

What is the policy on reviving or revisiting (with changes) older Askme threads that lack a clear resolution? There is an askme thread from last September about what trades might come in useful in a full blown depression (with humorous and scary derails into Mad Max/zombie apocalypse scenarios). I would like to revisit that question in light of economic developments since September and ask a little more specifically about my situation. I've checked the FAQ and the wiki and can't find anything specific about this situation where one deliberately wants to make something similar to a "double." I've been lurking since 2003 when William Gibson name checked the blue, and I've posting for two years, but I'm still unclear about the etiquette of revisiting older Askmes. Would any of the more experienced members care to offer any suggestions? I'm a big fan of good signal to noise and essentially want to know if mefites would consider this noise.

Who's broken? Metafilter or me?

gman — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:53:22 -0800

Why is it that sometimes Metafilter shows the correct number of posts and comments since my last visit and other times it's as if I hadn't ever clicked a thread? I initially posted this in AskMefi, but was kindly corrected by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew.

Palinfilter

jenkinsEar — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:12:49 -0800

3 FPP Palins in one day? Enough already! I realize that Ms. Palin EATS BABBYS and WANTS US ALL DEAD, but maybe we could have a day or two off? Maybe just two anti-Palin posts a day would be enough?

Take it outside

spicynuts — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:34:14 -0800

Is there some way to get a clean up in the Colin Powell thread? Jesus, a hugely optimistic event and a couple of knickers in a twist hot heads turn it into a 3rd grade playground.