How to delete your previous questions within metafilter or AskMeFi? If you can't delete, why not and do they stay online forever?
posted by daveg02
on Dec 5, 2012 -
55 comments
I've been noticing basically the same question posted repeatedly on AskMe, "Please recommend some comfy walking shoes for me."
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posted by misha
on Sep 20, 2012 -
269 comments
Saying "I have personal experience in this" doesn't invalidate or even contradict information given in ask.
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posted by xingcat
on Sep 11, 2012 -
37 comments
Perhaps the AskMetafilter question form should point out that the title of the post does not appear on the front page?
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posted by oneirodynia
on Aug 16, 2012 -
45 comments
Looking for an AskMetafilter comment that listed recommended questions the OP should think about for an upcoming doctor's appointment.
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posted by NikitaNikita
on Jun 1, 2012 -
10 comments
The
sidebar (see Apr 12) featured
this post, in which someone's seemingly obscure question was answered in just six minutes. I think MY
experience was even more amazing (as my question was more obscure), though it did take Gator an hour and ten minutes to cough up an answer. What are some other AskMe Astounding Stories of Snappy Answers to Obscure Questions?
posted by grumblebee
on May 13, 2011 -
47 comments
AskMe etiquette - What are the norms about letting people who answer your question know that you are reading and appreciating their responses?
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posted by philipy
on Jan 15, 2011 -
31 comments
Facebook has an open position for a
Questions Community Manager. The text itself is pretty fascinating with superlatives like"anything you can dream up", "thousands of moderators" and "the full resources of Facebook at your disposal". I obviously thought about AskMe and Jessamyn, and she agreed it was an interesting Meta post.
Knowing that communities start from the ground up, I am especially interested in thoughts about how such a gigantic operation can be handled, if it can at all.
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posted by bru
on Nov 1, 2010 -
24 comments
Is there anything comparable to AskMeFi for general questions, career-related questions or apartment-hunting questions? Or is there any way around the 1 AskMeFi question per week?
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posted by catquas
on Oct 7, 2010 -
166 comments
Forgive me if this was asked before (I searched the FAQ), but I see a lot of people asking questions in AskMeFi who have never commented. Why are the guidelines different from MetaFilter (where you have to comment a certain number of times before you post)? I understand that some people are lurkers and we want to be accepting of that, but it seems like a lot of the questions which break the guidelines could be avoided. Maybe I'm just a whiner?
posted by Lizsterr
on Jun 25, 2010 -
28 comments
This post brought up a question for me. It isn't unusual for us to see AskMeFi questions posted by a member for a friend/spouse/workmate/whatever.
How do we feel about that? Are we taking bread out of Matt's mouth when we use our account for someone who isn't willing to pony up the $5? And, does it feel different to help a non-member as opposed to one of our co-member-mefits?
Not that I personally see it (as it happens now) as a huge issue, I was just curious as to the "how to manage an online community" philosophy bit of the question.
posted by HuronBob
on Mar 16, 2010 -
100 comments
I'm pretty sure that this has been asked before, but I can't find the post. So, what is the accepted etiquette for asking multi-part questions to AskMe?
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posted by jonesor
on Dec 24, 2009 -
14 comments
Many ask.metafilter questions don't have an "end" to the story. Which questions are you most curious about how they ended?
posted by bigmusic
on Dec 2, 2009 -
71 comments
How can I ask better questions? This is my first MetaTalk post, so just let me know if this is the wrong place or if it's somehow out of line.
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posted by brenton
on Aug 15, 2009 -
39 comments
Pony request: can following all anonymous posts (or maybe, more widely, following a specific user) be integrated into MyAskMefi?
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posted by WCityMike
on Jun 9, 2009 -
29 comments
I've just been noticing a recent pattern in Ask, which got me thinking about patterns in ask. Possibly NSFW.
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posted by gryftir
on Mar 6, 2009 -
63 comments
From time to time, after asking a question in AskMefi, I get a great question but forget about it because of the waiting period. I'm not questioning this rule, but it would be nice to have the possibility to create a certain number of questions in advance, and put them in some sort of queue, so one will not forgot to ask some good question.
posted by zouhair
on Mar 16, 2008 -
54 comments
We're podcasting tomorrow and would love to get some questions beforehand. As always, call Call +1 (503) 487-0014 and leave a message. We'll play back the good ones on the show and answer them.
posted by mathowie
on Sep 6, 2007 -
33 comments
Viewer Mail time! For tomorrow's podcast, we're gonna take questions from members and answer them during the show. Call
+1 (503) 487-0014 and record your question. We'll answer and play back the best questions we get for the next podcast.
posted by mathowie
on Aug 16, 2007 -
84 comments
This might be a better suggestion for the upcoming Travel site, but is it appropriate to suggest to people before they post looking for things to do in a new city, that they:
A) Tell us as much about themselves as possible,
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posted by vacapinta
on Aug 1, 2007 -
25 comments
God help me, but I'm starting a thread on getting additional AskMe questions. There are weeks that go by with no need to ask anything ... but then there are times when a second question would be a life-saver. Whatabout either (a) "rollover questions," a la Cingular's rollover minutes, say, up to a maximum of 2-3 in the bank at any time; or (b) a fee to ask a second question in one week?
I can think of several times when I would have ponied up an additional $5 to ask, say, a work-related question where I knew AskMe's community would have the best answer.
posted by jbickers
on Jun 27, 2007 -
132 comments
I need help with a popular song for the late 80s / early 90s. A chanting song, with monks in the background and a woman repeating latin sayings. Can you help? I tried Chant, but that's not the right album.
posted by Macboy
on Apr 7, 2007 -
20 comments
Do we have any data about what the best time of day is to ask an AskMe?
Maybe even sliced and diced by tag or geography of respondant? Like, say I had a question about American law, when would be the best time of day (perhaps through some proxy measure like more responses is better, but maybe it could be smarter and be based on favorites or checked answers) to post it? Posts made around 1am Central might not be ideal cause they may slide off the page by mid morning, right? And they may be less interesting to Euros or Asians who are reading.
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posted by rbs
on Mar 30, 2007 -
13 comments
I have an idea that popped into my head while I was reading
this.
Sometimes it comes up that people need/want to ask more than one question that warrants the use of AskMefi within the 2 week period. How about something in your profile where you could post semi-smallish questions + tags? These wouldn't be posted to the main page, but if someone had a similar question that they want to ask, these other smallish questions could come up in a tag search. Then, when the second searcher asks their question, maybe have something that pops up in the first person's profile next to their smallish question to alert them that a somewhat related question has been asked.
Note: I have no idea if this is one of those things that seems absolutely stupid or if it is too difficult to code or whatever. (I hope that "feature requests" was a good place to put this, even though it is probably nonexistant on anyone else's radar screen.)
posted by sperose
on Jan 6, 2007 -
29 comments
In which I posit that the two-week waiting period has had no impact on the volume of questions.
posted by knave
on Jan 2, 2007 -
119 comments
Looks like our answers to anonymous just don't hack it: The second question on "
The Vine", seems remarkably similar to
this question, on AskMe.
Though, I have to wonder: I understand the desire for a second opinion, or maybe a third, possibly even a fourth, but what makes you think "Yeah, sure, I got 75 answers the last time I asked this, but I think I need to get a 76th opinion."
Note: There's no permalink on The Vine, so I have no idea when the question will scroll off into the archive, replaced by a new second question that renders this post incomprehensible. Sorry.
Note: this is not a callout or complaint, just something I found interesting and MetaFilter related
posted by Bugbread
on Dec 14, 2006 -
21 comments
