MetaTalk posts tagged with resolved

Best $5 I ever spent.

visual mechanic — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:41:52 -0800

AskMe saved me more than TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. Thank you! Thank you! It's been almost a year later, but AskMe came through in a huge way for me. I posted this question last year and the advice I got there led me to a resolution I needed - I was informed today that CareFirst BlueChoice had to refund all premiums along with interest. I really had no idea what else to do. And I think I can say that without AskMe, I would have cancelled my credit card and swallowed the loss. So wow, thanks! (If you click on my website in my profile, you can read a longer writeup of the situation.)

K1000 resurrection

mwhybark — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:41:42 -0800

Old AskMe post resolved. In 2004, I asked about getting a jammed Pentax K1000 fixed. -> A couple few days ago, I found the camera again. Mysteriously, it had repaired itself. I played with it for a bit, and then it jammed again. I Googled for variations on 'Pentax K1000 shutter release jammed' and came up with plentiful reports of the problem. i also came up with a couple hints that it was an easy thing to fix. After locating a page full of old Pentax service manuals (obv, you want the K1000 one if you are playing along at home), I removed the bottom plate (a simple three-screw procedure), jiggery poked the windy geary bits and hey presto, Bob's my uncle. I loaded it up and started shooting. (Now of course, 12 frames into the roll, it's jammed again, and I noted some light-seal material around the edges of the baseplate. So I'll be performing the same surgery shortly... in the dark.) Anyway, just wanted to complete the thread. The fix is so incredibly simple it seemed silly not to point it out.

Law to biology in about 900 easy steps with help from Askme

palmcorder_yajna — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:32:09 -0800

Local Askme Girl Makes Good [Thanks everyone!] More than three years ago, I started getting serious about transitioning from being a lawyer to being a life scientist. And beginning in October of 2006, I started going to AskMe for advice about the process. Often, my questions came from a place of incomplete understanding, but AskMe never failed to straighten me out and put me on the right path. About an hour ago, I accepted an admission-and-fellowship offer from the University of Washington. I'll be starting my Ph.D in biology this fall. I can say unreservedly that AskMe's guidance got me here. Because of folks like ObeyScient, Good Brain, and others, I knew to focus on networking with faculty and doing research. That (now unsuprisingly) turned out to be absolutely key. In addition to that, AskMe's saved me from wasting time on a second bachelor's degree, and on trying to supplement my (future) fellowship income by trying to be a part-time patent attorney. It's also given me great recommendations for self-study resources. And beyond those specifics, I've got to say, it's been unbelievably great to know that AskMe's there-- for reality checks, for solid answers to obscure questions, for everything. Leaving my law career for a life in biology was (and continues to be) a real step into the wilderness. Figuring out the logistics has been stressful and truly confounding at times, for both my spouse and for me. The availability of AskMe has helped us with that a lot. So thanks, everyone. Thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks, thanks. I know that I'm not really a scientist yet. I know that all of the hardest stuff is still ahead, and that the next few years will bring anxiety, doubts, freakouts, and buckets of stress, along with all the anticipated awesomeness. Still, guys-- I'm grateful. Gratitude and AskMe love are pretty much leaking out of my every pore right now. I don't really know how to end this big, embarrassing love-gush, so I think I'll just finish by linking to a picture of a wombat. They have armored butts, you know? I learned that. From studying biology. Ok. Need a drink now. Hugs. Big, big, big ones. From wombats. With Ph.Ds.

Spoiler tag?

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:23:57 -0800

Pony: A spoiler tag. Once again, there's a game thread where strategy spoilers are being made with impunity. That's fine and all, and I could easily just remove the thread from activity and/or scroll past what looks like a game tip in order to read other types of commentary. However, it got me thinking that a spoiler tag (text appears blacked out; but becomes visible by hovering the cursor over it) would also not only work, but could have applications in other areas - discussions on movies, television shows, books and so on. Just a thought, no big whoop.

FTW!

parmanparman — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:11:46 -0800

My hat is forever off to Nanojath for his amazing answer to my now-resolved question from December. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, you are the king of google-fu. I read this when I was a camper at Camp Unalayee and I was totally blown away. I am really glad to find the title of this book. Thank you, Nanojath!

Auto-removal of the 'stumped' tag

the latin mouse — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:08:02 -0800

Could we set things up so tagging an AskMe post as 'resolved' automatically removes the 'stumped' tag?

Why verify addresses to turn of mefi mail reminders?

empath — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:42:14 -0800

Why do I have to have a verified email address to opt out of mefi mail reminders? It wasn't a huge pain to verify it, but it doesn't make sense that I had to. It should have nothing to do with my email.

unanswered self questions

fogster — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:44:00 -0800

If you reply to your own comment in Ask MeFi, and no one else has replied yet, it no longer shows up on the Unanswered Questions page. This is obviously not a big deal either way, and some will probably argue that it should work this way. However, it seems to me that when someone replies to their own question, they're almost always adding information / clarification, not answering their own question. So I'd think that the ideal functionality of the "Unanswered" tab should be a list of questions that haven't received replies from anyone except the author. So again, no big deal either way, but I wonder if others agree with my thinking and, if so, whether we could have this pony?

Halp, my tabs has gone

subbes — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:11:39 -0800

I used to see the links to "* Recent Posts/* My Favorites/* Popular Favorites/* My Comments/* Recent Comments" as tabs on the front page (like this example from MeTa). Now they look like this. Technicals: FF 3.0.1 on OS X NoScript blocking FMPub/Google Analytics (but MF itself is trusted) GreaseMonkey (MefiQuote, Mondo Meta, MetaFilter Scroll Tag). Refreshing with GM turned off doesn't change it. The tabs show correctly on Safari, on Opera and also on my iPhone. Possibly related, I tried looking at http://styles.metafilter.com/mefi/tabs-mefi.css and it's nothing but garbage in FF?

Non-poster seeing "add tag" on MeFi posts?

John Kenneth Fisher — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:35:19 -0800

Non-poster seeing "add tag" on MeFi posts? User "Nick Fisher" is seeing an "Add Tag" option on a blue post written by a different user. (me!) He sent me a screenshot, so he's definitely logged in as himself and not as me. I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if it's something I just wasn't aware of, but I know neither he nor I see that option on any other FPPs at the moment.

lost girl: found!

grumblebee — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:23:42 -0800

I finally found you, Kelly Shanks -- or, rather, you found me!

Help me find an FPP about swarms of birds that darken the sky

otherwordlyglow — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:56:47 -0800

A while back (more than 2 months, less than a year) I remember an FPP that linked to a few short films of birds swarming in the sky in giant flocks that nearly darkened the sky. Might have been somewhere in the Netherlands but I recall it being an annual event. The swarming activity made for amazing patterns in the sky. I don't think this was just in my dreams but can't find it through any searches of the site. Can anyone help?

Bug: contributions by userx that were saved as favorites

madamjujujive — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:57:45 -0800

Problems on "contributions by userx that were saved as favorites by other members" pages: example
1) New favorites (such as today's) are not being added to this page.
2) Clicking on "next page" just reloads the same page even though the url lists it as page 2. Page progression is fubared.

Offensive gif in Askme thread

SpecialK — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:55:27 -0800

This kind of thing should result in an instaban.

Apache error

xammerboy — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:32:52 -0800

Help! I see this message instead of the Metafilter homepage?

If you can see this, it means that the installation of the Apache web server software on this system was successful. You may now add content to this directory and replace this page.

Unconsidered deletion

languagehat — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:57:58 -0800

Matt, you might want to rethink this deletion. You seem to have taken it as simply random gibberish ("doesn't really make any sense at all"), when it's actually a link to an online code/puzzle; you've allowed those many times before, and people seem to enjoy them. Alongside the jokey comments (like mine), people were working to figure out the code. Maybe reconsider?

Waiving front page posting limit?

persona non grata — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:37:05 -0800

Would it be possible to have the 24-hour posting limit waived if your last post was a double and deleted?

Weird Favorite Behavior?

brownpau — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:09:26 -0800

Couple of issues here. I just accidentally marked a post as a favorite (stupid new mouse). Could the "favorited" confirmation page include a link to my favorites management list, or better yet, an undo? Also, from this this favorited confirmation page, the "Return to post" link is broken.

Pony: front page +fave links

disillusioned — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 16:11:19 -0800

Any chance we can get a +fave link on the front page for each item, especially on the green? (I'm thinking Digg-style, AJAX based would be very pretty, though potentially too Web 2.0 for the likes of some Mefites...)

Visibility of ads

movilla — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:33:07 -0800

I may be missing something obvious (checked previous metatalk queries) but this post has an advert in it shown in Firefox but not in IE. The advert is for www.ecological.co.uk. Is there a reason for it? I don't remember an adverts on/off feature.

Thanks for adding resolved tags to your AskMe posts

CunningLinguist — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:03:41 -0800

Related somewhat to the post below, I'd like to thank everyone who has started adopting the custom of adding "resolved" or "updated" tags to their questions. Browsing those tags can be very interesting.

Anonymous Ask Metafilter Archive

Saucy Intruder — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:15:00 -0800

"Why does eating in a restaurant make me crap my pants?" and 994 other anonymous gems from the Anonymous Ask Metafilter archive. As AskMe readies for it's 1000th anonymous question, the community is hereby polled: How has the feature worked out for the community? Do you ever wonder how some threads were resolved? And at the risk of seeming too voyeuristic, has anyone ever thought about writing fiction based on the scenario in an anonymous AskMe question?

Looking for an animated GIF.

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:56:36 -0800

I'm looking for an animated GIF that was posted inline somewhere here. It shows two dogs humping and one throwing up. It's for a friend. Really. Honest.. If someone could email it to me, I'd appreciate it.

(Matt and Co., you have my solemn oath that I will not use it here, ever).

Bloglines + AskMe = feed error

Tuwa — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:06:54 -0800

Is anyone else having an AskMe feed error in bloglines?

Request: a way to mark our questions as resolved.

visual mechanic — Sat, 13 May 2006 09:13:55 -0800

I'd love to see a "conclusion" feature to many of the askme questions. For instance, even if it's months later, I could go into a question I asked and mark it "concluded" and give a quick summary of what happened when I followed the advice.

Once someone marks something "concluded" it would go to its own "conclusions" RSS feed, which we could subscribe to if we want to know "the rest of the story" on many of the questions asked.