http://www.metafilter.com/128626/Matt-Smith-is-leaving-Doctor-Who - Is there a way to search, sort, organized based on what's generated the most discussion?
posted by smallerdemon
on Jun 2, 2013 -
14 comments
If favorites are bookmarks, and I'm not saying that they are, it would be nice to be able to search them by username.
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posted by maryr
on Apr 11, 2013 -
33 comments
I've noticed that the search function doesn't catch YouTube doubles if the URL isn't exact. Here's a tip: grab the alphanumeric ID of the video from its URL and search mefi using only that. For example, searching for 9Iq5yCoHp4o pulls up
this post, but a search for http://youtu.be/9Iq5yCoHp4o and http://www.youtube.com/embed/9Iq5yCoHp4o fail, even though they all point to the same video.
posted by desjardins
on Mar 25, 2013 -
19 comments
Pony Request: a search function for MeMail. We're able to search our activity and favorites, and I'd love to be able to do the same for MeMail. I know MeMail isn't meant to replicate the features of services like Gmail, but I think this particular function would be really useful.
posted by lalex
on Feb 24, 2013 -
12 comments
So thanks to
this MeTa I found (and "Liked", of course) the
MetaFilter Facebook page. Upon reading said page, however, one of the terms from the "Related Searches" section stood out: "metafilter convection oven". I am very curious to find out now why this is apparently a popular enough search to show up on the Facebook page. Is this merely a glitch on Facebook's end or is there something about ovens that I really should know and y'all can tell me about? What am I missing out on here?
posted by MattMangels
on Feb 5, 2013 -
45 comments
When tags with non-ASCII characters appear in the tag search results, the links are broken (while tags with non-Latin-1 characters are simply not accessible by any means). Tags with percent signs make the server grumpy. Underscores also seem to be treated somewhat inconsistently (or at least counterintuitively) by the tag search.
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posted by stebulus
on Jan 28, 2013 -
25 comments
I'm looking for a comment that I just can't find and want to read again. It detailed a version of Sex In The City as performed as a Beckett-like Black Box stage production. The women wailed a chorus of " THE SHOES" someone said " I fear I am not fecund". I have tried every permutation I could think of with no success. I'm 99% sure I read it here.
posted by The Whelk
on Jun 23, 2012 -
74 comments
Within the last week or so someone posted on Askme needing disability/accommodation referrals/support in Massachusetts.
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posted by anya32
on May 17, 2012 -
2 comments
Apropos of
this thread, I'm trying to find a MetaFillter comment from a few years ago in which the commenter related a story about a friend or family member whose company made a product that Walmart became interested in selling.
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posted by Miko
on May 8, 2012 -
23 comments
how to search the post in askmefi with the most number of "favorite" or being the most popular topic?
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posted by akomom
on Jan 9, 2012 -
8 comments
Wondering if it's possible to limit a search to just within my favorited posts?
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posted by amanda
on Dec 13, 2011 -
45 comments
Is there a search-for-contacts, find-your-friends feature buried somewhere in MetaFilter? I'd love to see if any other folks that I know are MeFites, and would gladly grant the site temporary access to my GMail address book to find out... if ONLY there were a WAY to DO it!
posted by D.Billy
on Jul 16, 2011 -
57 comments
MeFite Simulare's grandmother has been missing in San Francisco for 24 hours. She suffers from dementia. Please help.
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posted by likeso
on Jun 18, 2011 -
52 comments
Search seems to be failing me when I check to see if my post is a double. This has happened several times despite efforts to ensure it's not a double.
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posted by bwg
on Jun 16, 2011 -
28 comments
Article about Mefi which contained a list of FPP including one about a movie so shocking it was only shown once? Any bells ringing?
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posted by wheelieman
on Apr 4, 2011 -
27 comments
Searching for an old post. It was a SLYT clip, if memory serves. I bellieve it was the introduction to a movie that featured three people (I think E. European gypsies) playing folk music in a field...
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posted by PeterMcDermott
on Nov 29, 2010 -
27 comments
Looking-for-an-old-thread filter. I remember a link to an article on the blue, talking about what exactly the Princess Kays do with their butter sculpture busts after they won.
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posted by dinty_moore
on Aug 24, 2010 -
13 comments
Hello, pb! Big fan, first-time caller. I love being able to search through my favorites for half-remembered comments that I think are excellent, but often, one of the only significant pieces of information I can remember about comments is the person who posted them. Like, "I think I recall Spatch saying something funny about horses? Or was it camels?" Unfortunately, the search-through-favorites feature doesn't seem to catch commenters' names, only the comments' bodies. Is there a way the name of the commenter could be included in the search-through-favorites, or would that be a tremendous hassle to implement? I apologize if this has been requested before, and I thank you for your time!
posted by Greg Nog
on Jul 30, 2010 -
82 comments
Display Search Results Pony: Would it be possible to give us an option to choose how many search results are displayed on a page?
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posted by zarq
on Jun 1, 2010 -
10 comments
Looking for an old AskMe question. Know who posted it and roughly when. Do I fail at the internet or was it deleted years after being posted?
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posted by Justinian
on May 10, 2010 -
37 comments
I recall reading relatively recently (maybe within the past 3 months?) on the Blue about a comment listing some consequences if the law of Conservation of Energy is wrong. One of my coworkers just got into some "over-unity" nonsense, and I need to show him what for. I'm having some trouble Googling for it, or I wouldn't ask. Thanks in advance!
posted by Xoder
on Apr 15, 2010 -
16 comments
Pony/suggestion: What about being able to browse posts by multiple tags, but with OR as opposed to merely AND. This would mostly be to combat tag redundancy, but could also be useful in general.
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posted by sentient
on Mar 15, 2010 -
12 comments
I'm looking for a link that I'm pretty sure I found on MeFi, but searches are failing me. It was an all Flash site with a series of videos and documents connected together as a sort of flowchart. Viewing each of these revealed portions of a mystery. Videos were displayed on a cube, with different camera angles on different sides of the cube. Anyone remember what I'm talking about? Thanks.
posted by endquote
on Jan 25, 2010 -
8 comments
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?
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posted by MikeHarris
on Dec 4, 2009 -
15 comments
I'm looking for a great ask.me answer about buying quality shoes that's probably several years old. There was an answer from a shoe store manager(owner?) that was very good, and I think it was sideblogged.
Which brings me to my 2nd question: Is the sideblog searchable?
posted by theora55
on Nov 15, 2009 -
20 comments
Is there a way to search
within an AskMe category (e.g., Home and Garden)? I can't think of a unique enough keyword that would narrow it down under a few hundred questions, but I know the category. I know about tags; that's not helping me either. If this doesn't exist, can we make it so?
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posted by desjardins
on Oct 13, 2009 -
23 comments
There was a recent post of a video where a guy slides down the side of a hill, launches off a ramp & lands in a pool. I'm usually pretty good at this but my search-fu is failing me & I can't find it. Help?
posted by scalefree
on Sep 24, 2009 -
32 comments
A minor pony: on the search results page, can the number of comments for each post be included in the "posted by" line, the same way it is on the main page?
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posted by oulipian
on Sep 13, 2009 -
7 comments
I was experimenting with Google's search suggestions feature when I noticed that it gave some interesting results for "metafilter + [letter]". Since it returns the most popular search terms starting with that phrase, what you get for each letter is an A-Z listing of the most sought-after topics related to Metafilter. So without further ado, I give you...
Metafilter A to Z.
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posted by Rhaomi
on Aug 11, 2009 -
179 comments
