MetaTalk posts tagged with semantics

On Currying Favor...

yonation — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:44:28 -0800

Semantics, semantics, semantics. Can we rename 'favorites' to 'watched' or add a 'watched' category? Often I see something that is certainly not my favorite post, but I'd like to watch it - whether its a train-wreck flameout, our friend the re-donkey-lous fedora man, or something about to be Godwinned, there are often threads one doesn't want to encourage, exactly, or give the impression to the OP that their question/thread was good, exactly... Just that you think its going to make good watching (or in the case of AxeMe, you'll learn from it). Isn't "favoriting" it implying rewarding the person, when you actually just want to "watch" it for the future?

Favorites: it took a while to figure if they're of or by that person

blacklite — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:53:55 -0800

SemanticsFilter: When you're viewing the posts and comments that a specific users has marked as a favourite (i.e. the favourites of) it says, for instance, "Favorite posts from blacklite". It took me a couple of minutes to figure out whether these were the posts by or of that person. [mi]

Juan Cole Bites Back

y2karl — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:14:25 -0800

Matthew Haughey says he won't read our blogs if we use the term "mainstream media" (a.k.a. MSM).

A news flash for Matt: We don't care.

We don't care if you read our web logs...

My Informed Comment ?

Ouch...