Mefite[1]
Anil Dash[2]
writes[3]:
"Simply learning from disciplines like urban planning, zoning regulations, crowd control, effective and humane policing, and the simple practices it takes to stage an effective public event, we can come up with a set of principles to prevent the overwhelming majority of the worst behaviors on the Internet." Examples? Why
Metafilter, of course, (as well as Stack Exchange sites, of which he is a board member).
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posted by Tuesday After Lunch
on Dec 29, 2011 -
89 comments
"If your article was well written, and/or funny, I’d simply have had a laugh about it and went back to metafilter.com where I belong when I’m on the net when it was forwarded to me." A shoutout by new Cub... Metafilter's own....
Fernando Perez.
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posted by norm
on Jan 27, 2011 -
100 comments
I'd probably want to sweep
this booger-string of a deleted thread under the rug too if it was my site. But it's sort of sad to lose such a gold star collection of mefi members practicing the non-bigotry they preach, so if anyone lost a comment they're particularly proud of the deleting mod pretty much invited you to re-post it to the open thread
here.
posted by jfuller
on Oct 1, 2010 -
24 comments
I'd just like to take a moment to misuse MetaTalk and draw your attention to this lame gawker list type post revealing the origin of MetaFilters own
Astro Zombie.
posted by Artw
on Oct 12, 2009 -
52 comments
A follow up to this little
post I made a few years ago about a fellow that was attempting to walk every street and lane of his surroundings.
His passing has given me pause to reflect on the idea of community and how posting events from the local to the global bring us closer together. I want to say thank you to mathowie for providing us with this forum for sharing these often unheard stories.
posted by tellurian
on Sep 12, 2008 -
16 comments
I found what I was looking for, after 2+ years, including an answer to my very first AskMe post! For posterity, the answer to
this question is
this, and the answer to
this question is "Happy Go Lively" which is available
here.
I'd love to be able to update my own askme posts, even if they were from years ago. I understand that the discussion has to end at some point, but if I found what I believe to be the definitive answer (since it was my question, after all), it would help those who come searching later on to keep the answer and the question together.
posted by Wild_Eep
on Aug 6, 2008 -
17 comments
Lest anyone miss it on the blue,
this post needs to be added to the list of those that are referred to whenever someone asks what an excellent FPP looks like.
posted by allkindsoftime
on Jul 3, 2008 -
195 comments
Mefi's Own Baby_Balrog: "Stephen and I traveled to Bilin, near Ramallah, on Friday. [...] IDF soldiers began firing CS gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at the marchers [...] here's a video of me running away when the soldiers started firing gas canisters [...] I had my jump kit with me and tried to help a few people [...]" He's writing a pretty fascinating blog.
posted by WCityMike
on Jun 24, 2008 -
14 comments
Over the last few months one of the Metafilter regulars has produced a number of comments demonstrating an above average grasp of the democratic parties political process as well as an above average ability to articulate that understanding in to language that highlights the substance of the comments.
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posted by iamabot
on Jun 7, 2008 -
100 comments
Ten days have passed since I posted
this thread to
AskMetafilter. My postman is cranky with me, my friends think I'm crazy, I have about around 30 lbs of new catalogs
[c. 200kb pics, flickr, 1, 2], and a reinvigorated appreciation for all y'all (not that it has ever been in jeopardy)...
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posted by cadastral
on Apr 11, 2008 -
49 comments
Just a shout out to
Lore , just watched your latest Alt Text, and spied what site you had on the computer behind you...its not tape on a door on a popular cable network show but I saw it at least
posted by ShawnString
on Apr 9, 2008 -
21 comments
It all seems so clear now-- I had to share this comment of pure wonderment, I'm still smiling. If you've ever needed to really understand how far a distance is, behold the answer within.
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posted by Static Vagabond
on Mar 19, 2008 -
61 comments
I'd like to say thanks to
MIko, who not only just reached 2000 AskMe comments, but also routinely clogs up my "contact activity" feed with Best Answers.
posted by null terminated
on Mar 15, 2008 -
70 comments
