How did using italics for quoting become house style? If it didn't just evolve, who pushed it and why?
posted by Joe Beese
on Oct 17, 2010 -
82 comments
I really hate this. But since I don't want to do the same thing, I need to explain what "this" is. "This" is writing a whole post on the front page without ever saying what the post is actually about. Teaser posts are teh suck.
posted by Doohickie
on Oct 25, 2007 -
85 comments
So I found two cool sites, dealing with entirely separate things that could make meaty FPPs. I just don't have the time to do the research to flesh them out right now. Should I make a pair of posts, or one post connected in a jokey or left-field way? Should I just make follow-up posts in my own thread as I find more stuff, or would you prefer the style of my previous posts, in general, even if it means I forget about stuff that may potentially be cool? I see a massive variety of styles, but I figure I may as well sound the hivemind out. Please feel free to ignore me if I'm being too n00bish.
posted by StrikeTheViol
on May 23, 2007 -
41 comments
It seems people have a lot of
virtiol for my
comments. Since I missed those posts, I would like to take this opportunity to respond.
posted by kfx
on Dec 6, 2006 -
138 comments
I made a FPP (
Stern Review of global warming) linking to Wikipedia using the
^ - for stylistic reasons, I wanted to emphasis the second link in the FPP and not the Wikipedia link, which is the first link, and so wanted to keep it small and unobtrusive. Someone< ?> then changed it and made it a full link. Is there a style-policy? Is it documented anywhere?
posted by stbalbach
on Oct 30, 2006 -
51 comments
I suppose this must come up from time to time, but I couldnt' find it searching... I was just viewing AskMe through Safari and when I went to add a comment, the little toolbar for bolding/italcizing/linkifying text wasn't there. I see this is the same on the other pages as well. What up with that?
posted by hwestiii
on Sep 23, 2006 -
3 comments
This is about linking style.
Many folk on MeFi and other, somewhat geek-identified sites like kuro5hin have a linking style as follows:
1. Placing multiple links such that several consecutive words in a sentence each link to a different page
2. (somewhat following from #1) Links that bear no relation to the text they mark.
Here is a (made-up) example: "
Best Buy stocks several brands of electronics."
What is wrong here? The first link is well placed, but all the others are terrible. Firstly, logically, there is no reason why the word "several" should link to anything other than a page about the word "several". But what is worse than this is that the casual reader has no way to parse this sentence for information without clicking on each link. In this case the URLs are obvious, when hovering over the link in question, but many times the URLs are not so obvious.
Why not just use the much plainer, better style: "
Best Buy stocks several brands of electronics such as Sony, Samsung, Mouser, and LG."
Or if it's not intended to give the linked websites so much importance, you could simply say: "
Best Buy stocks several brands of electronics (examples 1, 2, 3, 4)."
Either of these would be a vast improvement. Discuss.
posted by splitpeasoup
on Mar 13, 2006 -
91 comments
Firefox 1.5 is throwing up a list of errors from the Metafilter style sheets, mainly (but not solely) about 'font-color'.
Just thought you'd like to know.
posted by twine42
on Jan 28, 2006 -
12 comments
One.
Word.
FPPs. (
ok, so the last is more than one word) I don't know about you, but sometimes I'm stuck on a slow connection. Dial-up slow. I have to carefully select which links I click, and I don't want to waste my time on links that don't interest me. I screen my choices based on the info provided by the FPP itself, and link location is only mildly helpful (
except for newsfilter). Can't we please get a consensus for making the FPPs informative enough to judge interest? (
other uninformative posts today alone...)
posted by mystyk
on Sep 28, 2005 -
76 comments
No need to "sign" your
posts or
comments. Just below each post and comment, we can see your name. By clicking your name, readers can find any info you want to share (and as a community we encourage email addresses being listed so we can help you out with stuff via email rather than call you out in the thread or on MeTa). Just thought I'd give a heads up for some of the newer folks, as this young fellow mentioned it in his comment.
posted by macadamiaranch
on Jul 29, 2005 -
48 comments
Uhm, everyone using
[more inside] in Ask MetaFilter sort of defeats the purpose if it and looks, err, bad, does it not? Is there anything to do about it?
posted by xmutex
on Feb 18, 2005 -
32 comments
Does anyone agree with me that posting an
entire paragraph as a single link makes it very hard to understand? I find it very difficult to read
these types of
links and posts. Particularly because a mouseover event causes the entire paragraph (in bold typeface) to flash between white and yellow on a blue background.
posted by PigAlien
on Jul 14, 2004 -
19 comments
55 characters = 55 links? http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/25409
While I appreciate all the hard work that y2kcarl put into the post, I have to ask, "Are the 55 links useful to anyone?"
I thought the idea was post a link or perhaps several, to point out somethign new and allow for a bit of discussion.
Who has the time/energy to look at 55 sites? Is the post more about style than substance?
Or am I out in left field here as a link minimalist?
posted by Argyle
on Apr 28, 2003 -
94 comments
A
pet peeve, to me, is something intensely subjective and harmlessly annoying that it's unreasonable to attack and stupid to waste time decrying. And yet...and yet we all have them and it's fun to list them. Mine(sorry SpecialK for singling you out)are:
1)
Yawn...[
six more pet peeves inside]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Jul 9, 2002 -
131 comments
This post had a white background when I previewed it (like
this one still does), but it disappeared when I posted it. Shouldn't "Preview" mean "show me what I'll get if hit Post now"?
The HTML filter appears to have elided the "style=" and quote marks from the
tag.
posted by nicwolff
on Dec 20, 2001 -
19 comments
Shouldn't front page posts describe the content of the linked material? Lately a few posts have offered a brief opinion of the linked material without describing it (e.g.
this one,
this one, and
this one), which I find a bit of a nuisance because I have to dig just to find out what's going on.
By no means am I trying to criticize the posters; I simply wanted to draw attention to a general trend that might need correcting. What do you think?
posted by mcwetboy
on Nov 16, 2001 -
11 comments
Today it's raining outside, but I think it's just a shower. It was sunny yesterday, and I hope it'll be sunny tomorrow. Is summer your favourite season? What sort of weather do you recommend? I like rainbows. They are nice.
posted by holgate
on Sep 9, 2001 -
31 comments
