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Metatalktail Hour: Updates, Conclusions and To-Be-Continueds
The locked safe from this prior metatalktails has been opened, just a little too late to put the resolution in that post. (Local news link - archive link if you can't access original)
What's a story you'd like a update or resolution to? Can be a real life event, a series that you yearn for more of, or a problem you'd like a solution to. [more inside]
short version if you just want a summary
The safe was mostly empty save some odds and ends and another locked compartment, which was also empty.Spreading rumors is bad news
When someone posts an inflammatory article with an inflammatory pull quote that turns out to be completely false and bad information, I really think the mods should add a quick note to that effect at the end of the post. Many people don't read all the comments and might skim the first few comments, but never see the correction. A simple note at the start of the post is a reasonable way to handle issues like this.
We've had this discussion in the past, and I know the mods disagree, but I really feel like it's a bad decision on their part. Not correcting posts like this is encouraging this kind of bad behavior.
Final Update added to old Ask MeFi questions
Today we're launching a small feature that will allow us to update long-closed Ask MetaFilter questions. If you found the definitive answer to your question long after the one-year mark closed, there is now a mechanism to send us a final update. [more inside]
He's dead, Jim.
To update followers of the Prenda Law porn-trolling copyright lawyers saga, Judge Wright has just issued a catastrophic order [.pdf] imposing sanctions and making criminal referrals, entertainingly littered with Star Trek references.
I like updates.
I like post updates. [more inside]
AskMeFi amendments
Feature Request: AskMeFi "amendments," long after a thread has been closed. Maybe 3% of the questions I've answered, life goes on, I learn, and I wish I could add something to the boneheaded advice that was supplied by an earlier me, so future searchers see it. [more inside]
So... what happened?
I'm curious and Want to Know Things, particularly: what ever happened to X in AskMeFi? And what about when X needed X? Did they get it? What about anonymous' certain issue... down there? [more inside]
Everyone likes ponies!
Pony request: "Load New Comments" for Mefi threads, at least on mobile. Pretty please? [more inside]
"Load new comments" for MeFi mobile?
"Load new comments" for MeFi mobile? Especially for tragic and topical threads. [more inside]
Hey! Guess what happened!
Pony Express: in which updates to profiles could be displayed to contacts. [more inside]
Where are you located? Where are you located? Where are you located?
Is it possible for the mods to edit anonymous posts on the Green? [more inside]
'add update' link on closed threads?
Suggestion for a process to update closed threads: [more inside]
Inaccurate realtime post/comment count
How is my "last visit" determined? [more inside]
K1000 resurrection
Old AskMe post resolved. In 2004, I asked about getting a jammed Pentax K1000 fixed. -> [more inside]
Closure? Let me have my own!
I think this is where I ask for my very own pony. Re: AskMe updates. [more inside]
Where to put MeFi post updates? Discuss
MetaFilter post updates that cannot be posted to the original thread should be posted to MetaFilter and abide by the New Post guidelines. MetaFilter post updates should not be posted to MetaTalk. MetaTalk...it's for site policy discussions, bug reports, and feature requests. [more inside]
My story, on Metafilter
I posted this thread on coming out of the closet several months ago and I've updated it a couple of times since. I left a final update at the end of the thread for those who might be interested. [more inside]
Underdog Victorious
Update: Fans of MeFi's own Jill Sobule dished out a whopping $80,832 to fund her next album. [more inside]
Backtagging Update
Just a quick note on what's going on with the backtagging project and some "go go go!" momentum for a final push to the finish. [more inside]
EOL
Ancient MeFi Octopus Post Update
Back in 2003, I posted a link to a video that showed an octopus transforming itself to look like its surroundings. If you read the thread, there was some doubt about it and I think we all wished that web video was better at the time. Well, a friend posted a link to a TED talk recently that shows this same octopus at a much higher resolution. [more inside]
MeFi Mail refresh
We added a bunch MeFi Mail updates that seemed worthy of a post here (and if you have more ideas maybe add them here) [more inside]
Server upgrayedd (the extra d is for a double dose of downtime)
We're in the process of updating the server. You probably noticed about 20min of downtime and things may be up and down throughout this evening but should resume and hopefully be faster later today and tomorrow.
Mass update of public facing info
I had this idea when encountering the problem of wanting to contact a metafilter member of their public facing email address not being filled in...
How about doing what PayPal, banks and universities do - they present a user on login with a page which they click 'confirm' on to get to the usual start page. On the confirm page would be form fields with the information metafilter currently has for them:
lat, lon
flickr ID
email address
URL
etc
it would give them a chance to update it (and the email address field would have some *decent* obfuscation, either images ala Facebook or the current SOTA JavaScript).
I think often the reason this isn't filled in isn't out of choice it's because the user in question simply hasn't got around to it, doesn't know he/she has a profile or hasn't changed it since they first enrolled.
What say you? I don't think doing this would cheese people off and I think it would really be a boon for the site.
Turn and face the strain
There have been a few tweaks to tagging, flagging, and posting. [more inside]
Update: US jails Aussie internet pirate
As an update to this thread on the Aussie software pirate who was extradited to the US to face charges, he was sentenced to more than four years in a US jail today.
Did he or didn't he? Snort, that is.
So apparently Keith Richards didn't snort his father's ashes. At least according to MTV.
RE: the infamous airnxt post
RE: the infamous airnxt post (which is now closed)
an update
http://ask.metafilter.com/27155/is-an-ebay-fraud-seller-free
it has been a while since i checked back on the above post,
but it looks like airnxt is still up to his old tricks, selling fake chanel handbags.
oh, and his feedback is not private anymore.
Two weeks for delivery! Received a fake! Sick to my stomach! Out $510!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290069288442
he must be stopped!
ok, before you post comments about how you need to check sellers feedback, please read the link to the thread.
the guy in the original post was pretending to be a victim of an ebay scam, but was actually the person doing the scamming.
Follow-up post
Feature request: Allow a follow-up post on closed threads by the original FPP poster.
I often come across relevant and important information about subjects I made a FPP about months ago, but the thread is closed and it's not worth making a new FPP about it. It would be nice if the person who made the original FPP had the ability to make a single follow-up post after the FPP has closed.
The example I had in mind was this thread about Citizenre solar-power, and this new story Citizenre: A House of Cards, an important development that should be in the archived thread.
Let me display my ignorance about RSS
Let me display my ignorance about RSS. Since there are so many AskMeFi links, I miss posts via RSS on my MyGoogle page. Is there a way to increase the frequency at which RSS updates? Is this a Google problem?
I have posted updates
I have posted updates to a couple of questions: Bicycle rear wheel problems and How can I drive a LED as a light-emitter and a photo-diode simultaneously?
Hey, what's the deal with the MetaFilter Compilation CD?
Hey, what's the deal with the MetaFilter Compilation CD? I ordered a couple of copies, but it's been many a moon since I heard anyone even mention it.
carpet glue update
Almost a year ago, I asked metafilter what to do to remove carpet glue from hardwood floors, and a not insignificant number of people asked for an update. Here it is.
Update to this post
weaponsgradecarp: any updates on this?
weaponsgradecarp: any updates on this?
we bought a 1999 Subaru Forester
Back in December I asked for vehicle recommendations, and I just wanted to follow up: we bought a 1999 Subaru Forester, based on the words here and of a friend of our who owns an Outback. What it all came down to was good value, great safety, and even though I paid more than I wanted to I'm happy with this step up instead of a step sideways into a RAV4 or a junkier, older vehicle. Thanks!
Cat people of Ask Me, you gave me some advice
Cat people of Ask Me, you gave me some advice. Here's how it turned out. [more inside]
Matt, I'm not trying to be irritating here
Matt, I'm not trying to be irritating here; but I am wondering, if you're not going to update the sideblog anymore, is there any reason to keep it? (And for the more anal among you, yes I'm well aware that it can be collapsed).
This and this leads to that
So I posted this (about trying to rid myself of two cats), and then there was this, and since it caused a bit of a stir, I thought a brief follow-up couldn't hurt. [more]
a girl called Laura who had Chris Rock's old phone
My thoughts flashed back to yet another of the negative MetaFilter comments.
Earlier this year some Mefites were rather mean [mea culpa] to a girl called Laura who had Chris Rock's old phone. In an update she tells how it all turned out pretty good for her, thanks, in part, to Metafilter - still, don't be expecting her round here any time soon.
Earlier this year some Mefites were rather mean [mea culpa] to a girl called Laura who had Chris Rock's old phone. In an update she tells how it all turned out pretty good for her, thanks, in part, to Metafilter - still, don't be expecting her round here any time soon.
Just a pointer to something in a thread I posted.
Update to the drunk friend thread
Update to the thread detailing my friend getting busted by the cops: He made a plea bargain with his court appointed lawyer and had his sentencing dropped to 3 years probation with Alcohol Rehabilitation classes. He doesn't get drunk anymore.
how is work on the unemployed member directory going?
I am just wondering on how work on the unemployed member directory is going? I know kindall is running the Mefi-Projects mailing list, but is there a better way?
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MetaTalk is not the place for second-string MetaFilter posts
Updating Old Posts
What is view on posting updates/new developments/new articles in comments of one's old posts? I searched but could not find. Thanks.
the option to be notified
Matt -
One thing that would be cool(and i thoughtyou had mentioned before) is the option to be notified when someone has posted to a thread that you had already posted in.
Examp: I posted a comment under the 'Portman poses' thread. User cjd posts a comment in the same thread.
Based on my preferences it shoots me an email notifiying me that the thread has been updated.
we've got this working with the evolt code pretty easily. if you want the code, lemme know.
thanks man :)
One thing that would be cool(and i thoughtyou had mentioned before) is the option to be notified when someone has posted to a thread that you had already posted in.
Examp: I posted a comment under the 'Portman poses' thread. User cjd posts a comment in the same thread.
Based on my preferences it shoots me an email notifiying me that the thread has been updated.
we've got this working with the evolt code pretty easily. if you want the code, lemme know.
thanks man :)
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