Flag Request

December 17, 2005 9:22 AM

Why not place the [!] flag on the front page instead of having to open a thread? The Dish TV post is so bad on so many levels that I felt all icky opening it to flag it. heheh
posted by mischief to Feature Requests at 9:22 AM (14 comments total)

I'm really starting to be worn out by the endless parade of MetaTalk threads about people being forced to read things they don't want to read. Could someone write me a script or something so I don't have to read them? kthxbye.
posted by gleuschk at 9:38 AM on December 17, 2005

What's so icky about it? If you really hate TV that much, the easy thing to do is to ignore it. I'm pretty sure there is no flag that says: I personally dislike this post for no real reason.
posted by panoptican at 9:40 AM on December 17, 2005

Why not just stop reading Metafilter?
posted by ParisParamus at 9:45 AM on December 17, 2005

If I didn't read Metafilter what would I do all day?
posted by Justinian at 9:47 AM on December 17, 2005

The [!] thing though is a good idea I think.
posted by panoptican at 9:49 AM on December 17, 2005

Can someone write me a script to stop me booting up my laptop?
posted by oxala at 9:57 AM on December 17, 2005

How about hiding the [!] flag and just judging the posts on their worth alone?

Or maybe a greasemonkey script that displays only three random posts on each day and you have to read them and take a test?
posted by ?! at 9:57 AM on December 17, 2005

I don't get it. What's so bad about the post?
posted by Optimus Chyme at 10:00 AM on December 17, 2005

Why not place the [!] flag on the front page instead of having to open a thread? The mischief metatalk post is so bad on so many levels that I felt all icky opening it to flag it. heheh
posted by puke & cry at 10:08 AM on December 17, 2005

Mischief didn't like it. That's what is wrong with it.
posted by Roger Dodger at 10:16 AM on December 17, 2005

Why not limit people to posting one MetaTalk thread a year? MeTa is so full of pointless threads I feel icky opening it. If people could only post once a year they might think twice before posting whatever popped into their head. heheh
posted by languagehat at 10:22 AM on December 17, 2005

Or how about a Meta daily limit of 3 threads total?
posted by smackfu at 10:46 AM on December 17, 2005

Is this something you'd need a computer to understand? Look at me everyone, I'm above all this intarwebs nonsense. I do nothing all day but knit greasemonkey scripts for homeless children, cause I roll like that. Does that make me a better person? Actually, yes, it does. We can shut down MetaFilter now - I won.

/memes gone wild
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:28 AM on December 17, 2005

Ok, now you're just being silly mischief.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:30 AM on December 17, 2005