Remind me when I can ask another question

March 7, 2006 3:26 PM

A pony: When AskMe says "you already asked a question this week", can it tell me the time and date that I'm eligible to start a new question?
posted by evariste to Feature Requests at 3:26 PM (20 comments total)

Not that it's all that hard to look up my last question, but it would be nice not to have to.
posted by evariste at 3:28 PM on March 7, 2006

Agreed. It would also be nice if people would stop posting MeTa threads to request exemptions, and maybe this would help.
posted by cribcage at 3:30 PM on March 7, 2006

upcoming.org
posted by peacay at 4:09 PM on March 7, 2006

Javascript countdown!
posted by smackfu at 5:00 PM on March 7, 2006

One click away at "My Posts".
posted by snsranch at 5:08 PM on March 7, 2006

Oops, that is to say it will instantly let you know when your question was asked, add a week and your set.
posted by snsranch at 5:09 PM on March 7, 2006

My Posts defaults to 3-days for some reason. So it's two or three clicks away.
posted by smackfu at 5:39 PM on March 7, 2006

OH MY GOD YOU LAZY BASTARDS JUST LOOK IN YOUR GODDAM POSTING HISTORY GAAAAAAARRRRRR
posted by cortex at 5:59 PM on March 7, 2006

I think Matt has said that this is a passive-aggressive way to reduce how often people ask questions.
posted by klangklangston at 6:07 PM on March 7, 2006

Someone give this Greasemonkey script a whirl. It'll put a timer on the bottom of the post-a-question page.
posted by Plutor at 4:52 AM on March 8, 2006

This is a good feature suggestion. All features are about collecting information and making it more accessible. Lazy bastards? Why not write that note on a napkin, drive over to your friend's house, and hand it to him rather than send an email?
posted by scarabic at 8:03 AM on March 8, 2006

WHY NOT SEND EMAIL TO ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS TO ASK THEM IF THEY CAN MAYBE REMIND YOU WHEN THE LAST TIME WAS THAT YOU SAID SOMETHING IN THIS ONE PLACE BECAUSE THEY CAN'T BE BOTHERED TO CLICK LIKE TWO TIMES ONCE EVERY MONTH OR SO IF THAT EVEN ETC
posted by cortex at 8:57 AM on March 8, 2006

AND YES I TAKE YOUR POINT AND DON'T REALLY CARE IF MATT IMPLEMENTS THIS — THE REPEATED REQUESTS FOR SUCH AN IMNSHO SILLY NON-FEATURE JUST AWAKEN THE SLEEPING CURMUDEGEON
posted by cortex at 9:00 AM on March 8, 2006

cortex seems to be shouting and whispering at the same time.
posted by Astro Zombie at 9:15 AM on March 8, 2006

LARYNGITIS
posted by cortex at 9:19 AM on March 8, 2006

That's Web 2.0!
posted by klangklangston at 9:22 AM on March 8, 2006

cortex: I didn't know that it had been requested before, multiple times. I just thought it was a good idea and a strange omission. Friendly, useful error messages and all that.
posted by evariste at 9:33 AM on March 8, 2006

Yeah, I know. It's not personal—that you requested implies that you weren't aware it had been requested before. What I said earlier about awakening the sleeping curmudgeon pretty clearly stakes out the pedantic and weirdly conservative ground on which my complaint, such that it is, stands.

So no sweat. YOU LAZY SHIFTLESS ETC AND SO ON
posted by cortex at 10:02 AM on March 8, 2006

LARYNGITIS

I just spit out my Coke.
posted by joshuaconner at 4:10 PM on March 8, 2006

I thought that was hilarious too.
posted by evariste at 7:28 PM on March 8, 2006