AskMeFi Deprivation June 2, 2007 6:20 PM Subscribe
Why doesn't my question show up directly at ask.metafilter.com? Did they change their policy? How do I get my question to show up at the main site.
There's a delay between when questions are posted and when they appear. The site caches the AskMe frontpage to improve performance. It's up now.
posted by gsteff at 6:23 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by gsteff at 6:23 PM on June 2, 2007
This is probably somethin we should explain better in the posting process. What gsteff said is exactly right.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:39 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:39 PM on June 2, 2007
Brown Zune, man!
posted by loquacious at 6:42 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by loquacious at 6:42 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
The MTV generation: "Of course I want it right now! If I'd wanted it five minutes from now, I'd have asked for it five minutes from now."
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 6:44 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 6:44 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
we are they, they are they, all of us are they. But really them is they.
posted by edgeways at 6:56 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by edgeways at 6:56 PM on June 2, 2007
See how they run, like pigs from a gun. See how they fly. I'm crying.
posted by Dave Faris at 7:04 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by Dave Faris at 7:04 PM on June 2, 2007
Oo ee, oo ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:06 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:06 PM on June 2, 2007
i suspect that they vhanged their policy! what you should do is know enough about the site to think that MeTa is the placve to ask this, but still pretend that you think they're seperate, and THEN post drunk like I am.
you fanny.
posted by bonaldi at 7:25 PM on June 2, 2007
you fanny.
posted by bonaldi at 7:25 PM on June 2, 2007
Do you mean fanny like a Brit means it, or fanny like a USAian means it? Either way, hilarious!
posted by piratebowling at 7:32 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by piratebowling at 7:32 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
(Jeeze, I'm sorry I said Brit, I see you're in Scotland. Please don't string my ignorant ass up.)
posted by piratebowling at 7:34 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by piratebowling at 7:34 PM on June 2, 2007
Pirate bowlin', dornt try tae tak' bonaldi tae skale, he was wrestlin' trolls while ye whaur still a wee bairn at yer mother's teat. Ye yanny.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 7:50 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 7:50 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
I did the same thing the first time I posted to AskMe. I am so used to immediate gratification, I thought I did something wrong.
Yep. I was SO stupid back then, jeez.
posted by The Deej at 7:51 PM on June 2, 2007
Yep. I was SO stupid back then, jeez.
posted by The Deej at 7:51 PM on June 2, 2007
i have a fish. in my main pants.
posted by quonsar at 7:52 PM on June 2, 2007 [2 favorites]
posted by quonsar at 7:52 PM on June 2, 2007 [2 favorites]
Oh the hilarity that would now ensue if we had the image tag!
posted by LarryC at 7:53 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by LarryC at 7:53 PM on June 2, 2007
(Jeeze, I'm sorry I said Brit, I see you're in Scotland. Please don't string my ignorant ass up.)
Scotland is part of Britain, mate.
posted by ludwig_van at 7:55 PM on June 2, 2007
Scotland is part of Britain, mate.
posted by ludwig_van at 7:55 PM on June 2, 2007
You should name your cat Jake.
DON'T eat it!
Break up with him/her.
posted by The Deej at 8:02 PM on June 2, 2007
DON'T eat it!
Break up with him/her.
posted by The Deej at 8:02 PM on June 2, 2007
The rotskin spotskin is motskin on the plotskin.
posted by evilcolonel at 8:10 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by evilcolonel at 8:10 PM on June 2, 2007
I like how his question had been answered within 6 minutes of this being posted.
posted by nanojath at 8:29 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by nanojath at 8:29 PM on June 2, 2007
I like how his question had been answered within 6 minutes of this being posted.
I thinkJamesJD you are on to something.
posted by jmd82 at 8:44 PM on June 2, 2007
I think
posted by jmd82 at 8:44 PM on June 2, 2007
Scotland is part of Britain, mate.
it's no if yer Scottish, pal
posted by forallmankind at 8:53 PM on June 2, 2007
it's no if yer Scottish, pal
posted by forallmankind at 8:53 PM on June 2, 2007
I think I just fixed this for ask mefi. I made a test post, and it showed up on the front page immediately.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:55 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:55 PM on June 2, 2007
I want an Oompa-Loompa now!
posted by kirkaracha at 9:08 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by kirkaracha at 9:08 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
This thread is embarrassing.
Not everyone spends their every waking minute on metafilter. So what if the poster didn't know that there is a lag time? What is this, a fucking frat house? Would it kill ya to be nice?
Feh.
posted by serazin at 9:26 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
Not everyone spends their every waking minute on metafilter. So what if the poster didn't know that there is a lag time? What is this, a fucking frat house? Would it kill ya to be nice?
Feh.
posted by serazin at 9:26 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
Maybe it is a frat house serazin. I don't remember seeing you at pledge week. *goes through the memebers roll*
posted by nola at 9:52 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by nola at 9:52 PM on June 2, 2007
*obligatory weeaboo reference*
posted by puke & cry at 10:28 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by puke & cry at 10:28 PM on June 2, 2007
There was this time... when I was younger. I'm not proud of it -- not proud of it at all. I felt like the world was ready to be cracked open by my wit and enthusiasm.
Unfortunately, I posted a question to AskMe and the lack of immediate visceral reaction left me jaded and I turned to the more unaccepted vices.
Now I spend most nights waist-high in a ditch. I wash myself in the dirty city effluent and dream that the web and database server could have withstood the load. I pray that my question would not have been as life affirming and that my slow walk away from the keyboard would not have been my last.
Sadly, we may never know what the title of that book I read in pre-school. Despite all that has happened, that is what scares me the most.
posted by purephase at 10:31 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
Unfortunately, I posted a question to AskMe and the lack of immediate visceral reaction left me jaded and I turned to the more unaccepted vices.
Now I spend most nights waist-high in a ditch. I wash myself in the dirty city effluent and dream that the web and database server could have withstood the load. I pray that my question would not have been as life affirming and that my slow walk away from the keyboard would not have been my last.
Sadly, we may never know what the title of that book I read in pre-school. Despite all that has happened, that is what scares me the most.
posted by purephase at 10:31 PM on June 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
I've been posting here for years, and even though I know to expect a delay it still confuses me every time. The thing that gets me is that if I click the top question, I see my question in the little newer/older threads thing at the bottom of the page, and I can click over to my question, and then I go to the main ask page and refresh obsessively, sometimes for minutes, until my post actually appears.
posted by croutonsupafreak at 10:49 PM on June 2, 2007
posted by croutonsupafreak at 10:49 PM on June 2, 2007
The book questions are always fascinating, because I frequently yell, "Oh, I remember that!" when they get answered. They're so worth it.
We seem to spend a lot of time hunting down old songs, scanning for books we read when we were little. I saw the Schoolhouse Rock DVDs the other day and thought how odd it was, that I was buying my childhood back on little polycarbonate discs.
posted by adipocere at 10:50 PM on June 2, 2007
We seem to spend a lot of time hunting down old songs, scanning for books we read when we were little. I saw the Schoolhouse Rock DVDs the other day and thought how odd it was, that I was buying my childhood back on little polycarbonate discs.
posted by adipocere at 10:50 PM on June 2, 2007
Not everyone spends their every waking minute on metafilter. So what if the poster didn't know that there is a lag time? What is this, a fucking frat house? Would it kill ya to be nice?
He's been a member since October 2006. He's asked 11 questions to AskMe.
The question has been answered.
Therefore, all comments following the helpful answer are irrelevant. Also this is MeTa, land of non sequiters.
There is no frat house.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 10:33 AM on June 3, 2007
He's been a member since October 2006. He's asked 11 questions to AskMe.
The question has been answered.
Therefore, all comments following the helpful answer are irrelevant. Also this is MeTa, land of non sequiters.
There is no frat house.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 10:33 AM on June 3, 2007
Would it kill ya to be nice?
In real life, the word people use most often to describe me is "nice." I am polite to a fault, generous, kind, giving and sensitive. I come here to be a smartass.
posted by The Deej at 11:07 AM on June 3, 2007
In real life, the word people use most often to describe me is "nice." I am polite to a fault, generous, kind, giving and sensitive. I come here to be a smartass.
posted by The Deej at 11:07 AM on June 3, 2007
It's OK, deej, we all need someplace to vent. Me, I go to primal scream therapy and then group sessions for men with testicular cancer. I'm starting to develop a thing for Bob...
posted by SpecialK at 1:10 PM on June 3, 2007
posted by SpecialK at 1:10 PM on June 3, 2007
Hey!!! SpecialK! Stay the hell away from my support groups! I was there first!
posted by The Deej at 2:15 PM on June 3, 2007
posted by The Deej at 2:15 PM on June 3, 2007
The Deej, you big tourist, you big faker, get out!
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:41 PM on June 3, 2007
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:41 PM on June 3, 2007
OK, but I need your manboobs first, Jabba. Or, wait... which fatso are you again?
posted by The Deej at 4:39 PM on June 3, 2007
posted by The Deej at 4:39 PM on June 3, 2007
Jeeze, I'm sorry I said Brit
Never mind that - you said 'USAian'. Unforgivable.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 8:04 PM on June 3, 2007
Never mind that - you said 'USAian'. Unforgivable.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 8:04 PM on June 3, 2007
No, not unforgivable. Look, I've gotten shit for saying American, just because there are other countries on the American continents other than the USA. I've seen the phrase "USAian" used on mefi a couple times previously with no hassle.
I guess there's no pleasing everyone, so on that note I invite all of you to kiss my fanny. Take that any way you want.
posted by piratebowling at 9:36 PM on June 3, 2007
I guess there's no pleasing everyone, so on that note I invite all of you to kiss my fanny. Take that any way you want.
posted by piratebowling at 9:36 PM on June 3, 2007
I'll take that as saying you are buying me a pony!
posted by philomathoholic at 9:50 PM on June 3, 2007
posted by philomathoholic at 9:50 PM on June 3, 2007
It annoys me to no end when someone cops out with the line I guess there's no pleasing everyone.
posted by carsonb at 10:06 PM on June 3, 2007
posted by carsonb at 10:06 PM on June 3, 2007
TO NO END, I TELL YOU!
posted by ludwig_van at 11:32 PM on June 3, 2007
posted by ludwig_van at 11:32 PM on June 3, 2007
When you use 'American' to refer to people and things of the U.S., everyone knows you're not referring to Canada or Mexico - even the dickheads who pretend to have an issue with the usage. You're not making anything better by throwing out an ugly, unpronounceable idiocy like 'USAian'. If somebody gives you shit for saying 'American', it means that they are dickheads, not that everyone using the word in that way is wrong. Don't give the dickheads power over your language - that's unAmerican!
posted by Kirth Gerson at 6:32 AM on June 4, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Kirth Gerson at 6:32 AM on June 4, 2007 [1 favorite]
Don't give the dickheads power over your language
That sums up everything I've been trying to say for the last five years.
posted by languagehat at 7:04 AM on June 4, 2007 [2 favorites]
That sums up everything I've been trying to say for the last five years.
posted by languagehat at 7:04 AM on June 4, 2007 [2 favorites]
Everytime I see "USAian", my brain interprets it as "US Asian" and I think I'm being called out.
posted by junesix at 10:33 AM on June 4, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by junesix at 10:33 AM on June 4, 2007 [1 favorite]
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posted by disclaimer at 6:23 PM on June 2, 2007