From Green to Blue

November 23, 2010 10:55 AM

Has there ever been a question on the green with such great responses that it spawned a post on the blue?

And would this be frowned upon?

posted by morganannie to Etiquette/Policy at 10:55 AM (30 comments total)

Nope, not really. And yeah, it would be frowned upon. MetaTalk would be a more likely place to highlight a great thread at Ask MetaFilter.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:57 AM on November 23, 2010

I'm fairly certain people have learned about things in AskMe that became MeFi posts and it's not at all problematic from our perspective unless the post to the Blue is a part of some larger "look at how stupid this person is" campaign. Here's one that I found. I am sure there are more.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:58 AM on November 23, 2010

Oh, I may have misunderstood you. Yeah you can't say "look at this great AskMe thread" as a MeFi post, but there have been some posts on MeFi inspired by AskMe.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:58 AM on November 23, 2010

Yea, I was thinking more about inspiration. Not "look at this post on the green" but "this thing on the green was awesome and made me want to post on the blue".
posted by morganannie at 11:00 AM on November 23, 2010

Yeah, what they said.

Bad: "hey, readers of metafilter, check out this question over on ask metafilter."
Fine: "hey, readers of metafilter, check out this awesome link or collection of links about this interesting thing, oh and I found this stuff via this askme thread".

For the straight-up "hey, this askme thread was really notable" stuff, a post to Metatalk is the way to go.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:05 AM on November 23, 2010

As long as nobody objects to me LINKING TO ONE OF MY OWN POSTS, I had one of these one time. (And I'm sure I'm not the only one who greatly misses jonson. What a wonderful contributor he was.)
posted by Gator at 11:10 AM on November 23, 2010

As long as nobody objects to me LINKING TO ONE OF MY OWN POSTS

Really my only objection is dragging an argument from one thread into another. Maybe not so much with that, please.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:13 AM on November 23, 2010

I was just making a joke, not trying to drag out an argument. Sorry if it came across that way.
posted by Gator at 11:20 AM on November 23, 2010

I have "linked" to an AskMe thread as part of a "larger FPP," too.
posted by not_on_display at 11:34 AM on November 23, 2010

How did these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, and why?
posted by blue_beetle at 12:06 PM on November 23, 2010

I'm sure I'm not the only one who greatly misses jonson. What a wonderful contributor he was.

I also miss him but see him popping up from time to time over at Flickr with his adorable kiddo, so I'm happy to hear the Big Blue Room is treating him well.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 12:09 PM on November 23, 2010

Here's a post inspired by a comment I made in AskMe.

I suggest we call them 'prunicorns'.
posted by le morte de bea arthur at 12:22 PM on November 23, 2010

Someone posted an FPP a while back about paracord weaving that I'm almost certain came from the epic AskMe requesting what-the-internet-is-for websites. (I'd dig them up and link to them, but I'm on a slow library computer with no tabbing. And I'm lazy.)
posted by phunniemee at 12:23 PM on November 23, 2010

This post about the proper care and feeding of cast-iron cookware was inspired by this Askme post.
posted by wabbittwax at 12:31 PM on November 23, 2010

This one on Lesch-Nyhan inspired by this question.
posted by smackfu at 12:36 PM on November 23, 2010

Has there ever been a question on the green with such great responses that it spawned a post on the blue?

This doesn't exactly answer your question, but these two questions sparked a few days of net research into learning Japanese language, poetry and culture, which inadvertently led me to a set of videos... that became the focus of this FPP.
posted by zarq at 12:46 PM on November 23, 2010

Also, if you want to go skimming, here's every mefi post that contains "ask.metafilter.com". Backlinks galore, though at a glance it's hard to guess how robust the average connection is.
posted by cortex (staff) at 12:56 PM on November 23, 2010

What happened to jonson?

Did he get... cut off?

Yeeaaaahh!
posted by ODiV at 2:09 PM on November 23, 2010 [2 favorites]

Yeeaaaahh!

Emoticon needed for this meme. I suggest:

B|
posted by Potomac Avenue at 2:59 PM on November 23, 2010

I had one of these, about Stephen Fry. I asked the question, but did not make the blue post.
posted by lazaruslong at 4:56 PM on November 23, 2010

Although with 126 favorites, I kinda wish I had.
posted by lazaruslong at 4:59 PM on November 23, 2010

Yeah, I made a MeFi (re-)post from one of the answers in a question I asked.
posted by carsonb at 5:18 PM on November 23, 2010

What happened to jonson?

Got eaten by an evil cat
posted by Namlit at 5:44 PM on November 23, 2010

For once i have nothing to offer in this matter and give a hearty jingle.
posted by clavdivs at 6:46 PM on November 23, 2010

My lone Blue post came after a lengthy reply about search and rescue dogs in an AskMe. If that counts for anything. :)
posted by TomMelee at 5:17 AM on November 24, 2010

I still remember those rescue dog videos. Rescue dogs!
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:20 AM on November 24, 2010

This post of mine came from here.
posted by notsnot at 8:39 AM on November 24, 2010

This front page post of mine grew out of the great answers in my related AskMe question.

Is this really a bad thing?
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:35 PM on November 24, 2010

This post of mine which is one of my favorites came from reading another user's username and wondering what it was about and Googling and oh ho!
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:28 PM on November 24, 2010

This is my contribution to the genre.
posted by TedW at 4:01 PM on November 24, 2010