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What are you dressed as for halloween?
posted by Keyser Soze to Bugs at 5:37 PM PST - 48 comments

I've just started playing around with NetNewsWire Lite, and was wondering... are there RSS feeds for MetaTalk and AskMe?

I've been searching, but maybe I've been looking in the wrong place...

Thanks.
posted by jpburns to Feature Requests at 1:05 PM PST - 5 comments

For Halloween, if you could dress up as anyone in history, who would it be?
posted by clavdivs to Feature Requests at 9:51 AM PST - 40 comments

New server gratitude thread
posted by Pretty_Generic to MetaFilter-Related at 5:37 AM PST - 61 comments

Moving on up... If all goes well, I'll start moving everything over to our new servers later today. When that happens, I'll be shutting the site off during the move (to conserve bandwidth for moving actual files). Just a heads up that the site may be down between now and say, Monday at the latest.
posted by mathowie to Uptime at 11:11 AM PST - 34 comments

A new Slate article is a nice followup to a previous MeTa discussion. It deals so directly with the substance of mine and amberglow's conversation (and others, of course), that it's a little disconcerting. I remain skeptical of the "media lifts story ideas from MeFi", but you have to wonder.
posted by Ethereal Bligh to MetaFilter-Related at 4:41 PM PST - 29 comments

Does anyone else feel that there may be a correlation between Metafilter craziness / testiness and the full moon (not to mention the eclipse)? Do any budding statisticians feel like analysing Metatalk posting frequency against lunar phase? Is Miguel a werewolf?
posted by Jimbob to Feature Requests at 7:20 PM PST - 24 comments

MeFi MoFi Bloggy Get Down. 7pm, November 6, at the Elysian. Details in self-link. Signups directed to the wiki or my blog entry linked above. I'll add address details here inside.
posted by mwhybark to MetaFilter Gatherings at 7:01 PM PST - 6 comments

Unorthodox date behaviour ("October 27" repeated for each new question) on Ask MeFi. [gi-normous screenshot inside]
posted by Johnny Assay to Bugs at 4:43 PM PST - 8 comments

Can we please separate political passion from blood lust?
posted by Chanther to Etiquette/Policy at 2:40 PM PST - 75 comments

Invalid data contribute,post_comment_preview.cfm for CFSQLTYPE CF_SQL_INTEGER. I'm getting this every time I click on comment preview , therefore I can't post :-(
It appears that the problem may be related to this 2002 one. Full debug text inside
posted by elpapacito to Bugs at 8:54 AM PST - 5 comments

The Delta is (probably) declaring bankruptcy thread, which features nothing more than a rumor backed up by a link to Delta's home page, is truly teh suck.
posted by mkultra to Etiquette/Policy at 7:48 AM PST - 21 comments

MeFiSF: LIVING, BREATHING FEMALES on Armistice Day in San Francisco. At least one of whom wears glasses. No location decided, but probably somewhere on the Castro side of the Mission. We have a special guest from LA, so November 11th it is. Come one, come all, celebrate the end of the election season and, perhaps, the start of bets on whether Rehnquist will survive to cast the deciding vote.
posted by caitlinb to MetaFilter Gatherings at 10:09 PM PST - 10 comments

Ok, I'll admit it, MonkeyFilter is better than MetaFilter because their meetups have two things MetaFilter meetups rarely, if ever, have: actual living, breathing females and Wendell!
posted by mathowie to MetaFilter Gatherings at 5:25 PM PST - 71 comments

Perhaps it's time to reconsider using MetaTalk to denounce single comments and only slightly contentious single posts. [More inside.]
posted by MiguelCardoso to Etiquette/Policy at 1:03 PM PST - 53 comments

After rereading the snarky original Michael Kelly editorial. I believe I'm glad the silly fucker's dead.

Sorry for the callout, but unless I missed the subtlety of some kind of joke, I think this crosses the line just a little bit.
posted by loquax to Etiquette/Policy at 12:32 PM PST - 54 comments

What's with the dots? Am I missing a really obvious tradition/in-joke?
posted by ascullion to Etiquette/Policy at 11:57 AM PST - 23 comments

Central Ohio/Columbus Mefites: Anyone up for a Meetup? I've somehow become the organizer so I have the power to change dates and places. The only thing I cannot do is force people to join and show up.

As of right now the next event is set for Tuesday (10/2) night at 8:00, but at no specific venue. While it might be interesting to hang out and watch the election results roll in we might do better to change it to another day. Any ideas?
posted by codger to MetaFilter Gatherings at 10:35 AM PST - 7 comments

Pointless Meta callout for YankeeNewsFilter
posted by dash_slot- to Bugs at 8:57 AM PST - 46 comments

The site is snappier than it has been in a long time, at least for me. Has the new hardware been dropped in?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken to Uptime at 11:11 PM PST - 15 comments

Election Fatigue. Could we put all the US Election links and discussion in just 1 front page post per day. Tempers are flaring, and the level of discourse is not improving. The moratorium was not successful. Besides, sometimes I want to reference a comment or link, and can't find it in the welter of election postings.
posted by theora55 to Etiquette/Policy at 9:22 PM PST - 38 comments

"You also tried to fill a zippo with butane, so I'll reserve judgement." Everyone will likely tell me I've got my panties in a wad as that is the common response here at MeTa, but it'd be great if people didn't attempt to discredit the experience and advice of others on AskMe based on unrelated advice threads. Having to worry someone's going to throw your history of questions in your face later as an indication you are stupid or unable to give advice to others on different topics seems a bit shady. I'm not saying this is an established pattern, just that it'd be helpful to keep in mind.
posted by ifjuly to Etiquette/Policy at 8:13 AM PST - 45 comments

Thank God It's Over (we hope): post-electionfilter wrap party for Seattle MeFites and blog-worlders is proposed for Saturday evening, November 6, at the Elysian (again). Please offer counter-proposals, including date changes, here. Your event organizers are yours truly and the elusive Danelope, currently headed off to stir up pre-election trouble in an undisclosed location.

I'll post a final determination in this thread on Wednesday of this week and set up tools (evite, prolly, unless someone has a better idea) subsequent to that time.

Let the grey skies lead us to a paradise of beer and wifi!
posted by mwhybark to MetaFilter Gatherings at 2:33 PM PST - 6 comments

You are such a cockface.
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 1:05 AM PST on October 24

Matt, if you won't give this offensive ^%@&! a timeout, can you at least do your pointless-personal-attack-comment-deletion thing??? Or is this really how you want your site represented to the world? It's disruptive, divisive, and totally uncalled for.
posted by rushmc to Etiquette/Policy at 8:01 AM PST - 80 comments

Our own little Ashcroft. Are threats really appropriate in a place meant for discussion?
posted by amberglow to Etiquette/Policy at 9:58 PM PST - 60 comments

I would like to donate the domain name weblogs.info for some useful purpose. Any suggestions or proposals?
posted by tranquileye to MetaFilter-Related at 4:22 PM PST - 5 comments

This comment directs us to brainyencyclopedia.com which presents a thourough, detailed biography of Stanislaw Lem. Of course, it's a copied Wikipedia article.
posted by stuart_s to Etiquette/Policy at 9:55 PM PST - 13 comments

What happened to the US politics moratorium? Was it a joke all along?
posted by timeistight to Feature Requests at 11:04 AM PST - 66 comments

Pa! Come quick! Reklaw's gone plumb crazy!
posted by jpburns to Etiquette/Policy at 12:22 PM PST - 54 comments

Let's take stock for a moment. We all know that MeFi is really, really slow, and really unreliable. Recently (for me at least), it's sometimes been unusably slow. I'm genuinely interested as to when Matt thinks he'll have enough money to improve the site. How is the ad revenue going? Are there any plans to charge for new membership?
posted by Pretty_Generic to MetaFilter-Related at 10:34 AM PST - 104 comments

I just got back from off-line travels and I want to vote in the Pres election contest. However the best I have been able to do it to get a page that tells me "Requested range not satisfiable. Does this mean the Floridicans have got my number?
posted by donfactor to Bugs at 9:52 AM PST - 6 comments

Rescheduled New Jersey MeFi Meet-up proposal [m.i.]:
posted by naxosaxur to MetaFilter Gatherings at 9:24 AM PST - 28 comments

Is anyone else seeing strange formatting behavior on this thread? I'm seeing a white background, right sidebar stuff lining up on the left, and the page text beginning below the sidebar info. It looks like the stylesheet isn't being applied for some reason. (Firefox, Mozilla and IE)
posted by taz to Bugs at 2:05 AM PST - 5 comments

Please add 4 and 5 to the "MeFi: 1, 2, 3 years ago" in the sidebar.
posted by kirkaracha to Feature Requests at 11:04 PM PST - 3 comments

Crossing the Rubicon : I've said it.

I'll honor this - regardless of where it leads.
posted by troutfishing to Etiquette/Policy at 9:32 PM PST - 123 comments

Oops. We all make mistakes...
posted by jaronson to MetaFilter-Related at 6:00 PM PST - 21 comments

People are concerned about the NSFW nature of AnonyAskMe questions and about the large volume of AnonyAskMe Qs pushing posts off of AskMe more quickly than before. What if AnonyAskMe had it's own page? And what color would it be? Maybe a hot red or hot pink?
posted by Shane to Feature Requests at 12:11 PM PST - 17 comments

Matt, can we have an official "Day Without US Politics"--perhaps this Friday? I am so sick of the tired wrangling about how much of the site is USElectionFilter, and how wonderful all the random "cool web stuff" used to be. It would be really, really nice to have a one-day moratorium on the political stuff, and on the "too much political stuff?" debates.
posted by Sidhedevil to Feature Requests at 10:42 AM PST - 72 comments

Mayor Curley takes a perfectly innocuous, neutral question which was getting some interesting responses and turns it into a NYC vs Boston grudge match. AskMe is not the proper venue for resolving your petty vendettas and urban insecurities. That's what the blue is for.
posted by signal to Etiquette/Policy at 9:53 AM PST - 89 comments

I need closure on the cat saga, Matt.
posted by RavinDave to MetaFilter-Related at 10:39 PM PST - 8 comments

MetaFilter spits out the following error, Element RECORDCOUNT is undefined in GET_TYPE. AskMeFi and MeTa work fine.
posted by riffola to Bugs at 12:31 PM PST - 21 comments

Bush is Hitler. Well, I'm glad that's settled.

The post includes scintillating links to the front page of foxnews.com and to a NY Times editorial. The comments include "you never should have been born", "prayer breakfasts take us closer to forced reeducation camps for gays", (this comment met with lots of approval) "you're an idiot" and "Bush is Hitler"(the phrase "a normal Christian guy on a power trip" is a reference to an earlier comment by skallas that Hitler was just a normal Christian guy on a power trip). There’s nothing redeeming here. Will you delete this please, Matt?
posted by gd779 to Etiquette/Policy at 7:57 AM PST - 72 comments

The inside track: requests for pirate copies of movies (even films you're too busy to see) are not cool here.
posted by scarabic to Etiquette/Policy at 7:01 PM PST - 18 comments

It's 9PM EST and as I look at the front page I see twenty posts today.

Ten of these are about United States politics and of the remaining ten, another two are somewhat related. I know it's important and all, but c'mon, enoughs enough.
posted by cedar to MetaFilter-Related at 6:05 PM PST - 53 comments

The first question in this anonymous AskMe post made me realize that there is no way for anyone posting anonymously to provide information beyond the initial query.
posted by eyeballkid to Etiquette/Policy at 1:21 PM PST - 18 comments

ThanksAskMe: Can we just assume we're all thankful for the bounties of AskMe, without posting there to that effect?
posted by luser to Etiquette/Policy at 11:16 AM PST - 19 comments

Can I post a link to a question on Ask to the blue? It's not my question, so it's not self-linking, but it feels a bit too.... uh, meta.
posted by Mwongozi to Etiquette/Policy at 2:15 PM PST - 18 comments

This is the second thread by the same person in as many days in which the poster links to a dopey, middlebrow political site and then self-moderates, taunts anyone who disagrees, and sets up bizarre strawmen like "If you read the domain name as literally as you read your Bible..." What gives?
posted by dhoyt to Etiquette/Policy at 8:05 AM PST - 31 comments

The Ask Metafilter RSS feed seems to be displaying anonymous questions before they are approved to be displayed on the website itself. (Nobody panic, though; it does not reveal the identity of the person posing the question.)
posted by ook to Bugs at 5:10 PM PST - 3 comments

The new anonymous questions can easily make Ask Metafilter NSFW. For example, this question is pretty tame, but I wouldn't want it on my screen for others to read. Is there any solution to this?
posted by smackfu to Etiquette/Policy at 7:10 AM PST - 60 comments

I know that the duration of a question's stay on the AskMe front page has been discussed here before, but at the moment there have been 45 (give or take) questions asked today, and only the most recent 25 are displayed. Perhaps the front page should display at least all of a given days questions, even if they are more than 25?

Also, on the AskMe front page, anonymous questions are posted by anonymous, and on the archive pages they're posted by Anonymous Ask Metafilter.
posted by kenko to Feature Requests at 7:47 PM PST - 21 comments

The MeFi atom feed is throwing an error; does this perhaps have something to do with the flat file generation stuff?
posted by rhapsodie to Bugs at 2:17 PM PST - 3 comments

Once I ran to you, I ranNow I'll run from youThis tainted love you've given
75% of this "anonymous" guy's output is love-related. I keep reading that we suck at politics, we suck at religion, we suck at (insert your favorite pet peeve here). I dare to suggest that, no disrespect intended, we suck at giving love advice (assuming that giving useful love advice is actually possible, which I doubt). Is this just a coincidence, or we'll use the anonymous feature mainly to turn AskMeFi into Mr/Mrs LonelyheartsFilter/BrokenheartsFilter?
posted by matteo to Etiquette/Policy at 10:25 AM PST - 30 comments

Tempe debate rally meetup today?
posted by TungstenChef to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:46 AM PST - 2 comments

Not that there's a lot of State Department material around these parts, to be diplomatic about it, but croutonsupafreak has posted an exemplary answer to an AskMe query on how to join the U.S. Foreign Service. Check it out: he just keeps giving and giving.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders to Etiquette/Policy at 7:06 AM PST - 3 comments

AnonyMe is up. Posts ensue! Yay! A pony! I personally think the Paxil query is exactly what AnonyMe should be for, and the good-lookin' cheaters question would have been better asked in the light of disclosure. What do you think? What's a good reason for anoymous posting, and what's a bad one? Let the guidelines scrimmage begin!

(Thanks Matt and thanks Seanyboy!)
posted by mwhybark to Etiquette/Policy at 10:44 PM PST - 35 comments

AskMe's home page suddenly reverts to June 14.
posted by Smart Dalek to Bugs at 5:28 PM PST - 5 comments

With all the recent talk of Anonymous Questions on AskMe, I thought I'd learn me some php, and create a supplementary website where people can pose anonymous questions to be asked on AskMe by the more brazen metafilter members. I guess that this falls under the "Don't self link" rule, so I hope you'll forgive the intrusion.
Introducing: Ask Me Anonymous
posted by seanyboy to Feature Requests at 12:02 PM PST - 49 comments

Unless you're logged in, the site doesn't load. AskMefi loads though. Mefi and Meta get "connection failure" text on a white screen.
posted by Peter H to Bugs at 8:58 PM PST - 23 comments

Swap substitute: A friend of mine is really interested in the concept of the MeFi Swap, but of course he can't participate as he's not a member. I pointed him towards the MonkeyFilter Swap (which I admittedly have very little knowledge of), but are there any other websites out there that work on the same model?
posted by Johnny Assay to MetaFilter-Related at 8:32 PM PST - 7 comments

Yes, I know the election is coming. Yes, I know there are cool sites that make fun of Bush and/or Kerry. Yes, the other guy is evil. But, who really cares that some cartoonists are mocking the President. I think that was an old meme around the time of Gutenberg.

Can't we please get back to posts about pancakes, bloggers, monkeys, and other non-election related topics.
posted by Argyle to MetaFilter-Related at 10:27 AM PST - 24 comments

What are all the posts that are just '.' in this thread?
posted by cmicali to MetaFilter-Related at 7:50 AM PST - 32 comments

In AskMe, the button shouldn't say Preview the Link, it should say Preview the Question.
posted by Pretty_Generic to Bugs at 1:00 AM PST - 4 comments

Stet's question reminds me: will there ever be an anonymous way to ask questions? I'm sure there are lots of people out there with things to ask that they don't want brought up when they're running for office...
posted by bonaldi to Feature Requests at 7:24 PM PST - 2 comments

The voters deadline for Oregon is October 12th, two days from now. Oregonians, please make sure you have registered to vote!
posted by Keyser Soze to Etiquette/Policy at 5:47 PM PST - 36 comments

Here for your commenting pleasure, is the Annual Happy Birthday Mr Mathowie thread. Happy Birthday, #1!
posted by Salmonberry to MetaFilter-Related at 1:47 AM PST - 72 comments

Senior pictures are gone. Any mirrors, or is it lost forever?
posted by punishinglemur to MetaFilter-Related at 6:41 PM PST - 4 comments

Voter registration is over in the majority of states. Time to turn off the message?
posted by calwatch to Bugs at 4:35 PM PST - 10 comments

http://metafilter.com times out for me, while http://www.metafilter.com works with no problem. Is it me or MetaFilter?
posted by willnot to Bugs at 9:24 AM PST - 8 comments

reminder: meetup in NYC tonight at Mars 2112 (51st and Broadway). Timeframe: 6pm.
posted by Stynxno to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:53 AM PST - 28 comments

Preventing this thread is what IRC is for. That is all.
posted by wobh to Etiquette/Policy at 9:39 PM PST - 46 comments

There are 32 instances of the word Bush on the MeFi front page. How about we start http://bush.metafitler.com? Or maybe just take over BushFilter?
posted by armoured-ant to MetaFilter-Related at 2:35 PM PST - 16 comments

It's another idea for rating threads/users!

Dig this. On Everything2, they have the concept of cools. If you're very good, you can get a cool, which you can then assign to a post.

Rather than rating all threads, users, etc. Maybe everyone could get 1 gold star to spend every month (week, year, lifetime). And gold-starred posts could get a special billing?
posted by Capn to Feature Requests at 10:55 AM PST - 14 comments

I am going on sabbatical from Metafilter. In this political season, this place has become too close-minded, too vulgar, and too filled with people who complain. [MI]
posted by ParisParamus to MetaFilter-Related at 10:40 AM PST - 81 comments

You know what would be cool? A click count or popularity meter indicator on each FP thread, showing how many people took a look at it. [MI]
posted by spacewrench to Feature Requests at 11:50 PM PST - 29 comments

So, I was bored today checking out http://a.wholelottanothing.org/ and I stumbled across Matt's "photos" page. I think I recall looking at his photo page in the past. However, now, it just redirects to the regular metafilter website. I know the *.metafilter.com urls redirect to the regular metafilter website, but was this to be an exception?
posted by jmd82 to Bugs at 12:14 PM PST - 1 comment

I apologize two-fold, one for my unwilling absence from the scintillating minds that are my MeFi sisters and brethren...and secondly, because this may very well be the wrong arena, but darned if I know where to post AskMe follow ups...so here it is. A month or more back, I asked for advice on taking a specific type of pictures. The advice that I was given, both online, and in one case, carried into email, was invaluable. I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who contributed. You not only made me a better photographer, but you taught me a new way to see.
posted by dejah420 to Etiquette/Policy at 7:56 PM PST - 13 comments

A minor emendation: "others."

That is all.
posted by adamgreenfield to MetaFilter-Related at 6:50 PM PST - 4 comments

Inspired by her response to the home alone puppy: to crate or not crate question, I want to commend biscotti for her many fine answers to pet related questions in AskMetaFilter. Her contributions deserve a gold star--they are always detailed, to the point and well informed. They are the sort of answers that make AskMetaFilter shine.
posted by y2karl to MetaFilter-Related at 4:01 PM PST - 20 comments

In fact, I'm going to contact the aforementioned publications in the hope of having them sue you. Paris, stop this shit. And if it was a joke, it's not funny.
posted by amberglow to Etiquette/Policy at 4:30 PM PST - 120 comments

Anyone in NYC interested in a meetup this friday or saturday?
posted by Stynxno to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:15 PM PST - 79 comments

I can't post links within a thread on any of the Meta sites. I've seen how the text tools box appears under the comments box when using a PC at work. I'm using Explorer on a Mac running OS 8.6. Any ideas on how I can rectify this?
posted by floanna to Bugs at 4:33 PM PST - 16 comments

Does anyone else get a "No Harddisk in Drive" error in Mozilla when you try to follow the main link in this thread? I don't get that error on the other link in the post, or any of the other links on the blue.
posted by headspace to Bugs at 9:50 AM PST - 2 comments

Better than newsfilter : Metafilter as a terrier of truth on the pantleg of bullshit ? - I noticed, all of a sudden, an emerging posting trend which seems to me far healthier than reflexive newsfilterism - as shown in these six threads.
posted by troutfishing to MetaFilter-Related at 8:25 AM PST - 9 comments

Do you ever wish you could change your username? What would you change it to?
posted by PrinceValium to MetaFilter-Related at 9:43 PM PST - 127 comments

"the point of this thread is for these people to jerk themselves off and cum all over each other" I don't stop by often, and this is why. See you around.
posted by plexi to Etiquette/Policy at 12:38 PM PST - 50 comments

Meet, tomorrow (Saturday) evening, Vibe Bar, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, LONDON, E1 6QL
posted by Pretty_Generic to MetaFilter Gatherings at 2:33 AM PST - 17 comments

What about a Best of the Best of the Blue?

It would be kind of interesting to see which of the top posts (not sure how that would be defined) is voted as the best of the best.
posted by fenriq to Feature Requests at 12:25 AM PST - 8 comments