MetaTalk

Why is it necessary to attack and insult?
posted by tolkhan to Etiquette/Policy at 7:25 AM - 45 comments

MetaFilter has won a Bloggie for "best group or community weblog". And mathowie must be happy that Kottke won his lifetime achievement award.
posted by timeistight to MetaFilter-Related at 3:48 PM - 28 comments

Why does the LINK tag with rel="bookmark" on MetaFilter pages(even the front page) point to MetaTalk, rather than the pages themselves?
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posted by Su to Bugs at 2:36 PM - 14 comments

Metafilter is eating my comments! I click on "Preview" and on the next page, I get "Comment Preview" and no comment underneath. The only thing that appears underneath is the line of links: Home About Archives, etc.
posted by meep to Bugs at 10:34 AM - 14 comments

I've been spending lots of time on wireless networks lately, so I finally up and got an SSL certificate for MetaFilter. Enjoy. Eventually I'll try to get all the user/pass pages going through https:// to make the site more secure.
posted by mathowie (staff) to Feature Requests at 3:47 PM - 44 comments

is this thread an argument in favor of "newsfilter" posts? - jackflash hits the ball out of the park with his incidental posts.
posted by specialk420 to MetaFilter-Related at 12:32 AM - 27 comments

I'm invoking the mefi lazyweb: help me gather notes for my sxsw panel [more]
posted by mathowie (staff) to MetaFilter-Related at 5:49 PM - 39 comments

Linking to a site that has been posted before: the dreaded double.

Case in point - I wanted to do a "Friday flash" just to offer a little B-Ball game that is cool for game people and with ban added bonus that it is great for download. Just something to balance the rather "heavy" load of war talk going on in all forms of the media.

MiniClip Download Page

Where is the line drawn for posting a link to a site that has been posted before, yet the content has changed?

for what it is worth, the "shooting hoops" was what I wanted to post, but held off.

Happy Friday!
posted by lampshade to Etiquette/Policy at 8:33 AM - 10 comments

Linking to your own site in a comment is kosher, but what about putting an invisible image with a MeFi-specific URL on that site's front page?
posted by skoosh to Etiquette/Policy at 4:09 AM - 17 comments

SXSW! Who's here already? Who will be?
posted by adamgreenfield to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:44 PM - 16 comments

Well, the NYC meetup thread has been closed, so I'm starting another one.
posted by witchstone to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:58 AM - 22 comments

American attitudes on the net... [more inside]
posted by twine42 to Etiquette/Policy at 8:49 AM - 63 comments

meta threads include a reference to http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/images/1space.gif which isn't available (it doesn't affect the page rendering, as far as i can see, but i maybe it's adding load to the server) (and, incidentally, that error page - which is generated but not normally visible - has some weird html, with a head element somewhere in the middle).
posted by andrew cooke to Bugs at 1:36 AM - 4 comments

Well, I'm sorry, sometimes we do do political threads well. Not many may want to join them - but most of those who do, continue to make them intelligent and alive. And I'm sure a lot of us who avoid going into them still derive an enormous pleasure from reading them. Which goes to say that, imho, political threads get an unfairly bad rap on MetaFilter (mainly due to Matt's apparent distaste for them) but they're part of the life and blood here and should be acknowledged for the interesting, integral part of MetaFilter they are. [I'm one of MidasMulligans fellow conservatives and I have to admire not only his gumption and enthusiasm but also the increasing fairness of his adversaries.]
posted by MiguelCardoso to MetaFilter-Related at 9:55 PM - 24 comments

I need to pick MeFier's brains and I guess this is the place to do it.
I belong to a mailing list that has an absolutely horrible archive. There's great information in the archive that's next to impossible to dig out.
The solution seems to be to switch to something like a blog. But Movable Type, as far as I can tell, doesn't allow people to participate both on a blog-type page and by email, does it?
Can any MeFiers tell me of a blog-type program that also sends out posts as emails and lets people respond via email?
Thanks in advance for any help and I apologize if this is too off topic.
posted by stevefromsparks to MetaFilter-Related at 11:53 AM - 9 comments

I have an idea for a new addition to the MeFi family of products... MoJo!

MetaonlineJournalism - A subsection of MetaFilter (like MetaTalk) where stories or rumors that need further investigation, research, or verification are actively worked on by webloggers, ideally working together to determine the truth of the matter.

This, I think, is increasingly important, since MeFi posts fade out a lot quicker than they used to, due to posting frequency. MetaOnlineJournalism posts might be around long enough to determine the truth of the matter, and would be presented in an environment that would ideally be far more about collaborative reporting, and far less about flaming.

I want my MoJo!
posted by insomnia_lj to Feature Requests at 9:20 AM - 143 comments

Copyright notices are old...

I just happened to notice that the copyright notices are for 1999-2002 in MeFi and 1999-2001 in MetaTalk... just a heads up on that.
posted by clevershark to Bugs at 11:25 PM - 7 comments

An interesting article about building an online community and the choices the Author made . It also talks about other online communities and why he avoided certain features popular on other sites.
posted by gyc to MetaFilter-Related at 2:41 PM - 8 comments