MetaTalk

We've just turned over 16,000 members according to the front page. Our lucky number 16,000 is hans_1984 who wins this lovely MetaTalk thread. Welcome aboard, Hans!
posted by timeistight to Bugs at 11:47 AM - 76 comments

noticed a link I posted yesterday was removed? why? It would be nice for any moderator or higher up to e mail someone telling why the link was removed
posted by hoopyfrood to Etiquette/Policy at 7:05 AM - 23 comments

Have you considered a 'Back to Top' feature? Would be useful for those long threads where one needs to re-examine the original post....
posted by dash_slot- to Feature Requests at 9:51 AM - 15 comments

Have you ever considered a "follow-up" mechanism of some sort?
posted by RavinDave to Feature Requests at 3:59 AM - 19 comments

Does MeFi have an RSS feed? I searched around, but couldn't find one...hopefully I wasn't missing something obvious...if there isn't one, could there be?
posted by Orange Goblin to Feature Requests at 9:10 AM - 10 comments

I noticed this thread (lofi link--in case it doesn't last) earlier and noticed that the poster, BarneyFifesBullet, mentioned that he'd searched for the topic and hadn't found it. A cursory search, however, turned up that it had, in fact, been posted a few months earlier. Long story short, I noticed that the default setting when you use the search function on MeFi sets the drop-down menu to "in the past month" which seems like it could be the culprit in a case like this where the poster seems to have searched unsuccessfully for a previously-posted link. It doesn't seem like something that would be frightfully hard to chance, and it might save us a few double posts...
posted by The God Complex to Feature Requests at 12:12 AM - 22 comments

interrobang vs. ?!. What's the deal here?! (Also refer to the recent MeFi thread about the interrobang.)
posted by riffola to MetaFilter-Related at 9:13 PM - 12 comments

Are you a MeFi Lefty or a MeFi Righty? I honestly don't get what comments like this one are getting at, or what they would prefer to see happen here. The lack of specificity in most of these complaints doesn't help. I see good and bad arguments getting called out regularly, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum. What am I missing?
posted by mediareport to Etiquette/Policy at 4:49 PM - 60 comments

This one got me to thinking…
I was surprised that someone who had been a member for over 2 years had just now posted their first story. I’m curious about other demographic oddities and averages like that.
Who holds the record for the most threads?
Many more questions inside....
posted by Blake to Bugs at 10:00 AM - 188 comments

Sometime today, or quite possibly early tomorrow, MetaFilter will hit thread number 20,000. Personally, I think everyone should shut up once we hit 19,999 and let Matt do whatever he feels like with number 20k. Anyone agree? Other thoughts?
posted by Ufez Jones to MetaFilter-Related at 8:23 AM - 89 comments

Su has a point here. Wouldn't it make searching a lot easier, as well as being fairer to the original authors and more descriptive in general if users could mention the name or title of a linked item in their lead post or, at least, in a follow-up ("more inside") comment.

As it is, I fail to see how Su could have detected tomplus2's May 2002 post, unless he arbitrarily searched for "graffiti" or some other term which isn't exactly apposite.
posted by MiguelCardoso to Etiquette/Policy at 7:10 PM - 28 comments

Some TextAds are too wide (on standards-compliant browsers). "www.ArtSwag.com" and
"STICKERS*PINS*SHIRTS For angry ranters and the people who love them" are two examples. It increases the width of the in which it and the sideblog are nested, thereby reducing the width of the main content column, not to mention leaving a large gap between the right-hand page margin and the sideblog.
    The culprit seems to be the title field. A multiworld title with spaces will wrap in the ad-box; the above two examples are long (but within 20-char limit) one-word titles. Can something be done?
posted by rschram to Feature Requests at 5:01 PM - 15 comments

Since it got bumped down below the front page, here it is again: Madison Metafilter Meet tonight. The Plaza. Nine P.M. Who's coming? Should we wear name-tags?
posted by interrobang to MetaFilter Gatherings at 8:49 AM - 26 comments

I would just like to tell Miguel (and the MetaFilter community): Well. Done.
posted by poopy to Etiquette/Policy at 6:21 PM - 34 comments

Opera users now see the a page margin on the homepage, where there wasn't one before (presumably due to a change in the style sheet).
posted by kickingtheground to Bugs at 6:14 PM - 19 comments

Self-link, or not? [more inside]
posted by mr_crash_davis to Etiquette/Policy at 1:15 PM - 39 comments

With the sideblog open, there is currently a vertical gap on the front page running the entire vertical distance between the last line of the description in the "Today some of us thought it..." post, and the line with Miguel Cardoso line. The gap disappears in the sideblog is closed. This is in my Mozilla for PC.
posted by ParisParamus to Bugs at 11:10 AM - 6 comments

"Um, isn't this a kinda sorta double-post? [/meanie]"
"This thread is over 30 days old, and has been closed for archival purposes."
So it being a repost is not relevant. I propose a mortatorium on such statements, now that it is hard coded that threads are officially dead after one month. Comments pro & con are welcome herein.
posted by ZachsMind to Etiquette/Policy at 8:32 AM - 12 comments

I apologise in advance for my transgression. Methinks I may have gone a bit far...
posted by Smart Dalek to Etiquette/Policy at 5:48 AM - 25 comments

ok! we have our first 9/11 post on 9/11. let's *keep* further discussion there?
posted by jcterminal to MetaFilter-Related at 12:13 AM - 37 comments