MetaTalk

Matt: Maybe you have already thought of this, but now we've had our 3rd anniversary, howsabout a "3 years ago" shortcut on the sidebar for those of us who like to blow the dust off the venerable older threads?
posted by dash_slot- to Feature Requests at 10:14 AM - 9 comments

Emboldened as I am by positive reinforcement (thank you Stavros, and Sennoma), and joyous as I may be at the successful migration to the new server ( Happy Birthday, MetaFilter!), I am still saddened by the many "things are not so good at MetaFilter" discussions that seem to have been occurring recently, both here and off-premises. Although you may all count me in the "I love this place, and all who frequent her shores" category, after carefully reviewing the complaints and giving the matter due consideration, I do have two (and only two) suggestions ... (more inside)
posted by yhbc to MetaFilter-Related at 9:26 PM - 75 comments

Haven't yet registered at that other site? Plastic.com's own Carl Steadman is running a special promotional offer for MeFi addicts: sign up with your MeFi username and receive, for the low-low price of free, 10 karma and 10 mod points.

Now the question remains: What can Matt offer Plastic.com users in return? Perhaps registration itself is enough of an incentive.
posted by nathan_teske to MetaFilter-Related at 9:09 PM - 48 comments

Jeez I hate CFMX.

Help me out by posting all bugs you find here.
posted by mathowie (staff) to Uptime at 6:28 PM - 73 comments

Just how international are we?

It seems to me all the other well-known and popular American and European community weblogs and websites are far more parochial and North America-centred than MetaFilter. Not so with us. This makes, I think, all the difference. We have (off the top of my head and as far as I know) members from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, France, Holland, india, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, The Philippines, Portugal, Scotland, Wales, Spain...and who knows what other countries?

So just how widely cast is the MetaFilter users' web?[Lurkers: Please break your vow of silence, just this once, if you possibly can!] Me, I suspect it spans the whole beautiful Planet...
posted by MiguelCardoso to MetaFilter-Related at 6:13 AM - 64 comments

What day is the NY MeFi Meet? I signed up thinking it was in August, but I've just responded to an RSVP request from meetup. com with a date for this upcoming Thursday. Since the August date is still listed here, I'm mighty confused. So -- which day is it? Both? Neither? Anybody? Beuller?
posted by metrocake to MetaFilter Gatherings at 7:34 PM - 4 comments

Should I be ashamed of my 13k member number?
posted by folktrash to Etiquette/Policy at 3:46 PM - 35 comments

I declare jihad. There have been 'imminent demise of Metafilter' threads posted with clockwork regularity since about two weeks after Matt started the site, I think, and this is not one of them. But the lengthy MeFi essay I blurted out on my weblog recently has got me riled up, and I think it's time for me, at least to declare myself. [Please join me inside, won't you?]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken to MetaFilter-Related at 9:21 PM - 104 comments

snarkiness aside, we've got 1, 2, 3, 4 'what kind of music do you like' threads popping up in the past three days. sure these threads get lots of comments, but they're not what this site is about. and when they propogate like this, it scares me. does one such post beget others? and can we, as a community, do anything about it? do we want to do anything about it... or do we love these threads too much to let go?
posted by mlang to Etiquette/Policy at 4:21 PM - 26 comments

Would it be possible to add a key-word search in addition to a URL search on the post submission page? Seems like it'd go far in reducing double-posts.
posted by me3dia to Feature Requests at 1:32 PM - 22 comments

Speaking of integrity, maybe it's time to reconsider this?
posted by crunchland to Feature Requests at 7:53 AM - 17 comments

A 'post anonymously' option. Matt could still see who posted it, and perhaps remove the option for those who abuse it.

There's a need when you want to respond about your company, or your family, or your health; without the consequences of detail.
posted by holloway to Feature Requests at 6:05 PM - 58 comments

I'm fucking tired of this from mikegre. Nothing so handy as a man committed to dropping the signal/noise ratio by pissing all over threads. Bonus for first-posting that trash so many times.
posted by NortonDC to Etiquette/Policy at 12:46 PM - 51 comments

If you're posting an NYTimes link, can you please try to follow this guideline:

Another tough day for Wall Street (auto). Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetaur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

I put the HTML code on the inside.
posted by geoff. to Etiquette/Policy at 1:56 PM - 16 comments

After that other thread left a bad taste in our collective mouth... not to be confused with a collective rectum, how about we take a moment to discuss what we like about metafilter? wouldn't that be pleasant!
posted by jcterminal to Etiquette/Policy at 11:58 AM - 125 comments

apparently, i'm a 'navel-gazing twit', but i'm just wondering: when are the developmentally disabled going to get the same degree of respect we afford the niggers, kikes, bitches, wetbacks, and gooks?
posted by mlang to Etiquette/Policy at 11:04 PM - 156 comments

How does one go about installing the MeFi sidebar in Mozilla? Could we perhaps include a link to install the sidebar somewhere on the MeFi front page?
posted by brownpau to Feature Requests at 11:51 AM - 2 comments

A pet peeve, to me, is something intensely subjective and harmlessly annoying that it's unreasonable to attack and stupid to waste time decrying. And yet...and yet we all have them and it's fun to list them. Mine(sorry SpecialK for singling you out)are:
1) Yawn...[six more pet peeves inside]
posted by MiguelCardoso to MetaFilter-Related at 11:43 AM - 131 comments

International MetaFilter MEETUP Day is only 28 days away

So far, 98 members have signed on to meet their local friendly MeFi gang members. Who else is up for a little excitement?
posted by dejah420 to MetaFilter-Related at 6:01 PM - 38 comments

It struck me that it would be useful to mark interesting threads for tracking so I checked the MetaTalk archives and found that the idea had been raised originally back in the mists of time and then followed up much more recently. And yet I still don't know if it's been forgotten, abandoned or taken on board as an urgent priority. Would a "Features in Progress" page help? Or be a nagging schedule?
posted by MUD to Feature Requests at 3:27 PM - 2 comments