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Although many tariffs are again delayed, the political landscape has been shifted by Donald Trump and Canadians and Americans uneasily find themselves on opposite sides of a border that is, economically at the least and potentially existentially under threat. If this week’s tariff thread is any indication, this fracture can lead to differences in opinion and sentiment – new and old – flaring up on the site. This post is from a Canadian perspective – one, because there are many of course. Hoping it may help to express a minority (8% of all traffic) perspective and also have some discourse. This is NOT a policy or mod ask. All opinions my own.
posted by warriorqueen to MetaTalk on Mar 7 at 1:00 PM
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I've been interested in the BIPOC board since they were an idea here in metatalk about three or four years ago. I've read all their minutes. I don't see much evidence of their continued existence and I'd like to know what people here think about that. There is a link at the bottom of every metafilter page that links to the BIPOC board page, where their minutes are.
posted by Vatnesine to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 2:33 AM
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Hey, with the recent MeTa about the Card Club, I was reminded that there are a number of member run activities and events, but there is no list of them. So I'm going to put together a FAQ entry about the member related MeFi clubs and activities with the following information for each club: Name of club/activity Contact Person Premise of club/activity How often/when the club/activity occurs For those who do run these activities, thank you! Please chime in if you have any special instructions or corrections and I'll include them in the FAQ entry/listing. For anyone who wants to help with compiling this information, let me know, we can do it in Google docs.
posted by Brandon Blatcher to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 9:19 AM
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Just had a thought - how about adding a new type of activity to the IRL tab, alerting people to different local political activism opportunities (rallies, demonstrations, postcard-writing campaigns, etc.)?
posted by EmpressCallipygos to MetaTalk on Mar 14 at 6:46 AM
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Just posting several short notes since a page that we were creating was accidently made public a little early and discovered, so we're gonna talk about 3 specific things.
posted by Brandon Blatcher to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 4:34 PM
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I want to suggest that we consider decoupling bookmarks from favorites. I very frequently want to favorite a comment to show my support or agreement, but I have stopped using favorites because I do not want to bookmark hundreds of comments that I appreciated but do not need to revisit.
posted by Neely O'Hara to MetaTalk on Mar 12 at 10:28 AM
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I've noticed a recent trend of non-moderators directing what is okay and not okay to talk about in threads. Speaking for myself, it has restricted good faith participation and is off putting in a way that promotes a cliquish community. Especially such authoritative tone coming from a non-moderator can come off at best confusing and at worst discourage discussion, especially from users are not frequent visitors.
posted by geoff. to MetaTalk on Apr 9, 2022 at 11:02 AM
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That's not why anyone is criticizing the BIPOC minutes situation. Go reread the thread. [view]
posted by Bugbread to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 3:18 PM
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Regarding "cooter clock"----Do people not know that cooter is a slang euphemism for a woman's genitalia? Wow. Metafilter is so embarrassing. Yes, I think that was Jessamyn's point. [view]
posted by kbanas to MetaTalk on Mar 21 at 10:17 AM
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It shows the official mod notes from around the site (those mod comments with the thin black line around them). Isn't the point of a moderation log to show the mod actions that are not visible and not obvious? I mean, thank you for doing literally anything differently for once, truly, but ??? Have I fundamentally... [more]
posted by phunniemee to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 5:17 PM
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MiraK's comment reposted above was the third strike in a series of mod events that shifted me from "these are but hapless good hearted people" to "leadership here is a farce and needs to go." [view]
posted by phunniemee to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 7:03 AM
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My mind is blown by reading justifications of the current state of affairs. The only sensible response to it taking thirteen months and counting to produce a read-out of a meeting is "yes we recognise this is obviously ludicrous". How can anyone have confidence a group does anything of substance if it can't output a page of bullet... [more]
posted by Klipspringer to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 8:58 AM
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Can anyone involved with this board post a very brief introduction to what the board has done in the last couple years? It's just as important to ask what the BIPOC Board is actually empowered to do. The Board was established after several posts on the blue went wildly, racist-ly sideways in 2019 (?), but has never had the... [more]
posted by knucklebones to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 1:18 PM
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Let's go back to the first "Hearing from our members of color" thread on MetaTalk. That thread came about as a result of jj's.mama buttoning because her post about an incident of racism was deleted for being "outragefilter" (MetaTalk thread). cortex acknowledged it was a bad decision and apologised to jj's.mama for "the... [more]
posted by ftrtts to MetaTalk on Mar 21 at 6:39 AM
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MiraK's comment about the substance of the board's work is worth pasting here in full: I used to be in the BIPOC board until shortly after this incident with n-p, and it was the direct precursor to me exiting the BIPOC board. That thread and its aftermath were a wake up call to me personally on how much of the work of the BIPOC board is... [more]
posted by Klipspringer to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 6:58 AM
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The anotherpanacea thread was a fucking disaster, and it's an embarrassment to Metafilter that his horrifically shitty, mask off, increasingly explicitly racist comments in that thread were all memory holed--not by mod action for removing shitty content that broke guidelines and disrespected our non white userbase, but because anotherpanacea dirty... [more]
posted by phunniemee to MetaTalk on Mar 21 at 10:53 AM
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Appreciate the concern but the board isn't why I'm gearing down. Should I retype my comments? Did I indicate people didn't care enough to post minutes? I did say site culture. I did also say I don't make a habit of checking Talk. I did say that if I'm active it's on the Blue. For the record I'm just a holdout at this point when it comes to dealing... [more]
posted by cendawanita to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 8:34 PM
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Can anyone involved with this board post a very brief introduction to what the board has done in the last couple years? It is difficult for anyone here to understand what the board does when the only output we've seen over the last year or so was the weird rice cooker post, which it turns out wasn't actually approved by the board. Fundamentally,... [more]
posted by ssg to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 10:38 AM
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I think the issue is that people don't know when something has been deleted Perhaps one solution is to hire a child who sees dead comments? [view]
posted by snofoam to MetaTalk on Mar 21 at 3:18 PM
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Please post the minutes without approvals as they are a distraction from a larger problem. And then we can talk about what this board is supposed to be doing vs what they’ve done. [view]
posted by Vatnesine to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 9:01 AM
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Favourites for me are like applause. They're the clapping of hands when we've made a speech or performed a sketch or poem. I favourite things I appreciate, and appreciate it when I get favourites; we get precious little feedback on what we post online, and they're a quick and easy way to give and receive it. As a writer or performer, it's... [more]
posted by rory to MetaTalk on Mar 17 at 9:48 AM
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I would suggest to the Board that wanting to get a consensus approval is understandable, but not necessary and particularly in the case of people who have resigned from the Board -- I don't think it makes sense. You can pretty much assume that they have no real issues with the minutes if they haven't responded. It's even a little unfair to try to... [more]
posted by tivalasvegas to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 8:03 AM
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In response to, "could you estimate what proportion of mod actions include a note versus not including a note?" BB wrote, "Roughly 60% with notes, 40% without, but that's a very rough guess off the top of my head and I would not hold me to it" in this thread at 4:30am my time. In response to, "So is it now a policy that... [more]
posted by lapis to MetaTalk on Mar 21 at 12:44 PM
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Yeah I chair a couple of boards and everyone gets draft minutes as soon as possible after the meetings, with a deadline of a couple of weeks to make any changes or corrections. We then circulate the revised versions at least a week before the next meeting and we vote to approve them in session. If you don't speak up you are deemed to have accepted... [more]
posted by rpfields to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 1:25 PM
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hello, artist formerly known as divabat here Man, looking back at that PoC only thread is a trip. I fought so hard for there to be PoC mods. Willing to burn everything down for it too. And look, we have PoC mods now! But did that actually bring about any of the changes I was predicting would happen? Not really. Now there's just threads upon... [more]
posted by creatrixtiara to MetaTalk on Mar 21 at 7:39 AM
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Beyond tired of every MeTa turning into a "Let's attack the mods" post. You're attacking them because you want them to fix racism. What makes you think they can fix racism when the entire world can't? They can't make the whole world unicorns and puppies any more than you or I can. Well, that's certainly a take. [view]
posted by maryellenreads to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 4:31 PM
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The staff’s failure to support the board or do even the most minimal work for them was the beginning of my realization that no one working for MetaFilter actually cared about MetaFilter as anything other than a paycheck. Which is fine, but at least do the work you’re paid to do, yeah? Over the time since that linked comment, I’ve hoped to be given... [more]
posted by donnagirl to MetaTalk on Mar 20 at 7:45 AM
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