MetaTalk

I've always felt that there is a category missing on AskMeFi. There are so many AskMe posts related to children, parenting, babies, etc - that I really think there should be some kind of all encompassing category for it. I've thought about this for a long time, but today is the day I finally speak up. What do you think? [more inside]
posted by crayon on Sep 23, 2018 - 37 comments

Pony Request: Can we have a category for real estate and housing questions? [more inside]
posted by charmcityblues on Mar 8, 2011 - 16 comments

Is there a way to limit a search of Ask to a specific category? [more inside]
posted by Solomon on Aug 22, 2010 - 6 comments

I'm wondering if we should add a "History" category to Ask Me? I posted this today, and was surprised to find that we don't have this category choice. I wavered between "Grab Bag" and "Society and Culture" and finally went with the latter, though my impression of that category is that it's meant to address quite different, mostly contemporary questions... and checking past questions seems to affirm that it's not a great fit, though probably the best we have. [more inside]
posted by taz on Sep 23, 2009 - 66 comments

AskMe category pages aren't listing any questions for me. [more inside]
posted by heatherann on Feb 19, 2009 - 9 comments

Category request: Fitness [more inside]
posted by ShootTheMoon on Dec 1, 2008 - 61 comments

I think my AskMe question belongs in more than one category. [more inside]
posted by AmbroseChapel on Jul 27, 2008 - 19 comments

This is a serious, intended-for-AskMe question, but under the rules (because it is about AskMe itself) it must be asked here. So, kindly play by AskMe rules. Here goes. Various authorities claim there are only 69, 36, 20, 7, 3 or 1 possible literary plots, all the rest are just variations on the basic ones. Is it possible to categorize all MeFi questions into a limited number of generic forms? [more inside]
posted by beagle on Mar 16, 2008 - 45 comments

Pony request: categories for favorites? [more inside]
posted by jbickers on Dec 9, 2007 - 26 comments

FilteredFilters? How would the community view a site that catalogued posts from MeFi on a specific subject? [more inside]
posted by Miko on Sep 27, 2007 - 22 comments

Using the 'plain text' theme has a very small problem. In MetaTalk if you click on the category/topic of a post, the page it takes you to has the category/topic obscured by a brown box. (Slashing because sometimes it's called a Category and other times a Topic.)
posted by tellurian on Apr 9, 2006 - 12 comments

New comments on category pages. I'm not marking this a bug, because I don't want to be asinine about it. [más adentro]
posted by Eideteker on Jan 12, 2006 - 9 comments

When viewing a category in AskMe, it defaults to the last 30 days. Unfortunately, it seems to neglect to show the clever widget to allow one to go back further. It shows in MetaTalk's categories.
posted by ontic on Apr 27, 2005 - 4 comments

We already know that each thread has an (unused) category field.

Any chance that the following process can happen:

1. Categories are decided.

2. A team then allocates each thread to a category. (Happy to do it myself)

3. sports.metafilter, politics.metafilter etc. resolve to categories.

???
posted by Neale on Nov 1, 2001 - 54 comments

Uh...I know I didn't post that last thread to Bugs. Can anybody else back me up on this?
Is there any way to track if it was somehow (spontaneously?) moved, Matt?
posted by Su on Oct 27, 2001 - 6 comments

What does "topics specific to metafilter" mean, exactly? Specific to "metafilter, the codebase and website" or "metafilter, the group of people who use the mefi codebase"? Reason inside...
posted by jeb on Oct 12, 2001 - 3 comments

Recently there's been an awful lot of posts each day on Metafilter. This is great, except that topics I'm involved with are flying down the page very quickly, and I'm losing track of what discussions I'm in. So, I had an idea.

Now, after reading the earlier thread about 'limiting the site to 10,000 users', perhaps my idea is good. Perhaps it's bad. It's probably not implementable, but here it is anyway.

Why not allow people to choose a category for their postings? Just like Memepool does. For example.. 'Crazy'.. 'Fad'.. 'Politics'.. etc. While the front page would continue to show all posts, it would nice to filter them myself, and not have front page posts moderated by someone else (which seems likely in the future). No?
posted by wackybrit on May 18, 2001 - 10 comments