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11 years ago, on the site longbets.org, a friendly wager was made between two mavens of the web: Jeremy Keith and Matthew Haughey. The bet, to be revisited a decade and a year later, would be whether the URL of their wager at Long Bets would survive to a point in the semi-distant future. That is, this day, February 22nd, 2022, (2/22/2222).

As of this writing, the URL absolutely has survived.

[more inside] posted by Rhaomi on Feb 22, 2022 - 10 comments

Metafilter’s quasi-official Seattle Trivia team Manifest Destiny’s Child has, in a follow-up to last week’s 20th anniversary triumph, won again this week. As we (this week: Errant and party (if you’d sign up, you could get an actual name), clew, cgc373, Slarty Bartfast and yr obt svt) did last week, we are donating our winnings to the site (a bit less impressive at $32 but that’s what we got). We’d like to encourage any other MeFi groups that might come into similar riches to think of the goodness that is Metafilter and help sustain this forum.
posted by skyscraper on Jul 23, 2019 - 14 comments

Did you know that there's a Chrome extension that will let you add Metafilter's Amazon affiliate code to every Amazon link you click? It also adds the tag every time you navigate directly to Amazon. It works on all international Amazon sites and a couple of other Amazon-related sites. [more inside]
posted by bendy on Apr 8, 2019 - 18 comments

Speaking of love, as a quick followup to this post about this year's MefightClub donation drive for the Child's Play charity, we've wrapped it up with a total of $5500 dollars donated, beating last year's total and easily surpassing our goal. [more inside]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on Jan 1, 2013 - 21 comments

Child's Play Charity collects money, toys, and video games to improve the lives of the young patients in children's hospitals across the world. Over at MefightClub we've just started our third annual annual donation drive. [previously] [previouslier] If you'd like to donate too, we'd love for you to do so under the MefightClub as MeFi-offshoot banner, but donation any which way would be a fine thing for you to do. It is a Good Cause. [more inside]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on Dec 3, 2012 - 19 comments

Calling all mefites! Please help scalefree! [more inside]
posted by two lights above the sea on Nov 30, 2010 - 84 comments

The AskMe thread on blood donation by gay men needs a MeTa outlet. [more inside]
posted by rhiannon on Feb 28, 2010 - 223 comments

Paypal update: after two weeks of stalling, it's off to final review. Results should come in a few more days. [more inside]
posted by mathowie on Dec 3, 2009 - 125 comments

Tragic news from one of our own. May I be the first to suggest we get a best answer for this question and make donations as a group? I don't know what else to do. Ideas?
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur on Mar 3, 2007 - 25 comments

Remember all those times you said "I'd pay to help keep MetaFilter safe and running more smoothly"? Here's your chance.
posted by karmaville on Aug 18, 2004 - 65 comments

This is a right piss-off.

Feeling flush enough to donate to Mefi for the first time ever...[more inside]
posted by dash_slot- on Aug 19, 2003 - 44 comments

Clicking on the "Donate" link brings me to the Amazon donation page, then kicks out to the home page. I'm using MSIE 5.5:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)
posted by eamondaly on Feb 25, 2002 - 1 comment

Keep the servers running smoothly today
 or
create a fleet of system admins for Metafilter tomorrow?
posted by fooljay on Apr 19, 2001 - 17 comments

Hey, since MetaFilter just reached a thousand bucks on Amazon (plus some unknown amount on PayPal...) don'tcha folks think Matt should take Kay out to dinner or something, as his reward for doing all this work?

I know that would be at least as exciting as another 128MB of RAM or whatever...
posted by anildash on Mar 21, 2001 - 6 comments

from todays' dack.com

"What's wrong with this picture? In a few short weeks Andrew Sullivan's weblog has collected almost $3500 in microdonations. By contrast, Metafilter -- a community site where people feel like stakeholders, and presumably have a greater motivation for giving -- has been stuck at about $750 for weeks. Are the musings of a Catholic gay conservative really that popular? Or are Metafilter readers just cheap bastards?"
posted by lagado on Mar 12, 2001 - 9 comments