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Wonderful meta comment riffing on Bradbury’s automated house?
It’s a wonderful take on Bradbury’s There Will Come Soft Rains, in a post about automating AskMe question posting. It’s so good and I cannot find it on google site search or on the site itself. Thank you!
“Waiter, there's a Meta in my soup.”
End of another week, let's lighten the mood and talk about something that is not politics. Here in Canada it's bitterly cold and I could do with some warmth, some happy in my tummy. I'm thinking about soup. Tomato, chicken-noodle, broccoli-cheddar, roasted squash, whatever it is, share your recipes with MetaFilter. Feel free to also talk about your favorite store-bought ready made soup. Or maybe it's a memory of a really good soup a loved one made for you. Whether it's a broth, bisque, consomme, or chowder, I want to talk about soup. Also,a gentle remember to be kind to each other and take care of yourself.
Would others find it helpful if it was easier to report a post?
Do others want the ability to Report a post (on Metafilter or Ask) without actually clicking into it first?
seeking a specific comment
I recall reading a comment here on metafilter a long time ago with a proposal for a ridiculous reality TV show. I would like to find that comment. Googling has proven extremely difficult. [more inside]
The pitter-patter of Mefite feet
Good news is the best news: Mefites supercrayon and Paragon welcomed a healthy baby girl to the world on December 6, at 10:24pm local time. [more inside]
POTUS45 on Metafilter - I may have got a bit nerdy
Okay, someone made a (possibly throwaway) comment in one of the POTUS45 threads that it would be interesting to see how the comments/content of the threads had changed since the election.
I got my teeth into that, and after some playing with the HTML of the threads with VBA and Access, I now have a headache. As well as that I've got a database with 48 threads, 139,882 comments (including the posts themselves as a comment), 9,230,306 words, 2,193,898 favourites and 46,692 links.
Some charts and stats inside. Let me know if there's other stuff you're interested in. [more inside]
Wow, a Whole Week?
Over eight years ago, I asked a question about the relative frequency of MetaTalk threads over a stated period. I was just wondering if there has been any further observed data on lengthy gaps between sequential threads in that particular forum.
Meta-Meta-Words
Pony Request: Math is hard!
Last week I was going to make an FPP and got the "too soon!" message. I see this often because I tend to post in bursts, so I look up the last posting time and do some mental math.
Since the form knows I've already posted in the last 24 hours, would it be possible to just have it tell me at what time I can make the next post?
On attempted posting preview: I was notified that I had posted a MeTa within the last seven days so this had to wait, too. Maybe this pony could ride across the whole site.
From WBEZ Chicago, I'm Ira Glass. Today on our show, MetaFilter.
In the This American Life blog post which is a list of the staff's favorite lists of other sites' favorite This American Life episodes, Ira links to a 2005 AskMeFi thread in which MetaFilter members named their favorites. Notably, there was remarkable consensus among lists of that vintage and the lists that were published this month to observe the show's 500th episode.
I'm fairly surprised there hasn't been a more recent thread along those lines.
Do comments here on Metafilter get "disappeared"?
I have a vague unsubstantiated feeling that some comments I've written got tossed into the memory hole. Am I being paranoid, or is this normal with some justification I'm not aware of? [more inside]
diachronic panposticon
What the heck is up with deleting posts?
It seems that any interesting posts are getting deleted lately.
Just now, The story about the bolt action rifle handed to the kid as a play toy - deleted.
The story about the movies to help educate people before they make end of life decisions, deleted.
And a few others that upset me at the time, before I noticed the trend... can't recall specifics.
Is someone trying to push metafilter in a new direction, or what?
Deleting comments from MeTa
Hey, what's the deal with a joke comment being deleted from this recent MetaTalk thread? It was mild joke and I thought the bar for deleting comments from Metatal was much higher. I would ask in the thread, but when someone else did that, their comment was deleted, so here we are.
Looking for a MeTa
Does anyone remember a MeTa about AskMe questions that really, really did not go the way the asker expected? I can't seem to find the post I'm thinking of. It would have been fairly recent, probably posted in the last year or so.
Putting the "Meta" in "MetaFilter"
Based on the front page, I can tell that other posters use some of the same resources to find potential FPPs that I do. I'll lay my cards on the table, and hope you do the same... [more inside]
Just because you didn't say "go fuck yourself" doesn't mean you were civil
Everyone needs to respect what MeTa is for and remember to use it.
If something needs to go to Metatalk, it seems to me it doesn't need mods discussing it in thread while paying lip-service to the Blue/Grey distinction. If people need to defend their decisions, they can surely just direct the conversation here, not do what looks a bit like a drive-by on a Blue thread.
For the millionth time, you can't have your pony!
The good news: MetaTalk has over 1,000,000 comments as of today. The bad news: the millionth comment was apparently deleted.
That's a lot of words.
What is the longest metafilter comment that wasn't a stunt post?
The Favorites Experiment
As a follow-up to my previous MeTa, I've been running a little Mefi experiment where I strictly use favorites as references. Please join me inside for some bean cake and snark counseling. [more inside]
Thoughts on comment thread meta-comments.
Perhaps I don't have enough experience on the site to gauge this, but does anyone else find one liner meta comments about threads really annoying and useless? Perhaps this is something that should be mentioned in the guidelines?
From the negative "This will not go well." to the typical sarcastic "This is thread is going nowhere..." to the positive "I'm surprised this went well!", they seem out of place and more about the person writing it than the topic at hand.
When I remember, I'm going to start marking all of these as noise.
Please help me collect some meta MeTa Data data. Ta! –Me.
Hi Everybody! I'm trying to come up with a "MeFi glossary of terms / phrases / behaviors" to include in my PhD dissertation about linguistics and MetaFilter. If you could help me with this, that would be fantastic. I'm looking to create a list of the types of things that say to you (or to others) "Oh, that's so MetaFilter!" or "That sounds like something a MeFite would say." This could be anything from the use of a single character to a phrase or meme, to a way of doing things here. If you can think of something to add, please share it in the comments. Thanks! [more inside]
30,000 and still counting...
Meta Filter
I came across this interesting bit of information while doing some research on the London based conceptual artist Stephen Willats. According to his wiki, "His 1973 work Meta Filter consisted of pairs of participants seated at a computer, attempting to reach an agreement about the meanings of various images and statements." You can read more about Meta Filter here, and more about Willats at his website here.
Why MetaFilter is Awesome
Why MetaFilter is Awesome And Why the World Needs to Know [more inside]
Change in MetaFilter's attitude on things that are "different"
"Change" in MetaFilter culture? I know I'm newish, but I'm curious about something... [more inside]
MeTaIRL
Why do I keep seeing meetup threads on MeTa? Isn't that what IRL is for now? [more inside]
Meta meta
This blog post is so meta-MetaFilter that I wouldn't dare post it on MetaFilter. Note that that the comments are probably metameta and sometimes more.
Are all links created equal?
Why are there two places to click? Why does the "[more inside]" link point to the same place as the "XX comments" link? [more inside]
I make a hardcore tater hotdish
Twin Cities meetup [more inside]
20,000 and still counting...
I'll take "SEO spammer" for $5, Alex.
So you think you know Metafilter? [more inside]
MetaMetaMetaMetaTalk
Coding Horror Guy celebrates MetaFilter's 10th Birthday by making a post with the title Meta Is Murder and bringing in cortex to explain how MetaTalk "is key to the success of the site because it's a sort of release valve." So relieve yourselves here. [more inside]
Metafilter post about Ye Olde Metafilterre. Help?
Looking for a Metafilter post that was about a gentlemanly journal(?) in the 1800's(?) that was kind of like Metafilter. It was recently digitized, I believe. And then also there was a part in it that was also like AskMetafilter. Anyone remember this better than I do?
When the Blue's About the Blue
The direction of the teen modeling post went really Meta and callout-y really fast ... do we have informal standards to apply here? [more inside]
Nesting posts
Posts within posts? [more inside]
Aggregate the alcohol advice, please. Thank you?
You got your MeTa in my Projects!
Problems with Metatalk Backtagging
Presumed site-performance related glitch with MetaTalk Back-Tagging [more inside]
The MetaTalk taggr utility is lonely and needs some attention.
The MetaTalk tagging, titling, and general archive-diving reminder. [more inside]
Mefi Suggestion Box
Obviously we all love Metafilter or we wouldn't be here posting and reading day after day... But, if there was one thing you could change/modify about your Metafilter experience, what would it be?
Why not MyMeta?
We have MyAsk. Why not MyMeta? How about a tab that filters by tags. Example: ignore anything with linux or politics. Keep anything with maps or art.
Spam from a MeFi user.
I don't know what the policy is on this but I just got this spam via MeFi email from someone I don't know or care to know:
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eh ?
Does anyone know what is happening in waraws thread below ? [more inside]
It's "great" !
Anyone want to start a grammar nazi site? [more inside]
a wink and a nod.
Coincidence? [more inside]
MetaFilter History
Is there interesting MetaFilter history that newcomers wouldn't know about, but might find interesting? [more inside]
Jessamyn's talk at SxSW
Jessamyn spoke at the SxSW panel on User Revolts today. Here are her notes on The Day They Tested the Manifesto, as was shown during the panel. Most of you MeTa types are infovores, so I thought I'd share. Obv, she rocked the house.
crazy posts
I think metatalk might have a problem with repeated entries.