10 posts tagged with askmefi by WCityMike.
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Encouraging Conciseness in Ask Mefi?
Just want to bring up an idea for discussion: gently discouraging walls of text in Ask Metafilter (without doing anything to prohibit) ... through greater emphasis in the top text on the page, and UI guidance after a certain word count (maybe via a change in the text input box color background). [more inside]
Proposed Ask MeFi Guideline Addition/Flag Reason
Proposed addition to Ask Mefi guidelines, removal FAQ, and flags: "questions for which a layman's answer is dangerous." There are occasionally situations where it can be inaccurate and potentially dangerous to crowdsource an answer.
Metafilter to Kindle?
Has anyone developed any official or unofficial hacks with regards to loading Mefi/AskMefi threads onto their Kindle?
Best Weight Loss-, Diet- and Fitness-Related Ask Metafilter Threads?
What Ask Metafilter threads do Mefites think are the best-of for weight loss, diet and exercise? [more inside]
Can't Find the Right Metafilter Search-Fu For This Question
I am wondering if people could assist me in locating Ask Metafilter questions along the lines of this and this. I know it's a concept frequently asked about, but evidently the concept's too amorphous for tags to be of help, Related Questions just circularly refer to each other, and I can't find the right Google-fu for this one. [more inside]
Pony Request: MyAskMefi to Track Anonymous Questions (or Track Users' Questions?)
Pony request: can following all anonymous posts (or maybe, more widely, following a specific user) be integrated into MyAskMefi? [more inside]
Five years of Ask.MeFi book suggestions from Human Relations and Work & Money
Ask.Metafilter is over 5 years old now, with volumes of suggestions and helpful ideas. philosophistry sorted through the years of posts categorized as Human Relations and Work & Money, and created ranked listings of the books people recommended the most often: Human Relations, Work & Money. Note that each little thumbs-up icon is a link back to the post which referred to the book in question.
Posted originally in Mefi by filthy light thief, but deleted. [more inside]
Ask Metafilter One-Sentence Summary?
I had a suggestion for Ask Metafilter: a field for a one-sentence summary. [more inside]
Metafilter Gray
Ask Mefi Thread on Queen's Forename and Surname
I remember an Ask Metafilter question in which it was asked whether, if the current Queen of England went by a name based on her forename and surname (the format many of us go by, such as "John Smith" or "Jane Doe"), what that name would be. I can't seem to find it under the "queen" tag or via a Google search. [more inside]
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