MetaTalk

What are MeFi's secrets? Are there handy secret pref pages, alternate views, fun hidden special.metafilter.com domains? You tell me.
posted by Marquis on Aug 28, 2001 - 37 comments

Does anyone recall the link that lists all the Mefites homepages in random order?
posted by revbrian on Jul 16, 2001 - 6 comments

MetaFilter surpasses 9000! Today! Unfortunately, there's no info on who gets the door prize.
posted by heather-old on May 20, 2001 - 11 comments

...just stokin the flames ya'll. Be nice.

Why on earth should I be nice to someone who's knowingly being an ass?
posted by cCranium on May 15, 2001 - 7 comments

Threatening Overkill perhaps, but I've been digging around the archives of MeFi, and I gotta admit it's staggering. Like maybe it's time for some way to filter MetaFilter? (more to follow)
posted by ZachsMind on Apr 21, 2001 - 6 comments

It'd be really cool to see a graph plotting number of MeFi members vs time. At 4700 members it seems like that number really took off in the last month.
posted by grank on Mar 22, 2001 - 2 comments

Matt, do you take suggestions for MetaSlogans in the upper corner, or is that solely your doing? I was thinking, "Putting the 'we blog' in 'weblog." Anyone else ever come up with stuff for the Slogans, or am I one of the few that obsessively clicks the refresh button to see them all?
posted by one.louder.ash! on Mar 21, 2001 - 9 comments

Kottke offers a good critique of online discussions (like MeFi), and he makes some excellent suggestions on how to improve them. He quotes an unnamed source: "The problem with online forums is that those who have very little to contribute participate the most while those with valuable information to share participate the least." Now, let's try to keep the conversation cordial...
posted by ericost on Jun 21, 2000 - 44 comments