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Proposing a Brand New Day

I’d like to suggest that the MeFi largely undergo a Brand New Day when the new executive director starts. (I expect we are several months away from that.) This BND would apply to both users (including former users) and mods. [more inside]
posted by NotLost on Dec 3, 2024 - 154 comments

In memory of progosk

Hi everyone, unfortunately I have some very sad news to share: our fellow mefite Philip Rogosky aka progosk has passed away. [more inside]
posted by bitteschoen on Aug 27, 2024 - 78 comments

Community Free Chat Threads

This should not be paid moderator work. Let's discuss. [more inside]
posted by Meatbomb on Apr 20, 2023 - 88 comments

How are new users discovering Metafilter?

I'm always a little surprised when I see a new user on Metafilter, since talk about it elsewhere online seems to have been erased by all the talk about billion-dollar sites. If you're a relatively new user - within the past three or four years, say - how did you find Metafilter?
posted by clawsoon on Dec 1, 2019 - 37 comments

how metafilter works??

i want to study about metafilter. when a person ask a question similar question that in the past asked by other user will show to the active user. this work called recommendation. i want to know how metafilter recommend similar question to the active user??
posted by msmryh on Mar 5, 2016 - 19 comments

Results from The Big MetaFilter Survey 2015

After too long a wait, here are some initial results from The Big MetaFilter Survey 2015.
What We Talk About When We Talk About MetaFilter - information about your interactions with the site.
Tell Us A Little About Yourself - information about the personal lives of your fellow users.
The Food Wars - what kinds of foods are acceptable and what kinds are garbage nightmares.
Other Results [pdf] - includes curated responses to the more interesting open-ended questions and some other numerical data. [more inside]
posted by Rock Steady on Dec 9, 2015 - 358 comments

The Big MetaFilter Survey 2015

Please take an informal, light-hearted survey that is designed to let us all discover some fun, fascinating and potentially insightful things about MetaFilter and each other. Here is the link to The Big MetaFilter Survey 2015. [more inside]
posted by Rock Steady on Sep 14, 2015 - 237 comments

Planning a MetaFilter survey

Inspired by this post about the XKCD Survey and this comment by The Underwear Monster, I thought it might be fun to do a Big MeFi Survey along the same lines - mostly goofy questions that we can sic our local datawranglers on and see what fun, weird, fascinating things drop out. [more inside]
posted by Rock Steady on Sep 3, 2015 - 316 comments

Tagging Users In Comments and Posts

I know that things are rough right now, and Metafilter is understaffed and all that (everybody donate $10 right now!), but I was hoping that maybe there could be a way to tag other users easily a la Facebook and Twitter, etc, so that if we add an @ in a comment or post, we could just add the username and the name would link to that person's profile. [more inside]
posted by degoao on Jun 1, 2014 - 156 comments

Mefi users' extreme locations?

Geographic extremes of all kinds of Mefi users. [more inside]
posted by InsertNiftyNameHere on Jul 9, 2013 - 92 comments

It's ok... you can do it, you can make a decision by yourself.

Is Ask Metafilter a place for people afraid to learn from their own experiences? [more inside]
posted by dougrayrankin on Dec 10, 2012 - 119 comments

looking for a blog post 'users are the problem'

I remember a blog post somewhere advocating for strong moderation, with the theme 'users are the problem.' But now I can't find it. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns on Aug 9, 2012 - 6 comments

MeFi Olympians?

Are there any MeFi Olympians? Olympics involved MeFites?
posted by bystander on Jul 30, 2012 - 303 comments

late night missive

The recent Hegel post made me miss seeing Lovecraft In Brooklyn around the site, maybe you'll be back again some day. [more inside]
posted by four panels on Jun 10, 2012 - 1 comment

Which Active Users have been here the Longest?

Which Active Users have been here the Longest? [more inside]
posted by jcterminal on Apr 11, 2012 - 170 comments

languagehat: "my work here is done"

languagehat has left the building. [more inside]
posted by wilful on Sep 15, 2011 - 1716 comments

Five dollars!

Meta-metafilter: What are examples of some other online communities that have successfully kept the quality of posts/forums at a high level by requiring a nominal $5 to $10 signup fee? [more inside]
posted by thewalrus on Jul 28, 2011 - 49 comments

Another One Bites The Dust?

Forktine is gone? No! Why? Does anyone know what happened, or if he's coming back?
posted by newpotato on Jul 20, 2011 - 2 comments

Where My (MetaFilter) Homies Is At?

Is there a search-for-contacts, find-your-friends feature buried somewhere in MetaFilter? I'd love to see if any other folks that I know are MeFites, and would gladly grant the site temporary access to my GMail address book to find out... if ONLY there were a WAY to DO it!
posted by D.Billy on Jul 16, 2011 - 56 comments

MacArthur in the House

The Metafilter community now includes a MacArthur fellow. [more inside]
posted by gwint on Sep 28, 2010 - 64 comments

What ever happened to foo?

Is it cool to inquire about users who have seemingly disappeared from the site? [more inside]
posted by slogger on May 26, 2010 - 329 comments

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Pony request: number users logged on and when user last logged on. [more inside]
posted by netbros on May 13, 2010 - 79 comments

Take My Wife -- $20, SAIT

...and, and what about those--those... "MeFite comedians," anyway? Yooouu know the ones I'm talking about: stand-ups, sketch comedians, "kooky performance artists"--I mean, come on, who *are* these people and are there any links to their stuff? Really!
posted by not_on_display on May 12, 2010 - 53 comments

Survey says....

Still curious where MetaFilter users are from? The survey results are in. [more inside]
posted by Salvor Hardin on Jan 29, 2010 - 61 comments

A Chance for a Brand New Day

So how do the mods feel about the user base, really? [more inside]
posted by Effigy2000 on Jan 13, 2010 - 159 comments

Search Through User's Activity?

Would it be possible to have a search box on Activity subpages -- in other words, a search function that limits itself to a single user's comments or posts? [more inside]
posted by MikeHarris on Dec 4, 2009 - 14 comments

See Astro Space Laboratory

I'd just like to take a moment to misuse MetaTalk and draw your attention to this lame gawker list type post revealing the origin of MetaFilters own Astro Zombie.
posted by Artw on Oct 12, 2009 - 52 comments

Procession of user numbers

For the upcoming meetups, or more exactly for press and blog coverage of upcoming meetups, could PB or Cortex or somebody gin up a kind of graph or visualization of brute quantities of user signups over time, along with user numbers? [more inside]
posted by joeclark on Jul 2, 2009 - 54 comments

Crowded behind the green curtain.

From a profile:
I inherited this account from my mom who died three years ago. I am, apparently, a sub-par contributor.
(My Dad uses it sometimes, too. He's the one with the more intelligent comments)
(Later. At this point, several, well, three or five, people are using this account but none will ever match the original account holder in terms of The Right Stuff)

I don't think there's a guideline for multiple people using one account, but maybe there should be? [Not a callout, hence no link.]
posted by carsonb on Jun 20, 2009 - 102 comments

Don't do it Hermitosis

Metafilter is flirting with disaster. Just in case.
posted by Who_Am_I on Feb 14, 2009 - 26 comments

list members who frequently answer threads with a particular tag

AskMeFi pony request: list members who frequently answer threads with a particular tag [more inside]
posted by nitsuj on Nov 1, 2008 - 36 comments

feed for personal activity

I've been playing with a lifestream app, and it would be interesting to be able to pull my metafilter posting/commenting history into that. The most streamlined way for that to happen would be via RSS. It doesn't seem like there's any way to do that currently. Obviously this is a low priority, but if it's just a matter of flipping a switch, it could be interesting. [more inside]
posted by adamrice on Oct 19, 2008 - 10 comments

No one here but ghosts and odes to Dan Savage.

Disabled accounts show up in "nearby users." I clicked on this profile and then had to click on this username (because, WTF? Was santorum taken?). Well, to make matters slightly weirder, a search for santorum brings up the username and the user's "real" name, though it's no longer visible in the profile.
posted by desjardins on Oct 10, 2008 - 13 comments

methinks?

what's the story behind the user methinks? [more inside]
posted by krautland on Oct 6, 2008 - 88 comments

reasons for leaving

Lately, I've noticed that quite a number of people whose presence I've enjoyed have disabled accounts. Are the majority of those people closing accounts leaving of their own accord?
posted by fake on Oct 3, 2008 - 136 comments

Users are people too

I'm tired of the word 'user'. can we use 'members' or 'readers' instead when referring to them e.g. "X users favourited this" etc? [more inside]
posted by infini on Aug 24, 2008 - 179 comments

Suddenly Nicky

Look who's back!
posted by netbros on Aug 2, 2008 - 157 comments

Whoa - security/cookie issues?

Whoa - security/cookie issues? [more inside]
posted by jkaczor on Jul 21, 2008 - 15 comments

How to find Mefites by city

How to find Mefites in a specific location? I want to find all Mefites in Panama City, Panama. Is it possible to do this; if so, how? Someone suggested editing my profile and changing my location to the city I want to locate others in and then looking at nearby mefites but that didn't work.
posted by lometogo on Jul 1, 2008 - 16 comments

Can't find it.

I'm looking for a member's homepage that was a collection of weird and interesting facts. Can anyone point me in the right direction? [more inside]
posted by 517 on Jun 29, 2008 - 15 comments

Best Answer(er)

Is there a way to see how many of a person's AskMeFi comments are marked as best answer? [more inside]
posted by phunniemee on Jun 5, 2008 - 39 comments

AskMe OP Fervor

Which AskMe threads have been most dominated by the OP? [more inside]
posted by kittyprecious on Jun 3, 2008 - 4 comments

Feeling crowded?

Growth [more inside]
posted by Cranberry on Apr 13, 2008 - 144 comments

MyAskme pony

Pony request: Ability to add questions from particular members to "My Askme." [more inside]
posted by brevator on Apr 7, 2008 - 7 comments

is there a way to search for every MeFiter who has posted to Music, but from a particular city?

is there a way to search for every MeFiter who has posted to Music, but from a particular city? Seems like if the search terms are not in the post or tagged by the poster, the MeFi search engine doesn't include the user info... [more inside]
posted by bitterkitten on Feb 22, 2008 - 18 comments

Searching for users by email address?

I tried to gift a membership to a minor internet celebrity, but I got the message "It appears your friend already has an account, as this email address is in use". Really? That's cool -- now who is it? Can there be a way of entering in an address and getting a username back, so I can add that account to my contacts?
posted by ewagoner on Feb 22, 2008 - 71 comments

User Activity Search

User activity search is available on profile pages. [more inside]
posted by pb on Feb 18, 2008 - 77 comments

Who are you and why do I like you so much?

In a large and steadily-growing community, and possibly because I'm getting old and stuff, I find myself having trouble sometimes remembering who said what, especially when it's a newer user. So, a possibly small and easy-to-implement feature request. [more inside]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on Feb 14, 2008 - 21 comments

Wo bist du, Peter?

What happened to koeselitz? Come back! I always appreciate your intelligent, thoughtful, learned comments. [more inside]
posted by nasreddin on Feb 14, 2008 - 85 comments

Usernames on the 'who favorited this post' page

Minor usability quibble: When you're looking at who favorites a post, and click a username, it shows their favorites instead of showing their profile page, like every other linked username on the site does. Maybe a different link to show their favorites from that page?
posted by empath on Jan 18, 2008 - 17 comments

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