MeFi post:
Flower art
favorited 11 times, recently by estronaut, lisawin, silverstatue, of strange foe, Ritchie, marvin, notquitemaryann, snickerdoodle, Marie Mon Dieu, nicolin, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Yeah, not a bad idea. Really we should internally write some code that scans user accounts and "if comments on mefi = 3 and total words used = less than 10, then EMAIL THE ADMINS ON THE RED FUCKING PHONE WE HAVE A SPAMMER TO..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by deborah, schyler523, scrump, dabitch, Inspector.Gadget, baphomet, bru, misha
4 days ago
Ask post:
How to start fresh with OSX but restore my music and photos?
favorited 12 times, recently by Incognita, booknerd, jbroome, epimorph, TheRaven, WalterMitty, timeistight, astruc, loiseau, cinemafiend, phatkitten, activitystory
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Do people respond to the tech job ads, or no? If it's not doing anything for anybody, is it a useful part of the site?
Since there are no comments on the Jobs section, it's tough to gauge whether anything is working or not, but I get an occasional..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kattullus
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I've debated deleting stuff here, but I've left it as is so hopefully people would think about it.
The point of MetaTalk was to help improve the site by catching bugs, mentioning new features, and discussing when someone crossed the line on the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by kyleg, klangklangston
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"My peace treaty FPP without a link on the front page was an honest mistake, Matt.
I unbanned you soon after and did admit my decision was kind of rash but I thought you were messing with the site purposely at the time. It's tough to tell the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Wilder
9 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Right delmoi, but the way it was described, it would be like saying "delmoi fell into my foot" instead of saying I tripped you. Maybe there's an area bike group site that would have more info on it, from the biker prospective.
I just..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nthdegx
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Sorry, I was out running errands all day with the family (it's spring break for all the local schools and daycare), but I did want to post as soon as I got back.
Overall, I've been thinking that things aren't going downhill so much as the..." [
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favorited 62 times, recently by SlyBevel, shiu mai baby, artifarce, misanthropicsarah
3 weeks ago
Ask comment:
"Yeah, don't post fake blog comments, instead ask a few friends to help you make a good first impression on visitors by leaving a helpful and/or smart comment or two...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by hulahulagirl
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"lemme put scientology.org in the block list." [
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favorited 29 times, recently by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94, bowline, gen, jokeefe, anazgnos, lizzicide, schyler523, contessa, deborah, misha, shmegegge, GeckoDundee, cass, GoingToShopping, saturnine, triv, pyrex, Malor, zarah, Deathalicious, sperose, YoBananaBoy, Blazecock Pileon, sourwookie, loquacious, flatluigi, tehloki, blueberry, konolia
3 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"It says this above the post comment button:
"note: Ask MetaFilter is as useful as you make it. Please limit comments to answers or help in finding an answer. Wisecracks don't help people find answers. Thanks."
So yeah, nothing has..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by R. Mutt
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Not ICQ!!!!11!!!!1!
Please join my protest group at Flickr." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by anildash, unknowncommand, scrump, drezdn, milov, Salmonberry, loquacious, flatluigi, Effigy2000, Rock Steady
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"I like it. It definitely benefits from the age of other blog software. I never liked the admin interfaces in greymatter, and MT certainly presents a nice clean, task-driven interface to working with your blogs.
I love that a central "engine" can..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by anildash
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"konolia, is it true or false that jonmc can be contrarian in lots of threads? The comments you pasted here speak directly to that. It's not a pile-on, it's a "please stop doing this everywhere" request.
Doing what jonmc does leads to frustration..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by jtron
4 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"scarabic and stavros, it's not callous admins or the site growing successful or us purposely trying to kill this part of the site. Those would be great explanations if we admins were all a petty bunch that hated this place. Nothing could be farther..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dawson
Last month
MeTa comment:
"tkolar, this isn't intended to be first and foremost parseable by programmers, but instead readable by humans, with the ability to parse the readable text second. I would argue a giant XML file is mostly noisy junk to regular non-programmer folks...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dabitch
Last month
Ask post:
Help me build a small, light, battery-powered time-lapse photography rig?
favorited 12 times, recently by cog_nate, Bora Horza Gobuchul, pb, pombiki, weapons-grade pandemonium, yohko, brownpau, JasonSch, burnmp3s, sailormouth, jamaro, ssg
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Yeah, not to cause a rift with my fellow mefites, but I thought the stuffwhitepeoplelike site was funny and all the people crying "racist!" in the thread sound like people that can't laugh at themselves or mainstream white culture. Of course the..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by lord_wolf
Last month
MeTa comment:
"huh, I thought for sure we would get most overrated.
btw, this twitter post I made earlier today is in reference to getting an email from Time asking me to hype the list to my readers...." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by graventy, MikeKD, loquacious, blasdelf, yhbc, aburd, wendell, danOstuporStar
Last month
Ask comment:
"All day I tried to think of some moments that truly shaped me and weren't merely traumatic, and I think I finally locked in on a couple.
- Every year, I spent a week at my grandparents' house (both sets of them, a week at a time) and I think I was..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by scrump, Jaltcoh
Last month
MeTa comment:
"If people really wanted this, sure we could add it. I guess I've kept a lot of the straight up demographics junk out of mefi profiles because I didn't want the preferences page to look like every other sketchy-profile-for-advertising-dollars thing..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by BrotherCaine
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Just because some jackass can drive drunk and hit a tree doesn't mean we don't allow driving.
Dave, as I said before, I'm sure someone could build it in greasemonkey, but we're not going to do it on the server side right now. If a bunch of people..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by loquacious, quonsar
Last month
