MeTa comment:
"My only problem is that Malkin is trying to spin this into a "She never banned a book, so the story is all lies dreamed up by liberals!" when really, it's that no one disputes that she talked publicly at a council meeting and privately with the head..." [
more]
favorited by phrontist on
September 6, 2008 9:53 PM
MeTa comment:
"My only problem is that Malkin is trying to spin this into a "She never banned a book, so the story is all lies dreamed up by liberals!" when really, it's that no one disputes that she talked publicly at a council meeting and privately with the head..." [
more]
favorited by lizzicide on
September 6, 2008 2:25 PM
MeTa comment:
"Yeah, it sucks and seems wrongheaded on several levels. It's already been taken apart by two people, but I don't know if it should be outright deleted since the core of the comment (the military has no tolerance for gays) is probably correct and the..." [
more]
favorited by BrotherCaine on
September 5, 2008 3:35 PM
MeFi comment:
"This is just a public service message to my fellow mefites: Don't Ever Watch Eagle and Shark. Ever.
That's all. Seriously, you'll thank me for saving 90 minutes of your life that would otherwise be wasted on banality punctuated by perhaps two 5..." [
more]
favorited by tapeguy on
September 5, 2008 10:47 AM
MeFi comment:
"This is just a public service message to my fellow mefites: Don't Ever Watch Eagle and Shark. Ever.
That's all. Seriously, you'll thank me for saving 90 minutes of your life that would otherwise be wasted on banality punctuated by perhaps two 5..." [
more]
favorited by Jon Mitchell on
September 5, 2008 9:46 AM
MeTa comment:
"No posting yet, and we need to add Jobs. Followup features would be new headers for each subsite so you can see the Ask MeFi pages have green headers, etc.
So far it's just a couple hours of hacking a new front page and comment page template and..." [
more]
favorited by mrzarquon on
September 5, 2008 9:27 AM
MeTa comment:
"Yeah, it sucks and seems wrongheaded on several levels. It's already been taken apart by two people, but I don't know if it should be outright deleted since the core of the comment (the military has no tolerance for gays) is probably correct and the..." [
more]
favorited by jamjam on
September 5, 2008 8:37 AM
MeTa comment:
"Part of the 1000+ thread phenomena is simply scale. As membership grows, threads on all popular topics are getting longer and longer in general.
But we can choose to do two things about it: make it so that 1000+ threads are a-ok with pagination,..." [
more]
favorited by orrnyereg on
September 3, 2008 12:46 PM
MeTa comment:
"To be honest, >1500 comment threads are the way they are almost by design. We could add pagination and make it efficient so you can read a few hundred at a time, but that would just keep them going longer and almost anything after 1,000 comments..." [
more]
favorited by five fresh fish on
September 2, 2008 6:39 PM
MeTa comment:
"jamjam, dude, you can't praise my long term vision for the site despite popular news of the day and in the same paragraph try to equate an election news item that is barely 12 hours old with the importance of 9/11.
If you believe I have a long..." [
more]
favorited by Sangermaine on
September 2, 2008 5:19 PM
MeTa comment:
"To be honest this feels like an attempt to bury a systemic problem within the community because we don't have the moderator personpower to deal with it.
Don't forget that the older MeFi gets, the less American it gets. Election year..." [
more]
favorited by giraffe on
September 2, 2008 10:39 AM
MeTa comment:
"Part of the 1000+ thread phenomena is simply scale. As membership grows, threads on all popular topics are getting longer and longer in general.
But we can choose to do two things about it: make it so that 1000+ threads are a-ok with pagination,..." [
more]
favorited by penduluum on
September 2, 2008 8:11 AM
MeTa comment:
"jamjam, dude, you can't praise my long term vision for the site despite popular news of the day and in the same paragraph try to equate an election news item that is barely 12 hours old with the importance of 9/11.
If you believe I have a long..." [
more]
favorited by Lentrohamsanin on
September 2, 2008 3:54 AM
MeTa comment:
"I really don't see how this is a bad post.
Then wait a month, then repost it. It'll still be a good story, and not have the taint of "HEY EVERYONE LETS TALK ABOUT TODAYS CURRENT VERSION OF THIS STORY..." [
more]
favorited by BrotherCaine on
September 2, 2008 1:22 AM
MeTa comment:
"I've tried several things out. I've had an amazon associates ID for years now and there are only so many ways it can be used here and I found it kind of obnoxious to attach the "metafilter-20" ad code to the end of any amazon URL that shows..." [
more]
favorited by BrotherCaine on
September 2, 2008 1:09 AM
MeTa comment:
"I really don't see how this is a bad post.
Then wait a month, then repost it. It'll still be a good story, and not have the taint of "HEY EVERYONE LETS TALK ABOUT TODAYS CURRENT VERSION OF THIS STORY..." [
more]
favorited by bugbread on
September 2, 2008 1:09 AM
MeTa comment:
"jamjam, dude, you can't praise my long term vision for the site despite popular news of the day and in the same paragraph try to equate an election news item that is barely 12 hours old with the importance of 9/11.
If you believe I have a long..." [
more]
favorited by schyler523 on
September 1, 2008 11:03 PM
MeTa comment:
"Oh man, after I wrote the above comment, I thought about someone I added to the spammy list earlier tonight. Their account was something about a law firm that specializes in driving cases and my spidey sense was tingling.
So I checked their..." [
more]
favorited by DevilsAdvocate on
September 1, 2008 11:02 PM
MeTa comment:
"Behind the scenes, you guys have no idea how much of this crap goes on. It's A LOT, due I guess to the high search results weird phrases turn up Ask MeFi questions.
So we have an entire elaborate admin system for watching new users, watching new..." [
more]
favorited by DevilsAdvocate on
September 1, 2008 10:58 PM
MeTa comment:
"To be honest this feels like an attempt to bury a systemic problem within the community because we don't have the moderator personpower to deal with it.
Don't forget that the older MeFi gets, the less American it gets. Election year..." [
more]
favorited by DevilsAdvocate on
September 1, 2008 10:30 PM
MeTa comment:
"To be honest this feels like an attempt to bury a systemic problem within the community because we don't have the moderator personpower to deal with it.
Don't forget that the older MeFi gets, the less American it gets. Election year..." [
more]
favorited by bru on
September 1, 2008 6:51 PM
MeTa comment:
"this is only going to get worse & worse in the leadup to your election, right?
We have delete keys, and if today is any indication, we use them...." [
more]
favorited by bru on
September 1, 2008 6:48 PM
MeTa comment:
"Part of the 1000+ thread phenomena is simply scale. As membership grows, threads on all popular topics are getting longer and longer in general.
But we can choose to do two things about it: make it so that 1000+ threads are a-ok with pagination,..." [
more]
favorited by bru on
September 1, 2008 6:44 PM
MeTa comment:
"Part of the 1000+ thread phenomena is simply scale. As membership grows, threads on all popular topics are getting longer and longer in general.
But we can choose to do two things about it: make it so that 1000+ threads are a-ok with pagination,..." [
more]
favorited by merelyglib on
September 1, 2008 6:43 PM
MeTa comment:
"To be honest this feels like an attempt to bury a systemic problem within the community because we don't have the moderator personpower to deal with it.
Don't forget that the older MeFi gets, the less American it gets. Election year..." [
more]
favorited by docpops on
September 1, 2008 3:48 PM
MeTa comment:
"Part of the 1000+ thread phenomena is simply scale. As membership grows, threads on all popular topics are getting longer and longer in general.
But we can choose to do two things about it: make it so that 1000+ threads are a-ok with pagination,..." [
more]
favorited by winna on
September 1, 2008 2:20 PM
MeTa comment:
"Part of the 1000+ thread phenomena is simply scale. As membership grows, threads on all popular topics are getting longer and longer in general.
But we can choose to do two things about it: make it so that 1000+ threads are a-ok with pagination,..." [
more]
favorited by Jahaza on
September 1, 2008 2:15 PM
MeTa comment:
"Part of the 1000+ thread phenomena is simply scale. As membership grows, threads on all popular topics are getting longer and longer in general.
But we can choose to do two things about it: make it so that 1000+ threads are a-ok with pagination,..." [
more]
favorited by jason's_planet on
September 1, 2008 2:10 PM
MeTa comment:
"Part of the 1000+ thread phenomena is simply scale. As membership grows, threads on all popular topics are getting longer and longer in general.
But we can choose to do two things about it: make it so that 1000+ threads are a-ok with pagination,..." [
more]
favorited by jenkinsEar on
September 1, 2008 1:35 PM
MeTa comment:
"To be honest, >1500 comment threads are the way they are almost by design. We could add pagination and make it efficient so you can read a few hundred at a time, but that would just keep them going longer and almost anything after 1,000 comments..." [
more]
favorited by wendell on
September 1, 2008 1:22 PM
MeTa comment:
"Oh man, after I wrote the above comment, I thought about someone I added to the spammy list earlier tonight. Their account was something about a law firm that specializes in driving cases and my spidey sense was tingling.
So I checked their..." [
more]
favorited by cobra_high_tigers on
September 1, 2008 12:03 AM
MeTa comment:
"This is a feature not a bug" [
more]
favorited by Mr.Encyclopedia on
August 31, 2008 8:47 PM
MeTa comment:
"Behind the scenes, you guys have no idea how much of this crap goes on. It's A LOT, due I guess to the high search results weird phrases turn up Ask MeFi questions.
So we have an entire elaborate admin system for watching new users, watching new..." [
more]
favorited by davidmsc on
August 31, 2008 2:25 PM
MeTa comment:
"Oh man, after I wrote the above comment, I thought about someone I added to the spammy list earlier tonight. Their account was something about a law firm that specializes in driving cases and my spidey sense was tingling.
So I checked their..." [
more]
favorited by sveskemus on
August 31, 2008 9:39 AM
MeTa comment:
"Oh man, after I wrote the above comment, I thought about someone I added to the spammy list earlier tonight. Their account was something about a law firm that specializes in driving cases and my spidey sense was tingling.
So I checked their..." [
more]
favorited by madamjujujive on
August 30, 2008 11:58 PM
MeFi comment:
"I can't believe #1 gripe wasn't directly about Acrobat." [
more]
favorited by Monochrome on
August 30, 2008 8:51 PM
MeTa comment:
"Behind the scenes, you guys have no idea how much of this crap goes on. It's A LOT, due I guess to the high search results weird phrases turn up Ask MeFi questions.
So we have an entire elaborate admin system for watching new users, watching new..." [
more]
favorited by smackfu on
August 30, 2008 6:01 PM
MeTa comment:
"Oh man, after I wrote the above comment, I thought about someone I added to the spammy list earlier tonight. Their account was something about a law firm that specializes in driving cases and my spidey sense was tingling.
So I checked their..." [
more]
favorited by merelyglib on
August 30, 2008 4:11 PM
MeTa comment:
"Behind the scenes, you guys have no idea how much of this crap goes on. It's A LOT, due I guess to the high search results weird phrases turn up Ask MeFi questions.
So we have an entire elaborate admin system for watching new users, watching new..." [
more]
favorited by SlyBevel on
August 30, 2008 3:29 PM
MeTa comment:
"Behind the scenes, you guys have no idea how much of this crap goes on. It's A LOT, due I guess to the high search results weird phrases turn up Ask MeFi questions.
So we have an entire elaborate admin system for watching new users, watching new..." [
more]
favorited by good in a vacuum on
August 30, 2008 1:52 PM
MeTa comment:
"Oh man, after I wrote the above comment, I thought about someone I added to the spammy list earlier tonight. Their account was something about a law firm that specializes in driving cases and my spidey sense was tingling.
So I checked their..." [
more]
favorited by keijo on
August 30, 2008 1:26 PM
MeTa comment:
"Oh man, after I wrote the above comment, I thought about someone I added to the spammy list earlier tonight. Their account was something about a law firm that specializes in driving cases and my spidey sense was tingling.
So I checked their..." [
more]
favorited by shiu mai baby on
August 30, 2008 1:19 PM
MeTa comment:
"Behind the scenes, you guys have no idea how much of this crap goes on. It's A LOT, due I guess to the high search results weird phrases turn up Ask MeFi questions.
So we have an entire elaborate admin system for watching new users, watching new..." [
more]
favorited by keijo on
August 30, 2008 12:58 PM
MeTa comment:
"Oh man, after I wrote the above comment, I thought about someone I added to the spammy list earlier tonight. Their account was something about a law firm that specializes in driving cases and my spidey sense was tingling.
So I checked their..." [
more]
favorited by Mister Cheese on
August 30, 2008 10:31 AM
MeTa comment:
"Oh man, after I wrote the above comment, I thought about someone I added to the spammy list earlier tonight. Their account was something about a law firm that specializes in driving cases and my spidey sense was tingling.
So I checked their..." [
more]
favorited by bru on
August 30, 2008 10:26 AM
