No, it's someone with a different interpretation of the word, possibly due to not being American on an American dominated site.

I am glad you pointed that out. When he mentioned asking the censors to account for their actions, I immediately thought he was a Ron Paul enthusiast ready to compare the mods to the "MSM".

But he's Australian. Sorry.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 11:18 AM on July 18, 2008

Keep in mind, though, that Woody Guthrie's guitar didn't just fight, it killed.

He also referred to it as a "machine" instead of a "guitar". I say we take away the mp3 link as punishment for misquoting.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 6:47 PM on July 15, 2008

Because there are people, even after he marked best answer, that are telling the guy to go ahead and fix her computer secretly. Drowning them out seems like an effective way to make sure the guy doesn't change his mind.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 12:29 AM on July 1, 2008

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posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 5:01 PM on June 17, 2008

I'd rather have them listed from most popular to least, actually. If I were looking for "cars" then I would use ctrl-f to find it on the page. Arranging them alphabetically doesn't offer any useful information.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 7:15 PM on June 17, 2008

So, how are we going to tally it?

Each person receives one vote multiplied by the number of favorites they've earned and divided by their user number. These are then summed for each district in order to choose an elector. The elector will represent you at a meet up in August where a scheme is chosen.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 7:55 PM on June 17, 2008

Nothing stops you from adding links and background information in the comments, mediareport.

I agree it would be nice if Metafilter showed restraint and waited for a fleshed out post for any news items (including obit posts). But deleting them until something "good enough" is posted turns the moderators into a panel of judges, which appears to be a job they don't want.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 4:38 PM on June 13, 2008

I can't wait until Obama makes the rapture come!

If the current president couldn't make Armageddon happen, I don't think Obama has a chance.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 1:20 PM on June 10, 2008

I like it, and noticed it right away (but in a good way).
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 1:28 PM on June 4, 2008

Hmm, anyone who joined May 19, 2008 and is complaining about how we are no longer in the Golden Age of Metafilter is either an old user re-joined, a long time lurker or someone with a really odd sense of history.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 3:28 PM on May 28, 2008

On my recent activity page, the links point to:

http://.metafilter.com/1511/Projects-has-public-comments#32

Which is missing the "projects" before the ".metafilter"
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 12:45 PM on May 27, 2008

No, no, you're doing it all wrong. You're supposed to accuse me of being in bed with the GOP political machine and killing the post because it looks bad for Our Candidate.

No kidding. I'm still angry about when you deleted my "Things thinner than Taft" and "Things less bullet-ridden than McKinley" posts.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 2:28 PM on May 13, 2008

Is there a big Ted Kennedy Presidential push I'm not aware of, shakespeherian? If a senator falls ill, he can step down or just vote the party line and not cause a huge scene. A president stepping down is a much bigger deal. (Especially if he ends up picking a Romney or Huckabee as his vice president to make the GOP happy.)
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 2:30 PM on May 17, 2008

In the general election, that doesn't seem so far fetched, shakespherian. I don't think they say "he probably has dementia", but I do think his party affiliation outweighs any potential risk. With the senate so tight, if you're a Democrat you might easily prefer a health risk who will vote for your party than a eager young senator who will keep casting the tie-breaking vote in favor of the Republicans.

So the real place this should come up is in the primaries... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 1:18 PM on May 18, 2008

I'm going to change my user name to "Guy who posts comments on Metafilter". Oh, the eponylarity that will follow.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 12:52 AM on April 19, 2008

And_I_hate_the_space_bar.__It's_silly_to_point_out_that_paragraphs_of_this_would_be_annoying.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 4:26 PM on April 11, 2008

first come seventy
then fifty six syllables
haughey's odd haiku
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 1:21 AM on April 11, 2008

Suggestions: video games television music videogames comedy flash tv comics graphicnovels Mac movies nolove. programming software amiga arcade books c64 cd chatfilter colbert computer consoles daily

I hate you, all too accurate metafilter life summarizer.

(Btw - tags with periods are not searchable?)
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 5:31 PM on April 2, 2008

The first time I visited, it had a close account picture in the corner. Fooled me into thinking it was a custom-made joke, anyway.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 12:57 PM on April 1, 2008

"Meh." is the one I can't stand. It's the Metafilter snark equivalent of "First Post!".
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 6:59 PM on March 31, 2008

While we're at it, can we add "does not own a television" to the profile page? Then people don't have to mention it in every single post about a tv show?
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 7:05 PM on March 31, 2008

Shouldn't you be helping katillathehun get the servers working again?
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 8:16 PM on March 31, 2008

or, far more damningly, being even less funny than mine.

From Matt's comment it sounded like it was more to do with them being tired, overused one-liners than an individual rating of how funny the jokes are. He hasn't made Statler and Waldorf mods yet.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 8:27 PM on March 31, 2008

Is cortex's plan why the early MeFi posts start at 19, and have lots of convenient holes in between the ids? Is Matt going to silently add a bunch of posts predicting technology trends and a young Illinois senator named Barack he thinks might go far?
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 2:47 PM on March 28, 2008

Artw is completely wrong. All posters should be given a randomly picked cracked.com link that they must work into their post or else be banned for life.

"Oh, that's an excellent history of how music affected and was affected by women's suffrage. Now work in the 25 worst comic book dog names or your IP is blocked."
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 4:21 PM on March 25, 2008

I'd go as far as to say that If he wins the candidacy and goes on to win the presidency this speech will be the moment that he won it

When he wins, you can post it. It would be far more interesting to discuss looking back on it instead of when it's on the CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews (Obama Won't 'Disown' Pastor), digg, and reddit front pages.

Or, instead of fretting about whether you should post it, figure out how to make a decent... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 12:47 PM on March 18, 2008

Intelligent Discourse: 1
Bitching: 0

Sorry Phire, you shouldn't have placed all those bets at half-time. Current score for that thread stands at:

Intelligent Discourse: 3
Same old Obama/Hillary talking points and name-calling you could find on any other site: 57
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 10:58 PM on March 19, 2008

I'd like to see him given some time off and that wreck of a thread deleted.

Please don't delete the thread. Let it stay there as the recommended open thread when you delete all the other politicsfilter posts for the next 29 days. At that point you may as well leave it open for the PA primary as a catch-all for that.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 11:42 AM on March 20, 2008

Cortex can't silence the amazing phenomena which is MetaMan.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 12:59 PM on March 20, 2008

Yeah, ANYONE could have predicted that some rnadom nutjob would post 70+ times to the thread in what amounts to deliberate sabotage. That's entirely predicatble.

I realize you're being sarcastic, but at this point in the Internet's life it actually is entirely predictable.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 9:16 AM on March 21, 2008

There's a sense that if we all try earnestly enough to convince the troll, they made a concede a point or even see the light. But it would be nice if it didn't take seventy posts for the situation to dawn on us -especially when it was pointed out directly.

Yeah, that's probably a biggest part of the problem. It seems like when someone jumps in with the "don't listen to that troll" it only drags the conversation down another level. Now... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 11:06 AM on March 21, 2008

(That was phrased poorly. I think both those things only inflame the problem. One is humoring the guy and wasting your time writing long passionate posts when it's clear he's not listening. The other is people wanting to be first to shout "troll, troll!" which derails the discussion further. If you do think he's trolling take it to MetaTalk).
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 11:10 AM on March 21, 2008

If McCain wins, that thread stays open until 2012. No matter who gets the democratic nomination, the in-fighting and blame over a loss will make us all long for the days of Nader-backlash.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 2:05 PM on March 21, 2008

MefiMail is too easily ignored. I've set up a series of recumbent bicycle traps around Oregon. I'll let you go when we get the img tag back!
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 3:05 PM on March 18, 2008

So what will it take for the infamous triple banning? Ralph Nader signs up to link to his campaign site announcing Ron Paul as his running mate, and a health care policy written by Kaycee Nicole? Oh, and this really funny Harry Potter broomstick he saw.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 12:43 AM on March 15, 2008

The only thing that sets off alarm bells is that he favorited his own question. Maybe someone could build a Silverlight application to see if that's actually a shill-habit or just confirmation bias on my part.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 4:31 PM on March 13, 2008

Seriously, PotUSA. The “of” and the “the” are not capitalized.

That's not how the White House does it. Maybe because PotUSA sounds like either a discount housewares store or a new drug-friendly political party?
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 8:25 PM on March 11, 2008

The Midnight Mod™ does sound cool, and is probably more sustainable than my "cortex eats nothing but No Doze and drinks nothing but Red Bull" idea.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 4:27 PM on March 4, 2008

but the plan for a Comonwealth takeover of metafilter continues, right guys?

Yes, soon the sign-up fee will be referred to as a Wilfred.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 12:57 PM on March 7, 2008

The Queen, with a willie on her back side.

Actually, it's a bunch of children on Willie's back side. I like to think we're slowly phasing her out so that Charles won't get to be on the money.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 1:36 PM on March 7, 2008

Favorite this comment if you like pancakes!
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 4:25 PM on February 21, 2008

I also had the reset problem that corpse and Jahaza describe. It wasn't that they were marked unread, but duplicate entries were added for every comment and dated Jan 1, 2008. It happened to most of my metafilter subscriptions. The rss feed itself looks fine, though.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 3:04 PM on January 6, 2008

What percent use lynx?

This site is actually quite usable in lynx, all things considered. Nice job, mathowie.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 1:05 AM on December 7, 2007

And please, for god's sake, make the comment box bigger, say twice the width.

Making it a percentage of the window size would be nicer. Resizeable Form Fields can do the trick in the mean time if you use Firefox.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 2:24 PM on November 30, 2007

Obligitory link to Lore's article Condense Your Day With the Life-Hacking FAQK - Soon, "making cocoa" will be called "milk hacking."
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 1:28 PM on November 29, 2007

Done.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 7:46 PM on November 26, 2007

Matt used to look like Ed Helms, back when Ed was 30. Now he looks like Sylar, who is only 30. I don't think Matt is aging at all. So Happy (non-)Birthday, mathowie!
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 8:46 AM on October 10, 2007

Want me to pick up a snipe and a left handed smoke shifter while I'm looking for the wiki?

The faq is here and the wiki is here.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 4:10 PM on September 26, 2007

Actually, if you do this (with angle brackets, of course):

[b][comment]Some Text

The automatic tag closer gets the order wrong, and screws up the rest of the page rendering on Internet Explorer.
posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 5:07 PM on September 18, 2007

posted to MetaTalk by Gary at 5:48 PM on September 18, 2007