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MeTa post:
Your solitary compulsion becomes a shared experience.
I have to hope that with a lot of these "me too's" - as I certainly do with this one on blurting - that there's a large, silent sector of the hive that doesn't associate with the behavior and thus just choose not to respond.
I'm sure thats true. But its not just the number of responses, its also the breadth of responses usually from a diverse set of mefites all chiming in to say that they experience this too, even if its a small subset of the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 2:39 AM on July 23, 2008
MeTa post:
London meetup, Saturday 26th July?
We should be there. Flexible on dates as well.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 6:39 AM on July 14, 2008
Wow. Both plep and louigi are among the mefites I'd most like to meet...Damn!
Regarding this meetup, its been my experience (from SF meetups) that no time is ever good for everybody. The only solution is to have more frequent meetups and let people attend when they can...
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 6:54 AM on July 17, 2008
In other words, I count about 8-10 definite attendees from the comments above. That sounds like a meetup to me!
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 6:57 AM on July 17, 2008
MeTa post:
MetaFilter: It is what it is
Because of the current "first post stays unless the poster of the first post requests his gets taken down" policy NewsFilter is going to be dominated by single link news site posts. Though I haven't thought of a better policy for this kind of situation myself.
Funny. I thought about this too. The only thing I came up with is this:
Posts made to the front page appear on the front page right away but no... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 9:26 AM on July 11, 2008
MeTa post:
"Wow, look at the Boobies!"
I thought it was fun, if a bit silly. I'm not seeing how female breasts equate with sexism.
But then again, what do I know, I'm the European admin. I see many more breasts than this on a trip to the beach. And I'm sure everyone there is also wondering "real or fake"??
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 2:38 PM on July 10, 2008
"Get out if you don't like it", here, at Metafilter?
Sort of seconding what prefpara said. There are a few assholes in this thread. But there are assholes in every metatalk thread, unfortunately.
I think reasonable discourse also involves not plucking out the extremist positions from the other side and using them to characterize the other side of the argument. There are other people here trying to have a conversation... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 5:09 AM on July 11, 2008
MeTa post:
Lisboa!
I was told by my neighbor that Miguel is alive and well.
Well, he recovered from his recent surgery but otherwise haven't heard much from/about him recently.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 6:37 AM on May 29, 2008
Ok...what the heck. I'm setting a date and time:
Sunday, June 29 at 2pm!
Noobai Cafe in Lisbon.
Pics of me are linked off my mefi profile page.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 8:54 AM on June 16, 2008
Great Goblindegook!
I do have to move it though.
if you (and others) dont mind! Because of a lunch beforehand, 2pm will be tight for us. How about we move this to 3:30 to be safe? We'll definitely be there!
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 7:32 AM on June 25, 2008
Well, if he was there he was incognito!
Sorry to disappoint everyone, it was, in the end, just me and mrs. vacapinta.
On the other hand, Noobai is a great cafe with a patio overlooking Lisbon harbor, great food and drinks and even warm blankets for the guests if things get chilly (which they sometimes do, even in Lisbon)! So we had a fantastic time...anyways. :)
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 1:11 PM on July 5, 2008
MeTa post:
5 minutes of great reading.
Gettysburg (ok, that's a battle in the civil war, yeh?) - Sickles (who?) - Cemetry Ridge (where? is that supposed to be famous for something?) - Union lines (wait, is Sickles Union or the other dudes?) - Wilcox? Lee? Longstreet? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?
To be fair, the very first link "Gettysburg" provides most of the context for people lacking it. I'm aware of and a strong opponent of the sometimes exclusive AmericaFilter, but I dont... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 4:44 AM on July 3, 2008
MeTa post:
So we can all be like y2karl ... okay, maybe that's not a positive
I was sleeping for most of this thread.
If this is Wonderland then Matt is Alice and I'm the Dormouse.
We all just need to figure out who the Red King is and wake him up.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 4:55 AM on May 22, 2008
Oh, and I was Paul on the quiz.
Although the only thing he and I have in common is that we're both alive and living in the UK.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 5:40 AM on May 22, 2008
MeTa post:
New Overlord!!
Thanks all! I had told Matt I was moving to Europe and he had asked me if I could help by checking on mefi during the US midnight hours.
Since I've been frantically reloading mefi for the past 7 years, its about time I made myself useful as well...
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 12:45 PM on May 18, 2008
I'm just glad it's a US expat and not a real foreigner.
posted by mullacc at 3:35 AM on May 19 [+] [!]
I can't argue with that. If it helps, I'm American born but spent my early formative years in Mexico. Spanish is my first language. I also speak French, Italian and Portuguese. I'm a UK permanent resident now. The UK is my new home - I'm not here temporarily. My wife is Portuguese and also speaks many languages, is currently studying... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 5:46 AM on May 19, 2008
All four of us were at the Portland Mefi meetup.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 10:39 AM on May 19, 2008
MeTa post:
Some MeFis in Paris
I just saw this! This would have been a good excuse for me to jump on the Eurostar (for the first time) as well but that weekend doesn't work at all... Ah well...
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 7:43 AM on April 25, 2008
MeTa post:
Making questions clearer
Its not just phrasing. I saw the liquor thread earlier today before cortex started clipping away.
Lots of "Well, for me the liquor that makes me sick is XYZ. Can't drink it. Nope." Ok...thanks, but how does that answer the question?
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 10:48 AM on April 23, 2008
MeTa post:
A couple minor feature requests fulfilled
So why not have the catagories actually be:
Available
Not available
Non-standardly available (or something less awkaward here, I'm not even convinced this one is necessary)
That can be further simplified to 'Available' and blank.
It looks like they just copied the 'Taken','Open' etc from Flickr which has those same categories.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 6:16 AM on April 11, 2008
MeTa post:
Two weeks are better than one (in this case)
As others have hinted above, this is not the solution. It frustrates people who have an occasional need without significantly affecting the overall traffic.
Annoying everybody while doing little to solve the actual problem reminds me of how bad security policies are implemented.
There are two reasons why one might want less traffic on ask metafilter:
1) You enjoy reading it and feel overwhelmed.
This is not... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 10:08 PM on March 29, 2008
How about numbers? The fraction of posts that could not have been posted when they were posted if the waiting period was 14 days (not counting AnonyMe posts):
Something doesn't feel quite right about those statistics.
Let's say someone waited 7 days and then posted on 2-10. You're now counting them as excess since they wouldn't have been able to post with a 14-day rule. Ok, fine.
Now, that same person... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 8:46 AM on March 31, 2008
MeTa post:
Who the flickr is that?
The site search tools only address posts, comments, and tags, and the profiles themselves are explicitly NOINDEXed, so Google and other reputable bot-owners are blind to them.
I vote that it remain like this.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 1:51 PM on March 24, 2008
MeTa post:
I can haz marketshare?
ENGLISH, MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT?
posted by Pastabagel at 6:16 PM on March 19 [+] [!]
Its worth noting that that question was understood perfectly by the answerer.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 7:42 PM on March 19, 2008
MeTa post:
It's hard to be a mod.
Man, the noise in Ask Me really annoys me.
Call me a hard-liner but I think if N number of your comments get removed from Ask Metafilter, there should be an instant week-long timeout perhaps with an accompanying email: "It looks like rather than being part of the solution, you are part of the problem. Please take a week off to understand how Ask Metafilter works."
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 4:26 PM on March 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Askme Snowclones?
Shall I eat this?
Shall I marry this?
Shall I feed this to my cat?
Where can i find something to eat/marry/feed to my cat?
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 4:11 PM on March 16, 2008
MeTa post:
Good on ya, Miko
I know we're talking about quality not quantity but here' the top 30 users by number of ask.mefi comments. This comment count is about a month old - but the order is about the same. So maybe we can give them all a hand too - or rather the ones that provide useful answers and not the ones who post to hear themselves talk (you know who you are)
username num_comments
caddis 4481
ikkyu2 4411
andrew... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 11:32 PM on March 15, 2008
Yeah but Effigy2000 had to give Matt a blowjob.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 3:41 AM on March 16, 2008
MeTa post:
Response to a point about the best way to answer an AskMe.
..his statement seems to be based on having tried to do this once.
Guilty. The OP was asking what happened if he was in Vietnam with an expired visa. I related my experience with being in Vietnam with an expired visa. But, yes, it was only once.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 12:59 PM on March 7, 2008
...the only way for me to respond to the assertion that I'm the "worst answerer evar" is to take it to MeTa - ...
I questioned the answer not the answerer. I'm sure you're a good guy but Ask Metafilter has become increasingly crowded with uninformed, speculative answers.
In isolation, your answer is not harmful and perhaps even mildly useful but that type of answer ends up creating background noise... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 8:21 AM on March 8, 2008
MeTa post:
They left when?
Whats with this obsession over button-pushers? Plenty of people have left the site for good, abandoning their accounts, without ever pushing any button.
Its not hard to get 'last active' given that its fast to check all three subsites. Or did you mean "last looked at the site" matt? That is creepy.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 4:48 PM on March 3, 2008
MeTa post:
God be wi'ye.
fraying (user 44) last posted on 2008-01-12
Yeah but he only shows up to defend himself when folks here are trashing some new project of his. That is, every few months.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 1:50 PM on February 28, 2008
MeTa post:
the podcast stole my best parts & threw them in the river
I'm sure he has typed in his PIN enough times that there is lingering muscle memory in his fingers. He just needs to hover his fingers over the key layout until he senses what "feels right."
I was going to post the above but the question is gone now. It wasn't a pencil and paper puzzle at all. Also it was much better than the "Q: Explain Relativity to me A1: Here's a Wikipedia link A2: Well...from what little I've read and this is just a guess..."... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 8:25 PM on February 25, 2008
MeTa post:
Whether you eat it or not don't ask us.
Unless the question is "Has this mayonnaise gone bad? I've left it out of the refrigerator for 3 weeks." the answer in most cases is "who the fuck knows?
Actually, there was one question I believe where someone was worried about butter left out overnight and then was surprised to discover that butter doesn't need to be refrigerated at all.
So, sometimes the answer is illuminating in a "Here's some common... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 11:25 AM on February 25, 2008
MeTa post:
I thought we were progressive
Heh. The "fuel costs notwithstanding" is completely ridiculous.
Because I'm taking a lot of stuff to my flight to Europe next week, I looked up the baggage allowances on United. The average person can only take 2 50lb bags. I, buying the same ticket for the same price, can take 3 70lb bags! Only because I have status on the airline, no other reason.
So, yeah, I'm agreeing that that particular comment really sucks.
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 1:59 PM on February 13, 2008
Then give me some PRACTICAL advice. I hear plenty of bitching from people who are annoyed by kids, but NEVER any practical advice. Impractical?
For what its worth, bugbread, I'm probably one of the most frequent flyers in this thread (Premier Exec on United) and I don't mind kids at all. They can be kind of entertaining actually and even when they're a bit obnoxious...well, they're kids. That's part of their nature. Sometimes when they're screaming and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 9:51 AM on February 14, 2008
Plus, honestly, how often do you have a kid kicking the back of your seat? And of those occasions, how often did it continue after you politely asked the parents to intervene? If your answer is anything greater than 1 or 2, you're either making things up or you have just had tremendously bad luck.
I meant to say this too. I think they're making things up.
In fifteen years of flying (in the early 90's I flew once a week) I've... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 12:10 PM on February 14, 2008
I'm sure everyone is having fun but its also clear that these things can't be decided by reason. Usually this is because assholes are self-justifying.
It reminds me of these reviews I saw recently. They're for a boutique hotel in Spain. Even if you can't read Spanish you can see the endless list of 4 and 5 star raving reviews.
But also hard to miss is that 1-star review smack in the middle of the page. They guy slams the hotel saying how badly... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vacapinta
at 2:17 PM on February 14, 2008
