Ask post: Life after unwanted celebrity status?

How can I help convince him it's not the end of the world?

Tell him that the public's interest in non-celebrities is extremely short. A week after the movie comes out, they'll move on to the next person experiencing his Warhol 15.

I had an experience like this, offending 1.2 billion Catholics last year. My weblog was one of the 10 fastest growing on the web. Half a million hits in two days. I got several thousand weblog... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rcade at 5:08 AM on November 3, 2006

Ask post: My concern for using any out-of-the-box web...

My concern for using any out-of-the-box web publishing tool to replicate a MetaFilter-style interface -- or anything else that's already coded -- is that you're inevitably losing some existing functionality.

You get a lot of benefits by adopting something like pMachine, but if one of the best things about a community site is user familiarity and comfort with how it works, changing any of that pisses people off. In my experience, users hate having to rewire their brains... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by rcade at 9:26 AM on June 5, 2004