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MeTa post:
Grow the hell up.
Who's dirtynumbangelboy and why does he assume we have an opinion about him?
Not disingenuous, some context would be appreciated.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 8:20 PM on July 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Weekly World MeFi
Plutor: always nice to meet a fan.
It's still a crap post IMO, though, even with our favorite librarian mod's Nihil Obstat.
Oh well, half a deletion is better than none.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 9:51 AM on June 23, 2008
So if signal was complaining about this post solely because it involves a celebrity, I would agree. ... And he was.
Nope, I'm complaining about a post about celebrity gossip. It's right there, in words #6 & 7 of my post.
So Steve Jobs is a different celebrity that Amy Winehouse? Or Adam Savage?
I, for one, never said so. Sure there's a lot of crap posts... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 10:44 AM on June 23, 2008
MeTa post:
Happy Mefi-day to me!
Quesset silninquita or lëo, oa cua manë ambo lenca. Er tuo holmë vanima, var riel ciryapanda cu. Cor má mardo atacar pelentul. Astar mavor lau úr. Má sairon antorya cer.
Anca mavor rempa sat ma, nú hesta nostalë eteminya col, hala lorna calpa cú nár. Sú calta amorta eru, yá tólë mitta ama, ré quí manë saura minya. Ré manu harna centa axa, órë murmë nainië osellë é. Úrë cú tyávë metta. Lir pé armar ciryapanda. Cu fas collo atacar, erë ya rata moina.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 7:09 PM on June 20, 2008
MeTa post:
Don't ask me!!
You're going to need plenty of legal advice before this thing is over. As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you'll need the cocaine. Tape recorder for special music. Acapulco shirts.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 11:53 AM on June 16, 2008
MeTa post:
New Overlord!!
Spanish is my first language.
¿Así que de ahora en adelante podemos escribir en un idioma de verdad y no esa cosa que usan acá?
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 3:11 PM on May 20, 2008
MeTa post:
Metafilter Music Collaboration #2
There should be a click + simple chord progression -track so there's at least a semblance of harmony and rhythm.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 8:22 AM on April 29, 2008
And I'm in, for this one (balked the last time for lack of love for R.E.M. in general and ITEOTWAWKI in particular).
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 8:23 AM on April 29, 2008
Would it make sense to have more than 1 thread, say 3 or so, depending on how many people sign up, so we're not all sitting around waiting for our turn?
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 4:34 PM on April 29, 2008
We could stipulate 320 Kbps or whatever, no?
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 7:12 PM on April 29, 2008
MeTa post:
AskMe != AskToBeJudged
docpops So if I, a layperson with no knowledge of the State Board's protocol for Bar admission, was to comment...
Why would you comment on something you have no knowledge about? For shits and giggles?
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 8:09 AM on April 29, 2008
You know, docpops, a lot of people in MeFi in general (and many, many in AskMe) have reading comprehension issues, but you're the first one I've encountered who doesn't seem to understand what they themselves wrote.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 4:40 PM on April 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Color coded usernames
As somebody who's also terrible at remembering names, it's probably because you don't really care about other people that much.
Don't sweat it, just call everybody dude or something.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 8:18 AM on April 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Should or shouldn't
Ask designers if things needs to be redesigned: they will say yes.
Well, that's just because things do needs to be redesigned.
#FFFFF3 for the background, #CF0E0D for the links, obviously.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 9:04 AM on April 25, 2008
MeTa post:
Is an Infoviz of MetaFilter copying, stealing, or remixing?
I didn't participate in the thread, but I feel you thinkpiece. The rephrasing is really facile and presumptive.
The fact that he paraphrases in the first person is fairly creepy.
Also, the project adds nothing to the original thread, in fact takes away from it by decontextualizing it. There are no new relations found, no new readings of the posts (except for the already mentioned not-so-great rephrasings).
Not so much art as bare appropriation.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 7:46 AM on April 8, 2008
MeTa post:
Look, Ma, I'm full of piss and vinegar
Obit threads are quite pointless, and almost always break the guidelines: they're hardly ever a link to something interesting on the web, just an opportunity to chat about some dead guy/girl.
So if the chatting is positive or negative, who gives a flying fuck? The FPP itself is not worthy of being posted. I propose automatic deletion of all obit threads, including the one under discussion.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 5:29 PM on April 6, 2008
MeTa post:
Utter tripe!
This callout is utter tripe. The guy makes good points in every one of the 'offending' links, and he does so with well written, spelled and punctuated sentences. If that's arrogant, we need a lot more arrogance on MeFi.
I'll trade 1 reference to Voltaire for 1000 'eponysterical', 'I for one...', "you know who else..." injokes, or for all the bad puns that pass for debate around here.
The fact that the dude is well read and refrences actually substantial... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 5:07 AM on March 17, 2008
Metafilter: careful, reasoned debate gets pretty boring sometimes
(making no point here at all, just couldn't help that)
posted by Smedleyman 8 minutes ago [+]
When I grow up, I'm going to go to Bovine University.
posted by quin 2 minutes ago [+]
Thus reinforcing my point about moronic injokes and Simpsons references.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 9:00 AM on March 17, 2008
MeTa post:
White people on Metafilter
I'm probably not white, I think, but the site was lame & unfunny, and definitely not post-worthy.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 4:40 PM on February 15, 2008
it's not funny because, well, it just isn't.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 1:02 PM on February 21, 2008
Now that you have explained the funny, dgaicun, I see it is indeed funny.
Ha.
Ha.
Ha.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 12:32 PM on February 25, 2008
MeTa post:
Subsite For the Election?
Widespread, generous deletions for 95% of the politics threads. That's what we need this (US) 'election season'
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 6:28 AM on February 22, 2008
MeTa post:
Are some more worthy of respect than others?
Homophobes' opinions are no more worthy of respect than that of pedophiles or white-supremacists.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 3:09 PM on February 17, 2008
Most religions have a central core of sociopathy, basically teaching that following their precepts, taboos, etc., is more important than excercising basic human empathy.
Anybody who claims their religion commands them to discriminate against others, denying their basic human rights, and otherwise treating them as sub-human needs to take a long hard look at themselves and their beliefs.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 3:02 PM on February 18, 2008
MeTa post:
LOLSEOSPAMMERSOLIDARITY
could have been turned into a perfectly good post by the addition of some other similar examples. But wasn't.
That sort of thinking is the actual problem. Either the link is interesting or it isn't.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 9:50 AM on February 1, 2008
MeTa post:
LOLMORMONS
Anything that leads to the deletion of an obituary thread is ok in my book.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 4:23 AM on January 29, 2008
Here's the thing: from the outside, as someone who espouses none of the faiths in question, anybody who says he/she/it's a christian is one, just for saying so. There's no test of 'real christianity' beyond that.
From inside one of the faiths in question, who the fuck knows? They probably don't consider the person sitting in the pew next to them a 'real' christian because they bow/kneel/donate in a slightly different way.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 12:00 PM on January 31, 2008
MeTa post:
When should I ask mefi?
What is the best time of day (or, even more specifically, day of week and time) to ask what the best time of day (or, even more specifically, day of week and time) to ask metafilter is?
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 5:01 PM on January 21, 2008
MeTa post:
alphabetical list of MeFi usernames?
I've always wanted to see a large social graph of metafilter.
I could easily do a screen scrape of the user pages and create a graph (using favorites as edges) in NetworkX, and then publish the graph in a few different formats for anybody who wanted to analyse it. I don't know if this kind of one-time screen scrape of the whole site is frowned upon, though.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 8:13 AM on January 12, 2008
cortex: I'm thinking a graph where every user is a node and every 'favorite' is a directed edge from the favoriter to the favoritee. So maybe a list of all the favorites listing -er and -ee by username, comma- or tab- delimited would do the trick.
Something like:
signal cortex
signal mathowie
pb cortex
meaning that 'signal' has favorited cortex and mathowie, and pb has favorited cortex.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 5:20 PM on January 12, 2008
cortex: of course, whatever format you have is fine.
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 5:25 PM on January 12, 2008
cortex: networkx seems fairly robust and scalable. For my thesis my dataset had 10.000 nodes with an average degree of 5.000, so there where a lot of connections. Analyzing betweenness-, closeness- & degree-centrality plus clustering for all nodes took about 1.5 hours.
localhuman: of course. Mi data es su data.
It might be interesting to have some more data associated with users: date of sign up, number of posts, tags used, etc. Basically... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by signal
at 7:04 PM on January 12, 2008
