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I propose that a new flag be added to AskMe posts: "OP has shown that he/she does not have a genuine interest in getting this question answered."
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 5:56 PM on January 30, 2008
(39 comments)
DaShiv is coming to NYC (fulfilling my
hope). Circa Sep. 15 to 25th. If you don't know DaShiv, he is famous for his amazing knack for stunning professional-grade candid photography, especially in meetup contexts (not that we weren't all gorgeous to begin with). We need to:
a) plan one or more meetups around his visit, with the focus being on providing good backdrops for all the pics he's going to take. I suggest at least one indoor location and one outdoor location.
b) provide places for him to stay. I can donate floor space in Hoboken for a couple of nights.
We need to do this soon so that he can confirm his flight dates and be sure that he won't be left huddled on a grate in Central Park, taking photos of rats.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 4:18 PM on August 14, 2007
(51 comments)
Seattle meetup: weekend of June 8th? I'm going to be there for just the weekend. What say you? Saturday the 9th might work the best.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 10:25 AM on May 16, 2007
(49 comments)
Many a drunken NYC mefite has gazed into his/her half-empty glass and wished aloud that DaShiv would come to NYC and take photos of us.
Well, I say life is short, and we're not getting younger. Let's take up a collection and get him out here for a meetup.
I'll start with a pledge of $50 towards his airfare and any other necessary expenses.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 5:46 PM on May 6, 2007
(58 comments)
I went and created a Metafilter
social group on
Ning.
I imagine it as a convenient place to put photos and videos (and maybe tools, like greasemonkey scripts etc.) all in one more or less neat little pile. If that doesn't catch on, at least it won't be used for anything evil.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 11:31 PM on March 5, 2007
(21 comments)
Washington, DC meetup this Sunday (day after tomorrow)?!
I'm going to DC for a job interview on Monday. I'll be staying with my brother in Mt. Pleasant (the job is in Reston).
Come meet me and give me advice about whether or not I should move to DC. Sorry for the short notice, but I wasn't sure this was happening until recently.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 3:03 PM on February 23, 2007
(20 comments)
I think that deleted comments which have been favorited should continue to appear on the "posts from ___ saved as favorites" page of the user who wrote them. For example, you can look at my profile and see that my stuff has been favorited 108 times, but you can't find all 108 items, because some of them no longer exist.
If they don't, then they should at least not count toward the number of favorited comments listed on that user's page. However, the first solution is better. The fact that someone marked something as a favorite shows that it had value to someone, even though it was deleted, so it ought to be preserved.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 1:12 PM on December 9, 2006
(28 comments)
The word 'others' on the 'saved as favorites' pages makes no sense and drives me batty. '2 others saved as a favorite' indicates that there is a third person. That's what the word 'others' means. Suggestion: change 'others' to 'users' or 'people' or 'assholes' or any word that is not confusing and inaccurate in that context.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 2:01 PM on October 31, 2006
(95 comments)
Prozac is not a placebo. There's no way to say this in the thread without it being a derail, but the comment is counterproductive and assfaced in its wrongness, so I'm going to call it out here.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 6:44 PM on July 7, 2006
(59 comments)
It would be nice to be able to tell how many of my own comments or threads have been marked as favorites by other users.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 8:14 PM on June 9, 2006
(16 comments)
AskMe apparently trims line breaks from posts. I guess I understand this, but it would be nice if it also happened in the preview. In preview, my line breaks were still intact, so I hit the post button, and now my post looks a bit silly. Not the end of the world, but I figure it can't be intentional.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 4:33 PM on January 15, 2006
(12 comments)
Sudden Boston/Cambridge meetup: tonight! Seriously. I'm in town and I leave tomorrow morning. I have nothing to do tonight. Any takers?
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 12:53 PM on October 28, 2005
(11 comments)
NYC meetup reminder. Saturday, July 23, at
Vol de Nuit, at 8pm. Previous thread
here. Meetup inspired by SisterHavana coming to town.
I and anyone who wants to join will be going to grumblebee's play at 8 and swinging by afterwards.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 2:45 PM on July 22, 2005
(18 comments)
When you quote a comment from another user, you don't change the words that the other user wrote (unless you use clear edit marks like brackets and elipses to show you made a change). You would think this is mind-numbingly clear, and yet...
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 8:09 PM on December 16, 2004
(77 comments)
Matt, could you make the FPPs be unordered lists in the HTML? I want to be able to use the site with elinks in graphical mode. Just about everything else is kickass, and it loads lightning fast, but all the FPPs end up scrunched together and are very difficult to eyeball-parse. I think this would be a Good Thing, not just for links users, but for general browser cross-compatibility.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 7:04 PM on July 5, 2004
(5 comments)
The "my comments" "most recent comments" etc. box does not show up when this site is viewed with the opera browser. Or does it, and I just don't have mine set right? I struggled with it for a while, thinking I hadn't actually logged in. However, I was logged in. I could post comments. I accepted all cookies.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 8:28 PM on April 17, 2004
(20 comments)
I'd like to discuss the appropriateness of allowing non-users to post by proxy, in relation to a conflict
here between Medley and myself. [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 3:33 PM on July 24, 2002
(34 comments)
MeFi's own
jessaymn mentioned prominently in
Wired article. Or see page 44 of the May 2002 issue.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 2:58 PM on April 16, 2002
(13 comments)
How do we feel about the real or imagined privacy violations involved in signing up for the google
PageRank toolbar system? I find an old discussion
here but the privacy issue really isn't discussed in detail. I seek the opinions of the learned.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 2:02 PM on March 11, 2002
(5 comments)
I think it would be nice if today's Palestine/Israel thread didn't vanish (as per mathowie's recent MeTa post, stating that he is going to delete them all until further notice), at least not before the name-calling starts. The post itself is a bit of a bait, but so far the responses have been well-thought-out, even-handed, and intelligent.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 10:44 AM on February 17, 2002
(1 comment)
Is there some easy/efficient way to check for replies to your posts (e.g. your nick mentioned in a new post), so that you don't have to look at each individual thread you've posted to, checking for respsonses? (more inside)
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 4:22 PM on February 16, 2002
(25 comments)
Has there ever/will there ever be a Los Angeles MeFi gathering? I did a search but all I found was
this. Did anything happen there? Is there another thread about this I'm missing? I've been seeing the posts about the NY gathering and I'm jealous.
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 1:47 PM on February 16, 2002
(65 comments)
What is the appropriate balance between mentioning one's occupation as a way of explaining your perspective, and coming off as a pretentious jerk blowing his own horn? For using the phrase "filmic storyteller" to describe my complicated and amorphous job as a privately employed screenwriter, story editor, and consultant, I got attacked
here here and
here .
posted to MetaTalk by bingo
at 2:48 PM on January 23, 2002
(66 comments)
