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I'm gonna be in Asheville next week starting Wed, Oct 24 through Tues, Oct 30 if any interested Mefites want to get together. Anyone looking for an excuse to go for a day hike to some waterfalls (or something equally breathtaking) is especially encouraged. :)
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 6:23 PM on October 18, 2007
(27 comments)
I just want to draw your attention to Plutor's new
AskMetaFilter Queue, where folks who are worried about the 2-week AskMe posting limit can write questions that can be posted by folks who don't share that worry. I think it's a great communal idea, even if I'm fairly certain it will result in more questions being posted, at least temporarily.
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 8:04 AM on January 8, 2007
(315 comments)
What are the pros and cons of adding some kind of notation to posts
like this that may not be hoax-y enough to delete, but that still pass along misleading information on the front page? I'm not angry or calling for a deletion (the debunking discussion has been interesting), just asking for thoughts about the value of noting incorrect info for folks who just scan the front page.
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 8:08 AM on October 12, 2006
(33 comments)
Clicking the link in
this post takes me to a site that repeatedly tries to download a .wmf file onto my computer, and is setting off anti-virus alarms for other members.
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 10:28 AM on July 23, 2006
(6 comments)
MeFi obituary posts:
Good,
Bad and
Ugly. Resolved: If you can't be bothered to find anything interesting about the person beyond a syndicated news story announcing their death or a slim encyclopedia-esque entry, you should let
someone who does care post the obit to the front page.
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 7:42 PM on December 26, 2005
(35 comments)
If it's true that Yahoo! has a more complete index of Metafilter than Google does - see
here,
here and
here (just below) for tantalizing discussion - wouldn't it make more sense to point folks to Yahoo! rather than Google on the site's various
search and
posting pages? Anyone up for a semi-scientific test?
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 7:17 PM on August 15, 2005
(23 comments)
Sock puppet accounts: threat or menace?
[mi]
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 10:35 PM on June 9, 2005
(83 comments)
Now that tags for front-page posts have been around a while, how do you decide between, say, film and movies (89 posts to 87, respectively), tv and television (57-49) or math and mathematics (20-18)? Do you use both, go with the most-used, or what?
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 8:27 PM on April 18, 2005
(14 comments)
Submitted for discussion:
This is a solid example of a lame 'newsfilter' post. A link to a very brief local news story with zero attempt at intelligent context.
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 7:02 PM on April 2, 2005
(41 comments)
If a user is banned for blatantly violating the no-self-link rule, would it be a good idea to either a) note the banning on that person's user page or b) delete the user page entirely? Seems strange to keep a user page from someone who took a dump on the community.
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 5:05 PM on March 28, 2005
(41 comments)
The person posting
this today seems to have made similar mistakes in links as the person who posted
this five days ago. Just wondering if the mistakes can be identified and better avoided.
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 8:42 AM on February 7, 2005
(29 comments)
Minor bug? For some reason, threads between
22521 through
22549 are showing up in both Mozilla and IE (Win) as black text on a white background with a seriously screwy top bar. I haven't checked all threads in between, but threads before
22520 and after
22550 seem fine.
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 6:06 PM on January 27, 2003
(7 comments)
The last link in
this thread was fine on preview but not after I posted.
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 12:38 PM on January 1, 2003
(2 comments)
Just posted
this thread in Mozilla. Reading the front page in Mozilla briefly showed a huge blank section between the last line of my post and the "posted by" line. The blank section didn't show up in IE and is fixed now in Mozilla. What happened? (FWIW, I'm absolutely sure I didn't include 25 or so blank lines at the end of the post.)
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 11:12 AM on November 15, 2002
(4 comments)
Are you a MeFi Lefty or a MeFi Righty? I honestly don't get what comments like
this one are getting at, or what they would prefer to see happen here. The lack of specificity in most of these complaints doesn't help. I see good and bad arguments getting called out regularly, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum. What am I missing?
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 4:49 PM on September 15, 2002
(60 comments)
Time to remove the
bold tag from MeFi front-page
posts? I say yes. The unthinking over-use of bolded text seems to be spreading. Simple
italics or using *this* works fine and doesn't light up the page so garishly.
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 6:49 AM on August 21, 2002
(57 comments)
1. How about a standard notice when a comment is deleted from a thread? Replacing each deleted comment with "[comment deleted]" might make threads like
this more understandable.
2) MeTa doesn't notice that I've set MeFi to open external links in a new window. External links don't always open from comment preview pages, either, which causes a tiny moment of angst when I double-check links before posting. Am I missing something?
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 5:45 PM on June 4, 2002
(6 comments)
Is it appropriate to ask that clavdiv's moronic, homophobic, 4-post dump on
this thread be deleted?
posted to MetaTalk by mediareport
at 11:35 AM on May 26, 2002
(55 comments)
