this is like hackers vs crackers/script-kiddies, isn't it?

dejah420: get all hostile when the people with real engines won't race them

you race other people on public roads????????

I think I'm going to start calling all of you "race-boys" and "racers".
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 1:39 PM on July 28, 2002

shut up! or he'll "fix" it. I consider deleted threads to be a feature. just pretend it didn't happen.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 1:55 PM on June 30, 2002

baby jesus is funniest and most endearing in in small, spaced out portions.

and no, we never will.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 7:41 PM on June 25, 2002

*cries*

posted by mathowie at 8:02 PM PST on June 25


posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 8:06 PM on June 25, 2002

sorry matt. I didn't know your preference on that.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 10:18 PM on June 25, 2002

wait! d'oh!
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 10:20 PM on June 25, 2002

so, thom, if you wanted to refer to a comment, you could click on the permalink, copy the address that comes up in the browser window, and link to it in the thread like this:

<a href="http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/2314#39844 >link to it</a>
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 5:24 PM on June 25, 2002

thom: I'm still asking how do you know you read all the comments for one in a post without going to their profile, and looking them up. Or w/o them saying, go back and see this.

well, I think you just have to go back and make sure that you have read it all as carefully as you would like.

sometimes, when I'm composing a long post, I hit preview to make sure it's okay and I find that there have been a few posts in the meantime.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 5:36 PM on June 25, 2002

Yes, I think we've all learned a thing or two about the merits of apologizing to the MeFi community today, haven't we?

shadowkeeper, do you honestly think that mr maulana is, after 7 egregious abuses of the system, suddenly torn with remorse over his actions over the last 5 months?
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 3:46 PM on June 18, 2002

Sadly, I'm sure that fellow members are spamming.

I just don't buy it. everyone I know battles spam, and most of them don't post here.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 1:29 PM on May 28, 2002

poor rodii.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 4:43 PM on May 23, 2002

is metafilter a boyzone?

why, yes. a little bit more every day.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 9:49 AM on May 21, 2002

I agree with insomnyuk about the complete offensiveness of the word. for me, this is an additional layer above and beyond "everyone's a target" (which is not a good thing in and of itself).

the terms used when attacking others are very telling: are racial epithets acceptable? terms that are derogatory to women? terms that are derogatory to certain religions or nationalities? where those lines are drawn tell every reader and every participant who is welcome in... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 10:59 AM on May 21, 2002

I don't agree that google bombing is wrong--I added my links to the recent verisign googlebomb.

it's an organized response. if every single weblogger in the world posted a note about what happened to hoopla, it wouldn't register on google, because all of the words would be different, even though the idea would be the same.

as has been pointed out, it takes a large number of people to successfully create a google search result--and so googlebombs... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 2:02 PM on May 15, 2002

I have my weblog portal arranged by (my own fairly ideosyncratic) categories, though only a very tiny slice of the weblog universe is represented there.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 12:10 PM on May 12, 2002

do you scan the front page before you even search? I know there's a lot there, but it wouldn't take longer than waiting for the search engine to search the entire site. you could do both concurrently.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 2:24 PM on May 10, 2002

the revolution still hasn't arrived. romenesko and kaus are professional journalists. (keep in mind that kaus has been writing for slate this whole time--now they're just paying him for his weblog as well.)

in 1999 I thought that by now a talented amateur--or several--would have been hired to do their weblog for a major media outlet. I'm still waiting.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 11:03 AM on May 9, 2002

voyageman: Doed the WSJ's OpinionJournal.com qualify for "blog" status ?

I count it as a weblog (I even link it on my portal page): it's frequently updated, it links to the things it references, and it's maintained by a human being.

I don't count news aggregators as weblogs, and I don't count commentary that doesn't link out to things referenced (that's just a transplanted old-media column). but whether or not it's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 12:19 PM on May 9, 2002

when I'm on metatalk I feel like I'm hanging out with a bunch of hugely opinionated, cranky constitutional law scholars, who love just going round and round about what the rules are and what they mean.

I love you guys.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 5:41 PM on May 3, 2002

Don’t like a site? Turn ‘em in.

no, it doesn't work that way. spamcop parses the headers and then lists the ones that appear to be the culprits. it's up to the person reporting to send the reports on, and it's up to the host to respond accordingly.

but you would have to be in the headers in order to be listed. mistakes happen--sometimes human error (I reported my husband once) and sometimes just header confusion (I reported... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 10:38 AM on May 3, 2002

I highly recommend pair for reliability and outstanding service. also consider cornerhost, a host specifically for weblogs run by old-time weblogger sabren.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 11:10 AM on May 3, 2002

either people haven't read the guidelines, they think that somehow everyone will be so impressed with the piece that they won't care, or they just don't care about being *part* of the community, only what the community can do for *them*.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 3:10 PM on May 1, 2002

What's wrong with FPP?

matt feels that it is too jargon-y. he prefers MFP (metafilter post) for things that appear on the top page, MTP (metatalk post) for things that appear on the top metatalk page, MFC for a metafilter comment, and MTC for comments in metatalk.

that way, newcomers don't feel like metafilter is a club where you have to know a special language to join in the conversation.

hth!
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 4:10 PM on May 1, 2002

I used to always end with "rcb" but I quit because people always complain about sigs. but, sure enough, people address me as "rebeccablood" in their responses, and no one needs that kind of trouble.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 10:54 AM on May 2, 2002

oh, you're being so hard on this poor guy. he wanted to make a silly quiz, he chose 9 people *he knew of* and that he felt were well-known. it's not gospel, it's a little fun thing he put together. why take it so seriously?

I was flattered to be included, but I wouldn't have been upset or insulted not to be. there is no list of 9 webloggers that would have satisfied everyone. none. as it is, I was impressed that he selected from several clusters--most people look around... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 1:32 PM on May 1, 2002

allegedly funny.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 3:41 PM on April 23, 2002

is ass clown the noun, or is no-talent ass the adjective?

if the former, what is an ass clown? I guess I've known a few no-talent asses in my time.


posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 3:47 PM on April 23, 2002

clavdivs. I'm most like clavdivs.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 2:16 PM on April 21, 2002

what's the problem with emailing each other using our own email addresses?
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 6:06 PM on April 12, 2002

just a note: the weblog books can be ordered now from amazon, but will actually be shipped in june.

but yes! by all means go buy them now! ;)
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 11:27 AM on April 11, 2002

I'm having trouble distinguishing between the grandfathering system and the hot tub system. who would sponsor a random applicant if they could be held responsible for their behavior later on? and do we really want people to invite only their friends?
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 10:04 AM on April 8, 2002

anapestic: Besides, in terms of Web readership, don't people play a lot of the same games? You can really only count hits/page views/whatever, right? Do you have a good way to measure how many people actually read your blog?

you can never be sure, but you're right that hits and pageviews are useless measures unless you're serving up ads.

however, a program that can track those things can also track unique IPs, which is the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 11:14 AM on April 2, 2002

nstop: Combine that with a web stats package that can estimate average page view times -- noting page hit to page hit timestamps and calculating the lag as "view" time -- you can get pretty darn specific

do you know a free package that can do that?

anyway, my point is that papers have circulation figures that may in fact be comparable to the level of accuracy that unique IPs can give a website (how many people... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 12:49 PM on April 2, 2002

anil: meaninglessness of circ figures here well, I gues it's interesting to me because banner ads are dying because people expect a level of provable interaction with an ad that isn't possible, and therefore not expected in the print world.

also, I get irritated with writers of any medium who insist that they have x-number of readers. it betrays an egotistical and fundamental non-understanding of circulation figures, web statistics, and human nature.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 1:02 PM on April 2, 2002

stOne: I keep thinking that all these "clueless old-media `blogging phenomenon' stories" (as Lileks so aptly puts it) surely mean that the weblogging craze has peaked.

there have been a lot lately, for sure, but these stories have been appearing since 1999, slowly increasing with each passing year. each time a wave comes through, someone says exactly the same thing you just did.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 1:43 PM on April 2, 2002

Short article about blogs in the Des Moines Register

"...some people use [their weblog] like a dating service..."

???????? WHAT? I mean, except for anil....
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 2:07 PM on April 2, 2002

blah, it's "being used as a dating service" when the weblogger is using it to actively solicit dates, not when it results in accidentally meeting someone else.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 6:35 PM on April 2, 2002

according to my observations it *might* work as a match-making device if you're amenable to a long-distance romance, but no way will it get you someone new to go out with every saturday. or even the same person every saturday, unless one of you is willing to move.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 8:41 PM on April 2, 2002

well, it's clearly an aggregator. on the other hand, if you're going to define a weblog strictly by its format (a series of frequently updated entries in reverse chronological order), then the google aggregator clearly qualifies.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 3:20 PM on March 27, 2002

what makes you think the porn is from metafilter? I get porn spam all the time, and lately a lot of it says "this is the result of your feedback form".

is that what you're talking about?

because *everyone I know is getting that spam, people with accounts here, and people without. it's just the newest wrinkle in spam as far as I can tell.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 7:00 PM on March 21, 2002

well, the last one of those I got came to my email address, my email address with the words REMOVETHISBLOCK in it (which I recently added to my address on my website) and three other webloggers. in other words, I sincerely doubt it came from here. I never even thought that it might be other than regular old spam.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 7:53 PM on March 21, 2002

well, that sounds reasonable. keep in mind, also, that once you get onto spam lists you're there forever.

spamcop has a new mail filtering service available.

also, please call me rebecca. or rcb. if I'd known I could have spaces in my username I would have.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 9:29 PM on March 21, 2002

okay, well that could be the case, I suppose, I certainly have come in for my share of attacks here as a result of my political beliefs.

but the email I just cited was clearly scraped from webpages.

also, I've received those "this is the result of your feedback form" emails for a while now, and some of them are not porn, though most of them are. I was thinking it was just a new template that someone was selling to others (not MLM!)... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 12:47 PM on March 22, 2002

well.

maybe that's how it started then, though no one has had the balls to send me personal email stating their disagreement with my political positions.

I just filter it out.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 1:58 PM on March 22, 2002

important advice: if you use a coupon to pay for a dinner out, always tip the waiter for the cost of the whole meal. he worked just as hard as he would have if you paid full price.

also, it impresses former waitresses, and there are lots of us out there.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 4:54 PM on March 21, 2002

our community has been pretty vocal in the past when corporations have tried to "protect their trademark" at the expense of independent publishers on the Web.

how do we feel about this?

I'm not going to publicize it on my site because I just generally have a policy not to link to websites I find reprehensible. in fact, I had some trouble linking to it here. but I have linked to this kind of thing in the past, and so have others in the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 11:01 PM on March 17, 2002

fraying: Matt's free time, perhaps?

I suggested a similar scheme recently, but matt hasn't put it into practice. I think he has his own ideas about how he wants this community to work.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 8:16 PM on March 5, 2002

oop. my idea.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 8:18 PM on March 5, 2002

hmmm. I'll try that. thing is, back here, the new comments have changed with the times.

of course, this is a separate login.

wait, wait! I just went to metafilter again (in a different window) and the new comments had updated (a bit)

weird.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 3:52 PM on March 5, 2002

mini-MeFi
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 1:04 PM on March 5, 2002