here's an interesting dilemma. the hate site referenced in this thread is being threatened with legal action from a company named the vanguard group.

how do we feel about this?
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 10:57 PM on March 17, 2002 (22 comments)

I've been on metafilter all day, and every comment in every thread from March 2 9:29pm is marked as new. I logged in this morning at or about 12:52 PM, and it is 3:23 as I write these words.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 3:24 PM on March 5, 2002 (3 comments)

www.oralse.cx
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 8:48 PM on January 11, 2002 (24 comments)

I think this is an excellent approach for adding a new piece of information to a previously discussed topic.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 4:27 PM on November 22, 2001 (10 comments)

idea (or has this been suggested before?):

what if each thread and comment had a "notify" link next to it; click the link and you get a pop-up window asking if you'd like to send the note, and if you clicked yes, a notification would be sent to matt, saying "this thread needs your attention" or "this comment needs your attention".

that way, people could notify matt of double posts and flamewars while they were reading the thread; this would eliminate the need for matt to constantly monitor the board himself, and potentially cut down on all those annoying double post comments.

the note could either send a separate email to matt, or it could just send a note telling him to go to a page that would compile the red flags by thread. he could see at a glance that 1 person flagged thread (a) and 12 flagged thread (b), and so on. this page would have check boxes next to each comment that had been flagged, so that matt could delete each notice once he had dealt with the trouble post.

if that seems like it would generate too much mail for matt, then a hybrid "star chamber/notification system" : this feature would be activated for 20 active, trusted members (preferably in various time zones).

the main result of this feature would be to eliminate the need for matt to continuously monitor the board himself, while at the same time ensuring that he makes all the calls regarding the appropriateness of any given post.

does my description make sense, and is this an idea that would save you time, matt?

posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 8:55 AM on November 2, 2001 (35 comments)

how should I handle this? a user has written asking that I post another WTC memorial site to the top page. (more inside)
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 11:33 AM on October 7, 2001 (17 comments)

I'm currently visiting metafilter with my images turned off in the hope that it will reduce server load just a little. does it?

along the same line of thought, matt, an version of metafilter until server problems are resolved? ala emergency CNN? would it make a difference?
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 12:01 PM on October 5, 2001 (18 comments)

search metafilter from the header of metatalk? just for convenience when posting an example.
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 9:37 AM on October 3, 2001

when I use blockquote, it screws up the formatting for the rest of the page (margin way-left). what should I be using instead?
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 1:57 PM on July 9, 2001 (8 comments)

has bonzo gone too far? three of four posts have been self-links, and now this comment....
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 8:05 PM on June 17, 2001 (22 comments)

were we a mob?
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 11:19 AM on March 30, 2001 (36 comments)

november 13, 2000, 4:10pm: 2005 members

I just want to say wow, and congratulations, matt.

so far, I must say (napster/nader/election mania notwithstanding) I think metafilter is scaling beautifully. well done.

rcb
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 4:11 PM on November 13, 2000 (12 comments)

when I try to go to the discussion on october 16 bug, I see a brief glimpse of the page, then it goes to "HTTP/1.1 404 Object Not Found".

It didn't do this yesterday.

that is all.

rcb
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 1:26 PM on October 17, 2000 (1 comment)

there's trolls in there, lots of them.

holloway leads the pack, but there are a few others walking right behind.

matt, have you even looked at this thread? it's really offensive, completely unproductive as a conversation--the misogynists came
out of the woodwork too quickly for that.

honestly, if it were me, I'd boot a few people, but you might consider at least pulling the thread....

rcb
posted to MetaTalk by rebeccablood at 8:22 PM on September 27, 2000 (16 comments)