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MeTa post:
Yes, we all await the new Hitchhiker's Guide movie...
"Popular response doesn't make this a good FPP."
-- mkultra
"Rules were made to be broken."
-- popular response
"The good of the many outwieghs the good of the few, or the one."
-- The benefit of Spock notwithstanding.
Sorry, that's snarky and a little stupid, but cmon. What is the purpose of Metafilter? To serve its users.
If the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 11:35 AM on February 16, 2005
An ex post facto excuse of "well, we got a good discussion out of it" is no excuse for a bad post.
If this is true, I think something is wrong with the system, and MeFi isn't what it should be. A community site is about community, and rules are important, but if they impede good discussion there should be exceptions.
And it seems to me that exceptions are made -- the continuing existence of the thread supports this.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 1:46 PM on February 16, 2005
MeTa post:
This is my first MeTa thread calling someone out,...
When you walk into a new school, you can either sit down and try to blend in, or be proactive with a friendly, "Hi, I'm new. I hope we get along." It's called "introducing yourself" and it's something that people do in a polite society. Both approaches are valid, and I don't recall anyone in school telling me to shut up when I introduced myself.
Well, some people did -- we called them bullies and we tried to ignore them. On the intarwebs, we call them... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 9:23 PM on December 20, 2004
MeTa post:
a good man is dead, let's be snarky!...
I think this is the comment in question, just to be specific. The rest of the thread is in fine form.
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 1:28 PM on June 10, 2004
The comment wasn't snarky about the subject of the post, the comment questioned the worthiness of the post through snark. To which I say:
Let's pretend that everyone already knew Ray Charles was dead. Why shouldn't it be posted to the front page? How else are we going to have a conversation about it?
I don't mind criticism of the subject (if you hated Ray Charles, you certainly have the right to say so), but to criticize the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 2:47 PM on June 10, 2004
EB, your arguments are crap. The post was not "Hey look! Ray Charles died!" It included questions obviously designed to get a conversation started. The fact that it didn't match up to your personal standards of what a post should be is irrelevant. If you feel the poster could have done better, do a damn Google search yourself and say, "Look, we all know who Ray Charles is, but did you know this? This is the kind of info that would have been great to see included in the FPP.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 9:34 PM on June 10, 2004
I'm sorry for calling your arguments crap. But I was serious with my MeTa post a few days ago... I don't understand the bile around such matters.
I'm not saying double posts or unworthy posts should be tolerated, it's jsut that positive reinforcement and constructive criticism could do so much more than the negativity that appears all too frequently.
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 9:40 PM on June 10, 2004
That's YOUR opinion; don't expect others to subscribe to it.
I know it's an opinion, but it doesn't seem like others have even considered the possibility.
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 9:08 AM on June 11, 2004
...so much power wasted on evil...
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 9:09 AM on June 11, 2004
MeTa post:
I know I'm probably asking for it, but I don't...
Stomping on same day, same week or even same month double posts I can understand. But the post in question doesn't seem to ever have been discussed on MeFi, and this poster was blasted simply because other MeFites were already familiar with the subject. (Others were not.)
If it was interesting enough to be picked up by the news outlets, why isn't it interesting enough to be discussed on MeFi? MeFi isn't (just) a news/funny shite aggregator, it's a forum for discussion.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 9:23 PM on June 7, 2004
MeTa post:
The following was posted at Filepile yesterday....
True story: I used to be a FilePile regular -- It just trickled out of my usual rounds, but late 2001 I was cruising around and wondered why I couldn't get to any of the news sites... so I hit FilePile, saw that someone had photoshopped a plane crasing into the WTC... then I looked out the window and saw the smoke.
It looks like my account has been purged, unfortunately. FilePile is great stuff.
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 2:25 PM on June 3, 2004
MeTa post:
How do you decide if you askmefi question is too...
I vote too stupid since it doesn't matter what the answer is.
Put the question in the context of, "I'm writing a novel, and am trying to figure out how to..."
Would that be a more legitimate question?
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 10:58 AM on April 16, 2004
MeTa post:
How many of the 17,173 MeFi users actually use the...
With the advent (and apparent success) of Ask MetaFilter, I feel like it is increasingly important to keep fresh voices coming.
Perhaps this is a way to do that without crossing the line Matt has set for himself to keep his costs/efforts manageable.
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 8:48 AM on December 18, 2003
Matt, your desire to have a known population of respondants is very well taken. My desire to keep fresh voices coming is simply to provide more content: questions and answers.
Ask MeFi has the potential to become an indespensable repository of information, and my view is the more the merrier.
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 12:24 PM on December 18, 2003
MeTa post:
The DHTML popups are driving me batty, and they...
1. They seem to be positioned relative to the link itself, rather than the cursor's position, so if I mouse over the wrapped portion of a link on the left side of the page, the popup appears on the right side of the page.
2. Some popups related to links in the right column appear on the left side of the page at random.
3. I click on a link with a popup that opens in a new window; I return to the original page; the popup is often still there, and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 3:19 PM on July 30, 2003
When all else fails (and before MeTa'ing)...
Is MetaTalk so overcrowded that I shouldn't post something that is A) causing me problems, and B) might be causing other people problems too?
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 8:33 AM on July 31, 2003
MeTa post:
What constitutes a doublepost?...
just my two cents: are all 13,000 of us (or whatever) expected to participate in the same conversation?
i'd rather have two posts than one 100+ commented post.
(i know this won't happen, but i think subject-specific sections would help the problem)
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 1:00 PM on March 25, 2002
MeTa post:
Why get irked over a news item that's been covered...
To reference a long-standing peeve: Metafilter is not Slashdot.
Different user base. Different demographics.
Even if the two were the same, I don't get bugged when MSNBC and CNN have the same stories up.
It's not like you (plural, non-specfic) pay for any of this, how can you expect such an unreasonable level of control?
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 11:09 AM on March 15, 2002
while i agree that it makes little sense to post an item you found while reading slashdot (or the like), how are you going to overcome the posts that were found through some other avenue?
my flat-panel speaker post is a perfdect example. great bit of info, but the first comment is a gripe about how it has already been posted at /.
well, i'm sorry about that, but i don't read /.
if i assume that everything i find is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 12:44 PM on March 15, 2002
MeTa post:
TextAd request: show us the urls?...
i like to know where i'm going before i click. would it be possible to add the url of the target site into the 'title' attribute of the ad's link?
usually i get the info from the status bar, but one reason i don't click a lot of ads is because i never know where i'm going -- the status bar almost always shows the address of the ad server, not the target site.
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 11:06 AM on October 22, 2001
MeTa post:
Why I love Metafilter, or, How I Learned to...
I have been (obvoiusly) really irritated with MeFi lately. I know I'm not a hard-core participant, but MeFi has become dear to my heart [sniff] and I realized that what I'm reacting to is growing pains.
Self-policing should be good enough, and it will be. Double-posting (or not) will decrease as users become more familiar with accepted traditions, I just ask that we continue to educate them kindly.
So, I share with you my favorite thing about... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 5:54 PM on September 26, 2001
i mixed em up on purpose... yeah, that's the ticket...
while i certainly don't think threads like these should be all that metafilter is, i think they allow us a time out from the debate and rhetoric and bickering and contrition.
these are the threads that give me an insight into the community, and allow my web borders to expand.
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 9:52 AM on September 27, 2001
MeTa post:
We need less "geez, lighten up" and more "ok,...
Yes, some people need to lighten up, but that's no reason to snark off at them. No response to a post is illegitimate if it is truthful. If you tick someone off, do what you would do in real life -- explain your view again without demeaning them.
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 11:32 AM on September 1, 2001
MeTa post:
What the heck is wrong with a double-post?...
(if there is no "more inside" yet, it is probably because the author is still composing it. wouldn't it be polite to wait for it to show up? the author is being polite by not cluttering up the main page with long posts.)
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 4:59 PM on August 5, 2001
thanks zempf, but my comment stands.
posted to MetaTalk by o2b
at 6:17 PM on August 5, 2001
