i am here.
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 12:07 AM on June 30, 2008

i wish we could hang Chuck Norris.
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 12:02 AM on June 30, 2008

Am I stupid or is there currently no way to add other instant messaging services (icq, jabber, etc.) on the profile page?

Cos, y'know... some very few of us aren't on AIM... :(
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 11:52 PM on April 10, 2008

Oh, and we axed ICQ Number.

OK. FINE! >:[

Incidentally, what did you axe it, and what was its response?
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 12:50 AM on April 11, 2008

Or, a little checkbox "[x] This is a short link" on the post creation page, and then a profile option "[x] Show short links".
Or make a minimum # of characters mandatory.

Either way, it will wendell.
(sorry)
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 1:38 AM on February 4, 2008

Over fondue! With yodelling! Plus watches, Army Knives and numbered bank accounts for everyone!
HAHA! I KNOW ALL THE CLICHÉS! I'M FUNNY! LOOK AT ME! LOOOLLLZ!

anyway...

I live in Davos, prolly moving down to ZH in the not-too-far future. I think there's another CHfi dude, sebas?
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 6:05 AM on January 25, 2008

How about we delete posts that start out with grade school name calling?

From here:
"scalefree, you Freud loving Commie you..."

Ok.
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 5:53 AM on January 16, 2008

Why don't the powers that be add some link-checking thingy:
If the poster adds a link to his/her post which is the same domain of what the poster has in his/her profile, add "[posterX is affiliated with this site]" after the link?

Of course, that assumes that we all diligently and truthfully fill in all the sites we're affiliated with on our profile pages...
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 12:00 AM on August 21, 2007

I'd be willing to make a politicsfilter website... though i saw that somebody just registered politicsfilter.com (Brandon Blatcher of Savannah, Georgia, according to WHOIS. One of us?).

So... uh.. Govfilter.com?
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 4:18 AM on August 9, 2007

heh, nice.
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 5:34 AM on August 9, 2007

Brandon Blatcher: Sent you an email! :P
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 7:43 AM on August 9, 2007

May we have custom CSS files back, now? :)
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 4:53 AM on August 8, 2007

Working for a non-profit org. has it's advantages, such as deadlines that aren't really deadlines :)
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 12:10 AM on February 23, 2007

Someone needs to post that hi-lay-ree-ous list of how Santa is impossible (having to deliver 9,000 presents per second, at near lightspeed, etc.) that does the corporate email inbox round every year
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 5:18 AM on November 26, 2006

The sooner you all let go of Jimbo Wales's engorged teat, the better.

What's your beef with wikipedia?
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 1:00 AM on November 23, 2006

Wikipedia is an inaccurate, incomplete, inchoate mess, dominated by wannabe dictator cliques, and yes, a completely odious commander-in-chief

sounds like somebody got his edits reverted :D

Wikipedia is everywhere, and it is bad for you - it is the McDonald's of the Internet.
I respectfully disagree.

Stop worshipping it like a god.
Nobody is.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 7:25 AM on November 23, 2006

umm... errr... hm.
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 10:44 AM on November 23, 2006

hmmmm... no.

If my memory serves me right, it was some dude in the North-West US receiving/finding some tapes, with an odd numbering system... something to that effect.
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 11:30 AM on November 19, 2006

Found it:

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/46696
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 11:37 AM on November 19, 2006

What ortho said.
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 3:16 AM on November 4, 2006

mumble mumble something about needing a euro-timezone moderator STAT mumble rhubarb mumble
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 12:53 AM on October 7, 2006

you can blame WW2 and the plight of the jews on the Vienna art college - they rejected Hitler as an art student, and the rest is history! </what if>
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 5:33 AM on June 18, 2006

It could be a real winner if something like a recommendations/review section of metafilter was introduced.

I just tried this new drink called "Pepsi Blue", and ahm' tellin' ya, it was GREAT! 10/10!
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 12:04 AM on June 9, 2006

Flagged as "LAST POST IN THIS THREAD"
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 11:48 PM on May 29, 2006

it was mentioned on the way-old version of k10k.net (back when it was, like, still cool and stuff. and hosted at k10k.com before they lost that domain to domain squatters).
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 6:54 AM on April 24, 2006

YouTube hate confounds me as well. Just watch.

Punny! :D
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 12:43 AM on April 24, 2006

hey my youtube link got deleted in one of them threads! darn it.
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 11:43 AM on April 15, 2006

This is a holiday weekend?

It is for those of us with the RIGHT religion ;P
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 1:21 PM on April 15, 2006

How about making ppl pay for more than 1 question per week. First hit question is free, the next one will cost you $10?
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 12:26 PM on April 4, 2006

*tumbleweeds*
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 5:56 AM on April 4, 2006

;-)
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 6:22 AM on April 4, 2006

I wonder, is there a special term for such "my-favourite-discussion-point" diarrhea postings? I've come across them many times on other forums, where poster A writes about a topic that is (supposedly?) common knowledge. That topic just happens to be poster B's favourite topic, cos s/he's read something that flies in the face of said common knowledge and hangs on that for dear life, smacking down the evidently ignorant people that share poster A's views.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 1:42 AM on February 25, 2006

what the lol?! haha... did that articlebot dude get banned?
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 4:04 AM on February 25, 2006

matteo: nothing to rage about in US gov't stuff, i suppose...
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 1:01 PM on February 11, 2006

In case s/he deletes it in the mean time, here's the answer given to the "what's the deal with your nickname?" question:

"I'm a sockpuppet, so I can use the plain text theme without messing up my grandfathered-in cool-style userpage."
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 12:36 PM on February 10, 2006

ok ok, FINE! :)
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 12:48 PM on February 10, 2006

Another vote against it here. Why is it Arial, anyway? At least make it customizable in the prefs, like the rest of the text is?

Pweeze? :)
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 4:23 AM on February 10, 2006

"Run, damn it, run!"

They'll never be able to out-run JRUN.
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 2:08 PM on February 8, 2006

I also can't believe that was deleted - WTF???

umm... it broke the guidelines, thus got deleted. What's the outrage about?
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 2:38 AM on February 3, 2006

a super-duper easy way of sorting the blocking of individual users would be to wrap each individiual comment in a DIV with class="user[userID]", then do ye olde display:none; CSS trick.

This would necessitate being able to have custom stylesheets, tho. *adds to mile-long list of ponies*
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 1:32 AM on December 27, 2005

i was wondering the exact same thing...
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 5:01 AM on December 20, 2005

Just make #topline have a width of 99%?
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 4:58 AM on November 25, 2005

leighm: The bug is, as stated in the bug you linked to, and as I mentioned in your thread on MeFi, with the layouting engine. NOT with the printing engine.
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 4:32 AM on February 12, 2005

Wait for Netscape 7.0. Coming in about a month or so, it's gonna rawk as it's based on Moz 1.0. Or just wait for Moz 1.0 and get that :)
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 1:13 PM on May 21, 2002

Can anybody play that movie? Both in Mozilla and IE 6, the only thing I see is a "You need Quicktime 4 or later" (This with QT 5 installed...) in the movie area.
posted to MetaTalk by slater at 10:57 PM on May 19, 2002