Yesterday when I visited MeFi for the first time, I got "no links and no comments posted since your last visit." I figured it was some momentary glitch. But the same thing happened today, so I'm wondering if anybody else has this problem. When I go to MetaTalk and AskMe, it has the correct number of new posts/comments. (Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Windows XP.)
posted to MetaTalk by languagehat at 7:13 AM on December 15, 2007 (27 comments)

Matt, you might want to rethink this deletion. You seem to have taken it as simply random gibberish ("doesn't really make any sense at all"), when it's actually a link to an online code/puzzle; you've allowed those many times before, and people seem to enjoy them. Alongside the jokey comments (like mine), people were working to figure out the code. Maybe reconsider?
posted to MetaTalk by languagehat at 9:57 AM on August 4, 2006 (57 comments)

What ever happened to majcher's Genefilter? It was the best thing to hit MeFi in 2003, and it was still being updated last November. I miss it terribly. If majcher can't or won't bring it back, can someone reproduce it?
posted to MetaTalk by languagehat at 5:36 PM on June 30, 2005 (13 comments)

Attention first-time posters: hpsell recently made a hideous front-page post that violated just about every possible rule. Inevitably, he was greeted with a barrage of negative responses: [bad bad bad], "I'm not going to make fun of you because I strongly suspect that you're retarded," and the like. Did he whine, counterattack, or curl up into a ball and hide? No, he said "i didnt mean to ruffle any feathers... ill try to do better with the grammar." [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by languagehat at 10:51 AM on December 30, 2004 (83 comments)

Is it possible to have a conversation around here?
posted to MetaTalk by languagehat at 10:22 AM on June 9, 2004 (98 comments)

Self-link. As far as I'm aware, this is still a no-no.
posted to MetaTalk by languagehat at 7:44 AM on July 22, 2003 (25 comments)

Have we found God yet? Not picking on this post per se, but last week we had this (142 comments, so you'd think the issue had been pretty thoroughly hashed out), and before that a bunch more that I listed here, and I'm starting to wonder what the point is. NewsFilter posts get annoying, but at least the news changes; God's either there or He/She/It ain't, and I don't think we're going to find out by arguing about it on MeFi. If everybody else enjoys the never-ending discussion, fine, I'll just skip the threads, but I thought I'd ask.
posted to MetaTalk by languagehat at 12:03 PM on November 3, 2002 (23 comments)