Questions such as this just invite miles of comments. Requiring that questions have a theoretical best answer would at least give a concrete guideline beyond the vague suggestion not to post chatfiltery things, which above poster alluded to, yet seemed not to feel applied to them.
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 4:44 AM on August 5, 2007

unnecessary bloat. there are plenty of great text editors out there, we don't need to reinvent the wheel.
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 4:43 AM on August 5, 2007

Those T-shirts are lookin' pretty snazzy, any chance there might be some leftovers available to those of us not fortunate enough to have attended the soon-to-be-legendary Portland Meetup?
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 4:36 PM on July 15, 2007

nice!

i noticed the bling metafilter duckie and was wondering who had donated.

good call, i love the show!
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 12:23 AM on November 16, 2006

Mmm ponies.
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 3:43 PM on October 13, 2006

point taken
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 5:02 AM on October 14, 2006

I would love to. Just moved to Berkeley myself and I don't know many people in the area yet.
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 2:09 AM on August 30, 2006

Metafilter does't like deletions, if you hang out here on Metatalk long enough (about 5 minutes) you will see that. Think before you post, because once you hit post that baby is off into the giant untamed jungle that is Meta and it's gonna take an administrative act of god to get it back.
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 12:53 AM on June 27, 2006

Soo... GuyZero is apologizing in MeTa for his MeTa post referencing his own weak comment in someone else's bad FPP?
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 12:46 AM on June 27, 2006

I hope Paris sticks around, purely because Metafilter needs him. Without Paris, there would only be one side, and how much fun is preaching to their choir?
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 3:26 AM on March 23, 2006

i am still in favor of karma. metafilter will not necessarily turn into the alternate universe of slashdot comment hell. a simple and well planned system combined with a clean interface and adherance to standards adaptable to customization will produce a signifigant improvement in the usability of the site.
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 11:20 PM on July 14, 2005

some people you just love to hate, and though they may not be popular they are an essential part of the metafilter i know and love to hate.
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 11:52 PM on July 8, 2005

It just wouldnt be the same without 'ole PP to stir up the shit. I never much liked arguments where everyone agreed.
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 11:51 PM on July 8, 2005

Take it as a compliment Matt. Metafilter's image would only be sullied by evil AOL script kiddies anyways.
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 10:14 PM on June 20, 2005

I posted this to feature requests. What im thinking of is a max on the actual size of the box that you put your link into, not a retroactive callout in the comments of "Your post was 5 characters too long!". Just make it long enough for ~100 words (paragraphish length).

You can [more inside] all you want, all im asking is to keep the multi-paragraph direct quotes off the front page.
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 5:42 AM on March 18, 2005

on post: what anapestic said .
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 5:43 AM on March 18, 2005

I thought we might be able to come up with a solution that allows diversity and creativity. That is why I posted here, to get some ideas for possible implementation. The major problem I see is characters vs. actual words on the page, as markup will create lots of characters in the box but not necessarily a too-long post. I want to state again that long posts are not necessarily bad, in fact some of the best discussions are generated by very long posts. The post in question, however, took up... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 10:09 PM on March 18, 2005

Cats are supposed to love stinky fish, not hate on them.
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 1:50 PM on March 21, 2005

Another vote for some kind of user moderating system.

The golden days are gone, there are a lot more people here now than there used to be, and its only going to get worse. Matt cannot and should not have to keep up with all the moderation here, and whatshername's moderation priveleges have met with (at best) mixed reviews.

Self policing since ... (if only it were true!)

One site i think inspired by metafilter that DID... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 12:12 AM on February 20, 2005

I think a system where interesting previous threads were "featured" would be awesome and fix the despair of posting to a thread you know nobody will ever read again. Except when someone reposts it because they think it is interesting and needs to be discussed again.

[link of the day]
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 12:01 AM on February 10, 2005

What about some kind of a karma/moderating system? I remember hearing that a redesign is in the works, and wouldn't that be the best time to implement something like this? I am honestly amazed at how civil metafilter is, its like a secret oasis of serenity in the interdesert. I think as the size grows however, it seems reasonable to hand over some level of control to the userbase that is the lifeblood of this site.
I've got nothing but respect for Matt, but shouldn't he get a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 10:51 PM on January 25, 2005

I agree with scarabic here. While it would certainly be nice if nobody ever posted bad comments (or FPPs) we can't rely on that to happen.

Right now we have a Self-Proclaimed Monarchy

It seems logical that as this site grows, power may need to be redistributed to maintain law & order. I noticed Matt added another person to moderate recently, mostly in the AskMe section and it seems to have made a noticeable change already.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by sophist at 10:06 PM on January 29, 2005