Sounds good to me! I might even make it to the meet up this time!
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 12:10 PM on July 23, 2008

Can give me a list of why my SUPER SECRET AMAZING MARKETING PLAN is really really AMAZING and will obviously make you A MILLION DOLLARS? There are obviously NO NEGATIVES at all, so can someone tell me how AWESOME I am?

One of my favorite AskMe trainwrecks!
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 5:30 AM on May 30, 2008

Since I'm an active member of MeFi, it breaks my heart to see these things.

Why? Seriously, why?

I propose we start a website of like-minded people to, unapologetically, promote our agenda.

What is your agenda? Pedantry for the masses?
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 3:12 PM on May 22, 2008

Sounds fun, I joined.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 12:42 PM on May 21, 2008

The safe bet might be to not mess with them at all, I dunno.

Can't you just omit the ones that were removed at the asker's request?
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 12:34 PM on May 21, 2008

His wife has found his username on a porn site. How does this even make sense?

Are there porn sites with comments, or something? As in, there's the porn at the top and people posting "that's some good porn right there" in a comment-thread type situation at the bottom?

I was wondering the same thing. The only conclusion I was able to come to was that someone was using it as a screen name to log into the sites. I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 5:32 PM on May 15, 2008

I've never seen as pure an example of relationship trainwreck tourism as this metatalk thread and the comments in the accompanying ask posts.

Relationship trainwreck tourism is my new favorite expression!
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 10:05 PM on May 15, 2008

s it possible this whole thing is a scam? Just putting it out there, because if so, this is fantastic performance art and totally worth my five bucks. Well played, whoever you are.

I wondered that myself. If the OP was a one-hit-wonder, I'd be inclined to believe it was a scam but this is pretty odd behavior from someone who has been around for a while, participating in lots of drama-free threads.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 10:16 PM on May 15, 2008

Great detective work, but I think what's needed here is less detective work andmore compassion. Why are mrleec's ask posts not deleted? Why isn't the comment where his wife posts under his name not deleted?

This stuff is embarrassing and harmful to them and to their relationship, and the compassionate thing would be to delete it, not let it sit out for our amusement and Google's caching.

The OP didn't ask for this question,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 3:56 AM on May 16, 2008

Can we post jobs that we're not actually in charge of? Like, if I know of an opening right now in my industry, but not at my organizaiton (um, and I don't want it), can/should I post the link here?

I think that would be a great use of the jobs section. To keep the poster from being bombarded with questions about the position, it would probably be helpful to have some sort flag indicating that the poster was passing along info, rather than posting an... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 3:39 PM on May 12, 2008

1. null_terminated: what the hell is wrong with you. Have you gone nuts? It is just an expression, you know: lets go crazy, let's get nuts, lets go 4 the purple banana..... What an idiotic MeTa.

2. Dude, I just made up the word "manmaries" yesterday for a different body part. Saw this guy in the subway, and that's what he had. Yup.

'Mannaries,' is better. I'm just saying.

What's wrong with plain old moobs?
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 8:42 AM on April 28, 2008

count me in!
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 5:36 PM on April 14, 2008

I think if this were a compilation of things found on the net in general, it would be a cool art project. That it is all exclusively from askme, where people spill their guts and expect things to be kept in this venue, it is a little creepy. It seems almost like a way to establish your own known, popular post secret type project off the back of the metafilter network, which is, as said before, kind of creepy and kind of hackish.

So, as a project: cool. Limited to AskMe:... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 8:07 PM on April 7, 2008

I don't mind a general sidebar saying happy birthday to (list of mefites w/ bdays that day), somewhere on the site. However, if people start using MetaTalk as a birthday greeting card (this includes posts of birthday greetings to the mods), then it would be annoying.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 2:06 PM on April 7, 2008

The answers seem like they would be interesting, despite the intention of the poster. Would it have been possible to delete the url and notify the poster (with a request for them not to post the same url in the comments)?
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 5:16 PM on April 3, 2008

I hate when people use this ridiculous style. Sir, matthew, blah, blah, blah. Just write out your issue like a normal person.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 8:50 AM on April 3, 2008

So the point is to request research on a topic that is of interest to you, but not interesting enough to do the research yourself? I'm guessing any research desire could easily be turned into a question on askme. For instance "can anyone tell me about cool-ass 1970-80's commercial product iconography, bonus points for images," or something like that. Then everyone will scour the ends of the internet to answer your question in hopes of the best answer gold star. It's like a distributed... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 11:49 AM on March 4, 2008

I think this has been addressed before, though I don't recall the outcome.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 6:46 PM on February 12, 2008

Can we all post personal projects to MetaTalk or is it just a mod thing?
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 9:20 AM on November 30, 2007

I agree with kickstart70. Plenty of people create projects that are metafilterish in nature, or cater to the needs of the metafilter community. I'm sure they'd LOVE the traffic boost and ready-made audience that comes from a self-link post on one of the more active sections of metafilter (blue, grey, green).

It seems like a worthy project and all, but it also seems like an abuse of power to directly go against the rules that apply to everyone else. This really should... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 12:32 PM on November 30, 2007

It isn't about MetaTalk standards, it is about the self-link policy and projects, which was created exactly for posts like this.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 1:08 PM on November 30, 2007

And in doing so I realized that I don't have even the faintest clue of what something like that would even look like.

THAT was the problem

So, what's yours?

THAT doesn't answer/solve the problem

That's where you went wrong. Would someone else's one-liner help you find yours? Probably not. Why not re-ask it in a way that actually helps you solve your... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 9:26 AM on November 17, 2007

"so how did you find yours" and then it would have been a good question.

Actually, "how can I find mine" would be an even better question.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 9:31 AM on November 17, 2007

I think we need the addition of a "clean up in aisle 8" flag.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 11:47 PM on November 15, 2007

Or aisle 5. Don't know what my fingers were thinking.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 11:49 PM on November 15, 2007

It happens quite often. People can be embarrassed about things without being completely ashamed. Pointing out their courage to ask things without the anonymous cover is just plain rude and implies that they should be ashamed.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 11:11 AM on November 15, 2007

Insurance questions come up all the time, especially ones geared toward the options out there for self-employed/freelancers. I've often thought that it would be an interesting idea to explore the possibility buying health insurance as a group. Anyone else interested in this idea?
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 9:53 AM on November 13, 2007

Actually, thinking about the amount of heath questions that pop up daily, maybe this would end up being much more expensive than regular, private health insurance.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 9:55 AM on November 13, 2007

or a loan bloc

Why not start group on Prosper?
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 10:00 AM on November 13, 2007

What a mess. Even the quotation marks were abbreviated. Wow.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 9:52 AM on November 8, 2007

ive been going out with ma boy

This is why text-speak drives me to distraction: both "my" and "ma" have two letters. What is the point of writing "ma" instead of "my"? You can't even blame it on the desire to be economical with letters. Why would someone go out of their way to change a two letter word? Also, does anyone even pronounce it "ma"?
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 2:39 PM on November 8, 2007

Dated guy for two months, things began to fade a little, and she thought, ooo, better have that Metafilter account ready to go for when the shit hits the fan!

I don't know. If she had the capacity for forward-thinking, she would have purchased Hooked on Phonics at the same time.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 3:35 PM on November 8, 2007

I'm afraid to post anything which might seem whimsical or not serious enough on MeFi or AskMe

Don't make any [more inside] jokes, as in: blah, blah blah and, as always there's [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 3:09 PM on November 7, 2007

I have no idea how much work this would require, but would it be possible to have a comment number indicator like:

comment 10 posted by timeistight at 1:04 PM on November 4 [+] [!]

If it was possible, and if deleted comments wouldn't bump-up later comments, it would be easy to see that comments 2-5 were deleted.

Again, I have no idea whether this is possible or how much work would be involved in doing it.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 9:28 AM on November 4, 2007

Brandon Blatcher and Baphomet, I agree. I couldn't care less whether or not comments are deleted, mine included. I can usually tell when an odd comment is really a reply to a deleted comment, and when I can't, I think the commenter is just odd. No big deal.

What would annoy me is a constant break in the thread for a [comment deleted] notice. After that, people would lobby for [comment deleted because it was flagged X times] notices, and since people seem to constantly... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 11:14 AM on November 4, 2007

Would you - or others - really spend time identifying people as NONtacts?

There are a few people here who are so annoying that I remember their names and avoid their contributions. If I need to add them to a list to remember that I dislike them, it is probably better to just forget.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 6:41 PM on November 3, 2007

I think breezeway has just created a whole new bag of conversation hearts. When, exactly, would shitbird be appropriate?
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 9:06 AM on November 4, 2007

The hand-holdy nature of the rewrite does not match the tone or personality of the site.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 5:29 AM on July 27, 2007

frankly downright embarrassing pop culture phenomenon.

I'm not a HP fan but I don't understand why this pop culture phenomenon is embarrassing. oh no! The world has gone crazy over a book! Don't they know that reading will rot their brains?
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 7:23 AM on July 19, 2007

The kind of atmosphere that we have at Mecha. Although I see it here, it's only between a few users.

MetaFilter and MetaChat target two different needs. If Mefi was more like Mecha, there would be no reason for both. If mecha is more your speed, go with it.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 9:30 PM on May 18, 2007

Here is what I don't understand: If someone lurks and participates to some extent and they still don't get mefi, then why can't they accept that it isn't the place for them? That isn't a negative or positive thing, not all sites appeal to everyone. For instance, I can't stand /., it isn't the place for me. I don't whine and post up a storm there wondering why /. can't be more like those other communities I've been part of for ages. I just don't visit it.

It is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 11:53 PM on May 18, 2007

All I can suggest is keep trying various things here if you want to, give up if it's not worth it, and don't be dismayed by any Daughter of Privilege in a Washington D.C. suburb who suggests you don't belong.

I assume you are talking about me, because I do live in a DC suburb and, if you are a total moron, you might assume that I said he didn't belong. The Daughter of Privilege comment, however, earns you a gigantic WTF. Either you actually... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 1:58 AM on May 19, 2007

Taosbat! I was just wondering how you were doing. We don't frequent the same threads so I haven't seen you around since your last question, but I've been thinking of you and hoping that you were doing better. And now I see you are. Yay!

yes, it is ironic that I noticed her contribution to this thread. Grumble, grumble, YES, I admit, metafilter does have some touchy-feely community aspect
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 4:05 PM on May 19, 2007

So what flavor koolaid did you use?
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 9:26 PM on May 12, 2007

Sidewalk chalk is a fantastic idea.

Fruit punch pickles . . . just seems so wrong. I think my contribution will be some pickle flavored sports drink, just to restore the balance.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 7:53 PM on May 14, 2007

I hope it doesn't rain. Should we have a plan B just in case?
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 1:54 PM on May 18, 2007

I'd be ok with the .com name if the profile didn't read like an ad. At least his participation seems legit even if his profile is over the top.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 11:31 PM on May 16, 2007

Certainly the registration fee probably serves to keep most people who can't own credit cards (read: young people) out of here?

visa gift and pay-as-you-go cards are sold at almost every drugstore and grocery store in the country.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 11:02 AM on May 15, 2007

If someone is really desperate and doesn't want to take the time to learn the code, they can just open another post in a new tab, and use the comment box to make their link.
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 2:08 PM on May 12, 2007

I do know that I appreciate it when the folks who care enough to look into it (like you with PreacherTom) turn up a bannable shill.

If you look up the poster's name (real name in the profile, not screen name), you'll find he's a yeshiva university student from atlanta. Answers he's provided on ask.meta are pretty consistent with that profile. Unless there is an underground street team network for AA, I think we can conclude that he is just a mefi... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by necessitas at 8:15 AM on May 11, 2007