Late to the party. I emailed jessamyn a bit back but now see that the email-jessamyn-to-get-added message is gone (too much demand to handle?). Here's my entry for the next revision if someone's still keeping the list up to date:
I sell photo prints through my my photoblog. I'll also happily mail anyone nice copies of my self-published collection of poetry (pdf) for the cost of shipping (email me).
(Hope the double-whammy doesn't break the categorization idea. Feel free... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 6:16 PM on December 6, 2007

This would be entirely on your OS/browser's end (editing the textbox is all done client side).
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 1:16 PM on October 23, 2005

There may be people who get paid to blog, but I still refuse to acknowledge the term "professional blogger".

Professional vacationer, part time blogger.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 4:48 PM on September 8, 2005

I don't think it's FPP worthy. I do however demand a link in this thread. Now.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 11:02 AM on August 22, 2005

Exactly what I came into this thread to say. Well, you know, except the sexual fantasy part.

Ditto.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 11:19 AM on July 26, 2005

Reportedly, running a Greasemonkey script on a site can expose the contents of every file on your local hard drive to that site. Just fyi.

These reports are true, but have been fixed (well, neutralized) with the latest version of Greasemonkey. See here.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 11:52 PM on July 22, 2005

If people want to quote the titles of books in Swedish or Turkish, they can't do so correctly without special characters.

Actually, all the time's I've seen ??? appear is when people were trying to do things like "Metafilter™" or "I ♥ Huckabees" or ∫(⅜dx)/(√dy).
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 10:04 PM on July 21, 2005

He must have been confused by the menu color.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 12:27 AM on July 15, 2005

I missed it, but this thread (as jdroth described it) would have been very useful and interesting to me.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 8:35 AM on June 9, 2005

I believe this is a one-time mistake

Third example.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 4:28 PM on March 9, 2005

quonsar's inexplicable 'what a dick'

Half of the active MeTa users: (pleading to deaf ears) The moderation is getting out of hand!
mr_crash_davis: (utterly defeated) This site is getting so out of hand, in fact, that I'm going to bow out.
Matt: (sarcastic, snappy) Oh, because of all the great stuff I did?
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 10:32 PM on February 19, 2005

Good, solid, long-time contributors to this community are increasingly aware that the moderating style around here has become arbitrary at best, and downright mercurial and heavy-handed at worst.

Yes. Exactly.

Many of us, myself included, have NO IDEA why the community would need to be protected from a comment like that, no matter WHO wrote it.

It was in AskMe remember?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 5:17 PM on February 19, 2005

Everybody seems pretty understanding about not posting questions on the blue, or random links to interesting websites on the grey, so why the difficulty in understanding that you don't post wisecracks on the green?

I don't post questions on the front page of the blue, but I often do in comments. I don't post links on the front page of the gray, but I do in the comments, if it's relevant. And I don't post wisecracks on the front page of AskMe — but why... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 3:49 PM on February 18, 2005

TellMe is like, totally, a thousand million times better. For serious.

And the red is hideous.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 10:18 AM on February 5, 2005

Come on, give us two more days! Dec 31 was really a crap time to have a deadline. Busy season, you know.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 11:44 PM on January 1, 2005

Here's what I came up with.

It's dodgy in IE right now (damn those fuzzy padding rules to hell!), and I haven't been able to test it on Safari, but you get the picture. Any kinks can be worked out in post-processing.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 4:51 AM on January 2, 2005

Eris' idea is brilliant, I think. It's also worth noting that AltF4 and 4easypayments, two of the other seeming frontrunners (judging from the comments in this thread) concur.

Though the thread has slid off the page now, for what it's worth, my personal vote goes for some sort of erisfree/stopgap/AltF4 hybrid. Maybe stopgap if I had to choose just one.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 5:22 PM on January 4, 2005

I guess Goatse.cx is high treason, but bitter snarks are not. Oh well.

Red herring.

Goatse is high treason, and you knew it, but linked repeatedly anyway. I think that is worthy of a ban.

Bitter snarks may or may not be damaging to Metafilter, but they are definitely not pertinent to your own offense.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 1:48 PM on December 29, 2004

New Feature: if you'd like to ask a question anonymously, use this form here. I'll have to approve it, so it won't be posted immediately, and when it does, it will have no connection whatsoever to your account.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 8:34 PM on December 26, 2004

wtf is rafter?

(My above comment was copy/pasted from the AskMe posting page.)
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 9:19 AM on December 27, 2004

This is great. Thanks both of you.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 12:29 PM on December 24, 2004

Satire is dead. Long live bingo!

What an asshole.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 8:23 PM on December 16, 2004

Because, honestly, except for the original question poster, none of the other people who were also curious about it would probably check back.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 9:17 AM on December 16, 2004

Yes. Just like on MeFi proper.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 9:49 AM on December 16, 2004

I know, but I wouldn't expect it to be the default behavior on AskMe, either. I don't know anything about the Metafilter backend, but I've always been a little puzzled why MeTa and AskMe don't have the same sort-order functionality. (It would be kind of superfluous for MeTa, but still...)
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 10:17 AM on December 16, 2004

0 to MeTa in 6 minutes flat.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 3:23 PM on December 13, 2004

Furthermore, has she no common sense?
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 3:34 PM on December 13, 2004

White Hat — try expanding your browser window. What's causing this is that the "posted by" text will wrap around the sidebar before it itself wraps, so if your browser is just a tad too narrow, all the text below and including the "posted by" gets bumped down to sub-sidebar levels.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 3:31 PM on December 13, 2004

But don't you understand that the iPod *is* the cultural revolution we've been waiting for?

Hahahaha. Thanks for summing up my feelings on the matter, scarabic. I may have been a potential Mac switcher, but the iPod/iTunes thing is really killing my opinion of Apple.

I'll have my electronics without the image, thank you.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 2:38 PM on December 13, 2004

By the way (and this is directed at no one in particular): it's an mp3 player. For chrissakes.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 2:39 PM on December 13, 2004

And to further, I think if there is an issue with the board, it should stay on the board.

Agreed. The thread seems the best place for post criticisms, and a Meta call-out if it's a huge deal. But I have no idea why konolia would want an email (to keep the complaint private? or?). I'd be pretty taken aback if someone emailed me just to tell me I screwed up.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 3:32 PM on December 12, 2004

Oh, and konolia, make sure you are keeping two issues seperate: the fact that bshort was way too harsh on you, and the fact that he replied in-thread. One is an obvious problem, and one seems a bit far. You're not helping your cause by conflating the two.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 3:35 PM on December 12, 2004

I was so about to recommend flashblock. Click-to-view, man. The only way to go.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 11:16 PM on December 11, 2004

Carelessness? The same typo twice?

I was going to ask if the poster had a thpeech impediment.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 7:13 PM on December 4, 2004

As long as MeFi gamers are reading this thread, rather than starting a new thread on AskMe, a quick tech question:

When I'm running more-recent 3D games (Halo PC, Need For Speed:HP2, Call of Duty, UT2003, whathaveyou), the game will run smooth at any detail setting and then lock up for several (dozen) seconds. This happens with the same frequency even at very low resolution and detail settings, though it does vary from game-to-game (Halo locks up my entire system, while... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 3:26 PM on November 12, 2004

I tried quitting out of my virus scanner and IM programs and so forth, but still gets the freeze-ups.

If the theory that my computer is overheating is indeed correct, what would I have to do to mitigate this? Buy a new fan?
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 7:29 PM on November 12, 2004

pitchblende and P_G, thanks.

Haven't gotten the problem sorted out, but I did preorder HL2.

For what it's worth, the stress test in CS Source gives me 30fps at Valve's recommended settings at 1280x1024, and 56fps at Valve's recommended settings at 1024x768. Yet the game still hangs. When it does the models often disappear and sometimes surfaces (i.e. walls).

chrid, thanks as well. I'll have to open up my case and see if there's someplace else to move the card.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 4:23 PM on November 13, 2004

chrid, I opened my case and lo, Dell had put my network card basically right up against my video card. I swapped some things around, but it didn't seem to help.

I guess it probably is just overheating, though. While leaving the case open alone isn't enough, I dragged my room fan over and pointed it directly at the case and put it on full.

It let me play quite smoothly (40fps, even, at the highest detail settings) but isn't very practical (not to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 5:50 PM on November 13, 2004

Thanks, Freaky. I tried to weasel a replacement card out of Dell, but they wouldn't hear anything of it, so I ordered one of the heatsinks you linked to. I really would have had no idea what I was doing without your guidance —
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 7:36 PM on November 14, 2004

Matt, when the server does return, My Polling Place would be a nice frontpage link Monday/Tuesday along the lines of the register to vote message.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 1:05 PM on October 29, 2004

If you back it up with related links, for sure. I'm fairly certain that that's even been done before.

If not, it's a little too self-referential. You're saying the thread/discussion deserves a link as content all of its own merits?
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 2:24 PM on October 15, 2004

The constant thread moderation is pretty annoying, and that first post was pretty terrible.

But the second? I think it's a lot better than half the stuff that gets posted here. You can't discount it just because it's political. It's a creative and arguably interesting video. Well worth a FPP.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 11:21 AM on October 15, 2004

amberglow: hook, line, and sinker.

I think that most of you just bit PP's troll-bait. Not that he's not a troll, but we should all know better by now.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 10:14 PM on October 4, 2004

It doesn't seem terribly out-of-the-ordinary that a non-member would e-mail someone suggesting their related link (either in self-interest or in genuine hope that the thread members would enjoy it).

When you didn't post, he went to someone else. I don't endorse such a course of action, but it doesn't seem to outrageous --
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 6:28 PM on September 22, 2004

I don't know about you, but at 21 years of age I've never heard of this being lethal. I'm almost a college graduate and I consder myself to be intelligent, however on this particular topic I appear to be quite ignorant.

Same. And unless it says "DON'T MIX WITH AMMONIA" extra big on the side of the bleach bottle, I would probably not notice it -- the fine print on the bleach bottle I always assumed was stuff I already knew about (do not drink, et cetera).
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 10:31 PM on September 18, 2004

Hilfy, the point is that the post was unworthy of the frontpage. You essentially made an FPP out of local hearsay and your own editorializing. I realize the case riles you up and I do not doubt your friend's trustworthiness, and would not be totally surprised if the charges are unwarranted — but without pictures or any other substative sources or evidence whatsoever, any debate or discussion of the matter is pretty moot.
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 2:39 PM on August 13, 2004

I really don't think 3 out of 10 is bad at all. In fact, I think it's great -- and you also have to consider that many many links (especially NYT, Salon, BBC) point to feature stories that are of general factual interest (as opposed to necessarily recent news).

I hate when people do "Best-of-the-web" call outs, for the same reason I hate the off-topic thread call outs, and the "discussiony" AskMe call outs.

The fact of the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 9:11 PM on August 6, 2004

I agree that this is a great idea -- on a community site I run, I essentially do the same thing (although for entirely different reasons).

Anyone clicking the "post anonymously" checkbox gets assigned the name "unknown" for all intents and purposes -- but the database records their actual user id.

When people want to post something anonymously, they can do so -- but anytime someone abuses it, I can call up the database and ban... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 10:12 AM on June 19, 2004

fvw makes a good point.

As an aside, the old thread is still open in this case (only a few days old!), and this probably should have been posted there.

The other thing about follow-ups (as in this case), is: what counts? For instance, I myself don't care at all about an RSS feed. Similarly, I meant to post last week that a previously discussed design contest was nearing it's deadline and final voting period -- but I didn't think it merited a MeTa... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 6:36 PM on June 8, 2004

Very much what smackfu said.

It was a loaded FPP. I, for one, inwardly cringed when I saw it.

I don't think we should treat delmoi's comment any differently than we would treat an identical comment about some obscure stranger in any other FPP.

I was hoping that this site would see a group of optimistic, or at least civil, bunch of people who wanted to contribute beneficial material.

This... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rafter at 12:37 AM on June 7, 2004