I'm new in town - I'd love to get to know one of the area's better brewpubs (and the local mefites).
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 1:29 PM on September 29, 2007

I'm out Oct. 7-11. If the meetup happens outside of that range, I'll (try to) come...
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 10:17 PM on October 2, 2007

Signal-to-noise is a big problem in MeTa,

No! MeTa is the only place where threads completely filled with noise are not a problem. AskMe threads are pared to the bone with extreme prejudice, and noisy comments are flagged/deleted commonly on the blue and replaced with a "take it to MeTa" directive.

Really, most times when there's a serious question, like a feature request or a "how should I.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 9:30 AM on September 3, 2007

Wait, not to derail the derail, but for the people who were seriously suggesting she was cheating: what about that situation led you there? My first reaction was "there's no such thing as overtime for salaried workers; deal."

Was it emptyinside's previous relationship posts? Some other fact I'm missing? Or is it just really the first thing that leaps to mind when a partner says something like "sorry honey I have to work late"? I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 3:06 PM on July 11, 2007

But I've also said if she's in a sales type role where she has to wine & dine potential clients, that would make a lot of sense.

Right. And my experience differs from yours: at my position last summer, we had wine & cheese every week, usually one other social-ish outing a week, and a weekend getaway in Tahoe. None were required, but it certainly would've been odd to turn down more than a couple of them. This was at a major... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 3:20 PM on July 11, 2007

Bogus. You can't not allow fair use.

Would that it were true!
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 7:52 PM on April 26, 2007

I'm with Chuckles - I think the CSS layout control is way more powerful than a "glorified color picker," even defanged to prevent loading remote files. It is sad that there's no way to do it all the way, with background images and everything, without also enabling various exploits. But the half-CSS solution just seems cooler than removing it altogether and putting in a color picker (or nothing).

Also, on another topic altogether, aberrant said: this... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 11:09 AM on April 15, 2007

As this is a callout of more or less the entire thread, I feel vaguely obligated to explain myself.

I view hard core rap and hip hop as basically akin to horror movies; they're over the top disturbing, and we're drawn to them because they're disturbing, not because they represent our actual beliefs somehow. It's an outrageous examination of a really quite horrifying aspect of our culture.

Now if you want to make the case that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 10:11 AM on January 25, 2007

One clear answer: single or small-group dedicated human agents with explicit tasks.

Draft some specifications, then maybe we can all pitch in to Mechanical Turk it.
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 1:58 PM on January 23, 2007

You ever seen that page about how "Christ, what an asshole" is always the answer to the New Yorker caption contest, no matter what the picture is?

I think it's also always the answer to a MeTa callout thread. One way or 'tother.
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 4:17 PM on December 18, 2006

For everyone saying "don't complain yet, wait to see if it works," whether or not it works isn't the point. The point is that it's not at all clear why reducing the number of AskMe posts should be a goal at all, regardless of whether this change makes it happen.

I'm one of the people who can't imagine why there could ever be "too many" questions on AskMe. Why? Does any non-moderator person feel compelled to read every single AskMe post or otherwise... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 12:30 PM on December 18, 2006

I like the new setup. The "favorites" page titles are much clearer now. The only thing I would change (cuz you asked, right? heh) is, on the "stuff I marked as favorites" page, change the column titles from "favorite X from rkent" to "rkent's favorite X."
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 10:45 AM on December 6, 2006

Is there anything that could've saved EarBucket's post? A link to the full interview? Omitting/removing the "retarded" tag? Anything?

And deleting the second one as a "double post" is just disingenuous when the first one has already been deleted.
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 6:44 PM on May 7, 2006

Saucy: Yes, "too vile a slander" was sarcastic.

The justification for deleting the first post was "lol bush is teh stupid," which I assume means something like "this is more of the same old Bush hatred." But really, it was just a direct quote. You can argue that it was taken out of context, but I think it pretty much stands on its own. And the fact that it got 50 posts in 4 hours seems to belie the idea that it was "boring."... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 7:17 PM on May 7, 2006

lol bush iz teh dum

Yeah OK, "dum" not "stupid."
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 7:18 PM on May 7, 2006

Look, I know I can go to Kos or Atrios to get my fill of this stuff, but the thing is, most of those comments really are the intellectual equivalent of "lol bush is teh stupid."

and you want us to follow in their footsteps?

May I draw your attention to the sentence that followed that one: "At least people are clever here." Sometimes clever snark is enough, you know? Not every post has to be so insightful... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 7:36 PM on May 7, 2006

"It got comments so it must have been a good post."

Well... sort of. If there were lots, and only a few were "this sucks and should be deleted" (because there are always a few), and some were really funny... I mean, what's your standard? If lots of people read the thread and want to talk about it, then I feel like it's on the right track even if it's controversial or impolite or whatever.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 7:58 PM on May 7, 2006

rkent : a word of advice ... choose your battles.

Fine. Point conceded.
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 8:58 PM on May 7, 2006

Er... the page I suggested is German, here's the English version.
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 9:55 AM on April 30, 2006

Yeah, sorry for the ambiguity... if luftmensch had actually suggested a specific link, I wouldn't have posted this. Sorry if this is a bad use of metatalk; if it needs to be closed/deleted now, so be it.
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 10:06 AM on April 30, 2006

Responding to docgonzo's page title, "Next up, Alyssa Milano on Fermat's last theorem." I know net neutrality isn't exactly abstract math, but this still struck me as a remarkable coincidence for some reason.

Also, that Alyssa Milano blog link looks atrocious in Mozilla; here's the front page and you can click through to the net neutrality post yourself. Or, the tearful farewell to "Charmed"!
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 9:04 PM on April 25, 2006

A. "That's quite a stretch."

Yeah, OK, and if it had just been the page title, I probably would've forgotten about it. But there were some comments in-thread too that brought it to mind when I saw that "Alyssa talks about important stuff" blog post.

And what was I doing reading Alyssa Milano's blog? Well... what were you doing not reading Alyssa Milano's blog?
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 9:56 PM on April 25, 2006

So how will the meetup table(s) be denoted? I'm thinking of showing up at 8-ish, but I don't know any Boston mefites. How can I find y'all?
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 11:49 AM on January 6, 2006

So didn't the "hoax" tag count for anything?

Oh, to be clear: it wasn't so tagged when I called it out with this MeTa thread. Probably wouldn'ta bothered if it was.
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 5:23 PM on December 18, 2005

I wanted to post a response in the original thread, realized it fits better here. Selection from the comment:
Metafilter surrenders.

Seriously, does anyone even read Fark anymore? I mean, I like drinking beer and looking at boobies too... but I don't need to commiserate about it ten times a day with a bunch of former frat boys.
My immediate response was that, yeah, one may have seen this first on Fark, but there's no way that we could have a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 7:18 AM on May 26, 2005

Sorry, I actually got a phonecall from my subletter and had to go write a sublease contract. Naturally I could have clicked "post" first but... sometimes I forget things.

Sorry again, and thanks for the hold music, skillet.
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 7:19 AM on May 26, 2005

Gracias.
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 9:38 PM on May 16, 2005

Hm, if you wait 2 weeks, I'll stop by; moving in for the summer from Boston. Could do some MeFi cross-pollination.
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 7:05 AM on May 15, 2005

Here's the deal. I posted a question Saturday afternoon, and read the part about there being a moderation process. Even for allowing the rest of the weekend off, I waited all day Monday and still not posted.

First a threshold question: have I not waited long enough? Is 3+ days typical?

Secondly, assuming I got denied, why? I don't think it was a stupid question; possibly something along the lines of "why would anyone ever need to post... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 2:05 PM on April 25, 2005

There's a correction in the thread, but all of us who've been there are hyping the place and I'd hate to have people walk away remembering the wrong name. Thanks!
posted to MetaTalk by rkent at 7:39 AM on February 17, 2005