Why is this thread on "penalties for abortion" still here? And the FPP is a Youtube one-link yet.
posted to MetaTalk by davy at 9:56 PM on July 30, 2007 (131 comments)

If it's wrong when I do it...
posted to MetaTalk by davy at 11:13 PM on April 7, 2007 (207 comments)

Possible FPP for somebody? I don't feel quite up to making a good FPP out of this, nor do I want to "clutter" the Blue with a one-link "newsfilter" item. But I do think that this smacks of an underhanded attempt to restore involuntary servitude, especially given the booming prison population thanks to harsh drugs laws etc. (I also wonder why the damn "farmers" can't simply put Help Wanted ads in the paper; they are willing to pay a decent wage to get their crops tended, right?)
posted to MetaTalk by davy at 11:07 AM on March 4, 2007 (12 comments)

"Eat a pickle every day." [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by davy at 9:40 PM on January 13, 2007 (73 comments)

Hey languagehat, are you reading the comment I wrote? [more inside]
posted to MetaTalk by davy at 1:39 PM on October 5, 2006 (208 comments)

'Help the net.cops, call yourself out!'
posted to MetaTalk by davy at 11:17 PM on April 2, 2006 (76 comments)

This new login "safeguard" bites. I was having good results reading Metafilter with the lightweight browser Dillo but logging in was impossible because Dillo lacks the capacity to display the coded characters one must enter "to prevent automated submissions". It doesn't work in Lynx either. This "feature" effectively restricts full participation in Metafilter to those who use recent fully-graphical browsers, which is a pain on this 9 year old machine I'm forced to use till my replacement power supply gets here. (It might also impact blind Mefites; anybody know?)

Is there another way to prevent automated submissions? Was there a problem with those that I hadn't noticed or is this new safeguard just one of those "nifty idea" kinds of things?
posted to MetaTalk by davy at 5:49 PM on December 5, 2005 (3 comments)

Who's "trolling" now? Don't we have enough vituperative political "debates" around here without somebody singling out and baiting certain individuals by name?
posted to MetaTalk by davy at 11:11 AM on September 20, 2005 (351 comments)

Is it necessary to politicize Ask Metafilter? [More inside.]
posted to MetaTalk by davy at 7:46 PM on September 6, 2005 (34 comments)

About today's earthquake/tidal wave post : today I read the New York Times site before Metafilter, but I dismissed the possibility of posting about it because of the recent snarking against linking to current news articles in front page posts.

Then I clicked on my Mefi tab to discover somebody had posted about it, and nobody's posted any "NewsFilter" gripes yet. Is it that the 0ldB33 Snarkers Committee really means "...to news articles we don't like (and you have to read our minds)", or is there a policy of ranking the human costs of natural disasters somewhere above doggie dildos after all?

As for that thread's content, I was little dismayed about the comments where people's big concern was for one dried-up (and never very good) Sci-Fi author (the movie "2001" was Kubrick's doing, y'all), but I withheld my remarks about that failure of etiquette and (as I see it) morals from the Blue -- as, as of this typing, so has everybody else.

But then of course I'm still a "n00b".... Are concerns like those I've expressed here today okay, or should I first submit my MetaTalk thread ideas to some MetaCognoscenti as well?
posted to MetaTalk by davy at 11:09 AM on December 26, 2004 (159 comments)

A MeFi newbie question. I tried deleting cookies, but I can't find a way to post/comment nor can I find a way to get back to the references page. Is this a *feature* for New Users, or did I do something wrong on say the Preferences page, or what?
posted to MetaTalk by davy at 9:48 AM on November 19, 2004 (13 comments)