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Small inconsistency. On members' posts/comments pages, < newer / older>> point opposite to all the regular pages, which are < older / newer>>. Not terribly annoying, but easy to fix, no?
posted to MetaTalk by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 1:45 PM on August 31, 2007
(15 comments)
I'm about to post about a bug.
This little AskMe bug. The question was already answered, nailed immediately by lekvar, so the conversation was drifting pleasantly, and lekvar says:
How can you think they're ugly? They have cute little accordion butts!
posted by lekvar at 7:27 PM PST on June 14
So I reply: "The accordions are necessary for the polka dots."
Now my little pun is deleted. There follow three extremely complimentary references to my pun, none of which is on topic, none of which is deleted. So now it looks like
theperfectcrime made the pun. Now I don't mind deletions; I've had my share. But this is eerily selective, isn't it, jessamyn? Almost the perfect crime.
posted to MetaTalk by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 8:44 PM on June 16, 2006
(29 comments)
Anyone else confused by the
and links at the bottom? On the Blue,
next points to the right, but goes back to the older threads, yet
next, for most reading, implies the opposite. And
previous page points left, which makes sense, but it goes to the newer threads, which doesn't make sense. The confusion arises in part because we read Metafilter from new to old. To make it more confusing, on AskMe the
previous questions link goes to the
older questions, which is opposite to the Blue, where
right and
next mean back in time.
Did I get that right?
A simple, parallel solution would be to simply have
older and
newer, with older pointing left, and newer pointing right for all.
posted to MetaTalk by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 8:19 AM on March 29, 2006
(53 comments)
I recently had an Ask MetaFilter comment deleted. The topic was Asperger syndrome, and why so many brilliant people had it. My comment went something like this:
Call it what you want.
Difficulty with mundane, linear tasks promotes lateral, creative thinking.
Poor social skills promote self-reliance.
Weakness becomes strength.
I don't agree with the deletion, but I can live with it.
The standard explanation for FPP deletion is: "This is not what MetaFilter is for."
But now you have
an FPP with about sixty comments that debates how many five-year-olds you can maim or kill. Weapons are being mentioned. I understand this is supposed to be funny. I think this is not only not funny, but in extremely bad taste. Substitute "women" for "five-year-olds", and how long would this FPP last? Is this what MetaFilter is for? Matt?
posted to MetaTalk by weapons-grade pandemonium
at 10:49 PM on March 22, 2005
(119 comments)
