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I don't know what the policy is on this but I just got this spam via MeFi email from someone I don't know or care to know:
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 4:32 PM on July 16, 2008
(98 comments)
I'm terrible at remembering names. It would be great to have usernames that are favorites show up as a different color. Is there a way?
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 7:58 AM on April 29, 2008
(82 comments)
You know those little MP3 or PDF tags on
Wikipedia external links (see last external link), informing users they are about to click on a special file along with the file size? That would sure be nice for MeFi.
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 12:36 PM on December 15, 2007
(26 comments)
I'm kinda bumed
this post on the 'Very Short Introductions' series was deleted, but understand why. Any suggestions how to get the book series in the blue, besides pushing illegal copies? The FPP had 4 favorites in its brief life and had some useful discussion starting about the best books in the series.
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 9:26 PM on November 24, 2007
(34 comments)
Feature request: Allow a follow-up post on closed threads by the original FPP poster.
I often come across relevant and important information about subjects I made a FPP about months ago, but the thread is closed and it's not worth making a new FPP about it. It would be nice if the person who made the original FPP had the ability to make a single follow-up post after the FPP has closed.
The example I had in mind was
this thread about Citizenre solar-power, and this new story
Citizenre: A House of Cards, an important development that should be in the archived thread.
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 9:41 PM on February 14, 2007
(17 comments)
I made a FPP (
Stern Review of global warming) linking to Wikipedia using the
^ - for stylistic reasons, I wanted to emphasis the second link in the FPP and not the Wikipedia link, which is the first link, and so wanted to keep it small and unobtrusive. Someone< ?> then changed it and made it a full link. Is there a style-policy? Is it documented anywhere?
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 6:27 AM on October 30, 2006
(51 comments)
The metafilter
wikipedia article has a
slight disagreement over the possible inferences between MeFi's color Blue, "Red/Blue" states, and MeFi's general left-leaning politics - what do you think?
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 2:51 PM on May 2, 2006
(55 comments)
Feature request:
Mark this FPP as "Keep" -- like the Bloglines feature that makes posts sticky, or perhaps a list in the "Preferences" section. You could just use Bloglines, but MeFi is one of the few blogs where the native interface is better than a reader. Having a personal archive of favorite FPPs would be nice.
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 4:40 PM on December 1, 2005
(12 comments)
Followup post corrections in th reads. Theydrive me nuts. It takesawayfr om the point your tryingto make. People knowwhat your tryingtosay. It disrupts the flow of conversation. Mostpeople are not spelling/grammer nazis. It looks worse to correct it.
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 1:46 PM on June 22, 2004
(60 comments)
Any plans for MeFi skins/theme support? The skins are designed by the users, for example at
LinkFilter.
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 1:04 PM on January 23, 2004
(2 comments)
I've noticed (myself included) that comments to a FPP are often posted within minutes, even though the links on the FPP would take a lot longer to read. This means the poster probably did not read the FPP links. One thought to have a comment moratorium period (coded) to encourage the reading of the FPP links before posting. There sometimes seems to be a /. "first post" mentality to get a comment in as quick as possible near the top of a thread.
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 6:20 AM on December 11, 2003
(20 comments)
Colored usernames. How about a per-user defined option to have usernames show up in custom colors to keep track of users I want to read (red) and users I don't (gray) and everyone else (default). Or some other way to highlight when a user I really like posts without having to memorize lots of names.
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 7:39 PM on November 21, 2003
(42 comments)
I have an idea for a blog and wanted to get some feedback. Metafilter often creates great threads with each poster adding additional links and insights but one has to dig through the noise and do a lot of reconstruction to get the good bits. The idea for the blog would be a meta summary of certain threads pulling all the good links, quotes and ideas together in single post, a sort of "best-of" with appropriate footnoting for recognition of contribution. This would take some writing skill. The summary thread can then be TB'd on a separate blog so readers of metafilter would have access and because it is a "best-of" it would have more permanence and a chance for additional contributions. Thoughts?
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 7:43 AM on February 9, 2003
(16 comments)
Culling of the heard. Can somthing be done about crackedheadmatts post to someone whos
friend just died. "Was she hot?" -- over the line.
posted to MetaTalk by stbalbach
at 3:57 PM on September 26, 2002
(83 comments)
