I'm already here, and I was thinking about checking it out, but I can't figure out from the website if it's free for spectators. If I go it'd be nice to know one other person going, at least...
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 7:53 PM on May 25, 2008

Hey, while we're asking for social thingie ponies: I know LibraryThing is the Standard Metafilter Book Site, but how about some love for GoodReads?
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 4:51 PM on March 24, 2008

Nyxie and I are in the process of moving to Toronto right now, too, and will be there by February. Therefore I approve of this plan.

(I'm there now during the week but she's still in Ottawa.)
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 7:33 PM on January 11, 2008

Nyxie and I will be there! Will we... find you all?
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 8:44 PM on February 14, 2008

Forktime: Satisfies the feds. That's all they care about anyhow.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 5:34 AM on January 21, 2008

I get the same result, and I can reach metafilter. I assume the next hop simply isn't letting the traceroute through, that's not that uncommon.

theplanet hops:
14 te7-1.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.18) 56.930 ms 56.015 ms te9-1.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com (70.87.253.6) 56.533 ms
15 76.fd.5746.static.theplanet.com (70.87.253.118) 56.852 ms 56.436 ms 56.891 ms
16 po1.car05.dllstx6.theplanet.com (12.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 7:43 PM on January 2, 2008

(er, and then the * * *.)
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 7:44 PM on January 2, 2008

Tie it into the Kindle somehow.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 7:19 AM on November 25, 2007

Did someone call... no? Oh. I see. Okay.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 8:41 PM on September 5, 2007

The admins have told us before that the flag reason is all but unused. It's the volume of flagging that keys them into what's going on.

If you have a specific complaint about a post, you're better off emailing or IMing them than flagging.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 7:51 AM on August 19, 2007

So in other words: [this is good][this is bad][this is offensive][this is broken] ?
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 5:30 PM on August 20, 2007

goddammit, <select> worked in preview.

*flags*
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 5:31 PM on August 20, 2007

travel?
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 5:18 PM on August 4, 2007

other ways?
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 10:08 AM on August 5, 2007

This post needs less "not saying" and more "saying".
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 10:05 PM on July 28, 2007

Oh, there's some saying. IAWTC.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 10:08 PM on July 28, 2007

You're asking the same people, so unless you point out what went wrong the first time, I can't think of any reason to not expect an exact repeat of what you didn't like.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 11:21 AM on July 24, 2007

Oh, the humanity!
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 6:38 AM on July 23, 2007

Since you wrote "yet another", we know you've seen all of the other "Why was this deleted?" posts lately. That means you've seen the advice in all of them to email the admin that deleted the post. And you've also seen that none of them have generated any results that would be better than the results you'd get by emailing the admin that deleted the post.

So why is this here?
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 9:51 AM on July 20, 2007

That's not that weird a question. I've filed for years with QuickTaxWeb, the online version of QuickTax. At the end you're given a .tax file that you can't do anything with except upload the next year, unless you buy the desktop version of QuickTax.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 11:36 AM on July 17, 2007

(Er, my mistake. I looked into the files I had, and they're even less what everyone was guessing -- .tax files are the output of Canadian tax software used to file online via the government's NETFILE service. So if that's all you had then you certainly would be confused as to what you were supposed to do with them, since after you upload them to the NETFILE website they're useless to you.)
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 11:45 AM on July 17, 2007

Eh, comic website full of in jokes and swearing. Meh.

That's better.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 5:46 PM on July 16, 2007

She didn't ask "what astrology expects". She told us what astrology expected. And now she's chatting about what might specifically happen to her, which is completely hypothetical and completely chatfilter.

Just because it's a crazy belief doesn't mean you have to protect it.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 4:13 PM on July 12, 2007

So I think it's really sweet that you're trying to help her with her question (such as it is).

He linked to Rob Brezny, an "astrologer" who writes positive newspaper horoscopes without using any astrological principles, whose column is intended to let those who do believe in astrology follow "their sign" without it negatively impacting their life. I like reading Free Will Astrology too because it's nice to have fun positive... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 5:07 PM on July 12, 2007

She's asking for astrological advice on how weather a difficult time in her life.

No, she's asking for astrological advice on how to weather a predicted difficult time in her life. Some people pointed out that astrological advice was prompting the difficulty but that's not permitted here.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 5:22 PM on July 12, 2007

Born on July 14, 1999, Metafilter is a Cancer - Sign of the Crab.

REMEMBER ME, CANCER?
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 6:11 AM on July 13, 2007

This was funnier before it was pointed out.

Just so's you knows.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 5:47 PM on July 12, 2007

liquorice: With that many friends, he's on a first-name basis.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 6:01 PM on July 12, 2007

Your thoughts are intriguing and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 10:02 AM on July 11, 2007

(So what was the comment?)
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 12:33 PM on June 29, 2007

You keep saying "and I would pay $5 for it". Demonstrate this, and then the problem is solved.

Also: Sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid (for tartness), natural and artificial flavor, artificial color (red 40, yellow 5, blue 1).
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 7:18 PM on June 27, 2007

I didn't look up yours either.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 6:16 PM on June 26, 2007

Maybe I'm misreading, or maybe you're confused, but in case it's the latter: languagehat just happened to be the last person to comment before jessamyn deleted the thread. Languagehat didn't cause it to be deleted.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 10:00 AM on June 25, 2007

It's a DEL (delete) character. Jessamyn, your browser textbox probably doesn't know how to handle DEL -- but I bet if you copied the text part to the clipboard, did a "select all" and "delete" in the textbox, then pasted the clipboard, it'd be gone.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 9:21 AM on June 24, 2007

I have Foxit installed at home and use it to view PDFs, but the download window popping up is a constant distraction.

If you pony up for the full Foxit Reader Pro, you get a browser plugin.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 6:49 AM on June 21, 2007

The different views do not open up new (browser) tabs for me. Do you by chance have "open up links in new windows" turned on in your Metafilter preferences?
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 12:01 PM on June 13, 2007

I don't think it was deleted (only) for wasting space. The admins have moved more to inside before, and they chose not to do so on that one.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 5:22 PM on June 8, 2007

(Also, "This post shouldn't be deleted because this OTHER crap is still there" seems like a pretty weak position and not so flattering to the post you're trying to support.)
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 5:23 PM on June 8, 2007

On the off chance that dobbs comes in here, HowardForums is a great place to get insider info about cellphone plans, including in Canada.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 7:16 AM on June 5, 2007

From over here, at least, that post didn't read like "I want to pay someone to research these plans for me", it looked like it was meant to be an AskMe post, "Has anyone heard of these plans?". It didn't look like you were trying to hire someone to do something.

After reading what you wrote here and then rereading that Jobs post, only then did I see that you were looking to pay someone for the favor of being an insider.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 8:42 AM on June 5, 2007

These people, who can browse recreational websites during the workday which talk about goldfish drown in urine, but who can't see "piss" on the screen without getting fired? They don't actually exist.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 1:30 PM on June 4, 2007

the clicker is WHERE?
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 9:14 PM on May 30, 2007

I think you mean "Metafilter's Own Lore Sjöberg".
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 9:55 AM on May 30, 2007

They do seem to be getting less side-splitting.

Because they're coming from the Internet at large, who seem to think it's enough to misspell a caption to make it funny. The best ones came from 4chan, Something Awful, and so on, where the requirements for "funny" are a lot more subtle.

Longcat isn't funny because he's long, he's funny because he's longcat.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 2:59 PM on May 21, 2007

Ah, here's a great example of what I was talking about above, how lolcats have lost their impact as the 4chan/SA influence has dropped: compare this image from icanhascheezburger with this one.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 5:04 PM on May 21, 2007

Oh, duh, sorry. The "Cheez" one is cheezburger's, the FAIL one is my own doing. It's not from 4chan because it's not caturday yet.

I'm sort of amused that even with the lolcat buildr, the "Cheez" one used the wrong font for motivational posters! There is no way cheezburger could have come up with INVISIBLE BIKE or MONORAIL CAT.

Also, for those of you who are at least slightly familiar with 4chan memes: YOU... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 10:03 AM on May 22, 2007

The Metafiltr project page has awesome in the link.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 9:24 PM on May 21, 2007

It doesn't sound like drug propaganda. It sounds like someone that believed drug propaganda. There's bound to be some people like that.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 7:29 PM on May 15, 2007

Faint of Butt: If it's in the URL, then it's also in the page <title> and in the first line of the post.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 2:06 PM on May 9, 2007

Look, the content that the poster took ten minutes to edit themselves is guaranteed to be more helpful than the content that the poster spewed out and hit "post" without editing. That's why it's called editing.

I admit that it may be self-regulating, and the people who can't write succinct questions won't get much for answers and won't come back for their next question -- though I doubt the people who see nothing wrong with posting thousands... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 10:15 AM on May 9, 2007