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Length limits in AskMe

"More Inside" is great and all, but perhaps it's time for absolute length limits in AskMe? Brain-dump essays like those (2600 and 1500 words!) don't help people answer, and all those posts need is some judicious editing before posting.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 9:59 AM on May 9, 2007 (42 comments)

One down. [mo' in....

One down. [mo' in.]
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 6:27 AM on November 29, 2006 (38 comments)

If anything belongs in metatalk, a post flaming...

If anything belongs in metatalk, a post flaming Metafilter users' spelling and grammar sure does. How much more "about Metafilter" can you get than "I am baffled as to why this is so frequent on a site such as AskMeFi"?
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 8:28 AM on October 24, 2006 (80 comments)

Metafilter's DNS is broken. (More inside.)...

Metafilter's DNS is broken. (More inside.)
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 10:05 AM on August 2, 2006 (18 comments)

I just went to remove a favorite, and while it...

I just went to remove a favorite, and while it successfully removes it, it continues to redirect to the same URL forever. It looks like the "add favorite" link for posts (but not comments) tries to do the same thing, but stops after one reload to tell me that the favorite has already been added.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 12:34 PM on May 15, 2006 (8 comments)

AskMe is hanging half-rendered, with the status...

AskMe is hanging half-rendered, with the status bar reading "Connecting to static.fmpub.net...", which, indeed, is not accepting connections.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 3:07 PM on April 17, 2006 (11 comments)

Looks like we have blue-style deletion in the...

Looks like we have blue-style deletion in the green now! Yay! That sort of feedback loop is a good thing. (Besides, I enjoy reading reasons for deletion.)
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 12:28 PM on January 12, 2006 (39 comments)

Sign my petition! It's generated a big discussion,...

Sign my petition! It's generated a big discussion, but I'm thinking that maybe a link to a blog that links to a petition might not be mefi material, especially from someone who has an interest (1, 2, 3, 4, from the only other thread he's ever participated in) in getting people to go there. If it walks like a self-link and quacks like a self-link...
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 10:19 AM on December 13, 2005 (19 comments)

Sunny day! Sweepin' the clouds away! On my way to...

Sunny day! Sweepin' the clouds away! On my way to where the links are sweet! Can you tell me how to get, how to get to...
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 7:50 AM on September 28, 2005 (32 comments)

Happy 10,000, Metatalk!...

Happy 10,000, Metatalk!
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 7:47 PM on August 18, 2005 (51 comments)

Trying to comment here gets me: Forbidden - You...

Trying to comment here gets me:

Forbidden - You don't have permission to access /contribute/post_comment_preview.cfm on this server.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 10:52 AM on July 28, 2005 (1 comment)

Missing pony: Author information in RSS feeds....

Missing pony: Author information in RSS feeds. According to this earlier metatalk thread, the RSS feeds should contain the name of a post's author in the appropriate field, but there are no such tags showing up in the feed. Was that pony stillborn? Can it be revived?
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 9:46 AM on June 30, 2005 (4 comments)

Ottawa meetup reminder: tomorrow night (Friday Feb...

Ottawa meetup reminder: tomorrow night (Friday Feb 18), 7:00 pm, Pub Italia, 434½ Preston St. They don't take reservations so we're winging it, but there are a lot of big tables there. I'll try to teach the hostess what a metafilter is. All the cool kids are coming.
posted to MetaTalk by mendel at 6:47 AM on February 17, 2005