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Apology (too).
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:15 AM on August 7, 2008
(256 comments)
Mefi's Own Baby_Balrog: "Stephen and I traveled to Bilin, near Ramallah, on Friday. [...] IDF soldiers began firing CS gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at the marchers [...] here's a video of me running away when the soldiers started firing gas canisters [...] I had my jump kit with me and tried to help a few people [...]" He's writing a pretty fascinating blog.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 12:56 PM on June 24, 2008
(14 comments)
Please for the love of all that is holy, can we stop?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 6:24 AM on June 4, 2008
(1 comment)
Would it be possible for someone -- admin, volunteer, or even I could take a whack -- to develop a print stylesheet for Metafilter?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 10:52 AM on April 29, 2008
(140 comments)
Just a derail-preventing idea ...
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 10:50 AM on April 22, 2008
(60 comments)
If anyone would like to be guildmaster of the Alliance Metafilter World of Warcraft guild on Maelstrom ("
The Blue"), please respond in this thread or e-mail me.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 11:21 AM on April 1, 2008
(38 comments)
Are there still any Metafilter-specific World of Warcraft guilds?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 11:20 AM on March 11, 2008
(42 comments)
RFC on carbon-copying Mefi mail
you send to your home address, too.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:51 AM on February 20, 2008
(63 comments)
Fundamentalist Metafilterism? A few days ago, I had a
post deleted. I'm actually
not complaining about that
(hey! don't jump on me! I'm not! read this before yelling at me!), but that, combined with the
belovedness of
this post, made a question form in my head.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 5:27 PM on January 15, 2008
(45 comments)
Ponyfilter: highlighting high-favorite comments in threads, for when you want to do a quick skim of a long(ish) thread.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 10:53 AM on December 31, 2007
(47 comments)
While
this guy does need the "slap in the face" back-to-reality technique he's getting, he doesn't need it to the extent he's getting, and the extent of name-calling is more likely to make him re-entrench in his behaviors than it is to assist in the change of attitude he's seeking.
This comment is particularly unhelpful.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 2:13 PM on December 18, 2007
(678 comments)
A few months shy of three years later, I'm still knocked breathless by
this thread. I've been rereading each story over this weekend, and it's really had me thinking about echoes and effects, human goodness, and the astonishing strength of human resilience. I'm really grateful to everyone who shared such meaningful and vulnerable moments of their lives. Mefi is one hell of a community.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 3:39 PM on December 9, 2007
(56 comments)
Cool, when did the "remove from activity" thing get implemented?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 6:23 AM on November 28, 2007
(46 comments)
Are favorites meant to be bookmarks or endorsements?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:31 AM on October 18, 2007
(83 comments)
I'm wondering if (a) we might be able to get a baked-in quoting ability, or (b) someone could help me figure out why Plutor's quote script isn't working for me.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:17 AM on September 16, 2007
(89 comments)
There is a single page that globally ranks
comments across the three sites by number of times favorited, spanning the past seven days (
link). There are individual pages that rank
posts for each subsite by number of times favorited in the past day (
AskMefi,
Mefi, and
Meta). Do there exist individual pages for each subsite that rank the
comments most favorited within the past 24 hours — or even a single page that spans all three but ranks the most favorited comments in the last 24 hours?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 12:59 PM on August 24, 2007
(13 comments)
There are about five googol plexes (googols plex?)* about dating and flirting on Metafilter.
How do I flirt? Does she like me? How can you tell if a girl likes you? This girl is doing behaviors X, Y, and Z. Is she into me? This boy is doing behaviors A, B, and C. Does he like me? What is the most outstanding and/or insightful commentary you've seen a Mefite write about dating? The topic is such a huge morass of wordage (due to it being a common area of questioning and one that everyone likes to chime in on) that it's a bit daunting in its scope, and yet I know there are some incredible gems. What comments did you think were amazingly spot-on?
* — please, don't everybody tell me what the plural of googol plex is and not answer the main one ;-)
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:21 PM on August 15, 2007
(88 comments)
Two things (and yes, I'm cheating). First, I'm wondering if there's any mechanism out there that allows us to look at a "best of" for Mefi and Ask Mefi. Popular favorites in the last 24 hours immediately leaps to mind, and would indeed be ideal, but I'm looking for an RSS feed, and Mathowie says that's a no-go in past MeTas. (Any chance we could change your mind, Matt?) I hear there used to be a third-party blog that did it, but I don't think that's around any longer. Perhaps the sidebar feed ... at least for Mefi? Still, the sidebar is like a "best of best of Mefi." Second, and on an entirely different subject, when the
MeFi comment dividers Greasemonkey script is used, it throws off permalinks to comments ... if you click on a comment permalink somewhere else (i.e. a Recent Activity page or a Favorites page), you're at first dropped at the anchor for the comment on the page, but when the comment dividers are applied, it bounces away. Anyone have an idea how that effect might be avoided? I'm more of a idiot-splicer than a programmer, so I really have no idea how to change that script to avoid the effect. Thanks in advance for any advice or answers on both questions ...
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:44 PM on August 8, 2007
(28 comments)
If you could found a new Metafilter subsite, what would you start, and, for fun, what color would it be (
e.g., "the green")?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 7:22 PM on July 29, 2007
(138 comments)
Damnit, why was my Ask.Mefi question about the average diameter of kumquats deleted?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:53 AM on July 5, 2007
(36 comments)
Is there an RSS feed that is solely the Mefi meetup calendar listed in the MeTa sidebar? If not, Matt, is that something you might consider, or would it be too much of a pain in the ass? Separately, just because I'm curious (this ISN'T meant as a challenge): I understand posting limits on Mefi and AskMefi, to prevent abuse. I'm curious as to why Meta has one, though, and four days apart. Has it been abused in the past, or is there the potential for abuse?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:14 AM on June 12, 2007
(12 comments)
PonyFilter: Since anonymous questions were first introduced, there's been the need for anonymous questioners to easily respond as a follow-up to their own question, and, to a lesser degree, given subject matter, for people to contribute their answers to the question anonymously. I imagine the admins have already thought about this, and I'm just wondering if it's a feature that will never seen because of the possibility of abuse or the difficulty of coding.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 4:06 PM on June 3, 2007
(16 comments)
This made me wonder who our youngest Mefite is.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 10:25 AM on May 15, 2007
(56 comments)
Are the deletions a bit wonky today? Some are showing up as the less uncommon scorched-earth-deletes (
61928,
61950); some aren't appearing on the front page but have no deletion reason and appear open once you enter their thread (
61932,
61936,
61942).
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 10:28 AM on May 4, 2007
(4 comments)
If an admin deleted an Ask MeFi question at the poster's request, what ethical implications are associated with blogging about it, if you saw the thread prior to its deletion and feel you have something to say? And what rationale do you use to form that opinion?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 2:41 PM on April 25, 2007
(53 comments)
Okay, I give up. What does "this will not wendell" actually mean?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 5:15 PM on April 18, 2007
(78 comments)
Wish we had a follow-up on
this thread — guy sounded like a psycho (as you might imagine from my response). The user apparently hasn't posted since then.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 2:15 PM on March 28, 2007
(51 comments)
OMFGAWWTDMTT:
(Oh My F—kin' God Another 'Why Was This Deleted' Metatalk Thread). But, hopefully, a meta-OMFGAWWTDMTT thread. Jess, Matt, I like you guys, I really dig Metafilter, Ask Metafilter, Metatalk; I like the fact that there's good stuff here, healthy dollops of snark and cynicism, but overall what appear to be good people. But I'm having more and more difficulty discerning the criteria and rationales by which you guys delete threads, and I think that's a trend that's gonna bite the site's ass a little further down the road. More inside.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 6:45 PM on January 31, 2007
(118 comments)
PonyFilter: Can we have RSS feeds for users' answers/posts? It'd be nice if you like a person's brand of answers and want to keep abreast of them, but are the kind of person who lives and dies by RSS feeds. Plus, y'know, well, there's
this.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 11:33 AM on December 14, 2006
(13 comments)
Contemplating the FeaturePony: The
MeFi Navigator Greasemonkey script is frakkin' insanely useful, if only for the 'poster' and 'admin' tags (I don't use the comment navigation stuff that much). Wouldn't Safari and IE users praise the ground mathowie walks on if it got built into the system itself?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:13 AM on December 5, 2006
(28 comments)
After I posted
this horrific story, the infighting threads in there blew up to atrocious levels. I know it's not on the front page anymore, but mathowie or jess, it'd be nice if you could take a machete to all the crap infighting threads that people chose to dump in there, 'cause it's still going on. (And, on that issue, the fact that idiots would choose to infight in a thread about such a horrific topic is truly one of the worst moments I've seen on MeFi.)
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 11:18 AM on November 19, 2006
(57 comments)
Matt or Jess, could you de-linkify the word "nationwide" in
this post? I moved it to be the initial link for the post, but neglected to clean up my HTML.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 10:17 PM on November 5, 2006
(1 comment)
NewTabsIWannaPonyFilter: For the various stuff that has now been tabbed-up on AskMeFi, MeFi, and MeTa, it would be wonderful for those of us who primarily browse by RSS feed if we had the option of subscribing to individual RSS feeds for the tabs in question. Hell of a lot more work, I imagine, but I'm just talking in an ideal world.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:36 AM on October 28, 2006
(6 comments)
Matt, this is your playground, obviously. But
the question was
very seriously meant, and I find its deletion troublesome. First, it was as politely phrased as possible for those who are Bush fans; they were, in a very non-trollish and respectful way, warned away two paragraphs in. Second, the question
most definitely was
NOT an "xyz sucks amirite" question, and that's an inaccurate, hasty, and I even daresay somewhat insulting characterization of what the question was. Third, if that question as phrased isn't permitted on Ask MeFi, then what's the deal ... are politically charged questions, or questions speaking from an obvious demonstrable political bias, not allowed on Ask MeFi, even if they are legitimate and courteous questions? If they are, then by what guidelines can someone operate whether or not they're going to trigger a deletion (and it might be helpful to post those on the Ask a Question page)? Finally ... if someone's question is zapped, they still have to wait a week?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:38 PM on October 23, 2006
(44 comments)
PiratedRSSFilter: I know that Ask Metafilter has an official RSS feed provided by Matt. But be thar any other RSS feeds available other than t' straight listin' o' questions and answers — either provided by Matt or pirated/screen-scraped?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:13 PM on October 17, 2006
(11 comments)
If you do not have access to a post by a MeFite, but nevertheless know that said MeFite is registered, how do you look for and access their userpage and their posting/commenting history? It appears that the search pages simply point to Google/Yahoo search boxes for the site, which do not assist in this particular situation.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 12:17 PM on September 26, 2006
(28 comments)
Not a complaint ... but Ask MeFi has pretty much exploded in frequency, and it seems that it's now not unusual to be seeing nearly a hundred questions a day. For those who read it via the RSS feed, that's a helluva lot of questions to sort through. This isn't meant to be precisely a question, but anyone have any thoughts?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 2:24 PM on August 4, 2006
(115 comments)
Wondering if it's just me, or a bug: go to
my answers on AskMeFi. Scroll down to the first answer, "comment posted at 11:35 AM CST on May-21-06", that is beneath the question, "I believe that another tenant has place an air "freshener" in the hallway out side of our apartments in violation of their lease. I want it removed. What should I do?".
When I click on this, my copy of Firefox goes a little bugshit. I can click on the tabs, but the actual display in the screen doesn't change at all, and a lot of the interface elements become unresponsive. I have to quit (not force quit, the menus are still accessible). I'm using Firefox v1.5.0.4 for Mac OS X, using the Whitehart-NC theme.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:00 AM on July 4, 2006
(26 comments)
Jessamyn, Matt, you might want to specially watchguard
this thread.
Assuming the poster is not trolling for his own amusement, then it'd be useful to remove the mocking posts out of it, especially if this guy thinks the whole world is out to get him.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:55 PM on May 28, 2006
(196 comments)
This thread was deleted, but I have to admit, I don't understand why. "Ask MeFi isn't for silly hypotheticals," sez Matt, but hasn't it been before? And if not, exactly how practical must Ask MeFi questions be? I've seen plenty of hypotheticals on Ask MeFi before, and this struck me as an interesting thought exercise.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:13 PM on April 26, 2006
(59 comments)
Food for thought regarding Ask MeFi: Answer the question or answer the underlying circumstances? Posit that the questioner didn't specifically ask that responses exclude a particular discussion, but, for example,
this. A lot of people are saying "forget the computer, it should be disciplinary." Not directly responsive to the question, but responsive to the situation. Good? Bad? Thoughts?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:48 AM on April 5, 2006
(33 comments)
