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My brain free-associates all over the place when I'm trying to fall asleep. The other night during that time, a question popped into my head: the mods are all relatively within the same age range. Matt, decades from now, when you're tired of running the show, will you hand it down to "Mefi: the Next Generation"? Or close up shop?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 7:08 PM on November 8, 2012
(63 comments)
Just wanted to drop a quick note to let everyone know I'm leaving Metafilter, and wish you all the best.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 10:37 AM on July 23, 2011
(86 comments)
Didn't see this in the FAQ: is there an online venue where one can chat live with fellow Mefites? I know there's nothing official sponsored by the site, but what's the most popular of any home-brewed solutions?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 10:49 AM on July 3, 2011
(37 comments)
Pony Request: Adding Health Month to the external profiles one can add to their profile.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:23 AM on March 5, 2011
(6 comments)
With
mattdidthat's permission (and with mathowie's kind hosting), I wanted to share the Metafilter
user ID card — and,
especially, the insane and utter brilliance of the included
old-comic-ads-style insert — both of which mattdidthat provides free of charge to people who donate to any one of a handful of organizations which he lists
here.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 10:11 AM on December 29, 2010
(36 comments)
As far as I can tell, there's three factors at play with deleted posts – moderator opinion, initial crowd opinion (comments), and initial crowd opinion (flagging). And I'm kind of seeking to understand how it interplays,
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 10:38 PM on September 24, 2010
(29 comments)
Matt, I just wanted you to know that
the Dawson's Creek version of you (analogy source) has been guest starring in recent episodes of SyFy's "Warehouse 13." Unless it's just me. But the character can spout technobabble at the drop of a hat, and the way they've got the character costumed has been reminding me of those photos I've seen of mathowie.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 7:10 PM on September 9, 2010
(37 comments)
I
agree with Artw – Jessamyn, I respectfully opine
this was a bad call.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 5:22 AM on August 16, 2010
(210 comments)
You've heard cortex's quirky song stylings, before, but
now it looks like he's getting some competition from a fellow admin. (
Relevant Google Maps link.) Now all we need is for mathowie and vacapinta to do a duet on "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Moderator" and we're covered!
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:07 PM on June 10, 2010
(99 comments)
There's a bit too much "too much __________________" going on in MetaTalk. Every other day, MetaTalk hosts a thread wherein a user complains that a subject they find uninteresting is being overdone on Metafilter. Such threads are an expression of
individuals' disinterest in a subject, and while there's nothing intrinsically wrong with such disinterest, it's somehow evolved into a continuing reoccurrence within MetaTalk that's just utterly purposeless.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 11:28 AM on May 11, 2010
(263 comments)
Hoppy birdday, cerebellum! Er, no, got that wrong. Let me try that again! Many happy returns of the day, limbic system! Damn. I know I can get this right. Third try's the charm?
Happy birthday, cortex! There we go!
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 1:40 AM on April 26, 2010
(151 comments)
Could how Metafilter renders BLOCKQUOTE and list tags be fixed/tweaked?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 11:00 AM on March 12, 2010
(48 comments)
We last discussed the edit window
last September, after it was tried out in
December '08. I was just curious what the current status of the feature was ... has any definite decision been made one way or the other whether it'll be rolled out, and if so, has a date been set?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 7:49 PM on February 28, 2010
(46 comments)
What Ask Metafilter threads do Mefites think are the best-of for weight loss, diet and exercise?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 3:14 PM on February 8, 2010
(36 comments)
Idea: the Metafilter link-checker. Take the part of the 'new post' process that double-checks against prior posts, add the part of Mefi that conjures up the related posts, put a link to the feature up on the two lines of links near the logo.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:59 PM on September 18, 2009
(42 comments)
Just wanted to highlight
Lore Sjöberg's Mathowie-ing of Weird Al Yankovic's "Charles Nelson Reilly", which then inspired wendell's
rewrite of the lyrics. Both fairly amusing and almost lost in the shuffle, I think.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:20 PM on September 3, 2009
(8 comments)
I am wondering if people could assist me in locating Ask Metafilter questions along the lines of
this and
this. I know it's a concept frequently asked about, but evidently the concept's too amorphous for tags to be of help, Related Questions just circularly refer to each other, and I can't find the right Google-
fu for this one.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:03 PM on August 6, 2009
(11 comments)
I recently had a MeFi post deleted. I know it will still show up in my Metafilter Recent Activity for a while, but once it goes from there, is there any way to track it and any deleted posts from my past?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:30 PM on July 18, 2009
(34 comments)
Click on "My Profile". Click on the number to the right of "Favorited by others:". Click on the word "Popular". Copy and paste the top result into this MeTa thread (with hyperlink).
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 7:27 PM on June 25, 2009
(311 comments)
There are about six different places where favorites live, and I often find myself confused as hell as to the differences between the various tabs and links.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 7:14 PM on June 18, 2009
(58 comments)
Pony request: can following all anonymous posts (or maybe, more widely, following a specific user) be integrated into MyAskMefi?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 1:21 PM on June 9, 2009
(29 comments)
Ask.Metafilter is over 5 years old now, with volumes of suggestions and helpful ideas.
philosophistry sorted through the years of posts categorized as
Human Relations and
Work & Money, and created ranked listings of the books people recommended the most often:
Human Relations,
Work & Money. Note that each little thumbs-up icon is a link back to the post which referred to the book in question.
Posted originally in Mefi by filthy light thief, but deleted.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 5:01 PM on April 16, 2009
(34 comments)
This idea has been sticking around in my head for a while: assuming its creator cortex didn't vehemently object, could
Big Big Question be integrated into Metafilter as a new subsite? I think it could be something amazing.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 3:44 PM on March 28, 2009
(65 comments)
What third-party Metafilter killfiles/killfilters — if any — have been developed, and do any still function on the way the site acts nowadays, all AJAX-ified and such?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 1:45 AM on February 13, 2009
(77 comments)
I had a suggestion for Ask Metafilter: a field for a one-sentence summary.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 3:48 PM on January 20, 2009
(24 comments)
Metafilter Gray.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:33 PM on January 2, 2009
(25 comments)
Just wanted to float an idea about Ask Mefi categories.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 6:40 PM on December 17, 2008
(29 comments)
I remember an Ask Metafilter question in which it was asked whether, if the current Queen of England went by a name based on her forename and surname (the format many of us go by, such as "John Smith" or "Jane Doe"), what that name would be. I can't seem to find it under the "queen" tag or via a Google search.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 3:13 PM on December 10, 2008
(69 comments)
PonyFilter: Keyboard navigation for comments, similar to what's demonstrated
here, except the pagination hack wouldn't be necessary (unless you wanted it to go to the next thread instead of the next page). 'j' would go one comment down the page and 'k' would go one comment up the page. It'd be a real nice addition!
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 4:04 PM on November 21, 2008
(31 comments)
Just out of curiousity, tomorrow, there's going to be about five million, four hundred thousand, six hundred fifty-two attempts to write a "first black President" FPP. Do the mods have any specific plans, or is it going to be whomever jumps the gun first? And are you guys going to be able to enjoy the festivities, or are you going to be too busy deleting everyone's massively respawning dupes? ;-)
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 6:59 PM on November 3, 2008
(107 comments)
Matt, among other Mefites (
Anil,
Lore), are participating in a deeply hysterical
election-themed "Yo Momma" fight (wiki).
(via Boing Boing)
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 7:59 AM on October 22, 2008
(26 comments)
Google has a new way of indexing Ask Metafilter (among others).
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 12:18 PM on October 9, 2008
(17 comments)
One of the most discouraging trends I see in Metafilter as a whole is this
very widespread tendency for
Mefites to focus to a fetishistic degree on bureaucratic policing rather than content. I don't think the tendency makes someone a bad person, nor do I claim I've been immune to it. But it's a variation of ...
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:54 AM on September 17, 2008
(110 comments)
You know, there's been
fiction about
Mefi post-apocalypse. But if you look at
this thread and at the
9/11 thread, it'd be 180° from what's been (jokingly) suggested:
man, do we pull together. (I see visions of us geographically gathering together post-apocalypse and being the only functioning society on the planet ... )
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:22 AM on September 5, 2008
(39 comments)
eamondaly and
iguanapolitico suggest a Chicago meetup for
September 25. Locale:
Snuggery v.
Billy Goat v.
American Girl Boutique and Bistro.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 5:49 AM on August 19, 2008
(62 comments)
Apology (too).
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:15 AM on August 7, 2008
(270 comments)
People who were interested in
the original thread may enjoy seeing
some big grins on kids' faces courtesy of
baby_balrog's
playground ministry; the playgrounds are evidently up.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:48 AM on July 29, 2008
(19 comments)
Will Shetterly's
now a Mefite. Cool. Welcome on board.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 1:57 PM on July 21, 2008
(85 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)
Nothin' big, but I found it amusing that
Lifehacker linked to a closed thread.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 2:14 PM on January 8, 2008
(47 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)
