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I saw the ad for the Start Conference, and clicked on it. Love the concept and the speaker's list looks solid as well. I also noticed that MetaFilter is a sponsor of the event. So who here is planning on going?
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 8:01 PM on July 1, 2008
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election08.metafilter.com ?
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 8:15 PM on February 21, 2008
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Why doesn't metafilter add a del.ico.us-like portion of the site which shows interrelated links between sites that have been linked and tagged by users on the various metafilter domains, including users own homepages, projects, etc.
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 12:34 AM on December 28, 2005
(6 comments)
What do people think about polling the membership? A feature that would allow Matt (or others) to provide questions on popular issues/ideas/songs or whatever and get a sense of what the community thinks. The obvious example is topical stuff, e.g. who will the Metafilter users vote for in the election? This idea could either enhance the community, or divide it. The biggest negative is that statistics are misleading, they can polarize things, and they give people easy examples when they are generalizing, and that sucks. But, it would be fascinating to know how the community stands on a given issue. I still think this is the best community on the internet and the most interesting, and I think many people would like to know how we feel on this or that. If it were to happen in the style of this site, it would be a once every few months kind of thing. A side feature could be to have all discussion on that issue reside on that page (get them off the front).
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 7:42 PM on June 29, 2004
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In this posting, user dhartung mentions that there are dozens of threads that he doesn't even read, after user RobertLoch asks if it's necessary to keep posting on the same old topics. Myself, I probably read around 25% of the total threads, and click on maybe 35% of the links offered-- even if a topic has been done to death it doesn't really affect me, as I just skip it. How about you? What percentage of threads do you read?
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 4:10 PM on March 4, 2002
(26 comments)
Recently I needed to do some research and began to use the
Ajeeb translation site. You need to be registered to use it, so on a whim I used username and password: mefi. To my surprise, they worked. I know the NYTimes has a MeFi login, what others are out there? A list would be nice.
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 12:34 PM on February 28, 2002
(14 comments)
How about a "kill post" function, with a tipping point. A little button next to front-page posts, that if 10, 15, 25, whatever people click within the first 10 minutes (or 5 responses) of a post, it gets deleted from the front page.
It's democratic, it's brutally efficient, and it will cut down on front page non-posts. I think people here are mature enough not to delete posts just because they're political.. and if not, the tipping point can just be scaled up a bit.
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 4:58 PM on September 26, 2001
(6 comments)
Ev Williams of Blogger's new (well new to me, anyway) project is
The End of Free What does this mean for Blogger? How will it "transition from free to fee and beyond"? What about other weblog software, is there anything you'd pay for?
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 1:28 PM on August 21, 2001
(3 comments)
Take a look at
Drudge, then take a look at MeFi. Way too many similar links.
Perhaps MeFi could have a separate board for "news and politics" with a setting that posts with 15 or more comments jumps to the main page?
Basically there are just too many Drudge-cribbed news links on the front page.
Ideas?
posted to MetaTalk by cell divide
at 2:32 PM on January 25, 2001
(20 comments)
