MeTa comment:
"Nobody wins when it's ok to dismiss someone's viewpoint because they have more emotional evidence on their side.
While I think a lot of people in this thread both male and female have explained how they think that the gender imbalances and..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by gaspode, dog food sugar, Elsa, Mavri, Dormant Gorilla, languagehat, contrariwise, jokeefe, velvet winter, ArkhanJG, heyho, Forktine, bakerina, philotes, Caduceus, audacity
1 minute ago
Ask comment:
"follow-up from the OP It's taken me quite a bit of emotional energy to type a reply, so sorry for the delay.
First off, THANK YOU! I knew Mefi was a supportive bunch, but you guys have seriously blown me away. I'm overwhelmed by the number of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by lwclec072, blueberry
more than 12 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"The nastiness of some of the insults here were really uncalled for.
That's my general feeling. Now that mathowie's out of the weeds I'm back on my game again but I'd just like to point out that how people choose to be married and how people..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by kuujjuarapik, arha, misozaki, rtha, Forktine
more than 12 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"If that were about black people instead of men, it would have been rightly shut down immediately.
This is not the case
Rape culture indeed.
I know right? Every time I think that the experiences of me and my close female friends are in some..." [
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favorited 45 times, recently by streetdreams, notquitemaryann, Lexica, Heretic
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"If anyone else lobbed bitchy at a poster, Jessamyn, I would think you'd delete the comment.
I'm sorry, you'd be wrong. Bitchy is one of the generally allowable not-great-but-not-insta-delete things that people sometimes say in AskMe. Ask me again..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Sidhedevil, boo_radley
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"I hope favorites-on will be the default come December.
We're not planning to do anything different than a return-to-normal. The issue with time-outs for early thread snark is that would be a change in policy from how we do things and not one we're..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Jofus, marsha56, iamkimiam, philip-random
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"My point was that it's clear from all the comments that had already come in that the idea was a bad one, so people showing up just to say "you're bad and this idea was bad" aren't adding much to the thread at that point. The question made..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by notquitemaryann, miss-lapin, hifiparasol, Sidhedevil
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"It's not as though it generally sets the tone, or anything.
This has not been our experience. A few early snarky comment can totally sink a thread that might have otherwise been okay; removing a few crappy comments at the beginning of a thread can..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Mitheral, taz
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"if you have to pick a pronoun and you don't know the gender, using s/he or even the grammatically awkard "they" is less problematic than making an assumption.
fun fact: this is what I did my Hampshire thesis on. Singular they is fine...." [
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favorited 19 times, recently by marble, magstheaxe, misanthropicsarah, heyho, Lexica, ms.codex, plant, Dumsnill, Pantengliopoli, lunit, misha, scody, tomboko, torticat, beandip, avocet, languagehat, MLIS, grouse
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
""When the leopards get unleashed, this may change."
This is my new favorite insider phrase.
And kaibutsu, I hear you. I feel that sometimes especially progressive organizations can have a hard time trying at once to be inclusive and..." [
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favorited 10 times, recently by jokeefe, yarrow, foodmapper, velvet winter, klangklangston
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"When I was a little girl my mom, who I've mentioned a few times before in this thread, told me how "feminists" were basically changing how men and women interacted. She told me a story of how, a man holding a door open for a woman got told..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Heretic, velvet winter
3 days ago
Ask comment:
"[comments removed - all of you know better - go to metatalk or go for a walk]" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Jaltcoh
3 days ago
Ask comment:
"My sister and I have debated this issue. She never wants to get bad news over email while I always want to get bad news over email. What I don't want is to get an email that says "there's bad news" and then have to break my neck trying to..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by serathen
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Would it kill y'all to have to see an opinion you don't agree with occasionally? Sheesh.
If this is a joke, it is an annoying one." [
more]
favorited 50 times, recently by netsirk, hermitosis, hot soup girl, The Bellman, JenMarie, fourcheesemac, arcticwoman, freshwater_pr0n, davejay, empyrean, ishotjr, deborah, opsin, loquacious, PhoBWanKenobi, justgary, grapefruit, kiki_s, Secret Life of Gravy, odinsdream, Nattie, jroybal, brina, almostmanda, Reverend John, nadawi, Ms. Saint, umbú, mordax, redfisch, Lentrohamsanin, Lexica, ericthegardener, scody, pravit, teleri025, 0xFCAF, cj_, Sidhedevil, ooga_booga, EatTheWeak, Pope Guilty, LittleMissCranky, rtha, The Light Fantastic, special-k, Caduceus, dirtynumbangelboy, Space Kitty, Pronoiac
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I don't recall getting any message from you via the contact form and I answer most of the mail. You seem to not like it here and take great offense at what are just the day to day operations of a website that has human moderators. AskMe is more..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by tehloki, problemspace, hot soup girl, fourcheesemac, stillwater, ishotjr, jmnugent, blueberry, kiki_s, peep, strixus, oneswellfoop, grouse, boo_radley, scrump, Optimus Chyme
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"More to the point, if everyone starts heading for this sort of record the site will, immediately, cease to function. While I sort of appreciate what you're trying to do reenum, I'd be more impressed with a run of amazing posts that were meted out..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by jammy, not_on_display
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Maybe this just needs to go in that AskMe thread, but I'm chilled to hear the "I'm a nice guy I'm not going to rape you" line, especially since I've heard it before [from an okay guy, who didn't rape me but acted completely sexually..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by notquitemaryann, Heretic
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"-- you've overheard an actual conversation in which people have discussed whether to pronounce it "meh- fee" or "Mee-fie."
- you had that conversation this weekened, with someone that you had many other interesting things to..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by Lyn Never
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"MetaChat has its own flavor. It's not really for also-ran stuff from MeFi but a certain subsection of the weird news/cute animal stuff that goes on in a limited amount over here is also appropriate over there. Like any site, get a feel for it, it's a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by brundlefly, bru
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"They deserve our laughter, because pretty soon the whole house of cards will come crashing down, and it's going to be fucking HILARIOUS
This is not how the site operates. If it's how you operate, please stay out of Ask MetaFilter. Some people are..." [
more]
favorited 7 times, recently by hot soup girl, papafrita, The Devil Tesla, scody, ChuqD, Procloeon, theora55
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"A pitchfork is used to pitch (as in toss or throw) hay or straw.
I have used a pitchfork for pitching hay. They're pretty normal around here. In fact, a few years ago when through a hilarious series of mishaps I wound up stepping on a carving fork..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by double block and bleed
4 days ago
Ask comment:
"comment from a MeFite who would prefer to remain anonymous. Please, please don't do this. Encourage him to spend more time getting used to it, and encourage him not to give up. He is not in high school anymore, and may not realize the very real..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by papafrita, fantine, douglaswth
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I taught a class today for high school staff and teachers. The topic was Google docs. I was showing people how you could create a form and have it populate a spreadsheet. Pretty tame stuff right? There were 19 people in the class including my boss,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by catchingsignals, Sova, Caduceus
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"it's appalling and this poster needs psychological help.
I think many people have suggested that in the thread using kinder language. I'm sorry what you have been going through has been stressful...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Schmucko, Sidhedevil, kittyprecious
4 days ago
Ask comment:
"Great friends are people who
- remember your preferences for food/drink stuff and always make your coffee the way you like it
- send you little fun stuff in the mail for no reason
- remember things that are going on in your life and ask you..." [
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favorited 69 times, recently by anitanita
4 days ago
Ask comment:
"[comment removed - if you can't talk about roux without calling people idiots you need to come back to AskMe when you can be decent to people.]" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by KathrynT, jefficator
4 days ago
Ask comment:
"My guess is that there are financial incentives for them to help people spend less and use less of a finite resource: government grants or other promotions. They can take that money and spend some of it on staffing and other expenses and as a side..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fook
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"what do you wish she'd done?
Good question. I guess I felt like she was telling me that since I was staring at the guys they were perceiving that as interest and so it was my fault they were giving me weird looks or fake asking me out (to be clear..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by PhoBWanKenobi, catchingsignals, foodmapper, mordax, Caduceus
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I think everyone, including the mods, should stick to that model, and not try to stretch it into something else.
Using words like "more" and "less" and "a lot" are normal parts of speaking vocabulary and are going to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Arch_Stanton
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
""Well we had one rock in the road and now we have no road. The mountain has came off. It was unreal" Wowie, neat video." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nola
5 days ago
Ask comment:
"I'm someone who is really fussy about noise and sleeping. I see them as two separate issues and sometimes the fussiness really becomes the thing that is keeping me from sleeping. I have no idea if you are like this or not. So, my ideas...
1. you..." [
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favorited 1 time
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"See Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory for a perfect representation.
If you've seen this show, this is a really apt statement. Wolowitz is portrayed as being an ubernerd, still lives with his mom, very smart but not "people smart" but likes..." [
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favorited 1 time
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for or how techie a project you're willing to undertake, but I've always been smitten with the MythTV project...." [
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favorited 1 time
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"am I just being insecure and competitive unnecessarily, or do I have a point?
You have a point. That said, you can have a point and keep that point to yourself which is my suggestion of what you should do.
I had a friend for a long time who..." [
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favorited 9 times
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"Rhinoviruses which cause the common cold are thought to be very contagious. Baylor College of Medicine says this "The introduction of rhinovirus into a household by one family member causes the disease in about two-thirds or of other family..." [
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favorited 4 times
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"We should write up a bunch of press releases anyhow, you know how mainstream media loves internet japery. Maybe we could get in Time Magazine!
what" [
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favorited 1 time
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"Now I'm trying to remember where I read this.... I think it was in a book about the CDC, because of course I read that stuff for fun.... they were talking about a project that took place at one of those odd out of the way medical testing labs. I..." [
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favorited 1 time
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"I got a benzo prescription way back when, when my tinnitus was making me insanely anxious and I realized I was in a vicious circle and it needed to stop. Now I tell people that I think they can be lifesavers for situational anxiety that needs to not..." [
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favorited 1 time
6 days ago
