you get to delete a post every day for whatever reason you like.
And put my name on it! [
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I've definitely noticed an increased trend towards summary deletion of entire threads instead of culling the crap (and I've noticed it most with jessamyn)
You've noticed it with me because I'm the person who is more often here on... [
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People make jokes about everything which is why this isn't usually a good place to make "OMG this is serious" posts. That one may have had a fighting chance at another time, but didn't go well. And seriously, how many posts have we had in... [
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We don't peek at user's memails for any reason short of some terrible legal threat and even then we'd be talking to our lawyer first. Sometimes, rarely, users send us something that someone else has sent them. This didn't happen here. I don't quite... [
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I am like you. My mother does the repeaty thing. When I am feeling irritable I'll say "I've heard this" and then as she plows ahead telling it to me again without even slowing, I say "I SAID I'VE HEARD THIS" and then she stops but... [
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If you call me, I will sing my mix cd over the phone to you and then huck it out the window in your general direction and take a photo of its trajectory which I will photocopy and send to you in the mail. dirtdirt and I are in the same general camp... [
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Decades of internerd experience to the contrary, I still believe that people are truly good at heart. [
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you just need to find your numeric Facebook ID and use that as your username.
You are all doomed, scrabulously. [
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Wouldn't it be more accurate (at least, mathematically) to increment it in the middle of the year?
Can you please just be happy? This is fine.... [
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IIRC, this is how these things go.
god hates math gets people's info, sorts them into groups. alerts people who are in their group sends addresses.
You make a CD, of music.
You send it to the people in your group [5? 6 people?].
They send you... [
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quick link: free digital USGS topo maps and other GIS data. [
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LobotoME!
However, to be serious for a sec and to answer amyms question, we do have a set of "things we do" when someone who seems like they are clearly in some sort of real trouble posts something AnonyMe or no that doesn't make it to... [
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Wow. You know whiny entitled people (not saying anything about the AskMe OP, just an observation) have real problems too. You're totally within your rights to give them no help whatsoever. Leaving this line in AskMe "i MetaTalked the whiny,... [
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Well thanks for making sure it says it over here now too, TPS. [
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Oh and in answer to the other question, I think we approve maybe 60-75% of the quesitons that are asked. If a question isn't approved it's likely because It was vague and unanswerable without more information and would be a train wreck with the... [
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[a few comments removed - this is a legal question not "what is your personal opinion about my life choices" question - take it to MeTa if you have to tell the poster off.... [
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What about Miz West?
No. I find social titles vaguely ridiculous.
Fuzzy: all set. [
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I think saying "that made me uncomfortable" is a totally appropriate way to both indicate that you think he was over the line but also give him a gracious way to quit being a creep from this point forward.
If there was any doubt that... [
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I got a few teeth pulled as a pretty young kid (9-10) when I got braces and it was pesky and annoying and I was stressed and unhappy about it. If I were you, I'd focus on the fact that it's (usually) a short procedure and it will be over by later... [
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I would like to apologize for casting aspersions on the non-assfucking rabbit. [
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That's not acting out, that is a job perq. As is being able to ban dersins for eleven minutes just because he's irking me. [
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The next person that calls me Ms. West gets a mud-boot-clad foot in their ass, just saying. I have no opinion on concatenation. [
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The difficulty with an opt-in situation is that I'll only have maybe 40 stories that I'll have permission to work with. The whole point of the project is to summarize the entire thread and find patterns and connections.
It's not good for... [
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Which one of you fuckers flagged something down here? [
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I am making matzoh ball soup to ease the pain of WordPress's new admin interface being ugly and badly designed. I am going to eat it and watch Helvetica and dream about elegant lines.... [
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My joke wasn't sexist.
Whatever you intended to put into that joke Dave Faris, it made me feel bad.
It made me feel like "oh this again..." (not from you, just from MeFi generally) and turned something nice -- a nice dinner... [
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I just thought the post was really cute and silly.
Ditto. I would never tell you if I were a cat person because, you know, the librarian thing and all.... [
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Here is a story about children, because they are our future. (Donald Barthelme story - someone called me a hipster in the blue because I like the guy.)
The first thing the baby did wrong was to tear pages out of her books. So we made a rule that... [
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Guðleifsdóttir is hot 1, 2, 3.
There's a photo of her in a bathing suit on the front page of her own website.
Pulling out a whole bunch of contextless OMG PURTY jpgs to finish off your post is weak.... [
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I would prefer to not have to read one more thread that makes jokes about the pubic hair of teenage girls this week, is all. [
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I grew up in Internet terms at the University of Washington which had a series of [in some cases] complicated acronyms for things so that they would spell names of trees. Pine, Willow and that's when I started using elm, though it's not from there.... [
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but using things read on someone's blog to defend or justify their actions or behavior on MeFi is as inappropriate as using them to attack, IMO.
Actually, usually that's okay if all you're saying is "hey cut them a little slack"... [
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An easy way to avoid drinking and dancing is to have the wedding earlier in the day. If you're in the Northeast and you're getting married in October, having some sort of fall themed activities might be a way to go. Find a local farm, get some sort... [
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Really, you can email your amusing comment to me and I promise to gibber over it appreciatively. [
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Yeah, I'm really not seeing what's up here. That "panties in a knot" quote is from METATALK (a 444 comment MeTa) where it's totally okay to say things like that. It was also from December. The trophy wife comment was from January and the... [
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I read about this new game called Outside.
on kottke [
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Yes, the way to make this
look effortless is to put some effort into it. While I'm all in favor of handing money over and saying "thank you!" if you want to do it like my great uncle did at the family party before I went off to... [
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rematch! didn't that guy break his violin? I bet bears will win this time. [
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We've talked about this before and I think the conclusion has consistently been that comments lose a lot of their oomph when removed from context and so having this be an essential part of MeFi isn't something that we think is a good idea but would... [
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Sting deserves some credit for having loads of endless sex with this person.
I really hope your point is not that fifty-seven year old Sting should not be having sex with his fifty-four year old wife because she looks her age.... [
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one answer was that the admins did not want to see Metafilter turned into Slashdot.
That was a broad way of saying that some of the features that Slashdot has for managing large populations of users are not ones we want to implement... [
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Southerners are inherently racist, misogynist, queer-hating, child-abusers, and the one group that it's entirely acceptable to bash here on MeFi?
No, you have that wrong. People who are being one note jerks about "eff the south"... [
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wow pyramid termite, that's a really useless way to kick off this thread. [
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LibraryThing does not do that for you to the best of my knowledge. However, what you really need is to use Firefox, install Greasemonkey and then install this script or possibly this one. When you do, it will show little links to the NYPL catalog on... [
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