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MeTa post:
Dork Talk redux
If new media is to challenge old media, new media has to stop having tipsy giggles of validation whenever old media nods in our direction.
"Sure those bloggers are entertaining, but in the end they're really just insects who either feed off the carcasses of news items vetted through various networks or, when they do break stories, want nothing more than to see themselves granted an audience by the kingmakers on television.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 1:54 PM on March 8, 2008
MeTa post:
random!
Could we have a new flag that is only available on old (>5 years) posts, which flags link rot? Then maybe one day there could be an automated system whereby a certain number of link rot flags automatically replaces any broken link with an appropriate link to archive.org. It's not an urgent todo, but seeing MeFi link to 404 pages and spammy "search" sites gets me down.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 2:58 AM on August 2, 2007
MeTa post:
IraqFilter Really Sucks.
Despite your dismissal, conservatism has a clear descriptive meaning and you are redefining it in your comments to something which is not a common or useful definition.
The word conservative has many definitions, and the political one meaning "right wing/neocon/moralizing/whatever" isn't at the top of the list in any dictionary. Non-politicized people (that is, most normal people) would describe MetaFilter as an extremely conservative website.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 4:26 AM on July 23, 2007
MeTa post:
Pass the bacon salt, please.
MetaMetaTalk: I'm only seeing a very tangential reference to this in the original thread, and even if it was the central theme, the original thread is still open. Shouldn't such followups be posted there? This is not a snark; I'm just wondering.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 11:27 AM on July 19, 2007
MeTa post:
FPPt
If the aim is to provide a better at-a-glance overview of what the thread is about, can I piggyback that sentiment with a request that people use descriptive titles rather than cute ones? Cute titles make skimming the RSS feed hard.
Since the posting screen already demands that posters make titles descriptive, perhaps admins could treat entirely undescriptive titles as broken, and insert something more suitable.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 9:47 AM on June 6, 2007
MeTa post:
dating.metafilter.com
I don't know whether the powers that be have any interest in replicating the entire infrastructure of Yet Another Dating Community Website, so my feature request is this: under Preferences, add another Optional Field named "Interested in meeting:". Make it another free-form nuts-going affair, with a suggestion to put something like "men" or "women". Then anyone who fills it out effectively marks themselves as being available in some sense. They can use the rest of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 3:43 PM on June 1, 2007
quin, thus mathowie's incentive for implementing this could be the sudden influx of squeaky-clean new members with no previously declared significant others and suspiciously amiable posting histories :)
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 4:07 PM on June 1, 2007
Having users explicitly declare that they want to meet people could get things moving better than simply listing their relationship status. If my profile said:
Status: Single
Then it's a little too passive to inspire others to action. Whereas:
Interested in meeting: men.
says "email me!"
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 4:19 PM on June 1, 2007
MeTa post:
I'm Sorry
I'm 99% sure it's the $5 entry fee that keeps the trolls and spammers away, rather than the abrasive atmosphere. It mostly keeps children out too. I baselessly suspect that YouTube comments are mostly caused by children, rather than out and out idiots.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 4:03 PM on June 1, 2007
MeTa post:
MeFi and antisemitism
I think everybody who has posted in this thread owes an apology to everybody else who has posted in this thread.
Sorry guys.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 7:56 AM on May 14, 2007
I've got a new idea for this thread: get mathowie or pb or whoever to post in it, so that they can know the full horror of this turd floating up their My Recent Comments page every day, and be inspired to code up a "Cease Following This Thread" button!
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 11:34 AM on May 19, 2007
Does anything special happen at comment number 65,535? Or 4,294,967,295? Do the banscripts run amok? Do we all get to go home?
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 3:19 PM on May 24, 2007
MeTa post:
Remembering Retrotagging
I think there are quite enough obsessives in this community to have every post tagged in short order, but is it going to happen if you have to manually vet members for trustworthiness?
The industrial-strength scalable solution is community tagging: a separate list of tags below the tags entered by the original poster. Proposed rules:
1. Anyone can tag any post with any tag.
2. Only tags entered more than once are... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 11:55 AM on May 22, 2007
Abusing multiple accounts to get your pet tag listed would be pretty obvious if it ever got out of hand. Either the tags in question are reasonable, in which case there's no problem, or the tags are unreasonable, and it's always the same pair(s) of users.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 12:04 PM on May 22, 2007
MeTa post:
tag clouds for insight and knowledge.
OK, so... is there any reason the MeFi database should not be made publicly available? Like the Wikipedia database. Is it full of secret information that is not already visible across the site? Could that not be easily stripped out before distributing, say, monthly snapshots?
This tag cloud idea is exactly the kind of really-time-consuming-but-kinda-interesting thing which is crying out for a third party with too much time on his hands to do.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 2:42 AM on May 5, 2007
MeTa post:
Too much tragedy for one thread
Talking about gun control now is like talking about climate change after an unusually hot summer's day.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 12:49 AM on April 17, 2007
There are a couple of layers to the analogy which may or may not work depending on your opinions on gun control, but the main point was that this is the freak outlier event of all freak outlier events in the gun world. Extreme cases make bad law, and XQUZYPHYR is right to warn against another PATRIOT Act passed in hot blood.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 5:28 AM on April 17, 2007
Most people--in a heartbeat--would settle for a law that prevented even a fraction of 30,000 deaths if it were a matter of public health not involving gun violence.
Not likely. A total ban on fatty foods would save hundreds of thousands of lives. Similarly for a ban on cars. A law providing free sex workers to lonely young men might even have prevented this particular tragedy. But we are talking about America here. Live free or die 'n all.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 11:05 AM on April 18, 2007
MeTa post:
The sacred users
I think the point of a dichotomy between X and Not X is that, between them, they cover all possibilities. So "not two b's" should mean "any string that is not two b's in a row". Is this regex false for zero or single character strings? Hamlet wasn't considering whether to (a) be, (b) not be, or (c) have a biscuit.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 5:54 AM on March 28, 2007
MeTa post:
MetaFilter Contacts Map
This is really cool, monju. I wonder what it would take to convince mathowie to make the entire MeFi database available à la Wikipedia's Database Download. It's all publicly available anyway, and I just know there are armies of perl-script-wielding stat-monsters out there just waiting to show us the Index Of Members Ordered By Most Uses Of The Word Flange. Having the database accessible without screen-scraping could turn up all kinds of wondrous creations.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 4:28 AM on March 23, 2007
MeTa post:
A fight breaks out in this thread on the evolution...
If you hung upside down on one of those exercise-bar thingies, and started drooling, wouldn't your nose fill up? I guess you could just hold your breath and keep on drooling until your nostrils overflowed, but then all the good stuff would just sorta roll down onto your forehead, which seems to me more like salivating over your forehead rather than onto it.
You could do it if you had a concave face.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 3:07 AM on February 12, 2007
MeTa post:
Is someone compiling/has someone already compiled...
It wouldn't make a difference; your status is determined by your user number. So here are all the stats you need: smackfu is winning this thread so far, and I am 3,273 user-points ahead of you, serazin, while you are nearly 10,000 better than ardgedee. Well done!
As to whether this theory is correct... well, your status denies any possibility of rebutting me, but I would submit to, say, cortex.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 2:15 PM on February 1, 2007
MeTa post:
Dios, can you please either answer the question or...
yeah, dios gave us a proud defense of the petit bourgeois values of "work, consume, and shut the fuck up" and, as usual, not a fucking ounce of human understanding for somebody who -- the horror! -- may be different from dios himself and his similarly venal, petit bourgeois friends.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but dios's response was one of the few that showed concern for the psychological well-being of the poster.
posted to MetaTalk by hoverboards don't work on water
at 8:03 AM on January 30, 2007
