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MeTa post:
"Now with more time-suck!"
When and where are the Mefi TF2 games, anyway? I might as well humiliate myself with my rusty skills.There are two servers -- one private (for MeFites only), and I believe that address is in herrdoktor's profile here on MeFi. There's also a public server -- I believe it's called [MeFi] We Have Sentries, so just browse the server list.
And of course, MeFight Club for all your smack-talking, unlockable-hypothesizing, Wilcoxon-signed-rank-test-disussing... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 7:40 PM on June 7, 2008
MeTa post:
Improperly formed MetaTalk RSS.
Same problem here; about a week ago, I was unable to access Metatalk (which I always do via Sage in Firefox), although the feed (http://metatalk.metafilter.com/rss.xml) would load fine when accessed directly in the browser. Now as of this morning (Sunday EDT), I'm getting the same "XML Parse Error."
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 4:19 AM on September 9, 2007
MeTa post:
C-c-c-combo breaker!
mathowie: Wow, I guess washingtonpost.com's URL structure allows for a zillion different variables that can't easily be grabbed as a double.I'm not sure how doubles are checked for, but if you strip the query string then the URL in four of the five posts (one didn't actually post a link to the article in question, oops) are identical.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 3:12 AM on April 9, 2007
MeTa post:
Weeee're back
nthing the thanks for your hard work. Can't imagine the last 24 hours have been at all fun for you.
I can access the front page of each site fine (with the exception of AskMe, which I assume is DNS-propagation-related), but I'm getting a "File Not Found" when trying to access the Mefi and AskMe RSS feeds, and an "XML Parse Error" at line 1, col 50 of the MeTa feed. The Jobs and Projects feeds work A-OK.
(Sage 1.3.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 3:47 AM on March 26, 2007
I'm still getting an XML parse error for the MeTa feed using Sage in Firefox on Windows XP:
XML Parsing Error: syntax error
Location: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/rss.xml
Line Number 1, Column 50:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
-------------------------------------------------^
In case the formatting of the above gets munged, the arrow's pointing to the trailing >.
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 6:53 AM on March 27, 2007
MeTa post:
Hope the Lazy
I like the change, but I'm with cortex (sort of) in that I thought what maxwelton was getting at was that links to other comments in the same thread (e.g., see the thread right above this one) would be unbolded, which I thought also addressed the issue (and is perhaps more relevant to those users who are already conditioned to skim right over the "posted by" line).
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 6:14 PM on March 21, 2007
MeTa post:
code stripping
On a related note, slashes in the title are stripped from the URL, as in this post. It probably makes more sense to replace them with a hyphen.
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 8:55 AM on March 6, 2007
MeTa post:
Is there a way to not receive posts matching a...
avriette: Is it unreasonable to ask that posts be tagged?
Of course not. However, it's unrealistic to hope that tags will be consistent across any and all posts covering a given topic. If I were inclined to filter posts, I'd definitely go the word-filtering route rather than the tag-filtering route.
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 6:37 AM on February 11, 2007
Maybe allow registered users to add tags, and show the top 2-5 (by count) user-submitted tags for each post alongside the poster's tags? I think Slashdot's been doing something similar lately, and I dig the idea; that way it reflects more of a consensus than simply the opinion of the latest person to do the updating (cf. Wikipedia).
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 12:04 PM on February 11, 2007
MeTa post:
Ask MeFi finally has category feeds....
Very nice! I was going to suggest that maybe customizable feeds would be a good next step since I'd like to subscribe to probably 80% of the feeds, but don't want to clutter my feed list with 8 different feeds instead of a single AskMe one.
I think, however, that this might be more a limitation of my newsreader than the new site functionality; I use the Sage Extension for Firefox where each feed is listed separately in the sidebar; is there any way to customize Sage so... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 4:47 PM on February 6, 2007
MeTa post:
Bring back the image tag redux? Not exactly, but...
Sweet, an excuse to finally install Greasemonkey. I'm loving this so far -- great work!
Two suggestions:
One, I nth ditching the floating pink button. Stick it down in the status bar with the AdBlock icon, NoScript, GreaseMonkey, FasterFox, etc.
Two, I'm a big fan of NoScript's ad hoc whitelisting that enables me to whitelist a site only for a single session. Any way to get something like that here,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 4:42 PM on January 26, 2007
MeTa post:
Self-linking to...
mdn: But in this case, he just uploaded something he thought was cool to a site and linked to it, as far as I can see.
That's what he'd like you to believe, but look at the second link of this callout.
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 12:08 PM on December 10, 2006
MeTa post:
"if you can craft a definition of news and...
One of the reasons I started lurking at and eventually joined Mefi was the quality of the discussions; although the links are nominally its raison d'etre, I can get links at any of a dozen similar sites. However, I also agree that discussing the latest news isn't really the point of MeFi.
I'd love to see a news.metafilter.com (and possibly a politics.metafilter.com) where people like me who enjoy the (often acrimonious, but usually fairly-well-informed)... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 3:38 AM on November 17, 2006
MeTa post:
"There's a lot [more inside]". Does...
It's always driven me nuts too, but I'm a bit confused. I've seen the "hanging titles" for weeks now on the actual AskMe pages. What does that actually signify? Does the person type [more inside] at the end of that, but AskMe strips it out when the final version is posted (if so, why)? Or does the person actually just type "of course there's," and leave it at that?
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 2:38 PM on November 10, 2006
MeTa post:
Why, in the great image purge, did some folks lose...
What about only allowing images from a hypothetical images.metafilter.com? Give each user a very small queue (50k?), and forbid hotlinking from other sites to the images contained therein.
In combination with that, I also really like the idea of allowing users to turn off images as a preference, but I think Matt's said that would be way hard to implement.
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 3:37 AM on November 7, 2006
MeTa post:
Whatever happened to the compilation CD project...
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but is it too late to order one of these? And will people be able to order them after the initial pressing, or is it just a one-shot deal?
I apologize in advance if the answers to these questions mean more work for anyone, and thanks to everyone who's busted their humps to make this happen.
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 7:37 PM on September 7, 2006
MeTa post:
I'm just dying to tell this guy all about...
What's that you say? Two weeks between questions and a longer threshold for new users before they can post a question to AskMeFi? That's a great idea!
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 3:51 PM on August 15, 2006
I wonder if babyguru is related to studentguru.
That's the guy I was thinking of, thanks Gator! Couldn't remember the name, but the modus is definitely identical. Sign up, patiently wait a week, then start posting navel-gazing questions at one week intervals characterized by demands about what aspects of the discussion he is NOT interested in.
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 4:02 PM on August 15, 2006
What's up with all this "happy fun" nonsense?
It's from one of the more memorable Saturday Night Live parody commercialswiki YT.
posted to MetaTalk by Doofus Magoo
at 5:43 PM on August 15, 2006
