Did y'all take any pictures?
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 6:33 PM on July 19, 2008

My favorite comment

My favorite AskMe question

My favorite Front Page Post
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 9:36 AM on July 12, 2008

"I'm not being mean, maybe it is just a direct way of saying that tattoos fill a position of accomplishment with some people, and it is typically the messenger/bartender/mechanic type. It is almost never the architect/chemist/attorney."

You live in San Francisco and you've never met any tattooed professionals?

WTF?
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 10:55 PM on July 11, 2008

I've long thought she was the best poster on the site, proof positive that filtering the content according to favorites (read 'validations') was a poor idea.

Yeah, I agree with you.

mdn writes in paragraphs and constructs actual arguments defending her position.

Very old-school, that.

It's also not a posting style that draws a whole lot of favorites.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 10:07 AM on July 8, 2008

Y'all are right. MetaFilter is too America-centric.

To remedy this sad state of affairs, I propose a day on the blue with no American content at all.

We can call this little experiment Furren Friday.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 7:21 PM on June 19, 2008

I will be there.

And I will be bringing nuts and dried fruit.

If there's anything else y'all would like for me to bring, please let me know.

Cheers!
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 1:21 PM on June 13, 2008

why anybody reads it may be the Web's greatest mystery'

You're right, VF. We'd all be much better off reading stuff like this:

CELEBRITY

Madonnarama!

As she nears 50, Madonna is searching for her true self. Whisked to L.A. for an intensive interview session, Rich Cohen explores the pop idol’s evolution.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 10:55 AM on June 13, 2008

If such a feature already exists, that would be fantastic.

Yeah. It would be fantastic for people who are good at telling the OP what he or she wants to hear.

"I know the scale says 400 pounds but you're really just big-boned."

"No. I don't think you have a drinking problem."

"Women love guys who sit around in filthy boxer... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 6:43 AM on June 5, 2008

Weekend meetups tend to be better in terms of ability to attend, ability of getting rather merry etc.

Fair enough . . the only reasons I suggested a weeknight were:

*I was concerned that nobody would be in London 5/24-5/26 because of the bank holiday, that everyone would be at the beach or something.

*For the first weekend, I was concerned about jetlag. I'll be getting in on Friday morning. I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 6:40 PM on April 28, 2008

Also its gotta be someplace either without a dress code or with a low standard

Another vote here for low standards.

And I am picking Friday, May 23rd as the night of the meetup. That seems to be the evening that works best for most of you.

So . . . Friday evening, May 23. That's when we will have this meetup.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 1:22 PM on April 29, 2008

I like randomination's suggestion. (The Sekforde Arms in Clerkenwell)

The only issue I have with the place is the possible crowding.

Some of the reviews mentioned that Sekforde Arms was a kind of small pub.

Would we have enough space, especially on Friday?
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 12:20 PM on April 30, 2008

Jan tells me that Chris is a good judge of pub character.

So . . . Rising Sun it shall be.

38, Cloth Fair, London

Starting 6:30-7:00 on the evening of Friday, May 23.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 7:27 PM on May 7, 2008

It doesn't give Miko credit, either.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 7:58 PM on April 22, 2008

(Death by Uugabooga is a sockpuppet/troll account and was claimed as such in the thread.)

"APRIL FOOLS! SUCKERS!"
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 11:47 AM on April 3, 2008

and what a crowd! I was shocked!

Yeah! I recognized less than half the people in those photos.

And that is just too damned nifty.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 8:22 PM on March 29, 2008

One suggestion is that you could modify your browsing techniques on AskMe, such as subscribing to the individual RSS feeds only for questions tagged with topics you like reading about or helping out on.

This is how I read AskMe and it works pretty well for me.

And if you cut out the Computers/Internet feed, you've already reduced the volume by half, which should make it manageable.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 8:19 PM on March 29, 2008

We're going to have to keep being asshole admins about new political threads.

THANK YOU!!!! I am profoundly grateful for your assholishness.

Members of the site here have no idea how much shit we get behind the scenes every time we delete the next daily Obama/Clinton/McCain Minor News Cycle Item.

Maybe we could add a little note to the posting page: "Before you post this,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 8:51 PM on March 26, 2008

If you don't want to give a platform to insignificant local crackpots, then this post about an Oklahoma state representative should be deleted as well.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 8:38 AM on March 13, 2008

I even included a four-stage exchange of insults in which each party picks up a word from the other's insult and builds a new and better one on it.

Congratulations, lh. You just sold me a copy of your book.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 4:51 PM on March 1, 2008

I'm a fucknut.

He's a fucknut.

She's a fucknut.

We're a fucknut.

Wouldn't you like to be a fucknut too?
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 5:02 PM on February 28, 2008

Lonefrontranger - have you looked that OP's other posts? They're all, well, pretty much in the same vein.

OP checking in here.

Let's see . . . I've done posts and questions about:

Icelandic Rotten Shark Cuisine
Gender and Sexual Orientation in Post-Operative Transsexuals
Asian Stereotypes of Other Asians
Innumeracy
Where To Eat Lunch While Serving... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 12:49 PM on February 24, 2008

My own experience of MetaFilter (my own personal lifecycle, if you will):

1.) WHOAH! This place is FUCKIN' AWESOME! A place where we can share great links and discuss them! Sign me up!

2.) Proceed to post and comment prolifically.

3.) Community changes. More and more energy that could be spent on sharing great links and the discussion thereof is wasted on 800-comment MetaTalk pissing matches and facile... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 9:36 AM on February 13, 2008

Metafilter appears to be the only community that identified Peter as a spammer and removed his account.

Good job!
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 5:12 PM on January 30, 2008

I'm sure somebody could figure it out with some clever searching, but I'm trying not to make it easy for them. . . I don't mind giving out my last name, but if I were to be fully unanonymous, I think I'd hate the idea of somebody being able to google it and then have instant access to my personal history, work experience, my blog, my photosets, my linkedin profile, etc.

And I like having (some) power to choose what they might see.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 6:26 PM on January 15, 2008

Miko's got skillz.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 11:27 AM on December 31, 2007

I absolutely understand your wish to now keep a close eye on me (and I encourage it), and I want to know if there is anything I can do to make it up to the Metafilter community.

*Delete your accounts here.

*Go away.

*Never return.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 12:40 PM on December 31, 2007

Lazy journalists love being handed stories.

Especially around the holiday season, which is pretty slow from a news standpoint anyway.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 3:48 PM on December 31, 2007

I just emailed NYMag with the link to this thread. let's see what happens.

NYMag just deleted FourCheeseMac's link to this item.

They also disabled comments for their little puff piece.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 4:42 PM on December 31, 2007

Oh, wait. It's back.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 4:44 PM on December 31, 2007

The only real question is whether these guys are stupid, crazy, naive, or criminal.

It's arrogance. It's a lifetime of being told how smart and special they were, of getting over on high school teachers, professors, employers, donors . . .

And then they encountered MetaFilter.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 5:16 PM on December 31, 2007

What comments/conversations have been removed?

Participants in this discussion linked to spam comments that Karnofsky & Co. made on other sites, which those sites then removed as soon as they became aware of them.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 8:21 PM on January 1, 2008

Wouldn't Matt and Jess have to change their names to the Wild Man and the Cooter if they adopted this format?

Don't forget the dwarf tossing and the lesbian strippers.

They'd also have to crank-call random MeFites at work.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 10:43 AM on December 30, 2007

Come on people now, smile on your brother

You wanna try to get this crowd to smile on each other?

Good luck.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 8:25 AM on December 21, 2007

Did you know...a DORK is a whale penis?

It's true! It's scientifically proven. It's a known fact. (video, NSFW)
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 5:53 PM on December 18, 2007

Hitting on random women on the street is disrespectful.

Indeed. A gentleman makes his intentions known with a cute widdle stuffed animal.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 9:27 AM on December 19, 2007

Wolfdog, I agree in that I feel there are some people that need to find their balls and use them, solve/confront the problem and move along... But that is also why I do not comment frequently in those posts.

Perhaps we could divert those questions from Human Relations into another sub-category of AskMe

We should name this new sub-category "Grow A Pair."

It will be for people who just want... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 12:16 PM on December 14, 2007

This thread has inspired me to do an FPP.

It will consist of a single link to a clueless and obnoxious op-ed addressing the question: "How Come Black People Always Got Their Pants Hanging Off Their Asses?"

It's gonna be LOL-tastic.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 6:08 PM on December 13, 2007

I'm so glad you asked this question, blahblahblah, mainly because it dovetails very nicely with a related question that's been bugging me for weeks.

It concerns two establishments. One is named Paddy McCelticDude's Old Time Sports Lounge. It is located on Roosevelt Avenue, in the borough of Queens, NY. The other is Le Hawt Discotecque, on West 27th street, in the borough of Manhattan.

Why is Paddy's establishment not listed with Le Hawt... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 10:54 AM on December 12, 2007

wendell: At least he's only #2 on the list of "Worst Rock Lyricists"... Sting is #1.

Hmm. I have a problem. I don't know what I'm supposed to believe. Oh... wait! Look at this magazine! It's called "Blender"! And they'll tell me!

Thank you for a wonderful solution to my problem!

I have never read an issue of Blender in my life.

But if you were to give me a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 11:53 AM on December 11, 2007

I wish I could join you but my finances kind of suck right now.

Sounds like a cool meetup, though.

Have fun!
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 12:57 PM on December 6, 2007

Late to the party. I'll try to make up for that by taking the high road.

Sean, your proposal seems to be rooted in a . . . uh, how shall I put this . . . an optimistic view of human nature and for this reason, I can't support it.

Sorry.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 9:46 AM on November 27, 2007

36. Williamsburg
37. Hipsters
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 8:24 PM on November 19, 2007

“Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.”

--Blaise Pascal
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 7:40 AM on November 17, 2007

Pitchers?
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 9:12 PM on November 12, 2007

Right now, It's Raining Florence Henderson, who is a contact of mine, and I adore the man, a beautiful person and all, but he's adding contacts like mad. Great, and that's good for him and all his new contacts, but honestly it seems to me that that's his business.

nthing this. I don't think it's my business to know who people are deciding to add as contacts. This is intrusive.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 4:01 PM on November 3, 2007

I wish people would just stop posting anything related to sex+ladies, because it always turns into this embarrassing thing where a third of the men are making uncomfortable jokes, another third are rageful, and the final third are saying earnest things about how they're amazing with their hands, all their ex-girlfriends said so.

I used to do posts on those topics but I stopped because of that very same dynamic AND because I got tired of threads... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 11:42 AM on October 31, 2007

these days it seems like people are so scared of having their posts trashed on various stylistic or other subjective criteria, there's less and less willingness to go out on a limb.

Then those people need to grow a pair. And to stop taking deletions and trashings so personally.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 1:42 PM on October 24, 2007

How's about implementing access premiums? As in: five bucks for ten hours of monthly access to the site; ten bucks for thirty (say); and twenty for unlimited access.

Favorites could be converted into suitable credits (100 favorites = 10 hours, for instance).

This would moderate n00b deluge,

Instituting those five-dollar, implicitly second-class accounts would actually have the opposite effect. I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 9:33 PM on October 10, 2007

Happy Birthday, Mr. Haughey!
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 6:34 PM on October 10, 2007

Art Bar is cramped and too dark. I am not crazy about that establishment at all.

Revival would work very well for me.
posted to MetaTalk by jason's_planet at 7:00 PM on October 9, 2007