that assumption is correct.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 11:34 AM on July 8, 2008

I don't agree with Da.. Ah! not the face, not the face!!!
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 3:46 PM on May 28, 2008

AND....... scene.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 1:44 PM on May 14, 2008

I think we've discovered that blazecock pileon is secret probationly astroturfing for microsoft here.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 3:05 PM on May 14, 2008

no, they aren't giving out those licenses for free. However, they do appear to be giving out the WorldWide Telescope licenses for free. Funny, that's seems to be what everyone has been saying.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 5:14 AM on May 15, 2008

new job posted. It's for engineers though, not you non-technical people.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 11:09 AM on May 13, 2008

Knowing ages and relationship statuses can help take our contact off the purely intellectual plane that it is without knowing that stuff. On the internet, no one knows you're a dog, unless you come out telling us exactly what sort of dog you are and which particular fire hydrant you like to pee on, and whether you're a puppy or an old porch dog.

Don't fill these fields in. I'm just going to use them to judge you, and I'd rather judge you by what you type, not where you... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 7:32 AM on April 11, 2008

or, perhaps just as irritating as everything else on 4/1.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 7:15 AM on April 1, 2008

so, a) too bossy tone. Why did I think that was a good idea? I don't know. mistake on my part.
b) I can't spell, and I'm stuck on IE at work with no spellchecker. Perhaps i should remember this before posting.
c) hey, the admins don't want mefimail, they want the contact form. my bad.
d) cortex is not to blame, he warned me it might not go the way I wanted.

RE: flameouts are fun -- Sure, just like watching Britney Spears deal with... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 5:41 PM on March 18, 2008

sounds like stavros needs a hug. Ahh....

That's better now, isn't it?
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 5:58 PM on March 18, 2008

So, the OP was a troll and gets banned -- good news.

Is there ever any repercussions beyond admonishment in meta to the pile-on people and the 'fuck you churchy' people? It seems like they might be breaking the guidelines as much as someone posting that question who wasn't a troll would have been. I ask because I know there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that I don't need to know the specifics of, but I'd certainly feel much better knowing that at least some of the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 7:20 AM on March 4, 2008

whenever someone talks about how they look I always check out their user pictures. Mostly, they don't reflect what I'm hoping to see. Most mustache-claimers don't have a mustache in their user page. I feel robbed.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 12:45 PM on March 4, 2008

Why is it that whenever someone leaves the site over boyzone or religious bashing or conservative bashing it was completely on them for leaving, and there is no problem with people's actions on the site?

Stop acting like jerks. If someone else acts like a jerk, that doesn't mean you get to act like a jerk.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 12:36 PM on February 29, 2008

I'm a big fan of Heifer International -- and I didn't realize that you could start picking how your money is used at this link. Of course, as Miko was talking about in some of our other charity threads, they prefer gifts that they can choose how to spend it instead.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 7:13 AM on February 29, 2008

seriously. Chicago is getting all the same snow, but at least we get melts between them. More snow tonight. WEE!
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 12:36 PM on February 28, 2008

clander is the author of the blog. he links to Jess's photos. On flicker, jess is jslander. Looking through the photos, looks like Jess is married to Christian. Get it -- c - lander? Also this makes me think he's just making fun of himself, since it's the shot used in "white people like to recycle". If you look through the photos on the blog, you'll see that Christian shows up in 4 or 5 of them. It looks like Jess shows up in one of them.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 7:08 AM on February 21, 2008

damn it. fucker already said all this. And I thought I was an investigative journalist and shit.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 7:10 AM on February 21, 2008

It also sucks. Noone likes to be the one voice of dissent with 15 plus people attacking them.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 1:18 PM on February 12, 2008

Anything related to Sex between consenting adults.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 1:53 PM on February 12, 2008

There should be community disapproval of the one sentence snarky comment. Getting in your snarky comment fast as possible on metafilter is the new "first post" at slashdot. It's lame. It's not funny. Stop doing it.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 10:20 AM on January 29, 2008

empath -- by those objections, jehovah witness's are Christian. However, I don't believe most denominations believe they are. The main objections to both Mormons and Jehovah Witness's being christian revolve around the belief in the trinity as 1 God in 3 persons.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 12:44 PM on January 30, 2008

empath -- I don't think most protestant Christians would call JW's or Mormon's Christian -- but that's based on doctrinal differences between (Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox) and Mormons and JW's. It's the sort of thing that wouldn't be a big deal looking from outside these sets, but can be internally. I don't have any ill will towards eritain, and I understand his point saying Non-Nicene Christian, but I wouldn't expect anyone not in the above sets to know what... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 5:25 PM on January 30, 2008

And this is why I like eritain's usage of 'non-nicene' Christian. It's a descriptor that can be added when clarifying what set of christian's you're talking about.

the [a] from John (was with God and was [a] God) is a pretty heavily disputed (either for or against) translation.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 7:05 AM on February 1, 2008

cortex: I'm assuming the hope was initially in his user profile? I think it's pretty awesome his stuff was deleted for being lame, even before the SEO part seems to have come to light.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 5:46 PM on January 30, 2008

These are my favorite meta's: "Here's this thing that breaks the guidelines and rules. If I was going to try to follow those rules where would I have put it if I hadn't put it here first?"
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 2:14 PM on January 17, 2008

Geez guys, just because cortex put a disclaimer in doesn't mean that NOW it's pile on time.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 9:03 AM on January 7, 2008

thanks for the audio transcription-- that was awesome.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 7:40 AM on January 17, 2008

Man. 2 (3?) people evaluting 4 different charitable fields with 3-5 groups in each with no direct experience in any of the fields. That's sure to turn out well.

Eli starts off saying test scores aren't a good way to evaluate schools, but then goes on to use them anyway.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 12:45 PM on January 17, 2008

"The only people who are going to be offended are people who think like this guy."

Hey sure, the only people who don't like lolcrazies posts must be lolcrazy.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 9:54 AM on January 16, 2008

I flag the lolchristian posts. I also flag the lolmidwesterners posts. You can feel free to flag the lolscientology posts. Afterwards, we can all move on.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 3:13 PM on January 15, 2008

"Down with experts! Up with people!"

That way lies wikipedia.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 8:56 AM on January 10, 2008

nested comments, or threaded comments. Some people (me!) think nested comments are awesome. Those people don't appear to include matthowie, pb, cortex, or jessymyn. They also don't include many mefites. They believe that flat is more like a conversation with friends, that evolves a topic as the conversation goes. I agree when it's with 5 friends. When it's with 25 + friends, it's certainly more confusing to me as well.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 6:22 AM on January 4, 2008

flat posts means that a new poster has to post on the last comment, and only on the last comment to keep from derailing, or trying to deal with the confusion of 2 + conversations at the same time.

flat posts work great when there's only 1 conversation going on, and if metafilter only wants one conversation per post, that's fine. It makes derails a lot more annoying to people new to the post, but whatever. Only one conversation at a time when there's what, 1000 + active... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 6:52 AM on January 4, 2008

And greasemonkey script suggestions may work great for those who can use firefox -- but sometimes people are locked down to IE. Didn't Matt say that only recently has the number of firefox hits exceeded IE hits?
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 6:54 AM on January 4, 2008

roll truck roll : "No, it is about the comments, which is precisely why threaded comments would be such a nightmare. Even if a discussion goes in lots of different directions, it should still be fundamentally one discussion. Otherwise, Metafilter would turn into a bunch of little cliques just having the same conversation over and over."

Was this intended sarcastically? I can't tell...
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 8:21 AM on January 4, 2008

I am amused that manypeople seem to think that if there were nested/ threaded comments, cortex and jessymyn would stop moderating, and DU would suddenly start derailing more.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 10:25 PM on January 5, 2008

And most of the rest of mefi doesn't. Yes, we went over that in what, the first 2 comments. The rest of this is just a circle jerk, right?
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 8:06 AM on January 6, 2008

mrserkan -- the internets loves it's drama. In looking into the drama, mefites have found other things that seem odd about givewell (weirdness in budgets, weirdness in board member election minutes, comparitively high salaries for nonprofit startups, nontransparency in actual analysis.) End results will probably be that givewell learns from this, and does become more transparent in these weird situations. I don't expect any firings or resignations, or anything except another apology from the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 1:13 PM on January 2, 2008

Miko has it right -- the astroturfing was a terrible idea, but no one off the internet will care. What is a big deal is that the organization givewell may have great intentions, but terrible execution. They're selling that they will investigate nonprofits at the same time that they are just learning how to be a nonprofit. They're giving relatively small amounts of money out in what nonprofiteer called an opaque system.

These guys are exited about what they're doing, and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 3:03 PM on January 2, 2008

Givewell's first job should be always to analyze their own effectivity. Are their staff knowledgable enough to do their jobs? -- probably. Are their executives knowledgable enough to do their jobs? -- not as well as someone with non profit management experience. Do they have enough resources to analyze every charity? -- no, they know they don't. What areas should they analyze then? -- this is a tough question that they've tried to answer, I don't know how well. With their current staff,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 6:12 AM on January 4, 2008

stupid IE.

There doesn't happen to be a greasemonkey for Internet Explorer does there?

I'm always a little annoyed when I find the solution to deal with metafilter quirks is to use some external script to fix them, instead of them being dealt with locally. In this case, it seems like it's obviously poor taste to post a link that requires sign up when links that don't are available. It also seems like it'd be the same sort of effort to fix these... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 7:40 AM on December 20, 2007

So the plan is show up, find the group of people in the bar that seem the dorkiest, and approach and give them the mefi secret handshake?

flowers in our button holes?
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 2:38 PM on December 10, 2007

Future metafilter with nested threads laughs at present metafilter with comment technology older than newsgroups.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 7:55 AM on December 7, 2007

you know what helps with 200 commented posts? nested comments, or threads. Too bad they're metafilter's kryptonite.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 2:46 PM on November 28, 2007

cortex: Maybe I'm reading it wrong -- but it seemed like what stavros wanted was an explanation of how things like flagging and deletion will work in the future as the site keeps growing and growing. It seems like a lot of the concerns (beyond the don't always be a snarky contrarian ones) are related to growth of the site making it not as good somehow. So if there's a plan on how to maintain site quality through site growth, thats what I'd like to hear about, and I think that's what stavros is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 8:09 AM on November 29, 2007

cortex said : "Like a public bullying, almost: look what they did! Look at the bad thing! "

But this happens publicly now, with pileons in threads, and metafilter callouts. It sucks in that situation as well. It sucks the most in a one person disagrees, 15 people argue against him situation, where the argument doesn't stay civil.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 7:19 AM on November 30, 2007

cortex said "fairly prompt flag-and-delete handling of stuff that's inappropriate, we see fewer callouts than we would because the stuff doesn't live long enough to fester and derail, on average, as it would if things were highlighted (through visible flagging or demotion) rather than nixed."

I see a lot of derails that don't get treated promptly enough to prevent the derail. This is irritating if you want to discuss the post, but commenters are arguing about... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 7:23 AM on November 30, 2007

someone who potentially missed an asavage podcast interview also needs said podcast link. namely me. please.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 11:00 AM on November 29, 2007

so instead of taumeson's suggestion we do what? whine every month or so on metatalk that people post weak youtube links? Or is the solution going to be the 'flag it and move on' mantra?
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 1:50 PM on November 21, 2007

is where I can ask for threaded conversations again, and be shot down as to how it would destroy mefi? no? ok, good.
posted to MetaTalk by garlic at 10:57 AM on November 21, 2007