MeTa post: nice trick

Ow, my eyes.
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 7:33 AM on April 1, 2008

MeTa post: Hmm, you might know the answer to this...

I also like the idea, but as a counterpoint, I'd like to point out that one might want to weigh the consequences of implementing this pony on the general quality of AskMe. I'm having a little trouble formulating this exactly how I want to say it, so bear with me please. What I mean is, if people have the ability to tune out everything they aren't interested in, they might miss a question they would otherwise have answered incidentally, thus detracting something from the quality of AskMe. In... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 11:22 AM on March 12, 2008

cortex:

Yes, certainly, and I'm not arguing against the utility of it. It sounds very useful in exactly the way you point out. However, I guess what I wanted to point out was that, if given something that makes the ease-of-filtering-AskMe threshold as low as this sounds like it would, I think there would be a sharp decrease in the number of mefites who, as you say, prefer the canonical view of the front page. Less eyeballs on the front page could have a negative... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 12:39 PM on March 12, 2008

MeTa post: Sans quoi?

How the hell did you find it?

freedictionary.com is usually helpful with acronyms...
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 11:26 AM on March 10, 2008

Er, thefreedictionary.com, excuse me.
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 11:27 AM on March 10, 2008

And, after posting and actually googling it, it's the fourth result...
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 11:28 AM on March 10, 2008

MeTa post: View Only Favorited Comments?

There is a possibility of reading a location to the person and it likes all but. Me with him it talks together, the trademark which is this special under hazard clearness keyl Oh there is the original which becomes your together design. But, between the user the different x it decides and when them holding in this mind all it wants jumping over without, and there is a metafilter form which provides that view with the official method which reads a location, that is different i care... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 3:28 PM on February 19, 2008

MeTa post: best comment ever?

Thanks OmieWise and cortex. That seemed to be the gist in the thread I linked there (see carsonb's response). My feeling was that there might be something more to it, but after reading the detailed responses here I see why that line of reasoning is sufficient. In particular, the distinction regarding the higher moderation level of posts makes the whole thing very clear.
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 12:10 PM on February 19, 2008

I too would like to cast my vote in favor of a most favorited list.

I would too, but I wonder- cortex, is there an experimental basis for the viewpoint that having an all time most-favorited comments list would lead to the negative consequences you and OmieWise mentioned? I.e. has that happened somewhere (here?) before?

Also, thanks very much Plutor for that list, some of those comments were absolutely priceless and I'm very... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 1:02 PM on February 19, 2008

Er, I meant to say, that if what cortex, OmieWise, and others have said is true, then creating the all time most-favorited list would cause those wonderful comments to be drowned and lost in a sea of snarky crap bubbling up to the top and displacing the good stuff.
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 1:04 PM on February 19, 2008

I really don't believe this is true. It's so difficult to predict what will gather a meta-tonne of favorites.

The point I was trying to make is that several people have said something along the lines of "See how great the top comments are? Therefore, all time most-favorited list can't be a bad thing;" the original point cortex et al were making is that it is the lack of such a list that allows the quality of those top comments to be so high.
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 1:38 PM on February 19, 2008

p.s. I understand that the point itself is contentious, and I really am not trying to argue it one way or another. I'm just pointing out that if the detractors are right, it would be a bad thing. If they aren't, then it would obviously be a good one.
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 1:39 PM on February 19, 2008

MeTa post: I thought we were progressive

SHUT UP NO YOU SHUT UP

Ah, shaddap ya face! (that's my mama)
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 5:05 PM on February 13, 2008

MeTa post: Disabled comment links in favorites?

That makes sense.

I haven't noticed any favorited comments with links though, so am I correct in concluding that you strip out html regardless of whether you're excerpting the comment?
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 1:06 PM on January 29, 2008

(Personally I'd rather see some of my links than none of them)
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 1:07 PM on January 29, 2008

Thanks for the responses. That'd be a really welcome change. It's not that it's a big deal to click the comment first to get the link, the problem is that when I peruse my favorited comments, it's not always, or even usually, obvious which ones had links and which ones didn't. Sometimes links are embedded cleverly in clever comments, and I really don't want to click every single comment to check for a link. Even just adding a note at the end of the comment saying "[links removed]"... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 1:23 PM on January 29, 2008

MeTa post: So, did you survive eating the sandwich?

I put in 30 days notice after I was told I had right of first refusal until my lease was up, and bought my grandmother a Vostro 1000.
posted to MetaTalk by nzero at 3:14 PM on October 9, 2007