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MeTa post:
MeFi Mail is here
In the next couple weeks. We're about half done redoing the whole user system and that will be the next big long overdue feature.
Saints preserve us!
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 9:20 PM on October 19, 2007
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So, did you survive eating the sandwich?
The water heater was bad. We're probably suing.
Tenant moved back in after 3rd bombing. I sympathize but she is a drama queen.
Drug house moved out. Block is quiet again.
Song fragments fading from memory. Pity.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 9:55 AM on October 7, 2007
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MarkovFilter: Lemme see if any American supermarkets have taken in this stuff to decorate my dorm room.
You can easily override or drop the Websense filter if it catches on, or better yet, through a lens of Western psychotherapy modified by Buddhist and Zen principles. You can't do it, I didn't get out and you would expect free or upon joining. This will also ask you not ... Toledo), or Indians. They were on the Pontiac loan. It won't let citizens onto Area 51. Meanwhile, back on the F-15s would fare at least 20% free), would be better off bombing a dam (although it's more accurate to say I was... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 12:05 AM on September 12, 2007
MeTa post:
Delegation
pineapple has good points -- matt has frequently told how he did not come to moderation naturally and hates the confrontations that are part and parcel of the job. My impression is that he wanted, and got, sidekicks who are unfazed at playing enforcer.
Lord knows, as a three-digit member who's semi-retired from regular posting, doing the one-liner snark all day long is extremely tempting. I don't refresh conversations and have multi-thread debates with other users... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 3:09 PM on August 1, 2007
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who was that guy, the one with the plane...?
fly4fun, if you ever feel any nervousness about posting here, just visualize yourself in your underwear.
Well, just visualize any of us in our underwear. It's the internet. Somebody is.
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 2:25 PM on July 3, 2007
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SEO heaven
*sigh* I used to own my username dot com. It got lost during the chaos that was my unexpected ejection from the IT industry (I hear I wasn't the only one).
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 5:18 PM on May 18, 2007
MeTa post:
Viral Marketing on Metafilter
I wish Trojan would get in the viral marketing business. I would love to see some posts of those videos.
Ask and ye shall receive.
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 1:57 PM on May 10, 2007
Am I the only one who doesnt' understand how the ad was supposed to sell a specific brand of sunglasses?
if there was a unique feature of the glassess that is needed to throw them at your friends face I would sort of get it.
Most of the best -- or at least, most successful -- viral ads don't mention the product at all. Partly it's breaking the longstanding rules of advertising, which jaded consumers will appreciate, and partly... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 2:05 PM on May 10, 2007
MeTa post:
Length limits in AskMe
perhaps it's time for absolute length limits in AskMe
That would really interfere with my plans to write a periodic novel using my AskMe allotments.
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 2:38 PM on May 9, 2007
MeTa post:
The Corporal's nemesis appears
I think he'll fit in well here
Perhaps. He certainly flamed out on Wikipedia pretty quickly, though [also]. Reading diff by diff, it's amazing he lasted as long as he did.
Maybe he'll be OK outside of his pet topics, but he certainly seems to resort to ad homs pretty quickly.
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 12:12 AM on May 6, 2007
From the logs, it looks like a small group of administrators acted with an agenda
First of all, Wilson doesn't seem to have edited the article -- he just started in on Talk pages flaming people, and got himself banned for it, and now harbors a persecution/bias complex. I'm thrilled to have him here. If there's anything that MeFi needs, it's someone who calls anyone who disagrees with him a "Nixonian twit".
Second,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 12:51 PM on May 6, 2007
MeTa post:
The kindness of MeFi.
that thread is in many ways the worst of Metafilter, or at least of Ask Metafilter, regardless of whether one thinks the answers are 'correct' or not.
I think I see what you mean, stav, and not just in the context of all relationship questions. The best answer is almost "Nobody here is qualified to advise you or help you, contact a professional" and close the thread. As it is, with 90% of the hundred-odd responses identical, it's almost got... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 11:14 PM on May 3, 2007
MeTa post:
"Everybody's Interesting" Metafilter's...
felix: I came up with the ... idea of an internet-connected teddy bear that contacts a web site to tell stories.
Teddy Bear, 2.0 in today's WaPo.
Each stuffed animal comes with an identification number that gives children access to the Webkinz site. There, owners discover their pets' online personas ("I'll let you in on a secret," reads the profile of a cocker spaniel. "I love fish sticks, and I've... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 2:14 AM on February 7, 2007
MeTa post:
Digg did it....
the comely AV nerd in high school
Most of the AV nerds I've known have trended a little more closely toward homely.
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 2:01 PM on July 4, 2006
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Why no Metafilter myspace?...
I just think of MySpace like meeting people in a dirty, smelly subway car with gum on the seats. You just kind of ignore it. And try not to sit down.
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 7:37 PM on May 19, 2006
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Gossipfilter? Is this appropriate for Metafilter,...
I don't see why we should take away his posting rights here
Where did I suggest that?
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 6:24 PM on April 8, 2006
Is this appropriate for Metafilter?
It was a question, with a question mark, so I don't know why I'm being piled on, but whatever. I brought it to MeTa mainly because it was being discussed in-thread.
I didn't realize that the standard now is that callouts mean you want someone banned.
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 9:26 PM on April 8, 2006
because people, understandably, mistook "hot-tub rights" as a euphemism
To be clear, I meant it as an allusion to the issue of whether this was something for our community to police, or whether these were the rules of another community to which insomnia_lj is separately responsible. That's all.
Incidentally, my concern was not so much Dolby here as his wife, who is not a public figure. I might have made that more... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 11:08 PM on April 8, 2006
MeTa post:
Cleanup on aisle 33719. DirtyCreature is trashing...
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 11:46 AM on March 4, 2006
you need to not turn someone else's AskMe question into a debate about your particular set of issues. That's what MetaTalk is for
How does this work, exactly? Do I post what I believe to be my particular set of issues, and wait for someone to refute them, which is to say, prove that I have an entirely different set of issues?
I'm new here, and just trying to get a feel for the rules.
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 12:18 AM on March 5, 2006
MeTa post:
All MeFi members plotted on Google Earth...
For the benefit of those w/o Google Earth, here are a few more screenshots, zooming in to see the coolness:
1. Continental USA
2. Chicagoland
3. North Shore Suburbs
4. me3dia and ednopantz crossing the street, about to get hit by a car
OH NOES!!!... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 11:36 AM on December 29, 2005
MeTa post:
Reading the thread about the eBay scam stuff, it...
That's not a bad idea, and something that's probably fairly easy to implement.
I'm quite sure that it was brought up before, and your thinking then was that it would encourage a metathread for every thread in the blue.
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 8:40 PM on November 14, 2005
MeTa post:
If it becomes custom to repost articles to get...
I did this once, although China filters weren't my concern. Everybody was talking about the damn thing without reading it. When the author contacted me, I deleted it.
I don't think that MeFi should get in the habit of reposting copyrighted material onsite, though. We give mathowie money to fly to Iceland, not buy his lawyer a Mercedes.
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 4:04 PM on November 13, 2005
MeTa post:
Chicago MetaFilter Get-Together? Delilah's on 6/2...
Damn!
I would love to come but I'm afraid I cannot. If I'm in Chicago Thursday night it will be at the Siskel Film Center.
Well, that may not happen after all. Let's call me a 50/50 shot then.
BTW, I'm moving back to Chicago, and I need a job.
posted to MetaTalk by dhartung
at 11:53 PM on May 31, 2005
