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MeTa post:
trying to find an old askme about browser portal thingy
Great fools think different.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 3:15 PM on July 6, 2008
I agree with every kvetch you have stated, stav, and actually replace tinys with plain expanded links sometimes if I see them.
That said, you can make your experience less annoying by visiting the tinyurl site and turning on a (cookie-based) interstitial mode that will show you the expanded link and let you decided whether to follow or not.
Helps with the griefing. Doesn't do much for rickrolls, of course, since who fucking knows what's on the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 3:56 PM on July 6, 2008
For example: blammo, Blacksun.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 3:57 PM on July 6, 2008
I think not tinyurling is just plain good etiquette whenever there's not a really compelling reason to do it. It's a space-saving device in some cases (IM, twitter, etc), and an obfuscation tool in others (dodging filters, rickrolling, hiding affiliate links), but none of that applies to the general case of sharing links with people, and doubly so for MeFi where there's basically no added utility and an actual reduction in usefulness in a shortened link.
All of which is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 4:18 PM on July 6, 2008
(That said, I hear what you mean, and I don't think anybody would have thought anything intentional in you doing it. It's just annoying for a lot of reasons, so SUCK IT UP, NANCY, etc.)
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 4:18 PM on July 6, 2008
MeTa post:
Thread pagination +500 comments
It has come up a few times, yeah. Here's a comment from Matt on his take, back around the start of the year. I agree with him.
300+ comment threads are pretty unusual. 500+ even more so. A bohemoth like the current BoingBoing thread is the once-every-few-months monster, and those tend to prompt this conversation but what it comes down to is an outlier case that would require us to do a bunch of work to support something that's a little annoying but far from a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 6:45 PM on July 1, 2008
One of the things I personally find really unsettling on sites where comment numbers are displayed is the propensity among folks in the conversation to refer to one another by number or to otherwise use that in lieu of the kinds of nominal and quotational signifiers that are common on mefi. Which may be largely a matter of local convention, but I really like that threads here aren't punctuated by a series of #xyz callbacks in every other comment.
Add... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 11:16 AM on July 6, 2008
MeTa post:
Burning the black book
I think I gave mine to dersins, and then later he apologized and mumbled or something when the last thing came up and I don't remember what happened next.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 3:29 PM on July 4, 2008
MeTa post:
Another open letter.
Choy
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 8:27 AM on July 4, 2008
*starts singing Toni Braxton*
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 12:40 PM on July 4, 2008
Wendells Do It Synechdotally
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 1:05 PM on July 4, 2008
You say dochally, I say dotally, let's call the whole thing off.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 1:39 PM on July 4, 2008
Actually, France does. It's called "Ennui Day".
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 1:53 PM on July 4, 2008
"Ennui Will Never Walk Alone". It's a Franco-Anglo soccer thing, I guess.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 1:55 PM on July 4, 2008
MeTa post:
We'll build our house and chop our wood
Has anybody ever tried just writing to Bruce Campbell and saying, "hi, Bruce. You are awesome and I have a bunch of friends who agree with that. Here is five dollars, please come say hello"?
Because he seems like the kind of guy who might bite.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 4:36 PM on July 3, 2008
MeTa post:
5 minutes of great reading.
The variety of life must flow.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 7:38 AM on July 3, 2008
Who are you calling congruent, buddy?
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 3:21 PM on July 3, 2008
I meant discriminant
Some of my best friends are black.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 3:40 PM on July 3, 2008
binary quadratic
Oh no you did not.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 3:56 PM on July 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Everything here is chatty
I was more frustrated in this case not just by the fact that I had given some thought to it and responded, but I was getting benefit by reading the other responses and following their linkages and avenues.
Which is a totally understandable response. I never delete a question that already has earnest answers in it without thinking that it has to suck a little bit for the folks who've already jumped in to the thread.
But earnest... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 12:43 PM on July 3, 2008
True, it's more of a deathstyle question.
I'll let myself out.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 1:11 PM on July 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Memorial fund?
blanched carrots
I'd just like to state for the record that if I'm ever in a horribly disabling accident, I do not want mefites to spit food in my mouth.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 10:14 AM on July 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Music Talk and Charts and Challenges, Oh My!
Also, we've trained a quartet of ponies to wear straw hats and sing barbershop; they're available at reasonable hourly rates to interested recordists.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 9:57 AM on July 2, 2008
It used to be $16/hr, but in response to price adjustments from our competitors in a nearby metropolis we were compelled to raise that price by 25%.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 10:41 AM on July 2, 2008
Karlos, I think both of those are reasonable points on the makin'-music spectrum.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 5:56 AM on July 3, 2008
Ooh. Interesting and, yeah, I think an unintended consquence, danb. I'll poke pb.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 7:44 AM on July 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Metafilter - lessons learned from the BB problem?
It occurs to me to wonder whether or not the moderators of MeFi feel constrained as compared to the apparent relative unconstraint of the BB crew.
I feel contrained by my own sense of obligation to not be a jerk, my desire to not get petty with someone just because they're up my shirt, and what I think is fair to describe as a general professional obligation to not be a lousy example by doing the kind of stuff I sometimes have to clean up after others... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 12:30 PM on July 2, 2008
(That is, I prefer not to find myself in the position of having fucked up and getting my shit called. I very much prefer being in a position where if I fuck up, people say so, because I think it helps keep me from fucking up.)
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 12:33 PM on July 2, 2008
Is the implication that the people over on Boing Boing don't like their site and aren't actively involved in it?
I think the implication is that the editors at BB aren't in the same sort of dynamic as we are here: they are by and large dictating the content, where here we are by and large co-consumers of the userbase's content. Whether and how that leads to a difference in framework or perspective for them, though, is again not something I think I can speak confidently on.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 12:35 PM on July 2, 2008
As far as the core question of "can it happen here", I think a couple people have addressed already the difference between "can it happen is SOMEONE FLIPS OUT WHOA" vs. "can it happen according to the way we deal with administration". The answers are "yes" and "no", respectively. Erasing swaths of content is just wholly antithetical to how Matt has run the site over the years, and something I find pretty personally distressing as a proposition.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 12:43 PM on July 2, 2008
Can't remember, but isn't true that neither posts or comments are actually deleted, merely hidden from display by most users?
True, though in the early days some stuff went into the bit bucket at deletion until Matt set up a proper "hide" functionality.
Since it's been a recurring point in the BB discussion, though, I feel like I should be clear that I'm using "delete" here in the basic sense of "remove from view". I'm glad... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 1:02 PM on July 2, 2008
Any particular reason why ya'll "Hide from view" as opposed to actually delete?
1. It's useful to have a record of problematic stuff.
- If someone has not a bad day but a bad habit, having deletions available for review behind the scenes makes it a lot easier to get a sense of what happened, beyond Whatever We Just Deleted.
- While we'll discuss fuzzier things or give one another a heads up... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 1:33 PM on July 2, 2008
Just commenting to get this on my recent activity. Wait. A way to do that without commenting has been a pony request before, right? Whatever happened to that....
Step one: favorite the post.
Step two: go here.
You get there by clicking "Recent Activity" (my favorite link on the whole site) up in the header, and then clicking on the "My Favorites" tab. Placeholder-free thread tracking!... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 1:38 PM on July 2, 2008
It turns out that if most of what the site does is let other people do shit, I do a better job of not abandoning it. There've been something like 270,000 Garkov strips generated in the last couple weeks, by sort of the same principle.
Also, my landlady actually took away the Laundryroom Swapmeet table and sent a letter to everyone saying "cut it out", so, yeah.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 1:58 PM on July 2, 2008
Your landlady is not a fan of the redistribution of wealth and/or miscellaneous goods?
My landlady is not a fan of a bunch of abandoned crap living on that table until she threw it away. Which is really a pretty reasonable position to take, I guess. Still, though: man.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 2:59 PM on July 2, 2008
MeTa post:
Start Conference in San Francisco
"Start" is also an ill-conceived label for a button designed to initiate processes that include shutting off a computer.
They should have called it the "This Shit Just Got Real" button.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 7:34 AM on July 2, 2008
MeTa post:
Can I post something I tested to Projects?
My feeling is that's moving a bit far afield from authorship to really fit for Projects. Matt and Jess might disagree, but I feel like once you get to the point of needing to describe why despite you not being the author, etc, it's probably better not to, yeah.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 5:11 AM on July 1, 2008
Matt (as the person who usually approves Projects submissions) reserves the right to not approve skeezy looking bullshit submissions from opportunistic SEO types.
Projects, and Music and Jobs in the same general sense, make for kind of interesting edge-cases in that sense. We've rejected Projects before, and deleted Jobs posts (no queue there, unlike Projects), and on a couple of occasions I've deleted posts (or arranged a significant edit) from a new Music poster who... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 1:27 PM on July 1, 2008
MeTa posts (actually I think we may see them like five minutes before they go live)
Do we? I thought it was just the timeout on the front-page cache that made it seem that way to users.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 2:23 PM on July 1, 2008
Well, it's effectively like a zero-to-five minute window, is what I'm thinking. If the Metatalk front page cache refreshes every five minutes on the 0s and 5s, and someone makes a post at 10:04:45, the timeout is all of fifteen seconds.
Is what I'm thinking. We could probably just ask pb.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 2:42 PM on July 1, 2008
It compares identifying details on a just-made post to all the accounts in the database, and checks matches for recent askme-post activity.
Sometimes, it's two people who know each other. Coolio, as you were.
Sometimes, it's someone with two accounts, and we tell them to cut it out.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 3:56 PM on July 1, 2008
(That is, identifying details in the poster's account—email, paypal, etc.)
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 3:57 PM on July 1, 2008
MeTa post:
Ugh, all RIGHT, mom, I get it.
There are often distinctly different answers to a question that are hard to tell apart because they're expressed via semantically-overloaded homomorphs.
And people just like to answer questions using homomorphs.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 11:24 AM on July 1, 2008
Can you clarify that, blue_beetle? I don't really care what you're getting at, but I enjoy it when you talk.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 12:12 PM on July 1, 2008
MeTa post:
My Little Pony Express
Ack, feeping creaturism!
Is why we keep a healthy stock on hand of Expandicide. There are all sorts of issues we could tackle by adding features and functionality to mefimail, opening us up for the next round of issues we could tackle by adding more features and functionality, opening us up for the next round and so on. So we're not going there, generally speaking: the tool is what it is, and that's all what it... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 5:30 AM on July 1, 2008
It's all email from users. It's not (with a few jokey exceptions) inter-admin communication -- we do that via email or IM, generally. Any system-generated admin stuff goes straight to real email as well.
It's not hard to deal with the mefimail, because it tends to be stuff that I deal with promptly and then forget about. The stuff I got a year ago, I'm probably not going back for, and on the rare occasions that I do need to, we've got that admin-side search tool.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 6:55 AM on July 1, 2008
I have problem's with rogue apostrophe's. It's a disease.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex
at 7:00 AM on July 1, 2008
