MeTa comment:
"The OP is a stupid, stupid person. We are NOT dealing with a first-rate intellect here.
This sort of blind reading of someone's basic intellectual worth is neither helpful nor fair. There's a lot to be said about what they did and why they did it,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Metroid Baby, Kattullus
50 minutes ago
MeTa comment:
"Anyway, I'm not feeling like this is going anywhere good so far, so I'm gonna go ahead and close this monster down. I hate to kill some good faith slivers of discussion in here, but this isn't seeming like a useful thread in which to have them in..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by blueberry, forforf, kiki_s, From Bklyn, bru, scody, silkygreenbelly, strixus, boo_radley, Sidhedevil, josher71
5 ¾ hours ago
MeTa comment:
"b) the fact that the deletion contained an unpopular opinion, which folks such as docpops enjoyed riffing on.
I'm addressing B.
You're pretty enthusiastically injecting B into a conversation that wasn't really about it, for no apparent reason...." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by blueberry, davejay, ishotjr, odinsdream, PhoBWanKenobi, abc123xyzinfinity, nadawi, mordax, jmnugent, Lentrohamsanin, defenestration, garnetgirl, lazaruslong, ooga_booga, Sidhedevil, LittleMissCranky, SheMulp AKA Plus 1, Riki tiki, oneswellfoop, runningwithscissors, ifjuly, Space Kitty, scrump, five fresh fish
Almost 6 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"It was this askme thread.
Your exact phrasing was:
you're a lucky girl to still be a virgin. don't waste it on a fling or something that you think is easy, that's my only advice. be patient and be open to something serious if it appears, but if..." [
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favorited 31 times, recently by blueberry, davejay, ishotjr, deborah, mrbill, Nattie, Reverend John, headspace, mordax, jmnugent, flatluigi, scody, teleri025, cerebus19, Sidhedevil, Pope Guilty, Coatlicue, kiki_s, The Devil Tesla, nomad, strixus, oneswellfoop, Caduceus, Space Kitty, schyler523, burnmp3s, Meagan, Dormant Gorilla, Metroid Baby, Optimus Chyme, the dief
Almost 6 hours ago
Ask post:
Help with buying a new mid-range windows gaming PC?
favorited 10 times, recently by voltairemodern, doozer_ex_machina, teraflop, ooga_booga, miratime, SuperSquirrel, booknerd, Jpfed, grobstein, killdevil
6 ¼ hours ago
MeTa comment:
"Comments that have been deleted aren't trackable in any reasonable way, and aren't visible at all. I talked about the post-vs-comment distinction as far as what deletion does a little while back, if you want more detail.
I'm surprised the FAQ..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by redfisch
12 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"I don't know how we'd manage this logistically, but one thought that went careening through my brain was of doing some sort of blind, all-bids-are-paid auction, to make it more of a fundraiser by everyone wanting to participate and less of a..." [
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favorited 17 times, recently by cashman, Bangaioh, Lizc, Jpfed, scrump, contrariwise, serazin, sambosambo, Dr Dracator, Doublewhiskeycokenoice, papafrita, togdon, futureisunwritten, Caduceus, brandman, burnmp3s, god hates math
more than 12 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"everybody else, GFAR
Your track record in metatalk is pretty bumpy lately, and I want to emphasize kindly here that you seem to not really be getting Metafilter very well so far and hence may want to take into account your own culpability in..." [
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favorited 8 times, recently by ooga_booga
more than 12 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"Hi cortex, I suppose when you use an ambiguous word like disconnect, it can mean anything you want. I use more precise language.
This is what you said in the previous comment:
I still do not connect with the posters who say that removing is..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by ooga_booga
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Beth: hell yes. I considered the four-finger limit to be my cheating threshold -- if I needed another finger, one of them had to go.
Vis-a-vis goddam UFO 54-40:
Age eight or nine, I sat down and wrote a letter to the author c/o the listed..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by joe lisboa
more than 12 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"A question for the mods out of curiosity (and you've probably answered this before, but...): What takes precedence? Your opinion or the volume of flagging? Ideally the two correlate, but what if they don't?
There's no formal precedence rule. We..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by strixus
more than 12 hours ago
MeTa comment:
"A raffle style with tickets purchased specifically to benefit a given charity at purchase time seems like it might be a pretty good solution for (a) letting everybody go with a charity they personally prefer to support and (b) keeping everybody in..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by meta87, Kimberly, jpdoane
Yesterday
MeTa comment:
"If we don't care about user numbers* and there's no significance attached to any particular number, why would we consider this particular number special? It doesn't mark any particular milestone in users, just that x number of people have completed..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ArkhanJG
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"The per-computer-cookie preferences thing makes some sense here, but I'm still feeling vaguely fucked with.
It's possible that something in a non-metafilter part of your life is fucking with you and it's just spilling over, like when your family..." [
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favorited 38 times, recently by LeLiLo, Mayor West, giraffe, paleyellowwithorange, spaceman_spiff, moss, Decimask, annathea, double block and bleed, marble, Space Kitty, Jacqueline, Melismata, Jofus, JenMarie, Smarson, notquitemaryann, smoke, languagehat, deborah, futureisunwritten, Afroblanco, empyrean, Mrs. Pterodactyl, PhoBWanKenobi, Nattie
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"To reiterate what Matt and Jess said, what Matt and Jess said." [
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favorited 25 times, recently by papafrita, ocherdraco, goshling, paleyellowwithorange, delmoi, Space Kitty, serazin, stillwater, Jacqueline, Jofus, deborah, Sys Rq, St. Alia of the Bunnies, oneswellfoop
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"It's hard to watch Mad Men without putting it in context of the credulous early-television work contemporary to the early 60s. The "man everyone is awful" thing definitely comes on pretty strong in the show to the point where I can see losing..." [
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favorited 24 times, recently by subbes, mayhap, metasav, jonathanstrange
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"For November, we're going to do an experiment where we close this post now." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by Kimberly, moss, davejay, Zosia Blue, flatluigi, k8lin, Tin Man, modernnomad, Tomorrowful, Askiba, Uppity Pigeon #2
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Is the close your account thing new too?
Pretty new, yeah. Last couple weeks or so. We get requests from people every once in a while to just close their account down; now it's there as as self-service thing...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mitheral
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Huh. I guess that is kind of ambiguous. We should probably just change it to "phantasmagoric"." [
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favorited 20 times, recently by MythMaker
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"In red, to match with a green-text "Vacant" and, for other, a sort of half-way "ant | Occu" in tutone." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by subbes
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I guess I missed the conversation where it was determined that this was a bad thing.
I know you're not being snarky and I want to be clear that I'm not at all, but if you have missed the many conversations where folks have been vocal about their..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ddaavviidd
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"My favorite anagram personally is googly's work, from what turned into an anagram thread:
rox, etc
Out of curiousity, are these new options? Because mine went from [xx favourites] to [faved] to [has favourites] over the span of a few days...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by koeselitz
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"he is the most rationally checked-out of all the losers
When I was working in a market research call center years ago, I was still struggling mightily with the notion of what's described here as loserdom—I was young and naive and kind of..." [
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favorited 21 times, recently by Decimask
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Yeah, I should clarify that my comment was more intended to be "here's the formal term if you want to look into it, and here's an indication that I don't know that there's anything generally substantial to the gender claim", but I didn't..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ShawnStruck
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I thought about dressing up as The Dude but then decided that sounded like too much work, which I think still counts." [
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favorited 6 times, recently by ob1quixote
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I think the argument is not with the idea that there are serious system gender biases at play in the world so much as that some of the language observations being cited as the product of those biases (a) are not actually responsibly describable as..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by shammack
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"But don't tell me you are personally opposed to abortion and yet prochoice. Because what that tells me is you are either A. not really opposed to abortion or B. a coward without the guts to act on your beliefs.
What? I'm personally opposed to..." [
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favorited 56 times, recently by tarheelcoxn
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"and what I expect others to do via the Infodump and anything additional we end up making available
And I hope it's clear, but just to be explicit, I mean this in the "what I bet some of my nerds up in the house are gonna do" way and not..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by tarheelcoxn
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"In the beginning, Metafilter was newly formed, and the people of Metafilter were an innocent people, full of enthusiasms. And they did go forth, and find that which was funny and new, and place it on the front page of Metafilter, and it was good...." [
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favorited 15 times
5 days ago
MeTa comment:
"The show itself to me like a brutal depiction of a certain kind of affluent misery with a candy shell of fashion. I can understand that there are people who enjoy watching that kind of show. But the discussions of the show I've read, and most of the..." [
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favorited 17 times
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Well, yeah, but I didn't even know where to START with flagging it - obviously. It was only slightly different from the previous "get a gun, but know that guns kill people" comments - which seemed reasonable for the situation at hand...." [
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favorited 4 times
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"I served Tiki Barber as sausage at Fenway Park during a Good Morning America
With the typo, this is heartily improved. Name-dropping has nothing on name-murdering-cooking-and-ironically-serving...." [
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favorited 12 times
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"Seriously, Damn That Television, can you cut that out?" [
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favorited 1 time
6 days ago
MeTa comment:
"As far as the notion of paying portions to spotters, I'm pretty cool on the notion. If this is worth doing as a Team Mefi thing with the money off to charity in the event of a win, I think it'd be better to keep it that simple and not complicate..." [
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favorited 4 times
6 days ago
