MeTa comment:
"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...." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by mrbill, JaredSeth, konolia
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"This is just to say
I have eaten
the points
that were in
the comment
and which
you were probably
saving
for elaboration
Forgive me
they were delicious
so pointy
and..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by muzzlecough, yhbc
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"By the way, since we're talking about disemvoweling, someone built a webtool to help defeat it.
I'm simultaneously delighted that it exists and pissed that there's prior art...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by skoosh
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"hmmm...is he silent because he consents or is he silent because he's packing up ~^
i would not be surprised in the least if cory left over this...
From what the other principals have said over at BB, it sounds like he's silent because, crisis or..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by merelyglib, liza, JHarris
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"That this topic comes off as inside baseball for the blogosphere is interesting because seven or eight years ago this would have been a gimme of a front page post on mefi. But six years ago, Cory was active on the site, too. The world has moved on,..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by jeblis, jennanemone, glycolized, aeschenkarnos, bru, doctor_negative, dantsea, spiderwire, grobstein
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"*unboxes Hug-o-matic*" [
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favorited 11 times, recently by bitter-girl.com, olya, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious, mindsound, turgid dahlia, flaterik, retronic, Skorgu, eriko, cavalier, liza
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"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%." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by eritain, Rock Steady, ssg
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Wevs. I just read your comment backward and there were a bunch of weird noises, so, like, go other a point and stuff." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by gorgor_balabala
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Ordinary music played in reverse tends to sound weird. This right here does not sound like banjo to me, and I'm the last person it should sound weird to. Don't underestimate the role of temporality on psychoacoustic processing—it's a very..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by gorgor_balabala
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"dewonderfuled
Doesn't really roll of the tongue, does it? I think verbing "lackluster" would work.
"How dare you. Fine. Okay. You've just been lacklustered, buddy...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by madamjujujive, nooneyouknow
2 days ago
Music comment:
"I tend to apply compression to one track at a time to reduce the dynamic range of that track somewhat; I rarely put more than a touch of compression on a final mix. I'm not sure how you're using it, but if you're trying more that latter case, you..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by snsranch
2 days ago
MeTa comment:
"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." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Rock Steady, not_on_display
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by zippy, bru
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Links have a half-life of approximately nine million seconds, or 90 days (choose yer units wisely). Complaining about something that's two years old is just lame.
While there are exceptional cases where a site's links have been designed to decay..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by ifthe21stcentury, bru, Optimus Chyme, sondrialiac, liza, taz, JHarris, wendell, Sidhedevil, spiderwire, shmegegge, fearfulsymmetry, drezdn, ShawnStruck
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by birdsquared
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by bru, caddis
3 days ago
MeTa comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bru
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, I don't doubt empathy colors my read of it to some extent. More importantly, I wasn't fully caught up with the BoingBoing thread, so I hadn't seen all of what folks have been criticizing in context. I agree that, as much as this has no doubt..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by anildash, spiderwire
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"With several comment quotings and discussing it and the commenter making a mea culpa, I think it might be more dizzying to nix the comment now than to let it stand as an example of people on all sides of this discussion saying questionable things,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bru
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Why are you reading such a fascist website?
We have cameras.
Actually, as much as I have my own reactions to what I've seen in their moderation, I'm not all that jazzed about talking about it as e.g. BB vs. Mefi—moderation of a busy place is a..." [
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favorited 16 times, recently by secretseasons, merelyglib, batgrlHG, Smart Dalek, Jilder, humannaire, loiseau, bru, davemee, Deathalicious, spiderwire, JHarris, mrzarquon, ShawnStruck, hifiparasol, Justinian
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"This is a directory of wonderful things. If we no longer think something is wonderful, we have every right to remove it from your directory.
It's an odd line. I mean, on the one hand, yes: it's their prerogative and they've every right to delete..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Metacommentary on discourse themes: as much as I sometimes get annoyed at one or another mefite jumping into a thread to take pains to point out that they don't care about the topic of said thread, I'm getting exhausted by the sheer volume of..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by sondrialiac, tehloki
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"(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.)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Skorgu
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Has anyone built an un-disemvoweller? That would be a neat greasemonkey script. Sure there are some irreducible ambiguities in the text once it's been disemvowelled (unless you have some very powerful sentence-level logic, like in th hmn brn), but..." [
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favorited 14 times, recently by jjwiseman, ifthe21stcentury, arcticwoman, Jpfed, humannaire, RussHy, Kadin2048, JHarris, zippy, treepour, neustile, Richard Daly, Songdog, DU
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"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..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bru
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"*blames anildash*
There's a bit of a sidebar discussion of the "Unpublish" usage over at Making Light, too. If only BB were a WordPress shop, all this would be behind them. :)
At this point, I'm mostly looking forward to what..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by liza
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"cortex: yes, you guys are doing a formidable job at managing content on mefi. I applaud you all for that but am I mistaken in my assumption that you have no meaningful financial interest in metafilter? I would assume that to make it at least somewhat..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by batgrlHG
5 days ago
