Ask post: How can I create a social networking site?

Yeah, Ning was the first thing that occurred to me.

Think of Drupal as the software for running your community. You install it on your own website, you configure it, you run it. (I don't know Elgg, but it seems to be the same idea).

Think of Ning as pre-installed community software that's made available to you as a service. You'll have some configuring to do and fewer options, but less administrivia.

Learning how to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by adamrice at 3:53 PM on April 12, 2008

MeTa post: korean doctors = robbers?

what's bad about this question, to my mind, isn't really the possible racism. it just seems poorly phrased in that regard. the problem is how much the question is not one for askme. there's one paragraph that clearly outlines the questions:

What should I/my father do? What risks can I avoid and what haven't I thought of? What recourse would I have if we were double-crossed?

one by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by shmegegge at 2:15 PM on March 27, 2008

Nobody would say, "Will the Austrian doctor rob me blind?" The question would be something like, "What protection does the Austrian legal system offer for intellectual property?" Seriously.

Have you spoken to everybody? Every English speaking person on the face of the Earth?

"Will the [nationality] doctor rob me / my father blind?" is a slightly over-the-top way of saying "What protection... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by CKmtl at 3:12 PM on March 27, 2008

Stavros is our resident expert on Korean [NOT RASCISM], I think. I demand that he rule on this topic!

Well, the poster may or may not have prejudices with regard to people from other countries and cultures. Who knows? Regardless, the way he or she phrased their question may be clumsy, but I don't think it's even mildly racist.

The truth is that doing business with and in Korea, for non-Koreans, is something to be pursued with... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:57 PM on March 27, 2008

Not to add unecessarily to what may become a pile-on, but to MeTa-up just because an AskMe might possibly be construed as racist is ludicrous. It seems randomstriker wasn't offended himself, and saw it was most likely meant as "a doctor in Korea...", yet brought it to the grey...why?

Burhanistan had it down in the first comment.

I wouldn't say there are even mildly racist stereotypes in there, if you give it a natural reading...it's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cosmonik at 5:33 PM on March 27, 2008

Ask post: How can I protect myself in international business deals?

How can I protect myself in international business deals?

I do not know the answer to this, or most of your other questions, but hopefully the information I can give will be of some use to you. I got here from the associated Metatalk thread. I've been living in and working in Korea for almost 10 of the last 12 years, for what it's worth.

It's difficult to say negative things without being tarred with the brush of... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:53 PM on March 27, 2008 marked best answer

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