MetaTalk posts by WCityMike

Mefi's Own Baby_Balrog: "Stephen and I travel...

WCityMike — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:56:50 -0800

Mefi's Own Baby_Balrog: "Stephen and I traveled to Bilin, near Ramallah, on Friday. [...] IDF soldiers began firing CS gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at the marchers [...] here's a video of me running away when the soldiers started firing gas canisters [...] I had my jump kit with me and tried to help a few people [...]" He's writing a pretty fascinating blog.]]> (closed)

Please for the love of all that is holy, can we st...

WCityMike — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:24:24 -0800

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Would it be possible for someone -- admin, volunte...

WCityMike — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:52:01 -0800

Would it be possible for someone -- admin, volunteer, or even I could take a whack -- to develop a print stylesheet for Metafilter?

Just a derail-preventing idea ...

WCityMike — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:50:49 -0800

Just a derail-preventing idea ...

If anyone would like to be guildmaster of the Alli...

WCityMike — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:21:53 -0800

If anyone would like to be guildmaster of the Alliance Metafilter World of Warcraft guild on Maelstrom ("The Blue"), please respond in this thread or e-mail me.

Are there still any Metafilter-specific World of W...

WCityMike — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:20:08 -0800

Are there still any Metafilter-specific World of Warcraft guilds?

RFC on carbon-copying Mefi mail you send to your h...

WCityMike — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:51:18 -0800

RFC on carbon-copying Mefi mail you send to your home address, too.

Fundamentalist Metafilterism? A few days ago, I h...

WCityMike — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:27:10 -0800

Fundamentalist Metafilterism? A few days ago, I had a post deleted. I'm actually not complaining about that (hey! don't jump on me! I'm not! read this before yelling at me!), but that, combined with the belovedness of this post, made a question form in my head.

Nothin' big, but I found it amusing that Lifehacke...

WCityMike — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:14:30 -0800

Nothin' big, but I found it amusing that Lifehacker linked to a closed thread.

Ponyfilter: highlighting high-favorite comments in...

WCityMike — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:53:14 -0800

Ponyfilter: highlighting high-favorite comments in threads, for when you want to do a quick skim of a long(ish) thread.

While this guy does need the "slap in the fac...

WCityMike — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:13:58 -0800

While this guy does need the "slap in the face" back-to-reality technique he's getting, he doesn't need it to the extent he's getting, and the extent of name-calling is more likely to make him re-entrench in his behaviors than it is to assist in the change of attitude he's seeking. This comment is particularly unhelpful.

A few months shy of three years later, I'm still k...

WCityMike — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:39:02 -0800

A few months shy of three years later, I'm still knocked breathless by this thread. I've been rereading each story over this weekend, and it's really had me thinking about echoes and effects, human goodness, and the astonishing strength of human resilience. I'm really grateful to everyone who shared such meaningful and vulnerable moments of their lives. Mefi is one hell of a community.

Cool, when did the "remove from activity"...

WCityMike — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:23:47 -0800

Cool, when did the "remove from activity" thing get implemented?

Are favorites meant to be bookmarks or endorsement...

WCityMike — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:31:03 -0800

Are favorites meant to be bookmarks or endorsements?

I'm wondering if (a) we might be able to get a bak...

WCityMike — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:17:40 -0800

I'm wondering if (a) we might be able to get a baked-in quoting ability, or (b) someone could help me figure out why Plutor's quote script isn't working for me.

There is a single page that globally ranks comment...

WCityMike — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:59:17 -0800

There is a single page that globally ranks comments across the three sites by number of times favorited, spanning the past seven days (link). There are individual pages that rank posts for each subsite by number of times favorited in the past day (AskMefi, Mefi, and Meta). Do there exist individual pages for each subsite that rank the comments most favorited within the past 24 hours — or even a single page that spans all three but ranks the most favorited comments in the last 24 hours?

There are about five googol plexes (googols plex?)...

WCityMike — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:21:24 -0800

There are about five googol plexes (googols plex?)* about dating and flirting on Metafilter. How do I flirt? Does she like me? How can you tell if a girl likes you? This girl is doing behaviors X, Y, and Z. Is she into me? This boy is doing behaviors A, B, and C. Does he like me? What is the most outstanding and/or insightful commentary you've seen a Mefite write about dating? The topic is such a huge morass of wordage (due to it being a common area of questioning and one that everyone likes to chime in on) that it's a bit daunting in its scope, and yet I know there are some incredible gems. What comments did you think were amazingly spot-on? * — please, don't everybody tell me what the plural of googol plex is and not answer the main one ;-)

Two things (and yes, I'm cheating). First, I'm wo...

WCityMike — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:44:26 -0800

Two things (and yes, I'm cheating). First, I'm wondering if there's any mechanism out there that allows us to look at a "best of" for Mefi and Ask Mefi. Popular favorites in the last 24 hours immediately leaps to mind, and would indeed be ideal, but I'm looking for an RSS feed, and Mathowie says that's a no-go in past MeTas. (Any chance we could change your mind, Matt?) I hear there used to be a third-party blog that did it, but I don't think that's around any longer. Perhaps the sidebar feed ... at least for Mefi? Still, the sidebar is like a "best of best of Mefi." Second, and on an entirely different subject, when the MeFi comment dividers Greasemonkey script is used, it throws off permalinks to comments ... if you click on a comment permalink somewhere else (i.e. a Recent Activity page or a Favorites page), you're at first dropped at the anchor for the comment on the page, but when the comment dividers are applied, it bounces away. Anyone have an idea how that effect might be avoided? I'm more of a idiot-splicer than a programmer, so I really have no idea how to change that script to avoid the effect. Thanks in advance for any advice or answers on both questions ...

If you could found a new Metafilter subsite, what ...

WCityMike — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:22:42 -0800

If you could found a new Metafilter subsite, what would you start, and, for fun, what color would it be (e.g., "the green")?

Damnit, why was my Ask.Mefi question about the ave...

WCityMike — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:53:17 -0800

Damnit, why was my Ask.Mefi question about the average diameter of kumquats deleted?