MetaTalk posts by moz

Post moderation. I can empathize with feelings o...

moz — Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:02:56 -0800

Post moderation. I can empathize with feelings of attachment to posts which you submit. When you post as often as troutfishing has in his own post (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), however, I think you are overdoing things.

Is it possible, or even a good idea, to have font ...

moz — Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:35:43 -0800

Is it possible, or even a good idea, to have font sizes in pixels rather than or in addition to the current scheme (which is in points)?

In Windows XP version 2002, using either Mozilla 1...

moz — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:30:19 -0800

In Windows XP version 2002, using either Mozilla 1.1 or IE6, renders Metafilter with really big letters that make reading the site difficult. Anyone got any solutions?

I don't like when people decide they can abuse met...

moz — Mon, 08 Jul 2002 13:12:07 -0800

I don't like when people decide they can abuse metafilter by posting controversial soapbox rants. You know you're going to get a bunch of comments, and you know people will have their feelings hurt or their blood boiling, but are these good things? What good do you contribute?

Threads which have been deleted by Matt should not...

moz — Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:58:43 -0800

Threads which have been deleted by Matt should not show up in a search of those posted by a user, but they do.

is it possible that postroad could maybe not post ...

moz — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:22:34 -0800

is it possible that postroad could maybe not post a palestine thread once every couple of days or so? i realize that the odd controversial topic not directly related to israel and palestine is occasionally thrown in, but really.

so, um, if you don't like metafilter, don't partic...

moz — Mon, 06 May 2002 13:14:42 -0800

so, um, if you don't like metafilter, don't participate.

A while ago, chipr's fight to save his domain -- U...

moz — Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:37:23 -0800

A while ago, chipr's fight to save his domain -- Unicom.com -- was linked to on the sidebar. Slashdot is now reporting that the judge on his case has decided in his favor. (Congrats, chip!)

how about a textarea on the post-a-thread page to ...

moz — Wed, 09 Jan 2002 11:53:59 -0800

how about a textarea on the post-a-thread page to allow you to optionally post the first comment on the thread? reading rich's comment on how not everyone wants to write up such a comment with word or notepad beforehand, it seems like this feature could be useful. no one jokes about where's the "more inside" text, and the ease of use in posting that first, explanatory comment may help in keeping FPPs from getting too large.

tag fixing gone awry. the culprit appears to be a...

moz — Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:18:22 -0800

tag fixing gone awry. the culprit appears to be a colon inserted rather than a double quote mark in the html source for an href=url key-value pair, causing the tag fixer to become very confused and add an extra double-quote mark -- one for each of two a href tags -- at the end of the tags. you'll have to view source to see what the post was actually meant to be and where the problem is.

IE has a huge, gaping hole that allows executable ...

moz — Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:54:26 -0800

IE has a huge, gaping hole that allows executable files to be downloaded and run on the computers of browsers.

Pynnonen revealed that the bug lies in IE's processing of Internet addresses and "header" information that tells the browser what type of file it is handling. The flaw is particularly dangerous because it can be exploited using ordinary Web page code, without help from JavaScript or other scripting programs, he said.

thanks to the wonder of non-disclosure agreements, we won't know the precise nature of the bug (yet), but this one sounds bad.

The Morning News is hosting a round table discussi...

moz — Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:07:26 -0800

The Morning News is hosting a round table discussion on writing on the web, with mathowie among the contributors. Check it out.

What do you think of editorializing and directing ...

moz — Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:38:27 -0800

What do you think of editorializing and directing commentary toward a discussion that the poster prefers? Particularly in the FPP text? (See Steven Den Beste's post.)

in metatalk only, once i visit "x new" f...

moz — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:06:14 -0800

in metatalk only, once i visit "x new" for a thread (or even just the top of a thread), returning to metatalk wipes out any "x new" comment notices that had been listed before.

Six degrees of kottke. what's yours? (can't find...

moz — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 21:49:01 -0800

Six degrees of kottke. what's yours? (can't find a permalink...)

so, yah. when your pointless thread is deleted, y...

moz — Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:56:27 -0800

so, yah. when your pointless thread is deleted, you repost it.

the law of decreasing comment length: as a thread ...

moz — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:41:49 -0800

the law of decreasing comment length: as a thread ceases to be a potentially useful resource for information and argument, its average comment length approaches 0 asymptotically. (such as here, here, and here.) other patterns are out there, i'm sure. (how about "giant comment punctuates end or near end of further commentary"?)

links in comments are getting busted.

moz — Wed, 07 Nov 2001 10:57:40 -0800

links in comments are getting bus ted.

What time is it? It's gametime. What's going d...

moz — Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:28:59 -0800

What time is it?

It's gametime. What's going down at the metafilter basketball league on yahoo, ID #95325 password "filtermeta"? For one, me -- to the floor, hard. Come and see the happy mondays play. Play basketball that is! We'll wheeze and puff so hard you'd think we were blowing down your house instead of trying to grab the rebounds of our weak 9 footers.

And the best part is that you don't have to get a tattoo of a ring of thorns around your arm like all the other athletes, unless you want to.

(12 teams in the league.) The draft begins whenever we start to fill up.

searching metafilter: a proposal. (more inside.)

moz — Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:55:13 -0800

searching metafilter: a proposal. (more inside.)