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And what other community weblog (or any other website, for that matter) features a moderator who likes the members so much as to literally jet around the US for a month to visit members he hasn't met before. (keyword in HTML)
posted to MetaTalk by filthy light thief at 8:35 AM on June 24, 2014

You had a chance to put all of that text above the fold, just for the humor factor. You really dropped the ball there, cortex.
posted to MetaTalk by Plutor at 12:39 PM on July 15, 2015

Totally disagree with Happy news: we're hiring. Specifically, a (etc). And I, for one, think that it will inevitably lead to the destruction of our society. If we focus our forensic attentions on the details of this employment prospectus, we can clearly see that it encourages applications for a moderator to "weak" the "ends" of "US daytime," and to "add a ... suck the very life-essence from his blinded victims? And why is it that we have never SEEN Count cortex sunbathing, or caught his reflection in the ...
posted to MetaTalk by the quidnunc kid at 6:42 AM on December 8, 2015

desjardins: "Am I too late to get in on the hot, hot favoriting action? You can post them publicly because I'm an exhibitionist like that" Here are the stats in all their naked glory. Stats for:desjardinsWho does desjardins favorite the most? (simple count of favorites) Anonymous [65] nickyskye [20] Brandon Blatcher [19] homunculus [18] salvia [13] netbros [12] cortex ...
posted to MetaTalk by FishBike at 3:25 PM on January 29, 2010

joseph conrad: I don't see why another mod would be a bad idea - preferably female. Also: more flagging by community members? Restless_nomad and taz are both women. I am not positive but I believe LobsterMitten is as well. If so, there are more women mods than men. Cortex is a dude. I don't know if gnfti is still a mod (his profile says so, but may be outdated) and vacapinta was never full time. ...
posted to MetaTalk by zarq at 10:27 AM on May 14, 2015

If you want to date a MeFite, there are seven things you can learn to ingratiate yourself with them: 1. SLYT. Two things you need to know about these initials. One, SLYT is short hand for single link YouTube. Two, you must have an opinion about whether a SLYT post is good or bad, especially if you are a frequent front page poster. The viability of SLYT posts is a very polarizing topic if the ... to take some initiative, I highly recommend you familiarize yourself with the other three mods, cortex, jessamyn, and vacapinta and choose a favorite. ...
posted to MeFi by Mister Cheese at 5:09 PM on June 4, 2010

Gottman seems to believe you should solve and resolve things in the moment No, he doesn't. He's very explicit about taking the time one needs to calm down and act with the rational part of one's brain and not out of anger or fear. From Making Sure Emotional Flooding Doesn't Capsize Your Relationship: The difference between flooding and more manageable experiences of our emotions is one of ... for rational thought. Science describes this is as a decrease of activity in your pre-frontal cortex, the center of higher cognition. The stuff ...
posted to Ask MeFi by jaguar at 10:28 PM on September 27, 2014

On a partial tangent, if you have a condition like epilepsy or diabetes or suchlike, please make sure you have some sort of MedicAlert or other notification system in place. You're going to be at a meetup with lots of people, some or all of whom may be strangers to you: if, God forbid, something happens to you, it may save your life to have something on you that has clear information on it for ... personnel. Also, if you get completely incapacitated by drugs, alcohol, or simply being near cortex, it's generally good if people know your name ...
posted to MetaTalk by scrump at 12:38 PM on July 16, 2009

Also, if you can think of a MeFi-related project that doesn't require deep SQL or coding knowledge but just time and energy ... I would love to see a good breakdown of MeFi demographics: gender, countries, regions, cities. And I'd be curious about how they've changed over time. Are there demographic differences between the active user base and less active users? The problem is a lot of this ... and using statistical data, and the limitations of using self-reported data. And I'm sure cortex can give him a good lecture about what not to try ...
posted to MetaTalk by nangar at 11:10 AM on June 27, 2011

I had originally guessed that number of uniques should be something like (number of words)/(log number of words). Given the data that cortex has posted, that doesn't seem to work. But it actually looks like some sort of uniqueness index that doesn't correlate with total number of words posted is given by u/(w^(1/2)*log(w)); this index averages around 3.13. That is, among people who have written ...
posted to MetaTalk by madcaptenor at 2:37 PM on July 22, 2011

And, just to follow up on this, even though people are decent it's worth just being on top of things as cortex says. Specifically... 1. If people are taking photos you can opt to not be in them (we have a few MeFites who regularly attend meetups and have never been photographed, this is a totally okay choice to make) and/or opt to not have your real name associated with them. Most people use ...
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 8:58 AM on November 28, 2012

Okay, cortex. I get that you think her "framing" was problematic and that "Portlandia Liberal" is a poor starting point for discussion. Beyond that, your reply is sort of weirdly doublespeakey and I'm having a hard time parsing it. To summarize my own position: I think it'd be really helpful if, as a moderation policy, there was a clear distinction between sins of tone and ...
posted to MetaTalk by R. Schlock at 12:14 PM on March 17, 2014

I mean, not to be a dick, spaltavian, but actually reading the thread is an option here to find out more about it. The questions you are asking have already been answered. Jessamyn says she feels set up here. Cortex agrees and gives more context here. It's basically a weird sideroad to argue about whether MBS was saying that Dysk made up the word TERF. MBS' wording is bad and ambiguous. MBS ...
posted to MetaTalk by running order squabble fest at 7:34 AM on March 20, 2014

Totally disagree with this MeTa post - which is, in my opinion, nothing but a deathly dagger plunged deep into the hitherto death-and-dagger-free midriff of MetaFilter. I draw your attention to the fact that this thread began on 29 May, and states: Today is Jessamyn's last day as a mod. But is that not completely inconsistent with Matt "ironclad" Haughey's promise to us all that the ... of MetaFilter, and I will immediately conduct a thorough study into just how many additional cortex-weeks we should receive in just compensation for ...
posted to MetaTalk by the quidnunc kid at 9:32 AM on May 30, 2014

Sorry guys, but I, for one, would like to take this MeTa seriously - as further evidence of a real and horrifying problem with MetaFilter, and one which will inevitably lead to the destruction of our society. Let’s just examine what has happened here: jessamyn, once a vital cog in the moderation processes of this website, quits her job here and immediately starts marrying off some of our most ... every right-thinking spine. How long before the Dark MeFi is the death of us all? Answer THAT, cortex - if you still have any love left for the ...
posted to MetaTalk by the quidnunc kid at 5:48 AM on May 25, 2015

Totally disagree with hiring another mod - and I, for one, think that this will inevitably lead to the destruction of our galactic society. Let's face facts: we have been rebelling against moderation ever since a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Yet the tyrannical empire of mods has been employing MeFi user after MeFi user, turning them to their dark "side" in an effort to ... able to steal the new mod's plans under the cover of a "diplomatic mission", and Emperor cortex won't notice anything until it's too late. ...
posted to MetaTalk by the quidnunc kid at 9:38 PM on December 29, 2015

This entire thread has been fascinating. I've been reading MeFi daily for 13 years, my "original", dormant account is one of the first thousand or so. I retired it for 10 years and lurked until registering Señor Blerpitybloop to talk about music, surfing and the rare rugby post. (I'm working on an epic soccer World Cup front page post just in time for Brazil!) As a (somewhat) ... will invite a shitstorm, please rephrase it" approach, which is why the mods (jessamyn and cortex in particular) are phenomenal. Know your ...
posted to MetaTalk by BlerpityBloop at 11:53 AM on March 18, 2014

Ugh. I really, really don't like this. Hopefully somebody cooks up a Greasemonkey script for it soon, because it is going to seriously impair the way I read the site. I keep up with the various Mefi subsites using RSS, but there's way too much content on the average day to be able to read it all. So most of the time I'll just skim the longer comment threads, and rely on high favorite counts to ... be able to do that anymore. This is pretty much akin to scrapping public favorites completely. cortex: "if you have missed the many ...
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 1:32 PM on October 31, 2009

All that said, HOCD is regressive bullshit on the order of "gay panic" and it took every fiber of my being to be civil about that in the post itself. I hope he finds a helping hand who can disabuse him of that quackery ASAP. posted by mykescipark at 12:13 PM on July 9 [+] [!] This is a bullshit comment.I hope I can clear up a little bit about what OCD is for the Metafilter community ... responsible for emotional learning and fear based response, among other things) and the prefrontal cortex (responsible for controlling socially ...
posted to MetaTalk by HabeasCorpus at 1:07 PM on July 9, 2010