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"I stumbled upon it through the Green just as the Green was started up, I stayed for the Blue. Then I started following the soap opera that was the Grey. Then I spotted you guys. It's like the MetaFilter that everyone's nostalgia tells them was real, but never was. "
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Couldn't I just go to DailyKos if I wanted to read DailyKos?posted by Steve_at_Linnwood to etiquette/policy at 9:46 PM PST March 23 133 comments
Metafilter has a much cleaner, more calming interface than DailyKos.posted by Jimbob at 9:47 PM PST on March 23
Yeah, and you could also just go to BoingBoing, or CNN, or any of the other sites that people take their links from. What's your point?posted by crunchland at 9:48 PM PST on March 23
Dude, blue is so much better than white/orange.posted by esch at 9:49 PM PST on March 23
"What's your point?" I think you just made it.posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 9:49 PM PST on March 23
With the increasing number of stupid call outs on MetaTalk of late, the general lowering of the standards of debate in MeFi and seemingly more and more attacks on #1 and #292 for their admin decisions, I respectfully and tentatively suggest that now may be the time to close off new user sign-ups for a while. posted by Effigy2000 to etiquette/policy at 2:44 PM PST March 23 (huh. 7 hours before the above) - 117 comments

...it's extremely slow to load, and when you load it, it's porn, but it's also a clothing catalogue. Regular clothing. But it's porn, totally porn (tab A in slot B type porn). posted by johngumbo to etiquette/policy [metatalk] at 7:45 PM PST March 24 - 29 comments

We need a [comment deleted] feature, por favor. Case in point: 50335 posted by bardic to feature requests at 10:24 AM PST March 24 (36 comments total)
-I was a bit confused by that as well.posted by keijo at 10:26 AM PST on March 24
-what amberglow said.posted by bonaldi at 10:29 AM PST on March 24
-actually, dios, I think we do need to specifically spell out when comments are deleted, because otherwise, our less intelligent brethren will be paralyzed with confusion without an explicit indicator saying so.posted by crunchland at 10:31 AM PST on March 24
-Sorry about that, the comments alleging that it was a self-link were flagged by the person who posted them and there were no other comments in the thread at the time that I removed them which was well before sluglicker posted. I added a note to the thread in case people were confused.posted by jessamyn at 10:34 AM PST on March 24
-I'm more confused by this thread.posted by bshort at 10:41 AM PST on March 24 (yeah - what amberglow said? dios? is confusion bcs there is no link to the case in point 50335?) anyway, hee. there is this humor that is ~not great but (so easily?) pleasing to me -? cf: I need a map. to this thread. posted by chewatadistance 10 March 07:08 [metachat]
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Dammit, jessamyn, quit deleting the last word of my
posted by cortex at 11:08 AM PST on March 24