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How about a Parenting & Kids Category on AskMeFi?

Good add, encompasses a pretty defined set of questions, useful filter.

I ma not entirely sue if I have ever used "Human relations" for these, feels like they've mostly gone in some other ill fitting bucket before?
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 2:48 PM on September 23, 2018

Removing a category would be a challenge unless it can all be automatically placed in another category, i'd think.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 4:47 PM on September 23, 2018

I suspect moving them out of Himan Relationships might decrease the number of dumb drive by answers by people who know nothing about kids.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 7:05 PM on September 23, 2018

I’m they’re not then the ask doesn’t harm anything either.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 7:32 PM on September 23, 2018

What secrets lie within?

Welp bye bye to ABBR and Rot13 I guess.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 11:13 AM on August 25, 2018

Talking of which, how well does it do in screenreaders, Which were always the sticking point for those?
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 11:15 AM on August 25, 2018

WE

Steven Universe song

posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 9:00 AM on August 30, 2018

Request to admins to just have weekly or even daily resets of the megath

How’s pagination looking as a technical solution these days?
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 11:45 AM on July 28, 2018

2000+ comments does a pretty good job of that on its own. If there isn’t a perf issue then it should be added as soon as possible.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 1:38 PM on July 28, 2018

I don’t think the rarity argument really holds anymore. A few years back we’d talk about pagination not being needed because a 2000 comment thread only came along twice a year, now it’s twice a month like clockwork.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 4:59 PM on July 28, 2018

Strong disagree to the strong disagree.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 11:38 AM on July 29, 2018

The politics threads being held hostage by a shitty clique of centrists who suck up the the mods is probably great if you are part of that clique, but for everyone else it kind of sucks.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 11:46 AM on July 29, 2018

I imagine it could be turned off for people who really want to play thread police. I don’t see such people as adding the same value as you do though.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 11:58 AM on July 29, 2018

If it’s that odious a task all the more reason to get rid of the necessity for it.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 12:42 PM on July 29, 2018

Id be another no to automated threads, yes to more frequent more subject-orientated less catch-all threads, and no to special moderation styles unless there’s a technical necessity.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 3:17 PM on July 29, 2018

I would have a strong, strong preference for pagination, which is generally pretty transparent and explicable to users, over lazy loading, which has mostly the same effect but obfuscated.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 4:30 PM on July 29, 2018

Fucking Fuck XII - Extreme Fuckery

Useful GIF
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 8:11 PM on July 16, 2018

It is most useful, for this and other occasions.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 9:33 PM on July 16, 2018

State of the Site: Metafilter financial update and future directions

Went from one offs to monthlies. Should have done it sooner.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 6:52 PM on June 13, 2018

I probably should have avoided the pull quote and done a better job summarizing on that one TBH.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 12:24 PM on June 14, 2018

Somehow on mobile I frequently manage to randomly flag things when trying to fav them, probably with a bad flag, so an "unflag" would be good.

(If they all accidentally get flagged as fantastic it's fine I'm sure. Glad that one is at the top.)
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 1:31 PM on June 14, 2018

sciatrix - Would agree about the threadshitting*. Mostly it just bounces off me, though I get annoyed if a perfectly good link gets sunk by it, mostly at myself for not presenting it better.

And yeah, first time posters getting hit by that straight out the gate is bad.

* mostly. There's some shit that needs calling out immediately, like nazi apologia, but that's rare.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 1:35 PM on June 14, 2018

I wonder if a new 'PolitiFilter' subsite for political posts would solve some problems.

Counterargument: All posts are political.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 1:49 PM on June 14, 2018

Would like the “pullquote” feature also. With appropriate links back to context of course.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 10:41 PM on June 14, 2018

Haven’t noticed any change in moderation outside of the megathreads. Not entirely a fan of the megathread moderation because it can feel a bit arbitrary but those are a 1000+ comments long on on potentially fighty subjects where people are often stressed and venty, so it’s Not surprising things get a bit ragged around the edges there.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 6:25 AM on June 15, 2018

A “politics filter” subside like everything isn’t to some extent political would be a disaster.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 8:29 AM on June 15, 2018

A Brady Bunch grid of squares, revealing the cast of characters, but then they start subdividing, and subdividing... Oh no, it's a Menger Sponge!
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 8:07 PM on June 15, 2018

Tipping is not common in a lot of countries outside the US..

Because a service charge is included and that’s the model of payment.

Just think of it as a service charge.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 5:20 AM on June 20, 2018

Either way you end up paying for food and service. Not sure this analogy is really useful to explore any further outside of “paying for things (Like good and websites) is a good idea if you want to continue getting them.”
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 5:58 AM on June 20, 2018

1) I am not American
2) tipping exists outside the United States
3) this derail is dumb.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 6:49 AM on June 20, 2018

Would prefer pagination to lazy loading.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 6:56 PM on July 5, 2018

Best thing you've read and/or heard lately

ActionPopulated -RIDE THE CRAB!
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 11:59 AM on June 8, 2018

Bit of a cheat as I already linked it in an FPP, but A Series of Steaks Is by far my favourite recent short story I’ve read.

In other reading I’ll be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara is excellent if grim and I’ve been enjoying some old Patricia Highsmith, most recently Deep Water.

On TV Killing Eve has been excellent.

At the movies... you know what, I really enjoyed Solo. Got an afternoon to waste on sci fi… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 12:04 PM on June 8, 2018

Oh, and seconding the Orbital track above - really looking forward to that album.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 12:05 PM on June 8, 2018

Current phone time waster: The Battle of Polytopia - like a really small very fast and simple Civ game.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 1:06 PM on June 8, 2018

THIS IS SOME BATMAN* SHIT.

* of the 1966 climbing up “walls” variety.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 6:41 PM on June 9, 2018

I Was A Warehouse Wage Slave

Had occasion recently to dig this link out so here it is for everyone! (Short story, good, Amazony)
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 7:14 AM on June 10, 2018

The BestAlbum9x final poll has me listening to Dig Me Out by Sleater-Kinney, which is great. Won’t win, but still appreciate the poll bringing it up.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 10:15 AM on June 11, 2018

Have you watched the movie? Worth doing if you haven't already.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 4:28 PM on June 11, 2018

I just received a fuckton of new edition Delta Green material so I will be reporting on the material therein once I have absorbed it, but at first glance: this is the good stuff.

Also my kid found my copy of Peterson’s guide and has been flicking through it looking at monsters, and went from that to reading the INJ Culbard comic of Mountains of Madness, so that’s good.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 10:51 AM on June 14, 2018

Unplanned Server Outage

Commiserations on your shitty day of things breaking shittily.

Ah, the web.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 6:50 PM on May 4, 2018

AMP is not the Open Web

Oops. Feel free to remove the AMP on that one. Usually I take them out myself. URL: https://www.texasobserver.org/red-state-socialism-texas/
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 11:05 AM on May 1, 2018

(Note that it’s still the same site, just not an AMP/mobile ready view. )
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 11:06 AM on May 1, 2018

It’s uncertain to me that striping “/amp/“ from the end will always result in the non-amp/mobile site. Much as how when people used to put “m.whatever.com/whatever” as a mobile url “www.whatever.com/whatever” would mostly give you the same page, but not always.

As for the full on AMP urls that start with google.com, might be an argument for flat out booing then but it seems like they would be torn down so quickly there wouldn’t really be a point.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 8:26 AM on May 2, 2018

Stop the Violence

Guillotines are fucking awesome.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 5:41 PM on April 20, 2018

Let's talk about spoilers, again.

I’m pretty spoiler phobic, so generally I’d say no on recent days works, on the other hand if it’s cryptic enough that people aren’t going to know what the heck you’re talking about without seeing the movie that seems pretty forgivable too, which most of that is.

Really glad I went into that movie without spoilers on key plot points, FWIW.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 7:20 AM on March 14, 2018

it's basic politeness really. And as with most matters of politeness it;s less a matter of hard and fast rules and more a matter of being considerate and taking reasonable measures to accommodate others. Doesn't mean that being polite isn't a real thing.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 11:23 AM on March 14, 2018

Super disengenous arguments and pretend edge cases are pretty much the norm for these discussions. That’s why I personally just go for “try your best to be polite and considerate” over something a rules lawyering asshole is going to come at with a bunch of dumb edge cases.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 8:03 PM on March 14, 2018

Of course the entire movie is told in flashback from a ship floating above the wreck of the Titanic, which might give the game away a little.
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 11:19 PM on March 14, 2018

Resetting expectations about U.S. political discussion on MetaFilter

Because of your little victory dances upthread?
posted to MetaTalk by Artw at 7:46 AM on December 14, 2017