Clickable Comments in AskMe Search

May 1, 2009 10:22 AM

I am missing something? When I search for something in AskMe, I sometimes see a comment (under the comments tab), or an excerpt from a comment, that I might want to explore by, say, clicking on said comment and viewing the entire post. Is there a simple way to do this? Am I missing an obvious link to the comment(s) in context? (Also, suggestions on asking about this without saying "comment" so many times are appreciated)
posted by deadcrow to Feature Requests at 10:22 AM (48 comments total)

See how the time the comment was posted (by deadcrow at 4:18pm) is a link? Click on that.
posted by drjimmy11 at 10:27 AM on May 1, 2009

I usually click on the time at which the comment was posted:
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 11:02 AM on April 24, 2009
posted by ddaavviidd at 10:28 AM on May 1, 2009

Ahh.. The time stamp. Yes.
I really tried to avoid this. Sorry everyone... Hopefully one shameful post here will prevent a plethora of shameful posts elsewhere.
posted by deadcrow at 10:30 AM on May 1, 2009 [2 favorites]

I love that everyone played nicely in this thread and responded to an honest question with a genuine answer instead of snark. Hugs all around!
posted by misha at 10:55 AM on May 1, 2009 [4 favorites]

I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong.
posted by chunking express at 10:55 AM on May 1, 2009

Hopefully one shameful post here will prevent a plethora of shameful posts elsewhere.

This is low on the shame barometer, really. But anyway, speaking only for myself, shameful Meta posts are why I usually the big reason come here.
posted by Skot at 11:04 AM on May 1, 2009 [3 favorites]

why I usually the big reason come here.

Showing off my incoherence is another reason glove box ibex.
posted by Skot at 11:05 AM on May 1, 2009 [1 favorite]

Wow, I expected this to be a snark fest. Nicely played. Also, I remember being stumped by this initially.
posted by Elmore at 11:30 AM on May 1, 2009

Also, I remember being stumped by this initially.

I was too. Is there a chance the whole comment excerpt could be made into a link, or the first sentence or first X words or something a little more obvious?
posted by Science! at 11:51 AM on May 1, 2009 [2 favorites]

Showing off my incoherence is another reason glove box ibex.

Purple monkey dishwasher!
posted by blue_beetle at 11:51 AM on May 1, 2009

Yay for simple questions answered simply!
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 12:01 PM on May 1, 2009

I love that everyone played nicely in this thread and responded to an honest question with a genuine answer instead of snark. Hugs all around!

If only you had made a grammar error, misha, it could have all been different. Why can't we just snipe and fight sometimes?
posted by Meatbomb at 12:08 PM on May 1, 2009

Why can't we just snipe and fight sometimes?

Because we're not all dumbhead poopyfaces like you!
posted by dersins at 12:28 PM on May 1, 2009

Except me. I'm a dumbhead poopyface like you, Meatbomb.
posted by dersins at 12:29 PM on May 1, 2009 [1 favorite]

Hopefully one shameful post here will prevent a plethora of shameful posts elsewhere.

You'd think so, but signs point to no.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 12:32 PM on May 1, 2009 [2 favorites]

MetaTalk: Why I usually the big reason come here
posted by Plutor at 12:32 PM on May 1, 2009

MetaTalk: one shameful post here, a plethora of shameful posts elsewhere.
posted by not_on_display at 12:47 PM on May 1, 2009 [3 favorites]

Metatalk: putting the virus in language.
posted by effluvia at 12:50 PM on May 1, 2009

(Also, suggestions on asking about this without saying "comment" so many times are appreciated)

substitute the word "wombat" for the word "comment"
posted by jammy at 1:24 PM on May 1, 2009

Wombat eraser noodle bat. Crisply moistened prostate butter. Fish. Lung jelly.

Barnstormed underpants, filigree rhubarb pizza nine posted aglet pork milk. What shoes pervade your rancid shark linen closet longbow blossoms? Wombat who filks the folksonomy badgers? Grommet the flowers! Rivets talk!
posted by loquacious at 1:37 PM on May 1, 2009 [3 favorites]

Hugs all around!

Yeah, that'll be $2.
posted by flod at 1:39 PM on May 1, 2009 [1 favorite]

filigree rhubarb pizza nine posted planted aglet pork milk face

FTFYSYZNTW
posted by burnmp3s at 1:55 PM on May 1, 2009

Well, this should make for good fun if they ever bring back the MarkovFilter.
posted by Skot at 2:04 PM on May 1, 2009

WombatFilter? You mean to say ice cream wombat wombat chicken? Burn ill truck beans cat sexy-sex badger argonaut churned wheat. Shoe-horn the dog riot! What if rocks see the results? We'll tell them the edges came off!
posted by loquacious at 2:08 PM on May 1, 2009

Mefite 1: "Holy shit, the mods are AWOL!"
Mefite 2: "You know what this means?!"
[beat]
Mefites 1 & 2: "HELPFULLY ANSWERING METATALK INQUIRIES!"
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:20 PM on May 1, 2009 [5 favorites]

Reports of my AWOL have been greatly exaggerated.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:25 PM on May 1, 2009

HOLY SHIT SOMEONE HACKED JESSAMYN'S ACCOUNT WHILE SHE'S AWAY
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:28 PM on May 1, 2009

I'm right here!
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 2:30 PM on May 1, 2009

When the cat's away, the pigeons behave...
posted by Elmore at 2:31 PM on May 1, 2009

HOLY SHIT SOMEONE HACKED JESSAMYN'S ACCOUNT WHILE SHE'S RIGHT HERE
posted by SpiffyRob at 2:45 PM on May 1, 2009 [4 favorites]

I heard on FARK that Jessamyn closed her account.
posted by blue_beetle at 3:02 PM on May 1, 2009

HOLY SHIT SOMEONE HACKED CORTEX, TOO
posted by loquacious at 3:04 PM on May 1, 2009

I have an electric eel. In my pants.
posted by loquacious at 3:08 PM on May 1, 2009

HOLY SHIT SOMEONE HACKED MY ACCOUNT TOO I DIDN'T WRITE THAT!!
posted by loquacious at 3:09 PM on May 1, 2009

You are all just figments of my overactive imagination.
posted by not_on_display at 3:28 PM on May 1, 2009

MetaTalk: recursive Bueller fight club.
posted by no_moniker at 3:40 PM on May 1, 2009

Bueller?
posted by cgc373 at 3:48 PM on May 1, 2009

PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM THE GOOGLE FORTHWITH, OR, BARRING THAT, EXPLAIN WHAT "." MEANS.
posted by Krrrlson at 4:27 PM on May 1, 2009

MEH!!!!
posted by dersins at 4:43 PM on May 1, 2009

Hugs all around!

Yeah, that'll be $2.

To hell with that. I'm charging $20, same as in town.
posted by deborah at 5:32 PM on May 1, 2009 [1 favorite]

I was hoping this would be another post about favorites.

btw don't hug me I'm sick

not with that
posted by desjardins at 5:47 PM on May 1, 2009

If only you had made a grammar error, misha, it could have all been different.

Yeah well you already got your ration of snarking on ungrammatical mefites today, Meatbomb.

*cries*
posted by rtha at 6:14 PM on May 1, 2009

What's the deal here? I just wanted to buy an electric wombat!
posted by Devils Rancher at 7:52 PM on May 1, 2009 [2 favorites]

don't do it! they always short circuit when you - uh, carry on...
posted by UbuRoivas at 12:24 AM on May 2, 2009 [1 favorite]

Carry On?

*makes hilarious innuendo joke, possibly involving boobs and winking*
posted by gomichild at 8:24 AM on May 2, 2009

I would snark but I can't, I am currently writing a Metatalk comment. Expect it to be released around the 46th minute of this hour. See you then, guys.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 1:46 PM on May 2, 2009

Man, I've been trying to figure that out for ages. Extraordinarily confusing! hurray.
posted by wintersweet at 3:27 PM on May 2, 2009

This confused me as well. I like Science!'s idea.
posted by Midnight Rambler at 11:17 AM on May 3, 2009