Podcast Post Pony Petition

August 1, 2014 7:47 AM

MetaTalk has a comment period of 30 days by default. In most MeTa contexts, this is good, and makes total sense. But for the podcast, this makes less sense—especially since people might be coming to listen to a podcast well after it has been recorded. Could the podcast pages be stripped of their commenting time limit? This would be more in line with MeFi Music and FanFare, which seem to be the closest analogues elsewhere on the site. Is that something other users would find to be welcome?

This request is totally inspired by the fact that I finally listened to the podcast from June and wanted to tell people about the time my sister and I won tickets to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles "Coming Out of Their Shells" Tour, but the podcast comments are closed.

posted by ocherdraco to Feature Requests at 7:47 AM (29 comments total)

Hmm, yeah, along the lines of MeFi Music, this would make sense for us to extend. I don't think it would be used much (and abused even less often), but I sometimes listen to old podcasts on other networks and it would be fun to be able to participate, even if it's a year or two after it was released.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 7:51 AM on August 1, 2014 [4 favorites]

Can you do this on a thread by thread basis?
posted by cjorgensen at 7:55 AM on August 1, 2014

FINALLY will be able to comment on the epic cat pictures link (which still works btw) and was mentioned in a previous podcast.
posted by Wordshore at 8:09 AM on August 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

I think it's a good idea.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 9:41 AM on August 1, 2014

Yay!
posted by ocherdraco at 10:03 AM on August 1, 2014

Don't listen to her, she's retired.
posted by languagehat at 12:18 PM on August 1, 2014 [11 favorites]

That yay was for Matt's response, not Jessamyn's.
posted by ocherdraco at 12:37 PM on August 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

Don't listen to him, he's a hat.
posted by carsonb at 1:01 PM on August 1, 2014 [20 favorites]

We need a

"This Yay Goes Out to the One I..." - competition on Music
posted by Dumsnill at 1:04 PM on August 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

Yays for everybody!
posted by a humble nudibranch at 2:23 PM on August 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

Is this where I line up to collect my Yay?
posted by Too-Ticky at 2:29 PM on August 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

Yay!
posted by cjorgensen at 3:37 PM on August 1, 2014

Yay! I won! (Now I "yay?")
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 3:42 PM on August 1, 2014

Can I get a yay for something else?
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 3:45 PM on August 1, 2014 [2 favorites]

Yay for being jessamyn!
posted by bearwife at 3:50 PM on August 1, 2014 [9 favorites]

Yeah, I'd use this podpony- I'm always behind on podcasts.
posted by Secretariat at 3:50 PM on August 1, 2014

Yay for something else!
posted by ardgedee at 4:55 PM on August 1, 2014 [2 favorites]

Can I get a yay for something else?

Yay for Narwhals!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:10 PM on August 1, 2014

Can I get a yay for something else?

Yea.
posted by cortex (staff) at 5:57 PM on August 1, 2014

Yarp.
posted by arcticseal at 6:04 PM on August 1, 2014

Double yay for jessamyn just being awesome!
posted by ocherdraco at 6:19 PM on August 1, 2014

Yay Y'all!!
posted by pearlybob at 7:15 PM on August 1, 2014 [1 favorite]

Heck yay!
posted by carsonb at 8:05 PM on August 1, 2014

Yawp.
posted by nevercalm at 8:48 PM on August 1, 2014

Woo hoo!
posted by gingerbeer at 9:19 PM on August 1, 2014

Podcast your yays upon the waters, and they will come back a thousandfold.

As they say.
posted by GenjiandProust at 2:24 AM on August 2, 2014

This request is totally inspired by the fact that I finally listened to the podcast from June and wanted to tell people about the time my sister and I won tickets to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles "Coming Out of Their Shells" Tour

Ten year old me is SO JEALOUS.

Modern me is SO MORTIFIED.
posted by Pope Guilty at 6:07 AM on August 2, 2014

What's even better is that even though we had entered the contest, my parents had gone ahead and gotten tickets for the four of us, because my sister and I were so clearly more excited about this than just about anything ever.

So when we won four additional tickets, that meant we could each bring two friends! My parents brought three six year olds and three eight year olds to this thing. Now that I'm nearly the same age my parents were then, I am astonished and amazed at their child wrangling abilities.
posted by ocherdraco at 12:47 PM on August 2, 2014 [3 favorites]

Also, my memory of the whole thing is that it was AWESOME, and that Shredder made an entrance off the set which was made out of pipes. I had honestly forgotten that there was music involved at all.
posted by ocherdraco at 12:49 PM on August 2, 2014 [1 favorite]