Podcast Posts: Now Open Forever

February 10, 2015 12:08 PM

Our recent discussion of thread closing got us thinking: why do Podcast threads close on the same schedule as other MetaTalk threads? We changed that today. Podcast threads in MetaTalk are now open to comments forever. Here's a handy list of those threads.
posted by pb (staff) to Feature Requests at 12:08 PM (28 comments total)

Quick, quick! Everybody go post emojis!
posted by phunniemee at 12:21 PM on February 10, 2015 [5 favorites]

Or do some transcribing. 👂💻📝🎉

Recent incomplete transcripts:

ep 94
ep 95
ep 96
ep 97
ep 98
ep 99
ep 100
ep 101
posted by zamboni at 12:46 PM on February 10, 2015 [2 favorites]

Can't decide which is better:

1) Transcribing podcasts using emoji.
2) Transcribing emojis during podcasts threads.
posted by Celsius1414 at 12:54 PM on February 10, 2015

I tried my had at transcribing, but had no idea who I was listening to. Sure, I could tell jessamyn, but had no idea if the guy she was talking to was cortex or matt. Maybe if I listened to more of the podcasts it would be apparent.
posted by cjorgensen at 1:02 PM on February 10, 2015

The way to tell them apart: "surweet!" = mathowie; "draygon" = cortex.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 1:16 PM on February 10, 2015 [15 favorites]

Mathowie's more California English than cortex- listen for the HRTs and a higher "like" frequency.

(They also introduce themselves at the beginning, so, there's that.)
posted by zamboni at 1:38 PM on February 10, 2015 [1 favorite]

Yeah, I just hit the thing that gave me a segment. I didn't start at the beginning.
posted by cjorgensen at 1:42 PM on February 10, 2015

Matt's the one with the mic too close to his mouth whose breathing drowns out everything else.

YEAH I SAID IT
posted by Sys Rq at 1:54 PM on February 10, 2015

Also Matt's panned a bit right and I'm panned a bit left.

Also WOO FOREVER PODCAST THREADS. I realize we may not see a whole lot of straggling traffic there, but it's come up now and then from mefites who get caught up after the fact that it'd be nice to be able to comment once they've actually listened.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:10 PM on February 10, 2015

Electric word "podcast", it means forever and that's a mighty long time.
posted by rollick at 2:53 PM on February 10, 2015 [5 favorites]

Everyone please imagine I've appended a "does anyone read the posts down here?"comment to all the newly opened threads.

Now that's out of my system and you saved me some time to be ridiculous elsewhere.

Thanks.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 3:16 PM on February 10, 2015 [4 favorites]

Matt's the one with the mic too close to his mouth

Too close to his mouse, more like. <CLICK>
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 3:31 PM on February 10, 2015 [3 favorites]

Awesome. February 2015 shall be known henceforth as the Month Of Ponies. "Pony Month" is acceptable if space is tight.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 5:11 PM on February 10, 2015 [2 favorites]

Yes! I'm almost always running a few episodes behind on listening to podcasts, so I never get a chance to comment in the threads.
posted by Secretariat at 5:57 PM on February 10, 2015

I'm partial to Podcast #9.
posted by ColdChef at 6:32 PM on February 10, 2015 [1 favorite]

Cortex is the one who likes cookie clicker games. A lot.
posted by arcticseal at 7:44 PM on February 10, 2015

Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease.
posted by homunculus at 8:15 PM on February 10, 2015

Cortex is also the one who says MeFite wrong.
posted by Chrysostom at 6:44 AM on February 11, 2015 [2 favorites]

Handy guide for new transcribers:

• mathowie: air of confidence, somewhat adenoidal, sounds tall, frequent Valley-girl inflections
• cortex: canonicalcheerfulnerdwithultrafastdeliverywholaughslikeMuttley
• jessamyn: higher-pitched voice, finds answers on the Internet before the others have finished asking the question, adorable laugh attracts chickens

posted by Johnny Wallflower at 7:14 AM on February 11, 2015 [8 favorites]

WHAT HO, MODS!

WHAT HO, MODS!

WHAT HO, MODS!

ad infinitum

posted by wenestvedt at 7:34 AM on February 11, 2015

Another podcast. Stay awhile!
Stay...

      ...forever!

#93 is best.
posted by Wolfdog at 7:53 AM on February 11, 2015

wholaughslikeMuttley

oh god now I can never unhear this
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:55 AM on February 11, 2015 [3 favorites]

Whee!
posted by leotrotsky at 12:13 PM on February 11, 2015 [1 favorite]

I just went back to confirm the Muttley laugh, and it's there, but it's totes Mathowie, not Cortex.
posted by ursus_comiter at 3:38 PM on February 11, 2015 [1 favorite]

(They also introduce themselves at the beginning, so, there's that.)

Not all of us have oodles of spare time to listen to the beginnings of things.
posted by turbid dahlia at 7:13 PM on February 11, 2015

(They also introduce themselves at the beginning, so, there's that.)

I always play the podcasts backwards. For the hidden messages. Something about some sort of cabal.
posted by Hairy Lobster at 12:10 AM on February 12, 2015

He does sound tall!!
posted by Iteki at 8:16 AM on February 12, 2015 [1 favorite]

Are we going to reopen 9622? Is that the next plan? Because that would be awesome.
posted by kaibutsu at 11:30 PM on February 13, 2015 [1 favorite]