How to update a closed thread?

April 23, 2003 3:49 PM

FollowupFilter? I was using the subject of this thread as an example in an email today, and while researching it I noticed that just today there was an update to this story. The original thread is locked, but I not sure this is FPP worthy.
posted by betaray to MetaFilter-Related at 3:49 PM (11 comments total)

I found it intresting and all, and it's something that other may have missed because it's the tail end of the news story, and that generally gets buried. Most of all however, I'd like it to be somehow linked to our original discussion.

It's an intresting problem and I thought I'd see what you all thought.

(BTW, Google news owns me now)
posted by betaray at 3:52 PM on April 23, 2003

this seems to be a common metatalk question. Maybe there should be updates.metafilter.com, where people could post updates to popular threads...
posted by cell divide at 3:58 PM on April 23, 2003

i wish metafilter could only link to sites that had never been linked to from it before. not that i want to spoil anyone's fun or whatever. it's just that generally news stories don't excite me as metafilter links.
posted by mokey at 4:16 PM on April 23, 2003

Most of all however, I'd like it to be somehow linked to our original discussion.

If Matt unlocked the thread for another 30 days, your update would bring it up to the top of 'sort by:recent comments' listing. This seems the easiest way to resurrect a thread without double posting. You have to get past Matt first, though.

[remember: only the penitent man shall pass... only the penitent man shall pass...]
posted by eddydamascene at 4:43 PM on April 23, 2003

Interesting... I was in two minds about posting a link on Synaesthesia, as I heard on Radio 4 today another Reith lecture, given by Professor Ramachandran in my home town about (RealAudio available online here). Decided against it at first, not because the link had been posted before (it hasn't), but because a search shows we've referenced the good prof., the topic and a host of related stuff before. Still, it was illuminating, an'all, so I offer it here as this MeTalk post kinda puts it on-topic. He makes a good fist of explaining the cerebral wiring which causes this stuff to happen, and what with contributions from Richard Dawkins - in the audience - and sideswipes at Pinker, Chomsky et al (and a good knob joke at the end by an audience member!), it made me wish I'd caught the whole series.

And - what cell divide said. But not what mokey said: the whole of the Beeb gets one shot? boingboing? the register?

*awaits fallout*
posted by dash_slot- at 5:24 PM on April 23, 2003

Why do threads need to be closed anyway? Won't people not be dicks about it if asked*? For instance regular blogs don't have closed comment boxes, but there anyone can come in off of google and write stupid shit in it months afterwards if they find it on a random search (which is an annoyingly common event on the blog I write for), but that wouldn't be such a hassle at a place such as here with memberships (and it isn't a problem for most blogs/message boards anyhow, even ones w/o exclusive posting rights).

*as in not littering
posted by dgaicun at 9:13 PM on April 23, 2003

*cough*
posted by dg at 10:57 PM on April 23, 2003

Real meficionados will know what dg's linking to - and save gigawatts of bandwidth - by its very famous last comment:

interesting.

[posted by eyeballkid at 2:32 PM PST on September 20]
posted by MiguelCardoso at 11:04 PM on April 23, 2003

anyone can come in off of google and write stupid shit in it months afterwards

The latest rev of Moveable Type does allow you to close comments threads, although it unfortunately does not allow you to do so wholesale with old threads (through the UI at least).
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:19 PM on April 23, 2003

Why do threads need to be closed anyway?

This was the post when that feature was added.
posted by eddydamascene at 2:03 AM on April 24, 2003

Oh. Oh dear.
posted by walrus at 3:35 AM on April 24, 2003