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How do we feel about this?
posted by Diablevert at 7:07 PM - 346 comments

About a year ago, the MeFi crowd looked to be about 50/50 for and against men's brimmed hats. Many Mefites take headdress etiquette to silly lengths. So the fact that the most recent fedora question on AskMeta is kind of a trainwreck even after substantial mod involvement isn't really a surprise, but still kind of sad. [more inside]
posted by Nomyte at 7:18 PM - 647 comments

Fireman Saves Kiten [sic] is a recent FPP that I take issue with. It's a commercial advertisement. It's great for Reddit but not great for MetaFilter. [more inside]
posted by sidereal at 4:57 PM - 123 comments

This is the AskMefi post [more inside]
posted by Kruger5 at 9:31 AM - 123 comments

I was faced with a choice in this thread, between responding with satire, or curling up in a ball in the corner. I chose the former. [more inside]
posted by ubernostrum at 2:15 PM - 1113 comments

I thought that this question went rather poorly for the OP. [more inside]
posted by Tanizaki at 6:42 AM - 82 comments

I am concerned that it seems posts are being made that, deliberately or accidentally, are serving to act as proxy wars for fights that people have wanted to have in other places, but were prevented from by moderation. It is most visible in this thread, and currently the gun debate, but I feel has occurred other times as well. I would like to suggest that the bar for potential proxy war subjects be raised, particularly when emotions are high. [more inside]
posted by corb at 12:51 PM - 376 comments

I would appreciate some official, documented clarification of MeFi's policy on conversations about religion—specifically, what kinds of criticisms of religion are acceptable, under what circumstances—and I suspect that others would too. [more inside]
posted by escape from the potato planet at 10:04 AM - 301 comments

I see that one of the mods deleted a question asking (speaking roughly) how do you win Stephen King's Long Walk? The mod said it was "pretty much classic chatfilter." It isn't at all; it's quite unlike any of the five examples of chatfilter that the management supplies. I admit this is an odd question. Indeed, it is even a weird question. But it seems like it ought to be eligible to be a Metafilter question.
posted by Mr. Justice at 1:35 PM - 127 comments

Several MetaFilter posts recently have involved marginalized people critiquing the actions of more privileged allies or beloved internet institutions, resulting in contentious comment threads. A pattern emerged in these, most clearly in the most passionately-argued of these, on the retitling of a Wikipedia page from “Chelsea Manning” back to “Bradley Manning.” That pattern involves complaints that comments made by more marginalized individuals are shrill, harsh, and/or overemotional. While I embrace MetaFilter's guidelines that discourse be civil, I think it is possible that tone arguments sometimes function as a sort of ad hominem derailing practice out on the blue. Is this something we should be discouraging? [more inside]
posted by DrMew at 8:54 PM - 775 comments