- 04:41 AM
- 11/22/09
Not in a year or so, but if you need some test data, I've got 59 bookmarks under "sports" and a few more under "spofi".
posted by yerfatma at 03:48 PM on October 29
For the time being, I am, having somehow backed into 2nd. bill snuck into 7th place while no one was looking.
posted by yerfatma at 09:40 AM on October 05
I'm caught up with relief efforts for the Samoa tsunami and now the Padang earthquake
Forget I said anything. Thanks.
posted by yerfatma at 07:45 PM on October 01
My point is that having a religious belief is not a necessary condition for doing good. Neither is it a sufficient condition, as your priest sex scandals will attest.
Nope. It's not a reason for wholesale dismissal of people either. To be honest, I agree with about 98% of what you're saying, I'm just uncomfortable with the width of your brush. As it were.
posted by yerfatma at 10:59 AM on October 01
I have never seen religion do any good for anybody.
That seems terribly parochial. Regardless of priest sex scandals, I will always self-identify as Catholic (though terribly lapsed and someone they might not want tagging along) because of the true believers who sacrifice so much in poor places around the country and world. There are good people and bad people and to paint with such a broad brush never works.
posted by yerfatma at 08:50 AM on October 01
It's just hard to imagine that won't go terribly wrong
Yeah, I know. And it'd just result in an echo chamber anyway. Can't stop me wishing though.
posted by yerfatma at 03:24 PM on September 30
My knee jerk reaction was based on watching past members leave, more than likely because they became disenchanted at being belittled for their conservative views and therefore in my opinion, ended up getting weeded out.
From the opposite side of the aisle, my perception is there are plenty of members who have left for the exact opposite reason (tired of trying to rationally engage the anti-punctuation & logic brigade).
posted by yerfatma at 02:14 PM on September 30
Yeah, me too. I suspect these past two weeks will be followed by a tremendous crash as I revert to the cruel mean.
posted by yerfatma at 12:28 PM on September 27
I dunno, my team shot up about 10 places. It's been a jumpy start to the season.
posted by yerfatma at 09:51 AM on September 21
Ufez, I'd like to thank you for getting this stuck in my head.
posted by yerfatma at 05:32 PM on September 17
so foul it will make G.G. Allin spin in his grave
Let me know a couple of days in advance so I can put him back.
New Hampshire Necrophiliacs represent!
posted by yerfatma at 03:39 PM on September 16
I appreciate where you're coming from, but I think your regular posting probably hurts as much as it helps as it reduces the number of topics someone else could post, especially the more mainstream stories.
the compulsion to contribute isn't as strong here
I don't think that's necessarily true. It could also be that MetaFilter users can post any damn thing they find whereas this site requires it at least be tangentially-related to sports. Just reduces the scope of available posts. I think the huddle posts will help to engender a greater sense of community (as long as they don't break down into tedious in-joking).
Looking at the front page, there's a pretty long string of solid posts. I don't see any real clunkers on there right now.
posted by yerfatma at 04:13 PM on September 15
Critical feedback is a lot more persuasive coming from somebody who makes his own front-page posts.
Why? I've heard Brendan Behan on theater critics, but I don't see why it's true for group blogs. Why can't someone who cares enough to comment care enough to want to be a curator even if they don't post? When last I looked (c. 2007), MetaFilter seemed evenly split on the issue, but requiring people to post to have a voice means one of two things: 1. No discussion 2. A zillion posts
At the risk of being that guy in a programming discussion, the "have to post to criticize" model doesn't seem like it would scale.
posted by yerfatma at 02:33 PM on September 15
/charges poster with a no-point penalty
posted by yerfatma at 05:08 PM on September 14
Well I'm fucked. Can you start moderating the fucking morons out too?
posted by yerfatma at 02:21 PM on September 04
You've never seen the engines they put in Holdens.
posted by yerfatma at 04:36 PM on September 02
If Bruce were selling a Holden, then I'd have said he could stay.
posted by yerfatma at 07:41 PM on September 01
The spammer was Australian. Obviously you're related.
Gary, any reason to keep the account around when the person just posted to link to some used car site?
posted by yerfatma at 10:25 AM on September 01
something to indicate Snarkiness would be good.
I find my eyes glaze over naturally in most of the cases now.
posted by yerfatma at 03:32 PM on August 25
tommy, some idiot once tried to rename 'Auto Racing', I forget who.
/spikes NoMich back over net
posted by yerfatma at 01:25 PM on August 25
If anybody wants to claim the four teams I couldn't connect with a Spofite
Any chance of having mine disconnected? Man, I suck.
Comma or no, there's really no good way to write that final sentence so it means what I mean.
posted by yerfatma at 12:59 PM on August 19
I wonder how he feels about that after the Gunners put six past Everton
Not as badly as I do. I was away for the day, came back and saw your post on Twitter about Arsenal's result and thought "Good for them". Then I remembered who Everton was playing in the first week.
posted by yerfatma at 02:53 PM on August 18
Now I have to build a platform in space so I can kick myself without ripping the space-time continuum of that web site.
posted by yerfatma at 04:43 PM on August 03
You may or may not receive another email, this one saying you've been kicked by me. I was hoping that meant the accounts were removed, but nothing seems to have changed.
posted by yerfatma at 10:42 AM on August 03
Well, I can now login to the site again. It looks like I theoretically have the ability to kick out all members of the group (except for me, sadly). Please object in the next 72 hours or I will give you the boot since the site seems to suck in a major way.
posted by yerfatma at 10:15 PM on July 30
I think he may have set this up quite a few years ago, some of us signed up and now it's going all frickin' whacko on us.
Yeah, I forget the point of it. There was that and one other competing service. I tried to login to that site yesterday, but it wasn't responding, so I'm guessing they had some internal issues to work out.
Ufez, Gmail has a mute feature for emails like that. It didn't work perfectly in this case for some reason, but it's good to know about.
posted by yerfatma at 09:19 AM on July 26
You fuckers all need passports if you're gonna do this this year. Also, I used to make movies under the name Jesse Leatherman. I still would, but apparently this gut is all "unattractive" and stuff.
posted by yerfatma at 06:50 PM on June 25
I'm wanting to know if Folkways is OK.
Seconded.
posted by yerfatma at 04:07 PM on June 10
kicking my ace
Is it Dick Bong?
posted by yerfatma at 05:45 PM on May 13
not like she's splitting atoms 9-5
I'm stealing that one. Although, to be fair, you don't know what powers the fry-a-lator.
posted by yerfatma at 02:48 PM on April 09
You can see a photo and learn about how she shut down Nigerian scammers (is there no honor among thieves?) at her site. And there's some real hacker talk about building backlinks too. But watch your ass because she wore a wire to bust her fellow employee at Wendy's.
posted by yerfatma at 05:07 PM on April 08
That time zone shit is handy. Does she actually mail web links to you? I'd like to find out.
posted by yerfatma at 02:18 PM on April 08
Also in favor. I'm guilty of it sometimes, but it's actually unbalanced snark as I hate both sides of any subject.
Unrelated: did the Broncos/ Bears post change at some point? I thought when I saw it originally it was about the possibility of a trade.
posted by yerfatma at 08:05 PM on April 02
Echoing NoMich, whatever handling is being done to convert linebreaks into break tags or grafs is being lost when it gets sent back to the browser on edit.
posted by yerfatma at 08:33 AM on March 24
Works fine on an iPhone, my spelling to one side. Can you please git, svn or google code the source so we can add patches soon? That would be an interesting community experiment.
posted by yerfatma at 09:12 PM on March 12
It does make the place look more lively. Plus it keeps the server in shape.
posted by yerfatma at 09:13 PM on February 19
And a hologram to boot. Suck it, CNN.
posted by yerfatma at 10:38 AM on February 17
No more ridiculing trolly double posts? Lamentable but understandable. I wanted to find out more about Tampa's old folks home.
posted by yerfatma at 02:41 PM on January 18
There seems to be an issue with the handling of line breaks, at least in older threads.
posted by yerfatma at 10:56 AM on January 14
Hmm, that last comment was actually filled with insults and scatalogical comments. Seems to be a preview bug or something.
posted by yerfatma at 08:26 AM on January 12
Oh man, I'm just pleased to see the old design back. Thanks.
posted by yerfatma at 08:26 AM on January 12
Ayn Rand says I can comment in any thread I like.
posted by yerfatma at 07:25 PM on December 04
you don't have the worry about any long term impact
Jesus, what kind of velocity did you have before?
posted by yerfatma at 08:39 AM on October 28
Hey, I jogged home from MY vasectomy.
You didn't need to sprint to get away from the medical staff?
posted by yerfatma at 10:22 AM on October 27
Thankfully they're aren't any. At least until the NHL & NBA get fully underway.
posted by yerfatma at 11:07 AM on October 15
You know that Groucho line about not wanting to be a member of any club that would have him? It's like that, but only for you.
posted by yerfatma at 02:53 PM on October 10
Also, if the "ads by google" that wedges between the OP and the start of the comments could be moved, that would be super.
posted by yerfatma at 10:02 AM on October 08
Phillies in 6 Red Sox in 7 Hamels, Lester AL +2
posted by yerfatma at 08:13 PM on October 07
As per rcade above . . .
Wait, now we have to read stuff before we can post inflammatory rhetoric? The new design sux!!!11!!
posted by yerfatma at 12:18 PM on October 06
Are the member pages still being worked on? Mine shows that I've never posted a locker room comment, that I've written an article (don't think I have) and all the links point to old .cfm pages.
posted by yerfatma at 09:01 AM on October 06
Phillies in 3 Cubs in 4 Red Sox in 5 Rays in 3
Pedroia AL +20
posted by yerfatma at 08:21 AM on October 01
EPL Fantasy 09-10
This is shaping up as my worst week EVAR, especially with Bent as captain.