MetaFilter, known as MeFi to its members,[2][3][4] is a general-interest community weblog, founded in 1999 and based in the United States, featuring links to content that users have discovered on the web. Since 2003, it has included the popular question-and-answer subsite Ask MetaFilter. The site has eight paid staff members as of December 2021, including the owner.[5] MetaFilter has about 12,000 active members as of early 2011.
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found to be copying punchlines found in the MetaFilter community. After one poster found a comment on MetaFilter that was similar to a User Friendly comic...
Services | USPS". www.usps.com. Retrieved 2024-05-08. See: "Re: Is shipping insurance worth it?". Ask MetaFilter. MetaFilter Network, Inc. v t e v t e...
com. 3 June 2011. Retrieved 2015-10-22. Other examples of anti-technology life-hacks? | Ask MetaFilter Life Hacks talk from Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka...
Clearinghouse. Retrieved 2007-08-22. "Copyright in screenshots? Who owns it?". MetaFilter. Retrieved 2007-08-22. "Ask the Law Geek: Is publishing screenshots Fair...
although Doctorow acknowledged that he remained a co-owner of Boing Boing. MetaFilter described the end of the 19-year association between Doctorow and Boing...
Public Domain Day 2010 Archived 14 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine at MetaFilter establishes the existence of the website at the time. Wikimedia Commons...
uncredited (22 December 2011). "You shall Hear things, Wonderful to tell". MetaFilter. Retrieved 29 April 2017. Challies, Tim (17 February 2006). "The Peasall...
taken the form of her cranium into account. "Well, what about pain?". MetaFilter. Archived from the original on 14 October 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2010...
Project (LINFO) "Obligatory accreditation system for IT security products". MetaFilter.com. 22 September 2008. will introduce rules requiring foreign firms to...
August 8, 2014. Retrieved July 30, 2014. "Inventor of the high five". MetaFilter. July 25, 2014. Retrieved July 30, 2014. See comments for links to further...
Karnofsky was discovered posting a question about the organization to MetaFilter using another individual's name, and then posting an answer about GiveWell...
October 2007. "You know who else ___? Origin? - catchphrase meme". Ask MetaFilter. Retrieved 10 January 2013. Gabriel H. Teninbaum, Reduction ad Hitlerum:...
as a parody holiday created in October 2000 by Derek Arnold, a user on MetaFilter. The second observation on June 28 was added by Arnold in memory of American...
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Dictionary. Retrieved 6 July 2023. "Light My Route of Blind Dating". MetaFilter. Retrieved 19 November 2012. Molloy, Angela. "5 Rules for Great Blind...
the end of the 19-year association between Doctorow and Boing Boing, MetaFilter described this news as "the equivalent of the Beatles breaking up" for...
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and sort by date"). MetaGer is free, but has a paid plan to remove all advertising. Users can create personal blacklists to filter out websites. Privacy...
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