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4 FAQ tagged with fpp
Can I post to the front page immediately after registering?
No. You need to be a member for a short amount of time and you need to make a few comments to the site before you can make a front page post. You need to be a member for at least a week to make an AskMe post.
(tags: fpp posting newmembers askme ) April 20, 2006 - back to questions
How soon can I post again after starting a thread in different parts of the site?
After you have posted a thread, you have to wait this long before posting a second thread in that same area. There is no similar limit for comments.
MetaFilter - 24 hours
MetaFilter Music - 24 hours
MetaTalk - one week
AskMetafilter - one week
Metafilter Projects - one month
(tags: timeframe meta askme mefi projects fpp ) March 6, 2006 - back to questions
What makes a good front page post to MetaFilter?
According to the
guidelines page "A good post to MetaFilter is something that meets the following criteria: most people haven't seen it before, there is something interesting about the content on the page, and it might warrant discussion from others." Posts shouldn't be terribly long, and they don't have to contain multiple links or end with a discussion-sparking question. The
Best Post of the Day contest from August 2006 contains many examples of a wide variety of good MetaFilter posts.
(tags: fpp metafilter posts ) April 20, 2006 - back to questions
If my post has more than one link, or the link isn't first, do I need to use the URL box?
The "URL" and "Link title" fields are there for your convenience. If you have a one link post you can just fill them in and go. If you want to make a post with a few links, or without the beginning text as your link, you can skip those boxes (but don't skip the title box) and just
write the HTML for the links in the post yourself.
(tags: html post fpp link ) January 11, 2007 - back to questions
