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Edited post, with NotLost's permission, to add link to previous board update and added the tag 'MefiCoFoBoardUpdate'. Will do same to previous Board Update posts.

OHenryPacey: "Good for Jessie for caring so much about the SW myth that he would make a 4 hour long video essay. " Changed 'he' to 'she'

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It's ok to not like Star Wars, Andor, Disney+, or even tv, but showing up in this thread to express all of that isn't necessary. You're welcome and even encouraged to engage in a thread on a topic you do like, but let's avoid being down on something others are enjoying.

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xdvesper: "Just some quick responses -" xdvesper, go ahead and remove yourself from this thread. The subject is about shifting views of the Israeli government as they continue to commit genocide in Gaza. Coming in here to essentially say "no Israel is right" is not ok. No comments deleted at this point, but there's no need for you to continue in this thread, so please move on.

Lemkin, please avoid threadsitting and give others a chance to say something. There is no need reply to the various comments stating what's wrong with the information in the article. One comment has been removed.

NotLost, You've done a lot of good so far, so just keep doing what you're doing. Go for it!

xusifem: "Spinifex has an Indigenous land acknowledgement on their website and publishes books by Indigenous and lesbian authors on feminism, decoloniality, and anthropogenic climate change. I find that to be odd behavior for a right wing press." As others noted, Spinifex's book of the week is Terf Island: How the UK Resisted Trans Ideology, which is a textbook definition of anti-trans, so stop trying to convince people that the Collective Shout and Spinifex has no problematic elements. This is not a request, just stop and if you feel you can't, then move on to another thread. Proofs and Refutations: "Fuck off TERF" MetaFilter is unapologetically pro -trans, but also has firm rules about saying 'fuck you' or similar to other members, so let's avoid doing this in the future. If anyone wants to discuss any of this further, email or MetaTalk are your options, avoid continuing the derailing this thread. No comments have been removed.

NotLost: "99_ and staff (Brandon? loup?), would you please work together to get appropriate info..."

Yes, will put 99_, loup, and myself in some sort of email/message chains so we can figure out appropriate communications and assistance.

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aintnolobos: "why be devastated when you can sell a book" Derailing comment removed, working through the thread to remove similar comments. Discussion about the upcoming bookk from Kamala Harris can be found in this other thread.

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"Why are you deleting my comments but not his if you want to clean up the thread..." Original comment removed, but here's a public response: You can take your concerns to email or MeTa, but you need to stop derailing this thread. No one is thinking less of you, certainly not me, but it's clear that another member would prefer not to interact with you, so please, just avoid interacting with them. You're welcome to continue discussing the subject of this thread, but if you keep insisting on derailing it, we're going to have to ask you to leave the thread.

One derailing comment removed. ch1x0r, please just avoid replying to comments from kittens for breakfast, as the last interaction between y'all did not go well. Both of y'all just move on and avoid derailing this thread, please.

Melismata: "Wow the trolls are out in full force today." No comments have been removed, but calling other members names (trolls) does nothing to discussion on topic. Please engage with what people are actually saying, instead of focusing on your perceptions of them.

unearthed: "The United States is in dire existential crisis because one party wasn't perfect for too many people. Too many Americans require a lovely story and a happy ending - or they won't participate." Just a reminder that the article isn't about the United States or its political parties specifically, so please avoid derailing into the topics. No comments removed.

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Hi all,

Clearly there's still a several issues going on and staff should work ensure next month's update goes better, more on that below.

This includes working with 99_ to finish out ironing out issues with connections to various financial data (like PayPal), working with frimble on what can be done to prevent future site downtime's similar to what occurred on 7/26/25, getting the BiPOC minutes for a recent meeting finished, and keeping members informed about any policy changes, updates or discussions.

Note that MetaFilter does have a free account with UptimeRobot to monitor if the site is up and running (it checks every five minutes). This was done to help non-development staff know if and when the site goes down so we can communicate information to the community and as a backup to development monitoring.

UptimeRobot did report when the site was down yesterday, enabling staff to ping frimble and post to our Bluesky account that the site was down, along with updates. Will also check with frimble about making sure the status page accurately reflects whether the site is up or down.

Finally, I think (without consulting with other staff members yet) that it would be good for staff to establish goals with each site update for the next month's site update. Doesn't have to be anything huge, especially as we're still in a transition phase with management, but definite goals to keep the site and community running as smoothly as possible, something like what is mentioned in the second paragraph of this comment.

Indeed, I think part of the point is that trump definitely isn't hung. Just using this comment to point out that mocking male genital size is similar to mocking and judging physical aspects of women, so please choose your words with care. There's plenty of things to judge and mock President Trump without resorting to insults about dick size so let's try to avoid doing that going forward.

Previous username Jacen: "Will anyone be able to explain the reasoning for the sudden unexpected promotion of notlost? "

That sounds like a question for the Interim Board to address.

NotLost: "This sentence is incomplete: "Fixes to get the daily full backup to run with no downtime".

Are the fixes done, in process, pending or what?"

NotLost: "I realized it's the same situation for these fixes: "RSS fixes for both main feeds and tag pages". Would you check on those, too, please?" ]

Yes, both of the backup and RSS fixes have bee

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sickos haha yes dot jpg: " stop making up guys to get mad at in the body of the FPP." Lemkin: "Stop shitting in my thread." Please keep criticisms about a post respectful and about the topic, not the person. Likewise, if the OP wants to rebut something, keep it respectful, and remember that creating a post doesn't make you the decider on what comments can or should go in a post.

St. Peepsburg: "You won’t be able to reset her attitude for her. Thats her journey to undertake."

Hi, please note that the OP did not specify the gender of the child, and simply said "they" or "them".

Going forward let's avoid assuming the gender and just use the indicators the OP wrote in the post, thanks!

Here's a possible solution that member Richard Daly emailed to the mods:

The answer that worked for me was to use the DEL command in Windows Command Prompt, but to give it a slightly different parameter than the original poster, fantasticness, tried. Specifically, in Windows Command Prompt, from the path C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\ I ran the command

del "\\?\C:\Users\USERNAME\Desktop\[the entire ~255 character filename here].pdf"

The quotation marks are part of the command, the square brackets and the description inside them are not.

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AlSweigart: "At this point in their 9-month-old account, Lemkin has a pattern of antagonizing behavior and doubling down. When (not if) he gets his account banned, we'll all have wished it had been done months ago."

It's ok to disagree with another member, but this sort of personal attack doesn't help discussion or the community. Please just focus on the comments and not on the person.

ch1x0r: "Since you provide your location in your profile, I researched the housing status there." As noted in the FAQ, do not publicly mention details from someone else's profile page unless you have explicit permission from the individual. Your comment has been removed. Folks, don't go through another member's profile, and try to use that information in any way. Doing so can result in ban.

Diskeater: "Can this be updated with a list of current board members? Or can that list live somewhere on the site?"

I've updated that FAQ entry to link to the Site Information FAQ that NotLost mentioned, which is also linked in the footer on every page.

coffeecat: "Can the mods via the site backend see which users are filtering out USPolitics? "

Nah, there's no information about tag usage on the backend.

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OP, this is coming across as chatfilter, as there's no problem to solve. If you could chime in about why you're seeking this information that would help others explain what you're seeking to do or learn with this information.

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Didymus: "the frequency of other MeFites misinterpreting your comments might be a You Thing tho" Didymus: "you stan Empress, I'm hoping this all gets deleted, but the history is there and today I mentioned it sometimes it's okay to accept that your communication isn't doing the things you think it's doing and move on, and with EC there's a distinct lack of that tendency" ] Didymus, you need to back and stop attacking EC, that's not what members should be doing to one other on MetaFilter and not something we want to encourage in any way. Focus on the subject of the thread or information and leave the personal out of your

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There are excellent questions about who should be able to add tags to a post in regards to the USpolitics tag. Currently it's possible for the original poster, a mod, or someone with a connection to the poster to add any tag to a post, just fyi.

Obviously the current system is imperfect and may need to be rebuilt. Particularly if people want to block a tag, does that mean any post with that tag is blocked? Or is there another way of blocking posts that are tagged by other people that will deliver a high level of success?

Currently there's request, via a flag, for the USpolitics tag to be added to this post, https://www.metafilter.com/209603/If-this-isnt-infringement-Congress-needs-to-do-something, which I think is a reasonable request. But I've gone ahead and asked the original poster if they're cool with that. What do y'all think?

If they aren't and say no, is that a good system for the USpolitics tag with our current system. Should one person get to decide for everyone else about what is blocked under USpolitics?

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Thank you to the original commenter for flagging that comment!

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Removed one comment which was addressed to another commenter and not the OP, while explicitly saying they had no answers for the OP.

Folks, please focus your comments on helping the OP with their question, and not so much on what other commenters are saying, unless the comment is something wildly or factually wrong, thanks!

Name in the tag fixed also, thanks for the reminder!

jacquilynne: "Brandon reached out for more details on the specific posts I thought were a problem, so I assume they are at least considering a change in calibration, but I don't know if or when more details will be forthcoming."

Loup and I talked about the situation earlier today (I've been off a few days, thanks for your patience). The simple solution is for mods not to add the USPolitics tag unless it is specifically requested. But there will still be disagreements about what is political.

Hence the recommendation to occasionally look under a tag you've blocked, as tags are entirely user driven, so there's going to be some disagreement at times about how to tag something.

Folks can ask us to tag a post with a particular tag via email or flagging with a note.

Please note that the sidebar of USPolitics is not tag driven. A mod has to go into the post and click a checkmark button that then adds it to the sidebar. That might be a better way of handling things, aka mods putting what they or other users suggest as USPolitics without tagging the post itself. But people might get upset about their post being added to that, so it's still going to be grey area where people have different opinions.

We'll see how things go in terms of mods not tagging posts as USPolitics unless requested and see if we need to adjust anything on our end.

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If you have complaints about the speed of notes, please take it to MetaTalk and avoid derailing the thread, thanks.

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Please keep answers focused on helping the OP, thanks!

St. Peepsburg: "(Mods pls correct the spelling of his first name Fauja not Fajua)" Done!

seanmpuckett: "to be crystal clear, i am talking about violence, as applied to the apex capitalist class." This is veering into going against MeFi's Content Policy regarding advocating for violence, which states "It can be okay to talk in strongly critical terms about people's words but don't cross the line into any threats of violence or wishing violence on other people." If folks could move on from those comments and back to the article itself, that would be great. No comments have been removed.

Balna Watya: "Lemkin, please stop posting the dumbest shit possible. We get it, you're a Republican, you hate Democrats. You don't need to tell us this 30 times a day." This comment and some responses have been removed for attacking a member, but the original has been reproduced in its entirety for this mod note. Once people start start doing personal attacks, derails and fighting often occur, so please do what you can to help up avoid those situations by focusing on what a person says and not the person, thanks.

Hey, Brandon's on duty today, will be around, but mostly listening, but here's a few responses to things brought up since my last comment:

Posted about this MeTa in the mod slack and the use of CamelCase for tags. For the 'uspolitics' tag is there a preference for 'USPolitics' or 'UsPolitics'?

The mods are open recalibrating on this and how and when we add tags to posts. Have left a reminder to use CamelCase when adding tags with multiple words, but just fyi the tag that was added by a mod to the post in question was 'USPolitics']

mediareport: "The USPolitics tag has now been removed, though the mod who removed it apparently didn't feel it necessary to say anything, either here or in the original thread, so I guess we can just assume from here on the mods will be more careful about adding it, but it would be nice, especially given Brandon's dismissive reply above, if they said to members that they have indeed decided to be more careful using it in the future."

See this comment earlier in the thread for the OP mentioning they had removed the tag themselves, which is totally fine.

Members always have the ability to add or remove tags from their posts after the post as b

Neologian: "Note: Help maintain a healthy, respectful discussion by focusing comments on the issues, topics, and facts at hand—not at other members of the site. But you know, also don't read the article central to a post and cite it. Because sticking to the topic but not the narrative simply cannot be tolerated. Are you SURE that it it the TERFs who are exclusionary?" This comment was removed for being transphobic, but reproduced here to leave a public record of what was said and by who. Neologian has been permanently banned for doubling down on transphobic comments. MetaFilter is not a site that tolerates the questioning of trans lives or people. Do not do that here or you will find yourself banned.

Mods: how often are you adding this tag vs how often are users using it themselves, and what criteria are you using to decide?

No specific numbers. I'll add the tag if I think it needs to be added, based on the political football noticed in the news.

I do think it's a broad term and not everyone's definition will be the same. I'd recommend people occasionally looking under a blocked tag to see if they're missing something they might be interested in.

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Let's all move on from that argument.

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One comment removed for veering off into a discussion about AI. Please focus on helping the OP by answering the actual question that was asked. It's ok to skip the question if you don't know the answer..

Another comment removed for telling the OP to kiss their butt. That's not answering the question either, which is the main point of AskMe.

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Added 'chatgpt' and 'ai' to the list of tags as the project was created with those tools.

Another comment derailing comment removed. Artw, you were warned about doing that, so take a week off from the site, because ignoring mod requests or warnings are consistent behavior of yours.

2 comments removed for continuing a derail. As mentioned previously, folks can move on from that derail. They can take it to MeMail, email, or start a new MetaTalk thread, but definitely keep the "who said the vitriolic comment first" out of this thread. Comments that do so will be removed.

Artw, this comment of yours is derailing the thread with its attempt to decide how a person should feel about something you said and your name calling. Please remove yourself from this thread and avoid the name calling in the future. If you keep making comments we may remove or issue a ban (temporary or otherwise) Your comments have been left up for the public record of what was said. No comments have removed. Everyone please move on from the derail.

Yes, the site was down for about two hours, but is back up now. Frimble is investigating why it happened.

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Removed several comments about a mod action. Folks are free to take those comments to MetaTalk, but they need to stop being in and derailing this thread. Also removed a comment and response telling someone to fuck off. The sentient is fine, but we ask that folks not tell others to fuck off as it encourages others to the same on other issues. If folks want to talk about any of this, MetaTalk is the place to do it, not this thread. Thank you.

Robbyrobbs, take the week off for the anti-trans link. Do not do this again in any way shape or form on this site or you account will be removed. MetaFilter is pro leaving trans folk alone and letting them live their lives, so knock it off.

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