Where do I find out what ''chatfiltery'' means?
January 16, 2023 6:57 PM Subscribe
I tried here and Google. It's about a question here being ''chatfiltery''
By the way, it's only one category that can be picked. What is the best category for this question?
Best answer: From the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions):
My Ask Metafilter question was removed as chatfilter. What does that mean?
Ask Metafilter questions need to have some possible answer or should be asking for information that will be put to some practical use. Chatty open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of Ask Metafilter and push other questions off the front page. If you want to avoid having your question flagged and possibly removed, here are some things to avoid.
- Questions where everyone's answer is equally valid along the lines of "What's your favorite X?". Maybe there is a reason you want to know? Super, just put it in your question.
- Asking the question and giving your own answer before getting the answers of others, saying some variant of "I'll go first" If you can authoritatively answer your own question, it's probably not right for AskMe.
- Questions with no problem to be solved or where the problem is some variant of "I'm curious if other people feel like I do"
- Open-ended unanswerable or hypothetical questions like "What if Hitler had never been born?" or made up "what if" science questions. Creating arbitrary constraints and then playing "what if" is not a good use of AskMe.
- Questions that are some version of "What is the deal with X?"or "X sucks, am I right?" tend to not go well on Ask MetaFilter. Please do not rant on AskMe and pretend it is a question.
Put another way "...if your motivation for asking the question is 'I would like to participate in a discussion about X,' then you shouldn't be doing it in AskMe. If your motivation is 'I would like others to explain X to me,' then you're probably OK."
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posted by Superilla at 7:04 PM on January 16, 2023 [23 favorites]
My Ask Metafilter question was removed as chatfilter. What does that mean?
Ask Metafilter questions need to have some possible answer or should be asking for information that will be put to some practical use. Chatty open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of Ask Metafilter and push other questions off the front page. If you want to avoid having your question flagged and possibly removed, here are some things to avoid.
- Questions where everyone's answer is equally valid along the lines of "What's your favorite X?". Maybe there is a reason you want to know? Super, just put it in your question.
- Asking the question and giving your own answer before getting the answers of others, saying some variant of "I'll go first" If you can authoritatively answer your own question, it's probably not right for AskMe.
- Questions with no problem to be solved or where the problem is some variant of "I'm curious if other people feel like I do"
- Open-ended unanswerable or hypothetical questions like "What if Hitler had never been born?" or made up "what if" science questions. Creating arbitrary constraints and then playing "what if" is not a good use of AskMe.
- Questions that are some version of "What is the deal with X?"or "X sucks, am I right?" tend to not go well on Ask MetaFilter. Please do not rant on AskMe and pretend it is a question.
Put another way "...if your motivation for asking the question is 'I would like to participate in a discussion about X,' then you shouldn't be doing it in AskMe. If your motivation is 'I would like others to explain X to me,' then you're probably OK."
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posted by Superilla at 7:04 PM on January 16, 2023 [23 favorites]
It took me forever to notice Metafilter Chat, which may be the answer to the next logical question.
posted by clew at 7:38 PM on January 16, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by clew at 7:38 PM on January 16, 2023 [3 favorites]
Best answer: If this is in regards to your recent deleted question, you should reach out to the mods via the contact form, which is linked at the bottom of every page. They can explain their specific reasoning, and they can probably help you rework your question so it meets the guidelines and can be posted again, though they're busy and may take a bit longer than they used to.
Looking at that question, in my (unofficial) opinion, it kind of rides the line on chatfilter, but the vagueness and lack of concrete details, coupled with the apparent frustration push it over the line. A pure chatfilter question is "I'm so annoyed that I can't pay cash, isn't that terrible?" A clearly answerable question is "An acquaintance of mine was at a business and was told that they had to use a card, rather than cash. Why do business make policies like that? How might I go about convincing them to change their policy?" or "My friend who does not have a bank account is being turned away from a [specific type of business] in [specific jurisdiction] because the business won't accept cash. Is this legal?" There's a whole spectrum in between, which are judgement calls by the mods.
posted by yuwtze at 8:49 PM on January 16, 2023 [18 favorites]
Looking at that question, in my (unofficial) opinion, it kind of rides the line on chatfilter, but the vagueness and lack of concrete details, coupled with the apparent frustration push it over the line. A pure chatfilter question is "I'm so annoyed that I can't pay cash, isn't that terrible?" A clearly answerable question is "An acquaintance of mine was at a business and was told that they had to use a card, rather than cash. Why do business make policies like that? How might I go about convincing them to change their policy?" or "My friend who does not have a bank account is being turned away from a [specific type of business] in [specific jurisdiction] because the business won't accept cash. Is this legal?" There's a whole spectrum in between, which are judgement calls by the mods.
posted by yuwtze at 8:49 PM on January 16, 2023 [18 favorites]
Best answer: The question "what is chatfilter?" has an actual answer, so is not chatfilter.
posted by DarlingBri at 12:56 AM on January 17, 2023 [6 favorites]
posted by DarlingBri at 12:56 AM on January 17, 2023 [6 favorites]
Whereas “omg chatfilter! It sucks, right?” would be chatfilter
posted by Puppy McSock at 6:42 AM on January 17, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by Puppy McSock at 6:42 AM on January 17, 2023 [3 favorites]
Best answer: The -filter suffix is simply a reference to MetaFilter. The term is not Googleable because it is not used elsewhere.
posted by heatherlogan at 9:34 AM on January 17, 2023
posted by heatherlogan at 9:34 AM on January 17, 2023
Best answer: But it can still be helpful to have Google search Metafilter :
chatfilter site:metafilter.com
posted by Kabanos at 6:16 PM on January 17, 2023
chatfilter site:metafilter.com
posted by Kabanos at 6:16 PM on January 17, 2023
Response by poster: I thank all of you for giving me very useful answers.
posted by amfgf at 5:07 PM on January 24, 2023
posted by amfgf at 5:07 PM on January 24, 2023
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posted by Vorteks at 7:01 PM on January 16, 2023 [6 favorites]