It's getting dangerously, fatally, hotter. In Bamako, Athens, Santiago, Mexico City, Podgorica, Mecca, Rio de Janeiro, Paraburdoo, Delhi, Toronto, San Salvador, Beijing, Dubrovnik, Skikda, Rome, Cairo, Trenton, and many other places, 2024 temperatures are deadly and breaking records. What are your techniques, strategies, methods, neat tricks for dealing with the heat? Or just write about whatever is on your mind, in your heart, or on your plate, because this is your weekly free thread, fellow MeFites.

"AppealMod: Inducing Friction to Reduce Moderator Workload of Handling User Appeals" and "Controlled, In Control, and Out of Control: The Effects of Different Forms of Vocabulary Control on the Subject Indexing and Subject Tagging Processes" have appeared in the last year or so. The 2009 "Exploring the dynamics of blog communities: the case of MetaFilter" is not recent, but it has been cited in many past works in the Metafilterological Sciences. Previously.

Atreja, S., Im, J., Resnick, P., & Hemphill, L. (2023). AppealMod: Inducing Friction to Reduce Moderator Workload of Handling User Appeals. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.07163. Holstrom, C. (2023). Controlled, In Control, and Out of Control: The Effects of Different Forms of Vocabulary Control on the Subject Indexing and Subject Tagging Processes (Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington). Silva, L., Goel, L., & Mousavidin, E. (2009). Exploring the dynamics of blog communities: the case of MetaFilter. Information Systems Journal, 19(1), 55-81.

Hi, MetaFilter moderator here, posting an experimental thread, based on a recent suggestion by Rhaomi. Here's the idea, paraphrasing:

"Find a neat article, video, blog, etc. but don't feel up to the work of cobbling together an FPP, tags, title, and otherwise putting yourself out there? Just comment "LinkMe:" followed by the link and maybe a one sentence description for context. Everybody has tacit permission to turn your link into an FPP if they'd like, first come first serve, with a nod back to the original LinkFilter comment"

An example of the type of comment to make is inside, but don't feel bound to that exact format!

This post was made by a moderator to let members know that this is an experiment and explain the idea. Nothing is set in stone, just trying it out to see how it goes. If things move forward with this and/or the other types of posts mentioned in Rhaomi's suggestion, then the posts could certainly be made by members themselves. Edited notes/suggestions from further down in the thread: Suggestion from another moderator: "For now maybe ask the poster to flag the linkme comment they posted, and we (mods) can add some checkmark or other flair to the comment to show it's been used?" # LinkMe should not be used for self linking. # Since this is so new, if you use make a post that uses one of the links already posted in this thread, the system, after previewing your post, may say your be double post. For now, just ignore that after verifying that the link is not a major part of another post.