| Date | Favorites | User | Post | 
|---|
| 2018-06-13 | 1050 | mai | State of the Site: Metafilter financial update and future directions | 
| 2008-03-17 | 968 | Ian A.T. | Queuing questions. | 
| 2011-01-24 | 782 | dancestoblue | Vague medical AskMe questions | 
| 2014-05-19 | 694 | terrapin | State of MetaFilter | 
| 2009-04-28 | 621 | Cool Papa Bell | Bueller? | 
| 2014-05-19 | 485 | jessamyn | State of MetaFilter | 
| 2013-08-20 | 459 | Blasdelb | This isn't Pirate Bay | 
| 2011-12-15 | 408 | FishBike | Should a joke-heavy thread on a serious topic be thinned out? | 
| 2017-07-31 | 400 | mathowie | mathowie transfers ownership of MetaFilter to cortex | 
| 2015-05-23 | 380 | jessamyn | I was quoting ROMANCE | 
| 2010-02-23 | 378 | crush-onastick | Get a Lawyer! Really, you need a lawyer! Hey, you might want to get a lawyer! | 
| 2015-03-04 | 346 | mathowie | Sixteen Years | 
| 2017-01-16 | 344 | LionIndex | Aren't we better than this? | 
| 2020-06-01 | 341 | travelingthyme | Two new mods: welcome to travelingthyme and loup! | 
| 2013-06-20 | 340 | 256 | """Lavaballing"" thread sexist and dissenting comments deleted" | 
| 2013-06-07 | 340 | Eyebrows McGee | What to do when threads result in name calling? | 
| 2015-08-28 | 326 | Alex Haist | Does anyone else feel Metafilter's moderation culture is ridiculous? | 
| 2019-07-23 | 308 | Segundus | Decommissioning the US politics megathreads | 
| 2020-07-29 | 306 | Faint of Butt | Can we have just *one* thread without cis nonsense? | 
| 2011-01-06 | 305 | loquacious | RIP Bill Zeller | 
| 2020-06-01 | 303 | loup | Two new mods: welcome to travelingthyme and loup! | 
| 2008-09-30 | 301 | Pastabagel | I must really rank | 
| 2007-02-06 | 300 | felix | Jessamyn in Valley News | 
| 2009-05-04 | 298 | ColdChef | -you overthink witty headlines. | 
| 2014-06-11 | 295 | ChuraChura | Revisiting misogyny on Metafilter | 
| 2014-06-09 | 294 | cortex | Leveraging the community to help develop Mefi functionality? | 
| 2010-06-29 | 293 | turgid dahlia | I'd like to buy the world a coke. | 
| 2022-05-25 | 290 | jessamyn | [MeFi Site Update] May 25th | 
| 2011-11-12 | 285 | cortex | Ghost in the machine - bad moderating | 
| 2013-04-26 | 279 | Eyebrows McGee | Informative answer deleted | 
| 2015-03-04 | 274 | cortex | Sixteen Years | 
| 2012-05-22 | 272 | mathowie | holdkris99's death was a hoax. | 
| 2012-04-10 | 266 | ook | Don't be lazy. | 
| 2017-11-05 | 261 | johnofjack | Metatalktail Hour: We Solved the Problem, So Everything Is Awesome | 
| 2010-11-01 | 261 | hermitosis | Favorites, schmavorites | 
| 2014-01-10 | 259 | DirtyOldTown | Deletion for minor issues | 
| 2012-05-22 | 258 | scody | holdkris99's death was a hoax. | 
| 2019-06-06 | 251 | Fizz | Hearing from our members of color | 
| 2015-11-16 | 251 | a fiendish thingy | Can We Please Respect Women Expressing Joy? | 
| 2010-12-17 | 251 | Ahab | Show That It's Awesome On the List, Not Just the List Item | 
| 2009-12-30 | 251 | mathowie | Begone, tumor! | 
| 2015-03-04 | 250 | Argyle | Sixteen Years | 
| 2011-04-15 | 250 | mathowie | UnplannedChaos | 
| 2011-05-01 | 248 | ColdChef | beep beep, yeah! | 
| 2025-06-16 | 247 | NotLost | MeFi Election Admin Poll | 
| 2009-01-26 | 244 | goodnewsfortheinsane | Wha' happen? | 
| 2007-07-20 | 241 | DaShiv | MeFi's 8th Anniversary Party: Ground Kontrol, Portland | 
| 2014-06-02 | 238 | tzikeh | MeFi Fundraising Update | 
| 2015-02-22 | 237 | Eyebrows McGee | Too Much False Rape? | 
| 2009-10-31 | 233 | Rhaomi | November is National Let's Try Obscuring Favorite Counts Month | 
| 2006-02-01 | 233 | jessamyn | Can I log in and out of parts of MeFi? | 
| 2013-03-31 | 232 | mathowie | Thanks for MetaFiltrest | 
| 2014-05-19 | 231 | The 10th Regiment of Foot | State of MetaFilter | 
| 2025-04-18 | 227 | Seven Deadly Gins | the need for clear action against transphobia | 
| 2014-05-19 | 227 | goodnewsfortheinsane | State of MetaFilter | 
| 2025-05-22 | 225 | tivalasvegas | Metafilter is at risk of being brigaded by bad actors. | 
| 2011-04-14 | 225 | jessamyn | What's on your infodump wishlist? | 
| 2014-06-11 | 222 | Ipsifendus | Revisiting misogyny on Metafilter | 
| 2013-09-09 | 221 | divined by radio | Gender-Filter | 
| 2020-07-18 | 220 | mochapickle | Metatalktail Hour: Who is New In Your Life? | 
| 2015-02-06 | 216 | mathowie | What are Meta's Values? | 
| 2015-06-08 | 215 | jessamyn | State of Metafilter, and funding update | 
| 2011-04-13 | 214 | cortex | Metafilter Diaper Delivery | 
| 2014-05-19 | 212 | anastasiav | State of MetaFilter | 
| 2011-03-21 | 212 | fourcheesemac | deletions | 
| 2013-01-07 | 211 | Diskeater | MeFi is adding titles | 
| 2012-10-23 | 211 | koeselitz | and god damn you for suggesting I should just suck that up | 
| 2014-08-19 | 210 | elizardbits | Meta Slander? | 
| 2013-05-19 | 210 | cortex | Price of Metafilter | 
| 2011-10-28 | 209 | taff | Mixed Messages | 
| 2010-03-12 | 208 | orthogonality | """pretty ordinary stuff for a state full of people that are 48% inbred.""" | 
| 2015-06-26 | 202 | restless_nomad | #loveWins #mefi | 
| 2015-01-23 | 202 | KathrynT | Thanks, MeFi | 
| 2012-01-19 | 202 | cortex | Achievement Unlocked | 
| 2006-08-31 | 202 | False Dichotomy | Cortex comes through, again! | 
| 2001-11-22 | 202 | goliche | fghdfhdfg | 
| 2012-04-17 | 201 | monju_bosatsu | Boxster Short | 
| 2007-12-18 | 200 | mullacc | Slapping someone in the face a bit too much ... | 
| 2011-07-11 | 198 | Slap*Happy | When, if ever, do admins admit they were wrong? | 
| 2010-07-09 | 197 | HabeasCorpus | lame delete | 
| 2007-11-16 | 197 | occhiblu | Discussion Point | 
| 2017-01-30 | 196 | barchan | This is what MeFite democracy looks like! | 
| 2001-09-23 | 196 | kindall | The best case for a MeFi waiting period I've ever seen | 
| 2021-06-08 | 195 | liminal_shadows | What's Wrong With The Guardian? | 
| 2015-10-22 | 195 | ArbitraryAndCapricious | We need to have a discussion about racism. | 
| 2009-06-16 | 195 | jessamyn | He ain't Ralph. | 
| 2016-05-27 | 194 | frimble | Say hello to our new tech person, frimble! | 
| 2012-05-22 | 194 | zarq | holdkris99's death was a hoax. | 
| 2014-03-31 | 192 | Snarl Furillo | Whoa. | 
| 2019-07-23 | 191 | Rhaomi | Decommissioning the US politics megathreads | 
| 2015-12-23 | 191 | Eyebrows McGee | Please welcome our new part-time moderator | 
| 2015-12-14 | 190 | harperpitt | Metafilter makes it to cable news | 
| 2010-06-16 | 190 | darksasami | Palindrome Follow-Up | 
| 2015-03-06 | 189 | mathowie | One last chance to be moderated by Matt: feel free to be extreme. | 
| 2010-07-14 | 189 | jessamyn | Flagged as *yawn* | 
| 2025-06-16 | 188 | NotLost | MeFi Election Admin Poll | 
| 2020-04-09 | 187 | mochapickle | Coronavirus check-in thread #4 | 
| 2014-05-20 | 187 | cortex | Where I'm off to | 
| 2014-03-16 | 187 | cairdeas | Deleting comments | 
| 2022-07-17 | 186 | escape from the potato planet | Transition Team Post #4 (July 2022) User survey results | 
| 2013-07-07 | 186 | taz | It's been nice knowing you all. | 
| 2017-07-31 | 182 | Faint of Butt | mathowie transfers ownership of MetaFilter to cortex | 
| 2006-03-31 | 181 | loquacious | Please let us metatalk more. | 
| 2015-03-04 | 179 | anildash | Sixteen Years | 
| 2012-12-10 | 179 | Chrysostom | How has MeFi changed in the past few years? | 
| 2012-08-15 | 179 | elizardbits | Girlzone | 
| 2010-08-08 | 179 | Metroid Baby | When it is too hard not to judge an AskMeFi. | 
| 2010-05-31 | 179 | Dee Xtrovert | You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. | 
| 2021-06-08 | 178 | i used to be someone else | What's Wrong With The Guardian? | 
| 2011-05-10 | 178 | jessamyn | "Why can't the community guidelines include ""not being a pedantic prick?""" | 
| 2020-04-12 | 177 | lepus | Coronavirus check-in thread #4 | 
| 2017-01-16 | 177 | poffin boffin | Aren't we better than this? | 
| 2009-05-28 | 177 | UbuRoivas | Doctors are not scary bogeypeople! | 
| 2020-07-13 | 176 | Eyebrows McGee | Twitter harassment from Mefi Outsider & Go Mefi | 
| 2014-12-01 | 176 | cortex | Personal attacks and biased moderating: is this what we want on Metafilter? | 
| 2008-05-24 | 176 | DaShiv | Clinton Obama Filter redux | 
| 2013-05-28 | 174 | elizardbits | Maybe we could try not hating people for their economic status? | 
| 2020-05-18 | 173 | biogeo | Another COVID communication post | 
| 2011-08-10 | 173 | elizardbits | If you really want the help of parents, maybe don't start by insulting them? | 
| 2008-02-17 | 173 | Pater Aletheias | Are some more worthy of respect than others? | 
| 2015-01-23 | 172 | poffin boffin | "Are product catalog pages now ""best of the web""?" | 
| 2014-12-30 | 172 | Eyebrows McGee | We're grownups, right? | 
| 2013-04-26 | 172 | cortex | Informative answer deleted | 
| 2011-10-10 | 172 | memebake | Reddit vs Metafilter - London Oct 10th | 
| 2010-08-25 | 172 | Astro Zombie | MetaFiter: Don't let reality stop your white party, whatever you do, brave souls | 
| 2019-01-09 | 170 | Eyebrows McGee | MetaMetaTalk and MetaModeration Thereof | 
| 2017-03-22 | 170 | cortex | State of MetaFilter, 2017 | 
| 2010-05-17 | 169 | Len | Meet up in Malawi? | 
| 2015-04-03 | 168 | cortex | How do *you* pronounce 'MeFi'? | 
| 2013-06-20 | 168 | mcwetboy | """Lavaballing"" thread sexist and dissenting comments deleted" | 
| 2012-09-05 | 168 | Kattullus | Use Your Words | 
| 2011-01-05 | 168 | nanojath | RIP Bill Zeller | 
| 2009-04-28 | 168 | cortex | But weed is also often associated wtih poor black people | 
| 2019-07-29 | 167 | scrump | Climate-related posts on the blue | 
| 2019-01-03 | 167 | It's Raining Florence Henderson | Murrrrrrder? | 
| 2017-01-16 | 167 | MillMan | Aren't we better than this? | 
| 2015-09-10 | 167 | Too-Ticky | It's so easy your 24 year old son could master it! | 
| 2012-04-28 | 167 | cortex | Meta MetaCensorship | 
| 2014-12-23 | 166 | maxsparber | Neckbeard, is this a word we need? | 
| 2014-10-21 | 166 | Mrs. Pterodactyl | Thanks Mrs. Pterodactyl! | 
| 2012-01-27 | 166 | Tell Me No Lies | Google buzz | 
| 2015-09-19 | 165 | shelleycat | Post deletions officially getting ridiculous. | 
| 2014-06-26 | 165 | spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints | Laughing Is Magic | 
| 2013-01-07 | 165 | leesh | MeFi is adding titles | 
| 2012-05-22 | 165 | ColdChef | holdkris99's death was a hoax. | 
| 2010-05-13 | 165 | Nothing... and like it | When is there too much chat? | 
| 2019-02-21 | 164 | barchan | Help Me Get My Smile Back? | 
| 2012-09-20 | 164 | elizardbits | The Cabal just lost Doc Marten | 
| 2012-06-11 | 164 | workingdankoch | "My ""Ask MeFi"" Post was plagiarized on another website!" | 
| 2008-07-23 | 164 | Xelf | Your solitary compulsion becomes a shared experience. | 
| 2016-09-06 | 163 | double block and bleed | I was promised Happy Fun September | 
| 2014-06-09 | 163 | Horace Rumpole | Leveraging the community to help develop Mefi functionality? | 
| 2013-10-29 | 163 | divined by radio | Consistency | 
| 2011-07-11 | 163 | jessamyn | When, if ever, do admins admit they were wrong? | 
| 2013-09-30 | 162 | elizardbits | 4 of the 5 most recent posts on the front page are about sexism | 
| 2010-12-19 | 162 | ODiV | """1 total comments""?" | 
| 2018-06-15 | 161 | cortex | State of the Site: Metafilter financial update and future directions | 
| 2012-08-15 | 161 | Sidhedevil | Girlzone | 
| 2025-02-17 | 159 | nouvelle-personne | What went wrong in the dubious_dude/nouvelle_person thread? | 
| 2022-11-22 | 159 | kate blank | Ad Bars | 
| 2019-12-29 | 159 | Mrs Potato | What have you done this decade that you're proud of? | 
| 2018-07-01 | 159 | the quidnunc kid | Muting Certain Commenters | 
| 2019-03-06 | 158 | jessamyn | Farewell pjern. | 
| 2014-04-02 | 158 | rtha | Meta Comment Deletion What Fors? | 
| 2025-06-16 | 157 | NotLost | MeFi Election Admin Poll | 
| 2013-08-19 | 157 | jessamyn | This isn't Pirate Bay | 
| 2011-01-05 | 157 | hat | RIP Bill Zeller | 
| 2009-12-10 | 157 | jessamyn | Babyggedon | 
| 2007-04-06 | 157 | miss lynnster | NOT raining on florence....honest! | 
| 2017-08-01 | 155 | Orlop | Help build MetaFilter’s savings | 
| 2016-09-06 | 155 | tobascodagama | I was promised Happy Fun September | 
| 2013-03-20 | 154 | Drinky Die | Statute of Limitations in AskMe | 
| 2012-05-22 | 154 | Bunny Ultramod | holdkris99's death was a hoax. | 
| 2015-08-28 | 153 | eriko | Does anyone else feel Metafilter's moderation culture is ridiculous? | 
| 2015-03-12 | 153 | boo_radley | Keeping Offsite Offsite | 
| 2015-03-06 | 153 | cortex | One last chance to be moderated by Matt: feel free to be extreme. | 
| 2010-01-05 | 153 | scody | Some of us are lucky enough that every Tuesday is a Big Gay Tuesday | 
| 2018-06-13 | 152 | zachlipton | State of the Site: Metafilter financial update and future directions | 
| 2018-01-20 | 152 | loquacious | Metatalktails: So, good news... I saw a dog today! | 
| 2015-08-28 | 152 | rtha | Does anyone else feel Metafilter's moderation culture is ridiculous? | 
| 2014-06-11 | 152 | scody | Revisiting misogyny on Metafilter | 
| 2014-04-02 | 152 | trunk muffins | Meta Comment Deletion What Fors? | 
| 2019-06-07 | 151 | divabat | Hearing from our members of color | 
| 2017-07-05 | 151 | aielen | The House of Orientalism | 
| 2016-09-06 | 151 | sciatrix | I was promised Happy Fun September | 
| 2016-01-07 | 151 | femmegrrr | The Annotated Emotional Labor Post! | 
| 2012-12-11 | 151 | griphus | No, *You* Are a First World Problem | 
| 2014-06-02 | 150 | mathowie | MeFi Fundraising Update | 
| 2014-05-29 | 150 | griphus | We lose a mod, but gain more comments! | 
| 2012-09-05 | 150 | box | Use Your Words | 
| 2021-01-20 | 149 | SoberHighland | Surely this... | 
| 2018-06-27 | 149 | gman | Say goodbye to gman | 
| 2017-01-16 | 149 | supercrayon | Aren't we better than this? | 
| 2016-04-26 | 149 | pb | *end theme from Incredible Hulk plays* | 
| 2015-09-19 | 149 | nadawi | Post deletions officially getting ridiculous. | 
| 2015-06-14 | 149 | LobsterMitten | Bad deletions | 
| 2014-05-19 | 149 | Hadroed | State of MetaFilter | 
| 2013-09-14 | 149 | Pater Aletheias | Please tell me what I can and can't say about religion on MetaFilter. | 
| 2012-09-05 | 149 | Miko | Use Your Words | 
| 2012-09-05 | 149 | Eyebrows McGee | Use Your Words |