Matthew Haughey ( born October 10, 1972 ) is an American programmer, web designer, and blogger best known as the founder of the community weblog MetaFilter, where he is known as mathowie.

Members regularly gather for meetups in cities around the world, and there are numerous websites with strong connections to MetaFilter members and subgroups, including MetaChat and MonkeyFilter, the latter getting its start during the period when MetaFilter memberships were closed.

Net and blog culture discussions also percolate through MetaFilter, reflecting its early connections with Blogger, but this is becoming less common as membership expands.

In October 2004, MetaFilter members uncovered the identities of the writers of the hoax Web site Nick Nolte's Diary.

The derisive term for this on MetaFilter is NewsFilter ( or similar-Filter names for specific news topics, e. g. IraqFilter ).

She is a former member of the American Library Association Council, and is a moderator on MetaFilter.

She is a paid employee and moderator for the group blog MetaFilter, and answers as many as two questions a day on the question-and-answer subforum Ask MetaFilter.

MetaFilter has developed a fairly stable community with a variety of in-jokes.

Half-baked posts, self-promotion, open-ended questions, and other fare common on other community sites and internet forums are strongly discouraged at MetaFilter, though such things do sometimes make it through.

Haughey has long resisted adding killfiles and Slashdot-style scoring systems to MetaFilter, as he feels the former would fragment the community and the latter would result in users trying to " game " the system.

MetaFilter was founded by Matthew Haughey in 1999.

In April 2011, Adams mentioned that he had used a fake identity to post on link-sharing sites Reddit and MetaFilter.

Blog items are regularly featured on the front pages of high-traffic pop-culture sites such as Boing Boing and MetaFilter.

* A MetaFilter Thread on the rumors of Automatic's closure

* In April 2011, the American cartoonist Scott Adams admitted using the name " PlannedChaos " to pose as one of his fans on the link-sharing sites Reddit and MetaFilter.

MetaFilter's name derives from the idea that weblogs " filter " the " best of the web ", and MetaFilter posts ( guidelines ) would be the best of the best.

Since 2003, it has included the popular question-and-answer subsite Ask MetaFilter.

MetaFilter was included in TIME magazine's 50 Best Websites 2009 feature.

At SXSW 2011, Haughey gave a talk in which he noted that MetaFilter had about 125, 000 user accounts, of which 12, 000 are active.

Because MetaFilter bans " selflinks " or posts by a person with a significant conflict of interest, posts tend to be scrutinized closely.

In May 2001, MetaFilter played a key role in uncovering the Kaycee Nicole hoax, in which a woman made up a fake online persona of a teenage daughter who was dying of cancer, fooling many bloggers and garnering sympathy and gifts.

An astroturfing campaign by Holden Karnofsky, the co-founder of the online charity GiveWell, was detected in January 2008 through a sockpuppet posting to Ask MetaFilter, leading to Karnofsky's resignation.

In 2003, Ask MetaFilter was launched.

In 2006, MetaFilter Music launched.

Later, August 24 2006, MetaFilter Jobs was added.

The Brannon outfit -- known as the Slash-B because of its brand -- reached Hondo Creek before sundown.

All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.

The internationally known sportsman and traveler Friedrich Gerstacker was typical of its detractors in the mid-thirties.

The malady was popularly known as the `` Spanish flu '' from the alleged locale of its origin.

Since more is known about Quiney than about any other acquaintance of Shakespeare in Stratford, his career may be followed to its sudden end in 1602.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

The widely known financial firm has 60 days to spell out the terms of its contract.

The turret screw machine, now known as the Brown & Sharpe hand screw machine, takes its ancestry directly from Mr. Brown's efforts to introduce equipment to simplify the manufacture of the sewing machine.

The ship was a Waco biplane, one of the first two of its type to be fitted with the air cooled, 225/hp Wright radial engine known as the Whirlwind.

`` Such a vicious statement can only have its origin in the desire of a new political candidate to try to make his name known by condemning a man of world stature.

The Louisiana city is known, of course, for its fine food, good music and its colorful hospitality `` and, when guests arrive at Philmont that night '', says Mrs. Grinsfelder, `` that is exactly what we expect to offer them.

Now, if Morton's newest product, a corn chip known as Chip-o's, turns out to sell as well as its stock did, the stock may turn out to be worth every cent of the prices that the avid buyers bid it up to.

-- For its final change of bill in its London season, the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet chose tonight to give one of those choreographic miscellanies known as a `` gala program '' at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

The rough-skinned newt ( Taricha granulosa ) from North America and other members of its genus contain the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin ( TTX ), the most toxic non-protein substance known and almost identical to that produced by pufferfish.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

Nevertheless, in spite of Rutherford's estimation that gold had a central charge of about 100 ( but was element Z = 79 on the periodic table ), a month after Rutherford's paper appeared, Antonius van den Broek first formally suggested that the central charge and number of electrons in an atom was exactly equal to its place in the periodic table ( also known as element number, atomic number, and symbolized Z ).

The aardvark has been known to sleep in a recently excavated ant nest, which also serves as protection from its predators.

** Titan ( computer ), also known as the Atlas 2, its successor

They came to be grouped in a separate family, known as Uralic ( though doubts long persisted about its validity ).

The region is known as the Anti-Taurus, and the average elevation of its peaks exceeds.

In addition to its rugged mountains, the area is known for severe winters with heavy snowfalls.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.