Metafilter turns ten years old today. There’s no site on the web I love more, and I couldn’t imagine a better place to work.

I celebrate by recycling, so here’s two (among several) songs I’ve written about the place over the years:

Happy [8th] Birthday, Metafilter, from a couple years back, and
Metafilter’s Down, from our long dark downtime of the soul earlier this year.

In an age where websites are always hunting for the next great trick for keeping unruly commentors in line – voting mechanisms? User scores? Enforced real names? – MetaFilter seems to be held together by the sheer stubbornness of its culture.

From (mefi’s own) Ivor Tossell at the Globe & Mail, here’s one of the best short explanations of Metafilter I’ve yet read.

And I’m not just saying that because it quotes me.