Comments on: What's this about?

What's this about?

jenovus — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:41:08 -0800

What's this about?

By: jenovus

jenovus — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:41:38 -0800

I don't know if this is a stance against improperly-described posts, but . . . you can read the articles, you know.

By: tweak

tweak — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:47:53 -0800

I also found that annoying, and it's strange that all of those were posted within the same minute.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:48:49 -0800

Odd. I've met nic, and that's not like him.

By: selfnoise

selfnoise — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:50:03 -0800

Looks like SOMEBODY'S having a freakout session.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:50:45 -0800

Now I picture nicwolf as a Bobby with a large mustache.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:50:51 -0800

I was tempted to make the exact same MeTa post, but then decided against it after seeing his lengthy non-stupid comment history. If someone wants to (briefly) make a point about uninformative link titles by acting like a buffoon for a day... I think that's OK.

By: jenovus

jenovus — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:51:08 -0800

They're not just posted in the same minute, they're sequential comments. What is that about?

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:52:13 -0800

Now I picture nicwolf as a Bobby with a large mustache.

And now I do, too. Thanks.

By: greasy_skillet

greasy_skillet — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:54:41 -0800

I just don't know about that.

By: whatnot

whatnot — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 09:56:09 -0800

whatever it is, it's annoying.

By: C17H19NO3

C17H19NO3 — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:01:37 -0800

whatever it is, it's annoying.

Sure is.
Hey, there's a really long hair in the bottom of my Ben and Jerry's ice cream container. Gross.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:12:15 -0800

At least it wasn't a short hair.

By: Witty

Witty — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:13:32 -0800

The B&J oatmeal whatever flavor (can't remember the name) is absurdly delicious. I'm also diggin' the cashew variety as well.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:15:33 -0800

Hey, there's a really long hair in the bottom of my Ben and Jerry's ice cream container. Gross.

That's not gross, it just means you get free Ben and Jerry's ice cream.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:18:13 -0800

Script-automated posting gone awry. Inquiry as to subject at 11.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:19:13 -0800

IT'S HAIR OF GARCIA! IT'S A SIGN! YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN!

By: selfnoise

selfnoise — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:19:28 -0800

That guy's moustache has made me reexamine life for the better.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:32:47 -0800

Script-automated posting

pft. tabbed browsing. any minute someone will call for life imprisonment for subversion of single tasking.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:33:01 -0800

What's this about?

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:37:43 -0800

Let me be the first to offer, moustache rides 5p.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:40:36 -0800

[removed image because it is loading slower than mefi -- which is quite slow indeed]

By: selfnoise

selfnoise — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:53:48 -0800

*cries*

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:59:09 -0800

mm-hmm

By: fandango_matt

fandango_matt — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:59:51 -0800

Eni ti o mo nkankan rara, ko ye ko ma shi enure lati je ki gbobgo aye mo kpe olodo lo je. Kani pe o di enure mu, eniyan mi ti le ma ro kpe o ni ogbon diye lori wha ti sthis a'bo ut.

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:07:45 -0800

Perl Hackers are very tribal.

By: C17H19NO3

C17H19NO3 — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:58:22 -0800

A list of Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavors that are no longer made. Too bad, the peanut butter and jelly flavor sounds delicious. Oh, and Witty, are you thinking of Oatmeal Cookie Chunk?

By: mischief

mischief — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:00:39 -0800

"whatever it is, it's annoying"

Not nearly as annoying as poorly described FPPs. Why not just post the letter "A".

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:18:28 -0800

In the case of the Rick Dangerous Flash, it doesn't even make any sense, as that post was self-explanatory.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:28:07 -0800

Cool! A surf guitar link within a MetaTalk post. Thanks Mischief.

By: kjh

kjh — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:28:34 -0800

I agree wholeheartedly that underdescribed posts suck. I want to know whether or not I want to click the link before I click the link.

By: knave

knave — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:29:35 -0800

Now I must know. What was the image?

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:30:26 -0800

I just don't know

By: mischief

mischief — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:32:40 -0800

"Rick Dangerous Flash ... was self-explanatory"

No, it was not. I have no clue who Rick Dangerous Flash is from the wording of that post.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:38:49 -0800

Sir Adrian Dangerous' brother, isn't he?

By: kosher_jenny

kosher_jenny — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:39:49 -0800

That gingerbread ice cream sounds like something holy.

By: jonson

jonson — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:53:14 -0800

nicwolff sucks more & more every day.

By: nile_red

nile_red — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:12:52 -0800

I met Ben and Jerry one day, they're nice guys.

By: wakko

wakko — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:24:22 -0800

just one 'more'.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:56:54 -0800

link wray is god.

By: taz

taz — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:58:55 -0800

I kind of think that what nicwolff did here was more in the vein of scientific/technological inquiry than social anarchy. I think he actually made those comments before the posts ever existed.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:05:16 -0800

Then the proper question is "What's this going to be about?" and the proper forum is MetaChat.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:19:25 -0800

I posted this image inline.

By: louigi

louigi — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:20:16 -0800

I don't know. I just don't know.

By: nobody

nobody — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:37:50 -0800

I would think taz is most likely right, but then why isn't the third example the first comment posted in that thread?

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:50:15 -0800

On the other hand, if nic had not asked, then Len would not have given this answer. I have no particular interest in tapes, but Len's answer was worth the thread for me.

By: reflecked

reflecked — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:12:01 -0800

I've got no irons in this fire, but I want to compliment quonsar on the Link Wray (link}. Link Wray can rock anyone off their foundation.. anyone.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:19:53 -0800

I agree with taz. nic's a classy guy who's just being diplomatic.

"WHAT. THE. FUCK." posts can come off as hostile, and can be seen as shitting in threads.

"What's this about?" can be seen as a way of asking, "Okay...what am I missing here?"

Y'know what I mean, jellybean?

By: qwip

qwip — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:45:32 -0800

"What's all this then?"

By: nicwolff

nicwolff — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 16:59:36 -0800

Jeez, I quite forgot when I eventually woke up today that I'd done that this morning after getting home from drinking wine, sake, beer, and whiskey till 5 AM. (You should have seen my friend though, he actually had to text me this today: "Dude, where's my car?")

So yeah, it was a drunken mumble-de-coeur against people who think that Metafilter should be a page full of undescribed links, and that I should, what, open them all in separate windows and see which are good? I wouldn't have done it if I hadn't been confronted with three indecipherable posts in a row right when my few functioning brain cells most needed clear link summaries, preferably written at a "My Pet Goat" POTUS-readable level.

But I agree in the cold hard light of sobriety that pooping in the threads is Not How It's Done and I do apologize. Drinks on me at the next NY meetup.

By: gramschmidt

gramschmidt — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:49:31 -0800

It's too bad that the explanation is so plausible. I was hoping that your question was valid on a much higher level, i.e., that you were finally forcing us to confront the primary and fundamental question, regardless of thread: What is this about?

Oh well.

By: nicwolff

nicwolff — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:49:32 -0800

PS. This callout needed a better description too.

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 17:53:18 -0800

That's what it's about, biotch.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:21:48 -0800

Hm, there goes my conspiracy theory. You may now take off your tinfoil hats. Make sure to ground yourself first. Or after. Depending.

By: nylon

nylon — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:31:55 -0800

people who think that Metafilter should be a page full of undescribed links...three indecipherable posts in a row

Oh, come on. I'd never heard of Rick Dangerous, but considering that the tags are games, amiga, flash, atari, C64, it's hardly going to be a post about the economies of beetroot farming, is it?

And at the other end of the spectrum (and, for the record, I don't consider that a link to a page consisting entirely of blank tapes is misrepresented by a link title of 'Blank Tapes' - what did you expect? Wax cylinders?), the problem with people describing the links in such detail that there's actually no point visiting them is that people don't bother visiting them. But comment in the thread anyway.

By: nicwolff

nicwolff — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:37:12 -0800

Tags don't appear on the front page. Or in the RSS feed.

By: jenovus

jenovus — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:47:27 -0800

Haha, sorry for my inadequate elucidation, nicwolff. I know now how much that bothers you and your oft-pickled neurons.

By: nylon

nylon — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:48:47 -0800

You can't comment directly from the front page though, can you? The tags are there in front of you on the comment page while you concentrate furiously on your recalcitrant sausage fingers in order to get them to land on the right keys, slowly tapping out the phrase 'what's this about?'. Three times.

But whatever. We'll all be dead in 60 years.

By: jenovus

jenovus — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:52:28 -0800

Come on nylon, he probably gave it the old Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. I know I do when I'm having trouble getting my eyes to focus on one point.

CYA disclaimer: this was all good-natured. Nicwolff is, IMO, a class act.

By: SuperNova

SuperNova — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:01:58 -0800

Feature request: Breathalyzer-enabled posting.

Then again, that might grind discussion to a halt. Carry on!

By: davy

davy — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:16:02 -0800

"his lengthy non-stupid comment history"

Hey, who does this guy think he is? Obviously he's a traitor! A CIA agent! A lilly-livered Rosicrucian! Obviously EVIL!

Stupidly,
Davy the Curmudgeon

By: blendor

blendor — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:31:47 -0800

I have noticed that lately it seems a lot of FPPs are lacking useful context. Maybe that's what nic's on about.

By: blendor

blendor — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:37:38 -0800

To explain the FPP I linked - I think it's a terrific link that was posted, but I would like to know more about the music or who created the video. Isn't the effort to bring supporting information to posts what separates mefi from other sites?

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:05:09 -0800

I don't get it.

By: Mr T

Mr T — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:26:36 -0800

Kirth: never quite in the know are you. As the seasons change and the wind sings through the trees, I wonder, will you ever get it.

-H

By: ikkyu2

ikkyu2 — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:33:26 -0800

Nicwolff: you were so right, though. What the fuck *is* it about.

By: mischief

mischief — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:45:39 -0800

considering that the tags are games, amiga, flash, atari, C64

Can't read tags from the front page.

By: jenovus

jenovus — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:38:14 -0800

Can't comment from the front page either.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:46:50 -0800

Personally, I don't give a what the fuck, that it may, or may not, be what it is all about.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:17:04 -0800

Mr T: Oh. Now I get it.

By: grateful

grateful — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:30:54 -0800

What's all this? What's all this?
Step in time, step in time,
Step in time, step in time...

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:12:07 -0800

damn hippies