January 13, 2006

11:34 AM

So I had announced Last Comment Before Deletion on Projects. Then ND¢ had the bright idea of adding a section where wins could be recorded, which I added. However, it looks like I cannot go back and edit my Project, and even if I could, it would be way down at the bottom. Lucky for me, I am announcing it by way of this feature request, but please, think of future Projectees with the same problem. Love, poppo.
posted by poppo to feature requests at 11:34 AM (52 comments total)

First comment before deletion...
posted by mischief at 11:47 AM on January 13, 2006

I win.
posted by mischief at 11:49 AM on January 13, 2006

I'm posting right now just so I can be associated with this awesomeness.
posted by blue_beetle at 11:52 AM on January 13, 2006

I expect that mathowie and I will win the bulk of these.
posted by jessamyn at 11:54 AM on January 13, 2006

With any luck, this will have the same positive effect on Metafilter that First Post! did on Slashdot.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 11:58 AM on January 13, 2006

mod parent up
posted by cortex at 12:12 PM on January 13, 2006

Is this thread still here?
posted by warbaby at 12:13 PM on January 13, 2006

Looks like it.
posted by Rothko at 12:17 PM on January 13, 2006

Fancy that.
posted by Robot Johnny at 12:19 PM on January 13, 2006

With any luck, this will have the same positive effect on Metafilter that First Post! did on Slashdot.

God help us all. We're all witnesses to the day MeFi died.
posted by 40 Watt at 12:22 PM on January 13, 2006

Last comment before MeFi dies.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 12:24 PM on January 13, 2006

Well, OK... maybe it's not that bad.

But still, pretty stipud.
posted by 40 Watt at 12:25 PM on January 13, 2006

This encourages noise in the community. That's not good for the site.
posted by mathowie at 12:27 PM on January 13, 2006

Also, recall "first post" noise in Slashdot -- this is way too similar, and will have similar consequences.
posted by mathowie at 12:27 PM on January 13, 2006

In moments from being deleted posts?
posted by ND¢ at 12:30 PM on January 13, 2006

Like I said.
posted by JeffK at 12:33 PM on January 13, 2006

ND¢ : 'In moments from being deleted posts?'

Sometimes it's not cut and dry which posts are going to be deleted. So if the admins decide to let one stay, you have a whole bunch of noise right there in the middle. which is not hott.
posted by menace303 at 12:45 PM on January 13, 2006

In moments from being deleted posts?

Unless you're visiting from the future, yes.

You are advised for the sake of Metafilter to only start a game when you are positive the thread will be deleted.

Let's see how that will go...

This is a double. Last comment!

<pissing elephant> Last comment!

<shitting elephant> Last comment!

No, it's not. This is new.

<animated retard> Last comment!

<hasselhof recursion> Last comment!

It belongs in the other thread!

<one-eyed kitten> Last comment!

<goatse cupcakes> Last comment!

Repeat ad nauseum. I can hardly wait.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 12:46 PM on January 13, 2006

Yikes, I had no idea anyone even cared. Matt if you want me to take it down just say so. It was only for fun.
posted by poppo at 12:47 PM on January 13, 2006

Yeah, there is no need to play a game that people think may hurt the site. I promise to stop too if that is the consensus.
posted by ND¢ at 12:49 PM on January 13, 2006

Alright I just took it down, goodbye Last Comment Before Deletion. I will shop you to Milton Bradley, they will appreciate you!
posted by poppo at 1:01 PM on January 13, 2006

Last comment!
posted by brain_drain at 1:09 PM on January 13, 2006

Did anyone ever game-ize Slashdot first posts? Now there's a project...
posted by smackfu at 1:12 PM on January 13, 2006

my blog has a new post!

last comment!
posted by andrew cooke at 1:12 PM on January 13, 2006

I will shop you to Milton Bradley, they will appreciate you!

"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WIN!"
posted by rxrfrx at 1:35 PM on January 13, 2006

S'okay, poppo, your heart was in the right place. Just avoid games that are likely to have any material effect on the way people behave on the site.

Unless the game is called "Everybody be awesome and fascinating and nice to each other."
posted by cortex at 1:50 PM on January 13, 2006

poppo!
posted by languagehat at 1:58 PM on January 13, 2006

No reason to cry, poppo!
posted by brundlefly at 2:06 PM on January 13, 2006

At one point I tallied the most frequent thread-enders. Going all the way back to the beginning, dhartung was the winningest thread-ender, with mathowie and troutfishing pretty far behind, in a relatively close 2nd and 3rd.

However, over just the past two years, or so, it was amberglow by a huge margin.
posted by Wolfdog at 3:01 PM on January 13, 2006

Metafilter: it was amberglow by a huge margin.
posted by fire&wings at 5:21 PM on January 13, 2006

it's because i'm always posting updates and new info as it comes out onto the ends of threads, i think
posted by amberglow at 5:46 PM on January 13, 2006

No way are you getting away with that here!
posted by kindall at 5:56 PM on January 13, 2006

Sometimes it's not cut and dry which posts are going to be deleted.

Double posts where the original is just a couple threads below the double are pretty cut and dry.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 7:50 PM on January 13, 2006

"Double posts where the original is just a couple threads below the double are pretty cut and dry."

I suppose that's way he said "Sometimes."
posted by Tenuki at 8:06 PM on January 13, 2006

Well the implication in this thread is this game could not be played responsibly under any circumstances. I don't think that 's true.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 8:08 PM on January 13, 2006

instead of a race to the first post, an auction-like waiting to get the last post?

That doesn't sound like a very good idea.
posted by clevershark at 8:31 PM on January 13, 2006

Well the implication in this thread is this game could not be played responsibly under any circumstances. I don't think that 's true.

Not so! The implication is that the game won't be played responsibly. The problem with irresponsible people is that, by virtue of their irresponsibility, they aren't responsible enough to cut that shit out when they obviously should.

People can and do behave well under a variety of constraints. But when those contraints are ephemeral (consisting only of stoic self-will or respect for a social contract, for example), you will eventually see folks unwilling or unable to abide by those contraints. And then they start shitting all over a website, for example.

I would no more say that people can't play Last Comment responsibly under any circumstances than I would say people can't have healthy, long-term open relationships under any circumstances. But in either case there's a very good chance that someone is going to fuck things up pretty badly.
posted by cortex at 8:48 PM on January 13, 2006

I'm astonished that people are actually taking this seriously.

It's a bad idea, self-evidently so. Magificently bad.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:55 PM on January 13, 2006

Not only a bad idea, but a monumentally boring one, at that.
Worst idea I've seen this year. Of course it is only Jan 14th, so there's still hope.
posted by signal at 9:29 PM on January 13, 2006

You ever heard of the choking game?
posted by puke & cry at 9:43 PM on January 13, 2006

We all know Metafilter will not be the same. Some people will laugh, a few cry, most will be silent. I remember the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'I am Death, the Destroyer of Threads.' I suppose we all know what that means one way or another.
posted by Mr T at 9:49 PM on January 13, 2006

shorter Mr. T: i pity the fool!

; >
posted by amberglow at 9:19 AM on January 14, 2006

trying to formalize lcbd only ruins it.
posted by delmoi at 12:06 PM on January 14, 2006

Damn, delmoi's comment somehow made me lose the game.
posted by dazed_one at 1:01 PM on January 14, 2006

Fuck you! I was winning the game for like a whole year now, and then you wreck it with your comment! DRAT!
posted by iloveit at 4:16 PM on January 14, 2006

This is just a distraction from the real goal. The true goal is the posting of The Last Comment, the final comment for all of Metafilter. It is said, that whoever posts this ending comment gains all that has occured before it. They absorb the combined knowledge of the entire community. The best of the web becomes theirs to command. And no longer are they who they once were, for they become User 0, a god!
posted by TwelveTwo at 4:29 PM on January 14, 2006

Agh! I lost the game.
posted by TwelveTwo at 4:29 PM on January 14, 2006

I used to think last post was funny. Then it was all formal and it lost its appeal.

I'll be going back to FRIST PSOT!!!1!!1ONE!1ELEVEN! now. ;-)
posted by sveskemus at 6:50 PM on January 14, 2006

I keep seeing this. Surely, Losing The Game as a result of someone else mentioning The Game does not count as a loss? Does it? That would just be stupid...
posted by Jon Mitchell at 7:09 PM on January 14, 2006

languagehat, nice catch.
posted by shoepal at 7:10 PM on January 14, 2006

I currently have last post on the Obese and overweight people do not want to lose weight thread do not mess wit' me.
posted by uncanny hengeman at 9:39 PM on January 14, 2006

When somebody announces "I've just lost The Game" it starts a half-hour timeout. You do not lose the game just because somebody has lost it and has to announce it. Likewise, somebody saying "How are you doing at The Game?" does not make you lose the game. They lose, however.... heh.
posted by warbaby at 7:07 PM on January 16, 2006