Comments on: So I had announced Last Comment Before Deletion on Projects....

So I had announced Last Comment Before Deletion on Projects....

poppo — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:34:43 -0800

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.

By: mischief

mischief — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:47:12 -0800

First comment before deletion...

By: mischief

mischief — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:49:18 -0800

I win.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:52:54 -0800

I'm posting right now just so I can be associated with this awesomeness.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:54:50 -0800

I expect that mathowie and I will win the bulk of these.

By: Armitage Shanks

Armitage Shanks — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:58:38 -0800

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

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:12:07 -0800

mod parent up

By: warbaby

warbaby — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:13:40 -0800

Is this thread still here?

By: Rothko

Rothko — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:17:49 -0800

Looks like it.

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:19:26 -0800

Fancy that.

By: 40 Watt

40 Watt — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:22:34 -0800

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.

By: Armitage Shanks

Armitage Shanks — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:24:37 -0800

Last comment before MeFi dies.

By: 40 Watt

40 Watt — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:25:26 -0800

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

But still, pretty stipud.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:27:02 -0800

This encourages noise in the community. That's not good for the site.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:27:55 -0800

Also, recall "first post" noise in Slashdot -- this is way too similar, and will have similar consequences.

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:30:18 -0800

In moments from being deleted posts?

By: JeffK

JeffK — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:33:11 -0800

Like I said.

By: menace303

menace303 — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:45:57 -0800

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.

By: Armitage Shanks

Armitage Shanks — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:46:25 -0800

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.

By: poppo

poppo — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:47:05 -0800

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.

By: ND¢

ND¢ — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:49:57 -0800

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.

By: poppo

poppo — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:01:29 -0800

Alright I just took it down, goodbye Last Comment Before Deletion. I will shop you to Milton Bradley, they will appreciate you!

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:09:34 -0800

Last comment!

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:12:00 -0800

Did anyone ever game-ize Slashdot first posts? Now there's a project...

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:12:49 -0800

my blog has a new post!

last comment!

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:35:29 -0800

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

"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WIN!"

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:50:14 -0800

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."

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:58:26 -0800

poppo!

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:06:02 -0800

No reason to cry, poppo!

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:01:40 -0800

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.

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:21:13 -0800

Metafilter: it was amberglow by a huge margin.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:46:09 -0800

it's because i'm always posting updates and new info as it comes out onto the ends of threads, i think

By: kindall

kindall — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:56:13 -0800

No way are you getting away with that here!

By: If I Had An Anus

If I Had An Anus — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:50:09 -0800

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.

By: Tenuki

Tenuki — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:06:07 -0800

"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."

By: If I Had An Anus

If I Had An Anus — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:08:30 -0800

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

By: clevershark

clevershark — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:31:40 -0800

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.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:48:14 -0800

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.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 20:55:24 -0800

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

It's a bad idea, self-evidently so. Magificently bad.

By: signal

signal — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:29:17 -0800

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.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:43:14 -0800

You ever heard of the choking game?

By: Mr T

Mr T — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 21:49:42 -0800

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.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:19:33 -0800

shorter Mr. T: i pity the fool!

; >

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 12:06:06 -0800

trying to formalize lcbd only ruins it.

By: dazed_one

dazed_one — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:01:22 -0800

Damn, delmoi's comment somehow made me lose the game.

By: iloveit

iloveit — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:16:30 -0800

Fuck you! I was winning the game for like a whole year now, and then you wreck it with your comment! DRAT!

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:29:13 -0800

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!

By: TwelveTwo

TwelveTwo — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 16:29:29 -0800

Agh! I lost the game.

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:50:56 -0800

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. ;-)

By: Jon Mitchell

Jon Mitchell — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:09:02 -0800

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...

By: shoepal

shoepal — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:10:01 -0800

languagehat, nice catch.

By: uncanny hengeman

uncanny hengeman — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:39:08 -0800

I currently have last post on the Obese and overweight people do not want to lose weight thread do not mess wit' me.

By: warbaby

warbaby — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:07:53 -0800

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.