Comments on: Why are some goofy threads deleted, and not others?

Why are some goofy threads deleted, and not others?

hoborg — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:50:56 -0800

Just out of curiosity, how is it that some posts get deleted because the thread is full of the same animated gifs we always see, and some posts continue to live way past their prime? Is it the presence of ceiling cat?
I understand some of these are left in for humor value; such was the case with the infamous Mushroom post. But when the only thing that's different is the original post, and there are no actual responses anyhow, what's the criteria?

By: hoborg

hoborg — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:53:07 -0800

This is ironic: I actually put this post into "Metafilter>Etiquette" but, as you can see, it arrived in "bugs". So the post itself is a bug. Hm.

By: hoborg

hoborg — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:55:56 -0800

[sigh] Ok, cancel that. I just checked my history. In the absence of a MetaTalk preview that allows you to actually make changes, I just copied and pasted what I had written, went back a screen and then reposted, not checking that the dropdown went to its default. Perhaps it could be "Feature Requests" instead. So much for my first MeTa post - don't worry, though, I'm used to talking to myself.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:00:19 -0800

Ho Borg nsfw

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:06:00 -0800

By: RakDaddy

RakDaddy — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:13:07 -0800

Sweet! Twice the animated gif posts for the price of nothing!

*heads off to LJ gif-scraping site for a heaping plateful of Awesome*

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:16:14 -0800

[animated gif]

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:20:20 -0800

Just out of curiosity, how is it that some posts get deleted because the thread is full of the same animated gifs we always see, and some posts continue to live way past their prime?

It's mostly my whims. You knew that, didn't you? Did you just want to hear it spelled out?

The ceiling cat thing was kind of ham-fisted. It was like screaming to everyone "bring me your animated gifs here and it will be funny ha ha". A flismy premise to link to the site which wasn't very funny or original.

The animated gif-off today seemed to build from the poster using the blinking dot, and grew from there organically, without feeling forced. The post is about some public internet scratchboard first and foremost, the gifs are accidental fun. It was fun for the sake of fun. Ceiling cat felt fake in comparison.

But mostly, stupid shit lives on based on my whims. What other answer is there?

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:24:17 -0800

Awesome

By: antifreez_

antifreez_ — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:29:32 -0800

THANK YOU, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!

By: loquacious

loquacious — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:30:25 -0800

MetaFilter: Stupid shit lives on based on my whims.

Man, the ceiling cat thread was awesome. It was no 9622 or 9622v2, but still.

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:32:13 -0800

whims are great. I love MetaFilter. I love whims.

YAY WHIMS!

what

By: hoborg

hoborg — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:39:49 -0800

I did know that. I remember reading somewhere that the mushroom thread lived because you "thought it was funny". Still, "whims" are as good a reason as any.

By: caddis

caddis — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:45:02 -0800

Some people just like to have fun. Keep some of that more animated fun in the fun rooms and everybody is happy.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:47:32 -0800

At least three or four times in the past week, I've thought to make a MetaTalk post asking for the suspension of photos or gifs in threads. I find that, more and more often, they completely turn a thread to shit.

Then, I decided I'd sound like a twat.

Still, I wouldn't lament the loss of pictures and gifs in ALL MetaFilter threads. Feel free to post a bunch of wacky flashing pictures to prove me wrong.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:48:23 -0800

Also: off the lawn.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:24:14 -0800

That thread was fun and cute and everything.

But that dickwad that included the animated GIF in the main part of the post deserves a hard punch in the cock, as there was absolutely no reason whatsoever that the post needed an animated GIF, other than "oooh look at my flair!!"

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:49:46 -0800

But Rhomboid, just just think how that gif will brighten up the next obituaryfilter thread!

By: hoborg

hoborg — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:58:27 -0800

Then, I decided I'd sound like a twat.

Well, I agree with you, and as I've already sounded like a twat, I might as well make it official: if there's a valid reason for an image, why not make it a link?

Also: loud rap music bothers me.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:16:20 -0800

Goddam that Sketchzilla thread.

Twice I've opened it along with six other tabs (Just my way of reading MeFi), and FF instantly gobbles up 100+ megs of memory while it loads, at least until the whole bloody thing freezes up.

My computer's five years old, dammit!
Its memory ain't what it used to be!

By: jonson

jonson — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:41:06 -0800

what rap music isn't loud? goddamn kids today!

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 22:53:44 -0800

I think it's really funny to say that that thread was mostly about the sketchzilla site, since there are almost no comments in the thread about the sketchzilla site.

By: b1tr0t

b1tr0t — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:11:18 -0800

But mostly, stupid shit lives on based on my whims. What other answer is there?

I hope some future translator manages to squeeze that in to the Next Major Bible Translation. Maybe in Genesis, between the two creation stories.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:33:13 -0800

ceiling cat sucks.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:40:43 -0800

* sucks.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:41:21 -0800

Not that I disagree much, mind you.

By: antifuse

antifuse — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:59:20 -0800

Dammit eyeballkid, that's the second time I've unwittingly viewed the chickenfucking image at work. Stop it!

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:26:44 -0800

Metafilter: I've unwittingly viewed the chickenfucking image

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:25:11 -0800

I love that sketchzilla thread with an unholy passion. But I don't dare open it again; just now I had to go read a book while it finished loading, and I was afraid I was going to have to shut down Firefox. But such is the price of greatness! (For one thing, it taught me all about Scientology, and for another, I discovered this [backstory].)

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:08:48 -0800

LH: You didn't know about the story of Scientology before (Xenu, thetans, nuclear bombs in volcanos, etc.)? I find that surprising.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:26:48 -0800

I knew the basic basics (Xenu, thetans), but no, I didn't know all those details. Hubbard wrote some decent sf, by the way, before he saw those dollar bills gleaming in the distance and went for them.

By: absalom

absalom — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:29:41 -0800

starvos: only 2600 hits? I'm disappointed.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:31:27 -0800

starvos: only 2600 hits? I'm disappointed.

I do not understand this comment.

By: absalom

absalom — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:36:36 -0800

Your "* sucks" google search only returned 2600 hits. That seems way lower than I would have imagined.

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:41:37 -0800

Ah, ok. I thought you meant you didn't know any of the Xenu stuff. Never mind.