Please give Robocop is Bleeding the $30 for today.

August 4, 2006 11:39 AM

Please give Robocop is Bleeding the $30 for today.
posted by cavalier to Etiquette/Policy at 11:39 AM (47 comments total)

Agreed.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:41 AM on August 4, 2006

Seriously. Great comment.
posted by Joey Michaels at 11:42 AM on August 4, 2006

Enh. Amusing, but not cashworthy. And I think the contest is for best post, not best comment. And today's best post is jonp72's post about propaganda comics.
posted by solid-one-love at 11:44 AM on August 4, 2006

That was great, I also really enjoyed this little gem of Robocop's a few weeks back.
posted by marxchivist at 11:51 AM on August 4, 2006

Oh come on. That piece of writing breaks "show, don't tell" like it's going out of fashion.
posted by reklaw at 11:52 AM on August 4, 2006

I dont' think this is the coolest comment contest.
posted by bob sarabia at 11:54 AM on August 4, 2006

That piece of writing breaks "show, don't tell" like it's going out of fashion.

That's because it is going out of fashion.
posted by ChasFile at 11:55 AM on August 4, 2006

Nonetheless, that's one of my favorite comments in the long & storied history of this site.

More importantly, Matt - who won yesterday?
posted by jonson at 11:55 AM on August 4, 2006

Please give Robocop is Bleeding the $30 for today.


Seconded. Thirded. Whatever.
posted by dersins at 11:55 AM on August 4, 2006

It was not a post. You people don't understand rules!!!
posted by weretable and the undead chairs at 11:56 AM on August 4, 2006

It was not a post. You people don't understand rules!!!


posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:00 PM on August 4, 2006

Tomorrow we can award the money to someone's profile. And the next day? cnn.com!
posted by cortex at 12:00 PM on August 4, 2006

More importantly, Matt - who won yesterday?

I didn't decide yet. The propaganda comics post today is definitely a front runner to win next though.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:02 PM on August 4, 2006

Wow--and the comment Marxchivist linked is even better. Thanks for pointing those out.
posted by LarryC at 12:05 PM on August 4, 2006

Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules??
posted by weretable and the undead chairs at 12:06 PM on August 4, 2006

Thanks for all the feedback on my comment, but yeah, the 30 bucks should go to the propaganda comics post.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 12:12 PM on August 4, 2006

I love this site.
posted by cavalier at 12:12 PM on August 4, 2006

More Robocop and others can be found here, and this one in particular is a real gem.
posted by Ryvar at 12:14 PM on August 4, 2006

Weretable...
posted by Joey Michaels at 12:17 PM on August 4, 2006 [1 favorite]

I have to say that since the $30 contest kicked off, we're bathing in awesome lately. I am used to seeing one or two interesting things a day in my travels online but it feels like there are 5-10 good things every day so far. I'm barely getting anything done aside from surfing these new sites.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:27 PM on August 4, 2006

Can you take payment in the form of 6 sockpuppet accounts?
posted by delmoi at 12:29 PM on August 4, 2006

Matt, just give us all $30 each, and we'll call it even.
posted by Plutor at 12:31 PM on August 4, 2006

A little cliche goes a long way around here.
posted by The Jesse Helms at 12:33 PM on August 4, 2006

Awesome. And - this for your "show don't tell" rule:

Freebird spits in a manner displaying contempt.
posted by freebird at 12:49 PM on August 4, 2006

I was going to say "Put it here", but someone already did, so I will just say "Weretable this is not 'nam this is the best post of the day competition. There are rules!!"
posted by ND¢ at 12:49 PM on August 4, 2006

Matt is giving away $30 for the best Post each of the first 30 days of August. This leaves August 31st out there all alone. So, let's have a Best Comment of the Day contest on August 31st. Heck, I'll put up the $30 if nobody else does, but then I'd get to judge it and nobody wants that. Of course, the winner won't be announced until at least September 15th, because it'll take that long to read all the entries.
posted by wendell at 12:50 PM on August 4, 2006

Freebird is understandably hurt because he's been doing the "short fiction" post for quite a while. It was his work that caught my attention first.
posted by sourwookie at 12:57 PM on August 4, 2006

Ok, so his comment doesn't qualify for the $30. But put me down for a sidebar vote!
posted by killy willy at 1:04 PM on August 4, 2006

That was a wonderful interpretation by robocop.

I've gleaned that "show don't tell" is just something seemingly legitimate to say in a fiction workshop when you weren't paying attention or didn't read the piece or have no commentary. I think reklaw might have been joking though, based on the italicized "on."
posted by Aghast. at 1:11 PM on August 4, 2006

Apropos of nothing: ALL CAPS HED
posted by mr_crash_davis at 1:16 PM on August 4, 2006

Freebird is understandably hurt

???

My contempt was for the "show don't tell" rule, I thought robocop's comment was awesome.
posted by freebird at 1:23 PM on August 4, 2006

On one hand the increased activity with $30 is a little bittersweet as it reinforces the 'everything for the money' gimmick of our society.

And on that same hand Metafilter has become so chock full of intense links that I'm unable to view them all on the same day.

And on the other hand, woot it's really awesome.
posted by cavalier at 1:30 PM on August 4, 2006

Ah, I understand.

I still consider you the source of this style of post though.
posted by sourwookie at 1:30 PM on August 4, 2006

For what it's worth, I think that the cipher post itself deserves consideration, especially considering it came back from the dead, like Jesus.

One vote for the jesusthread!
posted by [expletive deleted] at 1:43 PM on August 4, 2006

cavalier, I don't think it's about the money, it's about the being crowned best. If Matt & Jess just picked the best post of the day for inclusion on a "Best Post of the Day" page for the month of August, you'd see the same amount of work, I bet.
posted by jonson at 1:45 PM on August 4, 2006

great comment, but not a post
i dont want to see this best thing go to far or well just become kuroshin or whatever that place is
posted by caddis at 2:04 PM on August 4, 2006

jonson, I want to believe that, I really do. But um, I'd wager money you're wrong.

SEPTEMBER CONTEST!! FAME (or infamy) AND NO MONEY!! Who's with me??
posted by cavalier at 2:15 PM on August 4, 2006

I am going to have my own contest to see if I can make a post with enough links to make the "big post" haters explode into sparks like the Death Star.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs at 2:36 PM on August 4, 2006

If it helps, I'm only here for the chicks. You know who you are. <wink><wink>
posted by blue_beetle at 6:31 PM on August 4, 2006

I am going to have my own contest to see if I can make a post with enough links to make the "big post" haters explode into sparks like the Death Star.

Just keep your grubby hands off my "A-Z" of wikipedia idea. Or, if you want to help out, you can pick up from Aa Yakyuu Jinsei Icchokusen. The RSI is starting to get to me.
posted by UbuRoivas at 12:24 AM on August 5, 2006

Weretable is Jimmy Dale Gilmore? That explains a lot.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 2:00 AM on August 5, 2006

Thanks guys, Jimmy Dale Gilmore is a great find. I have some albums to search out.
posted by caddis at 6:39 AM on August 5, 2006

Show, don't tell? Sheesh. I get the feeling that Hugo's first draft of Les Miserables started with a simple, "The Bishop of Digne was a kind and generous man." (Except, you know, in French.) Which would have been just fine, except for his editor who marked that sentence (and many others throughout the short story) "show, don't tell." So now poor students have to suffer through 60+ pages showing them, through myriad examples, that the Bishop was a kind and generous man before they ever get to meet the actual protagonist.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 10:46 PM on August 7, 2006

Les Mes is a primitive novel. Were it written today, it could not be published. Using it as a counterexample to the tenet that, in fiction, the author should show rather than tell, is like deriding people who call for safer prescription drugs because ether and cod liver oil were good enough for the 1800s.
posted by solid-one-love at 3:52 PM on August 8, 2006

Progress marches onward, with every decade bringing improvement in novel writing just like in computing technology! Hooray!
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 7:40 PM on August 8, 2006

Don't be disingenuous, EB.

(Why do I bother? That'd be impossible for you.)
posted by solid-one-love at 9:36 PM on August 8, 2006

(Why do I bother? That'd be impossible for you.)

That was the cheapest rhetorical gambit I've seen since middle school, sir. If you can't say anything mean, don't say anything at all.
posted by cortex at 11:37 PM on August 8, 2006