sub.domain references to my user profile?

August 31, 2006 5:48 PM

What's the deal with these sub.domain references to my user profile? (more inside)
posted by strawberryviagra to MetaFilter-related at 5:48 PM (27 comments total)

http://sorry.metafilter.com/user/19696
http://batshitinsane.metafilter.com/user/19696
http://racist-dunk-tank-clown.metafilter.com/user/19696
http://australia.metafilter.com/user/19696
http://kgb.metafilter.com/user/19696
posted by strawberryviagra at 5:48 PM on August 31, 2006

http://butts-lol.metafilter.com/user/19696
posted by Optimus Chyme at 5:49 PM on August 31, 2006

So much for Matt's dream of a day without metatalk posts.
posted by dersins at 5:54 PM on August 31, 2006

The deal is you're a sorry, bat-shit insane racist dunk tank ozziecommieclown.
posted by riotgrrl69 at 6:04 PM on August 31, 2006

http://thanks-now-I-understand-If-there's-someone-I-don't like-I-can-just-append-some-nastiness-to-their-user-profile-that -then-shows-up-in-web-searches.metafilter.com/user/17767
posted by strawberryviagra at 6:08 PM on August 31, 2006

only if you link it.
posted by quonsar at 6:19 PM on August 31, 2006

Thread not closed yet? Good thing. Should a day occur without a post to metatalk, then I shall whine about something myself. I have one ready regarding posters not using tags for their FPP's, fucking wankers should use bloody tags. More than that, for it is the least of my powers, I have a fuck load of even more trivial complaints which can be deployed at a moments notice. Huzzah.
posted by econous at 6:20 PM on August 31, 2006

lol
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:25 PM on August 31, 2006

Firefox still doesn't blow me when I bring up mefi.

WTF Matt?
posted by bardic at 6:25 PM on August 31, 2006 [1 favorite]

A bloody WHAT up metafilter's com, crash?
posted by dersins at 6:35 PM on August 31, 2006

That little grey box in the upper right hand corner isn't just decoration.
posted by Espy Gillespie at 7:00 PM on August 31, 2006

I am so unworthy.... and I wished I'd never used my real name as my user profile. Fuck.
posted by strawberryviagra at 7:23 PM on August 31, 2006

delicious.frothy.fourormorehour.strawberrections
posted by If I Had An Anus at 7:48 PM on August 31, 2006

If you haven't figure it out yet, foobar.metafilter.com used to actually show all posts tagged with foobar, instead of just redirecting to the main page. This was disabled because matt said it made the server slow or something.

Thus, somewhere on the web at some point in time somebody linked to one of those tag-vanity pages, and on that page was a comment of yours (containing a link to your profile.) Thus the search engine spiders (and anyone who followed that link) would send those strange referers.
posted by Rhomboid at 7:50 PM on August 31, 2006

Yeah, but robots.txt should filter them all out eventually.

Also: YOU RUINED MY BEAUTIFUL DREAM.
posted by mathowie at 8:00 PM on August 31, 2006

http://ruiner-of-mathowies-beautiful-dream.metafilter.com/user/19696
posted by Keane at 9:33 PM on August 31, 2006

I was in a hurried need of humiliating myself - sorry 'bout that.
posted by strawberryviagra at 10:53 PM on August 31, 2006

If you haven't figure it out yet, foobar.metafilter.com used to actually show all posts tagged with foobar, instead of just redirecting to the main page.

Actually (and you may know this as well), but wildcard subdomains have worked since forever (since I've been here, anyway), and only briefly did anything useful other than just plain funnin' when they were tag destinations.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:31 AM on September 1, 2006

Stavros is right. The subdomains were to get around idiotic (and extremely narrow) company firewall rules that blocked metafilter.com and www.metafilter.com. And IIRC, the tag subdomains were removed because they broke that feature.
posted by Plutor at 3:47 AM on September 1, 2006

No, wait. It looks like it was not Matt's original intent to get around work firewalls. You learn something new every day.
posted by Plutor at 3:50 AM on September 1, 2006

tag subdomains were a really bad idea.
posted by delmoi at 7:21 AM on September 1, 2006

Yeah. Seems to me that the downside is greater than the upside. At least, were I the admin, I would judge it so. It's really not that big of a deal to wait the few days it takes for DNS propogation. The DNS system works amazingly well.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:22 AM on September 1, 2006

I also did wildcard DNS for typos. ww.metafilter and wwww.metafilter.com used to be some of my biggest 404s back when I obsessively tracked stats.
posted by mathowie at 9:10 AM on September 1, 2006

http://thanks-now-I-understand-If-there's-someone-I-don't like-I-can-just-append-some-nastiness-to-their-user-profile-that -then-shows-up-in-web-searches.metafilter.com/user/17767 - strawberryviagra

hey YOU are the one that put the tag "HugeSteamingChunkOfFecalMatter" on one of your posts and voluntarily appended THAT nastiness to your user profile. I think the subdomains you quoted at the top here are tame by comparison.
posted by raedyn at 9:48 AM on September 1, 2006

Yes - I'll be mindful of that in my next post.
posted by strawberryviagra at 4:23 PM on September 1, 2006

ah fuck - I suck at the interwebs.
posted by strawberryviagra at 4:23 PM on September 1, 2006

It's okay, sv.
posted by cortex at 4:53 PM on September 1, 2006