Good riddance to bad images

October 24, 2006 6:21 PM

Do you miss the img tag? I sure as hell don't. Can I get an amen?
posted by signal to etiquette/policy at 6:21 PM (88 comments total)

Agreed.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:26 PM on October 24, 2006

Amen.
posted by GrammarMoses at 6:28 PM on October 24, 2006


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posted by Civil_Disobedient at 6:28 PM on October 24, 2006 [6 favorites]

I miss it, but I don't indulge in intellectual pretension on the Internet.
posted by keswick at 6:28 PM on October 24, 2006

Amen! I feel the holy spirit of better threads!
posted by Mayor Curley at 6:28 PM on October 24, 2006

If we outlaw images, only outlaws will have images.
posted by Kwine at 6:29 PM on October 24, 2006

<img src="awnotthisshitagain.jpg" />
posted by clevershark at 6:30 PM on October 24, 2006

It just doesn't have the same poignancy somehow.
posted by clevershark at 6:31 PM on October 24, 2006

That's a pretty kickass ASCII image.
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 6:33 PM on October 24, 2006

Awesome, clevershark.

<img src="ifoundyourFPPtobelessthansatisfactory.jpg" />
posted by Kwine at 6:41 PM on October 24, 2006

I'm going to miss the epic blowouts. Nothing made my day faster than a thread dissolving into gifs of exploding clowns and whatnot.
posted by lekvar at 6:43 PM on October 24, 2006

sorry, signal, I do miss it. The most spontaneous bursts of laughter I've experienced have been prompted by squirrels playing harmonicas while dancing and the like. Not precisely a homo superior kinda humor, I know, but still good laughs.
posted by micayetoca at 6:43 PM on October 24, 2006

Since I rarely use it myself, I don't miss it acutely. But I will be sad if it never returns, nor the randy pangolins...
posted by owhydididoit at 6:45 PM on October 24, 2006

And, perhaps I should state that I haven't yet used it...how could I compete with a imgTitan like bobsarabia?
posted by micayetoca at 6:48 PM on October 24, 2006

If it hadn't been for the IMG tag I just wouldn't know how elephants urinate, nor would I be cognisant of the occasional presence of cats in ceilings.
posted by clevershark at 6:49 PM on October 24, 2006

Well, in your case occasional.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:54 PM on October 24, 2006

It really worries me. Now I have to wade through 4chan and Something Awful to get my funny gifs. Metafilter used to be something of a...err... filter for my gif needs, and now it's gone. It was like Christmas to find a thread full of gifs, some of them MeFi exclusives. A treasure trove of internet memes.

And what of self-linkers in front page posts (FPPs)? Snark is all that's left as a community based reprimand. The existence of the img tag has made ya'll complacent in snarking skillz. I hoped to be able to lurk without worry. "Oh, if someone self-links they'll get gifed and thus feel the full wrath of the community." Now I'll feel compelled to participate in self-linked threads and be a snarker myself! And I'm just a five dollar n00b!

So what now? Any ole Joe Internet Viral Marketing Company can pay their 5 dollars, self-link in a FPP and then be banned by Matt. But how will it be now that they cannot be scolded by pissing/shitting elephants and/or ceiling cat and other gifs that probably go over their heads anyways? Now anyone can self-link and all that is left is snark.

I don't know... I don't know if the old timers are up to high level snark anymore. I don't know if the middle timers even care. And certainly us n00bs haven't had enough study in the art as to be effective. But perhaps there will be a rennaisance. Perhaps the insult of the written word will make a comeback. Perhaps I can go back to lurking until it's 2008 and I feel that I can write comments without feeling like a brash youngerster on a weblog of giants. Heros and giants.

img... I... I miss you...
posted by Mister Cheese at 6:55 PM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]

.
posted by jonmc at 7:01 PM on October 24, 2006

AMEN.

Amazing how the sky hasn't fallen, ain't it.
posted by cribcage at 7:02 PM on October 24, 2006

I ♥ IMG
posted by grouse at 7:05 PM on October 24, 2006

I'm all for images, even though I spent my formative internet years (~91-~96) making tons of ascii art. I do wish they weren't restricted, but I understand and accept the reasons.

That being said, 8//=/\-, you ;-)
posted by Kickstart70 at 7:08 PM on October 24, 2006

I absolutely miss it. It was definitely abused at times, but so is alchohol and we saw what happened when we tried to ban that.
posted by spicynuts at 7:09 PM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]

Right now you're so not seeing that picture of a Cleveland steamer that I wanted to post.
You can see it here though.
posted by clevershark at 7:19 PM on October 24, 2006

I think banning tag was a travesty. Why can't the nanny state just let the children play?

Your it!
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 7:23 PM on October 24, 2006

No - I didn't mean "you're!"
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 7:24 PM on October 24, 2006

You know, for somebody with more energy than me, it'd be easy-as-piss to whip up a greasemonkey thingy/FF extension that would take linked images and rewrite them as inline thumbnails or full size inline images, and then those who really really really want to have inline images could. Barring a return of the img tag.

And as long as they used Firefox, I guess.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:24 PM on October 24, 2006

First they came for the img tags...
posted by mullingitover at 7:25 PM on October 24, 2006

As the unyoked ox is left confused upon being relieved of his burden and the mule despondent when denied the whip, so have I become, now that ceiling cat is no longer here to watch me masturbate.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:34 PM on October 24, 2006

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posted by darukaru at 7:35 PM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]

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posted by aubilenon at 7:38 PM on October 24, 2006

And for frick's sakes, I am goddam sick of that Niemoller quote, I've seen it at least 10 'wacky' variations of it this weekend alone.

And yeah, "First they came for the Niemoller quotes..." LMAOLEFUCKYOULOL


See how I get without ceiling cat here to give me the go-ahead?!?
You see?!?
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:39 PM on October 24, 2006

So, the lesson here is not that people love images per se, it's just that they love a crapflood?

That's pretty much what I figured.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:44 PM on October 24, 2006

Oh, whatever shall we do when a thread derails and cries out for a torrent of mindless drivel in the form of animated squirrel pictures playing the harmonica? Must we resort to mere words to express our heartfelt emotions and intellectual prowess?! It's positively BARBARIC!!
posted by crunchland at 7:47 PM on October 24, 2006

An animated squirrel?
Playing the harmonica?

This I gotta see!!!
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 7:49 PM on October 24, 2006

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posted by zsazsa at 7:51 PM on October 24, 2006

I hope it comes back soon. It gets abused sometimes, but I think people have made me laugh with great images far more often than they have churned my stomach with awful ones. In the big all image fests there are lots of boring images which make it hard to load the thread, but those are few and far between. All things in moderation, and I think the moderation on this to this point has been especially good. Matt has a good handle on that balance between the fun and serious aspects of the site which make it so compelling.
posted by caddis at 8:01 PM on October 24, 2006

Thanks zsazsa. This thread would have been useless without pigs.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:02 PM on October 24, 2006 [3 favorites]

I set my alarm for 6:45. That's 15 minutes earlier than usual.
posted by thirteenkiller at 8:06 PM on October 24, 2006

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posted by zsazsa at 8:10 PM on October 24, 2006 [10 favorites]

I haven't been able to miss people carping about img tags, pro -or- con it certainly takes a lot of brain time to write on endlessly about it.
posted by edgeways at 8:12 PM on October 24, 2006

FREE THE IMG TAG!
posted by graventy at 8:14 PM on October 24, 2006

That pissing elephant meant something, man!
posted by clevershark at 8:15 PM on October 24, 2006

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posted by jessamyn at 8:16 PM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]

I demand an ASCII image of an elephant shitting. I demand it now!
posted by Effigy2000 at 8:18 PM on October 24, 2006

I miss them. I never use them. But I love what other people post. (In the limited amount of threads where they are actually used).
posted by visual mechanic at 8:22 PM on October 24, 2006

An animated squirrel?
Playing the harmonica?

This I gotta see!!!

But don't you get it? By focusing on .gifs and .jpegs you're missing out on all the real squirrels playing harmonicas! Can't you see what the images have done to us?!?
posted by Stauf at 8:30 PM on October 24, 2006

I strongly suspect we're going to need to investigate the serious potential of security breeches caused by the use of ascii. So keep it up, Jessamyn...
posted by crunchland at 8:32 PM on October 24, 2006

whatever
posted by Divine_Wino at 8:35 PM on October 24, 2006

Captain Killjoy's right, I'm sick of those damn ascii perversions of typography, too!

Sorry zsazsa, it's just not the same...
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:36 PM on October 24, 2006

I miss the IMG tag summit fierce. Maybe we could bring it back for MeTa?
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posted by knave at 8:37 PM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]

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posted by aubilenon at 8:37 PM on October 24, 2006

Damn, where'd all those extra newlines come from...
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posted by Rhomboid at 8:44 PM on October 24, 2006

BRING BACK THE ANSI TAG
posted by fishfucker at 8:44 PM on October 24, 2006

Oh, hey! Matt, could you please fix <pre> so it turns off the \n <br> translation?

Without the <img> tag it's more important than ever before!!! (that is, now I've noticed it, whereas before I did not)
posted by aubilenon at 8:46 PM on October 24, 2006

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posted by Rhomboid at 8:49 PM on October 24, 2006

This town needs an

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posted by furtive at 8:53 PM on October 24, 2006

INVISIBLE SANDWICH
posted by boo_radley at 8:53 PM on October 24, 2006

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posted by Rhomboid at 8:53 PM on October 24, 2006 [3 favorites]

Also, cram it with walnuts, signal.
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posted by Rhomboid at 8:55 PM on October 24, 2006

Never implement a technical solution for a social problem.
posted by grouse at 9:00 PM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]

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posted by Rhomboid at 9:03 PM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]

grouse: I thought that's what the internet was
posted by aubilenon at 9:04 PM on October 24, 2006

It's like it's 1988 all over again... only faster, and more ajaxy
posted by edgeways at 9:05 PM on October 24, 2006

to anybody who doesn't miss the image tag with all their heart:

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posted by StrasbourgSecaucus at 9:05 PM on October 24, 2006

For the creative, the IMG tag lives on
check my profile for details
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posted by Rhomboid at 9:09 PM on October 24, 2006

Dude, 1998 ruled. That's the year I had a girlfriend!
posted by aubilenon at 9:12 PM on October 24, 2006

[dot]
posted by cortex at 9:13 PM on October 24, 2006

    ..    : :.    :_ :._,    { \ //    {\ v/    \ `- :.    |\  )):..    |_`__,(#).

It's amazingly difficult to do tubgirl in ascii.
posted by Kickstart70 at 9:15 PM on October 24, 2006

That is a weak ass middle finger. This is how it's done.

                          _____
                         /     \
                        ||     ||
                        |\____/ |
                        |       |
                        |       |
                        | ===== |
                        | ----- |      _...._
                        |       |   _.'      \
                        |       |.-'          \
                        |       |\             \
                        |       | `-----.,      \
                  _.-._ |  ---- |/-----\|        \
          _.-._  / --- \| ===== | ===== |         \
         / --- \| ===== |       |       |         |
        | ===== |       |       |       |         )
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        |       |       |       |       |       /
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        |       |       |       ^            /
        |       |       ^                   /
        |       ^                          /
        |  . .                     . .    /
        | :   :    . .     .  .   :   :  /
        `.____.'`.:   :.. :    :'._____.'
                  `---'  `-----'

posted by Rhomboid at 9:17 PM on October 24, 2006

I miss the img tag.
posted by perissodactyl at 9:20 PM on October 24, 2006

           OMG BUNNY

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                    \  ;-.'
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    \/  .__    ;    \   `-.
     ;     "-,/_..--"`-..__)
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posted by Rhomboid at 9:25 PM on October 24, 2006 [1 favorite]

Support! Freedom!

Support! !
posted by oxford blue at 9:26 PM on October 24, 2006

These tubes are tricky beasts.
posted by oxford blue at 9:26 PM on October 24, 2006

mock, I fixed your profile. Please email me when you find shit like that.
posted by mathowie at 9:36 PM on October 24, 2006

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posted by If I Had An Anus at 9:46 PM on October 24, 2006

POLL TIME:

[x] I MISS <IMG>
[  ] I AM A SOULLESS HEARTLESS BASTARD
posted by StrasbourgSecaucus at 9:57 PM on October 24, 2006

Do you like me?

[ ] YES

[] no
posted by cortex at 9:57 PM on October 24, 2006

Never implement a technical solution for a social problem.

to be fair, this is a technical problem.
posted by StrasbourgSecaucus at 9:58 PM on October 24, 2006

➧ Do you like Unicode?

☑ Yes
☐ No

➧ Do you prefer ✗?

☒ Yes
☐ No
posted by Rhomboid at 10:04 PM on October 24, 2006

<img src="whatdoesthedotmean.jpg">
posted by solotoro at 10:08 PM on October 24, 2006

I think this thread has run its useful course.
posted by mathowie at 10:19 PM on October 24, 2006