I broke my FPP!

March 14, 2007 1:33 AM

So despite reading the MeFi Wiki and crunchland's profile, I managed to screw up my FPP ( this one ) and it now appears on the home page without a title. Would one of the admins be kind enough to correct the link title of the post? You may also suggest suitable means of atonement for this extremely n00b-ish screwup.
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek to MetaFilter-related at 1:33 AM (22 comments total)

Ack! I feel your pain - now it's simply a matter of waiting until someone wakes up. Cup of tea while we wait?
posted by Jofus at 2:03 AM on March 14, 2007

Jofus - actually I just finished my late evening chai :) .. I guess it's back to hitting F5 on MeFi and MeTa (wait, isn't that what I do anyway?)
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek at 2:18 AM on March 14, 2007

Methinks the newbie doth protest too much. You're actually a mathowie sockpuppet testing cortex's new powers, not a mildly obsessive average geek at all! Admit it, you fiend!
posted by cgc373 at 3:29 AM on March 14, 2007 [2 favorites]

All set.
posted by jessamyn at 3:31 AM on March 14, 2007

Jessamyn - thank you for fixing my goof-up so quickly!

Also I have taken notes on the changes you made and will remember next time I try to make an FPP

cgc373 - Oh noes, I have been discovered! You cannot be allowed to let the world know, prepare to be converted!
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek at 3:44 AM on March 14, 2007

The penalty for noobism is excoriation until flameout occurs. It's how we keep the MeFi brain-pool nice and stagnant, the way we like it.
posted by Eideteker at 4:07 AM on March 14, 2007

testing cortex's new powers

Considering Jess was the one that fixed it, I'd say the electrodes aren't calibrated to be strong enough on the new moderator, eh?
posted by Dave Faris at 4:59 AM on March 14, 2007

I'd say the electrodes aren't calibrated to be strong enough on the new moderator, eh?

Moderator shmoderator, he's off in someone's basement studio rehearsing a new tune about MetaFilter! ;-)
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:41 AM on March 14, 2007

Eideteker - I had to google excoriation.. obviously not knowing this cannnot be a good thing.
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek at 6:37 AM on March 14, 2007

I have a crippling addiction to sleep. Jess and her eastcoastery for the win. (Welcome home!)

your mildly obsessive average geek, for formatting issues that bear fixing but don't actually break a post or a thread, you're probably safe just tossing an email at some permutation of Matt and Jess and I explaining the issue so we know what to fix.

There's a long history of Metatalk threads calling out such minor issues, but there's nearly as long a history of people responding to such threads with "uh, couldn't you have handled this via email?" Minor format issues are usually not that big of a deal and don't generally require this kind of visibility, and ironically will probably net more excoriation than the original miniature fubar ever would, because we are insane people.

If the problem with your post or comment is obvious at first glance as well (e.g. a runaway tag), you can probably just flag it as "other" and leave it at that—one of us will see it and fix it.
posted by cortex at 6:53 AM on March 14, 2007

cortex, couldn't you have communicated that piece of advice to your mildly obsessive average geek via email, or just flagged his comment as "should have handled via email"?
posted by Kwine at 8:30 AM on March 14, 2007

Heh.

(Speaking of: you, over there, the guy who flagged a "free jazz" post as noise, and a comment that says "no offense" as offensive content, and a post about trainwrecks as derail: yes, yes. You're very clever. Now quit it.)
posted by cortex at 8:59 AM on March 14, 2007 [2 favorites]

Man, I wish that'd been me.
posted by Jofus at 9:09 AM on March 14, 2007

Me too.
posted by languagehat at 9:41 AM on March 14, 2007

Ok. I'll quit it.
posted by Dave Faris at 10:59 AM on March 14, 2007

eponymous?
posted by fishfucker at 12:59 PM on March 14, 2007

You may also suggest suitable means of atonement for this extremely n00b-ish screwup.

Yes. I'll see you stand tall before the man for this! 2 or 3 lashes with a wet mom joke.
posted by nola at 2:54 PM on March 14, 2007

Uh, couldn't you have handled this via email?

I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself.
posted by dg at 5:15 PM on March 14, 2007

cortex - my apologies. I guess I panicked a little when I realized I had screwed it up and posted in MeTa.

One request - if this is a common problem, might perhaps an addition to the FAQ or MeFi Wiki a good idea?

In any case, I will treat this thread as my trial by fire/indoctrination ritual into MeFi :)
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek at 10:40 PM on March 14, 2007

In any case, I will treat this thread as my trial by fire/indoctrination ritual into MeFi

This is not a trial by fire. Not by a long shot.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 1:00 AM on March 15, 2007

Dammit why do I keep swallowing my verbs ^>_<sup>< /sup>

flapjax at midnite: I hope never to make comments/FPPs that bring down the full wrath of the hive mind.. I've been lurking on MeFi for a while now and I *think* I know what it looks like (shudder)</sup>
posted by your mildly obsessive average geek at 2:26 AM on March 15, 2007

With that kind of respect and knowledge of this place I'll bet you won't ymoag. :) Most people seem to bring down the wrath when they stubble around not giving a damn about the site they post to.
posted by nola at 2:10 PM on March 15, 2007