More tips & hints on a good post

December 6, 2007 1:55 PM

Since I can't be an example to others, at least I can serve as a stark warning...

I thought I'd call myself out on this post. So kids, in the future, make sure all the links you provide can be accessed by everyone. That is all.

posted by ObscureReferenceMan to Etiquette/Policy at 1:55 PM (100 comments total)

eponysterical?
posted by empath at 2:06 PM on December 6, 2007

And of course you're not posting to metatalk in order to draw attention to your own deleted post, right? 'Cause my hint and tip is that such an action might be contrued as poor form.
posted by dersins at 2:08 PM on December 6, 2007

Honestly, hadn't thought of that. Just like it didn't occur to me that non-members couldn't access JREF forum threads. I can be a bit of a dolt at times. But, hey... live and learn.
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 2:17 PM on December 6, 2007

We all like immediate access to the goods.
posted by inconsequentialist at 2:17 PM on December 6, 2007

Lay off the guy, he made a mistake and he's owning up to it. No need for pitchforks.
posted by ikkyu2 at 2:18 PM on December 6, 2007

I was going to say add this advice to the wiki but it's already mentioned there.
posted by Rhomboid at 2:22 PM on December 6, 2007

But Pitchy is itchin' for a forkin'! Why won't you let Pitchy fork???

*grumbles as he puts away pitchfork.*
posted by Effigy2000 at 2:23 PM on December 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

It's a good thing to keep in mind. We've had problems with posts before, across a range of similar hiccups: subscriber-only forums, regionally gated sites, awesome but not-open resources like JSTOR et al, registration-required news sites, and so on.

As a safeguard, checking all your links from a computer you don't personally use (or maybe even just from an alternate browser on your own system—I keep Opera around for this sort of thing) can often show you where content that you personally can access isn't available to Jane Mefite.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:23 PM on December 6, 2007

That shit is stark!
posted by Mister_A at 2:29 PM on December 6, 2007

It was a stark and warning night ...
posted by jefbla at 2:39 PM on December 6, 2007

If you use Firefox, there is an extension called IE Tabs. You can use that to view the current tab in IE, which is useless if you want to see whether the link works if you're not logged in.
posted by smackfu at 2:49 PM on December 6, 2007

Useful?
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:54 PM on December 6, 2007

I did that once, I think, and quickly added a comment with login info. It's not hard to do when your browser automatically logs you in every time. In fact. I've gone to sites on other computers and was shocked when I was asked to log in. When did they start that? Oh... never mind.

So, yeah, thanks for the reminder. Now you're banned. Have a nice life.
posted by The Deej at 2:55 PM on December 6, 2007

This wouldn't be worth a callout if you weren't calling yourself out. It's not a big deal, friend. Don't sweat it.
posted by koeselitz at 3:03 PM on December 6, 2007

No pitchforks, hrm. Can I bring my spork?
posted by grapefruitmoon at 3:13 PM on December 6, 2007

I would have tasered you.
posted by CautionToTheWind at 3:21 PM on December 6, 2007

Perhaps your grapefruit spoon.
posted by jamaro at 3:21 PM on December 6, 2007

Not the grapefruit spoon! Ahhh, anything but that! I tremble in fear that it will destroy my pulpy goodness!

Hrm. If I ever need a sock puppet, it's totally going to be grapefruitspoon.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 3:26 PM on December 6, 2007

Useful?

Uh yeah. I constantly amaze myself at my ability to type words that are almost correct (and spelled correctly). I think my brain is a little short-circuited. (Also, I typed "braine" in that sentence.)
posted by smackfu at 3:26 PM on December 6, 2007

Uh yeah.

Yeah, I just wasn't positive it was the likely typo because what if your point was that the IE Tabs trick (which is brilliant) somehow failed utterly despite what you'd expect, etc.

Not the grapefruit spoon!

Tell me, do you sing? Because I've never heard a grapefruit croon.
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:28 PM on December 6, 2007

If it did, that'd be a grapefruit tune.
posted by pineapple at 3:33 PM on December 6, 2007

If she grants your wish, it is a grapefruit boon.
posted by never used baby shoes at 3:34 PM on December 6, 2007

I do sing! And my favorite bird is the rare grapefruit loon.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 3:36 PM on December 6, 2007

Now members will start doing the grapefruit swoon.
posted by never used baby shoes at 3:38 PM on December 6, 2007

I don't think these jokes are going to stop any time grapefruitsoon.
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:43 PM on December 6, 2007

That's because we have a bunch of grapefruit goons.
posted by slogger at 3:45 PM on December 6, 2007

Maybe tomorrow by grapefruitnoon
posted by sotalia at 3:46 PM on December 6, 2007

Probably not until grapefruit June...
posted by grapefruitmoon at 3:46 PM on December 6, 2007

How many jokes are from the grapefruit hewn?
posted by never used baby shoes at 3:47 PM on December 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

If quonsar were here, he might say something about grapefruit FOON.

But he's not.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 3:56 PM on December 6, 2007

The Spice Girls must flow on the grapefruit Dune!!!
posted by wendell at 3:58 PM on December 6, 2007

Lay off the guy, he made a mistake and he's owning up to it. No need for pitchforks.

A need only for pancakes, yes, for panckaes.
posted by ericb at 4:11 PM on December 6, 2007

Why don't we call shovels pitchspoons?
posted by Pants! at 4:12 PM on December 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

A Google search on my typo -- panckaes -- yields 871 results.
posted by ericb at 4:12 PM on December 6, 2007

If the spoon seems too blunt, try a grapefruit harpoon.
posted by pseudostrabismus at 4:22 PM on December 6, 2007

But those have been outlawed in grapefruit Cameroon
posted by sotalia at 4:29 PM on December 6, 2007

I put the seeds in my grapefruit spittoon.
posted by sourwookie at 4:46 PM on December 6, 2007

My secret society identifies ourselves with grapefruit runes.
posted by quin at 4:50 PM on December 6, 2007

I'd enumerate various details about the lineage of certain melons, but that would be too grapefruit jejune.
posted by koeselitz at 4:54 PM on December 6, 2007

I am in awe of you all, you grapefruit buffoons.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 5:06 PM on December 6, 2007

I'd write something ridiculing you all but that would be a grapefruit lampoon.
posted by tellurian at 5:10 PM on December 6, 2007

I met a bluesman named Grapefruit Calhoun
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 5:18 PM on December 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

(Also, I typed "braine" in that sentence.)

Q. What do zombie cosmologists desire?
A. Braaaaaanes!
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 5:32 PM on December 6, 2007

Grapefruit is a noun...



D'oh!
posted by iamkimiam at 5:35 PM on December 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

you'll get squirted in the eye when you read a grapefruit cartoon.

squirt in the past tense sounds so wrong
posted by Pants! at 5:40 PM on December 6, 2007

In my attic, there's a grapefruit raccoon.
posted by jefbla at 5:44 PM on December 6, 2007

I like a grapefruit pantaloon.
posted by sotalia at 6:02 PM on December 6, 2007

Flagged as "Other"
posted by delmoi at 6:34 PM on December 6, 2007

The amount of jokes in here has turned into a grapefruit typhoon.
posted by never used baby shoes at 7:37 PM on December 6, 2007

Stop this rhyming now, I mean it.
posted by whir at 7:46 PM on December 6, 2007

Stop this rhyming now, I mean it.
posted by whir

Sure.
posted by iamkimiam at 8:03 PM on December 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

Wait, what? I can't see anything, it's all a blur!
posted by quin at 8:27 PM on December 6, 2007

Stop this rhyming now, I mean it.

Anybody want a peanut?
posted by miss lynnster at 8:29 PM on December 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

Wish you were her.
posted by iamkimiam at 8:42 PM on December 6, 2007

Arrhhh, make it a pirate (a dread pirate?) joke, and I'll pay with a grapefruit doubloon.
posted by birdsquared at 10:51 PM on December 6, 2007

the sort of pirate that travels by grapefruit pontoon?
posted by heeeraldo at 11:50 PM on December 6, 2007

whir's just not sure we're not all baboons
posted by finite at 1:19 AM on December 7, 2007

If anyone needs me, I'll be reclining in my grapefruit saloon.
posted by aihal at 1:31 AM on December 7, 2007

¿Tienes pomelo Cancún?
posted by finite at 3:50 AM on December 7, 2007

I sure do love me some grapefruit poon.
posted by LordSludge at 7:13 AM on December 7, 2007

All of these jokes about me, I'm starting to feel like a grapefruit baboon!
posted by grapefruitmoon at 7:45 AM on December 7, 2007

Don't feel bad. To cheer you up, have a grapefruit balloon.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 7:52 AM on December 7, 2007

Wish you were her.

Weather is here, wish you were beautiful.
posted by inigo2 at 7:58 AM on December 7, 2007

Time for a cheeseburger in paradise.
posted by never used baby shoes at 8:49 AM on December 7, 2007

I'm moving to the desert to start a grapefruit commune.
posted by flod logic at 9:37 AM on December 7, 2007

Ha! Enjoy your no healthcare, no electricity, mind-numbing grapefruit chew'n.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:44 AM on December 7, 2007

The desert floor will be grapefruit seed strewn.
posted by never used baby shoes at 9:52 AM on December 7, 2007

Oh maiden, wear thy grapefruit shoon!
posted by languagehat at 10:49 AM on December 7, 2007 [1 favorite]

You could say this thread has gone obliquely citrus, or grapefruit skewn.

Or not.

and yes, languagehat, I know the proper form is 'skewed', but I thought at least this was less cringeworthy than using "skewin(g)"
posted by wendell at 11:26 AM on December 7, 2007

Just all foragin' in the desert for food, like some arid, modern-day Daniel "Grapefruit" Boone.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:30 AM on December 7, 2007

Pamplemousse!
posted by deborah at 11:33 AM on December 7, 2007

Pamplemousse!
That's the name of my cat!
posted by Divine_Wino at 11:34 AM on December 7, 2007

Better in the desert than in the capital of Saskatchewan. That town sure is a horrible place to find grapefruit, Saskatoon.
posted by koeselitz at 11:38 AM on December 7, 2007

I have an outfit made entirely out of crepe, and I plan to be wearing my crepe suit soon.
...and wendell raises the stakes!!!
posted by wendell at 11:53 AM on December 7, 2007

I am pleased to announce I have cornered the market and am now a grapefruit tycoon.
posted by never used baby shoes at 11:56 AM on December 7, 2007

JESUS FUCK STOP YOU FUCKERS
posted by dersins at 12:01 PM on December 7, 2007

oon.
posted by dersins at 12:01 PM on December 7, 2007

Looks like today is another lazy grapefruit afternoon.
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 12:06 PM on December 7, 2007

Your pleas have no effect. We are grapefruit immune.

Someone please stop me before I post again! I can't stop myself, even if it is picayune.
posted by never used baby shoes at 12:11 PM on December 7, 2007

Relax, dersins. Here, have a grapefruit macaroon.
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 12:12 PM on December 7, 2007

It's me, Lord Sludge. I got no grudge, ain't gonna judge, wink and a nudge, might eat some fudge. And sittin' by my side is my main lady, my Marsha Brady, you can't imitatey, my ace boon coon, my brand new tune, my Vi-dal Sas-soon, my Looney Toon, my Daniel Boone, my ancient room, my big bal-loon, my wrinkled prune, my gold doubloon, my cat in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little Boy blue and the Man in the MIS-SOON -- it's Grapefruit Moon!

Yo, G! Tell 'em how you feel!

Um, this might help.
posted by LordSludge at 1:03 PM on December 7, 2007 [1 favorite]

Listenin' to LordSludge at the grapefruit lagoon! Can he play the bassoon?
posted by never used baby shoes at 1:09 PM on December 7, 2007

LordSludge ain't no bassoon-playing grapefruit poltroon.
posted by ooga_booga at 1:16 PM on December 7, 2007

LordSludge, I never meant to grapefruit impugn.
posted by never used baby shoes at 1:18 PM on December 7, 2007

I'm joining the Grapefruit Platoon!
posted by languagehat at 1:39 PM on December 7, 2007

You will be deployed in Rangoon. Just watch out for the grapefruit monsoon.
posted by never used baby shoes at 1:54 PM on December 7, 2007

Hrm. If I ever need a sock puppet, it's totally going to be grapefruitspoon.

You realize you've just about guaranteed someone else is going to grab it before you, now?
posted by Karmakaze at 1:57 PM on December 7, 2007

I can't take it any more - I'm off to curl up in my grapefruit cocoon.

I once shot a man in Reno 'cause they cancelled Firefly...
posted by aihal at 2:45 PM on December 7, 2007

Drugs affected by grapefruit include Rapamune and Sandimmune
could this explain the booming (blooming?) popularity of Grapefruit Brown Zune?
posted by finite at 3:11 PM on December 7, 2007

"Round this time of year, I get a hankerin' for a Lorna Doone.
posted by M.C. Lo-Carb! at 3:14 PM on December 7, 2007

I'm honestly disappointed noone did yet use dragoon.
posted by ersatz at 3:26 PM on December 7, 2007

I was going to link to some LOL CATS emails I got from Mildred, the lovable housebound crank who often sends me old-fashioned chain letters, but then I remembered my email account is password protected and you would never be able to get in.

That is all.
posted by KokuRyu at 3:34 PM on December 7, 2007

I am sorry erstaz; to your feelings we shall try to attune.
posted by never used baby shoes at 3:46 PM on December 7, 2007

Out in the forest is the mysterious grapefruit raccoon.
posted by grapefruitmoon at 3:50 PM on December 7, 2007

I think this is going to be the thread with the least favorites.
posted by iamkimiam at 4:26 PM on December 7, 2007

To speakers of gloom, this thread is grapefruit doomed.
For dersins has just worsened what whir could not cure
as cartoons, like bazooms, once forbidden allure.
posted by finite at 6:44 PM on December 7, 2007

I am sorry erstaz; to your feelings we shall try to attune.

You make me so angry my face is maroon
I'd better calm down and go make a festoon.

j/k
posted by ersatz at 3:03 AM on December 8, 2007

Shall we declare this thread closed, or is it too soon?
posted by never used baby shoes at 9:08 AM on December 8, 2007

self-callouts are a callout-worthy breach of callout etiquette. i hereby call an emergency in-callout-thread callout!
posted by tehloki at 1:05 PM on December 8, 2007

not likely, cortex started it.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 8:42 PM on December 8, 2007