Thank you, admins.

December 14, 2007 5:14 AM

This holiday season (yes, I said it), I'd like to give thanks for the wonderful deletions of our ruling triumvirate. By deleting mediocre junk posts, you guys make MetaFilter a better place. Thank you. Really.

I don't know if I've just started noticing recently, but it seems like there's a lot of crap being posted to the front page nowadays, and you guys usually take care of it but-quick. And despite what seems like a quickening pace, it still feels like you all err on the side of keeping a post up. Thank you for doing what is certainly a frequently thankless job, and for doing it with grace good humor.

No pb hate here, he just isn't a very active deleter.

posted by Plutor to MetaFilter-Related at 5:14 AM (47 comments total)

I must admit, it's pretty impressive. Thanks you all.
posted by cashman at 5:22 AM on December 14, 2007

If we're really, really giving thanks for the MeFi admins, it would have for all of the cool new features (and ponies) that have been given out lately. Kind of like an awesome, geeky Christmas present straight from the internets that my parents would disapprove of in my younger years.

Also thanks to everyone for that time I laughed loud enough to wake my sleeping child. We both enjoyed that one.
posted by mitzyjalapeno at 5:29 AM on December 14, 2007

'it would have to be' - I hate that.
posted by mitzyjalapeno at 5:30 AM on December 14, 2007

No need to strike grace. I'd say they do their jobs with grace and good humor.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:32 AM on December 14, 2007

cribbed from Conan the Barbarian:

mathowie: Hao! Dai ye! The server stayed up another month! This is good, but what is best in life?

cortex: The open source, quad processors, five button mice at your wrist, and the 30inch monitor glow in your hair.

mathowie: Wrong! Jessamyn! What is best in life?

jessamyn: To crush crappy threads, see them snarked before you, and to hear the lamentation of the boyzone.

mathowie: That is good! That is good.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 5:33 AM on December 14, 2007 [9 favorites]

lol, Brandon Blatcher!

I can totally get behind this call-out. I love, love jessamyn and cortex [NON-CREEPY]. I also love matt, but in a more formal, kinda-feels-like-my-boss-who's-really-nice-and-cool-but-still-my-boss way. I'm pretty sure I love pb, too, but in a invisible-guy-who-makes-everything-much-better way.

Most of all, I thank every one of them for their astonishing patience.
posted by taz at 5:39 AM on December 14, 2007 [3 favorites]

Whoa Parmanparman,

Did your account get hijacked after you left yourself logged into MeFi on a public terminal?
posted by chillmost at 5:47 AM on December 14, 2007

Or is your new job at Ferrocash?
posted by chillmost at 5:50 AM on December 14, 2007

Speaking of, we should also delete this thread. Too much good feelings for my liking.
posted by jmd82 at 6:03 AM on December 14, 2007

I wish they'd delete this lame MeTa post...
posted by i_cola at 6:13 AM on December 14, 2007

Ah! A christmas glow such as can usually only be attained with mulled wine
posted by Jofus at 6:15 AM on December 14, 2007

The mods are both fast AND effective. And in the instances where I have flagged something that I either shouldn't have or didn't mean to, they have refrained from giving me noogies.
posted by hermitosis at 6:18 AM on December 14, 2007

Please do not hug the mods, or feed them after midnight, or get them wet. You know the rules.
posted by blue_beetle at 6:22 AM on December 14, 2007

Yeah, 'tis true that they do a tough job mightily well. I'd hug them if not for the almost certainty that they would recoil in horror, drawing away from the touch of one who dare not approach lest he make the feet of the mighty unclean.

While I may be posting both drubk (first time, w00t!) and extraordinarily tired, I mean every word. Theirs is a thankless, mostly invisible task and they do it with not only grace and humour, but panache and style into the bargain. I can't think of any way the management/moderation of the site could be improved without taking away some fo the character of the place (this would be bad, in case that isn't clear).

If I've missed anything, just append what taz said to what I said, because she said it all better than me anyway.
posted by dg at 6:39 AM on December 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

::eyes post warily::
::checks irony gauges::

Hmm. I, too, thank the admins for their fine work and keen, discerning eyes.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 6:40 AM on December 14, 2007

you're welcome?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:57 AM on December 14, 2007

i think we're done here.
posted by shmegegge at 7:02 AM on December 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

This is bizarre. It would make a lot more sense to thank the people who post good things.

I personally feel that the deletions here are always a shame. Shame that somebody posted something worth deleting (if it really was), shame that we had to assign a person to babysit our posts and posters, shame that someone has to make the fuzzy decision, and msot of all shame that we can't have more free discussions largely because people here can't handle posts of a certain nature gracefully and just pile on as fast as possible.
posted by fake at 7:03 AM on December 14, 2007

Please do not hug the mods, or feed them after midnight, or get them wet. You know the rules.

Finally, an explanation for quansar.
posted by waraw at 7:12 AM on December 14, 2007

What taz said. Your hard work is much appreciated.
posted by languagehat at 7:16 AM on December 14, 2007

fake: "I personally feel that the deletions here are always a shame."

If the world was a perfect place, we wouldn't need police officers. It's not. We do. Should we hate on them because they're a symptom of the reality's imperfection?
posted by Plutor at 7:16 AM on December 14, 2007

metafilter = it's a huge melting pot of nerds from all over here
posted by pyramid termite at 7:19 AM on December 14, 2007

It would make a lot more sense to thank the people who post good things.

You can make your own post to thank them. We can thank multiple people.
posted by smackfu at 7:23 AM on December 14, 2007

IAWTP. I almost always agree with post deletions. Let's not talk about the comment deletions right now.
posted by grouse at 7:24 AM on December 14, 2007

Eyeballkid hates you all.
posted by Horken Bazooka at 7:35 AM on December 14, 2007

As is his way. Amen.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:39 AM on December 14, 2007

You see? YOU SEE? This is the kind of thing that happens when you introduce a warm and fuzzy into our grey anger area. People over the past week or two have been coming here and seeing: note: Everyone needs a hug. And slowly but surely, it's been infecting their brains with holiday cheer and (ugh) goodwill towards their fellow humans.

Complimenting admins is just the first start. Before you know it, they will be saying nice things about one another.

Stop this madness now! Change the hug advice. May I suggest the eternally useful phrase: kill something.

[Yeah, ok. The admins do a great job. Fuck, didja see that? Now it's affecting me as well.]
posted by quin at 7:49 AM on December 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

well Quin, with a brain infected with holiday cheer, and joining Jofus in raising a glass of mulled wine (really), I too thank the mods. It's been a very interesting 2007 on Metafilter.
posted by Wilder at 7:55 AM on December 14, 2007

*clutches admins to her bosom, holds them a little too long*
posted by Koko at 7:59 AM on December 14, 2007

If the world was a perfect place, we wouldn't need police officers. It's not. We do. Should we hate on them because they're a symptom of the reality's imperfection?

Apparently, we should hate on them for every reason, real or imagined, we can think of.
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 8:06 AM on December 14, 2007

Hey, I'm planning to hug mathowie tonight at the SF meetup! Or kiss his feet, or something.

*sending virtual hugs to jessamyn and cortex too*
posted by Quietgal at 8:17 AM on December 14, 2007

*stalks admins, seeking the chance to give real hugs....because they neeeeeeeed them!*
And because of the awesome job you do.
I would like to give special props to pb because I aspire to do cool stuff in the background one day as well :)
*raises glass to dg, joins him in drunkenly sentimental cheers to admins*
posted by jacalata at 8:30 AM on December 14, 2007

I will name the admins George and I will hug them and pet them and squeeze them and pat them, and rub them, and caress them, and I will give them security! And I will keep them warm like a mother hen, so they will never feel rejected or lack for love.
posted by rtha at 8:49 AM on December 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

Someone call Budweiser. I think we have the makings of a new "Great American Heroes" commercial.
posted by Dave Faris at 8:49 AM on December 14, 2007

Count me in with those saying "WTF parmanparman?"
posted by miss lynnster at 9:04 AM on December 14, 2007

As the recipient of more than a few deletions, I would echo my thanks. I had it coming. Thank you for protecting the Metafilter from me.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 10:04 AM on December 14, 2007

I agree. Though I've given the admins a hard time, I think this is the best site on the web -- thanks to their hard work.
posted by grumblebee at 10:53 AM on December 14, 2007

note: Everyone needs a hug.

This is my hug to you all. And with my hug I offer my thanks for all that you do, and my best wishes for a splendid holiday season to our splendid admins and to all of you.
posted by Lynsey at 10:54 AM on December 14, 2007

Should we hate on them because they're a symptom of the reality's imperfection?

Plutor. There is no admin-hate in my post.

Feel free to take those words from my mouth and stuff them down your throat. Thanks.
posted by fake at 12:37 PM on December 14, 2007

I WILL.
posted by Plutor at 2:28 PM on December 14, 2007

A little late for Thansgiving (REALLY late if you're Canadian) but let me add my own very special THANK YOU to the MetaFilter administrative triumvirate, the greatest trio since Peter Paul & Mary, who have rarely if ever (I can't recall; it has been 8 years) deleted my mediocre junk posts. Now, before you start accusing the mods of wendell-favoritism, let me point out that two of the three deleted posts involved things I had seen elsewhere on the Web and decided myself were not worthy of MetaFiltering. Therefore, the lesson is: if it's too lame for wendell, it's too lame for MetaFilter, or WWWP? (What Would Wendell Post?)
posted by wendell at 2:44 PM on December 14, 2007 [1 favorite]

Thank you, admins, for making this place what it is. It's a mostly thankless job, so I don't mind doing my little part in changing that to being a little less thankless.

You all rock!
posted by MythMaker at 7:09 PM on December 14, 2007

You all rock!

Well, cortex, he folk-rocks.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 8:39 PM on December 14, 2007

Yeah, but they're no Led Zep.
posted by djgh at 8:41 PM on December 14, 2007

And they all rock more than Courtney Love, with 100% less dead spouses.
posted by wendell at 12:03 AM on December 15, 2007

Yes, thanks for everything but especially for the deletions.
posted by LarryC at 4:38 AM on December 15, 2007

I was in Vegas all weekend. Too bad I missed the meet-up. No job yet, but a couple of interviews.
posted by parmanparman at 12:36 AM on December 17, 2007