Comments on: how many MeFites visit fark?

how many MeFites visit fark?

jonmc — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 16:24:49 -0800

I've noticed in a lot of recent threads a rather severe animosity towards our neighbors over at fark.com. Now obviously FARK is not exactly Mensa grade material, but I've found it is good for laugh and for entertaining bar-brawl style arguments. As someone who visits both MeFi and Fark daily I find they both provide nourishment for the opposing sides of my psyche, MeFi for my thoughtful, intellectual side and Fark for the mook within. Now I can't believe I'm alone in this. I'm just curious, just how many MeFites are also regular(or at least closet) Farkians?

By: machaus

machaus — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 16:41:36 -0800

I don't think that it is an animosity, just an understanding that certain things are better suited to Fark than here. MetaFilter has it's own voice and so does Fark. I venture over there about twice a week to see the photoshopping...

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 16:49:31 -0800

ditto on popping over for the photoshopping, but what a bunch of yertas over there...

I likes it better here.

By: skallas

skallas — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 17:00:24 -0800

I've been a fan of fark from the very begining. Back when I was posting to memepool I made Drew the memepool icon he currently uses. I'm also one of those guilty parties that you mention. Fark's discussions usually degerate into the worst exchanges on the net.

Fark has always been about the links and Drew and his people deserve credit for building the site up and making it the place to hand over the juvenile, wacky, stupid, etc links on the net. Its very low-brow and that's nothing to be ashamed of nor is that something for us to ignore.

but I've found it is good for laugh and for entertaining bar-brawl style arguments.

I get the same kick out of reading what Pat Robertson has to say but that doesn't mean I can't call crap on him too.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 17:13:20 -0800

skallas, a farkian? I never would have guessed. We finally find some common ground.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 17:18:45 -0800

Actually, I think this old post of mine says it all about the MeFi/Fark sybiotic relationship.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 18:10:54 -0800

i am a little alarmed. are these farkians armed? Being way-layed by highwaymen is bad...should i arm the link boy? alert the janitor?(ancient roman key-porter)

By: MrBaliHai

MrBaliHai — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 18:22:27 -0800

Sometimes I want to watch Absolutely Fabulous. Sometimes I want to watch Drew Carey. I regard the quality of FP posts on MeFi and Fark in the same way. However, I think that the thread comments at Fark are largely the product of functional illiterates. On the plus side, Fark has more Boobies and less Scooby Doo Porn.

By: Kafkaesque

Kafkaesque — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 18:22:43 -0800

No wonder we lost! We had a bunch of Farks manning our cannons!

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 18:31:32 -0800

Fark is a very well-organized, amusing and constantly refreshed compendium of fun, information and, er, fun. The boobies and the photoshopping are dispensable, the comments are lazy and uninspired; but as a daily list of juvenile, spirited and freedom-loving ephemera, it is unrivalled.

Saying anything else would be hypocrisy, imo.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 19:38:24 -0800

I venture over there about twice a week to see the photoshopping...

Right, and I read Hustler for the articles.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 19:47:02 -0800

I like Fark too, and visit almost daily. I haven't noticed any animosity at all towards Farkers here at MeFi.

*cocks an eyebrow : "You just tryin' to stir up trouble, thar, boy?"

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 19:52:11 -0800

Right, and I read Hustler for the articles.

If you need to go to Fark to find links to look at pictures of women's breasts, then, my friend, I must opine that you suck at the internet.

(not that I...uhh...spend much time...uhh *cough*)

By: rodii

rodii — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 19:55:09 -0800

There are a few sites that MeFi occasionally puts itself in opposition to--free republic, slashdot, fark, plastic, memepool, yahoo!, ~meatfilter~. When someone says "hey, what is this, fark?", I think it's more of a way of defining the "tao of MeFi" than it is a real animosity. It's sort of the way a high school kid would say, I'm not a jock, I'm not a burnout, I'm not a punk, I'm not a geek... eventually you arrive at a (provisional) approximation of "me" but it takes a while.

By: rodii

rodii — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 20:02:51 -0800

My problem with fark is that it's UGLY. I mean dismal, yellow-type-on-blue-background, no-padding, banner-ad-riddled, icon-overloaded, arbitrarily-sized, disorganized, illegible, color-illiterate, monospaced, horizontal-ruled, animated-giffed UGLY. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 20:06:46 -0800

in response- I'm not trying to stir up trouble and I know stavros and rodii are just kidding around...but it was just something I thought of the other day when I introduced my buddy JakeExtreme(by the way, stavros he's still wondering what you thought of the comparison of you to Serj Tankian) to MeFi and Fark in the same day. Both of us dig both sites immensly to the point where our boss says "stop reading Metafilter and do some work" It just like I said in my old post reminded me of my high-school days when I was a card-carrying member of both the mullethead and braniac-elite-core crowd and truly got off on the sparks that flew when I introduced them to eachother.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 20:19:12 -0800

[offtopic]
stavros he's still wondering what you thought of the comparison of you to Serj Tankian

Wonderchicken like.
[/offtopic]

By: rodii

rodii — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 20:24:06 -0800

Kidding around?

UG-LY.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 01 Jan 2002 20:26:18 -0800

In the immortal words of Mojo Nixon : "Butt ugly. Super butt-ugly. Butt ugly super-zilla!"

By: chipr

chipr — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 02:30:49 -0800

Tee hee. I did a photoshop once.

And, besides, cliché kitty rules.

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 05:48:23 -0800

Fark account number: 587

I read both at least daily, but rarely dip into the comments on Fark.

By: UncleFes

UncleFes — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 06:55:13 -0800

It's good to see that I'm in good company (Fark number: 14676). The links are often pretty good. And I kind of like their design.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 07:17:37 -0800

Oh, Fes.

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 07:34:14 -0800

I lurk at Fark.

By: Perigee

Perigee — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 11:33:07 -0800

Count me in with the Farko-Mefi commuter crew. It makes for a nice world-view; a well-rounded wheel of Karma. I once compared the two to a tumbledown roadhouse bar versus a MENSA meeting; neither one would hold up well for me without the other over a long period of time. I get my stupids there and my smarts here.

'Sides which, I can say 'Boobies' there whenever I want.

By: rodii

rodii — Wed, 02 Jan 2002 13:11:43 -0800

I lurk at Fark.

I brake for Farkers.

By: phalkin

phalkin — Sun, 03 Feb 2002 21:05:47 -0800

I lurk at Fark.

So does that make you a lurking farker, or a farking lurker?