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February 14, 2008 11:55 PM

Also, I think that the definition of "noise" needs to be extended to encompass posts that are just people giving their opinions without providing anything new to the discussion. posted by 1 at 2:08 PM on February 12

The comment in question:

If you want to have sex with a woman who is probably far less wealthy than you and who, all things being equal, almost definitely wouldn't want to have sex with you under those circumstances if it weren't for the fact that she needs the money, then yes, that is still a place where you can do that. I have solid second-hand knowledge that are still enough prostitutes to go around.

As for "worth it," well, that's like asking whether it's "worth it" to pay, say, $13 for a hamburger. It all depends on your preferences and cannot be answered by anyone else for you.

But if you think that using economic coercion to have sex with women is about the most absolutely fucking appalling things there is on this Earth, then I feel pretty safe in saying that it probably won't be worth it.
posted by 1 at 1:03 AM on February 15

posted by bigmusic to etiquette/policy at 11:55 PM (31 comments total)

Mouthy fuckin' noob.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 11:56 PM on February 14 [2 favorites]

Isn't this what flagging is for?
posted by vacapinta at 12:00 AM on February 15

He wants to discuss the morals of the asker; I have provided him a place to do so.
posted by bigmusic at 12:03 AM on February 15

i love this post.
posted by knowles at 12:08 AM on February 15

There is no morality on the internet. There is only the question: Is it interesting?
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:26 AM on February 15 [1 favorite]

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posted by dhammond at 12:29 AM on February 15

There can only be 1.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:39 AM on February 15

flag, move on, make callout more interesting, thanks
posted by blacklite at 12:45 AM on February 15

For fuck's sake. 30-40% of AskMe replies are noise, I know all mine are.

Can't you just forgive?
posted by mattoxic at 12:50 AM on February 15

For what it's worth (no pun intended) I think the quoted commented answered the question, which was "Is it still worth going to the red light district in Amsterdam?"... "Worth going" can mean a lot of things, and the answerer in the callout answered one of the interpretations.
posted by amyms at 12:52 AM on February 15

quoted comment*
posted by amyms at 12:52 AM on February 15

Only if you drop the "still" part of the question, unless morality's undergone a dramatic change in recent years...
posted by fractalid at 1:09 AM on February 15

9/11!
posted by cgc373 at 2:23 AM on February 15

Also, more or less what amyms said. How is 1's answer not a valid answer to the question asked?
posted by cgc373 at 2:25 AM on February 15

I'd request that the rest of this thread concentrate on 1 having a high user ID rather than the actual content of anything he's said. That's how everyfuckingthing else that's happened with him so far as gone down, and I don't see any reason to violate that Noble Metafilter Tradition.
posted by 0xFCAF at 2:51 AM on February 15

I miss quonsar.
posted by loquacious at 3:03 AM on February 15 [1 favorite]

It's interesting that 0xFCAF (= 64687) has a user ID of 38102, but 1 has a user ID of 66384. I need more data points to determine whether there is a true negative correlation.
posted by grouse at 3:11 AM on February 15

Careful, you are messing with anonymous, they will DDOS you and have epic lulz at your expense.
posted by vapidave at 3:53 AM on February 15 [1 favorite]

Numerical usernames and their user ids, charted. Some of them are big numbers, so I had to make the y-axis logarithmic.

Here's a list:
603401, user 3181
0001, user 3480
007, user 4140
083, user 4245
123, user 4931
2057, user 5698
032673, user 5726
001, user 6752
0701, user 8040
123456, user 8194
12345, user 8410
01417903, user 8763
5212, user 8915
48118854, user 9489
40, user 10411
11235813, user 10925
987654, user 12436
8, user 13068
2, user 13069
3, user 13070
4, user 13071
5, user 13072
6, user 13073
7, user 13075
9, user 13076
49, user 13154
51, user 13156
404, user 16738
111, user 17256
8, user 18634
27, user 20254
1016, user 20562
5500, user 24190
6550, user 24422
1984, user 24452
517, user 25402
6060842, user 25989
999, user 27442
912, user 28979
8, user 29201
29, user 34088
54840, user 36831
0xFCAF, user 38102
777, user 44790
0217174, user 46289
14580, user 47571
913, user 47680
6, user 60627
0000000000, user 62929
433, user 64009
This list, of course, omits our friend "1", because I was too lazy to update my usernames.txt.
posted by Plutor at 4:07 AM on February 15 [5 favorites]

It might be worth pointing out that 1 routinely posts jokey/noise/useless AskMe answers that get deleted. He was called out for it and said he would stop.
posted by burnmp3s at 4:08 AM on February 15

I too miss quonsar. He would add that extra something to this lame ass callout.
posted by RussHy at 4:32 AM on February 15

> with(mefi, cor.test(id, name, method="spearman"))

Spearman's rank correlation rho

data:  id and name 
S = 20475.94, p-value = 0.908
alternative hypothesis: true rho is not equal to 0 
sample estimates:
       rho 
0.01676152 


Yeah, no correlation. And 1 doesn't help, either.
posted by grouse at 4:36 AM on February 15 [3 favorites]

Q: I want a good pork loin. I've always heard Amsterdam has great pork loin but that a lot of the good porkhouses have closed. Is it still worth going?

A: If you want to feast on the blood of an animal that is sentient, feels pain, and is at least as intelligent as your family pet, then yes, that is still a place where you can do that. I have solid second-hand knowledge that there is still enough pork to go around.

As for "worth it," well, that's like asking whether it's "worth it" to pay, say, $13 to torture a bunny. It all depends on your preferences and cannot be answered by anyone else for you.

But if you think that eating an animal that was killed in a terribly painful way for no good reason other than to satisfy your blood lust is about the most absolutely fucking appalling things there is on this Earth, then I feel pretty safe in saying that it probably won't be worth it.

Yeah, the comparison is not entirely apt (prostitution is illegal, etc.). But it illustrates the simple fact that 1's answer was a moralizing screed thinly disguised as a barely-helpful "answer" ('solid second hand information' is hardly useful), about an activity that is, like it or not, fully legal in the place that the questioner asked about. I'm no fan of prostitution, and happen to agree with 1's underlying point. But this was not an answer, it was a slapdown.
posted by googly at 4:40 AM on February 15 [10 favorites]

*(prostitution is illegal in many places)
posted by googly at 4:40 AM on February 15

But if you think that eating an animal that was killed in a terribly painful way for no good reason other than to satisfy your blood lust

This is actually empowering to the animal involved. Many of these pigs have no other skills and no desire to develop other skills. They like being food. It give meaning to their lives.
posted by RussHy at 5:13 AM on February 15 [2 favorites]

How is 1's answer not a valid answer to the question asked?

This is the part that actually answers the question:

yes, that is still a place where you can do that. I have solid second-hand knowledge that are still enough prostitutes to go around.

As for "worth it," well, that's like asking whether it's "worth it" to pay, say, $13 for a hamburger. It all depends on your preferences and cannot be answered by anyone else for you.

The stuff before and after is a judgmental attack on the poster's question, which is not supposed to happen in AskMe, regardless of how any of us might feel about the issue involved. It's more than enough to delete the answer, especially coming from a user who's been very unclear on how AskMe operates in the past.
posted by mediareport at 5:46 AM on February 15

1 is mouthy. Its been suggested its a sock puppet.
posted by Ironmouth at 6:10 AM on February 15

How come there are so many 8s? How is that possible?
posted by GrammarMoses at 6:11 AM on February 15

How come there are so many 8s? How is that possible?

If you check the profiles they aren't just called "8", they're "8 Bit" and "8 LB ORECK XL".
posted by EndsOfInvention at 6:19 AM on February 15

If you check the profiles they aren't just called "8", they're "8 Bit" and "8 LB ORECK XL".

WHAT? This incompetence has totally destroyed my careful SCIENCE.
posted by grouse at 6:23 AM on February 15 [1 favorite]

Flagging would really have been sufficient here. 1 can take a day off to think a little harder about that whole Not Shitting In Askme thing, but I don't think there's a whole lot to discuss here, my love of username analysis geekery notwithstanding.
posted by cortex at 6:25 AM on February 15