Gee, man. June 4, 2008 11:03 AM Subscribe
I would like to congratulate gman on the occasion of his thirteenth deleted post of 2008. Is this a record?
In the words of the mighty Blazecock, "Meh".
In the words of the mighty cortex,
"If you want to do the calculations, the data you need (number of comments per thread, number of comments by user x in thread y) can be gotten from the Infodump, which I linked in the previous metatalk you linked to. You're welcome to mail me (or just speak up in that thread, maybe) if you have questions about how to do that sort of thing in general."
If it lacks deletion data, maybe they can out that in and then you can go figure it out yourself.
posted by GuyZero at 11:09 AM on June 4, 2008
In the words of the mighty cortex,
"If you want to do the calculations, the data you need (number of comments per thread, number of comments by user x in thread y) can be gotten from the Infodump, which I linked in the previous metatalk you linked to. You're welcome to mail me (or just speak up in that thread, maybe) if you have questions about how to do that sort of thing in general."
If it lacks deletion data, maybe they can out that in and then you can go figure it out yourself.
posted by GuyZero at 11:09 AM on June 4, 2008
I kind of liked this one.
Also is picking on the guy on top of deleting his threads really a good idea?
posted by Artw at 11:10 AM on June 4, 2008
Also is picking on the guy on top of deleting his threads really a good idea?
posted by Artw at 11:10 AM on June 4, 2008
~swoondles~
posted by Mister_A at 11:18 AM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by Mister_A at 11:18 AM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
Well, at least he's trying to contribute something. There are plenty of others who are either too lazy or too afraid to try it themselves.
posted by Dave Faris at 11:18 AM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Dave Faris at 11:18 AM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
What does "swoondle" mean?
posted by Class Goat at 11:20 AM on June 4, 2008
posted by Class Goat at 11:20 AM on June 4, 2008
Really this should have been linked to in the interests of full disclosure. FWIW I liked the Hitler at Burning Man one.
My deletions are really boring
posted by Artw at 11:20 AM on June 4, 2008
My deletions are really boring
posted by Artw at 11:20 AM on June 4, 2008
This leaves me unsure whether or not to post my grainy out-of-focus possibly-fake cellphone video of a drunken cokehead smashing into the First Annual Take Back The Streets Vagina Bicycle Race.
P.S. Don't be such a dick.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 11:20 AM on June 4, 2008
P.S. Don't be such a dick.
posted by Armitage Shanks at 11:20 AM on June 4, 2008
There are plenty of others who are either too lazy or too afraid to try it themselves.
Some ofus youse are both.
Also, you really ought to be able to figure out "swoondle" from the context in which it was used.
posted by Mister_A at 11:22 AM on June 4, 2008
Some of
Also, you really ought to be able to figure out "swoondle" from the context in which it was used.
posted by Mister_A at 11:22 AM on June 4, 2008
People who hated Thatcher were just sexist.
posted by Artw at 11:23 AM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by Artw at 11:23 AM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
There are plenty of others who are either too lazy or too afraid to try it themselves.
Or they:
-are slow to the draw
-prefer to read rather than write
-realize that not everything needs or deserves to be an FPP
-know that, if something's worth posting, someone else will come along and post it anyway
-lack the narcissistic "I like this ∴ everyone else will too" impulse
posted by Sys Rq at 11:37 AM on June 4, 2008 [4 favorites]
Or they:
-are slow to the draw
-prefer to read rather than write
-realize that not everything needs or deserves to be an FPP
-know that, if something's worth posting, someone else will come along and post it anyway
-lack the narcissistic "I like this ∴ everyone else will too" impulse
posted by Sys Rq at 11:37 AM on June 4, 2008 [4 favorites]
Or they:
-are slow to the draw
-prefer to read rather than write
-realize that not everything needs or deserves to be an FPP
-know that, if something's worth posting, someone else will come along and post it anyway
-lack the narcissistic "I like this ∴ everyone else will too" impulse
-are waiting until they have seen enough of the web to determine exactly which sites are the best.
posted by splice at 11:44 AM on June 4, 2008
-are slow to the draw
-prefer to read rather than write
-realize that not everything needs or deserves to be an FPP
-know that, if something's worth posting, someone else will come along and post it anyway
-lack the narcissistic "I like this ∴ everyone else will too" impulse
-are waiting until they have seen enough of the web to determine exactly which sites are the best.
posted by splice at 11:44 AM on June 4, 2008
This leaves me unsure whether or not to post my grainy out-of-focus possibly-fake cellphone video of a drunken cokehead smashing into the First Annual Take Back The Streets Vagina Bicycle Race.
This is what Projects is for.
posted by mullacc at 11:45 AM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
This is what Projects is for.
posted by mullacc at 11:45 AM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
There are plenty of others who are either too lazy or too afraid to try it themselves.
It's mostly fear in my case. True story:
When I wrote my one and only FPP, it was a dark and stormy night (not unlike tonight). Every so often I would hear a roar of thunder over the clicking and clacking of the keys on my keyboard, and lightning would fill the room, casting spooky shadows everywhere. I couldn't shake this weird feeling that something was wrong, but I posted it anyway.
Shortly after that, the power went out, and I headed to the basement. As I walked through the Great Hall, I passed by the portrait of my great-great-grandfather Reginald T. Cartwright III, and it seemed like his eyes were moving, but I figured I was just seeing things. When I got to the basement my hair stood up on end, and my dog Sparky started growling at something.
Anyway, to make a long story short, it turned out that there was an escaped mental patient ax-murderer in my backseat, the calls coming from inside my own house, and when I woke up the next morning there was a steel hook on my door handle. Also, when I went to return her sweater, they told me the girl that I met had been dead for 30 years!
posted by burnmp3s at 11:47 AM on June 4, 2008 [5 favorites]
It's mostly fear in my case. True story:
When I wrote my one and only FPP, it was a dark and stormy night (not unlike tonight). Every so often I would hear a roar of thunder over the clicking and clacking of the keys on my keyboard, and lightning would fill the room, casting spooky shadows everywhere. I couldn't shake this weird feeling that something was wrong, but I posted it anyway.
Shortly after that, the power went out, and I headed to the basement. As I walked through the Great Hall, I passed by the portrait of my great-great-grandfather Reginald T. Cartwright III, and it seemed like his eyes were moving, but I figured I was just seeing things. When I got to the basement my hair stood up on end, and my dog Sparky started growling at something.
Anyway, to make a long story short, it turned out that there was an escaped mental patient ax-murderer in my backseat, the calls coming from inside my own house, and when I woke up the next morning there was a steel hook on my door handle. Also, when I went to return her sweater, they told me the girl that I met had been dead for 30 years!
posted by burnmp3s at 11:47 AM on June 4, 2008 [5 favorites]
If "swoondle" is a portmanteau of "swoon" and "fondle", I think I don't want to know.
posted by Class Goat at 11:47 AM on June 4, 2008
posted by Class Goat at 11:47 AM on June 4, 2008
Or they:
-are slow to the draw Lazy.
-prefer to read rather than write Lazy.
-realize that not everything needs or deserves to be an FPP Scared.
-know that, if something's worth posting, someone else will come along and post it anyway Lazy.
-lack the narcissistic "I like this ∴ everyone else will too" impulse Scared.
posted by Dave Faris at 11:51 AM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
posted by Dave Faris at 11:51 AM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
People who hated Thatcher were just sexist.
Tell me about it, I mean, Colin was one of the best legislators Thunder Creek ever had up until the time he had his wife brutally murdered.
posted by Pollomacho at 11:54 AM on June 4, 2008
Tell me about it, I mean, Colin was one of the best legislators Thunder Creek ever had up until the time he had his wife brutally murdered.
posted by Pollomacho at 11:54 AM on June 4, 2008
Pollomacho, you have no idea why I'm laughing so hard right now.
posted by dersins at 11:57 AM on June 4, 2008
posted by dersins at 11:57 AM on June 4, 2008
No, really, we really do need to intimidate people out of posting stuff more.
posted by Artw at 11:58 AM on June 4, 2008
posted by Artw at 11:58 AM on June 4, 2008
If "swoondle" is a portmanteau of "swoon" and "fondle", I think I don't want to know.
Nah. Swoondle: when the person you're soul-kissing picks your pocket. Well, either way I guess Mister_A owes us an explanation. And my wallet back you scum-sucking pig!
posted by carsonb at 11:59 AM on June 4, 2008
Nah. Swoondle: when the person you're soul-kissing picks your pocket. Well, either way I guess Mister_A owes us an explanation. And my wallet back you scum-sucking pig!
posted by carsonb at 11:59 AM on June 4, 2008
carsonb: MWAH!
hahahahaha!
OK, you've had enough. Follow this link to learn more about "swoondle".
posted by Mister_A at 12:04 PM on June 4, 2008
hahahahaha!
OK, you've had enough. Follow this link to learn more about "swoondle".
posted by Mister_A at 12:04 PM on June 4, 2008
Fun fact: every human emotion can actually be reduced to lazy or scared.
Man, I was feeling a bit lazy, so I went to the doctor, and he was all lazy about it! He got a little lazy at me for being so lazy, but I should be back to being scared pretty soon.
posted by danb at 12:18 PM on June 4, 2008 [5 favorites]
Man, I was feeling a bit lazy, so I went to the doctor, and he was all lazy about it! He got a little lazy at me for being so lazy, but I should be back to being scared pretty soon.
posted by danb at 12:18 PM on June 4, 2008 [5 favorites]
mefi should give out an award to the poster with the most deletions each year.
and perhaps one for the one that triggers the most comments.
posted by krautland at 12:29 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
and perhaps one for the one that triggers the most comments.
posted by krautland at 12:29 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
I am lazy and afraid. Also: Them are some cool volcano pictures.
posted by everichon at 12:52 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by everichon at 12:52 PM on June 4, 2008
Between this thread lasting as long as it has and the now-closed "close-up pictures of cervices that are totally SFW" one, I thought the rapture might have taken three of our four moderators, and poor vacapinta was going to go to work later tonight only to discover that he had a lot of post-rapture emails to release.
posted by yhbc at 12:53 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by yhbc at 12:53 PM on June 4, 2008
It's not a record either for total number, or most in 6 months. Postroad has 18 listed on deletedthread, which only started in December 2002. By all accounts, Postroad's most prolific period was way back in 2001.
posted by roofus at 12:54 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by roofus at 12:54 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
Artw: No, really, we really do need to intimidate people out of posting stuff more.
An excellent idea - I can hardly keep up at the current rate.
posted by ghost of a past number at 12:57 PM on June 4, 2008
An excellent idea - I can hardly keep up at the current rate.
posted by ghost of a past number at 12:57 PM on June 4, 2008
Man, I was feeling a bit lazy, so I went to the doctor, and he was all lazy about it! He got a little lazy at me for being so lazy, but I should be back to being scared pretty soon.
Wasn't this a scene in Idiocracy?
posted by inigo2 at 1:01 PM on June 4, 2008
Wasn't this a scene in Idiocracy?
posted by inigo2 at 1:01 PM on June 4, 2008
I do all kinda stupid stuff and nobuddy notices.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 1:09 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 1:09 PM on June 4, 2008
It's because of fear that I hardly ever post.
But not because I'm worried about being mocked or scorned or whatever, I fear that one day I will put together an FPP that is so sublime, so... flawless, that nothing will ever approach it's brilliant perfection.
All subsequent posts will be held up to it and they will be found wanting, this will demoralize the rest of the community to such a degree that they will just give up and eventually the blue will be a barren wasteland, years out of date, totally unread and unloved.
I worry that one day, I will post something so good that it will kill Metafilter.
Well, that and the fact that I'm waaay too lazy to actually put any real effort into it.
posted by quin at 1:20 PM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
But not because I'm worried about being mocked or scorned or whatever, I fear that one day I will put together an FPP that is so sublime, so... flawless, that nothing will ever approach it's brilliant perfection.
All subsequent posts will be held up to it and they will be found wanting, this will demoralize the rest of the community to such a degree that they will just give up and eventually the blue will be a barren wasteland, years out of date, totally unread and unloved.
I worry that one day, I will post something so good that it will kill Metafilter.
Well, that and the fact that I'm waaay too lazy to actually put any real effort into it.
posted by quin at 1:20 PM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
man, that's a lot. and reading through his reasons, it almost seems like he's just a little too lazy. it's all doubles and "thin gruel" style deletion reasons.
Oh hey, Dave Faris is being a jerk again. Awesome.
posted by shmegegge at 2:07 PM on June 4, 2008
Oh hey, Dave Faris is being a jerk again. Awesome.
posted by shmegegge at 2:07 PM on June 4, 2008
Yeah, I'm not really a fan of Dave, his comments are short, pointless, and content-free — like youtube comments but with sentences, spelling, and grammar. The worst is when he comments in MetaTalk about matters of self-policing — he's pretty much always dead wrong and a dick about it — the paulsc of metatalk.
posted by blasdelf at 2:26 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by blasdelf at 2:26 PM on June 4, 2008
We were thinking about closing this thing up if it got ugly, but it seems mostly to have not gotten ugly, so let's keep it up with the not-getting-ugly, okay?
I'd say that gman, if you read this, maybe take heed: a little less easy on the trigger and raising the bar a bit higher for what you decide is worth a post will probably turn the whole deletion-streak thing around. Win-win.
Also, dersins, this was maybe a bit mean insofar as sarcastic congratulatory callouts kind of suck.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:46 PM on June 4, 2008
I'd say that gman, if you read this, maybe take heed: a little less easy on the trigger and raising the bar a bit higher for what you decide is worth a post will probably turn the whole deletion-streak thing around. Win-win.
Also, dersins, this was maybe a bit mean insofar as sarcastic congratulatory callouts kind of suck.
posted by cortex (staff) at 2:46 PM on June 4, 2008
OK, I'll have the maybes, a bit, one probably, oh and that kind of. Wrap em up and I'll be back in a few. I've got to go check out the new model lawnmowers.
posted by carsonb at 2:54 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by carsonb at 2:54 PM on June 4, 2008
Mister_A, I remain unenlightened. All that web site does is flash some circles at me in pastel colors.
Or are those swoondles?
posted by Class Goat at 3:15 PM on June 4, 2008
Or are those swoondles?
posted by Class Goat at 3:15 PM on June 4, 2008
Class Goat, once you get to level five you will see the swoondles. It takes a little while to get past level one, you sort of need to think laterally but not overthink it. Just keep trying.
posted by whir at 3:49 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by whir at 3:49 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
There are plenty of others who are either too lazy or too afraid to try it themselves.
Metafilter: most of the web? I had no idea! I shall commence posting nightly henceforth. I have many links on the more obscure areas of arthropod taxonomy that I am sure will be enjoyed by all.
Never fear, I will take requests. Fans of springtails are in for a real treat.
posted by Tehanu at 3:52 PM on June 4, 2008
Metafilter: most of the web? I had no idea! I shall commence posting nightly henceforth. I have many links on the more obscure areas of arthropod taxonomy that I am sure will be enjoyed by all.
Never fear, I will take requests. Fans of springtails are in for a real treat.
posted by Tehanu at 3:52 PM on June 4, 2008
Wait a minute...I can get recognition for making a bunch of bad deleted posts?
Here we go!
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 5:15 PM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
Here we go!
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 5:15 PM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
At any rate, here's something that makes for good pictures. Someone go post that and we can forget all about gman's crap posts.
Someone already did.
Otherwise I would have posted it. Dammit.
posted by A dead Quaker at 6:12 PM on June 4, 2008
Someone already did.
Otherwise I would have posted it. Dammit.
posted by A dead Quaker at 6:12 PM on June 4, 2008
This is not the greatest FPP in the world. This is just a tribute.
posted by anifinder at 6:51 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by anifinder at 6:51 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
This is dumb. Dersins should be banned.
or forced to write "I will not make stupid meta posts at the expense of others" one hundred times on the blackboard.
posted by vronsky at 7:32 PM on June 4, 2008
or forced to write "I will not make stupid meta posts at the expense of others" one hundred times on the blackboard.
posted by vronsky at 7:32 PM on June 4, 2008
Actually, now that you mention it vronsky:
51180, 51627, 52567, 56860, 57760, 60526, 61111, 62093, 62168, 62216, 63480, 63821, 64967, 66308, 66462, 69189, 69320, 69425, 70891.
That's 19 deleted posts. 110 undeleted posts, 17% deleted posts. I guess that's pretty good.
posted by puke & cry at 10:00 PM on June 4, 2008
51180, 51627, 52567, 56860, 57760, 60526, 61111, 62093, 62168, 62216, 63480, 63821, 64967, 66308, 66462, 69189, 69320, 69425, 70891.
That's 19 deleted posts. 110 undeleted posts, 17% deleted posts. I guess that's pretty good.
posted by puke & cry at 10:00 PM on June 4, 2008
Hey thanks for the links p&c, do you keep stats on all your favorite mefites, or just me?
We has Buckets! sure brings back fond memories :)
posted by vronsky at 10:18 PM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
We has Buckets! sure brings back fond memories :)
posted by vronsky at 10:18 PM on June 4, 2008 [2 favorites]
:D
posted by puke & cry at 10:30 PM on June 4, 2008
posted by puke & cry at 10:30 PM on June 4, 2008
Tell me about it, I mean, Colin was one of the best legislators Thunder Creek ever had up until the time he had his wife brutally murdered.
I wasn't expecting that comment here. I was driving from a business lunch with my boss last year past the house that murder took place in (when I would have been under ten years old). The boss lived in the area, and could remember the police cars from the night it happened. A pretty heated argument regarding Thatcher's conviction ensued -- that crime exposed a lot of fault lines, and tore at a lot of wounds in Regina and Saskatchewan generally.
When Thatcher got out of jail a year or two ago, he received threats and people would see him at football games and gossip about it. I can't imagine too many things which would bring up that kind of heat 20 some odd years later.
I read the book Thatcher wrote but don't remember the title. Thatcher wrote one of the most remarkable books I have ever read, in the sense that he couldn't even create a sympathetic portrayal of himself and yet for some reason they still like him in Moose Jaw/Thunder Creek.
posted by Deep Dish at 10:36 PM on June 4, 2008
I wasn't expecting that comment here. I was driving from a business lunch with my boss last year past the house that murder took place in (when I would have been under ten years old). The boss lived in the area, and could remember the police cars from the night it happened. A pretty heated argument regarding Thatcher's conviction ensued -- that crime exposed a lot of fault lines, and tore at a lot of wounds in Regina and Saskatchewan generally.
When Thatcher got out of jail a year or two ago, he received threats and people would see him at football games and gossip about it. I can't imagine too many things which would bring up that kind of heat 20 some odd years later.
I read the book Thatcher wrote but don't remember the title. Thatcher wrote one of the most remarkable books I have ever read, in the sense that he couldn't even create a sympathetic portrayal of himself and yet for some reason they still like him in Moose Jaw/Thunder Creek.
posted by Deep Dish at 10:36 PM on June 4, 2008
People who make good faith efforts to contribute should most definitely be mocked.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:50 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:50 PM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]
"People who make good faith efforts to contribute should most definitely be mocked! People who make good faith efforts to contribute should most definitely be mocked!" Nyeh-nyeh NYEH nyeh nyeh NYEH nh-nyeh nyeh Nyeeeeehhh.
posted by not_on_display at 4:54 AM on June 5, 2008
posted by not_on_display at 4:54 AM on June 5, 2008
Fun fact: every human emotion can actually be reduced to lazy or scared.
Surely this is the place to remind you that the correct binary is love and fear?
posted by kittyprecious at 7:34 AM on June 5, 2008
Surely this is the place to remind you that the correct binary is love and fear?
posted by kittyprecious at 7:34 AM on June 5, 2008
Is this the anti-life equation working group?
posted by Artw at 8:21 AM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by Artw at 8:21 AM on June 5, 2008 [1 favorite]
good faith efforts
You think so? I don't. Thus the callout.
posted by dersins at 5:10 PM on June 6, 2008
You think so? I don't. Thus the callout.
posted by dersins at 5:10 PM on June 6, 2008
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posted by y2karl at 11:09 AM on June 4, 2008