jessamyn, cortex, mathowie, thanks for your patience

October 13, 2008 3:43 PM

Just wanted to say thanks to the mods for their patience with the links in my post about Indian architecture.

Dear jessamyn, cortex and mathowie, I have no idea why you didn't delete my post went it from working just fine to belly up with "database error". That was kind of you. The links are back to working again. Anybody have any idea why the links would have read database error like that? And is there a way to avoid doing that again?

posted by nickyskye to MetaFilter-related at 3:43 PM (27 comments total)

*when it went from working just fine to belly up

argh. Sorry that I always seem to need an edit function. Guess I'm not as patient as you guys are. *sigh
posted by nickyskye at 3:45 PM on October 13, 2008

Anybody have any idea why the links would have read database error like that? And is there a way to avoid doing that again?

There's nothing you can do really, it's all on the server side and the likely culprit was their web host either had their database server go down or get overloaded. You never know when a site will go belly up for a few hours like that so there's not much you can do to avoid it (anyone that is a fan of a wordpress-powered blog has probably clicked through from their RSS reader to a database error message page more than a handful of times like me).
posted by mathowie at 3:51 PM on October 13, 2008

Ah, thanks dear Matt. Is this what MeFites joke about when they say "We broke it?" It maybe just got overloaded with clickers having a look?
posted by nickyskye at 3:56 PM on October 13, 2008

You're welcome, but I had nothing to do with it. And yeah that's pretty much what the "we broke it" joke is about.
posted by jessamyn at 4:18 PM on October 13, 2008

Does that phenomenon still get called slashdotted? I can't keep up anymore.
posted by Caduceus at 4:41 PM on October 13, 2008

"Slashdotting" is still the classic, yeah, but I've seen it applied according to that template to any number of other large sites. Stuff gets Farked all the time, for example, and Digg and Reddit and so forth.

"We Metafiltered it" isn't quite so common as far as I can tell—something I speculatively attribute to a mix of anti- (or maybe just post-) slashdot sentiment around here and the awkwardness of the phrase. I actually did some digging on that a few months ago (see definition 2).
posted by cortex at 5:01 PM on October 13, 2008 [1 favorite]

I didn't break it. Nobody saw me break it. You can't prove anything!
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:10 PM on October 13, 2008 [1 favorite]

ah. Thanks again jessamyn.

And thanks again cortex. The Metafilter Effect, slashdotted. Got it now.
posted by nickyskye at 5:17 PM on October 13, 2008

"We Metafiltered it" isn't quite so common as far as I can tell—something I speculatively attribute to a mix of anti- (or maybe just post-) slashdot sentiment around here and the awkwardness of the phrase.

How 'bout: "We meffed it up"

"Yo, that shit is meffed up"

"Don't meff with me"
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:24 PM on October 13, 2008 [2 favorites]

Don't you mean meefed?
posted by potch at 5:33 PM on October 13, 2008 [1 favorite]

Just wanted to say thanks to the mods for their patience

I once saw cortex shoot a can [of paint] in Reno. Just to watch it dry.

Yeah, he's that patient
posted by special-k at 5:50 PM on October 13, 2008 [3 favorites]

Don't you mean meefed?

No, because I don't pronounce the site name as "Meetafilter".
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:56 PM on October 13, 2008

How about mefi-ing them? Or just "we broke them?"

My fave term was for the Penny Arcade effect: "wanged."
posted by Pronoiac at 5:57 PM on October 13, 2008

[gah, boyzone]
posted by Pronoiac at 5:58 PM on October 13, 2008

I once saw cortex shoot a can [of paint] in Reno. Just to watch it dry.

But when he hears that paint a-drippin'
He hangs his head and cries.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:58 PM on October 13, 2008

Mathowie said, "Flo, you're gonna drive me to drinkin',
If you don't stop breakin that hot mod Linkin'".
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 6:05 PM on October 13, 2008

Don't you mean meefed?

No, because I don't pronounce the site name as "Meetafilter".

Do you call a hi-fi a "hi-fih"?
posted by Sys Rq at 6:05 PM on October 13, 2008

Nah, I'm strictly lo-fih.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:09 PM on October 13, 2008

BZZZZZZZ.

The correct answer is: "It's called a stereo, Grandpa."
posted by Sys Rq at 6:11 PM on October 13, 2008 [1 favorite]

Sorry, couldn't hear your BZZZZZZZ.

My Victrola's turned up all the way!
posted by flapjax at midnite at 6:13 PM on October 13, 2008 [2 favorites]

argh. Sorry that I always seem to need an edit function. Guess I'm not as patient as you guys are. *sigh

You do know that most people don't even notice your errors until you point them out?
posted by smackfu at 8:13 PM on October 13, 2008 [1 favorite]

It's pronounced 'meffy', as in 'radiogram'.
posted by jack_mo at 8:20 PM on October 13, 2008 [2 favorites]

nuts, everyone's nuts ... that's all
posted by infini at 10:43 PM on October 13, 2008

Eh? What about my nuts?
posted by Pronoiac at 1:02 AM on October 14, 2008

Do you call a hi-fi a "hi-fih"?

It's a hi-feh, obviously.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 2:41 AM on October 14, 2008

Meefed would work nicely as a variant on moofed.

effpeed, like something that's been stomped by a stampede.
posted by mandal at 6:17 AM on October 14, 2008

Stuff gets Farked all the time,

Despite not reading the site, I've always liked this phrase, there is something wonderfully pseudo-vulgar about it. I have similar feeling about when I'm involved in seeing a site get "wanged".

They are great phrases to use in non-web-savvy company, they elicit such great looks;

"Yeah, I was checking out this new site and we totally wanged it, I mean it got Farked hard! It was ugly. Seriously."
posted by quin at 11:25 AM on October 14, 2008