Is there an insider word for this yet?

January 30, 2002 7:02 AM

What's the jargon word for a doublepost thread that's obviously doomed, and which gets quickly taken over by a cheerful bunch of people with absolutely nothing to say, and no fear of MeTa reproach because the thread could disappear at any moment? I must say, posting in these threads, I've never felt so alive.

MetaSquat?
posted by luser to MetaFilter-related at 7:02 AM (38 comments total)

MetaHouseOfPancakes
posted by danOstuporStar at 7:09 AM on January 30, 2002

Me too, luser - it's a great feeling. It also means, paradoxically, everyone can be really polite to the poster ("Perhaps you'd like some background to that post, Sir...")because there's no chance of being found out.

As we don't have MetaChat for idle banter, MetaSquat is a heady, amphetamine-fuelled substitute.

Also don't forget - if it's really good(well, not total shit)Matt has been known to spare one or two of these threads(No ratting!). So that's another challenge too - the fine art of thread-salvaging and thread-turning. Which is why it attracts some of our best posters(you know who you are, guys) ;)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 7:21 AM on January 30, 2002

A poost - because everyone's just shooting the shit?
posted by pracowity at 7:29 AM on January 30, 2002

i was impressed at the tone of the dreaded doublepost "call out". Is that a sign that collectively we are evolving towards some realm of never-before-seen civility? [please, no links to refute this, let me have a nice morning.]
posted by th3ph17 at 7:52 AM on January 30, 2002

piss off, th3ph17.
posted by jpoulos at 8:07 AM on January 30, 2002

:-)
posted by jpoulos at 8:07 AM on January 30, 2002

th3ph17: there's been another competition going on for about a week, with people outdoing themselves to be ultra-polite and sensitive to the double poster's inner needs and falling over thanking each other for being so considerate to the pitiful critters.

Fortunately, muckster only the other day, in the Aschcroft Nekkid Statues Case, Mark II, started a counter-offensive with the dreaded, dry-as-dust "double" , invoking precedent by Supreme Court Judge Skallas, as the danger of MetaFilter being treacle-drowned and feather-bedded into syrupy suffocation now officially exists.

I vote the bad guys win.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 8:07 AM on January 30, 2002

MetaJack
posted by Dagobert at 8:18 AM on January 30, 2002

Crap.
Not that I haven't joined in from soiling the thread from time to time, but I'm trying to repent.
posted by darukaru at 8:33 AM on January 30, 2002

Which is why it attracts some of our best posters(you know who you are, guys) ;)

Go ahead, Miguel. Name names.
posted by ColdChef at 8:41 AM on January 30, 2002

(you know who you are, guys) ;)

And by "guys," I trust you mean not to exclude anyone on the basis of gender. :)

posted by luser at 8:47 AM on January 30, 2002

"anti-meta" --- to me, a doomed-to-deletion doublepost thread is a lot like deep space, where strange and exotic posts leap out of the vacuous discussion, zipping about in a high-energy frenzy... only to disappear into the void again.
posted by blackholebrain at 10:17 AM on January 30, 2002

Much like Dustin Diamond's career, this thread is gone.
posted by ColdChef at 10:36 AM on January 30, 2002

I changed my mind.

I propose HypeJacked as a new, idiotic term for this activity.
posted by Dagobert at 10:36 AM on January 30, 2002

what about when the thread gets deleted while you're in the middle of composing a longish post which now can't be posted anywhere so then you just stick in metatalk?

while we're talking about dong_resin's profile, can i ask about something that's been bugging me since i noticed it?

of course, we all recognize the hooded overseer as none other than our own miguel cardoso, but who is that girl (or chick or woman or whatever you prefer — warning: link to a comment by our resident 'filmic storyteller') in the frame behind our hero?

is it dawson's creek and go star katie holmes? or just some other teen star? and exactly what type of 'relations' has mr. resin had with the pictured female?

posted by mlang at 10:43 AM on January 30, 2002

I'm guessing most of the relations were of a two-dimensional, one-sided nature, if you know what I mean.

And I think you know what I mean.

And actually Mr Resin's profile page is starting to resemble a Where's Waldo (or Where's Miguel) book. Maybe next he'll do one of those hidden 3D picture thingies that I could never see.
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:56 AM on January 30, 2002

you have to let your eyes go out of focus kafkaesque.
posted by goneill at 11:40 AM on January 30, 2002

dustin diamond has a goatee, so does bruce willis.
posted by goneill at 11:42 AM on January 30, 2002

are either of them libertarians, or filmic storytellers?
posted by goneill at 11:43 AM on January 30, 2002

gone ill- I dunno but both me and unclefes have sported chinlint and we're both libertarians. Perhaps it's our substitute for a membership card.
But I am not and will never be a filmic storyteller, I promise.
posted by jonmc at 12:17 PM on January 30, 2002

in answer to the question luser - it's transient art. it's a sandcastle, it's improv, it's less frightening than a 'real' post, there is more room for creativity, we are less concerned with the bounderies, the rules that govern metafilter, we express our love for pancakes, ponies, and the rest without regard for what others think. and then when matt removes the (sic) FPP just as god lets a wave ruin a sandcastle, it's all gone. poof
posted by goneill at 12:46 PM on January 30, 2002

just as god lets a
wave ruin a sandcastle,
[the post's] all gone. poof
posted by walrus at 12:52 PM on January 30, 2002

i'm a poet and i didn' know it
posted by goneill at 1:13 PM on January 30, 2002

Paging all poets (a little proof that sometimes the silliness doesn't end...)
posted by ColdChef at 2:11 PM on January 30, 2002

But I am not and
will never be a filmic
teller of stories*

*poetic license
posted by ColdChef at 2:14 PM on January 30, 2002

Ode to a game made of squares that old ladies play in church halls:

a filmic stor-ey-tel-ler is me,
why oh why can't you mefis see
that my scripts, while they're great
producers don' t take the bait
i'm a snotty-nosed brat from LA!
...

[perhaps our own filmic storyteller is from LA, perhpas he isn't, again I plead poetic license]
posted by goneill at 2:32 PM on January 30, 2002

I love perhpas. Those little bastards can climb the hell out of a mountain.
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:46 PM on January 30, 2002

spelling mistakes in asides don't count!
posted by goneill at 2:50 PM on January 30, 2002

whlie spelling the simplest words one day
i cast asdie all doubts that they
'd be picked at my libertarian gramma rnazis
like Bennigans employees do their foolihs chotchkies.
posted by swift at 4:15 PM on January 30, 2002

was that Swahili?
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:18 PM on January 30, 2002

no, Portuguese.

whlie que soletra as palavras as mais simples um dia
eu moldo o asdie que todas as dúvidas que
'd sejam escolhidas em meus rnazis libertarian do gramma
como empregados de Bennigans faça seus chotchkies dos foolihs.
posted by swift at 4:21 PM on January 30, 2002

Not to divert the free-flow loopiness or anything, but hasn't mathowie repeatedly said that he just hates with the white hot fury of a thousand suns (well, not really, but) the messing-around-on-a-doomed-thread action?

Crickets may perhaps ensue, but I had to bring it up.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:43 PM on January 30, 2002

*cicadas*
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:50 PM on January 30, 2002

this isn't a doomed thread - it's a thread about doomed threads. which is a different animal entirely. i'm not sure how mathowie stands on the issue.
posted by goneill at 5:09 PM on January 30, 2002

this isn't a doomed thread - it's a thread about doomed threads.

A meta doomed thread, perhaos?
posted by davehat at 5:17 PM on January 30, 2002

Man, itchy-finger-itis or what...make that perhaps.
posted by davehat at 5:19 PM on January 30, 2002

Crickets may perhaps ensue, but I had to bring it up.

This is true, O wonderchicken. It causes his eyes to burn red and vengeance to flow from his fingers.
posted by j.edwards at 5:29 PM on January 30, 2002

I'd say that for a MT post about MetaSquats, this is entirely ...

*coyote*
posted by swift at 5:41 PM on January 30, 2002