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June 29, 2009 12:22 PM

If an FPP about a member (even if they happen to be famous) is posted, but it doesn't provide any fruitful information for others to right a situation where they feel they have been overcharged, then why is it allowed?
posted by parmanparman to Etiquette/Policy at 12:22 PM (7 comments total)

This could have also appeared in the open Metafilter thread.

Or, you know, in your diary.
posted by roll truck roll at 12:23 PM on June 29, 2009

Now FPP's have to be useful?
posted by smackfu at 12:25 PM on June 29, 2009

It's not an AskMe -- there doesn't need to be an answer for what to do if this happens to you. The post is up not because asavage is a member here, but because it's a story about how social media can in some cases seriously effect a change (plus the celebrity interest angle).

Is it the best test case for such a point? No. Is the post a little thin? Yep, but it's not the thinnest one on the front page. Am I really tired of reading about that story? You bet. But there's no standard that says a post has to provide helpful information.
posted by middleclasstool at 12:28 PM on June 29, 2009

I think that post was pretty thin, and just deleted it; it's been up for just about exactly as long as I was outside washing doing the north side of my house, so the main phenomenon here is that DIY housepainting has a deleterious effect on admin response time.
posted by cortex (staff) at 12:28 PM on June 29, 2009 [12 favorites]

middleclasstool: The post is up not because asavage is a member here, but because it's a story about how social media can in some cases seriously effect a change (plus the celebrity interest angle).

I'd argue that if you divorced the story from (1) Mythbusters and (2) "MeFi's own," that the post wouldn't have been made at all. Adam is the only reason that story was FPP'd at all, which sucks, and I'm glad it's down now.
posted by paisley henosis at 12:31 PM on June 29, 2009

I think we're all in agreement that your house staying dirty is a small price to pay for instantaneous closing of thin FPPs.
posted by Plutor at 12:32 PM on June 29, 2009 [1 favorite]

The post looks deleted now, making this thread kind of superfluous, so I'm going to close it up.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:33 PM on June 29, 2009