Comments on: Let's take Olympics posts to sportsfilter.com

Let's take Olympics posts to sportsfilter.com

th3ph17 — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:31:19 -0800

I've been tempted lately to request that people 'take it to sportsfilter.com' with the olympic posts. Since sportsfilter is a spawn of metafilter...it seems like doing so would help Both, but i'm not sure. It just seems like an excellent opportunity to reduce the number of posts here while helping build up sportsfilter.

By: j.edwards

j.edwards — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:00:19 -0800

I usually go to sportsfilter reflexively when I see an olympics post here, since I know the commentary is going to be better, the link more relevant, etc. A sports links here just sends me there anyways.

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:03:21 -0800

I'm one of the SportsFilter mafia, so I'd love to see more people using SportsFilter, but there are a couple of drawbacks to this particular approach.

In SportsFilter's Locker Room (MetaTalk equivalent) Matt's already said he hopes people don't do this because it would create the wrong impression that sports aren't welcome on MetaFilter.

And SportsFilter is more like a neice or nephew of MetaFilter than a child. It's a separate site with different owners and slightly different rules. (For example, news links are less of a problem on SportsFilter due to the inherent topical nature of sports.) So "take it to SportsFilter" would also reinforce the wrong impression that SportsFilter is part of MetaFilter, when it's not.

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:26:32 -0800

yeah...would feel like segregation almost. Then we would have to get a politicsfilter and a religionfilter and a bushfilter and a DuneFilter and everything would go to hell.

hadn't visited the Locker Room...should have thought about checking that before i posted this.

from matt:

It's touchy, and I hope people don't post things like "this would be good for sportsfilter too" because it just leads to the unwanted conclusion (that sports don't belong on metafilter). If you would like a sportsmined person at metafilter to know about this site, email them instead.

That sounds like a good plan. You can tap people via email and spread the word.

I only pay attention to cycling and fencing, and hardly at all even for those, so i'll stick to metafilter.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:31:59 -0800

There are certainly aspects of sports with below on Mefi. I have not seen any posts which were so "WFAN" that they were wrong here.

By: moz

moz — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:54:23 -0800

metafilter can have sports posts. the way i look at it is, metafilter's a good place to go to discuss sports with just anyone. sportsfilter is a good place to go to discuss sports with sports people. either choice is fine.

By: danOstuporStar

danOstuporStar — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 19:10:58 -0800

it's definately a strange relationship. sometimes it seems like some links posted here should be posted there just for archival purposes--like today's snowjob2002.com--even if the discussion is played out already.

By: mischief

mischief — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:22:06 -0800

th3ph17: first, you are assuming that all MeFier's know of the existence of sportsfilter. Second, you are assuming that everyone with an interest in the Olympics is interested enough in sports to want to go to sportsfilter.

By: evixir

evixir — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:08:06 -0800

Interesting. I was wondering about this. I took my post on the pairs skating controversy to SportsFilter first, not assuming there would be a MeFi thread about it. And to be honest, I wouldn't have created a MeFi thread about it even if there hadn't been one. Perhaps it's the newness of SportsFilter or the smaller userbase that makes me less reluctant to post links to their front page, whereas with MeFi, it feels more like I'd be inviting a flamewar. Maybe it's guts I lack. I don't know. But I'll take anything sports-related to SportsFilter before I'd think of taking it to MeFi.

By: keithl

keithl — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:36:56 -0800

If anyone wants to take it to SportsFilter.

By: justgary

justgary — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:44:05 -0800

Metafilter and Sportsfilter, though similar in appearance, have completely different owners. Sportsfilter is not meant to replace metafilter as a place for sportslinks. Hopefully, Sportsfilter will be a success on its own.

That said, I think for the hardcore sports fan Sportsfilter will eventually have advantages over mefi simply resulting from its dedication to the topic.

The mefi member who is just a casual sports fan will probably stick to mefi. Sportsfilter will also gain members not interested in mefi at all.

As of now, mefi sports links have the advantage of a much bigger user base, while the advantage of posting to Sportsfilter is the link won't be buried in a matter of hours.

We can coexist, really =)

By: jcterminal

jcterminal — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:00:23 -0800

/me registers ComplaintFilter.

By: owillis

owillis — Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:03:18 -0800

We can coexist, really =)
NO! There. Can. Only. Be. One.

By: mlang

mlang — Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:02:05 -0800

agreeing with the general consensus here; understanding that sportsfilter has different owners, etc.; still wondering: shouldn't sportsfilter be part of the metafilter network?