Have you seen boner?

February 21, 2010 9:06 AM

How does Mefi feel about posts concerning quasi-celebrities, that I really don't know personally, who have gone missing?

Andrew Koenig (AK-47, the video guy on “Never Not Funny,” and “Boner” from “Growing Pains”) has been missing for a week, last seen 2/14 in Vancouver. Didn’t make his flight back to the US on 2/16. The Vancouver Police are involved, and lots of people are looking.

posted by ZenithNadir to Etiquette/Policy at 9:06 AM (13 comments total)

This is a kind of not cool way of making a questionable post. MetaTalk is not for things you think are not quite good enough for the blue.
posted by oneirodynia at 9:10 AM on February 21, 2010 [1 favorite]

I'm confused. Are you asking about posting this to Metafilter? If so, it probably depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Want to do a mutli-faceted post with interesting links about his various roles and include a link to him being missing? That could MAYBE fly if it's done right. A single link post to the fact that he's missing? Not so much...
posted by rollbiz at 9:13 AM on February 21, 2010

And yeah, I see that you're new so I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here, but if your purpose in posting this to MetaTalk was to let people know he's missing and not to ask whether it's good enough for a MetaFilter post, this probably isn't going to fly either.
posted by rollbiz at 9:14 AM on February 21, 2010

I don't get that link regardless. Some photo of a long haired guy? Maybe I didn't wait long enough for it to load.

And as to the question, there's no there there. Until more time goes by or more is known not sure this is even a story.

So your question is a bit off. Would this make a good post? I'm with oneirodynia on the answer to that one.

Maybe if you spent the time actually making a post about the guy, who he was, what he's been up to, what's he's done since the "Growing Pains" days, and mentioned that he's missing as an aspect of said post it would fly.
posted by cjorgensen at 9:15 AM on February 21, 2010 [1 favorite]

It's the universally reviled subgrowth between NewsFilter's parts and anus: News of the WeirdFilter.
posted by carsonb at 9:18 AM on February 21, 2010

MetaTalk is not for trying out MeFi posts. A single link to a tumblr blog is rarely enough for a post on MeFi.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:18 AM on February 21, 2010 [4 favorites]

This post caused me to totally lose my Boner.
posted by Sys Rq at 9:18 AM on February 21, 2010

To answer your question: MeFi thrives on both quasi-celebrities and mystery posts. Combine the two and you have FPP gold.
posted by DU at 9:19 AM on February 21, 2010 [1 favorite]

More to the point, MeFi is not for getting PSAs out. If there's a real story there, please wait until there is more than a single blog post about it.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:19 AM on February 21, 2010 [3 favorites]

If there's something substantial or interesting to this beyond "sort of famous person currently missing", feel free to make a post about it. If not, there's really no reason there would be a post, no.

Generally, if the question is "is this really something that would go over well as a post", the safe bet is to opt not to. But just making the post is the other option; asking about whether or not to make the post in Metatalk tends to just feel like a work-around and it seems to annoy a fair number of people.
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:21 AM on February 21, 2010

Sorry, I didn't know this was not appropriate for Metatalk. Thank-you for the prompt replies and would a moderator please delete this post.
posted by ZenithNadir at 9:31 AM on February 21, 2010

how did they get away with calling a character "boner" on a tv show??
posted by morganannie at 9:32 AM on February 21, 2010

We can close it up, sure.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:33 AM on February 21, 2010