Pranks against MeFi

March 17, 2010 4:30 PM

Is this guy for real?

I'm not trying to hate on anyone, and we all have submitted our fair share of stupid questions, but looking at a few of Jazzwick's submissions got me thinking; how have people tried to prank MeFi?

posted by Scientifik to MetaFilter-Related at 4:30 PM (9 comments total)

Dude's just a little different. We all are.
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 4:32 PM on March 17, 2010 [4 favorites]

he asks (usually) answerable questions, which last i checked is the requirement. there are far, far dumber questions on ask.me.
posted by nadawi at 4:34 PM on March 17, 2010

Is this guy for real?

You're saying you're a solipsist, too?
posted by Durn Bronzefist at 4:35 PM on March 17, 2010 [29 favorites]

You know, putting a magnifying glass on someone who seems to be having an ongoing problem is probably not really the best way to move forward with this.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:35 PM on March 17, 2010 [30 favorites]

The point of this post wasn't to flame Jazzwick, it was to ask if anyone had tried to prank metafilter.
posted by Scientifik at 4:42 PM on March 17, 2010

A couple of those questions are very interesting. I may have a go at trying to answer one.
posted by bukvich at 4:43 PM on March 17, 2010

Yeah, this should be closed. Kinda fucked up to out someone for their honest problems and questions.

Not cool, man.
posted by Lutoslawski at 4:43 PM on March 17, 2010 [9 favorites]

"I'm a twenty year old guy who has horrific OCD, wants to sing and go to university."
posted by grobstein at 4:44 PM on March 17, 2010

The point of this post wasn't to flame Jazzwick, it was to ask if anyone had tried to prank metafilter.

That you shouldn't have linked to his posting history. Not cool and I'll close this up. You or someone else can post the question again without the callout-seeming aspect.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:45 PM on March 17, 2010 [6 favorites]