May 9, 2002

4:14 AM

Backmasking? Backlinking? Backsliding? Backstabbing? Back massage?
Surely this is no coincidence - am I missing some hilarious in-joke here or is there a new MeFi policy whereby all front page posts must be self-referential and carry some allusion to regression? Personally I'd rather have the old, plain no-back Metafilter back.
posted by skylar to etiquette/policy at 4:14 AM (22 comments total)

Don't get the joke? Go to jail. As you can see skylar, these things just kinda happen every now and then.
posted by machaus at 4:31 AM on May 9, 2002

It's been done before. There was, for instance, the amusing "rug rats", "cut a rug", "wearing a rug", "rug muncher" series. Usually these things are arranged by secret vote.
posted by pracowity at 4:35 AM on May 9, 2002

I guess I'm sort of guilty, having posted the third link. But I don't think you have to worry about it skylar, I'm sure all will go back to "normal".

No secret vote, just my curiousity at work. I actually learned something in the process, never occurred to me that "backsliding" had such a religious context. Pretty interesting (at least to me).
posted by jeremias at 4:51 AM on May 9, 2002

hey! back off.

holy shit. is this a legitimate complaint?
posted by jcterminal at 5:17 AM on May 9, 2002

I can't speak for everyone else, skylar, but I posted the first link and I assure I had no idea. It was fun watching it pile up, though.
posted by jonmc at 5:48 AM on May 9, 2002

Yeah, um, calm down.

"I'd rather have the old, plain ... MetaFilter back."

This is one of the spontaneous amusements that pop up every so often. I think the complaint is a little over the top and persnickety.
posted by Marquis at 5:58 AM on May 9, 2002

I can't speak for everyone else, skylar, but I posted the first link and I assure I had no idea.

Word, jonmc, I got your . . .

Ok, I'll stop now, heh
posted by jeremias at 6:08 AM on May 9, 2002

There is no cabal.

No, really.
posted by dong_resin at 6:14 AM on May 9, 2002

lol, I saw this earlier when there were just 3 "back" posts and thought something was up. Now there are 5. Was wondering myself if there was some hidden joke, then I just thought it was coincidence. Maybe next week we can get a group of people posting with the common word of star or cell.
posted by thebwit at 6:18 AM on May 9, 2002

maybe some old Andrew Dice Clay-loyal people have been posting to the front page. He did a parody bit on "Day the Laughter Died" called "Hour, Back, Get It?" i.e.

I'll be back in an hour.....back.....GET IT?

I never did.....There are a few MP3 floating 'round the web of it.
posted by mkelley at 6:29 AM on May 9, 2002

The second one (backlinking) is mine, and I had not seen the first before posting it. The first two, at least, were serendipitous.
posted by NortonDC at 7:11 AM on May 9, 2002

"rats" (packs bag)
"Boise". "F$&*^$ BOISE!"
{ricka-braka-frika-fraka}
thanks skylar.


phone rings.
posted by clavdivs at 8:31 AM on May 9, 2002

I thought it was great. Why not have a little link between the links, after all?
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:10 AM on May 9, 2002

sidelinking?
posted by NortonDC at 10:39 AM on May 9, 2002

If I'd caught it earlier, I would have linked something on, oh, say, "Bach." Oh, well. Time to just wait for the next memetic MeFi link series.
posted by brownpau at 11:35 AM on May 9, 2002

I'm partial to the fugue, brownpau.
posted by machaus at 3:24 PM on May 9, 2002

Cool - I didn't notice til you pointed it out. Thanks! ;)
posted by obiwanwasabi at 4:44 PM on May 9, 2002

wait--not sidelinking; linkherding.

Me like.

mooo...
posted by NortonDC at 7:49 PM on May 9, 2002

wait--not sidelinking; linkherding.

Me like.

mooo...
posted by NortonDC at 7:51 PM on May 9, 2002

ehp
posted by NortonDC at 7:51 PM on May 9, 2002

We only herd the links we love.
posted by Optamystic at 10:50 PM on May 9, 2002

*beats Optamystic with a rolled-up newspaper*
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:31 AM on May 10, 2002