This post is a total self link September 8, 2002 4:19 PM   Subscribe

This post is a total self link. Details inside.
posted by dcgartn to Bugs at 4:19 PM (20 comments total)

I've never played mefi police before, but filecrave posted a link to a message board entry on his site posted by him. Its a self link on multiple levels.

The site linked to, filejunkies.com, registrar info:

Administrative Contact:
Boone, George vtctechnician@yahoo.com
Secret Street
fakecity, fakestate 90210
US
(111) 111-1111

No, look at filecraves profile and you will see that he links to his domain, georgeboone.com.

Also, his AIM username is the same as the username of the post he linked to...so its pretty clear that this is a self-link, and I hate those.
posted by dcgartn at 4:25 PM on September 8, 2002


And he uses an animated title. KILL!

But seriously, good catch.
posted by Su at 4:28 PM on September 8, 2002


Didja write Matt?
posted by frykitty at 4:35 PM on September 8, 2002


but what's the punishment going to be?

i suggest he has to read every single 911 thread.
posted by andrew cooke at 4:36 PM on September 8, 2002


ack!
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 4:48 PM on September 8, 2002


Mefite 1: I got it! Let's spam him.
Mefite 2: Great idea. I'll send him an e-mail.

ten minutes later

Mefite 2: What's this? I owe him money for spamming him?!?! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo, that clever bastard. Our brilliant plan has gone astray, broken asunder by a mind more magnificent than our collective own.
Mefite 1: All I can do is clench my fists in frustration and let out a scream of primal rage.
Mefite 2: Do it!
Mefite 1:Geragaaaaaawaaaaageraaaaawan!
Mefite 2:I'm in awe.

Moral: Sometimes smart people are too smart to stop.

This ends mefi community theater for this evening.


posted by The God Complex at 4:53 PM on September 8, 2002


Sometimes smart people are too smart to stop.
Also: Sometimes stupid people are too stupid to stop.

posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 5:00 PM on September 8, 2002


alternate scenario:

mefite #1: Hmmm. This is a blatant self-link!
mefite #1: It is. I'll delete the post and if he ever tries this again, he's banned.
posted by vacapinta at 5:09 PM on September 8, 2002


OT - There is no mefite #2. or #3. Did Matt have to bump them off or something?
posted by Joey Michaels at 5:18 PM on September 8, 2002


Yeah, ya know, da mefi mobsters thought dey couldn't trust 'em, so dey's sleepin' wit da fishies.
posted by SpecialK at 5:20 PM on September 8, 2002


It probably has something to do with the trinity. it's confusing.
posted by rhyax at 5:44 PM on September 8, 2002


good catch guys.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 6:24 PM on September 8, 2002


By the way, there is a proper MetaFilter term for self-links...
posted by evanizer at 9:50 PM on September 8, 2002


My first thought too, Evan, and it's still #1 (and #2) on Google. Heh.
posted by Danelope at 11:47 PM on September 8, 2002


mefite #1: Hmmm. This is a blatant self-link!
mefite #1: It is. I'll delete the post and if he ever tries this again, he's banned.


Well, yeah, but what fun is that? I was just pointing out--in a round-a-bout the obvious of what I say is what I mean way--that he didn't seem to be doing it in an "I'm an evil genius directing traffic to my message board post in a very nefarious manner" kind of way. Or he wouldn't have made it so obvious. Perhaps an instance of mefi-rule ignorance.

And if it was supposed to be a dark plot to garner attention, he's an idiot and my original theatrics about the idiocy stand.

Ta-da.
posted by The God Complex at 11:55 PM on September 8, 2002


Duh, I don't speak so good. Sometimes I get confused with what I'm typing over IM and what I'm typing to the site. Obvious should have read opposite.
posted by The God Complex at 11:56 PM on September 8, 2002


I made a mistake too:

When I typed,
It is. I'll delete the post and if he ever tries this again, he's banned.

I meant to type:
Off with his head!



posted by vacapinta at 12:13 AM on September 9, 2002


I wonder what Billy Maulana is doing right now?
posted by crunchland at 2:03 AM on September 9, 2002


Plotting vengance, probably.
posted by evanizer at 2:23 AM on September 9, 2002


Off with his head!

That's the spirit! I'll get my sword.
posted by The God Complex at 1:51 PM on September 9, 2002


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