How to get help finding a link? January 5, 2003 1:18 PM   Subscribe

I hope this isn't a stupid question, and I have checked the FAQ, but.... is there any polite way to ask for help locating a link that was posted in the comments of a thread? I remember reading the link, but not the original thread it was in, and would like to return to the link to print it and use in class. Is there some way to ask the general readership to help me find the thread? I have Googled, I have searched MetaFilter....no avail. Sorry if this is silly.
posted by oflinkey to MetaFilter-Related at 1:18 PM (35 comments total)

Well, it might help if you could describe it.
posted by y2karl at 1:21 PM on January 5, 2003


Spit it out, man!
posted by ashbury at 1:24 PM on January 5, 2003


I didn't want to take up FFP space. It was an editorial by a conservative African American writer describing why welfare and other 'liberal' programs were keeping African Americans in a state of poverty. It was titled either "Don't Feed the Black People", or that line was featured as a subtitle.
posted by oflinkey at 1:25 PM on January 5, 2003


what was the thread about? when was it posted?
posted by ashbury at 1:34 PM on January 5, 2003


Ashbury- I do not remember what the thread was about, as I have said. That is the root of the problem! If I knew that, I would be able to find it myself. The thread was posted within the last 3 weeks (liberal guess) and more likely in the last 2.
posted by oflinkey at 1:40 PM on January 5, 2003


Is this the article? It's linked from the last comment here.
posted by staggernation at 1:46 PM on January 5, 2003


(In case anyone cares, I found that with this query.)
posted by staggernation at 1:51 PM on January 5, 2003


Staggernation- You are a God(dess). I thank you profusely. Please let me know if you need any Bath and Body Works products. That query is insane, by the way. I am much too dumb to have done that.
posted by oflinkey at 1:56 PM on January 5, 2003


hama7 at your service. :)
posted by hama7 at 3:02 PM on January 5, 2003


thats a BIG 2-3 weeks.
posted by quonsar at 5:05 PM on January 5, 2003


quonsar- sorry. Got stuck in a space-time continuum loop.
posted by oflinkey at 7:31 PM on January 5, 2003


Searching for the word troll! BRILLIANT!
posted by Hildago at 7:40 PM on January 5, 2003


from that thread--

the East, (most notably Korea, Japan and Taiwan) has enormous school class sizes, an incredibly dense inner-city population and a uncountable horde of students who study their asses off to survive and compete, and they do it well.

What a fucking crock. Like the Burakim in Japan or the children of the guest worker Bangladeshis, Mongolians, Filipinos and Thais in Korea don't have the same sort of racist tripe times ten spewed about them as blacks and hispanics in the USA.

An then the mention of that crock of lies, the Bell Curve,--Oh for Christ's sake. The troll part was so true...
posted by y2karl at 8:35 PM on January 5, 2003


I thought it was an interesting article and Im glad hama7 posted it troll or not.
posted by Recockulous at 8:50 PM on January 5, 2003


What a fucking crock.

Save it hotshot, we discussed it already.
posted by hama7 at 8:58 PM on January 5, 2003


The query was excluding trolls (because "don't feed the troll(s)" would be a common but incorrect phrase to hit on when searching for "don't feed"). What I don't understand is the dash between don't and feed (i.e. "don't-feed"). I've seen periods used to connect words in google search syntax. Is a hyphen the same deal? Is it any different from a phrase search using quotation marks?
posted by willnot at 10:20 PM on January 5, 2003


Searching for the word troll! BRILLIANT!

Far be it from me to deprive you of gleeful levity and mirth, but the name of the article by Ken Hamblin was entitled 'Don't Feed The Blacks'.

Before you call the ACLU or start a MetaTalk thread about this MetaTalk thread, you might want to examine political correctness carefully, among other things.
posted by hama7 at 11:05 PM on January 5, 2003


Y'know, this might be a good reason for having an open forum where we can chat about anything without getting slapped down for being a bad FPP or MeTa topic, although ultimately I believe MeTa is exactly for the purpose of talking about MeFi posts anyway.
posted by wackybrit at 12:09 AM on January 6, 2003


an open forum where we can chat about anything

thats a violation of the metafilter meta code of metafilter meta. we even have code words like "slippery slope" to discourage such anarchic notions. take it to fark. or crunchland.
posted by quonsar at 7:12 AM on January 6, 2003


A blog without rules? Hmmm?

Also, I was unaware of this search feature:

site:metafilter.com

Just learnin' something everyday.
posted by Witty at 10:43 AM on January 6, 2003


isn't that what #mefi is for? Asking questions from your peers?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:04 AM on January 6, 2003


Hm. I don't think so. I think #mefi is for listening to some stupid bot called Femi.
posted by crunchland at 11:12 AM on January 6, 2003


willnot: The query was excluding trolls (because "don't feed the troll(s)" would be a common but incorrect phrase to hit on when searching for "don't feed").

Exactly. I first just tried "don't feed" but got too many results and didn't see anything relevant on the first page. I wasn't trying to imply anything about the thread in question (which I haven't even read).

What I don't understand is the dash between don't and feed (i.e. "don't-feed"). I've seen periods used to connect words in google search syntax. Is a hyphen the same deal? Is it any different from a phrase search using quotation marks?

It's the same as using a period or quotation marks. I think I just got into the habit of using hyphens with some pre-Google search engine that required that syntax for exact phrases.
posted by staggernation at 11:49 AM on January 6, 2003



Far be it from me to deprive you of gleeful levity and mirth, but the name of the article by Ken Hamblin was entitled 'Don't Feed The Blacks'.

Before you call the ACLU or start a MetaTalk thread about this MetaTalk thread, you might want to examine political correctness carefully, among other things.


I don't know what the hell you're talking about, but it doesn't sound like it has anything to do with me. I just thought that including the word troll in the search was a good idea, because any thread about race was going to have somebody in it who thought the post was a troll. So chill out.
posted by Hildago at 12:23 PM on January 6, 2003


isn't that what #mefi is for? Asking questions from your peers?

That's a good idea - I knew there must be a reason for #mefi - we could use a bit more female influence in there, too :-)
posted by dg at 2:11 PM on January 6, 2003


#mefi appears to be down. Or at least ircle won't let me in.
posted by elwoodwiles at 7:48 PM on January 6, 2003


... you might want to examine political correctness carefully, among other things.

You mean like this guy did?
posted by y2karl at 9:03 PM on January 6, 2003


You mean like this guy did?

Right. Or like Augustin Blaquez very eloquently put it.
posted by hama7 at 4:12 AM on January 7, 2003


Yes, these people agree with you--and these people are on the same page, too.
posted by y2karl at 11:14 AM on January 7, 2003


Just a warning: don't click on any of y2karl's links above unless you want to give more traffic to some virulently rascist, undeniably evil hate groups. The point is nicely made, though.
posted by yhbc at 12:16 PM on January 7, 2003


Yes, these people agree with you

Yes, that's very clever. Very clever indeed. You forgot some asinine comparison to a Neo-Nazi group! (or maybe you didn't, but I can't be bothered to click on all that crap) Godwin can now be summoned.

If you'd bothered to check the details in the link I reposted above, you'd realize how ridiculously off-base and surreal your comparisons are, but that's never been a hindrance before. Heck, I've even seen mea-culpa MetaTalk threads by shrieking harridans who completely lost the "Politically Correct" plot. Remember?

No, instead of addressing the statement I made, you provide all manner of taunting absurdity and colorful nasty names, but as past actions have amply displayed, that's not too low for you to stoop either.

Who could take this seriously?
posted by hama7 at 3:46 PM on January 7, 2003


oflinkey: Look what you did!? All you wanted was to find a old post and now everybody's fighting again.
posted by elwoodwiles at 5:00 PM on January 7, 2003


Since I had some time, I clicked above and most of it was as expected, but the letter 'e' in 'people' above was oddly compelling, and quite mysteriously baffling.

Thanks y2karl.
posted by hama7 at 7:00 PM on January 7, 2003


If you'd bothered to check the details in the link I reposted above, you'd realize how ridiculously off-base and surreal your comparisons are, but that's never been a hindrance before.

Ironic you should call for this, since the original comment you made to me was based on a faulty assumption.
posted by Hildago at 10:15 PM on January 7, 2003


Ironic you should call for this, since the original comment you made to me was based on a faulty assumption.

Please allow me to explain. I didn't post the article as a "troll", although I think some people saw it as such, which was unfortunate. The title of the linked article was similar to the phrase "don't feed the trolls", which may have led to the confusion, and was the reason I responded above.

I posted it because I love Ken Hamblin's work. He is a funny, conservative radio host, also known as "The Black Avenger", (and his photo is at the head of the article, in case you missed it) and his views are noteworthy because he blames liberal welfare and tax-handout programs for the lingering problems of inner city blacks, which stands to reason. The letter "e" above neglects to mention the quiet success of middle and upper-middle class American black people, who outnumber the lower, and collectively have a higher standard of living than Swedish people, (I think I read that on David Horowitz's site frontpagemag.

In any case, I am not going to post links to David Duke or Lyndon Larouche, because I don't agree with them, and I slightly resent being lumped in with them, although this kind of behavior is rather typical, so much so that it's a little humorous.

But please feel free to lump me in with Augustin Blazquez, Ken Hamblin, David Horowitz, or Ann Coulter any day.
posted by hama7 at 11:30 PM on January 7, 2003


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