Comments on: Calling Out Doubleposts

Calling Out Doubleposts

dash_slot- — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 17:50:52 -0800

If

all

else

fails...

read the instructions!

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:18:55 -0800

Is this where we post our guesses? Is this like "What's the Connection?" Or is an explanation to add some meaning to this forthcoming?

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:19:19 -0800

Pot meet Kettle

By: folktrash

folktrash — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:25:14 -0800

i don't get it either. it's too newsy? if i was into and enthralled over every single thing here, i'd get even less done. so some stuff is pop culture-y / newsy, so what.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:26:46 -0800

I think dash_slot- is trying to tell us that the specified threads are double posts.

By: riffola

riffola — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:34:44 -0800

But y6y6y6 they aren't double posts.

By: hama7

hama7 — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:35:13 -0800

If you're going to make a post related to Iraq and the impending war, please reconsider, as the topic has been discussed previously many times.- mathowie

Is it that? It could be, but the shuttle thread and the SUV thing aren't included....

I give up! What's the connection?

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:35:37 -0800

If you're going to make a post related to Iraq and the impending war, please reconsider

Just to be clear: the point of MetaFilter is to find the best and most interesting of the web to share with others, not [Because of [link], [link] and [link], I think [personal opinion that may or may not be substantiated by the link]].

Kettle meet Kettle.

By: folktrash

folktrash — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:37:24 -0800

maybe dashslot just doesn't like them, or the instructions.

on preview: enough kettle-walling

By: Yelling At Nothing

Yelling At Nothing — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:39:31 -0800

Ahem.

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:41:24 -0800

Ahem, yourself. That was contingent that others were going to make a effort to follow my lead. Instead things got worse.

I can break my own rules.

By: lampshade

lampshade — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:46:11 -0800

a) newsfilter
b) trollish post - even if satire
c) newsfilter - iraq
d) newsfilter - irag

If you're going to make a post related to Iraq and the impending war,
please reconsider, as the topic has been discussed previously many times.

i say - good call

sorry for the lack of caps. broken wrist forcing true "one armed typing"

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:46:57 -0800

Damn those Iragians!

By: folktrash

folktrash — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:49:34 -0800

sometimes i love metafilter. it's funny. it can be funny. i've laughed out loud at some of the things coldchef and many many others have said. it's also like a form of education. exposing me to thing i would not get in any other way. i remember when i heard the first news story on my local news channel that i had already heard about on metafilter. i felt so special.

then sometimes it's like an energy sucking bad relationship. bleh.

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:52:16 -0800

If you're going to make a post related to Irag and the impending war, please reconsider

By: lampshade

lampshade — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 18:56:28 -0800

Damn those Iragians!

...and their news hogging butts.
someone ought to take them out.

wait

sorry

By: Fabulon7

Fabulon7 — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:15:50 -0800

I can break my own rules.
Now what if Gandhi had said that?

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:21:01 -0800

Those posts all grouped together are like a bucket of shit, slathered in shit, with smaller "ornamental" buckets of shit nailed to it.

And the nails are made out of shit too.

Oh look some of the shit's mine. Suddenly really understand what Ed meant about how we can do better.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:26:09 -0800

no shit?

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:32:20 -0800

Perhaps if we engage dashslot peacefully, with no sudden moves, and communicate in sign language, or perhaps quietly in Klingon...perhaps then he will explain? No sudden moves, though.
just kidding, ds.

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:33:16 -0800

dash_slot, Why do you hate Metafilter so much?

By: dcgartn

dcgartn — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:33:19 -0800

Its bad etiquette to use that many line breaks on a fpp, even if its to Metatalk.

Newbie.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:35:09 -0800

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By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:41:33 -0800

I'm guessing it's that every thread there has the word "Iraq" in it. But only the last two are about Iraq/war.

And by the way........ I haven't posted on the front page for a long time. I didn't know that Matt was asking people explicitly to not post Iraq/war stuff.

So...... Macboy and Steve_at_Linnwood? Why did you post your Iraq/war posts? Other Iraq/war stuff is ass, but yours is golden?

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:45:57 -0800

I made no comment about the other Iraq posts, so I don't know where you get that condescending idea....

But yes, my ass is golden...

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 19:46:20 -0800

I don't get it, dashie, sir - when I click on your "read the instructions" link all I get is my familiar textual nemesis:

You cannot post to the front page at this time. This can be due to one of several things. You may not have been a member long enough, you may not have posted enough comments, or you may have already posted a link in the past 24 hours.

If I had a penny for every time I've read these dire, forbidding, annoyingly accurate words, I'd own all the oil in Iraq by now, would sign it over to Texaco and none of these threads would be around to annoy you. :)

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 20:01:58 -0800

"I made no comment about the other Iraq posts"

Right. That would be Matt who asked you to not post them. Hmmmm?

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 20:04:12 -0800

y6, what the hell are you talking about?

By: jonson

jonson — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 20:13:24 -0800

I rarely know either.

By: y6y6y6

y6y6y6 — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 20:15:00 -0800

On the page where you may post links to the front page there is some polite text from Matt, "If you're going to make a post related to Iraq and the impending war, please reconsider".

Into that box you entered a post related to Iraq and the impending war.

Why?

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 20:15:07 -0800

is there a war on somewhere?

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 21:05:19 -0800

wait a minute, is this thread about Iraq? Doesn't that mean it shouldn't have been posted?

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 21:32:24 -0800

No, but there are numerous other reasons why.

By: Mack Twain

Mack Twain — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 23:24:08 -0800

Quit bogarding that joint you selfish bastards.

By: skyscraper

skyscraper — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 23:31:44 -0800

I believe that dash_slot- was hoping for links that made us aware of things we hadn't thought about before, instead of triggering the MeFi version of the Punch and Judy show.

Or maybe not. Maybe he is, indeed, a blithering idiot. All things are possible in this best of possible worlds.

By: fold_and_mutilate

fold_and_mutilate — Tue, 04 Feb 2003 23:38:33 -0800

Ahem, yourself. That was contingent that others were going to make a effort to follow my lead. Instead things got worse.
I can break my own rules.
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 6:41 PM PST on February 4

~big laugh~

Ahem, Steve_at_Linnwood, do you wear Kevlar footwear? If that wasn't the best goddamned definition-cum-example of hypocrisy I've EVER heard, I am in fact G Dubya Bush. As I've long maintained, the comical hypocrisy (which in this case borders on the obscene) of a certain segment here never fails to amuse. Your continued "participation" in political threads after you supposedly swore off for some reason back in November was blooper-reel material. But your succinct and extraordinarily revealing words today are in the very finest tradition of that certain amusing segment, and may in fact be the creme de le creme of it's genre.

Congrats.

Don't get me wrong. I hope you keep posting. But a little hint: I think it'll be a cold day in hell before anyone "follows your lead" down hypocrisy lane. You may want to give it a rest. You may want to go spitshine your golden ass for a while, since you seem to be showing it so often here.

But thanks for the chuckles....funniest thing I've seen on MeFi for some time. I assume the humor is intentional, because the alternative is a bit disturbing.

~wink~

By: Yelling At Nothing

Yelling At Nothing — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:33:48 -0800

There's always someone to make the commment I think better of.

[what f_&_m said]

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 06:22:40 -0800

But a little hint: I think it'll be a cold day in hell before anyone "follows your lead" down hypocrisy lane.

Oh this is quite obvious, everyone on MeFi wants to bitch about the political thread, but no one wants to stop with them because they are different.

Point in case, dash_slot posts this MeTa thread about FPP he dosn't like, yet posts this thread on the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy of Electronic Voting, and at the same time skips over the most trollish 'Iraq' thread of the day.

but f&m, don't talk to me about hypocrisy, you have a big enough problem with that yourself...

By: cries pitifully

*cries pitifully* — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 06:26:26 -0800

My head hurts. Someone please make the bad people stop fighting.

By: sir walsingham

sir walsingham — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 06:31:27 -0800

Please stop misusing the tilde.

Please.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 06:55:45 -0800

Nice job Foldy. Your petty little attack allowed Steve to dodge the question. Let's try again: why post about Iraq when it says on the submit page to reconsider posting about Iraq?

By: dg

dg — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:04:58 -0800

Sir Walsingham, what is the tilde meant to be used for anyway? I have often wondered. Perhaps we can salvage some use out of this waste of screen ink after all.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:14:28 -0800

Oh, Matt. Please, please, please... pull the plug right now.

By: PrinceValium

PrinceValium — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 07:20:54 -0800

Hey guess what everybody?
Everything is political.
Life is political.
Art, culture, technology, all the good stuff that we are supposed to be posting to Metafilter, is tinged with politics.
Emotion is political.
Any community without politics is a false utopia.
Concentrate on making good links. Participate in threads with good links. Ignore ones without good links. Mold your own community.

By: Shane

Shane — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:06:23 -0800

My head hurts. Someone please make the bad people stop fighting.
-*cries pitifully*

See what you've done!? Will you please think of the kids!!

By: mischief

mischief — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:19:15 -0800

PiST: Perhaps he did reconsider and still decided it was a worthy post.

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 09:33:28 -0800

You are correct sir!

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:17:07 -0800

f+m: I am in fact G Dubya Bush.

~cries pitifully~

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 11:26:43 -0800

Let's try again: why post about Iraq when it says on the submit page to reconsider posting about Iraq?

Sorry - the final link above should have pointed at Mathowie's HUGE hint - "If you're going to make a post related to Iraq and the impending war, please reconsider, as the topic has been discussed previously many times.- mathowie"If you're going to make a post related to Iraq and the impending war, please reconsider, as the topic has been discussed previously many times.- mathowie

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 11:27:11 -0800

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:58:23 -0800

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:13:19 -0800

Your continued "participation" in political threads after you supposedly swore off for some reason back in November was blooper-reel material.... But a little hint: I think it'll be a cold day in hell before anyone "follows your lead" down hypocrisy lane. You may want to give it a rest.

No, you give it a rest. I totally disagree with S@L's politics, but his attempt to start a no-political-arguments movement was brave and worthwhile; it's absurd to expect him to hold to it after pretty much everyone ignored him (except to make bitter little partisan attacks like this). If people had followed his lead, MeFi would be a better place. But obviously you like partisan bickering, so I'm talking to the wrong person.

By: timeistight

timeistight — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:22:01 -0800

it's absurd to expect him to hold to it after pretty much everyone ignored him

You're saying that everyone participates in these political arguments?

By: Yelling At Nothing

Yelling At Nothing — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:22:19 -0800

Dammit.

Self-policing works by leading by example. The point isn't to make people think like you do; we already know we're notoriously bad at accomplishing that here. The point is to cut out your own little portion of the noise. And hopefully more people get it as time goes on.

I'm not the MeFi police; neither is dash_slot-, or S@L, or y6, or PST. There's one guy that is, and we already know how he feels. But since he's obviously handling it in a hands-off kinda way, the only we can do is make an honest effort to follow along, on an individual basis. Saying "But everyone else is doing it" is a cop-out of that responsibility.

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:54:53 -0800

Steve_At_Linnwood: He hates Puppies

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:30:12 -0800

Why do you hate Mathowie so much?

(",)

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 15:12:54 -0800

no no no

It is :

Steve_At_Linnwod, why do you hate Mathowie so much?

It is all about the format...

jeeze

By: ook

ook — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 16:11:03 -0800

Why do I already hate this wannabee in-joke so much?

By: mediareport

mediareport — Wed, 05 Feb 2003 19:51:30 -0800

I can break my own rules.

Nice way to tell everyone, "My word is no good." Yeesh.

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 00:23:54 -0800

O...so it was aimed at you, was it, S@L?

By: hama7

hama7 — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 01:11:44 -0800

I think evanizer is on his way back.

By: dg

dg — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 03:46:49 -0800

Umm, hama7, perhaps you should have checked that that page is still what you think it is before you link to it?

By: hama7

hama7 — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 04:53:40 -0800

I did. If it changes before this post does, it said:

Steve_at_Linwood is a fuckwit.

I linked to it because I welcome the return of the lingo and the repertoire.

As a fuckwit myself, I think I know of what I speak. For example:

hama7 is a fuckwit.

Taa-Daa!

By: hama7

hama7 — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 04:55:50 -0800

'Linnwood'

By: Steve_at_Linnwood

Steve_at_Linnwood — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 09:53:23 -0800

I hate you guys.

[/Cartman]

By: dg

dg — Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:15:36 -0800

That's OK Steve, we all hate you too ;-)

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