Another boring post.

October 29, 2003 8:21 AM

Another boring post. Another policy failure.
posted by the fire you left me to Etiquette/Policy at 8:21 AM (31 comments total)

Yes it was a double-post, yes it didn't link to anything interesting, *but* what saves this FPP is the level of analysis and insight we are offered.

No, really.
posted by nthdegx at 8:27 AM on October 29, 2003

So why the hell did YOU post it, and then meta YOURSELF?
posted by smackfu at 8:27 AM on October 29, 2003

O_o
posted by nthdegx at 8:34 AM on October 29, 2003

Yeah, only Miguel is allowed to call himself out in MeTa.
posted by languagehat at 8:42 AM on October 29, 2003

Fire who left me: And your point is... Because really, I'm not too sure I understand what you're trying to achieve.
Albeit the slightly amusing possibility of having half the metatalk regulars explode in fury.

Although, if you link to this page from the metafilter front page with some ambigious heading like ...

(1 2 3 4). Is this wrong....

Well, that would be quite funny.
posted by seanyboy at 8:43 AM on October 29, 2003

SchizophreniaFilter
posted by pardonyou? at 8:45 AM on October 29, 2003

Another policy failure

God, I hope I'm not recalled over this.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:59 AM on October 29, 2003

that's it, I'm posting goatse.
posted by angry modem at 9:16 AM on October 29, 2003

You should never have put up that "Mission Accomplished" banner, Matt.
posted by rory at 9:17 AM on October 29, 2003

dammit, angry modem, i was working up to that.
posted by keswick at 9:20 AM on October 29, 2003

My head just exploded.
posted by xmutex at 9:21 AM on October 29, 2003

So, t.f.y.l.m., are your going to explain yourself, or are you going to leave this thread as contentless as your Napster post?
posted by me3dia at 9:25 AM on October 29, 2003

No, you see it's our fault for not preventing tfylm from posting it. He is just demonstrating the fragile nature of Metafilter that without built in rules and limitations anyone can churn out a piss poor fpp.
posted by PenDevil at 9:28 AM on October 29, 2003

Me-DUH-filter.
posted by dhoyt at 9:34 AM on October 29, 2003

When you put your head into the mortar it is useless to dread the sound of the pestle.
posted by rushmc at 9:37 AM on October 29, 2003

well, here's another.
posted by angry modem at 10:01 AM on October 29, 2003

Good for you, the fire you left me! Self-criticism is always praiseworthy and considering that normal human beings fuck up 90% (at least!) of the time; what's strange is that it doesn't happen more often.

Deep in our hearts, I think we all know when we should haul our own asses to MeTa. The problem with other people, unlike Sartre's "Hell is other people", is that they're too damn polite and nice. Because they set our own misjudgements and failures against their own.

Well done! (Though you know, coming from me, it's the kiss of death, don't you?) ;)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 10:06 AM on October 29, 2003

Usually when this happens, double post, the poster apologizes & asks deletion in the posted thread.
posted by thomcatspike at 10:25 AM on October 29, 2003

When you have Miguel congratulating you on your use of MeTa, you know you're doing something wrong.
posted by bshort at 10:50 AM on October 29, 2003

Deep in our hearts, I think we all know when we should haul our own asses to MeTa. The problem with other people, unlike Sartre's "Hell is other people", is that they're too damn polite and nice.

So, your point here is that the problem with most people is that they are too polite to post metatalk complaints about themselves?
posted by taz at 10:51 AM on October 29, 2003

When you have Miguel congratulating you on your use of MeTa, you know you're doing something wrong.

That, unfortunately, is very true. :(
posted by MiguelCardoso at 10:53 AM on October 29, 2003

My experience with hauling myself to Meta was rather negative. I don't recommend it.
posted by konolia at 12:23 PM on October 29, 2003

1) user posts something about Napster's relaunch, which, arguably, is new, of interest, and discussion worthy

2) user gets a dozen tomatos in the face immediately

3) user pre-emptively MeTas self, obviating the long, shitty argument he would probably otherwise get into defending his post

I don't blame him.
posted by scarabic at 12:28 PM on October 29, 2003

"user gets a dozen tomatoes in the face immediately"

Wow, can we click a button in here and have that done automatically?
posted by batgrlHG at 1:05 PM on October 29, 2003

1) user posts something about Napster's relaunch, which, arguably, is new, of interest, and discussion worthy
posted by monju_bosatsu at 1:08 PM on October 29, 2003

It just launched, monju. We've known about it for a while, but isn't now the first time we can actually try it?

Far be it from me to defend the post, however. I don't see how anything is "official" with nothing to back it up.
posted by scarabic at 1:45 PM on October 29, 2003

I understand that it just launched, but we just had a discussion three days ago about how it was about to launch. Couldn't the discussion have continued in that thread?
posted by monju_bosatsu at 2:04 PM on October 29, 2003

Is there a way to anticipate the anchor number for a comment? I wanted to call myself out for making a boring response, but I realized the last three comments have anchor numbers 86587, 86588, and 86597.

On preview: D'oh! 86600. Stop it! Stop it!
posted by subgenius at 2:09 PM on October 29, 2003

Fuckwit.
posted by subgenius at 2:10 PM on October 29, 2003

Hey! We had an argument about it! I guess it really was arguably new :)

Point taken, though, the posts suck.
posted by scarabic at 2:12 PM on October 29, 2003

Wow, can we click a button in here and have that done automatically?

Is it automatic if you have to click a button?
posted by nthdegx at 4:56 AM on October 30, 2003