Update already linked in original thread

November 3, 2003 3:32 AM

No need for this as the WaPo article was linked in the actual thread a few days ago.

Not a call out or smack down, just a minor admin detail.
posted by i_cola to etiquette/policy at 3:32 AM (26 comments total)

well, who cares if the post is not necessary, it's always cool to place a news ticker on the Front Page with "Rupert Murdoch Has a Great Sense of Humor ... Groening Is a Whiny Liberal ..."
posted by matteo at 4:25 AM on November 3, 2003

Well maybe just a little smackdown because no-one is going to argue that this isn't a double post wearing a diguise as poor as Pistachio Disguisey. And do I get my belly scratched and a treat for putting my comment in the right thread?
posted by meech at 4:29 AM on November 3, 2003

ahh come on, admit it... part of you really does want to smack steve around just a little bit, right...? i'd be happy to grab him around the ankles while zarah knocks him down for you :-)
posted by t r a c y at 4:33 AM on November 3, 2003

*Stands ready*
posted by zarah at 4:39 AM on November 3, 2003

just a minor admin detail.

and now that you've brought this little administrative matter to our attention, precisely how do you propose we proceed to ignore it?
posted by quonsar at 5:42 AM on November 3, 2003

I call a one week moratorium on new MeTa posts.
posted by anathema at 5:43 AM on November 3, 2003

Make sure you call that in MeTalk so everyone can read it, ana. Oh, and we may want to discuss it as well! ;-P
posted by mischief at 5:56 AM on November 3, 2003

I only let my mother call me ana.
posted by anathema at 6:03 AM on November 3, 2003

mischief isn't your ma?
posted by amberglow at 6:13 AM on November 3, 2003

It's a good point, though, because, as we've mentioned before, it seems like interest in most posts disappears within hours. One can understand the urge to post something as a new topic when it is really an update of an old post. For example, how many of you read on the old thread that the sex change/snogger show has been dropped?
posted by taz at 6:17 AM on November 3, 2003

When it comes to posting on the front page, or to MeTa, "urges" should be suppressed. The oft given advice to wait a day before posting to the front page should also apply to MeTa. All other urges should be engaged posthaste.
posted by anathema at 6:24 AM on November 3, 2003

And do I get my belly scratched and a treat for putting my comment in the right thread?

*scratches meech's belly, throws him a Freedom Fry*
posted by matteo at 6:47 AM on November 3, 2003

I call a one week moratorium on new MeTa posts.

I second the motion.
posted by crunchland at 6:51 AM on November 3, 2003

All in favor?
posted by anathema at 6:53 AM on November 3, 2003

how many of you read on the old thread that the sex change/snogger show has been dropped?

Or, how many read it elsewhere on the Internet plenty of times, as I did, and assumed, without even checking back on the original thread, that someone would have mentioned this update in the thread? Although this has some political overtones - Steve wants to make sure we get that Fox is A-OK and Groening's a whiner, and some of us believe the converse and think Steve is being boorish - but the base issue is the same: Updates to threads should go in the threads themselves, at least until the thread is closed to comments.
posted by soyjoy at 7:06 AM on November 3, 2003

All in favor?

I'd say 'aye', but I've sworn not to post anything to MeTa for at least a week.
posted by stonerose at 7:08 AM on November 3, 2003

The easiest way to avoid new MeTa posts is to stop coming to MeTa - it's free, easy, and instantly effective.
posted by taz at 7:09 AM on November 3, 2003

It's ok to comment. It's not ok to post.
posted by anathema at 7:29 AM on November 3, 2003

Unfortunately, this isn't a democracy. It's chaos lorded over by a fickle (though friendly) ruler. Metatalk wouldn't know Robert's Rules of Order if it bit it on the ass.
posted by crunchland at 7:38 AM on November 3, 2003

Hmmmm.

Well, firstly I should make it clear that I have nothing against S@L at all. All I wanted to do was quietly & nicely point out a minor thing. [I'm guessing that his prefs are set so that he doesn't get too many days in the front page so the original FPP had disappered.]

Secondly, I don't think that posting to MeTa is inherrently bad, but maybe a bit less of the 'Huh, what a dumbass, read the rules you jerk' would help. Which is why I tried to post as pleasantly as I could.

I don't expect us all to start flitting 'round a la English period drama ['Why I do believe you have made a post to the wrong position Mr Linnwood', 'My, my, so one has Mr _cola. I am such a silly!] but a li'l less winding up the crank may help. The grey is here to help the blue so let it do its job properly.

quonsar: I'm sure your reputed collection of 19th century 'What the Butler Saw' machines could distract you ;-)

*grins at taz*
posted by i_cola at 8:38 AM on November 3, 2003

I call a one week moratorium on new MeTa posts.

Fine with me, as long as we precede the moratorium with a post so ludicrous and/or offensive we can spend an entire week lashing it and each other with rotten seaweed.

Hey, matteo, toss me one of those fries, willya?
posted by languagehat at 8:41 AM on November 3, 2003

What's the country code for Portugal?
posted by anathema at 8:45 AM on November 3, 2003

um, whats with the knee jerk reaction to metatalk posts? i_cola made a good point and steve should've followed meech's example. if you don't agree, just say why.
posted by mcsweetie at 9:27 AM on November 3, 2003

The point could have been made intrathread, without a new MeTa post. Just sayin'.
posted by anathema at 9:35 AM on November 3, 2003

But now it couldn't.
posted by anathema at 10:27 AM on November 3, 2003

Hey, matteo, toss me one of those fries, willya?

I wish I could -- FreedomParamus deported all the fries to Guantanamo
posted by matteo at 11:09 AM on November 3, 2003