Dumb comments or is it just me?

November 6, 2003 2:53 AM

Am I the only one who is questioning the intellectual text of Tiamats comments as of late? Sure, i've said some very embarrassing and pointless things in the past, but cmon! This is almost to the point of pointless blather. I guess you could say that I don't know anymore.
posted by Keyser Soze to Bugs at 2:53 AM (60 comments total)

Who knows?
posted by anathema at 2:58 AM on November 6, 2003

Well, I can vouch, with a fair bit of certainty, that I certainly don't know. I just don't.
posted by The God Complex at 3:05 AM on November 6, 2003

The enemy:


posted by Keyser Soze at 3:05 AM on November 6, 2003

Thank god you posted that picture so we can hunt him down and lynch him!

umm.
posted by The God Complex at 3:13 AM on November 6, 2003

Its not like anyones gonna go Green River Killer on him. I just want to see what other Mefites think, sans the bullshit "I just want to post a comment to feel important and psuedo intellectual" crap.
posted by Keyser Soze at 3:21 AM on November 6, 2003

I think the phrase you're looking for is "intellectual heft." But if we start requiring that in the guidelines, it will be a bloodbath over here for weeks.
posted by rcade at 3:24 AM on November 6, 2003

OK, I might be guilty of mundane stuff too. And I "apologise" to anyone offened by the previous comment. But seriously what do you think of this persons comments as of late?
posted by Keyser Soze at 3:26 AM on November 6, 2003

Posting that might be even worse. I just don't know.
posted by anathema at 3:30 AM on November 6, 2003

But seriously what do you think of this persons comments as of late?
posted by anathema at 3:32 AM on November 6, 2003

Hey! Leave our house Socrates alone!

Then again, I just don't know. Perhaps. Perhaps not. Who cares? Who are we to say? What is truth, anyway? Where am I? Is that you, Martha?
posted by MiguelCardoso at 3:53 AM on November 6, 2003

The enemy?

wtf?
posted by anathema at 3:59 AM on November 6, 2003

I got yer intellectual heft right here.

*grips himself, you know, down there*

Also : I really really hate MeTa these days, but I Can't Stop Looking. Is it only me? Even Our Fearless Leader is in on the funnin' and jokin' and crap-talkin' of late.

The sky, she's falling, and it tastes like raspberry.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:00 AM on November 6, 2003

I just don't know about this.
posted by crunchland at 4:07 AM on November 6, 2003

I think his/her comments are refreshing, if completely out of place for this site. You're supposed to assert your point of view regardless of knowledge.
posted by yerfatma at 4:08 AM on November 6, 2003

Metatalk: I just don't know about this.

[/obligatory]
posted by thatweirdguy2 at 5:06 AM on November 6, 2003 [1 favorite]

next up, quonsar's clear abuse of the shift key
posted by bshort at 5:15 AM on November 6, 2003

So, not only has someone implemented the tracker post system, but we now have evidence of how quickly people get annoyed.

Another success for MeTa Labs, the Virtual Shrink That Makes You Think.™
posted by rory at 5:24 AM on November 6, 2003

damn hippies.
posted by seanyboy at 5:25 AM on November 6, 2003

Is that you, Martha?

MetaTalk: Dark victory.
posted by rcade at 5:26 AM on November 6, 2003

posted by MiguelCardoso at 5:32 AM on November 6, 2003

posted by Slithy_Tove at 5:47 AM on November 6, 2003

Oh, come on - leave him/her be. I thought the comments were pretty funny, myself. They're one-liners and hardly obtrusive.
posted by widdershins at 6:13 AM on November 6, 2003

At least he's honest, not like the rest of us windbags, huffing on about how fucking right we are and how the world should kowtow to our supreme minds.
kidding, a little
posted by tr33hggr at 6:37 AM on November 6, 2003

If any of you damn hippies (besides seanyboy) had bothered to look at his blog, you would see that he relishes the fame/notoriety.
posted by taz at 6:47 AM on November 6, 2003

don't we all.
posted by crunchland at 6:49 AM on November 6, 2003

Congrats Keyser, I think you just did what he wanted all along: started a MetaTalk thread with the spotlight on him. I'll bet his site-traffic just spiked, too.

In the words of Admiral Akbar: It's a trap.
posted by dhoyt at 7:09 AM on November 6, 2003

i am the only one who knows for sure.
posted by quonsar at 7:49 AM on November 6, 2003

Posting the same sentence over and over in multiple threads is not contributing or participating, it is disrupting. Imagine if every user posted some irrelevant little bit in every thread...the site would be destroyed. What's bad for all is bad for one.

Warn him, then ban him.
posted by rushmc at 7:51 AM on November 6, 2003

Imagine if every user posted some irrelevant little bit in every thread...

And that's different from the current situation how?
posted by bshort at 8:03 AM on November 6, 2003

I think it'll be nice when you finally get that broomstick-up-your-butt-ectomy, rush.
posted by crunchland at 8:25 AM on November 6, 2003

...he says as he wobbles out of the room dragging his own broomstick behind him...
posted by quonsar at 8:53 AM on November 6, 2003

*shakes head sadly as chrunchland clearly doesn't know the Latin for 'broomstick up your butt'*
posted by i_cola at 9:11 AM on November 6, 2003

I really really hate MeTa these days, but I Can't Stop Looking

Aye. Sometimes I bring it up in a backgrounded tab and let it sit for a while, winking at me. I can't close the tab. I want to close it. But I can't.
posted by gleuschk at 9:18 AM on November 6, 2003

I guess I'm still saving my pennies to afford the operation, Quonsar, you fickle, backstabbing son of a bitch.
posted by crunchland at 9:32 AM on November 6, 2003

What is this, Lame MeTa Post Week?

chrunchland clearly doesn't know the Latin for 'broomstick up your butt'

That would be scopae in culo, I believe (though I defer to actual Latinists who for some damned reason find themselves in this galley).
posted by languagehat at 9:46 AM on November 6, 2003

Of course, we'd never do the same to Tiamats. (would we)
posted by seanyboy at 12:26 PM on November 6, 2003

"Obviously, Tiamat is a spam-bot that has somehow gained posting access to the biggest collection of trendsetting intellectuals the internet has ever seen." - mecran01
posted by eddydamascene at 1:08 PM on November 6, 2003

i dare you to rearrange the letters of "tiamats."

oh, i just dare you all!
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 1:17 PM on November 6, 2003

Maybe next week tiamat could threaten to slice his wrists for more attention once this thread burns out.
posted by Keyser Soze at 1:35 PM on November 6, 2003

i dare you to rearrange the letters of "tiamats."

Ok
posted by Witty at 2:12 PM on November 6, 2003

O.K. I'm calling Tenser
posted by clavdivs at 2:53 PM on November 6, 2003

Matt as I?
posted by dg at 3:09 PM on November 6, 2003

Maybe next week tiamat could threaten to slice his wrists for more attention once this thread burns out.

I dunno Keyser, it seems to me that you're the one looking for attention. I mean WTF?
posted by carfilhiot at 4:22 PM on November 6, 2003

Hello all, sorry to have caused all the bother.

Yeah, the site traffic did spike. But frankly, I had no idea anyone would notice the "I just don't know" comments. I did that because I only learned last week about the notice the "damn hippies" comments got.

At the time I was just posted the damn hippies comments because I was disgruntled and bored. There wasn't any master plan. And as was pointed out, no one seemed to notice or complain. I certainly don't consider myself a troll.

Someone did email me to ask about the "I just don't know" comments, I replied back that it was just an inside joke and didn't really mean much. I had no idea they minded so much.

I was amused by the attention that the "damn hippies" thread got, but only because I had never noticed at the time. And frankly, some of the comments it generated were pretty funny.

Sorry if I've appeared to be some kind of dangerous psycho troll or something. As anyone who looks at my commenting history will note I rarely do any commenting here at all. Mostly I hang out at K5 -- I've the same name there -- go ahead and check up on my "not troll" status if you'd like.

I do like attention, but I don't go out of my way to get it by spaming the community. I've been here plenty long enough to get around to that had I wanted to.

[Is there a max length for these posts?] Did I miss anyone's questions or comments that should be replied to?
posted by tiamat at 4:35 PM on November 6, 2003

also, where'd the "s" come from?
posted by tiamat at 4:42 PM on November 6, 2003

Imagine if every user posted some irrelevant little bit in every thread... ;-P
posted by mischief at 4:43 PM on November 6, 2003

Keyser Soze: I've been here a while now and I think I have a good idea what people find offensive on Mifi.

That said, you've thought *way* too much about this and need to take a big deep breath. I posted some comments that may offended some people (only the REALLY observant among us).

You on the other hand have been patently offensive throughout this thread. Your assumptions of my motive, and description of me as the enemy of Mifi are distasteful to say the least.

Your suggestion that: "Maybe next week tiamat could threaten to slice his wrists for more attention once this thread burns out." Is the basest of all.

The Christians among us might say "Judge not, that ye be not judged" (Matthew 7:1) However I'm pretty sure I'll come out on top in that comparison, so go ahead and judge me if you must.
posted by tiamat at 5:14 PM on November 6, 2003

MiFi = MitaFilter? I guess I just don't know.

On preview: why don't we make all our comments in the form of off-site images, so history won't know we ever came totally unhinged? Sweet.
posted by stonerose at 6:06 PM on November 6, 2003

Jesus, Keyser Soze - are you going to change the image every 30 seconds?
posted by stonerose at 6:08 PM on November 6, 2003

MetaTalk: Judge me if you must.
posted by inpHilltr8r at 6:13 PM on November 6, 2003

seriously, though, tiamat: changing an image like that is not at all cool.
posted by stonerose at 6:13 PM on November 6, 2003

Well said, tiamat.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 7:02 PM on November 6, 2003

stonerose: Well, I agree. At the same time, it's my image and I don't especially want it here, especially in that context.

I was wrong to put the (short lived) rude comment image. I didn't put anything evil (I'm sure you all know what I'm thinking).

I'll say it right out though, the kittens amuse me and therefore they'll stay until they don't. I hope that doesn't offend anyone.
posted by tiamat at 7:14 PM on November 6, 2003

For the record, I salute tiamat's elegant gesture of e-mailing those he might have offended with a personal explanation. Not that it was necessary - at least in my case - but, taken together with his responses here, I think it's a great example of politeness, regard for one's fellow human beings, etc... :)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 7:19 PM on November 6, 2003

Hotlinking is bad, isn't it?
posted by dg at 7:46 PM on November 6, 2003

Why did I just receive spam from tiamat?

Text:

Hi, tiamat (there's no 's') from mefi/K5 here. I just now noticed the metatalk post about my silly comments. I've posted a comment there to explain myself and I'm only spamming you all because I don't want my explanation/apology to go unnoticed. I apologize to anyone who's time has been wasted on this. I really was just trying to make a friend laugh.

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/3652
--

I'm not going to post the sig which includes phone numbers.
The email also contains an attachment with the file extension ".p7s" I have no idea what this is.

WHAT THE FUCK, TIAMAT
posted by anathema at 8:10 PM on November 6, 2003

Ok, the attachment is a signature file.

Just forego the spam next time, tiamat.
posted by anathema at 8:27 PM on November 6, 2003

Bravo tiamat; no worries from my end.

Hey gang, remember when we all used to have fun here? Let's go down to the quarry and swim!
posted by tr33hggr at 4:44 AM on November 7, 2003

anthema: It's an email I sent to the people in this thread who I thought might like to know I was going to be replying to the comments about me. The "attachment" is how your mail reader deals with a digital key signature, probably because it doesn't implement the standard properly (or because it was a web-mail interface). [Oops, I just noticed that you already figured that out.]

I think you're overreacting. It was a short email, to your published address, which bore onto a subject I had reason to believe you were interested in. Also if you re-read the email you'll notice that I explain in it why I was sending it, I'm not sure what other explanation you were looking for.
posted by tiamat at 5:03 AM on November 7, 2003

No worries. I overreacted.
[I have no problems with your posts, my problem in this thread is with KS.]
posted by anathema at 5:10 AM on November 7, 2003