Comments on: Dumb comments or is it just me?

Dumb comments or is it just me?

Keyser Soze — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 02:53:23 -0800

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.

By: anathema

anathema — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 02:58:04 -0800

Who knows?

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:05:01 -0800

Well, I can vouch, with a fair bit of certainty, that I certainly don't know. I just don't.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:05:16 -0800

The enemy:

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:13:41 -0800

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

umm.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:21:37 -0800

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.

By: rcade

rcade — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:24:16 -0800

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.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:26:13 -0800

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?

By: anathema

anathema — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:30:03 -0800

Posting that might be even worse. I just don't know.

By: anathema

anathema — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:32:26 -0800

But seriously what do you think of this persons comments as of late?

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:53:26 -0800

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?

By: anathema

anathema — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:59:55 -0800

The enemy?

wtf?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 04:00:58 -0800

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.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 04:07:49 -0800

I just don't know about this.

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 04:08:49 -0800

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.

By: thatweirdguy2

thatweirdguy2 — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 05:06:22 -0800

Metatalk: I just don't know about this.

[/obligatory]

By: bshort

bshort — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 05:15:36 -0800

next up, quonsar's clear abuse of the shift key

By: rory

rory — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 05:24:34 -0800

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.™

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 05:25:16 -0800

damn hippies.

By: rcade

rcade — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 05:26:42 -0800

Is that you, Martha?

MetaTalk: Dark victory.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 05:32:48 -0800

By: Slithy_Tove

Slithy_Tove — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 05:47:51 -0800

By: widdershins

widdershins — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 06:13:49 -0800

Oh, come on - leave him/her be. I thought the comments were pretty funny, myself. They're one-liners and hardly obtrusive.

By: tr33hggr

tr33hggr — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 06:37:08 -0800

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

By: taz

taz — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 06:47:59 -0800

If any of you damn hippies (besides seanyboy) had bothered to look at his blog, you would see that he relishes the fame/notoriety.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 06:49:40 -0800

don't we all.

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 07:09:28 -0800

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.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 07:49:27 -0800

i am the only one who knows for sure.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 07:51:30 -0800

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.

By: bshort

bshort — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:03:50 -0800

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

And that's different from the current situation how?

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:25:05 -0800

I think it'll be nice when you finally get that broomstick-up-your-butt-ectomy, rush.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 08:53:35 -0800

...he says as he wobbles out of the room dragging his own broomstick behind him...

By: i_cola

i_cola — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:11:28 -0800

*shakes head sadly as chrunchland clearly doesn't know the Latin for 'broomstick up your butt'*

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:18:25 -0800

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.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:32:02 -0800

I guess I'm still saving my pennies to afford the operation, Quonsar, you fickle, backstabbing son of a bitch.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:46:47 -0800

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).

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 12:26:17 -0800

Of course, we'd never do the same to Tiamats. (would we)

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 13:08:02 -0800

"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

By: _sirmissalot_

_sirmissalot_ — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 13:17:58 -0800

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

oh, i just dare you all!

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 13:35:26 -0800

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

By: Witty

Witty — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:12:38 -0800

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

Ok

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:53:52 -0800

O.K. I'm calling Tenser

By: dg

dg — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:09:04 -0800

Matt as I?

By: carfilhiot

carfilhiot — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:22:09 -0800

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?

By: tiamat

tiamat — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:35:45 -0800

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?

By: tiamat

tiamat — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:42:56 -0800

also, where'd the "s" come from?

By: mischief

mischief — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:43:43 -0800

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

By: tiamat

tiamat — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:14:38 -0800

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.

By: stonerose

stonerose — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 18:06:30 -0800

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.

By: stonerose

stonerose — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 18:08:00 -0800

Jesus, Keyser Soze - are you going to change the image every 30 seconds?

By: inpHilltr8r

inpHilltr8r — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 18:13:25 -0800

MetaTalk: Judge me if you must.

By: stonerose

stonerose — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 18:13:53 -0800

seriously, though, tiamat: changing an image like that is not at all cool.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:02:29 -0800

Well said, tiamat.

By: tiamat

tiamat — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:14:04 -0800

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.

By: MiguelCardoso

MiguelCardoso — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:19:56 -0800

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... :)

By: dg

dg — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:46:28 -0800

Hotlinking is bad, isn't it?

By: anathema

anathema — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 20:10:58 -0800

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

By: anathema

anathema — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 20:27:56 -0800

Ok, the attachment is a signature file.

Just forego the spam next time, tiamat.

By: tr33hggr

tr33hggr — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 04:44:16 -0800

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!

By: tiamat

tiamat — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 05:03:27 -0800

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.

By: anathema

anathema — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 05:10:26 -0800

No worries. I overreacted.
[I have no problems with your posts, my problem in this thread is with KS.]