PETA-bashing getting old December 17, 2003 3:57 PM   Subscribe

Can we please stop with the PETA goes overboard and drowns threads already?
well, some are okay...
posted by wendell to Etiquette/Policy at 3:57 PM (28 comments total)

you forgot to use the words "blight" and "Hate" ; >
posted by amberglow at 4:05 PM on December 17, 2003


OK:

- no politics (well, at least except we promise to kiss Republican ass)

- no PETA

- no "drowns"

since we're discussing this, I hate fucking Flash sites -- I think they're dumb. so can we stop those threads too?



StopFilter
posted by matteo at 4:31 PM on December 17, 2003


I'm sick of posts in general, can we just have a blank front page?
posted by Mick at 4:40 PM on December 17, 2003


I'm sick of posts in general, can we just have a blank front page?

Be careful what you wish for.
posted by eddydamascene at 4:41 PM on December 17, 2003


Second the 'no flash' posts. I really wonder what kind of idiots actually enjoy those. ;-P
posted by mischief at 5:19 PM on December 17, 2003


wendell, what's the point of this thread?
posted by PrinceValium at 6:14 PM on December 17, 2003


Doesn't need a point if it is going to be deleted. Which I imagine it will be.
posted by konolia at 6:22 PM on December 17, 2003


Yeah, those 'no flash' posts really suck. Hating an entire medium is like, retarded...
posted by inpHilltr8r at 6:50 PM on December 17, 2003


No HTML posts, that medium is just tired and over-used.
posted by Space Coyote at 6:57 PM on December 17, 2003


If we stop making fun of PETA then the accusations of radical leftism will be true. Of course, some balance is called for, since people who report PETA's every movement, however mockingly, are basically playing into their hands, giving them free PR. I mean, *they* don't think it's ridiculous to hand out "your mommy kills animals" flyers, so just pointing out that they're doing it hardly hurts them. It helps.
posted by scarabic at 8:08 PM on December 17, 2003


Less kid scaring and more lettuce-clad hotties. Come on PETA, it's not difficult.
posted by Space Coyote at 8:56 PM on December 17, 2003


wendell, what's the point of this thread?

Just trying to perpetrate the meme of "Can we please stop with the :::whatever::: threads already?" MetaTalk threads until somebody posts a "Can we please stop with the 'Can we please stop with the :::whatever::: threads already?' threads already?" thread.
posted by wendell at 9:05 PM on December 17, 2003


until somebody posts a "Can we please stop with the 'Can we please stop with the :::whatever::: threads already?' threads already?" thread.

Someone posted that exact thread yesterday, but it got deleted. Apparently we have to wait for MetaMetaTalk to open before we can discuss that. :|
posted by boaz at 9:24 PM on December 17, 2003


boaz - You were right, in retrospect, to call me on it. But meanwhile....

Wendell - In reference to Seth's recent "BushHateFilter" post, I posted an (of course biased) statistical analysis of the Metafilter political to apolitical to "Anti-Bush" post ratios on Metatalk and it got - probably deservedly - deleted. But that's Boaz' reference.
posted by troutfishing at 9:58 PM on December 17, 2003


But that's Boaz' reference.

No, somebody actually posted a "can we please stop with the can we please stop threads?" thread.
posted by eddydamascene at 12:14 AM on December 18, 2003


item posted the "can we please stop with the can we please stop threads?" I know cuz I had first post. ;-P
posted by mischief at 1:41 AM on December 18, 2003


damn, i was about to post a "can we please stop with the please stop threads?" thread until i read this thread. and i thought i was soo original too...
posted by joedan at 3:39 AM on December 18, 2003


You could post a "please stop with the please stop with the please stop" post.
posted by mischief at 5:38 AM on December 18, 2003


There is an important point in all this fun--should any topic or organization or any subject at all be out of bounds here?
posted by amberglow at 5:55 AM on December 18, 2003


Sorry, I feel like the last debacle was all my fault.

But it wasn't!
posted by tr33hggr at 7:19 AM on December 18, 2003


If we stop making fun of PETA...

Yeah, but the thing with PETA is that it's not like they're some sort of reasonable organization that is trying to reach a consensus. They're a bunch of radicals that are totally unwilling to compromise on what they see as a moral issue.

They're like a child who doesn't know the difference between good attention and bad attention. The best thing to do is to ignore them.

Come to think of it, they're really just trolls.
posted by bshort at 7:34 AM on December 18, 2003


There is an important point in all this fun--should any topic or organization or any subject at all be out of bounds here?

I think if PETA did something truly remarkable, earth-shaking or out of character it might be worth posting. So it's not about banning posts about a certain organization. What it's about, as I've said in the blue, is not supplying more free publicity to those like PETA and Madonna who have made publicity-seeking their main game, at the expense of their putative reason for existence (whether it be "artistry" or "consciousness-raising"). I realize it's fun for everyone who's anti-vegan to show up on every one of these and say "see?" - but what you're all really doing is making the PETA brand more powerful than ever.
posted by soyjoy at 9:08 AM on December 18, 2003


but isn't that true for the Googlefilter or Applefilter or RIAAfilter posts too? We post every single move those companies make.
posted by amberglow at 9:13 AM on December 18, 2003


Good point, except that 1) Google, Apple and the RIAA are much more intrinsically connected to MeFi culture as technology-based entities, and 2) no matter how much they may seek publicity, they haven't turned the seeking of publicity into their main product.
posted by soyjoy at 9:38 AM on December 18, 2003


MetaFilter: More Meta than Thou

PETA: The Trolls of Animal Activism
posted by SpecialK at 5:12 PM on December 18, 2003


Two questions:

Considering what else Matt has deleted recently, why is this thread still here?

Has anybody registered PetaFilter.com yet?
posted by wendell at 6:48 PM on December 18, 2003


Metafilter: More Peta than Thou : >
posted by amberglow at 8:35 PM on December 18, 2003


Is that Pee-ta-filter or Pet-a-filter?
posted by mischief at 9:04 PM on December 18, 2003


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