Comments on: This post -- an askme? Discuss.

This post -- an askme? Discuss.

namespan — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:08:25 -0800

This question about the posited decline and fall of aliens in film might be worth addressing here...

By: namespan

namespan — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:12:53 -0800

I think it's a little too chatty and not quite informational enough for AxMe, though I can see others tolerance for the chatty/conversational differs a bit from mine. Still, I'm not even sure it falls into the viewpoint-as-information category that I've seen as the saving grace of some less informational AxMe posts.

Also, this does seem to me to fit in the blue. Posts like this one (which I thought was great) are similarly about an observation, with one or two referenced observation links....

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:32:19 -0800

I think it's a great topic for MetaFilter where all the Men are from Mars* and all the Women are from Venus and all the children are above average.

*except for a few who are from Uranus. Heh. Heh. Heh.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:51:07 -0800

Too chatty for Asmketown, too much of a question for MefiTown... what to do what to do

By: fvw

fvw — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:53:53 -0800

Post about it in the grey, obviously.

MetaTalk: Discussion for the sake of discussion.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 20:10:49 -0800

a-bla-a-bla-bla. smock. smock.

By: mischief

mischief — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:02:32 -0800

I don't think it is worthy of either MeFi or AskMe. The only links are to imdb.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:06:50 -0800

What mischief said. The other thread you cited, though chatty, had links to actual information about how people dream. This is pure "hey, gang, let's all shoot the shit" crapola.

By: Smart Dalek

Smart Dalek — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:48:54 -0800

Exterminate!

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:56:49 -0800

languagehat, you are sorely mistaken! The thread in question had actual links to a mother fucking database of information. If all users were compelled to search far and wide for such places of data amalgamation, the end game would be stayed another decade at least.

Also, quonsar makes an excellent point, but it raises another question: bla-bla-a-a-bla. smock. bla-a-bla. smocksmock?

By: namespan

namespan — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:02:26 -0800

Eh. I'm converted. It probably doesn't belong on MeFi as is.

(Smart Dalek, how long have you been saving that up? :)

But...

The thing is, this is the sort of topic I would find interesting if someone had written an article about it. The poster may have been the only person to think about it to this point, and if he'd written an article, he couldn't have posted.

In that way, it's like the "dreams of tooth loss" thing. Interesting thought, minimal support, might never have hit MeFi if the poster had actually written about it in an article...

By: namespan

namespan — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:02:58 -0800

Clearly, the solution is a new area of metafilter -- MeMe. Self link to your heart's content. It will be black. With black type. And little black links and buttons labelled in black on a black background, with black mouseovers to let you know every time you've done something.

I saw a robin today.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:53:09 -0800

i saw a cat tear a robin to shreds and eat its insides today.

By: weston

weston — Tue, 30 Dec 2003 23:20:52 -0800

/pokes head in, leaves discussion to the inmates.

By: majick

majick — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 00:04:15 -0800

"Clearly, the solution is a new area of metafilter"

Sounds like that's what #mefi turned into a few months after I stopped showing up.

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 04:27:04 -0800

The main issue I had was that the post linked to IMDB - surely EVERYONE knows about IMDB??

By: 111

111 — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:28:37 -0800

First of all, you'd think the 50+ solid hours on that Alien DVD box set should be more than enough for 2003. As to the post's question, the answer's too obvious: above all, keep in mind that M. Night Shyamalan made extraterrestrials uncool with that Signs flick. E.T.'s DVD release wasn't all that successful either. So basically aliens are out except for the Quadrilogy thing. But that's beside the point: this is not a Trekkie Convention. Personally, I simply think the post should have been abducted.

By: ArsncHeart

ArsncHeart — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:54:06 -0800

The thing is, this is the sort of topic I would find interesting if someone had written an article about it.

I'll just mention kuro5hin as a site that runs sort of like that.

It will be black. With black type. And little black links and buttons labelled in black on a black background, with black mouseovers to let you know every time you've done something.
I saw a robin today.

namespan, you make me laugh 'til I cry.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:41:49 -0800

I propose that the next person who refers to AskMe as AxMe be disemboweled with a rusty spoon.

By: cairnish

cairnish — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 12:33:18 -0800

Or with, you know, an axe.

By: namespan

namespan — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 12:55:35 -0800

My axe.

By: namespan

namespan — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:01:13 -0800

Of course I will spare ArsncHeart.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:42:15 -0800

BECAUSE A SPOON IS DULL, YOU TWIT. IT'LL HURT MORE!

/sheriffofnottingham

By: amberglow

amberglow — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:04:39 -0800

mmm...RedLicoriceAxMe : >

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:12:41 -0800

Axes are better used on Orc necks!