Could we please end the Kottke linking?

June 12, 2001 9:41 AM

Could we please end the Kottke linking?
posted by owillis to Etiquette/Policy at 9:41 AM (20 comments total)

tee hee.
posted by ericost at 9:48 AM on June 12, 2001

I love Ericost.


...and Kottke.
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 9:54 AM on June 12, 2001

I'm a bit confused by this. Just when I thought I was getting a hang of the posting etiquette... Isn't this the third kottke.org thread since friday?

I guess I'm not getting the joke... someone help a poor newbie out.
posted by D at 10:06 AM on June 12, 2001

"the hang of," rather. Je m'excuse.
posted by D at 10:08 AM on June 12, 2001

I unfortunately put my comments in the thread, but I agree... Kottke is usually (often?) a good read, but for chrissakes, I think we all know about him by now... Furthermore, I don't want to see 10000 threads each about someone's favorite blog.
posted by fooljay at 10:12 AM on June 12, 2001

D: injoke. kottke is the weblog everyone loves to hate, or everyone hates to love, or everyone hates to see others loving or hating.

just ignore it. - rcb
posted by rebeccablood at 10:38 AM on June 12, 2001

When is a troll not a troll?
posted by rodii at 10:50 AM on June 12, 2001

Plus, there are tons of other sites who have never been linked to on mefi from non-a-listers... :D
posted by owillis at 10:54 AM on June 12, 2001

Pretty much anytime there's an absurd comment made by or about kottke, the who shebang ends in a knee-slapping joke, which is cool, y'know, whatever....even though I stopped reading his blog a year ago, I keep being drawn back.....you zany kidder ericost! Obviously, you are a devotee of the Kottke style of "hey it's a slow day" jocularity.
posted by lucien at 11:02 AM on June 12, 2001

Seems like trolling to me. I'm thinking about cracking MetaFilter to delete the thread.
posted by rcade at 12:34 PM on June 12, 2001

rebeccablood: appreciate the response. I got that part, but I guess I just didn't realize it was a joke. *awkward grin* Damn "humor"... always confuses me.
posted by D at 1:01 PM on June 12, 2001

owillis: you seem to do okay getting links to your sites from metafilter. though it's true that approximately 96% of them are from you. ah well, who's counting?

*retracts claws*

what amazes me about the Kottke-linking is not that it goes on, but rather that those threads always end up getting a pantload of comments---edging up on 100 for this latest as we speak.

it's the Undead Zombie A-List Inside Joke Meme. You can spike it through the heart, pump it full of silver bullets, or cram garlic down its gullet, but you just can't make it die.
posted by Sapphireblue at 2:49 PM on June 12, 2001

"All these self-links are whores, except Kottke...do not try to hyperlink there. Use links together, use links in peace."

posted by john at 3:12 PM on June 12, 2001

but rather that those threads always end up getting a pantload of comments---edging up on 100 for this latest as we speak.

*koff* Have you taken a look at the nature of those comments lately?
posted by redfoxtail at 3:23 PM on June 12, 2001

I self link, I sure do. But never in a topic post. It's usually a reply with larger context or to a picture of my dog (I must spread his gospel), which I think is covered under the rules...
posted by owillis at 3:38 PM on June 12, 2001

One question... next Tuesday will start "Ice Cream Day", right?

Kottke, Kottke bo-bottke, bannana-fanna-fo fottke...

Damn you Uncle Joe!
posted by EricBrooksDotCom at 6:29 PM on June 12, 2001

Though it's a tiresome subject (and by that I mean the subject itself, not the person), I have to admit that last thread was damned funny.

It's Tuesday, and I'm going to have some ice cream now.
posted by frykitty at 9:10 PM on June 12, 2001

A pint a week. That's all we ask.
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 10:28 PM on June 12, 2001

Tim McV had two. Pints, that is. Just to bring the "tired thread" thing full circle.
posted by norm at 12:36 PM on June 13, 2001

He didn't wait until Ice Cream Day... and see what happened to him?
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 1:42 PM on June 13, 2001