This comment is very unnecessary, distracting and long.

December 14, 2004 11:13 AM

This comment is very unnecessary, distracting and long. It also has nothing to do with the posted links. Can it please be removed?
posted by loquax to Etiquette/Policy at 11:13 AM (47 comments total)

As far as I can tell, it's a laundry list of comments made by kablam on a different topic that y2karl didn't like, and felt the need to post in his distinctive style in an unrelated thread.
posted by loquax at 11:16 AM on December 14, 2004

karl, if you keep posting that, we'll go blind.
posted by jonmc at 11:16 AM on December 14, 2004

Just be thankful there are no copied/pasted essays in title tags.
posted by xmutex at 11:17 AM on December 14, 2004

lame-o. gone.

I should ban the small tag too. Christ that's painful to read.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:21 AM on December 14, 2004

Thanks Matt, much appreciated.
posted by loquax at 11:23 AM on December 14, 2004

I should ban the small tag too. Christ that's painful to read.

Without a doubt.
posted by adampsyche at 11:47 AM on December 14, 2004

Do it Matt.

:Hates the small tag:
posted by Mitheral at 11:51 AM on December 14, 2004

I should point out that the small tag can be very useful in FPPs...
posted by neckro23 at 11:52 AM on December 14, 2004

Noooooo!!!!

Loves the small tag, occasionally.
posted by rocketman at 11:53 AM on December 14, 2004

I should ban the small tag too. Christ that's painful to read.

word.
posted by norm at 11:53 AM on December 14, 2004

I'd prefer a script that automatically deletes any post that has "Just Sayin'" in it, especially if is in small type.

Just Sayin'
posted by terrapin at 11:59 AM on December 14, 2004

Next thing you know, Matt will be bannning blink tags.

*cries
posted by Smart Dalek at 12:00 PM on December 14, 2004

Just ban it for y2karl, Matt.
posted by kavasa at 12:15 PM on December 14, 2004

Yeah, isn't saying "just sayin'" redundant? I mean, I know you just said it! I have proof!
posted by adampsyche at 12:21 PM on December 14, 2004

yeah, fuck karl, he's almost as uninteresting a poster as troutfishing was. they're so annoying, these guys. they're so unlike the true model MFi citizens -- you know, our new MeTa nannies, loquax and Steve@Dimwood

but then again, it's Matt's sandbox and he is free to do as he pleases.

just as one is of course free to disagree with Numero Uno
posted by matteo at 12:32 PM on December 14, 2004

It's all about the teams with you, isn't it matteo?
posted by timeistight at 12:46 PM on December 14, 2004

I should point out that the small tag can be very useful in FPPs...
So is putting more stuff inside the body of the post.
posted by darukaru at 1:00 PM on December 14, 2004

I like the small tag when it's used to imply that one is speaking in a tiny voice, but I hate when stupid motherfuckers write gigantor posts in it as though, somehow, it makes them any less longwinded. It doesn't.
posted by Sidhedevil at 1:09 PM on December 14, 2004

it's ALL bullshit
posted by quonsar at 1:14 PM on December 14, 2004

i can see my house from here
posted by cortex at 1:18 PM on December 14, 2004

It's all about the teams with you, isn't it matteo?

cliques, more like.
posted by jonmc at 1:22 PM on December 14, 2004

Please don't ban the big tag.
posted by jefbla at 1:27 PM on December 14, 2004

I'm a fan of the small tag -- the real problem is the extra-small.
posted by me3dia at 1:35 PM on December 14, 2004

Hey, matteo, this wasn't a post. It was a comment and Y2karl wasn't even doing his own material, just regurgitating Kablam's word for word (for about four pages). No editorializing, no incisive wit, nothing. And it was totally irrelevant to the thread, just an attempt to mock the poster. No question about it. Are you sure you really think we need more of that?
posted by loquax at 1:38 PM on December 14, 2004

yeah. don't blame the small tag, matt. i use that in almost every message.

and we all know that I'M what's important around here.
posted by fishfucker at 1:39 PM on December 14, 2004

Can we just ban y2karl?
posted by xmutex at 1:50 PM on December 14, 2004

I like y2karl!
posted by timeistight at 1:54 PM on December 14, 2004

Can we ban Duh-Tao and his stupid nicknames. What is this?

Fourth Grade???
posted by Dreamghost at 1:59 PM on December 14, 2004

.

I'm just not sayin'.
posted by stonerose at 2:00 PM on December 14, 2004

Sweet mary mother of jesus, matteo, Steve@Dimwood? Steve@Dimwood?

What were you thinking?
posted by kavasa at 2:02 PM on December 14, 2004

Ah, this is what happens when you hit preview, do other stuff for 20 minutes, and then come back to hit "post".

mute, two things:
1. Actual karl-brand opinions may be rare and skittish things, but I do often like the articles he links to. If only he wouldn't past them in in small text! Argh!
2. What is with the xnamex thing? Why why why do people do it?
posted by kavasa at 2:05 PM on December 14, 2004

What is with the xnamex thing?

Doesn't it mean you're Straight-Edge?
posted by dhoyt at 2:11 PM on December 14, 2004

xxcortexxx?
posted by cortex at 2:40 PM on December 14, 2004

I think xnamex = xTheNameIWantedThatWasAlreadyTakenx
posted by Sidhedevil at 2:45 PM on December 14, 2004

Or maybe just style <small><small> to be the same as <small> in the CSS. Or people could do it in user-defined CSS. There's probably even some way to handle arbitrarily nested small tags from ever getting under x pixels, like:
* > small {font-size: 9px;}

Because I like <small>, but <small><small><small>is really small on Firefox.
posted by yerfatma at 3:06 PM on December 14, 2004

What is with the xnamex thing?

And all this time I assumed xmutex's name had something to do with mutexes - binary semaphores used in concurrent programming to provide mutual exclusion.
posted by driveler at 3:10 PM on December 14, 2004

I really liked kablam's thread - not only the subject matter, but the sources, the question, etc. - before the discussion lost the plot, and somehow it turned into competing tirades about the french and the etymology of zhongua.

y2karl's comment is the reason some (read as: lesser) places have character limits for comments. I normally like his FPP's, but I just scroll (and scroll, and scroll) past the irrelevant soapbox comments.
posted by cosmonik at 3:20 PM on December 14, 2004

xmutex means I love Jesus.

In that way.
posted by xmutex at 3:31 PM on December 14, 2004

If you nest enough small tags, they start getting big again. Don't ask how I know.
posted by tracicle at 3:58 PM on December 14, 2004

You know, I didn't even realize until a minute or so ago that I had posted that comment. I thought better and thought I had left it in preview when I exited. My apologies, by all means--I didn't realize I had hit post the last time. There are so many dumb comments I have written and not posted in whose company I had wished to leave it.
posted by y2karl at 4:52 PM on December 14, 2004

I like the small tag. Size matters.

Doesn't mean people should abuse it, though.
posted by rushmc at 4:54 PM on December 14, 2004

Can we employ a filter that automatically does this to comments of users we dislike? Frankly, I'm tired of reading what most of you have to say.
posted by The God Complex at 5:26 PM on December 14, 2004

TGC: then stop reading meta:anything.

Seriously, if you are tired of reading what most of US have to say. then go away.
posted by kamylyon at 6:36 PM on December 14, 2004

MetaFilter: unnecessary, distracting and long.
posted by exlotuseater at 6:43 PM on December 14, 2004

Opinions are like onions. They have most of the same letters and they make me cry.

That's it! I'm leaving! The newbs are making fun of me. Waaaaaaaaah.

(I was joking, you twit)
posted by The God Complex at 6:56 PM on December 14, 2004

I guess it wasn't very funny in the Linx browser.
posted by scarabic at 10:09 PM on December 14, 2004

ned time for another post...
posted by andrew cooke at 4:28 AM on December 17, 2004