Callout of Responses to Miss Lynnster's First Ever Post

December 20, 2004 6:39 PM

This is my first MeTa thread calling someone out, but this just seems out of line. A new member posts a good link that is not news/politics/religion, and someone has to find something to whine about. Good job sticking up for yourself, though, miss lynnster!
posted by TedW to etiquette/policy at 6:39 PM (64 comments total)

And this is the first comment I have posted in this thread. I hope it really annoys someone
posted by TedW at 6:45 PM on December 20, 2004

Maybe there was too much of a snarkfest, but if miss lynnster had actually been reading the site, it should have occurred to her that people don't post "this is my first post" here on MeFi--and when they do, they can expect to taste the bitter tang of the snark.
posted by Sidhedevil at 6:46 PM on December 20, 2004

The only thing more annoying than someone pointing out that it's their first post is someone pointing out how annoying it is that they pointed it out.

Actually, I lied: there are far more annoying things, but it's still more annoying to point it out.
posted by The God Complex at 6:47 PM on December 20, 2004

if miss lynnster had actually been reading the site, it should have occurred to her that people don't post "this is my first post" here on MeFi--and when they do, they can expect to taste the bitter tang of the snark.

I disagree. People do it quite frequently with very little ill effect on the site. I'd just prefer they used a smaller font for the addendum. Besides, that way every time a newbie posts something good I can say to myself "I knew there were good ones in the lot" and quietly sip my cognac in the darkened recesses of my sprawling countryside manor.
posted by The God Complex at 6:49 PM on December 20, 2004

And this is the first comment I have posted in this thread. I hope it really annoys someone

...froth, froth, froth...

The only thing more annoying than someone pointing out that it's their first post is someone pointing out how annoying it is that they pointed it out.

What about those who point out how annoying those who point out how annoying someone that...

*head explodes...
posted by Quartermass at 6:50 PM on December 20, 2004

The only thing more annoying than someone pointing out that it's their first post is someone pointing out how annoying it is that they pointed it out.

Yeah, that's pretty annoying, but what I think what's really annoying is when someone gives what may be some valid advice or criticism and just throws the word "fucking" in there. I'm not against swearing here or a lot of other places, but it just turns some good advice into an insult and an invitation for a snarkfest.
posted by marxchivist at 6:51 PM on December 20, 2004

He types like he talks.
posted by rev_crash_davis at 6:54 PM on December 20, 2004

You mean an invitation for a fucking snarkfest.
posted by Quartermass at 6:56 PM on December 20, 2004

Let's go back to pre-Chatterly euphemisms here on MeFug. I'll start--

It's a fuggin' invitation for a friggin' snarkfest. So f*** y'all.
posted by Sidhedevil at 6:58 PM on December 20, 2004

what the fuck is PUI?
posted by bakiwop at 6:58 PM on December 20, 2004

Is this the thread where we're supposed to talk about Frank Zappa?
posted by fletchmuy at 6:59 PM on December 20, 2004

It's a fuggin' invitation

OMG NORMAN MAILER HAS A MEFI ACCOUNT!
posted by The God Complex at 7:03 PM on December 20, 2004

Th'art good fug.
posted by exlotuseater at 7:04 PM on December 20, 2004

The thread where you talk about FZ is here.
posted by TedW at 7:04 PM on December 20, 2004

Oh fuck.
posted by marxchivist at 7:06 PM on December 20, 2004

Actually, TedW, that post was exactly about news/politics/religion, but other than that, I totally stand behind you.
posted by fletchmuy at 7:07 PM on December 20, 2004

Actually, TedW, that post was exactly about news/politics/religion

Yeah, but filtered through Frank and at least a decade; yet still able to piss everyone off!

Anyway, it seems to me that calling attention to one's first post is a polite way of asking for constructive criticism; if the post sucks, then let 'em have it, but this post was good, at least according to those who actually commented on it.
posted by TedW at 7:11 PM on December 20, 2004

Also, all the "fucking" is only appropriate given the subject of the post. Not to mention: fist fuck...wrist watch...crisco.
posted by TedW at 7:15 PM on December 20, 2004

corn hole!
posted by fletchmuy at 7:15 PM on December 20, 2004

mmmmm...bitter tang
posted by euphorb at 7:19 PM on December 20, 2004

after hours filter
posted by bakiwop at 7:20 PM on December 20, 2004

corn hole!

Sorry, just couldn't resist
posted by TedW at 7:26 PM on December 20, 2004

initiation is a bitch. how do you get all these feathers off?
posted by superposition at 7:31 PM on December 20, 2004

Good job sticking up for yourself, though, miss lynnster!

Bullshit, I can tell she meant well, but miss lynnster deserves some of the blame for the so-called "clusterfuck." She made (at last count)15 comments in the thread. She at least tried to get things back on track, but she also linked to her own blog in the thread for no apparent reason.

I thought it was a pretty good post, but...oy!, Whatta trainwreck!
posted by jaronson at 7:48 PM on December 20, 2004

"oy" is just "yo" spelled backwards.
posted by bakiwop at 7:53 PM on December 20, 2004

jaronson,

If you follow that link, you'll see it's a joke.

Wow, this place sucks.
posted by xammerboy at 7:57 PM on December 20, 2004

I had a nice long wank to that thread.
posted by naxosaxur at 8:04 PM on December 20, 2004

Jaronsen,

Pretty Generic asked her what her website was, so she posted it.
posted by sophie at 8:08 PM on December 20, 2004

This place is hyperventilatastic.
posted by interrobang at 8:09 PM on December 20, 2004

xammerboy: What link?

sophie: Thanks. I missed that. Apologies.
posted by jaronson at 8:16 PM on December 20, 2004

When you walk into a new school, you can either sit down and try to blend in, or be proactive with a friendly, "Hi, I'm new. I hope we get along." It's called "introducing yourself" and it's something that people do in a polite society. Both approaches are valid, and I don't recall anyone in school telling me to shut up when I introduced myself.

Well, some people did -- we called them bullies and we tried to ignore them. On the intarwebs, we call them trolls, and boy are they hard to ignore.
posted by o2b at 9:23 PM on December 20, 2004

o2b, no school I ever attended had over 20,000 students.

Those introductions could get a bit tiresome, no?
posted by rev_crash_davis at 9:31 PM on December 20, 2004

hey look -- pancakes!
posted by sharpener at 10:24 PM on December 20, 2004

I like waffles a lot more than pancakes. can we change the injoke to waffles?
posted by puke & cry at 10:46 PM on December 20, 2004

How about those of you who hate the "first post" announcement do this: leave a comment saying something like "Welcome to MeFi, newusername. Just a note, though, for other new users - please don't announce that it's your first post, since with so many new users this gets very repetitive."

A comment like this is much less likely derail the whole shebang, no?
posted by taz at 12:15 AM on December 21, 2004

I've cleaned the thread up and it's about Zappa again.
posted by mathowie at 1:09 AM on December 21, 2004

I'd just prefer they used a smaller font for the addendum

No no no. If something's worth saying it's worth saying in normal text. Too much use of the small on MetaFilter!
posted by nthdegx at 2:52 AM on December 21, 2004

no school I ever attended had over 20,000 students.

The problem is that it's not annoying to all 20K-it certainly wasn't annoying to me.
posted by sexymofo at 4:10 AM on December 21, 2004

Ah, censoring a thread about Frank Zappa decrying censorship... It's a wonderful life.
posted by Pretty_Generic at 4:51 AM on December 21, 2004

"... I want somebody to use his fucking brains to not come out of a god damned record that's up-tempo and I've gotta talk about a fucking dog dying!"
posted by Mayor Curley at 5:49 AM on December 21, 2004

I'm pretty sure Zappa turned down some of his band member's suggestions about song structures or melodies. The censorous bastard!
posted by Bugbread at 6:14 AM on December 21, 2004

I've cleaned the thread up and it's about Zappa again.

My deleted "Everybody in this thread is wearing a uniform and don't kid yourself" comment was actually a really cleverly modified Zappa quote. I demand satisfaction and/or an extra trip to the salad bar.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 6:39 AM on December 21, 2004

Metafilter: Hungry freaks, daddy.
posted by turaho at 7:45 AM on December 21, 2004

Ah, censoring a thread about Frank Zappa decrying censorship...

It can't happen heeeere.
posted by soyjoy at 7:58 AM on December 21, 2004

Well, I have been in you, baby
You
Have been in me
And we
Have be
So intimately
Entwined
And it sure was fine
posted by darukaru at 8:16 AM on December 21, 2004

What I find hilarious is that it's almost never newbies who flaunt the rules to shit in a thread. I've only been reading this site for three years, but I seem to recall that shitting in threads is a no-no and that Metatalk was created for such a purpose. Do the rules only apply to people with user numbers above a certain value, or has hypocrisy become the order of the day?

Because it's really hard to listen to someone who violates the rules to bitch at you for violating the rules.
posted by dirigibleman at 9:03 AM on December 21, 2004

dirigibleman: Like in any other established community I've ever seen on the 'net, those who have already proved themselves valuable contributors to the community tend to have a bit more leeway when it comes to stepping over the line and then back again. See also Gutei's finger.
posted by mendel at 9:14 AM on December 21, 2004

Sorry, miss lynnster, but you created a self-fulfilling prophecy and screwed your first post with your presentation. Next time just give us the link, and don't moderate your thread.
posted by rushmc at 9:17 AM on December 21, 2004

I like waffles a lot more than pancakes. can we change the injoke to waffles?

Who do you think you are, John Kerry?
posted by wendell at 9:57 AM on December 21, 2004

Waffles are the injoke at the URLP boards already.
posted by Sidhedevil at 10:20 AM on December 21, 2004

No no no. If something's worth saying it's worth saying in normal text. Too much use of the small on MetaFilter!

i couldn't disagree more.

Ah, censoring a thread about Frank Zappa decrying censorship... It's a wonderful life.

since the new signups, the censor button has been used far too much, imo. history is rewritten as we type.
posted by mrgrimm at 12:01 PM on December 21, 2004

I posted my first FPP without bothering to point it out, and I didn't even get a cookie.
posted by squidlarkin at 1:17 PM on December 21, 2004

Squid, that's probably because your browser isn't set to accept cookies.

You want one now?
posted by chicobangs at 1:52 PM on December 21, 2004

I posted my first FPP without bothering to point it out, and I didn't even get a cookie.

But did you get a flogging?
posted by rushmc at 2:15 PM on December 21, 2004

Wait, what? There's fucking going on? Am I invited?
posted by PurplePorpoise at 2:57 PM on December 21, 2004

I posted my first FPP without bothering to point it out, and I didn't even get a cookie.

no cookie for me as well and rushmc I didn't get a flogging either, I feel soooooo jipped *sigh*
posted by squeak at 4:16 PM on December 21, 2004

I didn't get a cookie, I didn't get a flogging, and I certainly didn't get a fucking...

who said life is fair?
posted by kamylyon at 4:22 PM on December 21, 2004

First the flogging, then the fucking, then the cookies, and only then do we have pancakes.

But don't wake the baby.
posted by Sidhedevil at 6:13 PM on December 21, 2004

You're all furries, aren't you.
posted by Kleptophoria! at 6:43 PM on December 21, 2004

We certainly are not.

*pulls Sidhedevil's tail*
posted by taz at 10:15 PM on December 21, 2004

My baby is where?
posted by pepcorn at 8:23 AM on December 22, 2004

It's right there. Don't worry, you're doing fine.
posted by soyjoy at 8:59 AM on December 22, 2004

I find it sad how such trivial things bother what I assume are adults.
posted by john at 9:38 AM on December 22, 2004

Me too.
posted by miss lynnster at 4:11 PM on December 30, 2004