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January 19, 2005 2:32 PM

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posted by rocket_skates to Bugs at 2:32 PM (16 comments total)

Ockham's Razor suggests that Matt has been pruning stupid comments.
posted by mcwetboy at 2:44 PM on January 19, 2005

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posted by rocket_skates at 3:01 PM on January 19, 2005

I'd buy that for the Matt-Signal snark but just poking fun at drudge? Everyone can enjoy that.
posted by rocket_skates at 3:08 PM on January 19, 2005

Glad to see the Drudge link go, Matt, but wouldn't it be a good idea to add an "[edited]" or something when you change an FPP? These "it's magically different now!" things are somewhat disconcerting.

rocket_skates - the interweb allows you to create hyperlinks so you don't have to copy and paste URLs.
posted by chundo at 3:15 PM on January 19, 2005

Yeah, I thought I was going crazy and linked the same news article.

Something to note a change has been made would be very good for my mental stability.
posted by fenriq at 3:39 PM on January 19, 2005

I changed the link from a dumb post to drudge's front page to a good follow up that someone posted, then I deleted all the dumb comments mocking the drudge link.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:41 PM on January 19, 2005

Matt, why did you leave this up at all? Are we now going to have posts every time CNN puts up the breaking news chyron?
posted by CunningLinguist at 3:46 PM on January 19, 2005

...actually, not even CNN has bothered to pick this up yet.
posted by availablelight at 4:08 PM on January 19, 2005

why did you leave this up at all?

Once in a while a breaking news item is significant. If this bears out to be true, it's big. If false, it's useful to know where our intelligence failures are.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:24 PM on January 19, 2005

Something to note a change has been made would be very good for my mental stability.
posted by fenriq at 3:39 PM PST on January 19

Yup. Points been made, and sinks without trace every time.

mathowie, sorry if you have responded, but this would be a popular pony. What's the chances it can be added to the [ever-growing] list?
posted by dash_slot- at 5:12 PM on January 19, 2005

Sorry about the Drudge post; I was in a hurry and didn't have time to get a better one.

I'll try harder next time.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 7:09 PM on January 19, 2005

Once in a while a breaking news item is significant.

Well, I would say it should be of a near-9/11 magnitude to post breaking news here. And this one, in particular, is totally bogus, just one of Drudge's momentary hysterias. But I'm not going to bitch at you because the tagging thing is so unbelievably awesome.
posted by CunningLinguist at 7:45 PM on January 19, 2005

Where the hell is Q when you need him?
posted by esch at 10:53 PM on January 19, 2005

If false, it's useful to know where our intelligence failures are.

You post the comments with the intelligence you have, not the intelligence you might want or wish to have at a later time.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 11:15 PM on January 19, 2005

Another vote for some indication of change or deletion. Simply dropping stuff down the memory hole is not good.
posted by languagehat at 11:37 AM on January 20, 2005

Ahem.
posted by CunningLinguist at 10:52 AM on January 23, 2005