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May 27, 2005 10:14 AM

ericbop, RockCorpse, you guys are both new but three paragraphs (389 words) / five paragraphs is a little large for a post.
posted by Mitheral to Etiquette/Policy at 10:14 AM (33 comments total)

I was just about to make a, ah, length suggestion here in MeTa myself. If you have that long a post, put an initial description on the front page, then add the rest as the first comment. If people are interested in the subject, they'll check out the whole post.

This especially applies to AskMe, where the page scrolls at light speed.
posted by Specklet at 10:26 AM on May 27, 2005

I agree completely. Long posts like this make shorter posts hard to find.

I know, I know, that was completely shameless.
posted by gurple at 10:30 AM on May 27, 2005

I have to agree. Being almost right next to each other, they take up most of the front page. Perhaps a new MeTa tutorial on "how to do a graceful 'more inside'" is in order?
posted by jessamyn at 10:30 AM on May 27, 2005

CAR!

Everyone know the rules now? Ok, cool.

GAME ON!
{shuffle shuffle}
posted by Witty at 10:31 AM on May 27, 2005

More agreement here also. Why even y2karl has shorter FPPs, most of the time. And the times he doesn't, its 'cause he isn't new here and is thus allowed.
posted by stirfry at 10:33 AM on May 27, 2005

I fixed the canadian murder one. The other one is kind of at the borderline.

I should just add more inside functionality to metafilter and be done with it.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:34 AM on May 27, 2005

jessamyn - maybe with posters permission / or not; you could clean up the mess and make some room for the other posts. And what's with this sportsfilter crap anyway.
posted by adamvasco at 10:36 AM on May 27, 2005

mathowie: "I fixed the canadian murder one. The other one is kind of at the borderline.

I should just add more inside functionality to metafilter and be done with it."

Yes.
posted by panoptican at 10:38 AM on May 27, 2005

And what's with this sportsfilter crap anyway.

Because we know you suck at sports and want to rub it in your face.

CATCH, wuss!
posted by Witty at 10:44 AM on May 27, 2005

ok, I cut off the super huge quote from the jock post.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:49 AM on May 27, 2005

*scratches crotch - spits - hits out of ground - raises middle finger*.
posted by adamvasco at 10:50 AM on May 27, 2005

And what's with this sportsfilter crap anyway.

Lets start wondering what's up with IraqFilter while we're at it.
~wink~
posted by jmd82 at 10:54 AM on May 27, 2005

what's with this sportsfilter crap anyway.
posted by adamvasco at 10:36 AM PST on May 27

Eh? We can drone on endlessly, beating the same stupid political and religous arguments into the ground to the point that there can't possibly be anthing left.... then a guy makes one baseball post and we get a sportsfilter callout?

Guess we shouldn't let a baseball post in with all the "Christians/Bush are evil" and ContagiousMedia threads.
posted by dios at 10:55 AM on May 27, 2005

I say more sportsfilter, especially those that involve porn star moustaches.
posted by iconomy at 11:13 AM on May 27, 2005

What's all the fuss about??

If you're going to alter my post, could you at least link to it with a "more inside" link so that the point I was trying to raise (you know, for, like, people to have a thoughtful discussion about)
isn't completely vaporized?

And "jock post?!?" I guess it takes one to know one. Taking the "phor" out of "meta" since 1999...
posted by ericbop at 11:20 AM on May 27, 2005

iconomy, but was that one SportsFilter or PornFilter? Maybe its a whole new genre, SportsPornFilter?

ericobop, just take your lumps, learn your lesson and don't do it again next time. It was a good post but needed a little paring down for the front page.
posted by fenriq at 11:35 AM on May 27, 2005

ericbop, I think you should show a little grace and say "my bad" and next time put a little "more inside". Live and learn! :)
posted by ashbury at 11:35 AM on May 27, 2005

my bad
posted by ericbop at 11:40 AM on May 27, 2005

And "jock post?!?" I guess it takes one to know one. Taking the "phor" out of "meta" since 1999...

Now might be as good a time as any to mention SportsFilter, the rad MeFi offshoot that throws a much better curveball and runs a faster 50 yard dash. It will give you a swirlie.

Also, don't take yourself so seriously.
posted by rocketman at 11:41 AM on May 27, 2005

If you're going to alter my post, could you at least link to it with a "more inside" link so that the point I was trying to raise (you know, for, like, people to have a thoughtful discussion about) isn't completely vaporized?

Dude, if people are interested in the post, they'll have no problem finding the continuation contained in the first comment. Chill.
posted by Specklet at 12:04 PM on May 27, 2005

posted by quonsar at 12:14 PM on May 27, 2005

In other news, I'm 27 years and 176 days old today!
posted by Saucy Intruder at 12:20 PM on May 27, 2005

q, that's hilarious. I love that kind of supercilious look on his face, with the flaring nostrils--it's like "Are you gonna take that?"
posted by LairBob at 12:50 PM on May 27, 2005

q, aren't those the people from the Joy of Sex, only with clothes on?
posted by jessamyn at 1:32 PM on May 27, 2005

Specklet writes "Dude, if people are interested in the post, they'll have no problem finding the continuation contained in the first comment. Chill."

Good advice to follow. Otherwise someone will put the king's wife and a genre together and then all hell will break loose.
posted by Mitheral at 1:44 PM on May 27, 2005

Would that be theatrical matriarch?
posted by adamvasco at 1:55 PM on May 27, 2005

poor quonsar, reduced to selling the fish in his pants to get by.
posted by me3dia at 1:57 PM on May 27, 2005

Goddamnit, there's where my pantsfish went, you thieving fiend!
posted by loquacious at 3:57 PM on May 27, 2005

so where exactly did this fish in pants thing start, anyway?
posted by shmegegge at 6:37 PM on May 27, 2005

9/22/2004
posted by quonsar at 8:09 PM on May 27, 2005

you, sir, are one determined meme starter.
posted by shmegegge at 11:20 PM on May 27, 2005

I think it started when Tom Waits caught a snapper on Fishing With John.
posted by scarabic at 11:22 PM on May 27, 2005

which reminds me of the episode of Fishing With John where Willem DaFoe tells John Lurie that he hates him because everyone else got to go fishing in nice places while DaFoe had to go ice fishing in below zero weather.
posted by shmegegge at 12:34 AM on May 28, 2005