Keep it here, kids

June 6, 2005 5:41 PM

If you have ominous suspicions about someone's motive for posting, it's preferable you send an email or start a MetaTalk thread rather than starting an off-site thread unbeknownst to the poster.
posted by jenleigh to Etiquette/Policy at 5:41 PM (20 comments total)

probably posted there because meta was down.
posted by puke & cry at 5:51 PM on June 6, 2005

still a bad idea tho, i guess.
posted by puke & cry at 5:53 PM on June 6, 2005

If you think that's something, drop into #mefi sometime, jenleigh.
posted by mischief at 5:55 PM on June 6, 2005

"probably posted there because meta was down"

No! Say it isn't so!
posted by I EAT TAPES at 6:37 PM on June 6, 2005

#mefi opened my eyes.....

AAAA++++ would chat again!
posted by Doohickie at 6:42 PM on June 6, 2005

Seemed like he was soliciting opinions from those who would likely know what he was talking about. Wasn't a call to arms or anything. He expressed a notion.
posted by Feisty at 7:00 PM on June 6, 2005

Lame, utterly unsurprising, and a little bit cheap.
posted by Kwantsar at 7:33 PM on June 6, 2005

Why is a thread on another site being called out here?

Isn't this something that should be addressed on MetaChat where it was posted in the first place? I don't participate on MetaChat and don't care what is posted there -- if I did, care that is, I would read the site.

In related news... some guy on #mefi was mean to me... can someone do something about it please?
posted by cedar at 7:46 PM on June 6, 2005

Oops! Helen Lovejoy tagline, that is...

*Nelson Muntz impression at own error*
posted by y2karl at 7:51 PM on June 6, 2005

"Isn't this something that should be addressed on MetaChat where it was posted in the first place?"

Because the callout on Metachat concerned a post on Mefi.
It's all very incestuous, you know. ;-P
posted by mischief at 7:56 PM on June 6, 2005

Oops Oops, 9622 comment made to wrong thread ! My bad.


On review: It's all very incestuous, you know. ;-P

Well, that explains the albinism and extra toes, then...
posted by y2karl at 8:00 PM on June 6, 2005

some guy on #mefi was mean to me... can someone do something about it please?
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
posted by dg at 8:37 PM on June 6, 2005

I should clarify what I said about #mefi. It was hyperbole and a bad hypothetical (read as: entirely made up). Though limited, my interactions with the denizens of #mefi have been overwhelmingly positive.
posted by cedar at 8:46 PM on June 6, 2005

cedar: too late, you broke the rule, you spoke about the place that should not be spoken about, now just shut up and accept the inevitable beat-down.
posted by mlis at 9:00 PM on June 6, 2005

Gosh, I guess that everyone should be told when they're being talked about.

Apologies to everyone here, my girlfriend, and everyone I work with.
posted by interrobang at 9:03 PM on June 6, 2005

Let's see--metafilter to metachat to metatalk and then back to... metachat
--that crosses over from incest into some kind of Wilbur Whateley territory.

Ouroboros 9622, this is air traffic control...
posted by y2karl at 9:37 PM on June 6, 2005

rather than starting an off-site thread ???
posted by amberglow at 9:39 PM on June 6, 2005

But did anyone notice that Thomas and Rehnquist are "pro-pot"
posted by Carbolic at 10:00 PM on June 6, 2005

NERD FIGHT! NERD FIGHT!
posted by loquacious at 10:05 PM on June 6, 2005

meh, keep offsite problems offsite please. seems like a lame thing happened and a followup is on the site so I'm closing this.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:06 PM on June 6, 2005