July 21, 2005

12:48 PM

What are your top 5 favourite Metafilter FPPs of all time?
Inspired by this comment.
posted by Edible Energy to MetaFilter-related at 12:48 PM (42 comments total)

I really enjoyed the BlogStop FPP.
posted by caddis at 1:01 PM on July 21, 2005

INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY!
posted by Rothko at 1:31 PM on July 21, 2005

Magnificent Obsessions
posted by ColdChef at 1:37 PM on July 21, 2005

Oh - how I like this CAPS LOCK post!
posted by ericb at 2:32 PM on July 21, 2005

Edible Energy is Miguel's sockpuppet.
posted by Kwantsar at 2:48 PM on July 21, 2005

In no particular order:
- We have cameras
- Unsecured webcams
- Blogstop
- ...and two others I don't have the patience to track down. I tend to like the chattier threads.
posted by me3dia at 2:53 PM on July 21, 2005

unsecured webcams is tops for me. I spent a night looking through all the cameras instead of sleeping.
posted by puke & cry at 3:06 PM on July 21, 2005

My favourites are all the "what is your favourite FPP" ones here on MeTa.
posted by dg at 3:29 PM on July 21, 2005

plo chops post.
posted by NewBornHippy at 4:50 PM on July 21, 2005

It's been a while, so I'll trot this out again. Please don't use the shorthand "FPP" for Front Page Posts. It's exclusionary and unnecessary.
posted by gleuschk at 5:33 PM on July 21, 2005

It starts with Delaware...

welcome to the only page on the internet about gay celebrity... robots.
posted by amberglow at 5:45 PM on July 21, 2005

And most of Miguel's posts. : >
posted by amberglow at 5:46 PM on July 21, 2005

Please don't use the shorthand "FPP" for Front Page Posts. It's exclusionary and unnecessary.

You're kidding, right?
posted by docgonzo at 6:04 PM on July 21, 2005

Nope.
posted by gleuschk at 6:13 PM on July 21, 2005

Nope.

hahahahahhaha

Thanks for the laugh, gleuschk
posted by graventy at 6:43 PM on July 21, 2005

Happy to amuse. Still not kidding.
posted by gleuschk at 7:14 PM on July 21, 2005

And as it's been a while, I will reassert my intention to use "FPP" whenever referring to a Front Page Post rather than type the phrase out once again. The suggestion of "thread" as a substitute is useless, since "thread" describes the thread. "FPP" describes the post.
posted by soyjoy at 7:58 PM on July 21, 2005

tvsheriff/coldplay "world of evil"
+
the Gary Busey / George Bush flash thingy

...which I think was posted in one FPP by XQUZYHPR, but I can't seem to find it.

TWO classics, esp. the "world of evil" in ONE!
posted by scarabic at 8:49 PM on July 21, 2005

I didn't find gleuschk's suggestion funny. I found it teetering on rude.
posted by Item at 8:50 PM on July 21, 2005

Some more recent fav's:
- Songs in list form
- Post rock (great discussion)
- The 'game' (damn!)
- "Superman is a dick" (check it out - it has been updated)
posted by Quartermass at 9:39 PM on July 21, 2005

Samarost is one of my all-time favorites.
posted by rhiannon at 9:55 PM on July 21, 2005

Meatfilter's, where I first found Get Your War On; for which I'll always be grateful
posted by bunglin jones at 10:05 PM on July 21, 2005

For purely selfish reasons, this one and this one.
posted by crunchland at 10:44 PM on July 21, 2005

Happy to amuse. Still not kidding.

I used to use 'FPP' too, and militated a bit for it early on as a self-evident timesaver, but once Matt had made it clear why he hates (or hated) it, I found myself agreeing with him, and stopped.

I invite our fresher compatriots, as an exercise in polishing their MeFiSkillSet, to hunt down the comment in question. If they're so inclined.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:07 PM on July 21, 2005

I'm glad to see others really appreciated my FPP about the game.

That thread was awesome.
posted by blasdelf at 11:19 PM on July 21, 2005

You bastard, you just made me lose.
posted by rhiannon at 12:38 AM on July 22, 2005

ARGH POINTY

I lost.
posted by loquacious at 12:44 AM on July 22, 2005

FPP LOVES CAPS LOCK
posted by Rothko at 12:59 AM on July 22, 2005

Officially, there's a "one hour" (or half hour, or whatever) grace period after someone informs you about losing the game. I consider blasdelf's mention of his FPP to be a mention of the game (which clearly required him to think of the game). Thus, you were in the clear, rhiannon.
posted by Plutor at 4:25 AM on July 22, 2005

And most of Miguel's posts. : >

Agreed, and he was prolific. One of my favorites:

For Lent, I'm Giving Up Not Drinking Cocktails - What About You?
posted by caddis at 7:10 AM on July 22, 2005

Superman is a Dick is definately in the top-5 for me.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 8:12 AM on July 22, 2005

I guess it's more of a guilty pleasure, because they're not actually high-quality FPPs, but I really enjoy the "let's trash Wal-mart" threads.
posted by JanetLand at 8:54 AM on July 22, 2005

Oh, and the Blair Hornstine stuff was great fun, too.
posted by JanetLand at 8:55 AM on July 22, 2005

Was that the "valedictorian" thread? That was a lot of fun.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 9:05 AM on July 22, 2005

Superman is a Dick is one I shared a whole lot.
The Sudoku post because I'm an addict.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 9:33 AM on July 22, 2005

Re: FPP

How 'bout we go with the Associated Press style? Spelled out on first reference, acronym thereafter. Ex., "That front page post about CNN's lead story sucked. Can't we keep FPPs to the best of the web?"

Or we could put the acronym in parentheses after the full phrase. Ex., "We need more front page posts (FPPs) about cheese."
posted by me3dia at 10:24 AM on July 22, 2005

Or we could just preface every comment with an explanation:

HAY IN THIS COMMENT WHEN I SAY FPP I MEANT FRONT PAGE POST OK

I strongly disagree with the wording of this FPP, as the overuse of the letter "e" is clearly an insult towards [...]
posted by goober at 12:42 AM PST on July 32

Or we could, you know, just not use the term at all.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:21 PM on July 22, 2005

I understand how writing "FPP" could be frowned upon as exclusionary, but really, it's the 3rd result on Google for "FPP Metafilter."

If you don't care enough about what the acronym means to type two words into google, then chances are that you're not too interested.

Anyways, I love CAPS LOCK DAY! as well. And the link to Kitundu. And all the links to Del.icio.us, which was the most useful post IMHO.
posted by Edible Energy at 2:16 PM on July 22, 2005

What happened to Miguel? I loved his posts, and then one day - poof! no more.
posted by dbmcd at 2:50 PM on July 22, 2005

I wonder too, dbmcd--i hope he's ok.
posted by amberglow at 3:57 PM on July 22, 2005

This thread is so worth it, for without it I would never know of Songs in List Form. Grazie!
posted by Miko at 9:35 PM on July 22, 2005

A week doesn't go by without someone pining away for that portuguese devil.
posted by crunchland at 11:50 PM on July 22, 2005