Comments on: What are your top 5 favourite Metafilter FPPs of all time?

What are your top 5 favourite Metafilter FPPs of all time?

Edible Energy — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:48:26 -0800

What are your top 5 favourite Metafilter FPPs of all time?
Inspired by this comment.

By: caddis

caddis — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:01:47 -0800

I really enjoyed the BlogStop FPP.

By: Rothko

Rothko — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:31:58 -0800

INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY!

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:37:21 -0800

Magnificent Obsessions

By: ericb

ericb — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:32:42 -0800

Oh - how I like this CAPS LOCK post!

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:48:30 -0800

Edible Energy is Miguel's sockpuppet.

By: me3dia

me3dia — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:53:20 -0800

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.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:06:15 -0800

unsecured webcams is tops for me. I spent a night looking through all the cameras instead of sleeping.

By: dg

dg — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:29:44 -0800

My favourites are all the "what is your favourite FPP" ones here on MeTa.

By: NewBornHippy

NewBornHippy — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:50:10 -0800

plo chops post.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:33:38 -0800

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.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:45:51 -0800

It starts with Delaware...

welcome to the only page on the internet about gay celebrity... robots.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:46:09 -0800

And most of Miguel's posts. : >

By: docgonzo

docgonzo — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:04:48 -0800

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

You're kidding, right?

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:13:30 -0800

Nope.

By: graventy

graventy — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:43:40 -0800

Nope.

hahahahahhaha

Thanks for the laugh, gleuschk

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:14:34 -0800

Happy to amuse. Still not kidding.

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:58:43 -0800

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.

By: scarabic

scarabic — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:49:06 -0800

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!

By: Item

Item — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:50:24 -0800

I didn't find gleuschk's suggestion funny. I found it teetering on rude.

By: Quartermass

Quartermass — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:39:39 -0800

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)

By: rhiannon

rhiannon — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:55:13 -0800

Samarost is one of my all-time favorites.

By: bunglin jones

bunglin jones — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:05:20 -0800

Meatfilter's, where I first found Get Your War On; for which I'll always be grateful

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:44:24 -0800

For purely selfish reasons, this one and this one.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:07:54 -0800

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.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:19:50 -0800

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

That thread was awesome.

By: rhiannon

rhiannon — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:38:21 -0800

You bastard, you just made me lose.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:44:49 -0800

ARGH POINTY

I lost.

By: Rothko

Rothko — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:59:57 -0800

FPP LOVES CAPS LOCK

By: Plutor

Plutor — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:25:33 -0800

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.

By: caddis

caddis — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:10:05 -0800

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?

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:12:30 -0800

Superman is a Dick is definately in the top-5 for me.

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:54:04 -0800

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.

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:55:25 -0800

Oh, and the Blair Hornstine stuff was great fun, too.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:05:16 -0800

Was that the "valedictorian" thread? That was a lot of fun.

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:33:54 -0800

Superman is a Dick is one I shared a whole lot.
The Sudoku post because I'm an addict.

By: me3dia

me3dia — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:24:19 -0800

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."

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:21:50 -0800

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.

By: Edible Energy

Edible Energy — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:16:35 -0800

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.

By: dbmcd

dbmcd — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:50:57 -0800

What happened to Miguel? I loved his posts, and then one day - poof! no more.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:57:33 -0800

I wonder too, dbmcd--i hope he's ok.

By: Miko

Miko — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 21:35:39 -0800

This thread is so worth it, for without it I would never know of Songs in List Form. Grazie!

By: crunchland

crunchland — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:50:48 -0800

A week doesn't go by without someone pining away for that portuguese devil.