A Times article that distorts the findings of a weak study

September 27, 2005 10:16 AM

Bad post.
A Times article that distorts the findings of a weak study should not a FPP make.
Would you like to say something about the topic of secular versus religious society? How about with links to actual studies, or news articles, to suppliment your crap post?
This is just so much more thin soup on the front page. I am not calling for deletion, but rather social censure (and some has occured within the thread).
(I also don't like this or this. I do like this, this, and this. Newsfilter can be done well. It should be done well.)
posted by klangklangston to Etiquette/Policy at 10:16 AM (27 comments total)

social censure?
posted by crunchland at 10:21 AM on September 27, 2005

This is a good example of bad newsfilter. A link to creighton.edu would have been preferable, but even then, it would not have been a good FPP.
posted by mischief at 10:25 AM on September 27, 2005

It's crap. Please don't delete it, though. The whole "post deletion" thing is getting incredibly annoying, since there seems to be no actual standard beyond the roar of the Coliseum crowd.
posted by selfnoise at 10:30 AM on September 27, 2005

We need another section of the website, called NewsFilter, where this stuff can find a home. Because it is never going to stop, and because the grudges and personal enmity that are generated in the news threads spill over into everything else.
posted by LarryC at 10:31 AM on September 27, 2005

klangklangston, but how do you feel about puppies and kittycats?

I haven't read through the linked threads yet but I do appreciate your bringing your issues to MeTa rather than defecating in the threads.

Personally, I like the newstories and would only ask that they be better supported with links to the history of the issue rather than just a single link.
posted by fenriq at 10:35 AM on September 27, 2005

fenriq writes "Personally, I like the newstories and would only ask that they be better supported with links to the history of the issue rather than just a single link."

Yes, but that makes them not really newsfilter. I've got nothing against posting something topical, but I think posts are much better (and so are the resultant discussion for those who privilege that) if the news is put into context and fleshed out with other links and theories. I understand that some people think a link should stand on its own, but newsfilter links rarely do.
posted by OmieWise at 10:38 AM on September 27, 2005

Newsfilter can be good with a single link. This instance however is not so much news, it is a paper or a study or something.
posted by mischief at 10:50 AM on September 27, 2005

Crunchland: The consensus that this is a bad post, and that Postroad should be discouraged from repeating his behavior, lest we think less of him.
posted by klangklangston at 10:58 AM on September 27, 2005

news.metafilter.com

How hard would it be?
posted by dhoyt at 11:14 AM on September 27, 2005

I like the idea of a news section of MeFi.
posted by Specklet at 11:31 AM on September 27, 2005

No, please don't. Then every story will have its own post:

"Pamela Anderson Seeks Restraining Order"

"Ninth Victim Dies in Utah Van Crash"

"Family of Slain Toddler Files Suit"

"Cops Bust Underage Beer Bash"
posted by caddis at 11:31 AM on September 27, 2005

Yes, and we won't have to look at any of them.
posted by selfnoise at 11:32 AM on September 27, 2005

Yes, and we won't have to look at any of them.

Especially when the huge jump in all-news-is-welcome yapping and chattering over on this brand new section of the site brings the whole server to JRUN.
posted by cortex at 11:45 AM on September 27, 2005

And now we know which recent posts klangklangston does and doesn't like. What an excellent and fascinating use of Metatalk. Perhaps each and every one of us should do something similar here, every damned week. Wouldn't that be interesting?
posted by Decani at 11:50 AM on September 27, 2005

I think klangklangston should go sit in the corner and contemplate what he's done by posting this thread. After that, we slap him on the bottom, give him a cookie, and send him out to the back yard to play.
posted by crunchland at 12:00 PM on September 27, 2005

Can I have his juice?
posted by selfnoise at 12:04 PM on September 27, 2005

I get a cookie?
posted by klangklangston at 12:29 PM on September 27, 2005

Would anyone else like a pancake?
posted by Pollomacho at 1:00 PM on September 27, 2005

I feel like there actually was a newsfilter site. Still is? I don't know. But I think I remember somewhere in the metafilter wiki a listing of news-specific metafilter-inspired sites, one of which was called newsfilter. It wasn't run by mathowie, though.
posted by shmegegge at 2:15 PM on September 27, 2005

Pancakes! PANCAKES! PAAAANCAKES!
posted by phearlez at 2:17 PM on September 27, 2005

Obligatory Postroad post count (highlighting problem with Meta callout of same):

Postroad has posted 477 links and 3245 comments to MetaFilter
and no threads and no comments to MetaTalk [obligatory pointing out that emphasis is mine]

posted by boaz at 2:42 PM on September 27, 2005

shmegegge: there is a newsfilter site, newsfilter.org. Do not go there from work though; it is not what it sounds like.
posted by caddis at 2:48 PM on September 27, 2005

Good post, bad post... really, there are no standards except people's reactions to the post. The "flag" is the best thing to happen to this site since ask.metafilter, but no one trusts it to do its thing.
posted by lodurr at 4:10 PM on September 27, 2005

HeadlineNewsFilter?
posted by mendel at 5:17 PM on September 27, 2005

Personally, since my post was one he liked, I think klang can have both a cookie and a Yoohoo.
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 5:26 PM on September 27, 2005

Obligatory Postroad post count
MeTa justice only applies to people who give a crap about it, film at 11.
posted by darukaru at 7:15 PM on September 27, 2005

Especially when the huge jump in all-news-is-welcome yapping and chattering over on this brand new section of the site brings the whole server to JRUN.

Good point, it would not be worth it if it crashed the site even more often. But if it could work, it would make the whole place more civil.
posted by LarryC at 5:51 PM on September 28, 2005