Worst post ever? Check.

March 11, 2006 3:32 PM

Worst post ever? Single link: Check. Editorializing: Check. Conspiracy Theory: Check. Google-as-evil-censor subtext: check.
posted by tiamat to Etiquette/Policy at 3:32 PM (12 comments total)

Title of said post: "Innocent until proven guilty on GIS"

Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
posted by tiamat at 3:33 PM on March 11, 2006

yeah, weak. removed.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:41 PM on March 11, 2006

Worst post ever?

Close, but no.

This is unquestionably the single worst post I have seen since I first began reading metafilter.
posted by dersins at 3:42 PM on March 11, 2006

dersins, you're in the lead with that for sure.
posted by tiamat at 3:45 PM on March 11, 2006

antifreez_ 's comment made it all worthwhile.

My favorite bad post was the one about the portobello mushrooms. Good times.
posted by iconomy at 3:46 PM on March 11, 2006 [1 favorite]

I heard the afterparty was in here.

Hello, everybody!
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 3:53 PM on March 11, 2006

GIFs anyone?
posted by fire&wings at 3:58 PM on March 11, 2006

Dersins, thanks for that. Missed that the first time.
posted by octothorpe at 4:01 PM on March 11, 2006

Ah yes, "Harsh but makes you think". By far the worst FPP of all time.

All Hail Princess Laura. Or Heil, as the case may be.
posted by delmoi at 4:07 PM on March 11, 2006

BTW, that mushroom post made it to 1000 comments.
posted by Falconetti at 4:11 PM on March 11, 2006

I thought that post was fine. In fact I am about to FPP the creepy factoid that GIS returns 546 hits for tedw-but none of them is me! See: there is a conspiracy
posted by TedW at 4:42 PM on March 11, 2006

Critiques of Google, however wacky, are not on my list of criteria for worst-post-ever.
posted by scarabic at 6:03 PM on March 11, 2006