Why do people kick the other kid's toys in the Sandbox (Ask Metafilter)?

June 20, 2006 1:00 PM

I would like to commend the regulars of AskMetaFilter for letting their style of asking questions happen. It inspired the way I write AskMe questions now (and now I don't care if any people answer). Which brings me to my next and final point; about ettiquete and policy. Why can't people relax and just realize that's it's a sandbox, and if you kick the other kid's toy or throw sand in their face, I'm going to shove you? The conflict is necessary to watch the community form, but I think it's time to move to the monkey bars, you know what I mean kids?
posted by tweak to Etiquette/Policy at 1:00 PM (43 comments total)

I'm not entirely sure what you mean. People should get argumentative with each other in AskMe threads?
posted by cortex at 1:03 PM on June 20, 2006

MetaTalk is the monkey bars. Pissing matches and derails in AskMe can get in the way of people getting their questions answered and sometimes take over entire threads. So, people can come here and get their sand and poo flinging jones out. Seems to mostly work, even without any intervention on my part. However I will say that I disagree with your assertion that shoving back is always the proper way to deal with toy kicking. It's often the shoving back that turns one irritating troll or asshole into some sort of big conflagration where people pick sides.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:04 PM on June 20, 2006

I'm not really clear on what tweak means either, but I'm guessing, from "Realize that...if you kick...I'm going to shove... it's time to move to the monkey bars" that it means "If you act like an ass, people will be an ass back to you, so let's stop acting like asses in the first place?"
posted by Bugbread at 1:06 PM on June 20, 2006

this post is asinine. that is, unless you love nonsensical playground metaphors.

if you're one of those, then this post is awesome.
posted by Hat Maui at 1:10 PM on June 20, 2006 [1 favorite]

jonmc gave me a wedgie and stole my lunch money.
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:11 PM on June 20, 2006

What?
posted by OmieWise at 1:12 PM on June 20, 2006

This post is lame, and it's most likely an extension to tweak's feelings expressed here. Newsflash tweak; just because you don't think people are listening to you does not warrant a new MeTa post, just to get additional attention.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 1:13 PM on June 20, 2006 [1 favorite]

I was afraid of that too, since the linked comment was quite annoying enough.
posted by OmieWise at 1:16 PM on June 20, 2006

seriously, what?
posted by boo_radley at 1:19 PM on June 20, 2006

So if I kick another kid's toy or throw sand in their face, tweaks' going to shove me? So MetaFilter's got an enforcer named tweak now?
Really, I think we could come up with someone with a better name than that.
EEK! It's tweak!!
I dunno. I don't think this will work out too well.
posted by Floydd at 1:26 PM on June 20, 2006

I would like to commend the regulars of AskMetaFilter for letting their style of asking questions happen.

What means this?
posted by iconomy at 1:32 PM on June 20, 2006

This is a very fucking stupid MeTa post. Worse, it's painful to read.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 1:36 PM on June 20, 2006

In your last question you cut off a sentance with the more inside. Whoever you got that from, I suggest you stop. Also, post makes no sense.
posted by puke & cry at 1:36 PM on June 20, 2006

English my broken by formed badly MeTa post is.

Stop to please my language be mangling.
posted by fenriq at 1:43 PM on June 20, 2006

I believe all I have to contribute to this discussion is neener neener neener! With, quite possibly, nanny nanny boo boo! thrown in for clarification.
posted by LionIndex at 1:43 PM on June 20, 2006

The conflict is necessary to watch the community form, but I think it's time to move to the monkey bars, you know what I mean kids?

No I don't. Why would I? You have to be more spesific.
posted by delmoi at 1:50 PM on June 20, 2006

I don't get it. The answers in his last post seemed pretty civil and he hasn't answered anything since late may.

Tweak, did you forget to take your medicine today?
posted by necessitas at 1:50 PM on June 20, 2006

LionIndex, allow me to interject "PLBLBLBLLBBBT!" for rebuttal.
posted by Faint of Butt at 1:50 PM on June 20, 2006

I think it's time to move to the monkey bars, you know what I mean kids?

No I don't. Not a clue.
posted by LarryC at 1:52 PM on June 20, 2006

Well, if my childhood playground experience is any indication, I guess it means it's time for all of us to illustrate our weak upper body strength.
posted by scody at 1:55 PM on June 20, 2006

Speak for yourself. I was amazing at the monkey bars. I still feel I could climb better than most monkeys but this was a claim that was impossible to prove since the fascists at the zoo forbid climbing contests with the monkeys. There's nothing special about monkeys, nothing at all.
posted by nixerman at 2:00 PM on June 20, 2006

allow me to interject "PLBLBLBLLBBBT!" for rebuttal.

There are certainly cases in which that would apply, but I think in this instance, I'm rubber, you're glue. Bounces off me, sticks to you.
posted by LionIndex at 2:01 PM on June 20, 2006

Well, if my childhood playground experience is any indication, I guess it means it's time for all of us to illustrate our weak upper body strength.

And what was that crap with making us have our palms in for the arm-hang? Seriously, I could have gone for like three times as long if I could have done it palms-out.
posted by cortex at 2:07 PM on June 20, 2006

*cries*
posted by NinjaTadpole at 2:08 PM on June 20, 2006

Monkey bars bad, jungle gyms good.
posted by Bugbread at 2:08 PM on June 20, 2006

Lionindex is clearly a prevaricator, a prevaricator; his trousers are in conflgration.
posted by yhbc at 2:14 PM on June 20, 2006

I think I wet my pants.

again.
posted by Floydd at 2:15 PM on June 20, 2006

Tweak could not escape the Noogie Patrol.
posted by klangklangston at 2:18 PM on June 20, 2006

No, Floydd, it was me this time. Mea culpa.
posted by cortex at 2:28 PM on June 20, 2006

Double
posted by Gamblor at 2:30 PM on June 20, 2006

Here is how you can build your own hovercraft.
posted by ND¢ at 2:45 PM on June 20, 2006

Eels on a hovercraft!
posted by boo_radley at 2:48 PM on June 20, 2006

Be nicer to tweak before I shove you all.
posted by knave at 3:09 PM on June 20, 2006

You can shove me when I am on my homemade hovercraft and I (and my eel friends) will just float away.
posted by ND¢ at 3:18 PM on June 20, 2006

posted by kosem at 3:19 PM on June 20, 2006

buh?

Drunk post.

fuck the sandbox, the kid needs a timeout to calm down and quit being so spazy
posted by edgeways at 3:23 PM on June 20, 2006

I'm going to sing a song. The name of the song is "This callout sucks" Feel free to sing along.

and a one, and a two...
posted by shmegegge at 4:11 PM on June 20, 2006

people who play in sandboxes and monkeybars can be horribly cruel sometimes but without this sort of cruelty mankind would have never evolved to the point of being able to make sandboxes and monkeybars. also turtle-shaped sandboxes.



TWEAK YOU THREATENED TO SHOVE ME TWEAK WHEN DOVES TEH SHOVING START? TWEAK DO YOU COPY? OVER?
posted by naxosaxur at 4:18 PM on June 20, 2006 [1 favorite]

rofl!
posted by tweak at 4:51 PM on June 20, 2006

My god, that's a turtle-shaped sandbox if I ever saw one.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 5:13 PM on June 20, 2006

so You're not even going to clarify this post?
posted by puke & cry at 5:16 PM on June 20, 2006

"people who play in sandboxes and monkeybars can be horribly cruel sometimes but without this sort of cruelty mankind would have never evolved to the point of being able to make sandboxes and monkeybars."

Oh, thanks, Ms. Evolutionary Scientist. Oh, wait, you're not an evolutionary scientist. You stupid, idiotic twit.

And if I'm being cruel, just consider it my Evolutionary Progressivist Imperative.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 5:50 PM on June 20, 2006 [1 favorite]

tweak, if you can't explain your post almost five hours later, you're not really serious about discussing anything, are you? I'm closing this.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:54 PM on June 20, 2006