A William Carlos Williams poem, with every line as a link?

April 20, 2002 1:38 AM

A William Carlos Williams poem, with every line as a link? Apart from wasting a dozen lines of front page space, it strikes me that the contribution didn't engender much discussion aside from debating how annoying the post was.
posted by skylar to Etiquette/Policy at 1:38 AM (13 comments total)

Yes.
Just think of all the middle east threads that could have been posted in that space.
posted by dong_resin at 3:24 AM on April 20, 2002

Agreed. My point exactly.
posted by skylar at 3:28 AM on April 20, 2002

It must be the amphetamines.
posted by anathema at 5:03 AM on April 20, 2002

'wasting space on the front page'.

yeah, we have so little of it. we might run out.

i applaud him for trying to be original and unique.

and for anyonw who complains, if you don't like using your mouse wheel, hit the spacebar.
posted by jcterminal at 10:45 AM on April 20, 2002

I actually thought it was quite ingenious....he left out the last line "and so cold" and his links reflected exactly that...too bad it was iced. It was a great post in my opinion.
posted by Benway at 6:55 PM on April 20, 2002

There's a fine line between clever and stupid.
posted by Kafkaesque at 8:24 PM on April 20, 2002

and what's that line?
posted by Benway at 9:07 PM on April 20, 2002

clever!

---------------------- The Line Between Clever and Stupid

stupid!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:12 PM on April 20, 2002

That's the best reply ever. Or should I say

best. reply. ever.
posted by iconomy at 9:27 PM on April 20, 2002

i applaud him for trying to be original and unique.

Well, the post is gone, so Matt apparently disagrees. And, you know jcterminal, instead of complaining yourself you could just skip MeTa.
posted by jpoulos at 9:37 PM on April 20, 2002

This isn't the 08 forum from dreamless. Metafilter isn't a site where you can just post anything you want and pass it off as performance art and sit then back and laugh when people don't get it. When 50% of the comments are "huh"? and "wtf?" and the other 50% are you trying to explain what the post is about, there's a 100% that the post is a dud.

With a post like that, there's no chance of discussing the links, only the post itself. Settle is better than that. Sometimes o<
posted by iconomy at 10:21 PM on April 20, 2002

OK YOU ASKED FOR IT

That "performance art" comment really hurt, you know.
posted by Settle at 11:14 PM on April 20, 2002

"And, you know jcterminal, instead of complaining yourself you could just skip MeTa."

i wasn't complaining dammit. i was giving advice.
posted by jcterminal at 1:03 PM on April 21, 2002