Duplicate Link Pony Request

March 23, 2000 5:42 PM

So when's that feature gonna come to negate repeat links? There've been two posts today -- last page on net, Simpsons bootlegs -- that have been reruns of things we've seen within the last month.
posted by luke to Feature Requests at 5:42 PM (4 comments total)

Also, BlowTheDotEtc. was posted just a day or two ago. I came to MetaTalk just now to comment on this same topic.
posted by EngineBeak at 6:23 PM on March 23, 2000

BlowTheDotEtc.-- annoying enough when it was linked to the first time.
posted by EngineBeak at 6:24 PM on March 23, 2000

ALSO, too many of the links recently have been unworthy of the great interest of former MetaFilter links. Like the "why I'm not a cat lover" link of today. A recent "Room of Jean's Own" in the Onion satirized the fascination with such cute crap. Links like that only serve to unnecessarily bloat the daily fine-dinin' smorgasbord that MetaFilter should be.
posted by EngineBeak at 6:33 PM on March 23, 2000

heh. I can't imagine the fuzzy logic required to weed out the lame links. I suppose I could institute that karma stuff, and let the low scored stuff fall to the bottom (and let people set their tolerances above a certain level so they wouldn't have to see them right away)
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:59 AM on March 24, 2000