I really don't want to check MF one day and find a link to Mahir

March 26, 2000 7:38 AM

Almost without exception, all the stuff I've seen posted here in the last week is stuff that has either been posted here before or has been posted everywhere else first. I have a small suggestion to help alleviate this situation: a disclaimer on the post page discouraging people to post links culled from other weblogs. That way, there will be more first-run links. I really don't want to check MF one day and find a link to Mahir. I really don't.
posted by jkottke to Etiquette/Policy at 7:38 AM (4 comments total)

I don't know if it'll work, but I'm afraid I feel the same way. As I indicated in the previous thread about this subject (what's this? a third thread about repeating stuff in as many days?), I don't think it's necessarily reasonable to do this programmatically - but with *hundreds* of new users over the last few weeks, it is becoming a bit of a problem. It does make sense that by discouraging links found on other weblogs we could strip out a lot of the repetition...

I was thinking about the fact that when I first came to MetaFilter I spent probably 2 days trying to find something worthy of posting here... Since another problem (IMO) on MeFi these days is a lowering of standards for posts, I'm going to work on getting back to that level of restraint - - - I'll find someplace else to deal with my bloggerea™
posted by CrazyUncleJoe at 4:05 PM on March 26, 2000 [1 favorite]

i've been seeing so many posts lately that are incredibly old. and then, a lot of the others aren't even worth discussing. even as recently as a month ago, 2 out of 3 posts had lots of comments and were at least mildly interesting. not that i have any solution, the only way to enforce higher standards is to monitor the posts, and that's just a horrible time sink.
posted by brig at 11:58 AM on March 27, 2000

I doubt people are knowingly posting links from other weblogs, and if they are, a simple disclaimer could help. I only check out maybe two or three others, so things I post may have been posted somewhere else, but how would I know? I think other people might be doing the same thing. Shrug.
posted by endquote at 11:19 PM on March 27, 2000

I hold myself responsible for the lack of interesting posts.
posted by plinth at 12:09 PM on March 28, 2000