"...Matt Haughey, editor of the popular blog MetaFilter." April 7, 2004 4:30 PM   Subscribe

From the article linked today in the sideblog on the Blue:
"...Matt Haughey, editor of the popular blog MetaFilter."

Editor? Then why haven't you ever fixed my typos?!?
Weird, Wired.
posted by wendell to MetaFilter-Related at 4:30 PM (38 comments total)

oops, I posted that in the wrong place, my bad
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:42 PM on April 7, 2004


I see a little "Spell Check" thingie in the lower left section of this page, as I write. I don't see why Matt should fix typos and stuff. he kills lame fpp's and double posts, deletes bad comments, etc -- is that what you're asking? why there isn't anm automatic spell check thing?
not to mention, more than a few very interesting posters have appalling spelling -- and that adds a certain je ne sais quoi to their contributions to the site

on preview: :)
posted by matteo at 4:44 PM on April 7, 2004


I just got a lttile giggly over Wired News using the term "editor" to refer to the admin/owner/publisher/webmaster/supremebeing of a community blog.
Maybe we need a standardized term for it.
Any suggestions?
How would YOU like to be referred to, Matt?
::drops loaded question, runs away::
posted by wendell at 4:53 PM on April 7, 2004


*bellylaughs at 1st joke*

yeah wendell, there should be a word for all that. Can't come up with a good one myself, but was once referred to as the CEO of my site. I liked that. ;) The chief mon! Lets go with chief!
posted by dabitch at 5:20 PM on April 7, 2004


Sorry about that, Chief.
posted by wendell at 5:22 PM on April 7, 2004


User Number One is He Am That Am. Only those fully sanctified in the mysteries of MeFi may dare pronounce His true name! All others shall refer to Him as 'chief' or face His wrath!

*wanders off into wilderness and is promptly stung by a scorpion*
posted by sciurus at 5:31 PM on April 7, 2004


I vote for snookums. Has a nice ring to it.

singular admin/numero uno/owner/original poster/king/unequivocal leader/main brain/sole moderator
posted by iconomy at 5:32 PM on April 7, 2004


Shah-in-Shah?
posted by loquax at 5:45 PM on April 7, 2004


Host Organism?
posted by dg at 5:51 PM on April 7, 2004


Grand Vizier
posted by GrahamVM at 5:59 PM on April 7, 2004


Le grande fromage.
posted by dash_slot- at 6:15 PM on April 7, 2004


(cancels operation TURABIAN)
posted by clavdivs at 6:27 PM on April 7, 2004


Jeff, the God of Biscuits

Matt, the God of Pancakes
posted by Ufez Jones at 6:39 PM on April 7, 2004


The One (both capitalized, or for the histrionic “THE ONE”).
posted by Gnatcho at 6:53 PM on April 7, 2004


Matt needs one of those circa-1999 Fast Company titles, like "Minister of Innovation" or "Visionary Evangelist"--or, just "TrapperKeeper" is good too. : >
posted by amberglow at 7:41 PM on April 7, 2004


Poo.

It's just one step below Grand Poo-Bah.

Okay, two steps.
posted by yhbc at 8:12 PM on April 7, 2004


El Poodator
posted by Ryvar at 8:26 PM on April 7, 2004


I like User #1.

Or simply #1 (though that invokes images of Riker).
posted by ODiV at 8:31 PM on April 7, 2004


That would make me #206... I feel like a demoted Patrick McGoohan.
posted by wendell at 8:55 PM on April 7, 2004


All-Devouring Space Goat, Destroyer of Worlds has a nice ring to it. Doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense, though.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:22 PM on April 7, 2004


Umm, actually, it does, which is quite scary.
posted by dg at 10:33 PM on April 7, 2004


I've always found things sound much more weighty when you add "OF DEATH!" after them.

Example:

Kid #1: What did you do over the weekend?
Kid #2: We went to Captain Kidds Waterpark.
Kid #1: Oh.

Revised Example:

Kid #1: What did you do over the weekend?
Kid #2: We went to Captain Kidds Waterpark OF DEATH!
Kid #1: Whoa. Sounds cool!



Perhaps "Editor OF DEATH!" would work.

Maybe.
posted by weston at 11:16 PM on April 7, 2004


So it's settled, then. "Matt Haughey, Metafilter's All-Devouring Space Goat . . . OF DEATH!" would be the correct formal method of referring to him.
posted by Ryvar at 3:16 AM on April 8, 2004


Can we shorten that to: MHMADSGOD?
posted by dabitch at 3:33 AM on April 8, 2004


We could just go with the Mad God part of that acronym. Mathowie as vengeful deity.

It doeth make me giggle.
posted by jacquilynne at 5:20 AM on April 8, 2004


more than a few very interesting posters have appalling spelling -- and that adds a certain je ne sais quoi to their contributions to the site

watt arr u talken aboot?
posted by jonmc at 6:56 AM on April 8, 2004


Let's call him The Matt. After all, Matt puts the M, A, T, and the other T in MetaFilter.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 7:27 AM on April 8, 2004


How about "Sport?"

"Nice site you got there, Sport!"
posted by ColdChef at 7:44 AM on April 8, 2004


> just go with the Mad God part
I can't belive nobody cracked a 'Mad Dog' agnostic/dyslexic/insomniac joke yet.
posted by dabitch at 8:44 AM on April 8, 2004


or Dam Dog...
posted by wendell at 8:56 AM on April 8, 2004


How 'bout coach?

"...let's win one for the quonsar," said Matt Haughey, coach of the MetaFilter team...

Or perhaps Blue Squadron Leader?
posted by me3dia at 9:08 AM on April 8, 2004


...we do have the baseball jerseys.... ;) What we need is cheerleaders.
posted by dabitch at 11:33 AM on April 8, 2004


If Matt were a girl, he could call himself the Editrix of Metafilter.
posted by orange swan at 12:10 PM on April 8, 2004


I'll mention it to tracicle at MonkeyFilter...
posted by wendell at 1:29 PM on April 8, 2004


i think 'editor' is actually a pretty good description. On a magazine, an editor does more than correct spellign mistakes. The Wired people are just translating it into terms they know, being magazine people and all.

Shame they're not web people, or they would say 'webmaster', which i think is the term most widely used.
posted by Miles Long at 2:41 PM on April 8, 2004


That would make me #206... I feel like a demoted Patrick McGoohan

"#206 to bungalow 4 please, #206 to bungalow 4"
posted by clavdivs at 3:39 PM on April 8, 2004


The Janitor.

IIRC Matt once said that was how he viewed his job 'round here. ("Damn quonsar's been throwing cherry bombs into the toilets again. Where's the mop & bucket?")

Either that or en extension to weston's:

Editor of Death FROM HELL!

I once played for a college football (soccer) team called 'The Shirtlifters of Death from Hell'. We didn't take it too seriously altho' we did get thru to a final.
posted by i_cola at 5:55 PM on April 8, 2004


oh, he just quit editor school after learning about DELE.
posted by quonsar at 8:53 AM on April 9, 2004


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