Lame front page post gets meta'ed

April 2, 2005 12:14 PM

I think it's fairly obvious that this should not have been posted to the front page. The front page is not a forum for venting one's furstration.
posted by Sangermaine to Etiquette/Policy at 12:14 PM (34 comments total)

If it's that obvious, just flag it and move on. I thought that it was funny.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 12:17 PM on April 2, 2005

Oh, relax.
posted by orthogonality at 12:22 PM on April 2, 2005

I thought it was some sort of delayed april fools.
posted by dabitch at 12:23 PM on April 2, 2005

I think it's fairly obvious that this should not have been posted to MeTa. MeTa is not a forum for venting one's frustration.
posted by anapestic at 12:28 PM on April 2, 2005

what about AskMeFi? is that a forum for venting one's frustrations?
posted by matteo at 12:31 PM on April 2, 2005

what about AskMeFi? is that a forum for venting one's frustrations?

I don't think you could ask that question on AskMe, but you could, if you were careful, ask what would be a good forum for venting your frustration.
posted by anapestic at 12:45 PM on April 2, 2005

It's fucking childish and an embarassment. That's enough of a reason to delete it.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:50 PM on April 2, 2005

For an AskMe post, how about: "Can you dance to this clip? If not, what is an appropriate forum for venting one's frustration?"
posted by spaghetti at 12:56 PM on April 2, 2005

spaghetti, from your comment, I infer that the people who dislike this FPP are the rhythmically challenged. I like that hypothesis.
posted by anapestic at 12:58 PM on April 2, 2005

I've been a percussionist/drummer for thirty years. Too bad for that hypothesis. But I didn't follow the link. I might've otherwise, but the whining little stunt of the post put me off it.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 1:10 PM on April 2, 2005

but you could, if you were careful, ask what would

it's a frustrating answer
posted by matteo at 1:11 PM on April 2, 2005

Why not just vent some of that frustration, matteo? Now, where. . . where?
posted by taz at 1:22 PM on April 2, 2005

But I didn't follow the link. I might've otherwise, but the whining little stunt of the post put me off it.

Your loss, I reckon.
posted by anapestic at 1:38 PM on April 2, 2005

oh, EB - don't cut off your nose to spite your face. That link is replete with cheesy goodness.

on preview - slap me five, anapestic.
posted by madamjujujive at 1:39 PM on April 2, 2005

Cheesy goodness, maybe, but contaminated by solipsism. Inedible. I respectfully ask that repeated one-note flame-baiters with no known rhetorical skills be treated like self-linkers and cast irredeemably into the void.
posted by nj_subgenius at 2:39 PM on April 2, 2005

Political goodness, maybe, but contaminated by Dutch cheesiness. Inedible. I respectfully ask that repeated one-note dance-baiters with no known dancing skills be treated like lepers and cast irredeemably into the void.
posted by destro at 3:19 PM on April 2, 2005

Tell me more about this furstration. Does it vibra...
posted by Peter H at 3:30 PM on April 2, 2005

Destro, :-) I deserved that much.
posted by nj_subgenius at 4:25 PM on April 2, 2005

Of course, upon a second viewing, I have to say that the criticism of the US policy in Iraq is so obvious in that video that the comments in the FPP were a tad superfluous. Still, some people need everything pointed out to them.
posted by anapestic at 4:56 PM on April 2, 2005

Um, just so you know, the Dutch are NOT the Danish. Get your cultures right. Your argument is contaminated by your ignorance.
posted by Eekacat at 4:59 PM on April 2, 2005

"Your argument is contaminated by your ignorance."

Whose isn't?
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 5:16 PM on April 2, 2005

Eekacat, all cultures that alliterate are identical. That is why the US gets on so well with Yugoslavia, you know.
posted by anapestic at 5:17 PM on April 2, 2005

Has the deleting frenzy suddenly returned in the last few days? Not that this was a particularly good post or anything...

There was a great AskMe question a couple of days ago about good scenes in bad movies that bit the dust for no apparent reason, and I was just reading an AskMe thread where the first three or four comments were all referring to a deleted comment.
posted by Chuckles at 5:40 PM on April 2, 2005

There was a great AskMe question a couple of days ago about good scenes in bad movies that bit the dust for no apparent reason...

Well, the post was specifically asking for people to rip the scenes from their own DVDs for the purpose of setting up a torrent of all the scenes. A neat idea, but it does sort of fall under the heading of "soliciting specific copyrighted materials" which Matt has frowned upon in the past.
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 5:51 PM on April 2, 2005

Has the deleting frenzy suddenly returned in the last few days?

I doubt it, but that doesn't stop a few rather loud members from calling for bannings/deletions every chance they get. Quite frankly I think the jolt of adrenaline some folks get around here from acting all "admin-like" is ridiculous. To add to the argument of "boyzone" is the passive-agressive behavior that is littered across MetaFilter.
posted by SeizeTheDay at 6:09 PM on April 2, 2005

"Whose isn't?"

Chinese, Japanese, it's all the same....
posted by Eekacat at 6:28 PM on April 2, 2005

Oh, well. Thread closed, there, SeizeTheUmbrage.
posted by inchoate at 6:32 PM on April 2, 2005

Well, finally a deletion that I think is entirely wrong. It was a good link, badly phrased. There are so many lousy links that are unobjectionably phrased that are so much lamer.
posted by anapestic at 7:11 PM on April 2, 2005

"Well, finally a deletion that I think is entirely wrong. It was a good link, badly phrased. There are so many lousy links that are unobjectionably phrased that are so much lamer."

I disagree with the first sentence, agree with the second. The deletion is justified for the same reason a post with a random link to goatse would be deleted even if otherwise it was a good post with a good link. It was metacommentary not only in the blue, but in a post in the blue; and in this instance it's fairly clear that the link was used to justify the violation of community standards which makes it egregious.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 8:09 PM on April 2, 2005

a deletion that I think is entirely wrong

Well, it's nothing a quick repost minus the bizarre moaning couldn't fix. Do you really think the example of someone complaining on the front page about previous threads they'd been involved in should have been left up? Besides, seems to me milkwood got exactly what s/he wanted.
posted by mediareport at 9:50 PM on April 2, 2005

mediareport : "Besides, seems to me milkwood got exactly what s/he wanted."

I've always had a fondness for bulletin boards where getting banned is difficult, but if someone said "Ban me!", they would be permanently banned. This thread deletion gives me a similar pleasure.
posted by Bugbread at 10:17 PM on April 2, 2005

I saw the post and thought, "now what the fuck is that?"

I watched the video and thought the same damn thing.
posted by scarabic at 1:19 AM on April 3, 2005

Do you really think the example of someone complaining on the front page about previous threads they'd been involved in should have been left up?

I think it should have been tolerated because of the highly entertaining link. I don't think it was very badly presented, but since the thread itself didn't turn into a rehashing of the US policy in Iraq, I don't see what harm was done.
posted by anapestic at 7:17 AM on April 3, 2005

That post was contrived with all the grace of a bathroom scrawl, and comprised 1 flamebait taunt and 1 cheap shot at Matt. Come on now. The kooky music video was worth a laugh or two, but does the redeeming value represented by 15 minutes of afros and walking like Egyptians really add up to "should have been tolerated?" I wouldn't ask Matt to swallow the graffito or the jab all for the sake of that link's redeeming value.
posted by scarabic at 9:29 AM on April 3, 2005