I don't see that there is any history of collaborative FPPs.

October 7, 2005 8:08 PM

I don't see that there is any history of collaborative FPPs. Is there any precedence for this? Yes or no, how should one let it known that the post was a collaboration?
posted by snsranch to Etiquette/Policy at 8:08 PM (12 comments total)

I'm not sure why it's even necessary. You're posting links, not writing an essay. But if it must be known that it was a collaboration, a first comment seems the logical route.
posted by panoptican at 8:14 PM on October 7, 2005

iirc there have been instances in the past where someone posted something for someone else, and yeah basically what panoptican said, just give whatever credit is due upfront in the 1st post
posted by edgeways at 8:34 PM on October 7, 2005

In my "They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!" post I gave matteo credit for translation duties, but that's as collaborative as my posts have gotten.
posted by jonmc at 8:39 PM on October 7, 2005

Every FPP is a collaboration between the people who write it, the people who read it, and the people who flag it and move on.
posted by sfenders at 9:08 PM on October 7, 2005

There have been a few in the past, either via #mefi's naughtiness or via one friend helping the other beef up a thread with more links.
posted by riffola at 10:44 PM on October 7, 2005

The Death Valley Wildflowers post, featuring content from metatalk, is one collaborative precedent. Letting it be known directly in the post seems like a nice thing to do.
posted by PY at 12:02 AM on October 8, 2005

I donated a poster to wobh's Sex And Propaganda.
posted by y2karl at 12:35 AM on October 8, 2005

A complex and unnecessary pony would sign collaborative posts with both usernames.

posted by y2karl and Count Ziggurat at 12:35 AM PST on October 8 [!]
posted by Count Ziggurat at 8:15 AM on October 8, 2005

[fixed some broken html in cz's post]
posted by jessamyn at 10:07 AM on October 8, 2005

CZ, yes, unnecessary, but it sure looks good.
posted by snsranch at 4:20 PM on October 8, 2005

It would be cool if we had a wiki that let multiple colaborate on FPP, before posting it.

It would also be cool if I had $300,000 in the bank. Any more then that, and I'd just be a rich asshole, and definetly not cool.
posted by delmoi at 6:06 PM on October 8, 2005

Low-tech mefibank solution to CZ's thought:

$5 -> User 29872, y2karl and Count Ziggurat.

In fact, I'm surprised this sort of thing hasn't been done for more nefarious snarky purposes already. Somebody register username Rothko and dios, sitting in a tree already.
posted by cortex at 9:43 AM on October 10, 2005