Posts that don't start with a link

July 30, 2006 9:00 PM

Quick question - this is something I haven't been able to figure out. How do I post an FPP where the first words are not a link, such as this recent one by TheWig? Every time I try to leave the URL blank, I get a warning and a request to "please correct this".

Am I just missing something? Forgive me if this is a hopelessly stupid question.
posted by rossination to MetaFilter-Related at 9:00 PM (17 comments total)

Don't fill in any text in either the "URL" or "Link Title" fields. Begin your text in the "Description" box. (You still need to put something in the "Headline/Title" box.)
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 9:06 PM on July 30, 2006

You are forgiven.
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 9:07 PM on July 30, 2006

Drop and give me Three Hail Marys and one Lord's Prayer. Now.

/nice catholic girl with boot camp fixation
posted by iconomy at 9:25 PM on July 30, 2006

"cath-o-lic girls!"

*swoons*
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 9:35 PM on July 30, 2006

I actually had the same question a couple weeks ago for my first front page post but didn't ask, since it is answered somewheres on the metafilter wiki, I think. It might be useful to somewhere have more explicit instructions on the different ways you can set up a post. I don't remember where I read about the method described by Steven C. Den Beste. Maybe it is obvious to most people, but the nerve wrackingness of writing a new post on the illustrious metafilter can cause one to draw blanks sometimes.
posted by Mister Cheese at 10:59 PM on July 30, 2006

Also, I am going to take the time to claim "Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese" as my long lost metafilter cousin. Or maybe long lost archenemies. Or both.

Lemme decide on which is more interesting.
posted by Mister Cheese at 11:04 PM on July 30, 2006 [1 favorite]

*gives KevinSkimsvold smelling salts and then orders him to take a 20 mile hike with a 50 pound backpack*

Mister Cheese, have you met the other Mr Cheese? Also know as y6y6y6, or as I like to call him, Sparky.
posted by iconomy at 3:44 AM on July 31, 2006

ooops...that would be skOmsvold.

(so I'm an anal catholic girl with a boot camp fixation...)
posted by iconomy at 3:45 AM on July 31, 2006

The Anal Catholic Girls series really went downhill after number seventeen.
posted by yhbc at 4:13 AM on July 31, 2006

Anal boot camptress and she's a sock outer. Goddess, that girl is something and everything. Out me next, ico!
posted by If I Had An Anus at 5:06 AM on July 31, 2006

Remind me, when did the Anal Catholic Church split away from Rome? So many schisms, it's hard to keep track of them all.
posted by nebulawindphone at 5:06 AM on July 31, 2006

I just swiped SDB's helpful explanation and added it to the "Anatomy of a Front Page Post" on my user page. Yoink!
posted by crunchland at 5:28 AM on July 31, 2006

"Remind me, when did the Anal Catholic Church split away from Rome?"

It was during the "Spelling Bee Schism" for using a "g" or a "j" to spell "jism".
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:05 AM on July 31, 2006

Can I start posting pictures of catgirls now?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 10:02 AM on July 31, 2006

no. only pictures of giantesses are appropriate here.
posted by crunchland at 12:27 PM on July 31, 2006

How about giant catgirls?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 2:55 PM on July 31, 2006

Oh noes, there's a MrCheese!!!?

Sockpuppet?!!

Kraftmatic, my cheese-cousin, we must purge the land of this mockery!
posted by Mister Cheese at 8:48 PM on July 31, 2006