WTF????

September 30, 2006 4:29 PM

WTF????
posted by mystyk to Etiquette/Policy at 4:29 PM (30 comments total)

This set in only two days set my spider senses tingling. I didn't realise they were from the same poster until I went back and checked. It feels a little odd, sorta like a bizarro-world double post.
posted by mystyk at 4:31 PM on September 30, 2006

Yup, really weird.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 4:35 PM on September 30, 2006 [1 favorite]

Spell it out like I'm a little dim. This non-brand-new user posts two similarly worded posts to high end real estate listings in two days and... and what?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:40 PM on September 30, 2006

... and maybe he's a real estate agent (or related) trying to drum up traffic to listings?
posted by twiggy at 4:42 PM on September 30, 2006

I see no foul except that a post pointing to a real estate listing of the Pierre penthouse is really lame.

Private island? Ok maybe fun and a little quirky.

But in NYC the Pierre penthouse isnt even outrageously expensive.
posted by vacapinta at 4:42 PM on September 30, 2006

Vronsky is just using Metafilter as his online wishlist.

He's gonna be one disappointed kid come Christmas.
posted by Serial Killer Slumber Party at 4:43 PM on September 30, 2006

This non-brand-new user posts two similarly worded posts to high end real estate listings in two days and... and what?

And I'm $145 000 000 in the hole, that's what!

/Buyer's remorse, soon to be debtor's regret.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 4:50 PM on September 30, 2006

What vacapinta said. I see nothing unethical about it, but they're lame posts. However, if not being lame were criteria for all blue posts we'd be in trouble.
posted by dobbs at 4:51 PM on September 30, 2006

$70m? Fuck that, I'm subscribing to Playboy instead.
posted by cortex at 4:55 PM on September 30, 2006

But in NYC the Pierre penthouse isnt even outrageously expensive.

The current record is 42M for the penthouse of the Time Warner building. But this isn't yet sold at 70M.
posted by StickyCarpet at 4:56 PM on September 30, 2006

maybe he's selling the island?
posted by amberglow at 5:06 PM on September 30, 2006

I've got beads and blankets...

*dangles beads*
posted by Cyrano at 5:27 PM on September 30, 2006

Someone has a pretty twisted real estate fetish. Try balloons or stinky socks or something, it's much cheaper.
posted by loquacious at 5:28 PM on September 30, 2006

Maybe vronsky just thinks we are all internet billionaires.
posted by R. Mutt at 5:40 PM on September 30, 2006

WTF? You're not an internet billionaire? Honestly, I thought he was posting those properties because they were downscale.
posted by loquacious at 5:42 PM on September 30, 2006

Glad I'm not alone - maybe it's a developing series of real-estate-anthropology studies on isolation.
posted by xod at 5:51 PM on September 30, 2006

It's so odd... why not have a better post with both those links?
posted by frecklefaerie at 5:55 PM on September 30, 2006

R. Mutt writes "Maybe vronsky just thinks we are all internet billionaires."

With the commision on 70Mil I'd play all the long shots.
posted by Mitheral at 6:11 PM on September 30, 2006

Yeah, it's weird, but that's it, just a little weird. Certainly inefficient. Maybe he just didn't know how to insert more then one in an FPP.
posted by delmoi at 6:29 PM on September 30, 2006

Maybe he just didn't know how to insert more then one in an FPP.

Yeah. I always think it's ironic that people complain about single link posts, when the posting interface is still entirely geared towards posting a single link and a description. It's so unfriendly for noobs.
posted by riotgrrl69 at 6:39 PM on September 30, 2006

It's so odd... why not have a better post with both those links?

Isn't that the MeFi equiv of "The food here sucks--and such small portions!"?
posted by dobbs at 6:56 PM on September 30, 2006 [2 favorites]

MetaFilter: The food here sucks--and wormsinmybraingetthemout ohgodkillmebeforeitaglineagain such small portions!
posted by loquacious at 8:16 PM on September 30, 2006 [1 favorite]

I think it was meant to be an hilarious joke of some sort, referencing something no one would have heard of in the first post then explaining it in the follow up.

I always think it's ironic that people complain about single link posts, when the posting interface is still entirely geared towards posting a single link and a description.

Idiotic more than ironic, I'd say.
posted by jack_mo at 8:43 AM on October 1, 2006

I just thought my MeFi feed was in reverse order.
posted by misterbrandt at 11:36 AM on October 1, 2006

jack_mo might be onto something. Its so strange that Vronsky references the next days post in the first one. Maybe just checking that we're paying attention? ;)
posted by dabitch at 1:31 PM on October 1, 2006

Oh, come on, admit it, you all looked at the properties.
posted by DenOfSizer at 4:30 PM on October 1, 2006

I didn't look!
Yet....
posted by Floydd at 7:36 AM on October 2, 2006

This callout is several orders of magnitude worse than the original posts. It may have even given me cancer. In fact I'm pretty sure it's responsible for a recent hangnail, the Kennedy assassination, and the Challenger explosion. And I'm not even kidding. And by 'not', I mean ' '. Etc.
posted by blue_beetle at 8:54 AM on October 2, 2006

I always think it's ironic that people complain about single link posts

No one complains about single-link posts in general. People complain about particular types of single-link posts, such as the single-link op-ed post, or the single link to a major news story which is already reported on all major news sites. But somehow that doesn't stop wannabe martyrs from whining that so many people hate all single-link posts.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 8:56 AM on October 2, 2006

That's so true.
posted by timeistight at 9:12 AM on October 2, 2006