To what end? July 19, 2007 6:32 AM Subscribe
At what point do you get a perma? I'm not going to link back to the post, but Reklaw's Harry Potter post was out of line on a major level.
Am I overreacting?
I'd say this is ban worthy. It's not relevant whether or not you're interested in Harry Potter or not, or whether you care about book spoilers. The point is that reklaw made a post specifically designed to ruin the enjoyment of other mefites like a bully kicking over a sandcastle. He enjoys screwing with other users. Read his page. He collects complaints made about him like trophies. This is someone who is going to keep doing shit like this until someone shows him the door.
posted by unreason at 6:39 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by unreason at 6:39 AM on July 19, 2007
You fuckers are lucky that I didn't see the post in question, because I swear to christ that if someone on this godforsaken website ruins the last Harry Potter book for me I will permaban you from being alive!
posted by ND¢ at 6:40 AM on July 19, 2007 [11 favorites]
posted by ND¢ at 6:40 AM on July 19, 2007 [11 favorites]
Am I overreacting?
Yep. I mean, seriously, the very idea of banning someone for posting a (probably untrue) spoiler about a damn children's book. Ridiculous.
Like I said in the thread, I posted it because the whole idea is, you know, funny. Every time there's a new Harry Potter book out we get this "OMG [insert character] dies" stuff all over the web, but the idea of the big finale being that the kid's pet owl kicks the bucket just tickled me.
I apologise for offending your delicate sensibilities. OMG WILLY WONKA GIVES HIM THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY!
posted by reklaw at 6:40 AM on July 19, 2007 [5 favorites]
Yep. I mean, seriously, the very idea of banning someone for posting a (probably untrue) spoiler about a damn children's book. Ridiculous.
Like I said in the thread, I posted it because the whole idea is, you know, funny. Every time there's a new Harry Potter book out we get this "OMG [insert character] dies" stuff all over the web, but the idea of the big finale being that the kid's pet owl kicks the bucket just tickled me.
I apologise for offending your delicate sensibilities. OMG WILLY WONKA GIVES HIM THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY!
posted by reklaw at 6:40 AM on July 19, 2007 [5 favorites]
Was this in the thread about Harry Potter spoilers? Because, look, if you wanted to avoid Harry Potter spoilers, that was probably the wrong thread to visit.
...What?
posted by kittens for breakfast at 6:45 AM on July 19, 2007
...What?
posted by kittens for breakfast at 6:45 AM on July 19, 2007
If you do get banhammered, it won't just be for posting a spoiler about a kid's book. It'll be for a looong history of attention-seeking behavior that seems to be geared towards nothing more but getting a rise out of people. Come on, does your profile page indicate anything but?
posted by micketymoc at 6:46 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by micketymoc at 6:46 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Oh...the thread itself WAS the spoiler. I see. Hurm.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 6:47 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by kittens for breakfast at 6:47 AM on July 19, 2007
Was this in the thread about Harry Potter spoilers?
No, it was a thread whose title was the spoiler. Thanks to the RSS feed, even though the post in question was deleted, it showed up on my Google home page.
Whether the spoiler is true or not, the person who posted it is pathetic: a little bully whining, "it's just a children's book," as though that could make his actions appear less childish (rather than more.) I'm sure that if banned, he'd just scrape up another $5 so he could continue shitting on us all.
posted by tomboko at 6:48 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
No, it was a thread whose title was the spoiler. Thanks to the RSS feed, even though the post in question was deleted, it showed up on my Google home page.
Whether the spoiler is true or not, the person who posted it is pathetic: a little bully whining, "it's just a children's book," as though that could make his actions appear less childish (rather than more.) I'm sure that if banned, he'd just scrape up another $5 so he could continue shitting on us all.
posted by tomboko at 6:48 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
You're full of shit reklaw.
You didn't post it because it's funny. You posted it because you get some perverse fucking enjoyment out of seeing something ruined for other people.
It doesn't matter that it's a goddamned kids book or that it "always" happens. You view it in the same fucking way as all of the other spoilering shitheads view it.
As a chance to kick down someone elses sandcastle, to ruin an event, experience, frivolous moment for some anonymous person over the internet.
It's another chance to collect a pissed off person for your malformed wall of fucking shame. For some fucked reason, that's your interaction currency.
Well you know what? You're just a profound cockboat. Regardless of how you view this type of interaction, we're real fucking people. If you'd do this in real life, well that's one thing. But you don't.
You've got the veil of anonymity so it becomes funny to you. Ho Ho, people on the internet hate me, how jolly amusing.
Well you know what? Fuck you. Fuck you and your fucking funny spoilers, true or not. Fuck you and your wall of shame, wall of hatred, whatever the fuck you get your stupid jollies off collecting.
It's not funny in the real world, and it's not funny here.
posted by Lord_Pall at 6:49 AM on July 19, 2007 [37 favorites]
You didn't post it because it's funny. You posted it because you get some perverse fucking enjoyment out of seeing something ruined for other people.
It doesn't matter that it's a goddamned kids book or that it "always" happens. You view it in the same fucking way as all of the other spoilering shitheads view it.
As a chance to kick down someone elses sandcastle, to ruin an event, experience, frivolous moment for some anonymous person over the internet.
It's another chance to collect a pissed off person for your malformed wall of fucking shame. For some fucked reason, that's your interaction currency.
Well you know what? You're just a profound cockboat. Regardless of how you view this type of interaction, we're real fucking people. If you'd do this in real life, well that's one thing. But you don't.
You've got the veil of anonymity so it becomes funny to you. Ho Ho, people on the internet hate me, how jolly amusing.
Well you know what? Fuck you. Fuck you and your fucking funny spoilers, true or not. Fuck you and your wall of shame, wall of hatred, whatever the fuck you get your stupid jollies off collecting.
It's not funny in the real world, and it's not funny here.
posted by Lord_Pall at 6:49 AM on July 19, 2007 [37 favorites]
Off with his head.
posted by Optamystic at 6:49 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by Optamystic at 6:49 AM on July 19, 2007
Also, if the above rant is inappropriate, flag and nuke it please.
Just had to get it out of my system.
posted by Lord_Pall at 6:49 AM on July 19, 2007
Just had to get it out of my system.
posted by Lord_Pall at 6:49 AM on July 19, 2007
You know what deserves a perma ban,: MetaTalk threads that lack context.
(What is this all about?)
posted by chunking express at 6:50 AM on July 19, 2007
(What is this all about?)
posted by chunking express at 6:50 AM on July 19, 2007
OMG WILLY WONKA GIVES HIM THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
posted by micketymoc at 6:50 AM on July 19, 2007
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
posted by micketymoc at 6:50 AM on July 19, 2007
Chunking - A 2 word post linking to a ytmnd post. The 2 words were purportedly major spoilers for the new harry potter book.
posted by Lord_Pall at 6:51 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by Lord_Pall at 6:51 AM on July 19, 2007
Actually your comment redeems this thread, my bad.
posted by chunking express at 6:52 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by chunking express at 6:52 AM on July 19, 2007
I apologise for offending your delicate sensibilities.
You might apologize for willfully shitting on the site and its readers a leave the whole "delicate sensibilities" bit holstered. There is no way to interpret your post as anything other than willful, mean-spirited baiting, no matter what "oh but I thought the idea was funny" post-hoc you try to throw on it.
Protip: if you think something is funny, but it's also really fucking obvious that it's going to upset a bunch of people, don't make a two-word post out of it.
All that aside from the fact that it was a single link to a ytmnd. What, you couldn't you find a suitable article in The Onion? The generous interpretation of your post was that it was shit unsuitable for the front page, and that's not a great sign.
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:54 AM on July 19, 2007
You might apologize for willfully shitting on the site and its readers a leave the whole "delicate sensibilities" bit holstered. There is no way to interpret your post as anything other than willful, mean-spirited baiting, no matter what "oh but I thought the idea was funny" post-hoc you try to throw on it.
Protip: if you think something is funny, but it's also really fucking obvious that it's going to upset a bunch of people, don't make a two-word post out of it.
All that aside from the fact that it was a single link to a ytmnd. What, you couldn't you find a suitable article in The Onion? The generous interpretation of your post was that it was shit unsuitable for the front page, and that's not a great sign.
posted by cortex (staff) at 6:54 AM on July 19, 2007
I didn't read the Harry Potter post, but I found his user page amusing.
Metafilter has a lot of sacred cows, but only a few sacred cats.
posted by jefeweiss at 6:55 AM on July 19, 2007
Metafilter has a lot of sacred cows, but only a few sacred cats.
posted by jefeweiss at 6:55 AM on July 19, 2007
It's another chance to collect a pissed off person for your malformed wall of fucking shame. For some fucked reason, that's your interaction currency.
The user page is also, you know, not intended 100% seriously. The point is to collect occasions when people have agreed with me, plus particularly zingy insults.
You've got the veil of anonymity so it becomes funny to you. Ho Ho, people on the internet hate me, how jolly amusing.
I suppose it's true to say that no matter what people say to me on the web, my main reaction is either boredom or amusement, simply because I can't imagine what kind of a life I'd lead if debates over whether I should have made a post on some website about some kiddy book actually registered with me on any emotional level. You know? And I'm sure people take just as much delight in typing out their well-crafted insults as I do in reading them. Yours is 4/10 at best, though, unfortunately.
Also, turns out the Grinch SAVED Christmas.
posted by reklaw at 6:57 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
The user page is also, you know, not intended 100% seriously. The point is to collect occasions when people have agreed with me, plus particularly zingy insults.
You've got the veil of anonymity so it becomes funny to you. Ho Ho, people on the internet hate me, how jolly amusing.
I suppose it's true to say that no matter what people say to me on the web, my main reaction is either boredom or amusement, simply because I can't imagine what kind of a life I'd lead if debates over whether I should have made a post on some website about some kiddy book actually registered with me on any emotional level. You know? And I'm sure people take just as much delight in typing out their well-crafted insults as I do in reading them. Yours is 4/10 at best, though, unfortunately.
Also, turns out the Grinch SAVED Christmas.
posted by reklaw at 6:57 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
wait - did I actually get to an anti-reklaw thread before it reached 300 comments? Ohmahgawd. This is my big chance.
Reklaw, you are a gigantic douche. You make the internet suck more by participating in it. You are the kind of person that the $5 donation is supposed to weed out - but the metric tonnage of your suck is such that it actually overcame this barrier to shit all over this website.
I hate Harry Potter - I think the books are contrived and silly. I'm profoundly frustrated that anyone gets excited about them when Phillip Pullman's work exists. However - ruining the endings of things for people is like the hallmark of gigantic assholes.
It's almost cliche - what makes an asshole? The person who ruins the endings of books and movies.
Please choke on a bucket of cocks.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 6:57 AM on July 19, 2007 [16 favorites]
Reklaw, you are a gigantic douche. You make the internet suck more by participating in it. You are the kind of person that the $5 donation is supposed to weed out - but the metric tonnage of your suck is such that it actually overcame this barrier to shit all over this website.
I hate Harry Potter - I think the books are contrived and silly. I'm profoundly frustrated that anyone gets excited about them when Phillip Pullman's work exists. However - ruining the endings of things for people is like the hallmark of gigantic assholes.
It's almost cliche - what makes an asshole? The person who ruins the endings of books and movies.
Please choke on a bucket of cocks.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 6:57 AM on July 19, 2007 [16 favorites]
Perhaps Hotmail hacked into your Mefi account and posted it?
posted by Aloysius Bear at 6:59 AM on July 19, 2007 [17 favorites]
posted by Aloysius Bear at 6:59 AM on July 19, 2007 [17 favorites]
Well, with Korean women, once they hit about 50, they are apparently required by law to get a perm.
Oh, wait.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:59 AM on July 19, 2007 [3 favorites]
Oh, wait.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:59 AM on July 19, 2007 [3 favorites]
I really couldn't give a shit about Harry Potter, but the post in question is beyond worthless; it is mean spirited, and intended to anger people. This seems to sum up most of reklaw's posting history here.
Exactly what value to the community is someone whose main purpose is to try to piss off other users? Is that not the very definition of trolling?
More succinctly: why not just ban him, and get it over with?
posted by tocts at 6:59 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
Exactly what value to the community is someone whose main purpose is to try to piss off other users? Is that not the very definition of trolling?
More succinctly: why not just ban him, and get it over with?
posted by tocts at 6:59 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
Protip: if you think something is funny, but it's also really fucking obvious that it's going to upset a bunch of people, don't make a two-word post out of it.
I think the fact that such a ludicrous thing has any capacity whatsoever to upset people is part of the funny to begin with. I have to admit, though, I thought the average Metafilter user was a little more... intelligent - detached, maybe - than all this seems to suggest.
posted by reklaw at 6:59 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
I think the fact that such a ludicrous thing has any capacity whatsoever to upset people is part of the funny to begin with. I have to admit, though, I thought the average Metafilter user was a little more... intelligent - detached, maybe - than all this seems to suggest.
posted by reklaw at 6:59 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
I think the fact that such a ludicrous thing has any capacity whatsoever to upset people is part of the funny to begin with.
Did you have that thought before or after you made your post?
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:01 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
Did you have that thought before or after you made your post?
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:01 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
AND he's British.
posted by Baby_Balrog at 7:01 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Baby_Balrog at 7:01 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
However - ruining the endings of things for people is like the hallmark of gigantic assholes.
Oh come on. I'm sure the owl dying isn't really the ending. Even I give Ms Rowling a little more credit than that. But it'd be hilarious if it was, you know? And it's even more hilarious that the mere suggestion that it might be is enough to send people into a blind rage.
posted by reklaw at 7:01 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Oh come on. I'm sure the owl dying isn't really the ending. Even I give Ms Rowling a little more credit than that. But it'd be hilarious if it was, you know? And it's even more hilarious that the mere suggestion that it might be is enough to send people into a blind rage.
posted by reklaw at 7:01 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Fuck yourself, reklaw.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:02 AM on July 19, 2007 [3 favorites]
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:02 AM on July 19, 2007 [3 favorites]
I think the fact that such a ludicrous thing has any capacity whatsoever to upset people is part of the funny to begin with.
Did you have that thought before or after you made your post?
Well, I kinda thought that Mefi would laugh at Pottermania, ridiculous faux-spoilers and people who are offended by them - not that Mefi itself would react in such a way. Live and learn, I guess.
posted by reklaw at 7:03 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Did you have that thought before or after you made your post?
Well, I kinda thought that Mefi would laugh at Pottermania, ridiculous faux-spoilers and people who are offended by them - not that Mefi itself would react in such a way. Live and learn, I guess.
posted by reklaw at 7:03 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
are you Andy Dick, reklaw? Just stop with the justifications. Come out, publically, here and now as an asshole, because we've always known. The only person you're lying to is yourself.
posted by boo_radley at 7:04 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by boo_radley at 7:04 AM on July 19, 2007
about some kiddy book
That's really funny to keep repeating that, reklaw. Just so it's clear, you just spread a ton of bad feeling about Metafilter to a lot of people who'll see the title of your post in lots of places.
*claps*
Good job.
And it's definitely time for you to pay another $5.
posted by mediareport at 7:04 AM on July 19, 2007
That's really funny to keep repeating that, reklaw. Just so it's clear, you just spread a ton of bad feeling about Metafilter to a lot of people who'll see the title of your post in lots of places.
*claps*
Good job.
And it's definitely time for you to pay another $5.
posted by mediareport at 7:04 AM on July 19, 2007
styxno: somebody's been in c:\boo_radleys\fanfic\potter, I see.
posted by boo_radley at 7:05 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by boo_radley at 7:05 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Anyway, shutting up for a bit, but seriously:
did I actually get to an anti-reklaw thread before it reached 300 comments?
It doesn't happen that often, does it? I've been quiet for months, even, while some financial crap rained down upon my head. I hardly think I'm even in the Top 100 of Trainwreck Causing Mefites.
posted by reklaw at 7:05 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
did I actually get to an anti-reklaw thread before it reached 300 comments?
It doesn't happen that often, does it? I've been quiet for months, even, while some financial crap rained down upon my head. I hardly think I'm even in the Top 100 of Trainwreck Causing Mefites.
posted by reklaw at 7:05 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
I think the fact that such a ludicrous thing has any capacity whatsoever to upset people is part of the funny to begin with.
You deliberately posted something that you knew would anger people, and you posted it for no other reason than that it would anger people and you think that this is funny.
Seriously, what the fuck are you doing here?
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:05 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
You deliberately posted something that you knew would anger people, and you posted it for no other reason than that it would anger people and you think that this is funny.
Seriously, what the fuck are you doing here?
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:05 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
Well, I kinda thought that Mefi would laugh at Pottermania, ridiculous faux-spoilers and people who are offended by them - not that Mefi itself would react in such a way.
So you're saying that you've been completely not paying attention to any mefi discussion ever about spoilers?
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:06 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
So you're saying that you've been completely not paying attention to any mefi discussion ever about spoilers?
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:06 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Whether or not your response is appropriate, you'll probably be told you're overreacting; there are a lot of people who dismiss the HP series as pedestrian and so any interest you express will expose yourself as an unwashed peon. Moreover, reacting at all in a public forum is exactly what feeds the mentality that leads to these posts in the first place. Case in point, that reklaw decided to use this thread to respoil it.
Which isn't to say you shouldn't make these posts. Reklaw is pretty clearly a chronic asshat, and this type of incident just reinforces that it's intentional trolling rather than simply having an unpopular opinion. And if there's any lingering doubt, respoiling it in a comment here has to eliminate it.
posted by Riki tiki at 7:06 AM on July 19, 2007
Which isn't to say you shouldn't make these posts. Reklaw is pretty clearly a chronic asshat, and this type of incident just reinforces that it's intentional trolling rather than simply having an unpopular opinion. And if there's any lingering doubt, respoiling it in a comment here has to eliminate it.
posted by Riki tiki at 7:06 AM on July 19, 2007
It's not meant as an insult. I don't particularly give a shit what you think.
Nothing I type, nothing I write will change your attitude, it was more of a cathartic venting for my personal use, as well as for community enjoyment.
I know people like you. Hell, I've built products specifically FOR people like you. It's a common behavior. You're a specific personality type It's not unique, witty or anything positive. It doesn't make you popular, better looking, or self actualized. It just means you're yet another in a long-line of internet shitheads.
I don't care if you're upset or not upset or if you rate my rants.
I'm more focused to pointing out to other members of the community that you offer exactly nothing of worth to this organization and group. You don't bring anything interesting, funny, profound, or hell, even bland to the table.
You're just some fuckhead on the internet who gets his kicks playing ye-olde-strongman. It's fun to denigrate others, and you get that shit in spades here.
posted by Lord_Pall at 7:07 AM on July 19, 2007 [3 favorites]
Nothing I type, nothing I write will change your attitude, it was more of a cathartic venting for my personal use, as well as for community enjoyment.
I know people like you. Hell, I've built products specifically FOR people like you. It's a common behavior. You're a specific personality type It's not unique, witty or anything positive. It doesn't make you popular, better looking, or self actualized. It just means you're yet another in a long-line of internet shitheads.
I don't care if you're upset or not upset or if you rate my rants.
I'm more focused to pointing out to other members of the community that you offer exactly nothing of worth to this organization and group. You don't bring anything interesting, funny, profound, or hell, even bland to the table.
You're just some fuckhead on the internet who gets his kicks playing ye-olde-strongman. It's fun to denigrate others, and you get that shit in spades here.
posted by Lord_Pall at 7:07 AM on July 19, 2007 [3 favorites]
Another vote for application of the banhammer. There is nothing here that is not a dick move by a user with a history of dick moves.
I'm also unsure how to properly object to the "but it's probably not true!" without tacitly confirming or denying the posted spoiler, so I will settle for saying that it doesn't matter whether it's untrue or not. A shitty post was made by a shitty user for shitty reasons. And then he continues to be shitty when, surprise(!), people don't like him or his shitty post!
He is a bathtub full of elephant dung, and should be tossed out of here as soon as an admin can click the appropriate button.
posted by sparkletone at 7:07 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
I'm also unsure how to properly object to the "but it's probably not true!" without tacitly confirming or denying the posted spoiler, so I will settle for saying that it doesn't matter whether it's untrue or not. A shitty post was made by a shitty user for shitty reasons. And then he continues to be shitty when, surprise(!), people don't like him or his shitty post!
He is a bathtub full of elephant dung, and should be tossed out of here as soon as an admin can click the appropriate button.
posted by sparkletone at 7:07 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
I don't care about Harry Potter (who needs him when you have the works of Roald Dahl, Daniel Pinkwater, John Bellairs, and Louise Fitzhugh?) but that post struck me as terminally asinine and obviously mean-spirited. Didn't angry modem get banned for posting a YTMND?
posted by interrobang at 7:07 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by interrobang at 7:07 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
I think the fact that such a ludicrous thing has any capacity whatsoever to upset people is part of the funny to begin with. I have to admit, though, I thought the average Metafilter user was a little more... intelligent - detached, maybe - than all this seems to suggest.
posted by reklaw at 6:59 AM PST on July 19
Translation: I don't like what you like, so what you like is stupid and you shouldn't like it.
Die in a fucking fire asshole.
posted by ND¢ at 7:08 AM on July 19, 2007 [3 favorites]
posted by reklaw at 6:59 AM PST on July 19
Translation: I don't like what you like, so what you like is stupid and you shouldn't like it.
Die in a fucking fire asshole.
posted by ND¢ at 7:08 AM on July 19, 2007 [3 favorites]
Definitely worth a ban.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:09 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:09 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
Clearly, the mob has spoken.
posted by interrobang at 7:11 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by interrobang at 7:11 AM on July 19, 2007
So you're saying that you've been completely not paying attention to any mefi discussion ever about spoilers?
But it's an incredibly minor, probably fake spoiler. That's why it's funny, you see. I have no further capacity to explain this. It's like if a bunch of people would lynch me for posting "the donkey gets lost in a forest in Shrek the Third".
posted by reklaw at 7:12 AM on July 19, 2007
But it's an incredibly minor, probably fake spoiler. That's why it's funny, you see. I have no further capacity to explain this. It's like if a bunch of people would lynch me for posting "the donkey gets lost in a forest in Shrek the Third".
posted by reklaw at 7:12 AM on July 19, 2007
Yay ban!
posted by micketymoc at 7:12 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by micketymoc at 7:12 AM on July 19, 2007
[note that I have no idea whether that actually happens in Shrek the Third.]
posted by reklaw at 7:12 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by reklaw at 7:12 AM on July 19, 2007
I never thought I'd have to blacklist MeFi until reading the book. Youtube comments? Yeah. YTMND? Definitely, I learned my lesson last time. But MetaFilter? I really expected much better.
Can someone please clean up the spoilers (or "faux-spoilers") in this thread as well?
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:12 AM on July 19, 2007
Can someone please clean up the spoilers (or "faux-spoilers") in this thread as well?
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:12 AM on July 19, 2007
Christ, would you stop talking already? You're wrong. What part of that is escaping you?
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:13 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 7:13 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
It doesn't matter if it's minor.
This would be an example of the statement "it's the principle".
Be it Harry Potter, or other popular media, or even something minor, it's just a shitty thing to do.
posted by Lord_Pall at 7:13 AM on July 19, 2007
This would be an example of the statement "it's the principle".
Be it Harry Potter, or other popular media, or even something minor, it's just a shitty thing to do.
posted by Lord_Pall at 7:13 AM on July 19, 2007
Christ, would you stop talking already? You're wrong. What part of that is escaping you?
It isn't about being right, it's about saying things that will further piss people off.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:14 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
It isn't about being right, it's about saying things that will further piss people off.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:14 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Now this is what I come to Metafilter for. Personal attacks and witch hunts.
*Gets out the popcorn*
posted by jefeweiss at 7:15 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
*Gets out the popcorn*
posted by jefeweiss at 7:15 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
If it's an actual spoiler, why do you want to screw with people? Because it's a children's book? (which isn't really accurate, it's more pulp mystery than anything) That doesn't make sense to me. Are you upset that so many people enjoy a series of books you don't? Why does this upset you?
If it's a fake spoiler, why is it funny? Does it have any purpose other than to incite flame outs? Are you really just collecting negative comments for your profile page? That's an odd hobby but I guess "To each his own" applies there.
posted by Bonzai at 7:15 AM on July 19, 2007
If it's a fake spoiler, why is it funny? Does it have any purpose other than to incite flame outs? Are you really just collecting negative comments for your profile page? That's an odd hobby but I guess "To each his own" applies there.
posted by Bonzai at 7:15 AM on July 19, 2007
Yeah but this time he's an honest to god witch.
posted by Lord_Pall at 7:15 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by Lord_Pall at 7:15 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Even fake spoilers fuck up the entertainment medium as you experience it consistently wondering "will I hit that spoiler I read?"..
posted by Lord_Pall at 7:16 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by Lord_Pall at 7:16 AM on July 19, 2007
I thought the average Metafilter user was a little more... intelligent - detached, maybe - than all this seems to suggest.
Well, considering the gloves have been off in this thread since the inception I would also just like to take this moment to respond in kind:
Fuck you reklaw, you are a worthless stupid little shit and everything you have ever posted to this site is geared towards the intellectual capacity of a third grade student segregated to the behavioral disorder room.
It'd be interesting that you respond to a moderator summing up your post as a worthless piece of shit by excusing yourself due to our failures to live up to your perceived standards; except for the fact that you are a fucking idiot and everything you have ever attempted to communicate across this site is the polar opposite of quality, integrity, even a passing semblance of interest.
You are such a fucking horrible person that your way of apologizing for your current offense is to summarily insult the 50K user base at large because they "don't get it" - newsflash: you're the dipshit who doesn't "get it", and you probably never will.
posted by prostyle at 7:16 AM on July 19, 2007 [6 favorites]
Well, considering the gloves have been off in this thread since the inception I would also just like to take this moment to respond in kind:
Fuck you reklaw, you are a worthless stupid little shit and everything you have ever posted to this site is geared towards the intellectual capacity of a third grade student segregated to the behavioral disorder room.
It'd be interesting that you respond to a moderator summing up your post as a worthless piece of shit by excusing yourself due to our failures to live up to your perceived standards; except for the fact that you are a fucking idiot and everything you have ever attempted to communicate across this site is the polar opposite of quality, integrity, even a passing semblance of interest.
You are such a fucking horrible person that your way of apologizing for your current offense is to summarily insult the 50K user base at large because they "don't get it" - newsflash: you're the dipshit who doesn't "get it", and you probably never will.
posted by prostyle at 7:16 AM on July 19, 2007 [6 favorites]
I can't imagine what kind of a life I'd lead if debates over whether I should have made a post on some website about some kiddy book actually registered with me on any emotional level.
Read: "fuck you all, I don't care. Neener neener neener."
I'd think this is enough for the banhammer, really.
posted by Tuwa at 7:16 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Read: "fuck you all, I don't care. Neener neener neener."
I'd think this is enough for the banhammer, really.
posted by Tuwa at 7:16 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Man, there's another woot-off going on today. Seems like they just had one.
posted by boo_radley at 7:16 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by boo_radley at 7:16 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Yeah but this time he's an honest to god witch.
You know, I was rooting for the banhammer, but burning at the stake does have a certain je ne sais quois to it.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:16 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
You know, I was rooting for the banhammer, but burning at the stake does have a certain je ne sais quois to it.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:16 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
I'm not sure what to say about reklaw but all I can think of is that Umbridge would be proud. Well done reklaw! Though I think you might have to resign from the Potter Street Team. I'm not sure this was what was planned.
posted by Stynxno at 7:17 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by Stynxno at 7:17 AM on July 19, 2007
You're being completely unrepentant, and petulant besides; your only response has been to try and spin why what was obviously and unmistakably an aggressive and assholish post.
The appropriate reponse, if you give the least fuck about this place (and not just the potential for this place to serve or not serve your need for lulz/antagonistic attention) would be an apology for being so incredibly tone-deaf and a few hours away from the keyboard of your own volition.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:21 AM on July 19, 2007
The appropriate reponse, if you give the least fuck about this place (and not just the potential for this place to serve or not serve your need for lulz/antagonistic attention) would be an apology for being so incredibly tone-deaf and a few hours away from the keyboard of your own volition.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:21 AM on July 19, 2007
Meh, it's like pro wrestling, it's all fake.
You can see where Lord Pall hit him with the "steel chair", and the chair got a dent in it.
Oops, my apologies for the spoiler about pro wrestling.
posted by jefeweiss at 7:24 AM on July 19, 2007
You can see where Lord Pall hit him with the "steel chair", and the chair got a dent in it.
Oops, my apologies for the spoiler about pro wrestling.
posted by jefeweiss at 7:24 AM on July 19, 2007
Look, he was clearly trolling, and feeding him this way only makes him stronger. The best policy is to just ignore him, and he'll probably go away.
posted by chlorus at 7:25 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by chlorus at 7:25 AM on July 19, 2007
But it's an incredibly minor, probably fake spoiler. That's why it's funny, you see.
See, that's the thing about spoilers. Idiots who don't understand why spoilers suck think that the only problem with a spoiler is that it "ruins the surprise", and then they say that if the surprise is the only thing you like about the thing in question then, well, it must be pretty shitty in the first place. But that's bollocks. Being told that something will happen at some point in the future of the narrative completely skews how you look at everything else; no matter how much you don't want to.
If you're told that a character dies, then you look at that character in a completely different way. If you're told that an object will play a hugely important role you can't stop looking at that object. The pacing, the narrative beats, the characterisation, the dialogue - everything that makes a good story a good story, and that skilled storytellers strive to achieve, get completely knocked out of whack.
So it doesn't matter if the spoiler's true or not; it doesn't matter if it isn't, in your opinion, "major"; it doesn't matter if it's spoiling "the surprise" or not. It makes it harder to enjoy the story in the way the story was supposed to be enjoyed. And it makes you, the spoiler-flinger, a vast, worthless jizznozzle who should be banned as hard as the admins can possibly manage.
posted by flashboy at 7:25 AM on July 19, 2007 [32 favorites]
See, that's the thing about spoilers. Idiots who don't understand why spoilers suck think that the only problem with a spoiler is that it "ruins the surprise", and then they say that if the surprise is the only thing you like about the thing in question then, well, it must be pretty shitty in the first place. But that's bollocks. Being told that something will happen at some point in the future of the narrative completely skews how you look at everything else; no matter how much you don't want to.
If you're told that a character dies, then you look at that character in a completely different way. If you're told that an object will play a hugely important role you can't stop looking at that object. The pacing, the narrative beats, the characterisation, the dialogue - everything that makes a good story a good story, and that skilled storytellers strive to achieve, get completely knocked out of whack.
So it doesn't matter if the spoiler's true or not; it doesn't matter if it isn't, in your opinion, "major"; it doesn't matter if it's spoiling "the surprise" or not. It makes it harder to enjoy the story in the way the story was supposed to be enjoyed. And it makes you, the spoiler-flinger, a vast, worthless jizznozzle who should be banned as hard as the admins can possibly manage.
posted by flashboy at 7:25 AM on July 19, 2007 [32 favorites]
there's no justice like angry mob justice!
reklaw though, you have my condolences. you come across as a small man who probably has very little control over the things that happen to him in the real world, and so comes to the internets to exact a bit of vengance. i picture you as either a spotty teenager at home in dank basement, or a single 30-something working it a shitty cubicle job during the day, being ignored by the women and being told by the more dominant men what to do.
so, in some small way, i pity you.
posted by modernnomad at 7:26 AM on July 19, 2007 [5 favorites]
reklaw though, you have my condolences. you come across as a small man who probably has very little control over the things that happen to him in the real world, and so comes to the internets to exact a bit of vengance. i picture you as either a spotty teenager at home in dank basement, or a single 30-something working it a shitty cubicle job during the day, being ignored by the women and being told by the more dominant men what to do.
so, in some small way, i pity you.
posted by modernnomad at 7:26 AM on July 19, 2007 [5 favorites]
Folks,
You DO realize that if reklaw is as you describe, you're just feeding him, right? That starting this thread and it's probabe 300 plus, mostly vile comments, is giving him second helpings, right?
I got no dog in this fight, I'm not a Harry Potter fan and I only vaguely know reklaw from this site. But this is shitcake and surely there's something better to do than throw shit icing on it and then down it with shitty milk. Just saying.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:27 AM on July 19, 2007
You DO realize that if reklaw is as you describe, you're just feeding him, right? That starting this thread and it's probabe 300 plus, mostly vile comments, is giving him second helpings, right?
I got no dog in this fight, I'm not a Harry Potter fan and I only vaguely know reklaw from this site. But this is shitcake and surely there's something better to do than throw shit icing on it and then down it with shitty milk. Just saying.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:27 AM on July 19, 2007
reklaw probably has a hardon right now.
posted by chlorus at 7:28 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by chlorus at 7:28 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Can't we just ban him and get it over with?
posted by Aloysius Bear at 7:29 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by Aloysius Bear at 7:29 AM on July 19, 2007
Guys, reklaw's beyond benefit of the doubt here. Kudos on expecting decent behavior, regret, or apology out of him in the face of overwhelming evidence that he is barely stifling the sounds of his orgasmic pleasure for fear of waking his mom. Your optimism is admirable but grossly misplaced.
Just flag outright spoilers, ignore the rest of his comments here, and use the opportunity to vent your frustration before he meets whatever justice awaits him.
posted by Riki tiki at 7:32 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Just flag outright spoilers, ignore the rest of his comments here, and use the opportunity to vent your frustration before he meets whatever justice awaits him.
posted by Riki tiki at 7:32 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
Data point: reklaw turned me into a newt.
Ban that twatwaffle.
posted by saladin at 7:32 AM on July 19, 2007
Ban that twatwaffle.
posted by saladin at 7:32 AM on July 19, 2007
I never ever bother with MetaTalk but that was out of line and deserves the ban in my opinion. The spoiler is still on the RSS feed and the post was just worthless and mean spirited. Time to say good riddance to bad rubbish.
posted by zeoslap at 7:33 AM on July 19, 2007
posted by zeoslap at 7:33 AM on July 19, 2007
>See, that's the thing about spoilers. Idiots who don't understand why spoilers suck think that the only problem with a spoiler is that it "ruins the surprise", and then they say that if the surprise is the only thing you like about the thing in question then, well, it must be pretty shitty in the first place. But that's bollocks. Being told that something will happen at some point in the future of the narrative completely skews how you look at everything else; no matter how much you don't want to.
This is true if the piece of fiction is of good quality. A Harry Potter spoiler is very bad on some forum where 11 year old wizards hang out... oh, wait a minute...
posted by gsb at 7:36 AM on July 19, 2007
This is true if the piece of fiction is of good quality. A Harry Potter spoiler is very bad on some forum where 11 year old wizards hang out... oh, wait a minute...
posted by gsb at 7:36 AM on July 19, 2007
Data point: reklaw turned me into a newt.
Well, I'll certainly apologise for that.
It'd be incredible if I got banned for this, if you ask me. Of all the Mefi pileons I've been in, I genuinely think that this is one of the least justified and most absurd. I'm also about 99% sure that the damn owl doesn't even die. Seriously. If that makes it up to any of you.
posted by reklaw at 7:37 AM on July 19, 2007
Well, I'll certainly apologise for that.
It'd be incredible if I got banned for this, if you ask me. Of all the Mefi pileons I've been in, I genuinely think that this is one of the least justified and most absurd. I'm also about 99% sure that the damn owl doesn't even die. Seriously. If that makes it up to any of you.
posted by reklaw at 7:37 AM on July 19, 2007
reklaw probably has a hardon right now.
Well, I know I do.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:38 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
Well, I know I do.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 7:38 AM on July 19, 2007 [2 favorites]
reklaw is taking at least a week off for ruining my morning with this MeTa post. I already read the spoilers but WTF guy?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:38 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:38 AM on July 19, 2007 [1 favorite]
I love how cortex is having a discussion with the guy. If this was a 25k+ user he'd have suffered the banhammer with extreme prejudice.
Just ban the fucking flaming asshole already. You've already seen how he doesn't give a flying shit about what he did. Ban the cocksucker or let everyone know how you're letting it pass because he's one of the old guys, and then lock the thread. There is no other purpose to be served here.
posted by splice at 7:38 AM on July 19, 2007
Just ban the fucking flaming asshole already. You've already seen how he doesn't give a flying shit about what he did. Ban the cocksucker or let everyone know how you're letting it pass because he's one of the old guys, and then lock the thread. There is no other purpose to be served here.
posted by splice at 7:38 AM on July 19, 2007
Just in case people are keeping track, this *is* the same guy who posted the "Choose your own adventure" for the VT shootings and the Twin Towers 9/11 Jenga.
But you should feel sorry for him, because he's quite retarded when it comes to computers.
posted by Deathalicious at 7:39 AM on July 19, 2007
But you should feel sorry for him, because he's quite retarded when it comes to computers.
posted by Deathalicious at 7:39 AM on July 19, 2007
You're the DICK now DOGGGGGG!
No lessons will be learned, no spoilers unspoiled, no wizards finally retired. It's all for nothing.
But sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.
posted by Divine_Wino at 7:40 AM on July 19, 2007
No lessons will be learned, no spoilers unspoiled, no wizards finally retired. It's all for nothing.
But sometimes nothing is a real cool hand.
posted by Divine_Wino at 7:40 AM on July 19, 2007
So you don't give one shit about the mess you intentionally caused, believe that you've done absolutely nothing wrong, and consider the unilateral community response to your post to be proof that every body but you has it wrong.
I'm not going to give you a timeout. Spoiler: it's because Jess just beat me to it.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:41 AM on July 19, 2007 [11 favorites]
I'm not going to give you a timeout. Spoiler: it's because Jess just beat me to it.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:41 AM on July 19, 2007 [11 favorites]
This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 6:37 AM on July 19, 2007