"oops! god no, i take it back!" button

August 25, 2004 5:29 PM

Speaking of the Value of D'oh: crush-onastick suggested a "oops! god no, i take it back!" button and ook added "But it should disappear once somebody else has posted after you, so people can't delete something from the middle of a thread.". I thought it was a good idea, but I should: I suggested the same thing in February 2000, only I wanted to call it a "D'oh" button. Less a pony, more an old grey mare?
posted by wendell to Feature Requests at 5:29 PM (26 comments total)

How about calling it something that has nothing to do with the fucking Simpsons?
posted by interrobang at 5:59 PM on August 25, 2004

yeah. make it fucking futurama oriented. or fucking family guy.
posted by quonsar at 6:00 PM on August 25, 2004

It was 3.5 years ago. I've matured since then. Now I do "Good Eats" references.

Now wash your MetaTalkin' hands!
posted by wendell at 6:03 PM on August 25, 2004

The D'oh button: because you're just too cool to read the preview.
posted by reklaw at 6:04 PM on August 25, 2004

Like YOU'VE never done anything you ever regretted, have you, President Bush?
posted by wendell at 6:09 PM on August 25, 2004

I want a button that slips everyone a roofie, so I can say whatever I want and nobody will remember it in the morning. Yeah.
posted by stonerose at 6:30 PM on August 25, 2004

Shit, that was dumb. I take it back.
posted by stonerose at 6:30 PM on August 25, 2004

you could just have sex with them instead of talk to them.
posted by angry modem at 7:37 PM on August 25, 2004

Wait, I changed my mind. I want an "Oops!" button that'll give me back the three hours that magically disappear every time I hit this site.
posted by ook at 7:42 PM on August 25, 2004

nah, then I'd just abuse it and wind up with a 3,323,637 hour thursday
posted by ook at 7:43 PM on August 25, 2004

It would be so cool to have something other than Simpson's refs.

There's not nearly enough Buckaroo Banzai references,
I think we should call it "the Big Pink Box (button)"

or in a Buffy nod, we could call it the "Button of Thoth"
(for no other good reason)

or Quantum Leap, did that little walkie-talkie thing have a name?
You use it to back in time and right the wrongs.
posted by milovoo at 7:57 PM on August 25, 2004

We should call it the "OH SHIT I FUCKED UP!" button. Or OSIFU for short. It could be prenounced like a drunken, slurred "officer."
posted by keswick at 8:10 PM on August 25, 2004

We should call it the "OH SHIT I FUCKED UP!" button.

But keswick, it already exists! It's called MetaTalk or something. ;)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 9:37 PM on August 25, 2004

No, as I recall, it's just you who posts threads to MeTa to announce that you fucked-up, Miguel.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 11:23 PM on August 25, 2004

I've compared MeFi's web interface to the text-only unix bbs Picospan, which originated on Ann Arbor's M-NET. Pico had linear threads like MeFi.

There was an "oh shit" function called scribble. You could scribble your post (or the site, or conference, admin might do it for you), which would render it invisible to users with default settings. (You could change it so that you would see scribbled items.) This was in addition to a wholesale deletion function also accessible to the poster or admins.

In both cases the erasure of a post could render parts of succeeding replies unintelligible, but that was a social effect.
posted by dhartung at 11:34 PM on August 25, 2004

Fucked up has no hyphen, Bore. For someone who loves the word "fuck" so much, you seem singularly ignorant of what it means and how it's used. It's not fuck-off either, btw.

Are you American?
posted by MiguelCardoso at 11:56 PM on August 25, 2004

That's some pretty lame-ass pedantry there, Miguel, too weak to get the response you desire. I suggest another MeTa post threatening to leave—that should raise your flaccid, er, spirits.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 12:36 AM on August 26, 2004

EB, why don't you take your stupid childish hating somewhere else, it's getting boring.
posted by sebas at 2:24 AM on August 26, 2004

This isn't a chat site, Ethereal Bligh.
posted by ZippityBuddha at 3:25 AM on August 26, 2004

What happened to the old EB? (And when I mean old, I mean of course, 4 months). You were so earnest, so intent on being really interesting and thoughtful. Now, you seem to have transformed into a cruel and cynical bore. If 4 months on the 'filter can do that to you, maybe you need a short break and a breath of fresh air.

Seriously.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 6:15 AM on August 26, 2004

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

PUBLIC SELF-DESTRUCTION!

(if you guys can't get along, why can't you simply ignore each other? that's what my mom always suggested when people bothered me. seriously. and what bosatsu said, EB)
posted by ashbury at 6:54 AM on August 26, 2004

I'm sorry. I'm just upset that Miguel threw a little tantrum and threatened to leave and then, you know, didn't. It was very cruel of him. It's left me cynical and bitter.
posted by Ethereal Bligh at 10:12 AM on August 26, 2004

What happened to the old EB? (And when I mean old, I mean of course, 4 months). You were so earnest, so intent on being really interesting and thoughtful. Now, you seem to have transformed into a cruel and cynical bore. If 4 months on the 'filter can do that to you, maybe you need a short break and a breath of fresh air.

Worth repeating, IMHO.
posted by BlueTrain at 10:16 AM on August 26, 2004

At least the comments are shorter now.
posted by longbaugh at 10:46 AM on August 26, 2004

A web-board I'm a regular on has a feature just like this. It puts a [delete] buttin right next to your post if it's the most recent one in the room/thread. It hasn't been abused there, and I don't think it'll be abused here.
posted by neckro23 at 11:20 AM on August 26, 2004

Shit, that was dumb. I take it back.
posted by stonerose at 6:30 PM PST on August 25

Most amusing.

xox
posted by norm at 11:57 AM on August 26, 2004