GoogleFilter

January 19, 2005 10:44 AM

May we please refrain from GoogleFilter?
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
[In a bit over a month, excluding some that were tangentially related]
posted by sciurus to Etiquette/Policy at 10:44 AM (23 comments total)

Sure, they do lots of cool stuff, but I don't think we need a post every time those folks sneeze.
posted by sciurus at 10:45 AM on January 19, 2005

So if Google hadn't bought Picasa, the post would have been fine?

If LiveJournal had spearheaded the effort to get rid of comment spam, suddenly it becomes a good post?

Why does it matter to you that they're affiliated with Google?
posted by smackfu at 10:51 AM on January 19, 2005

It's just like if Apple annouces something new. The user base enjoys the posts (at least #1 does) so the posts stay and more FPP's are made.

The mob has spoken. We love google.
posted by Stynxno at 10:52 AM on January 19, 2005

A FPP to "filetype:doc" is pretty lame. What next, a FPP that Microsoft Windows comes with Notepad?
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 10:53 AM on January 19, 2005

Wow, this Notepad thing is great!
posted by Armitage Shanks at 10:57 AM on January 19, 2005

I've got nothing against Google, just the frequency. If most folks dig it, then I can handle it. I just wanted to throw a line out and see if others felt the same way.

on preview, yeah.
posted by sciurus at 10:57 AM on January 19, 2005

Once Google becomes evil, we can stop posting every sneeze. Until then...
posted by Quartermass at 11:10 AM on January 19, 2005

Metafilter: Multiplayer Notepad.
posted by NickDouglas at 11:12 AM on January 19, 2005

Seems fine to me. Google does a lot of stuff these days. I'll agree the filetype post is weak, but that doesn't mean it should be ridiculed in comments.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:28 AM on January 19, 2005

So if Google hadn't bought Picasa, the post would have been fine?

If LiveJournal had spearheaded the effort to get rid of comment spam, suddenly it becomes a good post?

Why does it matter to you that they're affiliated with Google?

I think scirus is making the opposite point. The only reason people posted these things is that they were Google-affiliated. No, I don't think people would post yet-another-online-photo-album otherwise. Yes, there have been other comment spam annihilation efforts that didn't get a FPP.

Your final question seems to be the one that needs to be asked of these posts. People generally assume that because it's Google it will be great and therefore best of the web. They may be right. I'm inclined to make a shillfilter exception in Google's case. They are literally the best of the web.

Just trying to articulate the complaint as I understand it.
posted by scarabic at 11:30 AM on January 19, 2005

Right on mathowie; clarified.

Yeah, that is about right, scarabic.
posted by sciurus at 11:38 AM on January 19, 2005

Google's whole marketing strategy lately has been to throw up something--anything--every week, just to keep their name out there. Most of the time, it's nothing much, and often, it's not even really quite finished. But apparently it works.
posted by jefgodesky at 11:41 AM on January 19, 2005

Once Google becomes evil, we can stop posting every sneeze.

I thought they became evil when they went public and had to listen to the shareholders and the MBAs.
posted by Arch Stanton at 11:44 AM on January 19, 2005

I thought they became evil when they bought Blogger. Or was it that Blogger became evil when Google was bought by them? I can never keep this stuff straight.
posted by terrapin at 11:55 AM on January 19, 2005

GoogleFilter helps push BushFilter into the background, which is nice.

People exchange tidbits of info, the conversations are (mostly) illuminating, new tools are discovered.

This trend is worth condemning, but not the dumb, tendentious political flamewars?
posted by dhoyt at 12:16 PM on January 19, 2005

If MacFiltering is allowed, GoogleFiltering sure as hell should be.
posted by five fresh fish at 1:57 PM on January 19, 2005

Hey, Notepad is 20 years old and it's the "Internet's most versatile HTML editor!" Don't be knocking Notepad, fool.
posted by billsaysthis at 2:41 PM on January 19, 2005

Can I also suggest that links that have already been posted to boingboing are not posted? I'm sure most metafilter readers also read boingboing.
posted by jedro at 2:42 PM on January 19, 2005

At least one of us doesn't and I'd bet I'm not alone. Lots of other agragators are like this. Personally I often see stuff here that was earlier on /.; K5; Fark; MoFi etc. but the discussion is uniquely civilised here.
posted by Mitheral at 5:35 PM on January 19, 2005

Can I also suggest that links that have already been posted to boingboing are not posted? I'm sure most metafilter readers also read boingboing.

This debate has been had and it's ugly every time.

Some typical responses:

What do you mean I supposed to read Site XYZ? Well excuse me for not being one of the cool kids!

I don't want to read other sites. I want to read everything in one place and that place is MetaFilter.

Even if I've seen it before I still want to discuss it here.
posted by scarabic at 6:11 PM on January 19, 2005

What the hell is the matter with googlyfilter? I mean, I may be new around here, but I have just as much right as anyone else to participate whenever I see fit and if you can't handle it then you can stick it up your ugly distended rec-


oh.


misread the post.


sorry.
posted by googly at 9:04 PM on January 19, 2005

I have never, ever, not one single time read boingboing. Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 9:32 PM on January 19, 2005

Not one single time? That really is your fuck-up, crash. Try it one single time right now. It's a good blog. Not to say it's required reading for anyone posting, but it's good. Shit, it's rapidly become the mother of all blogs. Paying ads. Content partnerships. Links to buy novels by the author. The mofo is off the frickin wall.
posted by scarabic at 10:03 PM on January 19, 2005