September 28, 2001

11:26 AM

London pilot taught hijackersI found this on MSN, and since no one mentioned it here on MetaFilter today, and it was dated for today, I decided to post it. How many people were involved in this???
posted by Katy Action (13 comments total)

Oh, for the love... are we back to posting every news story about the terrorist attacks on MetaFilter?
posted by delfuego at 11:31 AM on September 28, 2001

Wait...MetaFilter was ATTACKED by terrorists??!
posted by ColdChef at 11:34 AM on September 28, 2001

How many people were involved in this???

not me
posted by billder at 11:47 AM on September 28, 2001

Dude! The attacks are SOO passe. None of the cool people are talking about that old stuff any more.
posted by aaron at 12:02 PM on September 28, 2001

Dude! The attacks are SOO passe.

'Dude' I hope you're being saracstic here. Passe? Please! This will not, and should not be forgoten or taken out of the national discussion anytime soon.
posted by Sal Amander at 12:27 PM on September 28, 2001

London pilot taught hijackers I found this on MSN, and since no one mentioned it here on MetaFilter today, and it was dated for today, I decided to post it. How many people were involved in this???

Yeah, nobody mentioned it here because it was on the nine goddamned billion other web sites, newspapers, networks, radio stations, blogs, newsletters, bumperstickers and cereal boxes that we read every day.
posted by Mo Nickels at 1:07 PM on September 28, 2001

Was that really called-for, Mo? Pretty damned rude, if you ask me.
posted by saturn5 at 1:15 PM on September 28, 2001

Thanks Saturn. It just seems like people are spamming this stuff all over the place still, and I didn't think that something like this would be forgotten in less than a month after it happened. I noticed that the other posts about Bin Laden or what have you had no "hate posts" there. Is it something that I said?
posted by Katy Action at 4:24 PM on September 28, 2001

The point is that Metafilter is not a chat board to exhaustively discuss every single news item that comes along, whether it's relating to a horrific attack killing 6500 people or (to use another fairly ubiquitous example) the latest dot-com closure. Posters are encouraged to think more filter, less meta. Merely not having been previously posted here isn't really sufficient justification for yet another vague front-page post about the top news story of the day.

There are excellent, interesting news and commentary postings about this tragedy that are worthy of getting posted. We urge you to find them, that's all.

Keep an eye on metatalk, especially the etiquette/policy board, where these issues are brought up ad nauseam. There may well be a thread there about this very thread you're reading.
posted by dhartung at 5:07 PM on September 28, 2001

dhartung, while I agree with the points you have made, proper etiquette ought to include civil and respectful behavior towards one another. I think we need to ensure not only the quality of the post but, the quality of the poster, as well. The above post, by Mo Nickels, just reeks of superiority and offends me much more than, what some might judge to be, an uninteresting post. In addition, his comment served no purpose other than to intimidate someone into, perhaps, not posting anymore.
posted by saturn5 at 6:14 PM on September 28, 2001

Oh, I'll post again. Just because someone doesn't agree with me and didn't show it in a respectful manner doesn't mean that I've been defeated. Now if each and every member of this weblog community wants me out, they know how to contact me, and I'd not bother them further. But that didn't happen. Why let one bad apple spoil my entire experience here? I seen that the post before mine was about the WTC, and so I figured that when no other URLs matched mine, it was safe to do so.
posted by Katy Action at 8:18 PM on September 28, 2001

That's why it's good to read the site for a while, learn the ropes, before you post. Lots of us are tired of the newslog format MeFi is turning into. Not every story you read has to be posted. And if you were here for the previous ten thousand iterations of this discussion, you'd know why Mo is exasperated.
posted by rodii at 8:28 PM on September 28, 2001

Keep an eye on metatalk...There may well be a thread there about this very thread you're reading.

There wasn't then, but there is now.
posted by kirkaracha at 9:28 PM on September 28, 2001