Proper internet forum behavior video.

February 22, 2008 2:01 PM

How to act on an internet forum. Yup, just a single link to a video – informative on how to behave nevertheless. Even here on Metafiler.

Covers feeding trolls, Godwin's Law, fanboys, teenagers, increasing your post count, Admin respect, caps, lurking, keeping on topic, pictures, and of course items that might be NSFW.

posted by filmgeek (34 comments total)

[insert finteresting comment here]
posted by not_on_display at 2:07 PM on February 22, 2008

SEGA IS WAY BETTER THAN NINTENDO!!!! ANYONE WHO THINKS OTHERWISE IS A NAZI!!!
posted by popcassady at 2:08 PM on February 22, 2008 [2 favorites]

Metafiler: thinking about thinking about fingernails.
posted by cashman at 2:13 PM on February 22, 2008 [3 favorites]

I AGREE LOL!!!1!!!!
posted by mrnutty at 2:17 PM on February 22, 2008

FIRST!
posted by smitt at 2:24 PM on February 22, 2008

I was fully expecting a link to this.
posted by kimota at 2:27 PM on February 22, 2008

There was one done a while back (as in years) in a Chumley Warner style that covered the same ground. I think it was a guide to using the Steam Forums. That was pretty good in its own right though. :)
posted by Dio at 2:42 PM on February 22, 2008

Me too. who r u callin a faq, homo.
posted by bunnytricks at 2:43 PM on February 22, 2008

So, they are big fans of Yahtzee's style, huh?
posted by quin at 2:47 PM on February 22, 2008

Yahtzee, that is.
posted by quin at 2:48 PM on February 22, 2008 [4 favorites]

Step six, you little monsters. Stay away from the teapot.
posted by cortex at 2:52 PM on February 22, 2008

Yahtzee's reviews are totally hilarious, even when you know nothing of the games he's talking about. And when you do, even more so! I think everyone who has seen his Guitar Hero 3 review has cracked up laughing - especially at the razor wire line, which is one of the best lines I've ever heard.

This video? Not so much. It takes itself too seriously and misses way too many opportunities to be funny.
posted by evilangela at 3:02 PM on February 22, 2008

Oh, there's also this video, about some of the same stuff: starting new threads, searching, etc.
posted by Rich Smorgasbord at 3:10 PM on February 22, 2008

dios thoughtfully transcribed this and MeFi Mailed it to me a few weeks ago in order to lay down his THE law. at the time, i thought it was an original piece.
posted by gman at 3:11 PM on February 22, 2008 [2 favorites]

It's the Steam forums one that Dio mentioned. Chumley Warner, huh? You learn something new every day.
posted by Rich Smorgasbord at 3:20 PM on February 22, 2008

Nice find Smorgasbord
posted by filmgeek at 3:44 PM on February 22, 2008

This video pretty much covers it all.
posted by sportbucket at 4:01 PM on February 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

Does it get better? I made it to don't feed the troll, and my gut reaction to pedantic idiots kicked in.
posted by doctor_negative at 4:07 PM on February 22, 2008

I prefer this one.
posted by whir at 5:02 PM on February 22, 2008 [5 favorites]

I've just been playing catch-up with Yahtzee and he's da bomb (and oddly even occasionally profound... his 'play with gravel by the side of the highway of life' quote, for instance'). Even, and probably because, I'm never going to play almost everything he reviews.

Oh and googling 'Chun Li's Thighs' seems to have scared me for life.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 5:10 PM on February 22, 2008

cashman, you're killing me. I can't remember where the thinking about thinking about song comes from.

As for the rest of you, FUCK OFF!

/trolling.
posted by snsranch at 6:25 PM on February 22, 2008

I know how to behave on the internet, you motherfuckers.
posted by A dead Quaker at 6:45 PM on February 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

Srsly, have you seen Chun-Li's thighs?
posted by Big_B at 7:13 PM on February 22, 2008

I'd hit it.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 7:36 PM on February 22, 2008

And here I was expecting this.
posted by Kid Charlemagne at 8:15 PM on February 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

No way I'd hit it--pointy knees. I have standards, unlike some people in this thread. PWNED!! Ambrosia Voyeur! LULZn00b

Ugh, I feel dumberer just writing that shit.
posted by Admiral Haddock at 10:02 PM on February 22, 2008

It's funny how when a small number of people post links to videos, and one of them is a rickroll, I can always tell which one it is without rolling over the link.

and yet I click on it anyway.
posted by davejay at 11:22 PM on February 22, 2008 [1 favorite]

Rickrolls suck. Now duckrolls....
posted by JHarris at 2:40 AM on February 23, 2008

How to act on an internet forum.
posted by essexjan at 3:00 AM on February 23, 2008 [1 favorite]

I don't get it. (I think several people here have pointed that out to me.)
posted by nax at 6:24 AM on February 23, 2008

I'd hit it.

Great. March 23rd now. Damn!
posted by cashman at 6:58 AM on February 23, 2008

I still lay claim to coming up with NSFW as a link tag.
posted by Octoparrot at 3:49 PM on February 23, 2008

MetaFilter: curling one out
posted by bwg at 4:43 PM on February 23, 2008

I plan on adopting both "funtresting" and "curling one out". Priceless.
posted by butterstick at 9:01 AM on February 25, 2008