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June 13, 2008 1:23 AM   Subscribe

Your Favorite Blog Sucks (Single link Vanity Fair post. Warning: Browser resize)
posted by Poolio (12 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really a strong post. Probably best discussed in the existing metatalk thread. -- vacapinta



 
Double.
posted by three blind mice at 1:26 AM on June 13, 2008


Most people don't read MetaTalk regularly.
posted by sdodd at 1:26 AM on June 13, 2008


I did preview. That was down to seconds.
posted by sdodd at 1:26 AM on June 13, 2008


That was a photo finish sdodd, but I beat you by a nose....
posted by three blind mice at 1:26 AM on June 13, 2008


Sorry.. I didn't read MetaTalk.
posted by Poolio at 1:27 AM on June 13, 2008


what a cheap attempt by Vanity Fair to get linked by Metafilter.
posted by ejoey at 1:28 AM on June 13, 2008


Fair's fair, three blind mice.
posted by sdodd at 1:32 AM on June 13, 2008


If fair's fair, than Vanity Fair is the fairest.
posted by Poolio at 1:35 AM on June 13, 2008


If fair's fair, than then Vanity Fair is the fairest.

Fixed that for me.
posted by Poolio at 1:36 AM on June 13, 2008


In regards to the browser resize thing - if you use Firefox, you can go to Preferences > Content > Advanced for JavaScript and uncheck "resize windows". Enjoy!
posted by cgomez at 1:39 AM on June 13, 2008


Fair's fair, three blind mice.

Blame it on TCP sdodd. My IP packets could very well have taken a faster route and passed you on the way.
posted by three blind mice at 1:44 AM on June 13, 2008


This is one of those posts that are posted to Metafilter just to piss off MeFites. A bit like how the only examples of Charlie Brooker's excellent Guardian column that have been posted to the blue are his anti-Macintosh and anti-internet discussion rants - which not surprisingly rubbed MeFites up the wrong way*: the blame was placed on Charlie Brooker rather than on the poster who is the one, after all, sticking it in your face.

I can practically hear the posters munching the popcorn that they prepared in anticipation of the counter-rants they're hoping to inspire. And if anyone's confused by how this post is an example, look at the mouse-over text on the Metafilter logo in the link provided. In fact: don't, this is what it said:

"Random people can blog about anything they want; why anybody reads it may be the Web's greatest mystery."

I can just about see how this warrants a MeTa thread, but in what way is this remotely best of the web? This isn't a personal attack - your posts are generally excellent, but I reckon this sort of masturbatory masochism is detrimental to Metafilter. Sorry.

*The unitiated would have seen differently if the much better articles: A Long Taxi Ride, the nit-picking idiocy of 24-hour news TV, or Being slagged off is good for you had been posted instead.
posted by nthdegx at 1:49 AM on June 13, 2008


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