Here's a better suggestion: give your links actual, descriptive anchors so people know what they fuck they're (trying) to click on. This cutesy every word or letter a link shit is incredibly obnoxious.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 11:18 AM on February 10, 2006

y2karl is one of the worst posters on this site. Not only do his posts relentlessly, continuously, obnoxiously promote his personal point of view, they are thoroughly unattractive.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 1:02 AM on January 8, 2006

I logged in exactly once, back in 1987, and it's a good thing that cookie sticks around, because I'm just not sure I remember the old password....
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:59 AM on January 8, 2006

Let's all pat ourselves on the back one time.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 11:36 AM on January 3, 2006

Shut the hell up scarabic. Boy howdy there are a ton of frustrated moderators around here. What the sam heck is the point of deleting a two month old archived thread?
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 2:28 PM on December 28, 2005

every self-deluded idiot is going to continue to try to hit that mathowie-1%, and it'll NEVER. FUCKING. END.

Will it end anyway? You're talking about flagrant rule-breakers. I'd wager on self-important MetaTalk whiners finally stuffing a sock in it long before I'd wager on a 100% guarantee stopping self-linkers.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 10:12 PM on December 28, 2005

I don't think it's quite fair to pay $5 to get back on a site that you've been banned from. What does banned mean?
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 8:13 PM on December 26, 2005

Feliz navidad y prospero año nuevo a todos.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 5:13 PM on December 24, 2005

What would constitute a "best answer" for such a question?
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:15 PM on December 22, 2005

Am I making much ado about nothing?

As usual, the answer is a resounding yes.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 2:20 AM on December 14, 2005

A shitty post got deleted and it happened to have to do with your ideology of choice. Cry me a river.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 5:17 PM on December 11, 2005

Why?
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 5:55 PM on December 10, 2005

Who cares? Best is in the eye of the poster. Let them mark as many as they want to. What exactly is the problem? Do you people just go around looking for things to bitch about?
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:31 AM on December 11, 2005

Unfortunately, it seems to be ego, for the most part. Huge, throbbing, pulsating, disgusting, politically-motivated, axe-grinding ego.

And then there are the good posts; more like "holy shit, check out this thing I just found."

I usually find those neat things by coming here, so I'm still waiting on that elusive first post.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 11:26 PM on December 9, 2005

Sounds nice. It's a pity Phoenix is just this side of too far away to make it.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 5:14 PM on December 3, 2005

That is the dumbest post I have ever seen on MetaFilter.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 1:22 PM on November 12, 2005

I think it means you have "open links in new window" enabled in Metafilter personal settings.

On-site links don't usually open in a new window with this setting. I think it's a bug, albeit a minor one.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 7:20 PM on November 11, 2005

Or you could read the thread he linked to, and stop guessing.

That is to say, one that it would be nice to see fixed. You know, just in case someone besides you reads this.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:18 AM on November 12, 2005

I agree wholeheartedly that underdescribed posts suck. I want to know whether or not I want to click the link before I click the link.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:28 PM on November 7, 2005

When AskMe first started, I asked two unpopular questions. One was, "Why do working class people spit?" The other was, "Why do black people talk to themselves?" These were honest questions. I'm not working class. I'm not black. I don't spit. I don't talk to myself. Maybe MOST working class people don't spit. Maybe MOST black people don't talk to themselves. But the working class & black people that I meet DO. So I wondered.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 7:24 PM on September 23, 2005

How fucking retarded do you have to be to see a person of a particular race or class or status take a particular action and assume it's generalized to every member? What year is this again?
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:36 AM on September 24, 2005

Honestly, what's the matter with you people?
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 1:42 AM on September 2, 2005

Sweet, another thread about somebody's dumbass drama-filled irc channel! Just what I was hoping for!
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 11:54 PM on August 31, 2005

I wish the SA goons got wind of this.

I posted it there and nobody cared.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 6:49 PM on August 2, 2005

Another day, another shitty editorial decision by jessamyn. Whatever.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 10:57 PM on July 31, 2005

If I ever meet Paris (which won't happen because he's afraid to come to a meetup), he'll seriously regret it.
posted by amberglow

That's absolutely psychotic. What the hell is wrong with you people?
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 2:42 PM on July 20, 2005

In my opinion justgary, anybody who is absolutely, positively convinced that amberglow was physically threatening peepee is projecting their own violent tendencies. I mean c'mon, amberglow is going to beat up peepee? Ha!
posted by sic at 4:56 PM PST on July 20

Who cares? Its arrogance of ideology taken to its repugnant extreme. As if two people with different views--absolutely opposite views!--can't be perfectly civil to each other in a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:27 AM on July 21, 2005

Terrific! As slow as the server can be sometimes, this saves frustration to be sure.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:21 AM on July 21, 2005

What a waste of time.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 6:23 PM on July 4, 2005

Filtering comments is silly, but filtering front page posts, now that would be something!

Imagine: a world without y2karl posts...
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:55 AM on June 4, 2005

Give me a break. What were you expecting exactly? An outpouring of bleeding-heart sympathy for two random losers who didn't get to see a movie? The post was awful and got exactly what it deserved as far as I can see.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 11:44 PM on May 17, 2005

Go outside some time, you whiny jerks.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 3:25 PM on May 9, 2005

Aaaaaaaaand then there's the HOSTILITY and SUSPICION with which every filthy five-dollah newb is regarded! Boy howdy, that sure makes me want to get my feet wet. I honestly feel like anything I post in the blue will be met with a "Who the fuck are you?" attitude by a certain MeFi contingent.

Lord almighty in Heaven above. I can't imagine why!
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 11:42 AM on March 1, 2005

Take comfort, friends--we are friends here, aren't we?--in that no matter how badly MetaFilter might fare at political discussion, Slashdot will fare much, much worse.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 2:25 AM on September 8, 2004

How do you figure you can get away with calling out the owner of the site? Jeez louise, the balls. I'm sure you could've found a perfectly objectionable post by someone else to wet your panties about in the morning.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:59 AM on September 3, 2004

Sound and fury.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 6:39 PM on August 27, 2004

Jeez louise. Magazine warez. Never thought I'd see the day.

(satisfied Salon Premium member)
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:45 AM on August 27, 2004

Who the hell cares? Go back to lurking.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 11:35 PM on July 26, 2004

Bitch, whine, moan, complain, MetaTalk post. Talk about stale. Have some better content to post? Post it yourself.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:49 PM on July 21, 2004

How is transparently couching the post in the form of a question posting it to the gray any better?

Well, this way, there's just the one MetaTalk thread full of whiny pedants instead of one MetaFilter thread full of whiny pedants and a MetaTalk thread full of whiny pedants.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 5:41 PM on July 18, 2004

So what?
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 12:00 AM on July 16, 2004

This is ludicrous.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 2:27 PM on June 21, 2004

I've seen much harder core flamefests between mefi brethern than this.

be that as it may, is "that's a stupid thing to say and you're a stupid person for saying it" really the level of discourse we're aiming for here? coupled with the constant "french" remarks (look, i like to make fun of the french as much as anyone, but this is just pathological) and the conflation of disagreement with "depravity," that thread really unnerves me.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 9:26 PM on April 21, 2004

y2karl, the italian comment is intact.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 9:50 PM on April 21, 2004

all this left/right blather is just a continuation of the same-old same-old "you're stupid," "no you're stupid" emptiness.
posted to MetaTalk by kjh at 1:46 AM on April 22, 2004