So Andrew W.K.'s twitter page showed up in the mefi referrer logs thanks to this tweet:
I'm asking for you to defend me everyplace you can: [shitty bitly link] People are taking what I had to say and changing it!!
...linking back to the thread,... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by nadawi on
December 31, 2009 1:46 PM
Just don't worry about it; flags work mostly in aggregate, so a stray flag here or there is not a big deal.
We don't provide an un-flag/re-flag interface because the headache caused by a rare misflag is less than the effort required to test and... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by bru on
December 31, 2009 1:17 PM
So Andrew W.K.'s twitter page showed up in the mefi referrer logs thanks to this tweet:
I'm asking for you to defend me everyplace you can: [shitty bitly link] People are taking what I had to say and changing it!!
...linking back to the thread,... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by koeselitz on
December 31, 2009 12:06 PM
So Andrew W.K.'s twitter page showed up in the mefi referrer logs thanks to this tweet:
I'm asking for you to defend me everyplace you can: [shitty bitly link] People are taking what I had to say and changing it!!
...linking back to the thread,... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by These Premises Are Alarmed on
December 31, 2009 11:05 AM
So Andrew W.K.'s twitter page showed up in the mefi referrer logs thanks to this tweet:
I'm asking for you to defend me everyplace you can: [shitty bitly link] People are taking what I had to say and changing it!!
...linking back to the thread,... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by deanc on
December 31, 2009 9:39 AM
So Andrew W.K.'s twitter page showed up in the mefi referrer logs thanks to this tweet:
I'm asking for you to defend me everyplace you can: [shitty bitly link] People are taking what I had to say and changing it!!
...linking back to the thread,... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by PhoBWanKenobi on
December 31, 2009 9:21 AM
So Andrew W.K.'s twitter page showed up in the mefi referrer logs thanks to this tweet:
I'm asking for you to defend me everyplace you can: [shitty bitly link] People are taking what I had to say and changing it!!
...linking back to the thread,... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by Sailormom on
December 31, 2009 8:23 AM
So Andrew W.K.'s twitter page showed up in the mefi referrer logs thanks to this tweet:
I'm asking for you to defend me everyplace you can: [shitty bitly link] People are taking what I had to say and changing it!!
...linking back to the thread,... [
more]
MetaFilter comment favorited by cavalier on
December 31, 2009 7:50 AM
So Andrew W.K.'s twitter page showed up in the mefi referrer logs thanks to this tweet:
I'm asking for you to defend me everyplace you can: [shitty bitly link] People are taking what I had to say and changing it!!
...linking back to the thread,... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by timshel on
December 31, 2009 7:32 AM
I've always liked "are you a friend of mathowie", but I'm not sure metafilter is the sort of place that lends itself to the kind of organized consensus this would require.... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by ersatzkat on
December 31, 2009 4:42 AM
Nope. [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by sentient on
December 31, 2009 12:35 AM
Touché, The Whelk. [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by ocherdraco on
December 30, 2009 6:00 PM
Man, I've got this mental image of Steve Carell's character from Anchorman standing around on the street with a basset hound on a leash, just smiling super big with eyes wide and shouting unselfconsciously at scody from ten feet away.
"Your... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by DMan on
December 30, 2009 3:51 PM
I have to wonder how much, if any, moderation by deletion actually occurred in the thread; perhaps I missed something.
I'm not sure if I missed a stray comment deletion by Matt or Jess in the last six days, but the only comment I've removed was a... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by infinite intimation on
December 30, 2009 1:55 PM
I don't consider this worth incorporating into my primary theory, but just for completeness I feel I should mention the possibility that tator vs. tater is not an error of inconsistency at all but the willful deployment of two distinct but related... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by marimeko on
December 30, 2009 1:09 PM
I've always liked "are you a friend of mathowie", but I'm not sure metafilter is the sort of place that lends itself to the kind of organized consensus this would require.... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by Blasdelb on
December 30, 2009 10:19 AM
Fuck's sake, guys. Can it. [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by Blasdelb on
December 30, 2009 8:25 AM
I've always liked "are you a friend of mathowie", but I'm not sure metafilter is the sort of place that lends itself to the kind of organized consensus this would require.... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by Jacqueline on
December 29, 2009 6:05 PM
Has anyone built an un-disemvoweller? That would be a neat greasemonkey script. Sure there are some irreducible ambiguities in the text once it's been disemvowelled (unless you have some very powerful sentence-level logic, like in th hmn brn), but... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by lodurr on
December 29, 2009 3:50 PM
That this topic comes off as inside baseball for the blogosphere is interesting because seven or eight years ago this would have been a gimme of a front page post on mefi. But six years ago, Cory was active on the site, too. The world has moved on,... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by lodurr on
December 29, 2009 3:43 PM
I can't remember seeing a whole lot of that "me talky rike asian" crap going around. Not never, certainly, just not in any significant quantity. I think it's as stupid and embarrassing as a lot of other casual stereotyping/racism riffage,... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by StickyCarpet on
December 29, 2009 8:24 AM
[Some comments removed. Folks, please take the metacommentary to the metatalk thread itself and quit arguing about it in here.] [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by SAC on
December 29, 2009 12:44 AM
That's gouache, although I myself, a simple man, would just say "watercolor."
Clearly I had meant to write "Guanche"; the parallels to Spanish conquest of the Canary Islands should have been perfectly transparent to the... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by Kid Charlemagne on
December 28, 2009 11:22 PM
As for the post itself, I don't think there's much wrong with it. It's not what every post should look like, but it's not to my mind clearly overstepping any guidelines; including a comment or comments as the linked content of a post is, like... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by lazaruslong on
December 28, 2009 8:10 PM
we don't attack other communities
To be clear, the unwritten rule is more along the lines of "we don't engage in cross-site flamewars". There's a distinction between commentary and confrontation.
I don't think it's particularly... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by lazaruslong on
December 28, 2009 8:10 PM
I have altered the link.
Pray I do not alter it further. [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by blueberry on
December 28, 2009 6:28 PM
As for the post itself, I don't think there's much wrong with it. It's not what every post should look like, but it's not to my mind clearly overstepping any guidelines; including a comment or comments as the linked content of a post is, like... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by bru on
December 28, 2009 2:48 PM
we don't attack other communities
To be clear, the unwritten rule is more along the lines of "we don't engage in cross-site flamewars". There's a distinction between commentary and confrontation.
I don't think it's particularly... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by bru on
December 28, 2009 2:47 PM
Oh, there's bookmarklets that'd do it to any given span of selected text. I used to have a very robust crossbrowser one but I'm not finding it right now.
Yes, yes, but the letter frequency analysis!... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by xbonesgt on
December 28, 2009 9:51 AM
Where it is upsidedown land is that concealing text is considered dickish and open spoilers are not. Sorry, never going to understand or agree with that.
It's not a direct comparison, and you're not putting either of those in context.
Dickish... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by Sidhedevil on
December 28, 2009 8:40 AM
Afroblanco didn't get mad when I puked on his roof.
I thought you puked off his roof. [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by shmegegge on
December 28, 2009 8:22 AM
Exactly what chinston said. In fact, I found lhat's blog entry just now by googling for languagehat what affectless, which makes me happy because I can't think of a better characterization than "affectless" for the specific necessary tone of a... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by ErWenn on
December 27, 2009 11:36 PM
I have altered the link.
Pray I do not alter it further. [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by ZeusHumms on
December 27, 2009 9:50 PM
Afroblanco didn't get mad when I puked on his roof.
I thought you puked off his roof. [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by Afroblanco on
December 27, 2009 8:15 PM
Where it is upsidedown land is that concealing text is considered dickish and open spoilers are not. Sorry, never going to understand or agree with that.
It's not a direct comparison, and you're not putting either of those in context.
Dickish... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by bru on
December 27, 2009 8:00 PM
Guys, I'm sure if Paphnuty had ever actually existed and were subsisting in a cellar dungeon beneath Metafilter HQ, he'd be asking me to let you all know that he thinks we were completely in the right for handling the situation exactly as we have,... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by Nice Guy Mike on
December 27, 2009 2:53 PM
Why are you reading such a fascist website?
We have cameras.
Actually, as much as I have my own reactions to what I've seen in their moderation, I'm not all that jazzed about talking about it as e.g. BB vs. Mefi—moderation of a busy place is a... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by marble on
December 27, 2009 2:39 PM
Between the policy
And the practice
Between the instinct
And the speech-act
Falls the Community
For thine is the website
Between the spec
And the implementation
Between the emotion
And the unpublish
Falls the Community
The now is... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by kwaller on
December 27, 2009 2:37 PM
[Bunch of comments removed. It'd be really fucking great not to spend the rest of Christmas dealing with an unnecessary religious/personality shitstorm, but take it to Metatalk if you really need to do it.... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by perilous on
December 27, 2009 2:08 PM
Our take, whenever this has come up before, basically boils down to this:
- Metafilter is a generalist site, not dedicated specifically or primarly to spoiler-sensitive discussion of narrative works, so building in a UI feature specifically for... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by nooneyouknow on
December 27, 2009 12:18 PM
I have altered the link.
Pray I do not alter it further. [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by Freen on
December 27, 2009 12:23 AM
Oh, there's bookmarklets that'd do it to any given span of selected text. I used to have a very robust crossbrowser one but I'm not finding it right now.
Yes, yes, but the letter frequency analysis!... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by delmoi on
December 26, 2009 10:58 PM
I just wish people would leave PBR alone. It's a perfectly presentable shitty American beer, it doesn't need all this goddam drama. [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by Blasdelb on
December 26, 2009 7:27 PM
Oh, there's bookmarklets that'd do it to any given span of selected text. I used to have a very robust crossbrowser one but I'm not finding it right now.
Yes, yes, but the letter frequency analysis!... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by The White Hat on
December 26, 2009 11:53 AM
Our take, whenever this has come up before, basically boils down to this:
- Metafilter is a generalist site, not dedicated specifically or primarly to spoiler-sensitive discussion of narrative works, so building in a UI feature specifically for... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by Joe Beese on
December 26, 2009 8:12 AM
[Bunch of comments removed. It'd be really fucking great not to spend the rest of Christmas dealing with an unnecessary religious/personality shitstorm, but take it to Metatalk if you really need to do it.... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by annsunny on
December 26, 2009 7:47 AM
what's the point of a "feature requests" tag for MetaTalk if I can't try to get you to do all the work?
Well, generally it works something like this:
Poster: "I'd like to see this change to metafilter."
Mods: "Hmm.... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by Solomon on
December 26, 2009 7:22 AM
Our take, whenever this has come up before, basically boils down to this:
- Metafilter is a generalist site, not dedicated specifically or primarly to spoiler-sensitive discussion of narrative works, so building in a UI feature specifically for... [
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MetaTalk comment favorited by Effigy2000 on
December 26, 2009 4:49 AM
[Bunch of comments removed. It'd be really fucking great not to spend the rest of Christmas dealing with an unnecessary religious/personality shitstorm, but take it to Metatalk if you really need to do it.... [
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MetaFilter comment favorited by nadawi on
December 26, 2009 2:29 AM
