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MetaFilter & The Apocalypse
posted by Colloquial Collision (25 comments total)

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Wow, he has us to a T!! Time to sue yet?
posted by wheelieman at 5:46 AM on December 9, 2005


Tripple post.
posted by sveskemus at 5:46 AM on December 9, 2005


Ha ha, a funny idea, poorly executed. Nobody even said that it should have been posted on MeTa.

Shouldn't this have been posted on MeTa?
posted by ibmcginty at 5:46 AM on December 9, 2005


Heh - wonder if he managed to use any real user names?

Also, did you notice that the "FPP" was on April 14 2009 (a Tuesday), yet the next newest post starts off with "Friday Flash Fun"... oops! ;-)

The most sad thing is, though, that it's probably quite true - I can easily envisage this kind of thing happening in those circumstances...
posted by Chunder at 5:48 AM on December 9, 2005


It wasn't really funny, but I was wierdly moved by it.
posted by OmieWise at 5:48 AM on December 9, 2005


Weirdly, dammit.
posted by OmieWise at 5:48 AM on December 9, 2005


Not a bad idea, but it somehow fails to capture the posting cadence of a Mefi thread. Just... didn't feel like Mefi.
posted by selfnoise at 5:49 AM on December 9, 2005


'Triple'. :-(
posted by sveskemus at 5:51 AM on December 9, 2005


was that a deliberate triple post? Am I missing out on the joke here?
posted by ClanvidHorse at 5:53 AM on December 9, 2005


Published 4 March 2003

It kind of captures what Metafilter was like a bit before back then. Things have changed.
posted by brownpau at 5:56 AM on December 9, 2005


so this apocolypse, it vibrates?
posted by pyramid termite at 6:03 AM on December 9, 2005




brownpau: except the responses to it in the MeTa thread didn't seem to really think that...

Did people actually say "X-post to blah" back in the day?
posted by antifuse at 6:06 AM on December 9, 2005


I don't think I've ever seen anybody use the phrase "X-post" around here. But yeah, I thought it was more poignant than funny.
posted by Faint of Butt at 6:06 AM on December 9, 2005


i've never seen it either.

definitely more poignant than funny, but it also shows how we barely notice the style and amount of snarks and procedural comments anymore--in reading that, we went right for the content and what was actually happening in the world.
posted by amberglow at 6:09 AM on December 9, 2005


surly the fact its a doublepost is ironic?
posted by 13twelve at 6:10 AM on December 9, 2005


He forgot the taglines, bastard.

Metafilter: We're all going to die.
posted by IronLizard at 6:16 AM on December 9, 2005


Did people actually say "X-post to blah" back in the day?

I think it's meant to be just a random incomprehensible phrase that outsiders would have no idea about. The fact taht we are left scratching our heads is the point, that's probably how a newcomer feels the first time he or she sees "FPP" or somesuch.
posted by Space Coyote at 6:17 AM on December 9, 2005


I for one would be surprised to see jrun still running through an apocalypse.
posted by clevershark at 6:18 AM on December 9, 2005


MetaFilter: I would link to the article but my hair is beginning to fall out in clumps.

(Did it occur to anyone else that there wouldn't be much posting going on if EMP clobbered hardware?)
posted by alumshubby at 6:24 AM on December 9, 2005


Another piece of language that seemed off was the use of "self-post" rather than "self-link."
posted by Miko at 6:38 AM on December 9, 2005


Tripel post.
posted by caddis at 6:40 AM on December 9, 2005


Triple boast.

That's enough I am going out for a walk.
posted by ClanvidHorse at 6:51 AM on December 9, 2005


Things have changed.

I, for one, find it difficult to distinguish this thread's off-topic pendantry with that in the linked mockery of MeFi.
posted by scottreynen at 6:52 AM on December 9, 2005


so, who registered those usernames? anyone done it yet? *rushes off to burn five bucks*
posted by dabitch at 6:52 AM on December 9, 2005


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