What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.
It's recently occured to me that after reading for six years, Metatalk is the same shit over and over again. So here are the comments that is my point of view for pretty much every Metatalk thread:
One of the great failures of the Metatalk system, is that quite often mods and others are forced to give concrete point by point reasons why a post was "good" or "bad" or "why this stayed" or "this didn't."
There is no scientific method for constructing a post or behaving on Metafilter. I barely think the guidelines are applicable. I've mentioned this analogy before, but Metafilter is a small cafe on the corner of the internet. The mods are just there to keep things cool. Sometimes on some days certain things are cool. Sometimes they're not. Their job is to make sure there's never too much of anything, like wacky fluff or serious topics, and to make sure there's no rampant fistfights.
So my best advice, whenever there is a great deletion or nondeletion injustice, is to just be "whatever" about it. Because there's no malicious censorship authoritarian regime going on, it's just 3 bartenders in a cafe trying to keep shit cool.
