Take my survey; I don't think so!

July 25, 2006 1:51 AM

View my ads Take my poll. I have some difficulty judging what's appropriate for AskMe these days, so I played along until the ad thing came up. Putting Google ads on the user's (presumably specifically made for that thread) poll pages seems a bit out of line. What say?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken to Etiquette/Policy at 1:51 AM (80 comments total)

Maybe it was somehow an honest templating oversight or something (not sure how that could be, but I'm trying to be nice), in which case oops my bad. But linking to your own stuff when there are advertisements embedded does seems a little bit hinky to me.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:53 AM on July 25, 2006

It appears that users can sign up and do their own polls?
posted by cellphone at 1:57 AM on July 25, 2006

unless the user in question runs aggregatedata.com, they probably aren't making a dime off the ads. as i understand it, the site allows people to create polls.
posted by Tryptophan-5ht at 1:59 AM on July 25, 2006

arrhn says in the comment I linked above that he build the polling app.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:59 AM on July 25, 2006

build=builteded, of course.

Try and keep up with me here, folks.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:00 AM on July 25, 2006

hmmmm... it appears the user DOES run aggregatedata.com....
posted by Tryptophan-5ht at 2:00 AM on July 25, 2006

which I thought I could obtain nicely through the survey software (disclosure: yes, I wrote it in my spare time.).

I'm not trying to plug my software, I'm trying to get numbers. I could code in a bit to remove the ads for any future posts if that's a concern.
posted by arrhn at 1:42 AM PST on July 25 [+fave] [!]

Umm...seems clear to me its his site, which he's self-linking to, in a chatty post, and serving ads.

How many guidelines do people have to violate around here?
posted by vacapinta at 2:01 AM on July 25, 2006

I dunno, if I had some software like that I might link it, too, but it is a little odd. It probably should have specified (btw, I built this site) or something... Normally when I am involved in projects like that we're Highly Secretive about them until it's launch time.
posted by blacklite at 2:02 AM on July 25, 2006

He's probably getting paid by Chipotle too.
posted by vacapinta at 2:03 AM on July 25, 2006

I'll warm up the stake.
posted by blacklite at 2:04 AM on July 25, 2006 [1 favorite]

Changed the global script not to serve ads on any of the display.cgi pages on the entire site. All for you people. Haven't made a dime off any of them anyways, and there's no point in pissing people off unnecessarily.

Like most engineering students -- I'm a data junkie. I just find the idea of having semi-hard numbers rather attractive. *shrugs*
posted by arrhn at 2:08 AM on July 25, 2006

*is gratified*
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:10 AM on July 25, 2006

blacklite: no secrecy here. I'm the only one who has worked on the project, I coded it up because I thought it would be a cool little utility to get data with.
posted by arrhn at 2:14 AM on July 25, 2006

Also, if you like arrhn's site and want to make him feel better about his rough treatment in this thread, you can vote for it on Projects. (I just noticed.)
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:51 AM on July 25, 2006

So you're saying we can make arrhn feel better about your jabbing them with a pointy stick? How community-encompassing of you.
[The pointy stick being warranted does not the logic intefere with]
posted by peacay at 3:11 AM on July 25, 2006

So was the bit about the attractive woman student a real thing, or just the pitch? I find that part of the post more obnoxious.
posted by fleacircus at 3:50 AM on July 25, 2006

I mean, I don't care if the asker is making money on the side or not. I just don't think AskMe is like a college cafeteria, where you can stop passers-by with a possibly deceptive little speech and get them to sign up for your research. Even if arrhn always relates to his fellow human beings as if they were subjects to be studied, that doesn't mean he gets to do it on AskMe.
posted by fleacircus at 3:56 AM on July 25, 2006

It's still a chatty pollfilter question, removed. arrhn, feel free to repost next week with a question that is a little less loaded and a little more clearly not a chatfilter question.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 4:18 AM on July 25, 2006

Comment in the thread:
I'd start a post in the grey if I hadn't already earlier this week. If this isn't chatfilter then I don't know what is. Flagged.
posted by persona non grata at 3:23 AM PST on July 25 [+fave] [!]

I'd read the grey if I was him.

It would be hypocritical to snark at him within the thread, when I just flagged him and a couple others as noise, so I came here.
posted by jacalata at 4:19 AM on July 25, 2006

Guess I should have checked here first.
posted by persona non grata at 4:28 AM on July 25, 2006

*elephant farts menacingly*
posted by quonsar at 5:04 AM on July 25, 2006

This is on the site now:

Who complains about inobtrusive text ads? Use adblock and don't click them.

Kind of dickish.
posted by RustyBrooks at 5:05 AM on July 25, 2006

Kind of dickish.

Yup. I was trying to play nice-to-the-newb, but, well, fuck 'im.

So you're saying we can make arrhn feel better about your jabbing them with a pointy stick?

That's not a pointed stick, mate, this is a pointed stick.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:29 AM on July 25, 2006

I'll warm up the steak.
posted by OmieWise at 5:41 AM on July 25, 2006

Pointy stick and move, Rocky! Pointy stick and move!
posted by cortex at 6:14 AM on July 25, 2006

What's brown and sticky?


A stick!
posted by inigo2 at 6:41 AM on July 25, 2006

Or a warmed-up stake.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 7:06 AM on July 25, 2006

What's the matter with being sexy?
posted by jonmc at 7:26 AM on July 25, 2006

Leads to dancin', jon.
posted by cortex at 7:43 AM on July 25, 2006

And we all know what dancin' leads to. COMMUNISM.
posted by loquacious at 7:49 AM on July 25, 2006

So was the bit about the attractive woman student a real thing, or just the pitch? I find that part of the post more obnoxious.

Exactly what I was thinking
posted by necessitas at 8:06 AM on July 25, 2006

What's brown and sounds like a bell?
posted by edgeways at 8:48 AM on July 25, 2006

A brown bell?
posted by dersins at 9:01 AM on July 25, 2006

A dong.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:35 AM on July 25, 2006

Those of us with white dongs are feeling disenfranchised.
posted by cortex at 10:02 AM on July 25, 2006

The second part of the joke explains the color, but I didn't want to go there. So to speak.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 10:05 AM on July 25, 2006

Weenie.
posted by cortex at 10:09 AM on July 25, 2006

Ass-buttered weenie, to be exact.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 10:13 AM on July 25, 2006

Dung
posted by edgeways at 10:33 AM on July 25, 2006

The workers must control the means of gettin' down!
posted by Divine_Wino at 10:54 AM on July 25, 2006

What's 8 inches long and slippery?



Slippers!
posted by inigo2 at 10:55 AM on July 25, 2006

It's "what's a foot long..." goddammit. Because it uses the word "foot"! Slippers go on FEET and are hence ONE FOOT LONG! Damn you! Damn you and a bag of chips!
posted by cortex at 11:01 AM on July 25, 2006

cortex: "It's "what's a foot long..." goddammit. Because it uses the word "foot"! Slippers go on FEET and are hence ONE FOOT LONG! Damn you! Damn you and a bag of chips!"


Not to mention- how tiny are your feet, anyhow??
posted by JMOZ at 11:15 AM on July 25, 2006

I'd like to request more silly jokes, please. I can offer:

What did the zero say to the eight?



Nice belt.
posted by dame at 11:16 AM on July 25, 2006 [2 favorites]

"I just find the idea of having semi-hard numbers rather attractive."

oh...that's "numbers" not "members"....

'cuz, it didn't make sense to me until I figured that out...
posted by HuronBob at 11:22 AM on July 25, 2006

Sorry; I only do punchlines.

"Tuesday's your day in the barrel."
"See? I TOLD you you fucked a penguin!"
"Supplies!!!"
posted by yhbc at 11:24 AM on July 25, 2006

"Yar, it's drivin' me nuts!"
"Ye fuck one sheep..."
"The Aristocrats!"
posted by cortex at 11:28 AM on July 25, 2006

A man walks into a bar.
A horse walks into a bar.
A piece of string walks into a bar.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:37 AM on July 25, 2006

A naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm and a six-foot salami under the other. Bartender turns to her and says....
posted by dersins at 11:42 AM on July 25, 2006

"Vaseline? I thought you said gasoline!"
posted by The Bellman at 11:56 AM on July 25, 2006

eats shoots and leaves
posted by edgeways at 11:59 AM on July 25, 2006

Outstanding that this thread never strayed OT.
posted by Cranberry at 12:03 PM on July 25, 2006

Because he was out standing in his field.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:06 PM on July 25, 2006

"Look Tarzan, I'll keep quiet about the child if you keep quiet about the sheep!".
"Yes, wanna fuck?"
"Did you come here to fuck around or play golf, dad?"
"It only takes 1 nail to hang up a picture"
posted by signal at 12:16 PM on July 25, 2006

Orange ya glad I didn't say 'banana'?
posted by raedyn at 12:17 PM on July 25, 2006

He thought I asked for a 12-inch pianist.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 12:18 PM on July 25, 2006

The pygmies are cunning runts!
posted by cortex at 12:39 PM on July 25, 2006

The nun has hope in her soul.
posted by The Bellman at 12:40 PM on July 25, 2006

"You go first, sister. I have to douche after you gargle."
posted by cortex at 12:55 PM on July 25, 2006

Damn you all.
posted by dame at 1:04 PM on July 25, 2006

"Take my poll."
posted by cortex at 1:17 PM on July 25, 2006

That's the set-up, cortex. The punchline is "Please!"
posted by yhbc at 1:19 PM on July 25, 2006

The pygmies are cunning runts!

So, what does that make the UCLA Women's Track Team?
posted by ericb at 1:33 PM on July 25, 2006

The Barnum & Bailey Circus is a collection of cunning stunts.
posted by ericb at 1:34 PM on July 25, 2006

*compares football special teams squad to all-girl improv act*
posted by cortex at 1:46 PM on July 25, 2006

"Don't cry, it's only a knock-knock joke."
posted by brain_drain at 2:29 PM on July 25, 2006

"Rectum? Damn near killed him!"
posted by absalom at 5:35 PM on July 25, 2006

One to screw in the lightbulb, thirty to derail a thread.
posted by horsewithnoname at 5:49 PM on July 25, 2006

That is not a very shaggy dog
posted by clockzero at 5:49 PM on July 25, 2006

No soap. Radio.
posted by emelenjr at 6:10 PM on July 25, 2006

I can see your house from here.
posted by Wolof at 7:23 PM on July 25, 2006

...and put it on my bill.
posted by CunningLinguist at 8:05 PM on July 25, 2006

To get to the other side.
posted by aberrant at 8:16 PM on July 25, 2006

I'd prefer if you called her Heather.
posted by bob sarabia at 8:24 PM on July 25, 2006

dersins, was there ever any more to that joke (from The Breakfast Club, right?), or is that the whole point?

(*still wondering, 20 years later....*)
posted by aberrant at 10:09 PM on July 25, 2006

*tickles everyone's ass with a feather*
posted by taz at 10:13 PM on July 25, 2006

was there ever any more to that joke (from The Breakfast Club, right?), or is that the whole point?

Nope, no punchline.

The joke that Bender tells but never finishes (while crawling through the ceiling) actually has no punchline. According to Nelson, Judd, he ad-libbed the line. Originally, he was supposed to tell a joke that would end when he came back into the library and said, "Forgot my pencil", but no one could come up with a joke for that punchline.

I think that question was on askme a while ago.

Never actually saw that movie.
posted by bob sarabia at 10:28 PM on July 25, 2006

No sir, they usually just use it to ride into town.
posted by MetaMonkey at 12:16 AM on July 26, 2006

View my ads Breathe on my balls.

Crafting the post now...
posted by scarabic at 12:21 AM on July 26, 2006

a baby seal walks into a club
posted by mr.marx at 7:48 AM on July 26, 2006