wiis for woots

December 22, 2006 12:33 PM

you know...mine wasnt a double. it just happened to be on the same site. no big deal. I just thought it was kinda cool.
posted by ShawnString to Etiquette/Policy at 12:33 PM (32 comments total)

librarians have itchy trigger fingers when the superintendent is away.
posted by quonsar at 12:40 PM on December 22, 2006

librarians have itchy trigger fingers when the superintendent is away.

This scans like an old adage, so I'm going to make it one.
posted by Kwine at 12:48 PM on December 22, 2006

Yeah, jessamyn, I think you missed the point of the post: "Buy these PS3s so we can afford more Wiis."
posted by timeistight at 12:48 PM on December 22, 2006

So no digg for the dewooting?
posted by cortex at 12:48 PM on December 22, 2006

Whaaa...?
posted by timeistight at 12:53 PM on December 22, 2006

WoooooCHAAAAAAA!
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:03 PM on December 22, 2006

It was a cool single link to to a sold out sale (sold out some 13 hours before the link was posted) on a popular site (covered by NPR) mentioned in another single link FPP. You're right about that.
posted by Science! at 1:03 PM on December 22, 2006

That was an admittedly funny new post on Woot!, but Woot! has been posted before. Therefore, no matter how funny that individual post was (and it was funny), it was still a double. If (however unlikely) www.trainsaw.com makes a hilarious post tomorrow about ninja pirates from space, then it will still be a double, despite the fact that it is a new post to that site, because that site has been posted before.

Also, Youtube is different, so don't even bring that up.
posted by ND¢ at 1:09 PM on December 22, 2006

It's...it's alive! I mean, it's back on the blue...
posted by muddgirl at 1:10 PM on December 22, 2006

librarians have itchy trigger fingers when the superintendent is away.

Yeah sorry Shawn. Matt's in Hawaii and I'm having a dinner party and every now and then I assume that someone is telling the truth when they link and say something is a double. I'm more inlined, after checking everything out, to go with Science!'s explanation. Funny one link woot jokes are sort of.... tired.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 1:13 PM on December 22, 2006

I was telling the truth! It is a double! My honor has been impugned! I cry foul! How dare you sit there at your fancy little librarian dinner party and mock me?! You will rue this day!
posted by ND¢ at 1:17 PM on December 22, 2006

aww,...thanks jessamyn, did mean for you do all that.

and i do apologize about the one link post. I will do my best next time. honest
posted by ShawnString at 1:19 PM on December 22, 2006

I prefer ND¢'s explanation. That way, we'd get no more links to cnn.com or the New York Times.
posted by timeistight at 1:20 PM on December 22, 2006

SS - one link posts are OK in general; look at crunchland's posts.
posted by muddgirl at 1:21 PM on December 22, 2006

One link posts are fine, anyone who says they aren't is both pedantic & mistaken.
posted by jonson at 1:55 PM on December 22, 2006

Matt's in Hawaii? No Honolulu meet(drink)-up? Whaaa?
posted by GooseOnTheLoose at 2:06 PM on December 22, 2006

He did tell us.
posted by smackfu at 2:57 PM on December 22, 2006

You can stop rueing now Jessamyn. I'm over it. I'm sorry I had to do that to you. Please enjoy the rest of the evening rue free.
posted by ND¢ at 3:58 PM on December 22, 2006

It wasn't a very good post, but you are right that Woot is funny as hell.
posted by LarryC at 4:00 PM on December 22, 2006

I seem to remember the last Woot! post being canned for the simple reason that we can't link to every funny sale Woot! does. It would become Woot!filter. I may be misremembering, though.
posted by shmegegge at 4:17 PM on December 22, 2006

It's like linking to the Onion. We don't do that. I don't think even Fark or digg stoop that low.
posted by blasdelf at 6:58 PM on December 22, 2006

you are right that Woot is funny as hell

Agreed. But don't let that make you forget they are also commercial as hell.
posted by scarabic at 7:57 PM on December 22, 2006

This particular funny sale made the front page on Digg... which isn't saying much.
posted by wendell at 9:30 PM on December 22, 2006

Jesus, Jess, his wasn't a double. Why do you hate him so much? Can I eat his dessert since you sent him to be already?
posted by frecklefaerie at 9:40 PM on December 22, 2006

s/be/bed
posted by frecklefaerie at 9:40 PM on December 22, 2006

*Presses nose against window, looking in at fancy librarian dinner party*
posted by Kirth Gerson at 4:41 AM on December 23, 2006

Don't ye be dreamin' of risin' above your station boyo. Our place is here amongst our own kind. Out here with the commenters, the trolls, the single link posters, the self-linkers, the astroturfering preachers, the youtubers and the spammers. Its all we know. You best be leavin' fancy librarian dinner parties to them that was born to it. Tis for the best boyo. Tis for the best.

*Seamus takes one final look into the warmly glowing window at the fancy librarians enjoying their fancy librarian dinner party, and turns away with eyes damp. Keith Gerson follows behind reluctantly a few seconds later. Neither one looks back*
posted by ND¢ at 5:31 AM on December 23, 2006

*sniff*
posted by Kirth Gerson at 5:52 AM on December 23, 2006

Ah, MeFi, where even if you seem gracious about being deleted, there are always people to whine for you.
posted by klangklangston at 10:27 AM on December 23, 2006

"Well, as my grandfather always said, librarians have itchy trigger fingers when the superintendent is away."
posted by Kwine at 10:32 AM on December 23, 2006

Ah, MeFi, where even if you seem gracious about being deleted,

Really gracious people don't post about it on MetaTalk.
posted by smackfu at 10:49 AM on December 23, 2006

Mine's a double, thanks. Merry Christmas.
posted by chrismear at 11:59 AM on December 24, 2006