Diggfilter

February 11, 2007 4:38 PM

I made this post, then found out that the link is all over digg/reddit. Is there a policy against diggfilter?
posted by tylermoody to Etiquette/Policy at 4:38 PM (37 comments total)

If so, sorry for the single-link post that (I imagine) most of us have already seen.
posted by tylermoody at 4:39 PM on February 11, 2007

Just like taking a link from boingboing, it's never stopped anyone before. Don't worry about it.
posted by Dave Faris at 4:39 PM on February 11, 2007

No, there's no policy against it, but I'm sure someone will whine about seeing it elsewhere. I hadn't seen it, so fuck these hypothetical haters. It's a good link.
posted by synaesthetichaze at 4:45 PM on February 11, 2007

Great post. That one, not this one.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 4:49 PM on February 11, 2007

Naw, that's fine. I wouldn't have seen it otherwise.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:51 PM on February 11, 2007

well, it's ALL been posted somewhere else if you think about it ... i never will understand why people object to it
posted by pyramid termite at 5:03 PM on February 11, 2007

It was a GOOD post of something that had not been posted HERE before and that is all that matters. I do not visit digg, boing boing or any of the other sites that shitheads like to mention in threads when they have already seen the link. The people that complain (if any do in this particular case) can go fuck themselves. In the ass. With a rusty fork.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs at 5:18 PM on February 11, 2007 [1 favorite]

It was a good post, people like it, I never read digg or reddit. It's fine, you're fine.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:20 PM on February 11, 2007

Yeah, the haters need to stop salivating on their own foreheads. Good post.
posted by grouse at 5:21 PM on February 11, 2007 [1 favorite]

The people that complain (if any do in this particular case) can go fuck themselves. In the ass.

It's not clear that anyone actually complained in this case, though.
posted by mediareport at 5:28 PM on February 11, 2007

(And nothing wrong with assfucking, anyway.)
posted by mediareport at 5:29 PM on February 11, 2007

Not to mention, some of us still don't read Digg or Reddit, thus, it's 'new' info.
posted by deern the headlice at 5:34 PM on February 11, 2007

YOU JEWBURNING HITLER-SUCKLING FILTHWHORE!!

Err, I mean, nice post. Don't worry about it.
posted by loquacious at 5:34 PM on February 11, 2007

With a rusty fork.

So k5 factors into this too?
posted by cortex at 5:34 PM on February 11, 2007 [1 favorite]

Needs more plushies.

Otherwise, fine post. (It's generally not a good idea to haul yourself into MetaTalk preemptively, but you seem to have gotten away with it... this time.)
posted by languagehat at 5:52 PM on February 11, 2007

Don't worry. We like it.
posted by baphomet at 5:52 PM on February 11, 2007

It's nicer when it's here first and there (where there is any number of sites) later, but whatever. Good link is good link, even if complusive timewasters like me have seen it everyelsewhere already.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:01 PM on February 11, 2007

I never read digg or reddit

there's no need to, it all gets recycled here
posted by matteo at 6:09 PM on February 11, 2007

Needs more plushies.

You seem to have misspelled "grandfather clocks", good sir.
posted by Meatbomb at 6:39 PM on February 11, 2007

You seem to have misspelled "grandfather clocks", good sir.

You seem to have misspelled "kitty spanker", dear chap.
posted by loquacious at 6:45 PM on February 11, 2007

Unless they were edited out (which isn't likely) I didn't see any "OMG this is all over digg/reddit" comments in the thread.

Which is encouraging.
posted by yhbc at 8:12 PM on February 11, 2007

i just paid $3000 for a bar of chocklit.
Please advise.
posted by Dizzy at 8:12 PM on February 11, 2007 [2 favorites]

noobies, sheesh. makes a fine post then goes and hand wrings publicly. For cryin' out loud, you have made the best post here in days, swept away gobs of dreck, and now you wring your hands over how this stuff was available on some other popular site!!? Stop worrying and make some more nice posts like this. Please, we need them.
posted by caddis at 8:16 PM on February 11, 2007

Seen it.
posted by mattbucher at 8:29 PM on February 11, 2007

MetaFilter: It's fine, you're fine.
posted by Duncan at 8:32 PM on February 11, 2007

Premature self-meta.
posted by euphorb at 8:50 PM on February 11, 2007

You seem to have misspelled "kitty spanker", dear chap.

I must beg your pardon, but "peeler" begins with a 'P' and not 'S', your excellency.
posted by baphomet at 9:28 PM on February 11, 2007

MetaFilter: Needs more plushies
posted by deborah at 10:11 PM on February 11, 2007

Does this look infected to you?
posted by blue_beetle at 10:46 PM on February 11, 2007

I'm not here to hate on things, but let me just say to all those who "never read reddit/digg/boingboing/etc": you totally should, there's a bunch of cool links there.
posted by jonson at 11:27 PM on February 11, 2007

I must beg your pardon, but "peeler" begins with a 'P' and not 'S', your excellency.

Humblest of apologies for the correction, but "peeler" is actually spelled "Jarvis 2000 Bung Gun", your Lordship.
posted by loquacious at 11:29 PM on February 11, 2007

weretable is 100% correct, about the not-reading and the ass-fucking.
posted by ibmcginty at 11:41 PM on February 11, 2007

noobies, sheesh. makes a fine post then goes and hand wrings publicly.

Makes you think Metafilter, on the whole, is way, way, WAY too effing critical, doesn't it? Just like all those warnings plastered on new ladders these days, this is what frivolous Metatalk callouts beget.
posted by Dave Faris at 3:24 AM on February 12, 2007

If you read digg so I don't have to then more power to you, pal.
posted by Space Coyote at 5:31 AM on February 12, 2007

this is what frivolous Metatalk callouts beget

And for that I am eternally grateful.
posted by dame at 5:53 AM on February 12, 2007

digg sucks balls.
posted by delmoi at 9:25 AM on February 12, 2007

I like this particular frivolous Metatalk callout, as it drew my attention to the FPP in question. Neat post.
posted by brundlefly at 10:40 AM on February 12, 2007