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This shouldn't have happened. mibs created the poster.
posted by tellurian to Etiquette/Policy at 10:58 PM (69 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite

It's even the website linked in his profile? And they said Alec Baldwin had big brass ones.
posted by kyleg at 11:04 PM on April 19, 2007


sho'nuff
posted by puke & cry at 11:04 PM on April 19, 2007


I've linked this thread in that one, tellurian. You probably should've done that...
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:08 PM on April 19, 2007


It's a good poster, though.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:19 PM on April 19, 2007




Let me get this straight. The first time the budget graph was posted, you (tellurian) posted it. He comments in that thread. Six months later, after posting in only one other thread, he re-posts the same website?

BANHAMMER!
posted by phaedon at 11:24 PM on April 19, 2007


Uh, Manjusri, phaedon: mibs posted the thread that links to the budget infographic, and has the site in question listed as theirs in his or her profile. It's pretty blatantly a self-link (cool as the link itself is).

Or am I missing something?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:26 PM on April 19, 2007


Doh, only clicked the 2nd link.
posted by Manjusri at 11:27 PM on April 19, 2007


Yeah, it's disappointing. It's a cool graph and it probably would have been posted by someone else anyway.
posted by tellurian at 11:42 PM on April 19, 2007


Wow. I'd kind of blink if not for what reads like a blushing misrepresentation two comments into the thread:

why is this not freeware?
posted by parmanparman at 10:22 AM on April 18

uh.. it is free. the website that is, the poster, i dont think so.
posted by mibs at 10:34 AM on April 18


Of course, "uh.." might be the 'duh' sort, and "i don't think so" the sassy 'as if!' and I'm just reading the whole thing wrong. But that...well, it doesn't really help a goddam thing.

And the thrust is "buy my poster"? Goodnight, Gracie.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:43 PM on April 19, 2007


Buh-bye
posted by Rhomboid at 11:53 PM on April 19, 2007


Wait.
Wait.
Wait.

Is this both a double AND a self link? Wowsers.
posted by Brittanie at 12:04 AM on April 20, 2007


It's pronounced Dumas.
posted by phaedon at 12:05 AM on April 20, 2007


No, it's pronounced boo-kay. Oops, wrong Britcom.
posted by wendell at 12:07 AM on April 20, 2007


This comment made me giggle.

I’d like to see a van diagram of where the “cluster-fuck” and “quagmire” budgets do and do not overlap.

Van Diagram. Is he related to Van Diesel?
posted by Brittanie at 12:10 AM on April 20, 2007


Is Van Diesel related to Vin Morrison?
posted by granted at 12:14 AM on April 20, 2007


Van Diagrams are done by Vin Dutch, I believe.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:29 AM on April 20, 2007


I think Gin Morrison was a member of the Gin Blossoms.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 12:30 AM on April 20, 2007


Including a link to your own site in a comment is okay provided that it has some relevance to the topic being discussed.

In a comment, not as a new FPP.
posted by delmoi at 12:32 AM on April 20, 2007


Self-poster self-posts self's poster.

Diesel van diagram.
posted by painquale at 2:51 AM on April 20, 2007 [4 favorites]


LOLMISSPELLERS

[NOT DYSLEXIST]
posted by Rhomboid at 3:02 AM on April 20, 2007


delmoi, Manjusri was under the wrong impression since he said had only read the 2nd link.
posted by the other side at 3:10 AM on April 20, 2007


the other side, delmoi was correcting Manjusri because he didn't read the comment where he said he only read the second link.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 3:30 AM on April 20, 2007


Um, yeah, I realize that Kirth. Thanks?
posted by the other side at 3:42 AM on April 20, 2007


Pulling the dull kids out of traffic ends up polluting the gene pool. Refrain.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:15 AM on April 20, 2007 [3 favorites]


It's pronounced Do-mas Aah-swee-pay.

Thank you,

Dumass Asswipe
posted by Balisong at 5:10 AM on April 20, 2007


I smell a future sockpuppet.
posted by Brittanie at 5:31 AM on April 20, 2007


By the way, my future sockpuppet will be called Larry — Larry Bajina.
posted by Brittanie at 5:33 AM on April 20, 2007


Sorry, stav.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 6:22 AM on April 20, 2007


I can't quite tell if mibs created the poster, or just the graphic posted in the forums of the web site. Regardless, he seems to be an "administrator" on the forums there...
posted by mzurer at 7:07 AM on April 20, 2007


mibs's name is easy to find on the site, and the whois matches as well. mibs has been empastured.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:09 AM on April 20, 2007


Oh, never mind. He's pretty clearly the creator if you look at the rest of his comments in the original thread.
posted by mzurer at 7:10 AM on April 20, 2007


Pulling the dull kids out of traffic ends up polluting the gene pool.
Yeah, this thread has been a bit 'shoot the messenger' vis a vis reader comprehension. I wouldn't accuse someone of self-linking lightly, knowing that it gets them banned.
I had quite a bit of attachment to this. In preparation for my 2006 post I had subscribed to the mailing list to be advised of updates. Because it was way behind schedule I visited the DeviantArt site every now and then to see how things were progressing. The email never came, but after one of my occasional visits I saw the new graph was available and made the post to MetaFilter. When this resulted in mibs signing up and commenting, I felt extra good about the post and the information that was being made available to the public.
That extra good feeling is gone now.
posted by tellurian at 7:10 AM on April 20, 2007


AND NO PITCHFORKS
posted by tellurian at 7:18 AM on April 20, 2007


damn, there are so few vermonter mefites to begin with!
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:24 AM on April 20, 2007


jessamyn! It is possible to email him and find out if it was a genuine mistake. I so want to believe it was. Despite the obvious posting warning, maybe 'Projects' isn't as visible. [too much belief in good nature on my part?]
posted by tellurian at 7:33 AM on April 20, 2007


You're a good guy, tellurian, and mibs is probably a fine and decent person, but we're talking breaking the golden rule coupled with a complete lack of otherwise involvement in the site. It's...eesh. It's one of the reasons that the rule exists.

It doesn't feel like a confused member, it feels like lazy self-promotion from someone who just conveniently had an account.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:44 AM on April 20, 2007


Yeah sorry I didn't mean there should be leneiency, I was just hoping for maximum attendance at the next Northern New England Meetup (my place, May 6th, details to follow).
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:02 AM on April 20, 2007


I am so in denial, but yeah, you're right. If he turns up at the meetup - Please MetaPodcast [I'm loving listening to them on the commute].
posted by tellurian at 8:16 AM on April 20, 2007


Northern New England Meetup

Ah damnit. I won't be back in vermont till the 15th!

i'll van yr diagrams...grumble.. grumble... vin diesel... meetup...grumble
posted by French Fry at 9:10 AM on April 20, 2007


mibs has been empastured.

Love that euphemism! Even if empastured isn't a real word.
posted by chimaera at 9:51 AM on April 20, 2007


mibs has been empastured.

How'd it feel, cortex? Face aglow in post-bannination bliss?
posted by kosem at 10:58 AM on April 20, 2007


I laid awake for hours, kosem, staring unseeing through the ceiling and thinking about how greatly and suddenly my life had changed. A line crossed. A blow never to be taken back. Who had I become? What did I leave behind? Each thought, each heartbeat, a thudding blow on the taut membrane of my awareness.

The hammer. Sacred instrument.
The hammer. Terrible purpose, manifest.
The hammer...

posted by cortex (staff) at 11:03 AM on April 20, 2007 [9 favorites]


When you finish that smoke, and after return the gleaming dispenser of justice to its velveteen cushion, you should seriously consider a pensive cover.
posted by kosem at 11:21 AM on April 20, 2007


The hammer. Sacred instrument.
The hammer. Terrible purpose, manifest.
The hammer...
posted by cortex at 2:03 PM on April 20


Dude, I will totally buy you lunch if you ban mathowie.

I mean, you know, just to see if it's possible. From an intellectual standpoint. It's an interesting technical question, like, if he has code in there that only bans for, um, you know, like "userid > 1", or something. So it's like an experiment. Oh! Also for justice, and stuff. Quid custodiet ipsos custodes, and all that. Can he make himself unbannable, or not, would probably be the question there. Yeah, it's like an ethical question...so you could, you know, ban him in the name of ethics...

* genuflects and retreats.
posted by Pastabagel at 11:47 AM on April 20, 2007


I think Jess actually banned herself once, actually, for SCIENCE.
posted by cortex (staff) at 11:50 AM on April 20, 2007


Love that euphemism! Even if Because empastured isn't a real word.
posted by chimaera at 12:51 PM on April 20 [+] [!]


there you go. fixed that for you.
posted by shmegegge at 11:58 AM on April 20, 2007


But she did it FOR science, subordinate to it. She sacrifced herself, prostrated herself! for the heresey of man's puny knowledge.

But you, boy, you have the power. I see it in you. You could assume the mantle of ethics! You could replace ethics with your WILL!

Will you turn away from this? Do you deny who you are? Do you deny WHAT you are?

Hear my words, boy. All this could be yours. The threads, the filters, all of it - subject to your will!

Do it! Strike him down! It is your destiny! Take unto you this metafilter and make it...

THE METACORTEX!!!

posted by Pastabagel at 12:02 PM on April 20, 2007 [2 favorites]


Pastabagel = temptation of the carbohydrates. Resist, cortex, lest mathowie return and see your hubris, fed by these nasty caloric wonderments and base urges, and smite you with power beyond any Pastabagel has yet imagined, nor can imagine. mathowie's power in this place cannot be kenned.
posted by cgc373 at 12:31 PM on April 20, 2007 [1 favorite]


Kent, surely.
posted by cortex (staff) at 12:35 PM on April 20, 2007


Of course, cortex, you can make fun of mathowie as Jesus H. Shatner, in your own Place of Power. Only in the Areas of His Color must you tread lightly.
posted by cgc373 at 12:35 PM on April 20, 2007


FrenchFry: None of us should post alone, you least of all. Cortex? I know you suffer, I see it day by day. Are you sure you do not suffer needlessly? There are other ways Cortex, other paths we might take.
Cortex: I know what you would say, and it would seem like wisdom, but for the warning in my heart.
FrenchFry: Warning? Against what? We are all afraid Cortex. But to let that fear drive us to hide away... don't you see? It is madness.
Cortex: There is no other way.
FrenchFry: [moving towards Cortex] If you could but lend me the BanHammer...
Cortex: No!
FrenchFry: Why do you recoil? I am no theif.
Cortex: You are not yourself.
FrenchFry: I ask only for the strength to Ban Matthowie!!
posted by French Fry at 12:52 PM on April 20, 2007 [4 favorites]


The Emperor: Come, boy, see for yourself. From here, you will witness the final destruction of the mathowie.
[Cortex's eyes go to his Banhammer]
The Emperor: You want this, don't you? The hate is swelling in you now. Take your Banhammer. Use it. Mathowie is unarmed. Strike him down with it. Give in to your anger. With each passing moment you come closer to being Number One.
Cortex: No.
The Emperor: It is unavoidable. It is your destiny.
posted by deborah at 1:22 PM on April 20, 2007 [1 favorite]


Ha!
posted by deborah at 1:24 PM on April 20, 2007


5Pastabagel led him up to a secure admin page and showed him in an instant all the subdomains of the site. 6And he said to him, "I will give you all their authority and revenue, for it has been given to me, and I can give it to anyone I want to. 7So if you ban Matt for me, it will all be yours."

8cortex answered, "note: Ask MetaFilter is as useful as you make it. Please limit comments to answers or help in finding an answer. Wisecracks don't help people find answers. Thanks."

posted by cortex (staff) at 1:32 PM on April 20, 2007 [5 favorites]


And a LOL was heard throughout the Land of Gray, as cortex Laid the Smack Down. Perhaps to much rejoicing.
posted by cgc373 at 1:41 PM on April 20, 2007


When I saw 'empastured', I thought of being "sent to the cornfield" ala Twilight Zone and started visualizing cortex as little Billy Mumy. Not a pretty sight. And the Banhammer is beginning to resemble The Ring from "Lord of the..." to me. It's all very disturbing... but funny as hell.
posted by wendell at 1:44 PM on April 20, 2007


8 quote from the widely popular but highly controversial pop musical ShatnerChrist Superstar. Read: blasphemy.
posted by French Fry at 1:48 PM on April 20, 2007


Dude, I will totally buy you lunch if you ban mathowie.

Yeah, no kidding. There are all kinds of links on the front page of MeFi that link to - other parts of MeFi! And who put those links there? Mathowie, that's who!

Ban the self-linker!
posted by ikkyu2 at 2:18 PM on April 20, 2007


"But if you will not obey the voice of the MATHOWIE your R00t or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. Cursed shall you be in the Blue, and cursed shall you be in the Gray. Cursed shall be your mouse and your monitor. Cursed shall be the fruit of your browser and the fruit of your hard drive. Cursed shall you be when you log on, and cursed shall you be when you log off.

"The MATHOWIE will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are banninated and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Him. The MATHOWIE will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the website that you are entering to take possession of it. They shall flame you until you perish. And the comment box will disappear from your screen, and your voice will be heard no longer.

"The MATHOWIE will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the websites of the earth. And your posts shall be food for all asshats of the air and for the trolls of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away. The MATHOWIE will strike you with the boils of Fark, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. The MATHOWIE will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind, and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and flamed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. You shall conceive a comment, but you shall not post it. You shall find a postworthy site, but you shall not link to it. Your username shall be slandered before your eyes, but you shall not respond. Your posting rights shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your favorites shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to favorite you. A user that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your posts and of all your comments, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see.

"The MATHOWIE will bring you to a website that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other mods of wood and stone. And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the websites where the MATHOWIE will lead you away. The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

"All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the MATHOWIE your R00t, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. Because you did not serve the MATHOWIE your R00t with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the MATHOWIE will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a banhammer of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
posted by languagehat at 3:06 PM on April 20, 2007 [3 favorites]


I just banned mathowie and unbanned him; I didn't notice any major rend in teh space-time continuum.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 3:43 PM on April 20, 2007 [8 favorites]


I felt a tremendous sense of peace and harmony and joy for a second just now, but it's gone away from me again. And having once experienced that, I no longer know or understand how I ever tolerated the horrible ache of this world. Any idea what happened?

on preview: oh.
posted by cortex (staff) at 4:07 PM on April 20, 2007 [1 favorite]


Jess is a witch! BURN HER!! She's trying to kill us all!!
posted by Lizc at 4:11 PM on April 20, 2007


I heard a million voices cry out in terror and were suddenly silenced, then a minute later they were back, chattering about lolcats. Also, my window fan shut off for a moment, but I blame SLOE (San Luis Obispo Electric) for that.
posted by wendell at 5:45 PM on April 20, 2007


I didn't notice any major rend in teh space-time continuum.

You didn't wait for his sockpuppet to post.
posted by eriko at 8:57 PM on April 20, 2007


Wow, mathowie was banned. That is seven kinds of hilarious.
posted by sciurus at 5:21 AM on April 21, 2007


Is this how the mutiny will one day play out?
posted by moonbird at 6:19 AM on April 21, 2007


Wow, mathowie was banned. That is seven kinds of hilarious.

So then, God can make a stone He can not lift.

Or something.
posted by The Deej at 4:08 PM on April 21, 2007


This thread is a fucking goldmine of favourited comments.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 10:23 AM on April 23, 2007


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