is this MeTa post open or closed?

January 23, 2005 4:33 AM

Quick! - tell me - without clicking through - is this MeTa post open or closed? Well, which is it? Open or closed? You can't tell, can you? Sucks, doesn't it? You'd think a pop star tag junkie could spare an ASCII spangle to mark molested threads. But Nooooo. Crazy fascist likes to lure you in and jump out at you like a jack-in-the-box Mussolini. Sad. I spoke to his mother. She tells me he used to be such a good boy.
posted by Opus Dark to Feature Requests at 4:33 AM (28 comments total)

Open!

Hey, I was right!
posted by painquale at 4:40 AM on January 23, 2005

*comment deleted*
posted by dash_slot- at 4:51 AM on January 23, 2005

What difference does it make? I open MeTa threads to get info, not necessarily to comment.
posted by reflecked at 4:59 AM on January 23, 2005

CLEANUP IN AISLE TWO...
posted by Smart Dalek at 5:07 AM on January 23, 2005

Frozen threads, especially while they are newfangled, are a mild curiosity, and should be labeled; those of us shopping for them would appreciate the added convenience.

Besides, who doesn't love a shiny scrap of extra data? And adding a tag is a mere bagatelle, in terms of code and server load.

But alas, even this short excursion into the practical has exceeded the limits of my attention span.
posted by Opus Dark at 6:12 AM on January 23, 2005

posted by Opus Dark to feature requests at 4:33 AM PST -- but it's CLOSED now mahfahkka!
posted by cortex at 6:57 AM on January 23, 2005

No it's not.
posted by erebora at 7:17 AM on January 23, 2005

This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by fatllama at 9:07 AM on January 23, 2005

But is that the sort of thing you had in mind when you still had it in mind, OD?
posted by cortex at 9:27 AM on January 23, 2005

don't care. If it's open, and I want to comment, I can. If it's closed and I want to comment, I cry. But I don't need an indicator on the metatalk front page. That would imply that a closed thread is no longer worth investigating.
posted by crunchland at 9:42 AM on January 23, 2005

Seems like much ado about nothing, but I understand your frustration.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:44 AM on January 23, 2005

Just wondering - Did you have any particular ASCII spangle in mind?
Something like this?

posted by User at 9:30 AM EST - 4 comments (1 new) (closed)
and open threads would simply have no mark.
posted by milovoo at 9:46 AM on January 23, 2005

mathowie - the proper terminology in this case is, "I feel your pain."
posted by SpecialK at 9:50 AM on January 23, 2005

Our relentless obnoxious pleadings have apparently forced Mathowie into becoming a politician. Fortunately, or not, he's chosen Bill Clinton as a model. Now which of us gets to be the slutty virtual intern?
posted by RJ Reynolds at 10:08 AM on January 23, 2005

Seems like much ado about nothing, but I understand your frustration.

Huh? So someone's frustration is "nothing"? I'm not following you there.
posted by rushmc at 12:15 PM on January 23, 2005

YRARRRRRRRGH! YEEEECCH! *SMASH* RARRRARARRRGHRFFFT-PBBBBBT! FIRE! FIRE! *CRUNCH* AAAARYARGH! *STOMPSTOMPCRASH* AAARRRRRRGH! *SPLAT*
posted by loquacious at 1:35 PM on January 23, 2005

great prose in the initial post, btw. gimme more o' dat.
posted by mwhybark at 1:40 PM on January 23, 2005

It's a Schrodinger's post, isn't it? Until you open it ... who knows?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 2:38 PM on January 23, 2005

Does that make this a probable post?
posted by drezdn at 6:39 PM on January 23, 2005

I'm only commenting here because I don't know if I'll be able to on any of the other threads I scrolled by without checking, and by the time I get back to this one, it may be closed as well.

In fact, for all I know, mathowie might close this one even while I'm right in the mi
posted by soyjoy at 6:42 PM on January 23, 2005

Hey everyone, someone closed the thread while soyjoy was in it, and now he/she is stuck in there!
posted by cosmonik at 8:06 PM on January 23, 2005

posted by Opus Dark to feature requests at 4:33 AM PST - COME ON IN AND JOIN THE PARTAY
posted by DrJohnEvans at 9:23 PM on January 23, 2005

I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Down it goes, into my belly...
posted by Dreamghost at 9:32 PM on January 23, 2005

You people really ... REALLY ... need to get a life.

(And Dreamghost, don't be a pig. Share, share I say.)
posted by Wulfgar! at 10:25 PM on January 23, 2005

What difference does it make? I open MeTa threads to get info, not necessarily to comment.

Heh. A question that answers itself. It makes a difference if you're opening the thread to comment.

Totally unnecessary pony, though. Saving the users one click is about as low a priority as you can get. It might spare Matt some bandwidth to keep comment-bent people from clicking on cloased threads, since the resulting page load is more or less a vain expenditure, but the worth of bothering to implement such a teeny bandwidth-saver is his call to make.
posted by scarabic at 10:53 PM on January 23, 2005

Yes yes - cortex and milovoo have it. 'Closed' would be adequate'; I'd prefer 'Götterdämmerung'.

Seems like much ado about nothing[...] -- mathowie

"Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." -- Michelangelo Buonarroti and not Matt 'Mudpie' Haughey
posted by Opus Dark at 4:39 AM on January 24, 2005

Oh snap!
posted by cortex at 7:48 AM on January 24, 2005

MetaTalk -- I Understand Your Frustration
posted by matteo at 1:07 PM on February 6, 2005