MetaFilter on Sploid

July 15, 2005 11:30 AM

I don't mean to "out" anybody journalistically, but having recently joined the MetaFun here "after four years of looking around", "a-list blogger" and editor of Gawker Media's Sploid* Ken Layne has made a MetaFilter Front Page Post into Sploid's big-dropshadow-headlined** lead story. Of course the story is Dunvegan's post on the Naeem Kahn affair, which I personally consider the best thing on MeFi since we stopped playing that "Blogstop" game. Yeah, let's keep making Ken's job easy... If we can get one of these for every hundred average "NewsFilters", I'll accept that tradeoff.
*which is the only Gawker site I regularly visit, sorry dong.
**actually, my favorite thing about Sploid is how they do the tabloid-ish headlines using just the Impact font and some sneaky CSS, but I digress...
posted by wendell to MetaFilter-Related at 11:30 AM (27 comments total)

If your going to suck his dick, why not go into the copy room?
posted by The Jesse Helms at 11:37 AM on July 15, 2005

said the cowardly sock puppet.
posted by crunchland at 11:44 AM on July 15, 2005

Because I usually end up having to explain all my jokes...
Yes, I am in love with Dunvegan's FPP so much I should marry it...
I really don't know what to think of K.L. and the Sploid/MeFi connection... I know that other Cogs in the Gawker Corporate Machine have linked here often, but, hey, this is, like, supposed to be, kinda, sorta, a News site (albeit a self-proclaimed unconventional news site)...
posted by wendell at 11:58 AM on July 15, 2005

Wow, someone linked to MetaFilter from a blog. Who'da thunk it?
posted by grouse at 12:07 PM on July 15, 2005

Shut up, crunchburger.
posted by Kwantsar at 12:11 PM on July 15, 2005

stop posting windell
posted by moift at 12:12 PM on July 15, 2005

windell windell windell windell
posted by eyeballkid at 12:34 PM on July 15, 2005

Ooooh, shiny! If we post a hundred newsfilter stories real quick, will we get another post like Dunvegan's sooner?
posted by warbaby at 12:51 PM on July 15, 2005

that drop-shadow thing is like real nice though
posted by dabitch at 12:56 PM on July 15, 2005

I'm so confused by this thread. It makes my head hurt. This is partly because I don't pay attention to the world of a-list blogging, whatever that is. So I didn't get many of the references. What the heck is the blogstop game? But even if I had known who or what windell was talking about, I still would have been mired in quotation marks, asterisks and dot-dot-dots. WHAT IS THIS POST ABOUT??? Somebody posted something that was previously on Metafilter???
posted by grumblebee at 1:14 PM on July 15, 2005

tl;dr
posted by keswick at 1:14 PM on July 15, 2005

god...god*...this post** is a crime SLONG! against all that ...is holy in writing SPLOID YARK SPLOSH (big banner headline). *orsomething. grumblebee gets it.
yer maw
**someone please describe this post so I can call them a descriptivist...
posted by bonaldi at 1:43 PM on July 15, 2005

That totally cleared it up. Thanks!
posted by grumblebee at 1:45 PM on July 15, 2005

What the heck is the blogstop game?

It's a stupid game that Wendell kept posting until Matt made him stop. (He then took it to MonkeyFilter.) Don't worry about it. This post would have been more comprehensible had someone else made it, but Dunvegan absolutely deserved three cheers, and this is them. (We go to MetaTalk with the poster we have....)
posted by languagehat at 2:11 PM on July 15, 2005

Three cheers for Dunvegan!

*fap*fap* YAY!!!
*fap*fap* YAY!!!
*fap*fap* YAY!!!

This post will serve as the model for MY next post... eventually... when I find a really good one that hasn't been done... {don't hold your breath}
posted by Floydd at 2:23 PM on July 15, 2005

Did somebody call me?
posted by windell at 2:27 PM on July 15, 2005

Wow, you really have too much spare change, Windoo.
posted by NinjaPirate at 2:41 PM on July 15, 2005

This post would have been more comprehensible had someone else made it... We go to MetaTalk with the poster we have..
Langhat, you are truly a master of communication (and I mean that in the nicest way). Enough other MeFites have "torn me a new one" for me to rent myself out as a lawn sprinkler, but nobody has done it so painlessly. I'm going to doublecheck my meds and ask my editor to pre-review future posts.

Until then: Languagehat Always Notices Good Usage And Good Expression Here And Testifies...
posted by wendell at 2:44 PM on July 15, 2005

Calm down. One could argue that Dunvegan was "inspired" by this post over at AMERICAblog. So complaining about a blog taking this stuff is pushing the cart a bit too far.
posted by gsb at 2:53 PM on July 15, 2005

Fun As Rumination!
posted by cyphill at 2:55 PM on July 15, 2005

He's a very cool guy, and Sploid is a great alternative to Drudge, thank God. (now, if they would only make Gawker fabulous again, i'd be thrilled.)

Dunvegan's post is excellent, and hopefully we'll see more like it from everyone.
posted by amberglow at 3:10 PM on July 15, 2005

Just sayin'
posted by delmoi at 8:12 PM on July 15, 2005

Those 'gawker media' blogs stupid fuckin' names. Sorry, dong.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:38 PM on July 15, 2005

+have
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:56 PM on July 15, 2005

So Delmoi, Sploid uses a half-dozen writers to get traffic comparable to us 10,000 writers?

wendell, I appreciated this post
posted by NickDouglas at 7:28 AM on July 17, 2005

*sings memorial song for another crazy longboat thread*
posted by raedyn at 11:39 AM on August 15, 2005

*in the wrong thread*
posted by raedyn at 11:39 AM on August 15, 2005