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April 12, 2005
Don't Be Frontin' Us: Attention new users -- you can't link to your own work on the front page. I've deleted three self-links in the last two days, and could've dug into the last week's archives to remove three more. There are four traits these self-promoting P.T. Barnums all seem to share: They post on the front page the first day they can, talk about themselves in the third person, use a throwaway e-mail account, and link to something so lame the author's mother wouldn't bookmark it.
posted by rcade to editorial policy at 10:08 AM - 38 comments
My mother doesn't know how to bookmark... She uses favorites...
posted by StarFucker at 04:11 PM on April 12, 2005
Can I post a link to my real side, the glorious solihull borough? (as opposed to the other side that I also support). We've just achieved relegation, and could do with some support.
posted by BigCalm at 05:18 PM on April 12, 2005
Clammy, that has to be one of the most badly designed websites I've ever seen. And the Solihull site isn't much better. I'll get me coat.
posted by squealy at 06:23 PM on April 12, 2005
btw, what's up with the long run-on posts on the FP? I see some of the culprits are the same self-linking posters (and they're gone now). But some of the remaining long posters might benefit from a short primer on the value of editing and "more inside".
posted by worldcup2002 at 12:50 AM on April 13, 2005
The chap with the "my team beat your team in a baseball game" post was pretty good too.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 07:09 AM on April 13, 2005
and by the way, WTF is a wisp of regret? And why do we have so many of them today?
posted by lil_brown_bat at 08:34 AM on April 13, 2005
It's similar to a whisk of regret, which is used to scramble eggs as penance.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 09:15 AM on April 13, 2005
The chap with the "my team beat your team in a baseball game" post was pretty good too. Homerism is a disease I don't want SportsFilter to catch.
posted by rcade at 09:19 AM on April 13, 2005
Yes, Homerism is an awful disease. 
posted by dusted at 10:16 AM on April 13, 2005
Whoa. For a second there, I thought my monitor had turned into a mirror.
posted by chicobangs at 03:48 PM on April 13, 2005
chico: you better get that jaundice checked out, man.
posted by NoMich at 03:59 PM on April 13, 2005
GIRLS SPORTS SUCK, QUIT CRYING YOU CACAUSION HATER. LA DODGERS RULE 4EVER AND GIANTS WILL ALWAYS SUCK AND THERE FANS R LOSERS!!!!
posted by holden at 12:21 PM on April 14, 2005
The semiannual idiot invasion has begun again I see.
posted by trox at 12:53 PM on April 14, 2005
...THERE FANS R LOOSERS!!1!!1! Fixed that typo for you. *got my Masters in trollspeak spelling from YORE SCHOOL SUX MY TEAM RULZ University
posted by NoMich at 01:03 PM on April 14, 2005
GIRLS SPORTS SUCK Guys sports swallow. Too too easy.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 02:17 PM on April 14, 2005
I think, at a time like this, we must take a deep breath and meditate on the lazy days of yore.
posted by NoMich at 02:48 PM on April 14, 2005
New registrations seems to have kicked up recently. I think I mostly notice new posters on the news-y topics...maybe SpoFi has climbed up the google ladder. Someone had a chart of the registrations over time a while back - it's probably worth a revisit. And I love that Dante Hall messageboard.
posted by mbd1 at 03:04 PM on April 14, 2005
Definitely love the Dante Hall messageboard as well. Reminds me of this link someone had posted a while back. Does professional athlete chat parody ever get old?
posted by holden at 03:45 PM on April 14, 2005
I'm pretty stupid, but if I see the words "Chris Sabo" and "weiners" together on a page...I'm gonna laugh...it can't be helped.
posted by chris2sy at 04:40 PM on April 14, 2005
My suggestion is to unlock Reggie White' Ghost and let him run amuck like he was intended to do. It'll help if you hear the comments in the voice of Boxy from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
posted by yerfatma at 04:41 PM on April 14, 2005
HA! "Gammondorf: chris gay-bo, third baseman for the get-a-man-in beds" My inner middle schooler is guffawing right now.
posted by NoMich at 05:12 PM on April 14, 2005
The "you people" comment was classic. There's definitely an idiot invasion.
posted by dusted at 11:16 PM on April 14, 2005
so, what y'all are saying, is that idiots are not welcome?! now ya tell me. on the cartoon tip : no smashing!
posted by garfield at 09:01 AM on April 15, 2005
We'll always have the locker room.
posted by rocketman at 09:45 AM on April 15, 2005
Known idiots (like me I hope) are welcome. It's just a fear of unknown idiots.
posted by trox at 10:09 AM on April 15, 2005
mdb1: I had noticed the surge in growth when we had the 1300th user. Seems like the growth has continued. I compiled the data the first go and dusted made a chart. The data scale is constant and I have collected finer data (every 50th user this time) and made the chart pretty. The mini surge around 450 would be the 2002 World Cup. The surge beyond 1200 is around the time of the hockey lockout and the MLB playoffs. That's a flickr image so I can annotate the image there with any notes that people might want to include.
posted by gspm at 11:39 AM on April 15, 2005
Known idiots (like me I hope) are welcome. It's just a fear of unknown idiots. Yeah, thank god for that grandfather clause or I would've been tossed on my ear ages ago.
posted by NoMich at 12:28 PM on April 15, 2005
gspm, the vertical lines really tell the story. There has definitely been a big jump. Yeah, we can all be idiots on occasion, but some of the new members are so spectacular they're impossible to ignore. They're impressive both in presentation (grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.) and substance (racism, hostility, stupidity). I have no idea what can be done about it, but I feel sorry for the pantheon members that have to delete all the messes. Maybe if new members making good contributions were highlighted, it would set a better example? Part of the problem is that sports discussion is so god-awful almost everywhere else on the web - the bar is set so, so low.
posted by dusted at 01:39 PM on April 15, 2005
The surge beyond 1200 is around the time of the hockey lockout "Hockey been berry berry good to SpoFi ..."
posted by worldcup2002 at 04:28 PM on April 15, 2005
I'm at 1245 (October 25, 2004), does that mean that I'm part of the problem, the newly arrived unwashed teeming masses, and should feel the shame?
posted by chris2sy at 04:46 PM on April 15, 2005
Absolutely. Everyone #724 and above should feel shame. :)
posted by dusted at 06:06 PM on April 15, 2005
Yeah, we can all be idiots on occasion, but some of the new members are so spectacular they're impossible to ignore. They're impressive both in presentation (grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.) and substance (racism, hostility, stupidity). I have no idea what can be done about it, but I feel sorry for the pantheon members that have to delete all the messes. In the spirit of the upcoming Winter 'lympics, and particularly in the spirit of mocking any sport that isn't judged by timer or tape -- LIKE BASEBALL HA HA -- oh, sorry, I just hadda all-caps, it's rubbing off...anyway, dusted, whenever a newb lays an egg, I propose a polling of the judges for marks based on artistic merit (racism, hostility, stupidity, and sheer vitriol, etc.) and technical execution (grammar, spelling, punctuation, diction, etc.). It won't teach 'em the error of their ways, but it'll be fun. ...and I get to be the French judge.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 08:57 PM on April 15, 2005
Absolutely. Everyone #724 and above should feel shame. *Looks down at user number and shuffles feet morosely* ..and I get to be the French judge. And I get to French the French judge.
posted by billsaysthis at 12:07 AM on April 16, 2005
And I get to French the French judge. The French judge is accepting bribes of money and good stuff. I'll need a testimonial before I decide if your stuff is that good.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 06:23 AM on April 16, 2005
Take it to SexFi....
posted by smithers at 05:26 PM on April 16, 2005
Has anyone noticed the further you scroll down on some posts the worst it gets... (member just noticed his reply will be on the bottom)
posted by bballcoachreid at 08:18 PM on April 18, 2005
There's a SexFi now?!
posted by StarFucker at 11:31 PM on April 18, 2005
and the odds of new users visiting the lockerroom to take a pointer are... rather low I imagine. But bravo for stomping out the flareups. there must have been more work in that regard in the last few months than there has been in some time, if ever.