March 04, 2008

Kudos on the good posts today (March 4).: I wanted to commend the masterful posters today who brought not just beautiful links but posted them with brevity and beauty. Look at the spareness of those five links (as of this locker room posting) today. It's almost like a Zen garden. Ommmmm....

posted by worldcup2002 to navel gazing at 09:19 PM - 6 comments

I don't know. I get somewhat irritated when there is an FPP about some pretty major event with a link just to the news story. Favre's retirement and Walsh dying were good chances to put a fantastic FPP up. However, the news posts are already up before such an FPP can be completed. Of course, it probably only bothers me because I don't think those guys were given their due with those one news link FPPs.

posted by bperk at 08:14 AM on March 05, 2008

I'll buy that, but I think people assume a post will go up before they could put together a good one (at least that's what happens at Metafilter). Why treat it as complete though? There's nothing stopping people from posting a bunch of links in-thread too. I wish more threads had that kind of thing to keep the conversation going (and prevent follow-up posts).

posted by yerfatma at 09:11 AM on March 05, 2008

I'll go with what yerfatma said.

posted by worldcup2002 at 12:49 PM on March 05, 2008

This is, and forgive me if I'm speaking out of turn here, a collaborative site. If you find the content of a post lacking, and you have links to more substantive material, by all means provide them.

posted by lilnemo at 03:40 PM on March 05, 2008

No thank you. I'd rather mock the less lazy. It's this thing I have. (Geez - I haven't posted an FPP in ten months? My epitaph: "Had a lot to say about other people's interests".)

posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 04:23 PM on March 05, 2008

C'mon, Weedy, put down the ... erm ... weedy, and start posting again!

posted by worldcup2002 at 03:51 PM on March 06, 2008

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