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And I abandoned that site when it's Fark-post-quota was more than met some time ago -- only to return lately due to some good content. Too soon to tell if it will improve in any lasting way, but seriously, less serious content daily than MeCha, and less serious debate to go with.
Monkeyfilter is nothing more than metafilter rehashed, with some links from boingboing and fark and memepool, and some really, extremely boring conversations under each post wherein people--while not fighting, I'll give it that--simply talk about the posts, without providing each other with more information about the subject of the post or making well thought out and interesting points about it.
"Monkeyfilter is nothing more than metafilter rehashed, with some links from boingboing and fark and memepool.."
You are a fucking idiot. Find one link from fark or memepool in the last year on MoFi, I challenge you (memepool still exists?). There may be one or two boingboing posts in recent months, but what blog *doesn't* post corey's bullshit? As for rehashed Mefi.. this is what Mefi is really all about. And that's all it's about, these days. A coffee klatch clusterfuck.
Mefi's posts, well, recently Mofi has scooped the blue so many times with links, I've perused the page when bored and said, 'shit, I saw that link on Mofi two weeks ago'. The multitude of members ensures lots of posts, but they all turn out the same way.
"...extremely boring conversations..."
- yes, Mefi is a fount of intellect, what with the bitching all day, the call-outs and the cloned political whining. There is little interesting converstation at Mefi, and the personalities there mostly resemble yours; ugly.
Actually, since I'm in a bad mood, I'll elaborate... One sort of person who gets under my skin perhaps more than anyone is that neighbor in your building who talks shit about all the other neighbors. I would be happier to spend years putting up with all the flaws and eccentricities and irritations of all the rest of the neighbors combined than spend five minutes listening to first one. /subtle metaphor
No, I did not mean MoFi is shit. I intended to express dismay at its being down, apparently due to an unpaid bill. Is MeFi shit? Dunno. I don't read it any more. Nor do I read BoingBoing. Nor Fark. And I only look at Memepool once in a bluelavender moon, or so.
honestly, scooping the blue may be because here there's a more lax 'tude to a post. So here I'll post something, what's the worst that can happen? It'll be ignored. Big deal right? So many many many times have I not posted to the blue because of some of the snarkfest there, I think a lot of people "hold back" to be honest. I mean really, I've posted more times here than in the blue - where I've had an account since 2000.
Often I've seen links in the blue that I was tempted to post but didn't, show up a little later, and then I've kicked myself for not posting it. Silly huh?
MoFi has a place in history as the most successful spinoff/alt to MeFi, no?
Well, I'd place that crown atop the knobby little head of SportsFilter myself.
SpoFi Members: 2659
MoFi Members: 3883
Comparing active members would show an even wider discrepancy. SpoFi tends to have a small handful of very active posters/commenters. I'm not knocking it, however...I've been a member there for years, and will become active again once hockey comes back.
I like all the MeFi-metaworlds, including viewropa. Some measure of kudos to interrobang for apologizing though. And I know exactly what you mean about posting-fear dabitch. MeFi is intimidating for sure.
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