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08 October 2005

Matt is quitting his day job. Will this mean a better performing, feature-filled MetaFilter network or just more over-moderating? I report. You decide.
Maybe once he gets really rich, he can hire us to read and comment all day long. Metafilter wouldn't exist without us! I'd be willing to accept a very modest salary.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 08 October | 15:40
We'll get ponies, but we'll probably have to pay for them. Which is ok.

Why do you think it will mean more over-moderating, wendell?
posted by iconomy 08 October | 15:47
At this point, I'm thisclose to really not caring about MeFi at all anymore.
posted by WolfDaddy 08 October | 15:50
*chokes on a projectile snark*
posted by quonsar 08 October | 16:03
I have to agree with Wolfdaddy. I do really like AskMe though. Can't really be arsed to put together MeFi posts anymore though - the general populace likes farkish posts and political posts way too much these days. It just doesn't seem worth the effort. I'm probably going to start weblogging again, just to have a place to say "look at this cool thing I found", because I don't feel comfortable doing it on MeFi anymore.

AskMe is the bee's knees and the cat's pajamas, though.
posted by iconomy 08 October | 16:09
*saves quonsar with the heimlich maneuver*
posted by iconomy 08 October | 16:10
it'll be overmoderating, and prob a rise in the 5bucknoob fee.
posted by amberglow 08 October | 16:17
Finally he'll have time to fix the crashiness!

Or alternately, to restart it more often.
posted by mosch 08 October | 16:42
Congrats, Matt.
posted by jonmc 08 October | 16:49
more over-moderating

Don't get my hopes up!
posted by LarryC 08 October | 17:22
more over-moderating

Don't get my hopes up!
posted by LarryC 08 October | 17:23
Now we can no longer say "Don't quit your day job... whatever THAT is."
posted by Peak Oil 08 October | 17:44
Quit harshing my mellow, dudes. I'm happy for him, but I doubt it will change much.
posted by cali 08 October | 17:45
Good for Matt. That said, I agree with wolfdaddy. It's interesting that Metafilter's mediocrity increases hand in hand with it's apparent commercial success. I wonder if I can sell my membership on ebay...
posted by eekacat 08 October | 18:48
All due respect, but I've been reading Mefi for years now-- for a year before I got around to registering, and that was four years ago-- and I honestly haven't seen the huge changes that other people seem to have found in the site. There are posters I miss, but I can't say that I've witnessed the sea changes other people insist on. Perhaps I'm just less invested in the place, or something, because I find it neither more or less comfortable than it was in 2000. There was always snark, there was always, as I recall, complaints about newsfilter, there were always left/right flameouts, people leaving in huffs, etcetera. I didn't really mean to go on at such length, but I've heard this more than the usual number of times recently, along with the complaints of not feeling "safe" at Mefi... perhaps I just have lower expectations, or something?

Again, all due respect, iconomy and wolfdaddy, and it would be a shame if either one of you stopped going there.
posted by jokeefe 08 October | 18:55
i miss quonsar.
posted by quonsar 08 October | 18:57
mefi ain't changed much, there is just so much more out there and the new has worn off.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs 08 October | 19:04
q, did you really dump the filter? They seem to think so over there...

Was it the cilantro?
posted by bunnyfire 08 October | 19:20
Lucky bastard, wish I could give up my day job.
posted by dodgygeezer 08 October | 19:36
jokeefe, my decline in interest in MeFi coincides with my rise in my Levis over this place. It just suits me better, for whatever reasons, which remain my own--I don't plan on leaving MeFi in a huff or self-destructing or anything like that. That's all, no big deal.
posted by WolfDaddy 08 October | 20:41
matt and i have experienced irreconcilable differences over the musical direction of the band.
posted by quonsar 08 October | 21:43
which band?

j/k
posted by Quartermass 08 October | 22:38
*visualizes quonsar and mathowie as Lennon and McCartney*


*and self as Ringo*


I still consider MeFi part of my personal daily read, but I'm treating it more like Fark (where I never became a member)... I'd rather participate here and at theMonkeyHaus.

dodgy, I wish you and taz could quit your day jobs, and would not disapprove you selling some ads, but who in their right mind would pay to reach THIS audience?
posted by wendell 08 October | 22:43
satan will pay. with the blood of kittens. he told me so.
posted by weretable and the undead chairs 08 October | 22:44
somehow i am more excited at the prospect of iconomy blogging again.
posted by dhruva 08 October | 22:45
The first sweeping reform.

MetaFilter: pallbearer of the dead talking place.
--chatty cathy
posted by danostuporstar 08 October | 22:53
jokeefe, there have always been minor changes over time. The latest change is pretty dramatic since the $5 regs. The BotW posts have declined precipitously, and while trolling newsfilter has gone up and down (recently down), pointless newsfilter (cow v. dog?) has gone way up -- which is in keeping with the one-liner farklike atmosphere. If I see one more "...and yadayada for the win ..." I'm gonna scream.

There were always snarky one-liners, of course, but not hundreds of them.

*sob* quonsar, you broke my 'filter! *rails*
posted by stilicho 09 October | 02:39
Seems to me he's now dependent on the constant influx of new users, and/ or ever-increasing ad-income. Either way, this spells a worsened signal:noise ratio.

Oh, and what Wolfdaddy said.
posted by Skrik 09 October | 04:38
*and self as Ringo*

then jonmc is George Harrison
posted by matteo 09 October | 12:39
Oh, I so wanna be Yoko. But my best guess is that madamjujujive would fill those shoes better.
posted by jokeefe 09 October | 13:41
*and self as Ringo*
then jonmc is George Harrison

Oh, I so wanna be Yoko. But my best guess is that madamjujujive would fill those shoes better.


*visualizes Abbey Road cover - ROFLs*

Then kottke would be Pete Best and maybe jessamyn as George Martin? (maybe not)
And MonkeyFilter is either Badfinger or the Rutles.

(in case you didn't notice, I enjoy these role-filling exercises)
posted by wendell 09 October | 15:26
Can I be, like, an uncredited member of Wings who played rhythm guitar on one tour and was later found dead of a heroin overdose?
posted by LarryC 09 October | 16:18
And I want to be the ceiling fan at the end of A Day In The Life.
posted by dodgygeezer 09 October | 16:22
Because no one else got there first, I'm claiming Stu Sutcliffe.
posted by PinkStainlessTail 09 October | 20:39
Anybody call Admiral Halsey yet?
posted by bunnyfire 09 October | 20:48
Harry Nilsson?
posted by box 09 October | 21:08
Can I be Jimmy Nicol?
posted by dg 09 October | 21:13
Also, I don't see MetaFilter changing much, except that the server may get restarted more promptly during business hours wherever Mr Haughey lives/works. Given the kind of stats that the site pulls, I don't think a commercialised 'filter needs to worry too much about the members, any more than Google needs to care about every web site in the universe - they are only there to provide fodder for links so people will come and ignore the ads. I reckon less than 1% of visitors to the site are members and we all know how that proprortion of customers get treated by any business.

Also, iconomy back on the blog = :-)
posted by dg 09 October | 21:20
simple minds || LBJ on his bunghole

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