MetaChat - The difference between MeFi and MeCha

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25 October 2006

The difference between MeFi and MeCha As I just explained it to someone.

[00:48] grouse: metafilter is intellectual, snarky, and caustic
[00:49] grouse: metachat is intellectual, friendly and OMG BUNNY

post by: grouse at: 18:50 | 28 comments

That's pretty much it in a nutshell - you nailed it. It is pretty cool how the nice people gravitated here. I hesitate to use the word nice because it sounds so pollyana-ish, but it is what it is!

posted by iconomy 25 October | 19:05

I AM NOT NICE! I AM DEVILISH AND SMELLY, LIKE ROTTEN EGGS!!

posted by mudpuppie 25 October | 19:27

No, like Deviled Eggs. Deviled eggs are popular at parties, you know.

posted by taz 25 October | 19:32

I AM MAYONNAISEY AND FULL OF RELISH!

posted by mudpuppie 25 October | 19:37

Mudpuppie tastes like chicken.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 25 October | 19:40

Oh, I meant everyone but mudpuppie! I thought that was understood. Mudpuppie smells like sulfur!

posted by iconomy 25 October | 19:42

AND CHICKEN SHIT!

posted by mudpuppie 25 October | 19:43

*giggles at having effectively hijacked the thread, struts off*

posted by mudpuppie 25 October | 19:44

Metafilter: the place where they laugh at you if your posts aren't perfect.

Metachat: the place where we laugh at the idea of perfection

posted by jason's_planet 25 October | 19:51

I'd quibble and change nice to polite/cordial/human. We individually feel sulfurey and bitey from time to time.

posted by rainbaby 25 October | 19:54

damn you, damn you all to hell.
OK, well perhaps not "hell" per Se, but a mildly uncomfortable place where there is no ice for the water and they only play 10 songs on the radio, say you know a nice martini would go dona treat right now and I gotta break out the Nutella. Curses my innate Canadian-ietty has broken through

posted by edgeways 25 October | 20:10

Metafilter: snark park
Metachat: snark lark

posted by paulsc 25 October | 20:13

Haha, edgeways....stop being ....dah Dah DAH....NICE!

Hah...I love how no one wants to be referred to as nice.

Well god damn it, some of you are *nice. So put that in your MySpace and smoke it. And I hate you all.

*except not mudpuppie, who hijacks threads and smells like stinky rotten eggs*

posted by iconomy 25 October | 20:19

I AM THE VERY OPPOSITE OF NOT-NOT-NICE!!! AND I SMELL LIKE CHICKEN SHIT!!!

posted by mudpuppie 25 October | 20:20

Oh crappolla at my double negative, or whatever it is that you call what I did there. See, I wouldn't have done that if I wasn't overcome by the fumes!

posted by iconomy 25 October | 20:23

What about us that like 'em both? I like the rigo r and ideas and strong debate and headiness of MeFi. Sure, there's snark there, but if you don't like snark you don't have to engage in it or even take notice of it; just read only the threads that seem interesting to you, and avoid MeTa. Nothing anyone says there really has the power to upset or scare me.

But I also like the human interchange, quirkiness, and basic relaxed friendliness of MeCha. I don't see one as 'good' and the other as 'bad'. They have different qualities, both valuable.

posted by Miko 25 October | 20:36

Oh I agree. Sometimes intellectual, snarky, and caustic is right where I want to be.

posted by iconomy 25 October | 20:38

Ditte Miko and Ico, you lovely lot of boiled toads.

posted by Divine_Wino 25 October | 20:54

Ditte Miko and Ico, you lovely lot of ~~boiled~~ lickable toads.

There, fixed that for you.

posted by loquacious 25 October | 22:48

OMG you are soooooo clever, grouse.

posted by ubiquity 26 October | 02:29

OMG! nicebunny!
≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by dabitch 26 October | 05:16

The difference between a city and a village.

posted by seanyboy 26 October | 06:30

I'LL CUT OFF MY RIGHT HAND!
and donate it to science

posted by danostuporstar 26 October | 07:47

The difference between a city and a village.

We're a village? Does that make us the Village People?

Dibs on the Leatherman.

posted by jonmc 26 October | 08:17

Actually I'll need the leatherman to cut off my hand. I've misplaced the rusty wire cutters.

posted by danostuporstar 26 October | 08:33

It takes a village to build a city on rock and roll, you know.

posted by iconomy 26 October | 08:40

I live in the city
I breathe dirty air
I ride trains with b-boys
junkies, queens and squares..

posted by jonmc 26 October | 08:45

Metafilter: No LT
Metachat: Too Damn Much LT

posted by Lipstick Thespian 26 October | 15:59

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