MetaFilter

Metafilter is a web site that was originally about 'the best of the web' but is now a site where the posts fit a predictable pattern. It was started in 1999 by Matt Haughey, one of the programmers of the Blogspot blogging system. It was sold to Google and Haughey, an ugly and extremely smug nerd with a big head and bad teeth, suddenly became an "online celebrity". By 2004 MeFi was so swamped with traffic he had to hire co-moderators. Who were also close "friends", meaning people who sucked his nutsack with extra aggression. And they started running it Wikipedia style: deleting any post they didn't like, for any reason, and tossing people out for "disruption", a term whose meaning changed from case to case. It is, in short, run by pathologically dishonest power-trippers and complete assholes.

The first moderator was "Jessamyn West", a librarian from hippyland Vermont. She's justly proud of her smarmy and completely positive Wikipedia biography, because she [ wrote it herself], with the assistance of some of her Metafilter assrimmers. And she just loves MeFi, because being a sysop, the denizens kiss her ass with great vehemence and sloppy depth. The daily rimjob seems to put her dour East Coast iron-cunted lesbian personality into another plane of self-abuse. Not to mention her vanity website, full of useless blathering by her "professional colleagues" about the wonderful world of libraries (something which she and the rest of the Web are slowly putting out of business).

The second mod was Josh "Cortex" Millard, who is even uglier and more insecure than Haughey. He makes horrible embarrassing "folkie" music, and posts it online so that MeFites can rave about what a "musical genius" he is. He's also got the inevitable shitty blog where he talks about comic books, Star Trek, and assorted infantile obsessions. They've hired other moderators, but we won't mention them because they are complete nobodies.

And that's only the sysops. Metafilter's userbase was originally very random and included people all walks of life, and posts were extremely varied. But in 2005, in a pathetic attempt to keep "sockpuppets" who might "cause trouble" off their golden pristine server, they started demanding a $5 payment in return for a new user account. And kicking out people who posted links they didn't think were "of sufficient quality", as defined by their own vague and flaky, left-libertarian-snobbish personal "rules". So the userbase quickly boiled down to a gang of their friends, acquaintances, camp followers, and people willing to kiss the ample asses of Haughey, Millard and West (which is probably not her real name anyway). These persons are remarkably predictable in their cocksucking and shiteating habits. Some of their favorite neuroses are described below.

Posts about media

Such posts are made by someone who likes a band, TV show or movie. Everyone on the site who dislikes the item post will then say about how much it sucks.

Political Posts

Metafilter contains many political posts, largely from Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, and people then express a full range of political opinions about the articles that range from Liberal to Communist.

Being offended

Metafilter dedicates a lot of time to finding new ways for liberals to be offended. Metafilter has become a site where someone makes a post, say, on black and white photography and then someone will object as 'black and white' is discriminatory toward people who do not fit into a binary distinction between black and white. A successful thread will then be taken to metatalk where comments that are deemed offensive can be highlighted and people can be offended that they too were not offended or that they were offended by the person who took offense. Someone has actually posted 'I feel unsafe in this thread' regarding discussion of some topic. Any statement about how being gay, obese, homicidal, suicidal, happy, sad is good or otherwise will sometimes trigger a cascade of offense. It is, however, perfectly acceptable to state how sodomizing any Republican to death would be a good idea.

Old Memes

Old memes from 4chan are posted on Metafilter when they have become tame.

Vegetarianism

Arguing about vegetarianism and veganism. Metafilter has a number of vegans, who like vegans everywhere somehow believe that the world wants to hear about what they eat. On metafilter the vegans come up in many vegetarian threads and state calm, reasonable things like 'eating meat kills children'. Productive discussion ensues.

Eco-doom

As with all sites that tend left wing all technology except for the internet and Apple electronics is described as making the world worse. Al Gore is celebrated as a great wise man.

Ask Metafilter

Ask Metafilter is largely questions about whether it is wise to leave your partner as you have seen them fornicating with two furries, six dwarves, a large dog, or an ax murderer. Also encouraged is asking for new names for your cat.

External links

• http://www.metafilter.com/

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