February 25, 2004

An attempt at Constitutional destruction. These yahoos are relying on their own interpretation of Article III of the Constitution to claim that the judiciary is subordinate to the legislature, not independent. All that does is turn 200 years of settled American law on its head. All that does is leave all or rights and protections swingin' in the political breeze.
posted by Phaedrus 20 years ago
  • interesting stuff, some bits posted yesterday, self-linking sucks. Also, replacing the letter "s" with a dollar sign is not clever.
  • ". . . self-linking sucks." From posting guidelines: "We've had some discussion as to whether self-linking is okay. The consensus at present seems to be, "Er...sure." As to the dollar sign, why bring it up with me? It's the title of the post I linked to. And I expect whether it's clever or not is a matter of opinion.
  • I think the difference is between self-linking to some high-quality webbery of the sort that would normally be a posted here (an extended essay, some art, humour, an expert opinion or information about some delightfully obscure piece of ephemera, or maybe just a cartoon involving monkeys/spongmonkeys) and just self-linking to a blog entry is - this is already a blog. If you can write it in your blog, you can write it here. In this specific instance, you should probably have written it in the comments section of the first thread about this, which after all is still on the front page and has a very clear, explanatory title. The reason we're okay with self-linking (when MeFi, for example, generally aren't) is that we hope it can be kept under control, and that the self links will remain of a high-enough quality to mean that there's no problem. Please don't take this a snarkiness - it's just that (especially as we get more members, with most of us having our own blogs) if everybody chose to just link to their own website instead of making the comments here, it...
  • MonkeyFilter has made me kind of tense in the past week or so because it feels like we're poised to start snarking at each other. I've (rather selfishly) felt compelled to interject "leave them alone!" in many posts because I am 100% devoted to the idea of ignoring "bad" posts rather than crapping all over them. I mean, I personally don't care for threads about blow jobs and pile on Bush posts and links to satire sites about eating babies, but I respond to them by not clicking on the links (or, admittedly, clicking on the threads and then running away without saying anything). That said, the issue of self-policing shouldn't be completely ignored. This post, for example, really does belong in the earlier post (where the self-linking wouldn't really be an issue as flashboy said). I think we'll be fine if we stay away from personal attacks (boo, I love ya, but the whole "that's not clever" thing made me cringe). So maybe a "This post probably should have been a comment in the other thread" and that's it might have been a better way to handle this. I'm just putting this out there because like I said, I've been worried about the tone of things recently and I'd love to hear what other people think about it. Also, cockpunch.
  • Do you think I should put this in a Curious, George post so people will actually read it or am I being paranoid?
  • No, I think a Curious, George a fine idea - I know I've felt the same tension too. And when there's a tone of snarkiness hanging around the place, it becomes harder to avoid sounding like it yourself. I think there's been a marked change in the style of FPP's over the past week, which may be the cause (I was quite unfair to the NEA=terrorists post, when I should have just passed by on the other side - I read it as one 'pile on Bush' too many). Maybe there's two issues here (what do we like to see, and how do we want to talk about it), but I think they're linked. It'd be nice to avoid too much MetaFilteresque "but that's not what MonkeyFilter's fooorrrrr..." complaining - but a nice, monkey-love drenched C,G post might be a useful opportunity to talk about what kind of guidelines we like. 'Specially with the new intake, and all. Cockpunch uber alles.
  • I used to think it would be funny when we finally had our first wart-grabbing shit-fest. But now I prefer the healing power of monkeylove. ***takes another swig of booze***
  • ps - hi Phaedrus! How ya going?
  • What flash said. All of it.
  • Cockpunch uber alles. I'm naming my website that, as long as you don't demand royalties for it, flashboy...