recockulous indeed

A good post is something that meets the following criteria: most people haven't seen it before, there is something interesting about the content on the page, and it might warrant discussion from others:

"This is what I don't understand. HoM misunderstood the rules; okay, that's fine, it happens to everybody at one point or another. But fenriq, loquacious, rks404: how can so many people not get this? Have we become that much of a "discussion" site? Should we just throw in the towel, get rid of links altogether, and just admit that we're a chat board?"

"gd779, no, [it] isn't just a discussion site but the discussions that arise from interesting posts are one of my favorite aspects of MeFi. Does that make this a super strong, awesome FPP? No, but its not as bad as MeFi Grumpus Patrol is making it out to be."

"As I've said many, many times in the past. No one's making people read FPPs that they think are bad."

"There's an awful lot of members running around with little plastic badges and cap guns making alot of noise. Its tiring to have to wade through all the whine comments."

"It's weird how following the link and reading a bit would dispel that notion, but I guess that a lot of the newer readers don't have the patience or the attention span for that - Just more FPPs! faster! faster! Churn out the flash game links, funny pics and the slashdot/boingboing dups - no time for discussion - we're new here, gotta catch up."

"But I have to say that the reaction from the users in the thread pissed me off more than the subject of the thread itself. The subject was maybe shaky, but possibly the start of an interesting discussion. In the past, i've seen shittier posts being saved by additional comments early in the thread. My feeling, these days, is that increasingly, people don't get the chance to make a good thread out of a so-so FPP, because anything additional and interesting gets drowned out in all the newbie bashing."

"[it] is links and discussion. Y'know, you can have your cake, and then you can eat it. You don't have to just look at it. And after you're done eating your cake, we can make some more cake. Cake for everyone!"