Nigerian Passenger Tried To Blow Up A Detroit Bound Plane

should have plain blown up detroit

It's already in ruins. The effects would go unnoticed.

3 day old, broadcast over every local and international news outlet, vivisected by every mediocre editorial hack,in the papers, on the internet, and radio and TV, and it's Linkswarm material now? Lame.

Not every link you see here is going to be news to you. Some of the biggest news stories are impossible to submit/approve/view on linkswarm before they have reached mainstream outlets and have become common knowledge to anyone with eyes and ears... BUT - front paging links to these stories does create a place on linkswarm for discussion among linkswarmers regarding said news.

Or, you could just meep about the site's content and the way it's run.

Your choice.

with Vas ' s time being taken up by pending nuptials, leaving it in others hands to run, it's lacking lately. The guy with the talent has left it up to the less capable. Nice that he has that faith in 'em, but like US Christers and comparable Talibans , it's a little overzealous in it's belief vs.reality.

guess he couldn't find a patsy for his 419s

Pete56: You're talking out of your fetid meep, but please don't let me stop you.

Commence enumerating the administrative staff's manifold failures. In minute detail, if possible. I, for one, want to ensure your COMPLETE satisfaction.

Then follow up with an action plan for us, and details on how much dough you're planning to donate to LS to get the ball rolling on this endevour.

Yeah, this took 3 days or so to get through the AQ. The second link came through in a day, but was rejected for being the second link. Such is life.

lolzapallooza... I KNEW you'd pipe up, with your standard brand of furious indignity,CA. Two words: Easy Mark.. I know what I'm not capable of here, especially since my own pile of rejected links is meepin' stratospheric. I'm a computer nothing. You guys are supposed to be( according to your own self-descriptives) the lords and masters of internet perfection. It ain't showing up in the last coupla months, though Vas 's site improvement journal thread had some damfine plans.(half of which were MartianGreek to me)

linkswarm used to be cool

This hole you are digging, it is getting deeper, Pete.

LinkSwarm is, by design, what you make it be. If the content sucks, you are directly responsible. If the content rocks you are directly responsible.

Any suggestion that the linkswarm administrators are responsible for your lack of putting great content onto it's front page is retarded at best.

Any suggestion that this site isn't being run properly from a non-Alpha who hasn't even ponied up and taken advantage of an Alpha membership to help run it, is lame at best.

This link was submitted as breaking news. It was also submitted while everyone on this site was out of commission with Christmas food coma-itis, therefore it sat in the queue until the Alphas got around to voting for it. I could have marked this submission as time sensitive but I didn't because I doubted it would matter since everyone was enjoying Christmas.

That said, you could be discussing the link rather than chirping about linkswarm sucking in a news thread. Or, the least you could do to make linkswarm better is get busy submitting links that you believe don't suck. Either way, it's your foot in the shoe and the content of this site is your responsibility, not the administrators.

If linkswarm owned a gun this would not have happened. Thanks, godless liberals.

linkswarm is like a man.

it gets married and complacent and fat, and then it ignores you meepually, just like your meeping wife.

meep

<-- FUKING TALENTED :)

wotak.. if I put in two hopeful links in as many days, one might get frontpaged. For the last few months , if I submit 2 links , in as many days , or less, I get the 'meepin' whoa, Horse-faced boy! Let the queue be managed before you continue to rock' announcement. I now try and contribute once a week or less. I got discouraged. You win. Yayz!

Listen, if you submit junk and it get's rejected, it lowers the number of links you are allowed to have in the queue. This is caused by you, not linkswarm admins.

I'm scrolling through the front page and I see like two or three links belonging to you. One of them is rejected and is meep. That's not ''leading by example'' in my opinion.

From your prifile:
Pete56 is a regular Swarmer.
Total Links submitted: 66
Total Links rejected: 31
Rejection bitterness rating: 46.969%

These stats are created by you, not the linkswarm admins.

My advice to you would be this: Stop submitting meepty links 46.9% of the time.

Just think, by making YOU better you make LINKSWARM better. Neat how that works, huh?

wotak... I assume the 'whoa, let the queue be managed' links don't even get submitted, that they're just an overflow of Swarmlords (I keep thinking a netful of Doctor Who's..can't help it) attention spans, and get rejected out of hand, unexamined. That has zero to do with my meepty links that DO get rejected. THOSE links, the meepty ones, I completely accept as you don't think the same things are pretty cool that I do. WAH! bfd... It's not a tough pair of concepts to separate.

Your number-of-links-in-the-queue-at-any-one-time limit starts at 6.

If your rejection bitterness rating is over 25%, you're limited to 3.

If your rejection bitterness rating is over 45%, you're limited to 1.

This keeps the meepcurve low.

I'll try bumping that last rule to 50% and 2 respectively to see what happens. There'll probably be a little more doodoo, but people with less-than-stellar records can let their heartshine out a little better.

Also, I've been meaning to make RBR only take into account the last 6 or 12 months, so that as you get better you stop paying for past mistakes. I'll make that change, too.

Yes, when the queue says you've hit your limit, it's ignoring your links.

Okey dokey. Thanks ,Vas. My perceptions have been heightened, but ferfuksakes, don't be changin' meep just cuz of whiners. Look to how well the current WH admin policies are working out for such an example. Don't be fixin' what ain't broke.

I assume the 'whoa, let the queue be managed' links don't even get submitted, that they're just an overflow of Swarmlords [...] attention spans, and get rejected out of hand, unexamined.

Those links aren't rejected, they are never submitted. When you see this notice, save the link for future submission. Then, review it to make sure you think it really is front page worthy before submitting it. Alphas do not know who submitted what links so nobody is voting your stuff down just because it's your stuff. The link gets voted on based upon it's individual merit.

Vas is going to bump up your queue limit and allow you an easier shot at improving both your rejection bitterness rating and your links-in-queue allotment. I suggest you be very careful what you submit ie, make a list of five links you think you should submit and then only submit the best of the five after reviewing carefully, wash, rinse, repeat - so you can get your stats right.

/i

Ah, classic...

'All this free meep you give me sucks'

LS: 'You may have a point. Let me tweak some stuff to further your enjoyment of this free meep I give you.'

'Aw shucks, don't go changing just to please me, I'm just a whiner.'

Passive Agressive much?

wotak... I don't CARE about my rejection quotient. I like some stuff- you don't. BFD. I understand how the queue works a bit better now. That's good. Vas was helpful, and helpfully critical(and I hope to meep he doesn't follow through on the rejection/wait thing. It already works fine.)You keep thinking it's about my ego. It's not. What people think of me, or my tastes in what I find entertaining, hasn't been an issue for several decades, and I get along just fine ,with no tears or rage or terminal pouting. I'm secure in my beliefs, and tend to laugh at the gall of anyone who lectures me on how I should act , or be...including my live-in hunnybunny. The internet is a barrel fulla giggles on that front.

wotak... I don't CARE about my rejection quotient.

Then stop meepING about not being able to get links into the queue and therefore being ''discouraged''.

And stop meepING about the administration of the site and it's contents.

Jesus meep, you're crazier than I am.

More lecturing... more chux. Thanks, wo

I LOVE how this went form a bombing to pete and wotok all meep hurt and cryin all over each other.....meepING CLASSIC

Me , too, regulator. It's hootful to test folks aggravation thresholds. Did I mention that I'm an obstinate meepweed, with frequent seizures of all-out obnoxiousness? I still stand by my original estimation of the story being a suck link .If you live under a rock you've already heard everything there is to currently know about it. Linkswarm is WAY the meep better, way more informative, and far more entertaining than overexposed newsjunkie items, and oughta continue to be. I wouldn't've been a Swarm-mooch for so many years otherwise.

I like pie...hairy pie...

A recap to save future readers time:

Pete56: ''linkswarm sucks because vasudeva isn't here running it and the guys filling in for him are doing it wrong!''

Clavis_A: ''Shut up, retard, it's free.''

Wotak: ''No Pete56, you're doing it wrong.''

Pete56: ''No I'm not!''

Wotak: ''Yes you are and here's why...''

Pete56: ''But I'm being deliberately discouraged!''

Vasudeva: ''Hmmm, perhaps you are. I'll fix that for you, no charge.'' *fixfix

Pete56: ''No! Don't change it! I was just fishing for comments! Everything is perfect!''

Clavis_A: ''You ungrateful passive-aggressive meep.''

Wotak: ''Here's what to do with your newfound freedom to submit links...''

Pete56: ''I don't care if I'm doing it wrong! Shut up Wotak, it's not about ME!''

Wotak: ''Oh meep it, I give up. You're obviously bat-meep crazy.''

Pete56: ''NO! Wait! Linkswarm is perfect! It's just Wotak that sucks because... this link! THIS LINK! WOTAK, EVERYBODY! WOOOOTAAAK!'' *points furiously

The End

Angst, thy gig is wotak.

How are you a day ahead of me?

I still stand by my original estimation of the story being a suck link

Oh, for Pete's sake. If it really sucked, it (probably) wouldn't have passed. Since you have no clue how the AQ functions or what it looks like, then wotak is undeniably right; contribute or meep off. I've thought this of others here at times Pete, but you and regulator really take the cake; if you couldn't be ignorant, mean and nasty (without being funny even), you simply wouldn't be.

It's news, meep! If you can do better, then please meeping do it.

Folks (admins and leading members) are trying to help you here. I think wotak summarized it all perfectly, I just had to put in my 2cents worth 'cause Apocosaurus already used my pat response. I will echo what I see as the overriding sentiment though-CONTRIBUTE OR DIE!

And you can't have to much of a good thing, I like beavers cleaned though.

Another indignant Alpha lecture. Stylin'. The diff twixt me and thee, dagwood, is as an alpha, you get to make unpleasant commentary about links before the links hit the board. I explained why I thought it sucked. This isn't some sort of delayed CNN for pinheads. What sucks is, to each of us, a personal thing. You think this link is the cats meep. I don't. This whole thread, beyond the initial link, is an apocalypse over nothing: a dented ego.

ok well now you're being a real backtracking meepgot

it's not the bashing of the link, it's your second comment

you haven't been around long, but a 'state of linkswarm' post is bound to meep people off

Hey Pete, I just thought I'd update this thread with all the latest facts, that you don't want to know anything about, regarding this story. (Warning! This post contains 9 more links regarding Nigerians, airplanes and explosives and should adequately serve to make linkswarm 90% more intolerable for you!)

This last Christmas Day Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23 year old son of a prominent Nigerian banker attempted to bring down a trans-Atlantic Northwest Airlines flight with an explosive mixture containing PETN, a popular addition to amateur explosives. Then this Sunday a young Nigerian gentleman in intestinal distress caused caused the crew of his flight to alert authorities who detained and quickly released him. <-(via MeFi)

Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense domeepents.

Jeez Wotak, why didn't you swarm that thing?

You guys knock it off or I'll sick my deer on you!

Stylin'. You cannot imagine how little this means to me. I mean, I think you think I'm posing or showing out somehow, but as rarely as I post comments to entertain myself or engage others that simply cannot be the case.

The diff twixt me and thee, dagwood, is as an alpha, you get to make unpleasant commentary about links before the links hit the board. No the differences go much further than that, I have been a member here for over 5 years. The comments on links are a pleasing addendum to the actual VOTE, which I have now again (for a lousy $5/month) earned. For fun and for free you (insert personal derision here) still have the same opportunity to comment. It really is a beautiful little democracy we have here. Joe Wilson you can have your say, now please go away, or not.

Veggie meeping must be nice, lotta meepes need some meep.

Wotak: Next time, would you please put the recap at the top of the thread, so I won't have to go looking for it? Thanks.

Bonus Quiz:

Which of the following statements best describes linkswarm?

A. It's perfect, don't change a thing!

B. It's pretty good, but it could use some tweaking; just don't bring it up in Wotak's thread.

C. It's feck'd. Was a bad idea, poorly implemented, and not worth fixing. See you at FARK!

How did I get included in this I just commented on pete and wotok NOT linkswarm.

pops back in , just for the gratuitous derision*

You stupid meep, stop wasting our time thanks ,now meep off, bye.

I love my meeping avatar, thanks Chris

Great thread. I could use a avatar update, anybody wanna do me?

I'd do you dirty brother. I'll bet you're game though.

How 'bout this one Ghostie?

Pony-up and get the job done, you cheap meeper.