Amazing.

Indeed. Veteran posters who still don't know how to attach an image without adding text.

Here's EBG on his favourite MRA site.

Goddamn you. You beat me to it with the Jaws one.

I love that EBG's argument is basically that because everyone agrees that GG is a bad thing, it must therefore be a good thing, without any requirement to apply knowledge or critical thinking to the subject matter.

You're ignoring this

What I have never been able to work out is, despite being brighter than a box of rocks but dimmer than a light bulb is what the flying he'll people mean when they say "meta-" out of a "We looked at the data from 160 papers and.." context. Community is "meta", "don't use meta data in mafia" ( and don't sit near Trooper, he nicks your crisps on the night phase). I dunno.

"Meta" means "higher" or "beyond." So a meta-paper is one that takes as its data source not raw research but other papers. In a computing context, metadata is data about data; so if your data is a CSV file on your hard drive then its associated metadata might include the file name, the date it was created, and who can read it. Metadata in Mafia would be stuff like post times correlated with when somone was posting on the forum in a blind game. Then there's meta-humour, including all sorts of numerous techniques like breaking the fourth wall, using a punchline from a different joke, and various other means to play with the audience's expectations and preconceptions. That's the sense in your Community reference.

"Meta" means "higher" or "beyond." So a meta-paper is one that takes as its data source not raw research but other papers. In a computing context, metadata is data about data; so if your data is a CSV file on your hard drive then its associated metadata might include the file name, the date it was created, and who can read it. Metadata in Mafia would be stuff like post times correlated with when somone was posting on the forum in a blind game. Then there's meta-humour, including all sorts of numerous techniques like breaking the fourth wall, using a punchline from a different joke, and various other means to play with the audience's expectations and preconceptions. That's the sense in your Community reference.

I'm not weighing in on it either way

You're all pathetic, weasily, circle-jerking children who are so anti-GG that you consider any criticism of your smug, self-righteous, impotent backslapping in here to be tactic support for the opposing side. Strawmanning reductionism that you're trying to pretend doesn't exist.

It's little wonder this forum is doomed to negative population growth. Eventually it'll be the same half-dozen of you posting nothing but tired old in-jokes back and forth at each other.

Also, hi. I've trod in stuff that I've given more of a crap about than your level of respect for me.

Hey! Some of us have ex girlfriends out in Nigeria fighting Ebola!

You have ex-girlfriends everywhere, doing everything.

They all seem to put an inordinate amount of effort to not be in the same country as MaliA anymore. I wonder why.

Then we'll leave this there then. I think you're an intellectually devoid arsehole so any further discussion is pointless. You can rant and rave about this issue until it dies its natural death and you can possibly retain some wheezing sense of delusion that you added to its cause.