Metafilter is a great website. It’s like a summary of what’s interesting on the internet. It’s not always that interesting but everyday there are enough links to piss your life away reading on the web instead of pissing your life away doing what you do at your dead-end job.
Plus it’s written, most of the time, in a pretty neutral tone, so you don’t have to cope with annoying internet personalities.
Another pretty cool side of metafilter is askMefi, a paralel site where mefi users can ask question and hopefully get answers from the other users. Yes, it’s like a regular forum except that metafilter users are  well versed at that internet game. Basically one user can shower you with links to obscure and ancient (pre-98) sites while the next one will debunks them and so on until you get a pretty good answer overall. The whole thing is peppered with personal words of wisdom from the users that couldn’t be hassled to throw some more links.
Anyway, back in November (i’m late i know) a guy asked what seemed to be an innocent question about being scammed on ebay. The usual talk between internet people about internet things on the internet.
What the guy in question didn’t know, is that internet people as skilled as the mefite posse can smell bullshit from hundreds of links away.
What ensued is a terrifying investigation by the mefi crowd, revealing almost everything there is to know about that guy’s existence on the web.
Basically he’s an ebay scammer, unable to ejaculate who lives in Bakersfield CA.