Meaning of metacrap | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Metatheory, metanalysis, and other meta disciplines.
   derogatory, uncountable
2. Low-quality or unreliable metadata.
   Internet, derogatory, uncountable

Examples

“In art, as in language, “cutting out the metacrap” means to get⟳ at the “core” meaning beneath the “superficial form⟳” of a work⟳; what it seems to be is different from what it means.”

“Clearly the layers of pretense and self-awareness and metacrap are thick.”

“In this vein, amusing to hear⟳ (the first time) was Lieberman’s recounting how, at an international conference on language, Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst and philosopher, gave a presentation on “the linguistic nature of psychological symptomatology” (“the kind of highfalutin metacrap you like⟳, Kunzman,” Lieberman later commented).”

“People who refer⟳ to the metacrap argument are generally advocating “letting the software sort⟳ it out” instead of asking people to explicitly tag everything before making any contribution.”

“More formally we can say⟳ that the metadata is fragile or inconsistent. More forcefully this has been described as 'metacrap'.”

“The contributors may have⟳ certain bias and personal agenda (e.g., to allure visitors to a resource) in entering tags not relevant to the resources at all, thus the tags may be a collection of “metacrap” (Doctorow 2001).”

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