2008-03-31
2008-03-30
4 Reasons Why You Need Stress!
Post 70374 by ineedmotivation deleted for the following reason: Jesus, at least try a little. -- cortex
2008-03-29
Sweet 16 drives her own school bus...every day!
Post 70333 by Rafaelloello deleted for the following reason: a 22-year old news blurb about a minor event does not make for a decent post -- mathowie
2008-03-28
¡Ask a Mexican! es muerta.
Post 70314 by zorro astor deleted for the following reason: There's not really any new content here, and the previous (and pretty thorough) post was just a few months ago. I'm not sure we really need an update on this one. -- cortex
2008-03-27
Super Tuesday Tornado Hillary
Post 70292 by meanderthal deleted for the following reason: I am sorry but this is not a good post for metafilter. -- jessamyn
Not that you'd think this'd be best of the web ...
Post 70285 by WCityMike deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this would kind of go better in metatalk where we already pretty much decided it wasn't really great for metatalk either. -- cortex
HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!
Post 70279 by aftermarketradio deleted for the following reason: This post deserves a light-punch hadoken. Please try harder in the future. -- cortex
Praying won't regulate cellular intake of glucose
Post 70267 by stevis23 deleted for the following reason: This is a terrible thing that is happening. At the same time this is an angry post about dead children that is not very well suited to metafilter. What is there to discuss other than "oh my gosh, these people are ignorant assholes" except for, I guess, the prayer angle which dooms it if nothing else does. -- jessamyn
2008-03-26
It is a hand-powered, spring-operated boxing mechanism.
Post 70233 by generalist deleted for the following reason: a {broken} link to a cache of a website? -- jessamyn
2008-03-25
Which of these hookers would you pay for?
Post 70215 by crossoverman deleted for the following reason: just because this isn't from Cracked doesn't mean it's not a SLLP (single link list post) which are now on the "better only do this if it's really awesome" list. This is not really awesome. -- jessamyn
WalMart: apparently they can go even lower
Post 70213 by Inversehelix deleted for the following reason: pretty sure we covered this before, also just a one-link zomg walmart outrage doesn't make for a good post -- mathowie
2008-03-24
Death comes in the night on little cat feet!
Post 70176 by Navelgazer deleted for the following reason: If Andrew W.K. was deleting this double post he would do it so hard that his own skull would break, and then he'd chug a beer through the hole in his skull and it would be SO AWESOME -- cortex
Okay, so his prose is difficult.
Post 70172 by sonic meat machine deleted for the following reason: I hate to pull the rug on you like this, because you clearly put some time into the post, but you've got basically some personal discussion of Wolfe padded out with links to Amazon, and links to Amazon make for pretty crappy post material. -- cortex
Sharing the Presidency
Post 70164 by think.how.simple deleted for the following reason: a single news link post to another obama article? -- jessamyn
Barry O
Post 70156 by popcassady deleted for the following reason: There's at least three different obama-related threads open at this point; this isn't so fundamentally significant that it really needs a new post all to itself. -- cortex
The Bedsitter Man.
Post 70154 by Taksi Putra deleted for the following reason: mystery meat posts about websites that immediately go down with unretrievable archives are not really great posts for metafilter. -- jessamyn
2008-03-23
Food Fight
Post 70149 by Asparagirl deleted for the following reason: Food fought. (Wait, didn't I just do the past-tense-rendition-of-key-verb joke like a week ago? I need new material.) -- cortex
Daniel Kitson, Edinburgh 2005
Post 70145 by Ira.metafilter deleted for the following reason: Honestly, two posts about the same specific guy-you-like, from the same user, less than a year apart: seems really kind of not okay. -- cortex
2008-03-22
Men: Take a Hint!
Post 70122 by Picklegnome deleted for the following reason: when you're crossposting your link from reddit, just adding a bunch of tired news articles from 2-8 years ago doesn't mean it makes it a good post for metafilter. -- jessamyn
2008-03-21
Camcorder Simplicity
Post 70098 by Crackerbelly deleted for the following reason: please refresh your memory about the site guidelines -- jessamyn
Fox News Chaos
Post 70092 by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 deleted for the following reason: GYOB -- jessamyn
2008-03-20
Family Resemblance?
Post 70071 by Rafaelloello deleted for the following reason: I have watched both of these videos and I can safely say that if there is something interesting about the relatedness of these two people who have videos up on youtube it completely escpaes me and you have completely failed to illustrate it in your four word post. -- jessamyn
Germany or Florida?
Post 70062 by Parannoyed deleted for the following reason: The critical reaction to this post seems to be critical indeed. -- cortex
2008-03-19
Iraq War
Post 70021 by bobbyelliott deleted for the following reason: there are all sors of ways to note this anniversary that dont start a fight. this is not one of them. -- jessamyn
2008-03-18
Barack's more perfect union...
Post 70009 by drpynchon deleted for the following reason: There's an ongoing metatalk thread about this; notable as the speech is, this is a pretty automatic "scoop" kind of post and it'd probably be good to let the speech simmer a few days and let people react to it if we want to see a post with some good context, etc. -- cortex
Open the Pearly Gates, HAL
Post 70003 by tzikeh deleted for the following reason: The other obit post is honestly a much better presentation. -- cortex
Bear Stern is fine
Post 69995 by kingfish deleted for the following reason: This is not a good post. It'd be fine as a comment in the open Bear Stern thread. -- cortex
2008-03-17
I'm in the mood for
Post 69979 by shothotbot deleted for the following reason: this is metafilter, you want to ask this in ask metafilter, I'm pretty sure. -- jessamyn
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh Barack O'Bama.
Post 69965 by chiefbluefeather deleted for the following reason: oh you did not just build a post around a self-link to your own youtube video -- cortex
2008-03-16
2008-03-15
Enough with the pleasantries. Go ahead, make my day!
Post 69930 by HotPatatta deleted for the following reason: This is pretty thin and going not so great. -- cortex
The Atheist Delusion
Post 69928 by wemayfreeze deleted for the following reason: this is a book review post. It happens to be about atheism. it's going badly in the comments already. was something else supposed to happen here? -- jessamyn
Christianity By The Numbers
Post 69926 by Baby_Balrog deleted for the following reason: Don't abuse the mods to make your point -- cortex -- mathowie -- jessamyn
Buddhism By The Numbers
Post 69925 by Bora Horza Gobuchul deleted for the following reason: this is not a good post for metafilter. either it is some sort of stunt in which case your irony is too arcane, or it's just linking to the tenets of a religion in which case, why is it good for metafitler? -- jessamyn
2008-03-14
Mac users feel superior to PC users, new study shows
Post 69903 by entrepreneur35 deleted for the following reason: Hey, great post, Corey Kossack of clubenetwork.com. Enjoy your banhood. -- cortex -- mathowie
cloud
Post 69897 by Dave Faris deleted for the following reason: posted previously more or less -- jessamyn
Hello? Can you hear me?
Post 69894 by growabrain deleted for the following reason: I am pissed off I had to listen to this just to make sure I knew what it was before it was deleted. Please don't do this here. -- jessamyn
2008-03-13
Browser Voodoo
Post 69878 by Kronos_to_Earth deleted for the following reason: I am resizing this post like crazy right now. "HEY MISTER, ARE YOU JAVASCRIPT", they yell at me as I walk down the street, and I say yes. Yes, I am javascript, and I am all kinds of altering your browser experience. -- cortex
Nashville or LA
Post 69873 by locoindio deleted for the following reason: Wrong site. You should post this to Ask Metafilter. -- pb
Seriously, Kansas. C'mon.
Post 69869 by billysumday deleted for the following reason: *uses crowbar to pry crappy post off of front page* -- cortex
Lord Cornbury
Post 69865 by celerystick deleted for the following reason: A wikipedia entry by itself is rarely a good post; one used to riff off a current-events story (for which there's even an open thread!) is generally an even worse idea. -- cortex
2008-03-12
You have been...
Post 69852 by sweet mister deleted for the following reason: seems like a lame rickroll joke -- mathowie
2008-03-11
Wait, BARACK is evolving!
Post 69809 by CrunchyFrog deleted for the following reason: ytmnd pages need to be really really good to get over the threshold of yet another ytmnd page added to mefi -- mathowie
The Eco and the Id
Post 69804 by sfenders deleted for the following reason: Reusing existing threads is one of the key tenets of ecoposting. -- cortex
Sinbad Speaks
Post 69802 by Artifice_Eternity deleted for the following reason: If we don't want to get election fatigue by November, we gotta skip these minor daily election semi-news posts and stick to really major stuff only. -- mathowie
2008-03-10
Spitzer
Post 69771 by bustmakeupleave deleted for the following reason: don't do this here. make an effort. thank you! -- jessamyn
2008-03-09
2008-03-08
Video Production 101 A Primer
Post 69716 by xenophanes deleted for the following reason: Yuck. You've coauthored something with this guy and have at least two websites promoting the hell out of him, and this post reads like a sales pitch. I don't know what the hell you were thinking, but you're banned now. -- cortex
2008-03-07
Out of the Blue
Post 69696 by chunking express deleted for the following reason: Fatal flaw: they should have tried to model an elephant's brain. -- cortex
I am not a computer critic.
Post 69665 by morizky deleted for the following reason: Sad to hear Mr. ELIZA has passed, but a wikipedia link and an article that the vast majority of readers won't be able to actually read is really pretty thin. If someone can put together a better post for Weizenbaum's death (and life), cool, but this should probably go. -- cortex
McCain Joins The Anti-Science Anti-Vaccine Crusade
Post 69659 by gramcracker deleted for the following reason: if you want to have a debate on the issues and not people grouchy about vaccines and/or autism, it's really best to keep your snark somewhere inside the thread. -- jessamyn
2008-03-05
2008-03-04
Suspected Terrorist Puppy
Post 69610 by augustweed deleted for the following reason: There may be a point, some time in the near future, where this whole thing has settled down enough that a good, non-speculative post could be made about this, but I don't think we're there yet. This is just kind of gross right now. -- cortex
Smart, normal, curious, not radical, and post-Boomer
Post 69593 by chuckdarwin deleted for the following reason: This seems not so much like a hell of a good blog entry as it does like an okayish, info-lite blog entry from a rich famous guy. NCSA Mosaic 4evar, though. -- cortex
Oops!
Post 69591 by Kirth Gerson deleted for the following reason: Does it still count as a juxtaposition if you're combining two things that are exactly the same? -- cortex
2008-03-03
It's 3 a.m. Parody
Post 69575 by augustweed deleted for the following reason: gah, let's not completely overdose on electionfilter media/meme minutia -- cortex
2008-03-02
Controversy over alleged subliminal message in campaign ad
Post 69550 by desjardins deleted for the following reason: not really great for metafilter - there are tons of political blogs to go OMG CLINTON on regarding campaign controversy manufactured or non. -- jessamyn
2008-03-01
does this woman make my gender look stupid?
Post 69532 by Vic Morrow's Personal Vietnam deleted for the following reason: Gender-baiting obamafilter op-ed that everyone thinks is insulting? Probably not a great post. -- cortex