2008-03-31

The Patriot Act gags librarians

Post 70386 by Wild_Eep deleted for the following reason: as much as I am delighted to see my six year old site on reddit, this has been on MeFi before, thanks for the MeFiHighFive though. -- jessamyn

The impending storm over McCain's POW record?

Post 70380 by vizsla deleted for the following reason: this is not a good political post for MetaFilter. If this turns out to be something, super, otherwise saying this *might* be something and adding a bunch of wikipedia and profie page links are really not particularly excellent. -- jessamyn

PROUTLY collapsing

Post 70378 by infini deleted for the following reason: screeds are rarely good posts for mefi and long unattributed pullquotes are worse. -- jessamyn

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

Things get ugly when kids get high....

Post 70369 by bobbyone deleted for the following reason: This is a crappy post. -- cortex

475 Kent Avenue

Post 70356 by Ebray deleted for the following reason: this is looking more and more like you are in some way involved with the main blog posted here. This is something you sort of need to not do here. -- jessamyn

2008-03-29

Mefiers vs. YTers

Post 70341 by zardoz deleted for the following reason: This is more of a metatalk type thing. -- cortex

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

Jews from Arab Countries, the forgotten refugees

Post 70308 by worbid411 deleted for the following reason: This post seems to be a little broken, and maybe not such a great presentation of what is a pretty hot-button topic around here. -- cortex

2008-03-27

Man Claims "Wombat Rape" Changed His Accent

Post 70293 by nímwunnan deleted for the following reason: Brief one-link news-of-the-weird blurbs really aren't good front page material, real gems or otherwise. -- cortex

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

Test Post

Post 70277 by pb deleted for the following reason: And we're done testing, thanks. -- pb

Determinism Made Me Write This

Post 70276 by pkerr1975 deleted for the following reason: self link, banned -- jessamyn

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

War Journals, satire, etc.

Post 70253 by Tlogmer deleted for the following reason: It's cute, but it's also a single election-jokey comment on thread at a poli-blogger's site. This sauce, as the kids say, is weak. -- cortex

So you want to get her back?

Post 70252 by monkee deleted for the following reason: Hey! A bald-faced self-link, a week and exactly three throwaway comments after you joined the site! Get bent! -- cortex -- mathowie

Million Dollars with Facebook?

Post 70244 by bmilly deleted for the following reason: Well, as predictable balls-out bullshit self-links go, this one has spunk, I guess. Banned. -- cortex -- mathowie

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

Nahsville Neighborhoods

Post 70219 by locoindio deleted for the following reason: wrong site, you want ask mefi, two doors down on the left. -- mathowie

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

Bad days for whirlybirds

Post 70199 by tkolar deleted for the following reason: dude, these are snuff films. don't post them on mefi -- mathowie

Your mother is coming upstairs. Close the dwarf porn?

Post 70196 by jbickers deleted for the following reason: we're a little cracked out here on metafilter today. -- jessamyn

Baseball Season Starts Anew

Post 70194 by DNL deleted for the following reason: dude, you run armchairgm.com. Don't freaking self-link. -- mathowie

Tina Fey Disses Jon Stewart

Post 70192 by lunit deleted for the following reason: Between the (acknowleged) recent thread about women in comedy, the kind of thin material in the post, and the thread just not going well, I think we'll go ahead and pull this. -- cortex

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

Unfinished or Abandoned Structures in Florida

Post 70141 by Eavesy deleted for the following reason: If you're going to get decent at your SEO job, you might want to figure out how to not sound like such an SEO SPAMMER ALL THE TIME. Er. Sef-link, banned. -- jessamyn -- mathowie

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

In dreams, you're mine.

Post 70112 by objet deleted for the following reason: wow, people HATE this. -- mathowie

This little piggy, well, um...

Post 70106 by sweet mister deleted for the following reason: le double poteau -- cortex

three pointer

Post 70104 by plexi deleted for the following reason: THIS IS A PRETTY CRAPPY POST - $CIENTOLOGY KILL$ - XENU.NET -- cortex

We Tell Stories: professionaly made interactive fiction from Penguin

Post 70100 by stbalbach deleted for the following reason: done got told -- cortex

Camcorder Simplicity

Post 70098 by Crackerbelly deleted for the following reason: please refresh your memory about the site guidelines -- jessamyn

How can we forgive and forget things that happened just yesterday?

Post 70094 by jdotglenn deleted for the following reason: not the real guy on YA. It's only been up for ten min... -- mathowie

Fox News Chaos

Post 70092 by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 deleted for the following reason: GYOB -- jessamyn

2008-03-20

Expelled from Expelled!

Post 70074 by rdone deleted for the following reason: this is a link to a comment in a blog. -- jessamyn

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

Name (my|your|his|her|its) job!

Post 70068 by pheideaux deleted for the following reason: don't link your friends' websites here please. -- 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

Cage Match Replacing Election

Post 70054 by henryw deleted for the following reason: Meh + electionfilter + something kind of fishy going on here besides. -- cortex

2008-03-19

It's back

Post 70036 by AceRock deleted for the following reason: what in the name of hell -- cortex

Who's the father?

Post 70030 by tylerfulltilt deleted for the following reason: Pretty thin post, eh. -- mathowie

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

Take the Awareness Test

Post 69996 by spec80 deleted for the following reason: No makeup tests! -- 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

Be my baby

Post 69977 by sweet mister deleted for the following reason: seen it -- jessamyn

Whats the music clip used on this website?

Post 69966 by modernsquid deleted for the following reason: Go here. -- cortex

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

7 Mindblowing Audio Illusions

Post 69950 by richdan deleted for the following reason: One mindblowing self-link. Banned. -- cortex

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

Commercials.

Post 69914 by gman deleted for the following reason: these are two really meh ads from the 50s/60s one of which is "arguably racist" and one of which is sexist. An interesting topic which could maybe show promise with more effort or some sort of context. As it is, what is there to say? -- jessamyn

2008-03-14

Squirrelling the Wiki

Post 69908 by five fresh fish deleted for the following reason: um, what? -- mathowie

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

The Day of a Pyro

Post 69901 by boo_radley deleted for the following reason: lol pwned -- cortex

The Real Prostitutes in the Elliot Spitzer Sex Scandal.

Post 69900 by ghostdog deleted for the following reason: self-link, banned -- mathowie

cloud

Post 69897 by Dave Faris deleted for the following reason: posted previously more or less -- jessamyn

Soldiers & Civilian Brief President on Afghanistan

Post 69895 by WCityMike deleted for the following reason: it's not not axe grinding just because you do all your commentary with the subtle "oh look the word says one thing but I'm linking to another" routine. -- 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

I'm gonna go Old Testament on yo azz!

Post 69888 by andythebean deleted for the following reason: bible fought -- cortex

2008-03-13

Measure your brain power with Flash!

Post 69884 by KokuRyu deleted for the following reason: Yeah, slightly inscrutible login-required frontend kinda takes the sparkle outta this. -- cortex

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

Did Obama hire Ben Crowshaw?

Post 69875 by jpdoane deleted for the following reason: This is pretty much exactly the sort of daily-update electionfilter stuff that doesn't need yet another post. -- 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

When is a racist not a racist?

Post 69849 by indienial deleted for the following reason: Sorry, this is kind of lame local news centered around an attention grabbing racist. -- mathowie

Riches of Embarrassment

Post 69841 by telstar deleted for the following reason: Seems to have been killed pretty badly. -- cortex

Japanese whaling and the Australian way

Post 69833 by DirtyCreature deleted for the following reason: GYOB. -- jessamyn

3 hour tour, 6 months probation

Post 69827 by bonefish deleted for the following reason: Gosh, Skipper, you sure you should be postin' this? -- cortex

2008-03-11

We're listening...

Post 69813 by Blazecock Pileon deleted for the following reason: doublechinpost -- cortex

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

Stuff White People Like

Post 69784 by ELF Radio deleted for the following reason: I still contend that the original is funny, but all these derivatives are lazy and lame -- mathowie

Mid life crisis: how to solve the problem

Post 69775 by skalitenko deleted for the following reason: self-link, banned -- mathowie

Spitzer

Post 69771 by bustmakeupleave deleted for the following reason: don't do this here. make an effort. thank you! -- jessamyn

2008-03-09

God Hates Obama

Post 69752 by brownpau deleted for the following reason: This is pretty dang thin, bucko. -- cortex

The Simpsons theme on two guitars

Post 69751 by mattoxic deleted for the following reason: posted before -- mathowie

Marga Gomez

Post 69748 by msalt deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- jessamyn

Andy Abraham will represent UK in Eurovision 2008

Post 69736 by lawrencee deleted for the following reason: It's kind of fun how the whois info for that "unofficial eurovision site" you built this perfunctory-ass post around matches whois info on other websites you run. And by "fun" I mean "bannable". -- cortex

2008-03-08

Oh my God! (but distinctly not yours!)

Post 69720 by Phantast deleted for the following reason: LOLXTIAN nonsense -- mathowie

Not While I'm God

Post 69717 by Capt Jingo deleted for the following reason: Not While I'm Mod -- cortex

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

I'm the internet

Post 69707 by boo_radley deleted for the following reason: double posts are the internet -- cortex

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

2008-03-06

Civilization = Accommodating Different Beliefs?

Post 69678 by cogneuro deleted for the following reason: This is a pretty flawed way to try to present this as a not-doomed thread. -- cortex

Shouldn't be that interesting.

Post 69667 by dios deleted for the following reason: This appears to be a mix of double and broken: the colliding chocolate and peanutbutter of FAIL. -- 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

instruction cards for looking after a baby

Post 69638 by hurdy gurdy girl deleted for the following reason: poster's request. -- jessamyn

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

All the music google can find

Post 69587 by carsonb deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- jessamyn

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

chicken, chicken, chicken

Post 69569 by krautland deleted for the following reason: chicken -- jessamyn

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

Keep it short and descriptive. Required.

Post 69542 by mzurer deleted for the following reason: yeah, sort of seen it before -- jessamyn

Drawings of authors and literary figures by comics artists

Post 69538 by Kattullus deleted for the following reason: posted previously -- jessamyn

$1,000,000 For Hillary Clinton To Pose Nude

Post 69536 by Cranky Media Guy deleted for the following reason: self-link, banned. -- 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