2008-10-31

A Birthday Party Gone Terribly Wrong

Post 76160 by Autarky deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- mathowie

What's really behind the current decline in gas prices?

Post 76154 by PetBoogaloo deleted for the following reason: yeah, a single link to a book club isn't quite enough meat for a post, sorry. -- mathowie

Assembler - fun flash game

Post 76150 by ObscureReferenceMan deleted for the following reason: This was linked in the first comment of this other flash game post a few posts down. -- cortex

Eat cheap! Buy now! Offer expires after today! Operators are standing by!

Post 76148 by serazin deleted for the following reason: get rich slowly is a great blog but pimping coupons is not really what metafilter is for. -- jessamyn

Boo.

Post 76143 by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 deleted for the following reason: knock it off. -- jessamyn

Cute costume overload

Post 76140 by weapons-grade pandemonium deleted for the following reason: This is proof that something that'd could make an adorable photo can also make an incredibly dull video. -- cortex

2008-10-30

Mountain View and Hollywood want you and your friends to vote.

Post 76119 by Toekneesan deleted for the following reason: these have been around for a while and mentioned on mefi before -- mathowie

October Surprise!

Post 76116 by nushustu deleted for the following reason: yep, this sucks and is a non-story -- mathowie

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 08 Election

Post 76111 by bonobothegreat deleted for the following reason: eh, given it's a single link to youtube and a single link to The Onion, it's got to be something substantial and good to stay, and this is just mildly amusuing. -- mathowie

Roll up roll up....your free regime de la terreur

Post 76095 by numberstation deleted for the following reason: The image is unreadable. The magazine is not a good mefi post by itself either. -- vacapinta

2008-10-29

Dating Psychos (Spo-dee-O-dee)

Post 76085 by unSane deleted for the following reason: This is I think one of those situations where the sheer awfulness of the site outweighs the weird-underbelly interestingness of it, honestly. It's pretty vile stuff top to bottom. -- cortex

Welcome to Morrowind. Bring guns.

Post 76077 by Foci for Analysis deleted for the following reason: This is pretty darned thin. Do not make posts during a Mentats crash, plz. -- cortex

One man's poison is another woman's meat

Post 76076 by theManRoom deleted for the following reason: Just because it happened in Canada doesn't make it not a crappy attention-getting op-ed. -- cortex

On the Rain-Slick Precipace of Darkness, Episode... Two-o-o-o

Post 76075 by Caduceus deleted for the following reason: Kind of agreeing with the critical sentiment here; a strong post specifically about Greenhouse (if no one has made one) could be totally fine, but a paragraph about Episode II above the fold in a sequel post is going overboard. -- cortex

2008-10-28

Palin Proliferation

Post 76057 by flotson deleted for the following reason: really, no. -- jessamyn

Obama's Loss Traced To Matthew Haughey

Post 76049 by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 deleted for the following reason: It's cute, but also pretty darned thin for a post. -- cortex

Carmina MeFi

Post 76047 by joaquim deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this should really be in Metatalk, not here. -- cortex

A series of syllogistic tubes

Post 76036 by twoleftfeet deleted for the following reason: This is just a series of unrelated news links, none of which are strong enough to stand on their own. -- vacapinta

2008-10-27

A Huge Piece of Dried Tofu crushes the Hang Seng

Post 76027 by Rafaelloello deleted for the following reason: This is a real mess. Please try to aim for more than "here's some financial news article" -- if there's something specific and interesting here, aim for that and build your post around it. -- cortex

I wish

Post 76023 by tellurian deleted for the following reason: i wish matt would stop yelling at me and we could go get ice cream back like it was before mom left -- cortex

Geman police hunting for muppet

Post 76015 by YurikoKinje deleted for the following reason: This is pretty thin. And I'm enrolling dersins in rehab, because he's been reading too many deletion reasons. -- cortex

Test Post

Post 76013 by pb deleted for the following reason: Test complete! -- pb

The perfect billboard

Post 76012 by Zambrano deleted for the following reason: Possibly the worst post of the month. What were you thinking? Did you think? Was there thought involved? -- cortex

2008-10-26

The gates of hell.

Post 75998 by swift deleted for the following reason: WTFilter -- mathowie

Coltan and Congo mayhem

Post 75990 by Brian B. deleted for the following reason: seems discredited and out-of-date, plus all the fighting with everyone commenting on your post. -- mathowie

2008-10-25

End of an Era

Post 75977 by sluglicker deleted for the following reason: what -- cortex

CollegeFilter: Hampshire College vs. St. John's College

Post 75976 by zenja72 deleted for the following reason: I went to Hampshire College and I delete this message! -- jessamyn

A near-complete, species-level phylogeny of extant mammals

Post 75975 by carter deleted for the following reason: It's not a double post, it's just convergent evolution in action. -- cortex

Portable Film Festival

Post 75973 by Effigy2000 deleted for the following reason: still portable after all these years weeks -- cortex

Mr. Green Genes wishes you a Happy Caturday!

Post 75960 by grapefruitmoon deleted for the following reason: CATURDAY DENIED -- cortex

Punchy but relaxed

Post 75957 by twoleftfeet deleted for the following reason: Smash Shack is bordering on interesting -- though there's not a whole lot of web content on that front, even -- but this post is not so great on the whole and OH GOD TEN MORE DAYS TEN MORE DAYS TEN MORE DAYS -- cortex

2008-10-24

From Russia with Love

Post 75934 by Xere deleted for the following reason: HELLO I BELIEVE YOU WERE LOOKING FOR WWW.PALINFILTER.COM -- cortex

2008-10-23

It used to all start at 5am

Post 75924 by lacol deleted for the following reason: Not a great first post -- mathowie

Bring back transfats

Post 75922 by pmaxwell deleted for the following reason: This is a dull corporate site for a cookie brand. Why on earth would you post this. -- cortex

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Post 75920 by aheckler deleted for the following reason: I think this is pushing pretty far into Everybody Who Wants To See This Will See It Anyway territory. -- cortex

Take it to PoliticalFilter

Post 75917 by theora55 deleted for the following reason: I adore politicalfilter and wish more people would hang out there, but this is more metatalky than metafiltery. -- cortex

Can She Tell a Donkey from an Elephant?

Post 75916 by Chinese Jet Pilot deleted for the following reason: oh for god's sake -- cortex

Clothes and Politics

Post 75912 by femmme deleted for the following reason: There's not a whole lot of post here. Yay GAP? -- cortex

Chicken or Maverick...

Post 75893 by Toekneesan deleted for the following reason: this is sort of turning into minutia American election filter here and maybe needs to go into an open election post? -- jessamyn

2008-10-22

Impossible Mission

Post 75889 by benzenedream deleted for the following reason: creepy racist fetish stuff, sorry. -- mathowie

Powerful, quiet photos of John McCain

Post 75878 by davidmsc deleted for the following reason: So the normal thing to do if you want to call something out or make a point is to go ahead and start a metatalk thread. Making a stunt post not among the better ideas out there. -- cortex

My head hurts

Post 75877 by tallthinone deleted for the following reason: There doesn't seem to be any post here. A collection of unnoteworthy corporate stuff is not interesting just because of a common word; where there's the there? -- cortex

Orson Scott Card on the American Media and the Bush derangement syndrome.

Post 75867 by fox_terrier_guy deleted for the following reason: "Orson Scott Card holds forth!" threads tend to go pretty damn badly around here, and a read through this op-ed suggests this isn't going to be the exception to that rule. -- cortex

Colin who?

Post 75862 by gman deleted for the following reason: This is not a good metafilter post. -- vacapinta

2008-10-21

Lee Atwater's Political Legacy

Post 75853 by radiofreewalsh deleted for the following reason: Dude, you're the senior producer for Word of Mouth. This is extremely not okay. -- cortex

Buying From China

Post 75846 by ciaciagi deleted for the following reason: this is a truly terrible and sketch post for MeFi. -- jessamyn

"Let's face it, when we feel victimized we give away our power to whomever or whatever we blame -- ironically giving power to politicians who we'd never want to have that power."

Post 75839 by iamkimiam deleted for the following reason: Two weeks left. Avoiding going to far into HuffingtonFilter is going to have to be part of our coping. -- cortex

Dude, let's change the code for "returned item"...

Post 75830 by Jade5454 deleted for the following reason: This is not a good metafilter post. -- cortex

Creationist meets atheists: FIGHT

Post 75827 by mippy deleted for the following reason: meh, there's already an atheist post a couple threads down, and this is just front pages for various groups with one blog post recap of an event. -- mathowie

2008-10-20

USAF C-32 Lands

Post 75817 by augustweed deleted for the following reason: This seems awfully thin. -- cortex

The Things He Carried - Jeffrey Goldberg - The Atlantic

Post 75802 by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 deleted for the following reason: Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to step out of the line. -- cortex

A Maverick And A Gentleman

Post 75795 by jason's_planet deleted for the following reason: On a bad day, this would be a really good way to get banned. -- cortex

Project Censored as censors?

Post 75790 by internationalfeel deleted for the following reason: Metafilter is not an editorial stump, and (a) this post is selling itself pretty hard and (b) you're moderating your own thread way too aggressively. There may be a way to make a good post about this, but this isn't it. -- cortex

2008-10-19

Gaming the Vote

Post 75773 by Student of Man deleted for the following reason: Previously -- vacapinta

2008-10-17

Chicago Tribune endorses Barack Obama

Post 75741 by mojohand deleted for the following reason: mojohand: wrong for Tribune posts, wrong for America. I endorsed this message, and I'm -- cortex

I can see the punchlines from my house!

Post 75723 by markkraft deleted for the following reason: did you not search? -- jessamyn

2008-10-16

Al Smith Dinner 2008

Post 75718 by XQUZYPHYR deleted for the following reason: It was a close match, but I'm awarding it to the other post on points. Good fight, gentlemen. -- cortex

Deleted Post Test

Post 75705 by pb deleted for the following reason: testing, testing. -- pb

Steam Punk Star Wars

Post 75703 by Class Goat deleted for the following reason: posted previously -- mathowie

You know who else could do anything at zombo.com?

Post 75700 by cortex deleted for the following reason: oh my god you are in so much trouble buddy -- cortex

November 5, 2008

Post 75697 by plexi deleted for the following reason: Ugh, please try harder. -- cortex

Google Getting Hijacked

Post 75695 by lubujackson deleted for the following reason: If this is a post worth making, there's got to be a way to do it without linking to stuff that's suffering from a redirects hijack. -- cortex

Blossom Goodchild was wrong. It was a shock.l. (SLYT)

Post 75686 by shockingbluamp deleted for the following reason: Probably better inside the current open post -- vacapinta

2008-10-15

Swept Away

Post 75674 by fearfulsymmetry deleted for the following reason: Desperately Seeking Deletin' -- cortex

2008-10-14

Crawling Chaos

Post 75653 by Artw deleted for the following reason: something something wasted potential something -- cortex

Mirror, mirror, on the wall

Post 75651 by simplesharps deleted for the following reason: Done before. -- cortex

2008-10-13

GroomingFilter

Post 75631 by turgid dahlia deleted for the following reason: poster's request. -- jessamyn

Who are the Open Source Content Management System (CMS) market leaders in 2008?

Post 75626 by mg1313 deleted for the following reason: Wow are you ever banned. -- cortex -- jessamyn

What do I do with these filled in tree stumps

Post 75619 by clearlynuts deleted for the following reason: this is in the wrong place -- jessamyn

2008-10-12

Massive Die-off Conspiracy Filter?

Post 75607 by schyler523 deleted for the following reason: The cabal threatened to take away my macbook if I didn't delete this weird lol?conspiracy post. -- cortex

The Philadelphia Flyers do not approve of this message

Post 75599 by Reggie452 deleted for the following reason: this is going badly and is a sort of thin newsfilter electionfilterupdatefilter post. -- jessamyn

2008-10-11

http://www.aluka.org

Post 75589 by Taksi Putra deleted for the following reason: This was a problem the first time you did it, too. Do not do this. -- cortex

Matt Haughey for President!

Post 75581 by feelinglistless deleted for the following reason: no way dude Matt's an arab terrorist and shit -- cortex

2008-10-10

Abandon Ship!

Post 75558 by Pseudology deleted for the following reason: pretty thin local news post. maybe ok if you rounded up a handful of other industries affected by the wall st. slippage -- mathowie

John McCain's links to terrorism

Post 75554 by shetterly deleted for the following reason: please do not do this here, thank you. If there is really worthwhile stuff to talk about re: MCCain please obviate the spittle from lips before posting [i.e. less editorial, more awesom, thank you] -- jessamyn

Next week, zero

Post 75545 by delmoi deleted for the following reason: This seems like basically a market snapshot, which is not trying very hard. Maybe try and figure out a more interesting way to approach this? -- cortex

2008-10-08

http://www.aluka.org/

Post 75504 by Taksi Putra deleted for the following reason: You need to slow down a bit when you're thinking about posting, maybe. -- cortex

The Complaint of the Seal in Alaska

Post 75501 by netbros deleted for the following reason: before -- mathowie

2008-10-07

Uncomfortably Totalitarian Commercials

Post 75471 by MiguelCardoso deleted for the following reason: oh migs, it is so wonderful to see you here again. that said, this is sort of an over-the-top OMG sort of note to come back on and perhaps you'd prefer a few drinks over in metatalk instead? -- jessamyn

Test Post

Post 75469 by pb deleted for the following reason: This concludes our test. Hi! -- pb

Palin Around..

Post 75458 by pwedza deleted for the following reason: cortex is pallin' around with deletionists (or: this is not a very good metafilter post, and there are a few different places you could add this as a comment already) -- cortex

2008-10-06

2008-10-05

The People All Call Her Alaska

Post 75412 by sloweducation deleted for the following reason: we can't really do a Palin post per day here. Possibly add this to one of the many many Palin threads already opened? -- jessamyn

The Angry Police Captain.

Post 75405 by beaucoupkevin deleted for the following reason: um, yeah, kinda just got yourself banned right there -- mathowie

Velocirapture...clever girl...

Post 75404 by Queen of Spreadable Fats deleted for the following reason: there must be an open Palin thread this can go in, no? -- jessamyn

2008-10-04

Tips and Tricks.

Post 75384 by lunit deleted for the following reason: huh, I guess we did do that before -- mathowie

2008-10-03

Slick Willie and the Subprimes

Post 75364 by ZenMasterThis deleted for the following reason: Yes, we've seen this op-ed from a week ago before. -- mathowie

Obama attack video

Post 75361 by Shanachie deleted for the following reason: this is not a great post for metafilter - I don't think we were wondering this. -- jessamyn

McCain-Palin Myths

Post 75354 by sloweducation deleted for the following reason: pretty thin political post we've seen dozens of times before -- mathowie

2008-10-02

Gone baby gone

Post 75334 by swift deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure a news-of-the-weird-plex is actually greater than the sum of the parts, and judging by the flag queue neither are a bunch of other people. -- cortex

2008-10-01

Brokeresurection

Post 75322 by jaduncan deleted for the following reason: Open thread on congressional bailout hooah. -- cortex

Green Party Candidate Claims 5,000 Prisoners Executed

Post 75318 by VicNebulous deleted for the following reason: As is, this is really really thin. Maybe a post if some substantial coverage comes out of this? -- cortex

A master of the fine art of the glittering generality.

Post 75312 by P.o.B. deleted for the following reason: Seven minutes too late. -- cortex

We Deserve It Dividend

Post 75305 by Man with Lantern deleted for the following reason: A single link to Snopes is pretty much never going to be a good post. -- cortex

Sarah Palin's lover revealed

Post 75303 by Postroad deleted for the following reason: These are two things that have been going around for a while now, and not exactly well done in its own right besides. -- cortex

a little mouse

Post 75293 by February28 deleted for the following reason: this is a bit too subtle for banned books week, some background and other info would have helped. -- mathowie