2008-10-31
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
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
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
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
2008-10-28
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
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
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
2008-10-26
2008-10-25
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
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
2008-10-23
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
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
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
2008-10-20
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
2008-10-17
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
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
2008-10-13
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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