2011-05-31
'Miracle' dog survives attack, burial
Post 104081 by shawnwasson deleted for the following reason: News of the weird stuff doesn't make good mefi posts in general. -- cortex
2011-05-29
The dog has his day?
Post 104031 by Johnny Wallflower deleted for the following reason: Animal cruelty is a subject that needs fairly delicate framing to go well and a casual ethnic stereotype doesn't really fit the bill. -- restless_nomad
2011-05-28
2011-05-26
Dear Opera^WOprah
Post 103928 by spitefulcrow deleted for the following reason: is teh funneh but is in the open thread. -- jessamyn
2011-05-25
Impenetrable Domesticity
Post 103860 by nicolas léonard sadi carnot deleted for the following reason: Posted previously -- vacapinta
2011-05-24
NY-26th -- Not 73% Republican anymore.
Post 103849 by skepticallypleased deleted for the following reason: Even with fixing the link this basically needs the editorial cut out of it to be okay as a MeFi post, maybe someone else can try again? -- jessamyn
House Rulz - A new Web Comic
Post 103836 by ilovecomix deleted for the following reason: This is a comic with only four entries so far from a guy you just interviewed on a podcast. This is really not okay for a post. -- cortex
Cancer Victim Loses Custody of her Children
Post 103815 by Secret Life of Gravy deleted for the following reason: Lousy situation for sure, but I'm not sure what there is to do with this post other than argue with each other about who in a bad situation is the worst. -- cortex
2011-05-23
Harold Camping insists the rapture did happen. It was spiritual instead of physical.
Post 103812 by fightoplankton deleted for the following reason: yes we know. This needs to go into the open Camper thread. Thank you. -- jessamyn
Re: Joplin, Missouri Tornado
Post 103790 by shawnwasson deleted for the following reason: we've got an open thread and related news about the same thing pretty much needs to go into that thread. -- jessamyn
2011-05-22
Cannibalism within the peloton
Post 103777 by RockyChrysler deleted for the following reason: This can be discussed in the currently open thread. -- restless_nomad
Justin Bieber teams up with PhoneGuard (Stock Symbol: OPMG) to combat texting and driving
Post 103767 by skizz deleted for the following reason: A single link to a press release really isn't working -- restless_nomad
2011-05-21
How I Deal With Sexual Discrimination in a Positive Way
Post 103755 by Foci for Analysis deleted for the following reason: This really needs more context to make much sense, plus the site is now down. -- restless_nomad
Hypnotist principal under investigation
Post 103742 by mad_little_monkey deleted for the following reason: You really, really need to not link to a site you work for on the front page. We ban folks for that sort of thing. -- cortex
2011-05-20
2011-05-19
Kaycee Nicole would be 29 today...if she had ever actually existed
Post 103697 by badgermushroomSNAKE deleted for the following reason: Heya, you clearly put a bunch of work into rounding this up but I have to agree with the sentiment that since there's not really apparently anything new in all this it feels kind of out of place as a "ten years ago to do in (sort of) Metafilter history..." kind of thing. -- cortex
2011-05-18
Monsanto - They Bring good things to Life.
Post 103638 by rough ashlar deleted for the following reason: If you need to make this post clearer about just who is having abortions, please feel free to do this in a post tomorrow, this is messy and needs to maybe be redone. -- jessamyn
Like a G6 but with D&D
Post 103636 by josher71 deleted for the following reason: Oh, you—wow, a 1? That's not good, that's—I mean, uh, uh, "the post begins to glow mysteriously." Let me find the crit table for this. Roll a d10. Wow. Wow wow wow. Do you have another character sheet? No reason. Just, just curious. -- cortex
Seemingly Improvised Web Series
Post 103633 by Simpsolover deleted for the following reason: these appear to be people you worked with or who are you, this is a bannable offense. -- jessamyn
Bobby Fischer, who loved chess
Post 103622 by shakespeherian deleted for the following reason: It's a great article but we saw it back in February. -- cortex
2011-05-17
I wish this Calvin and Hobbes game really existed.
Post 103584 by Simpsolover deleted for the following reason: It looks an awful lot like this blog belongs to a buddy of yours. Please let us know what is up, because that's really not okay. -- cortex
A cure for AIDS?
Post 103569 by Leisure_Muffin deleted for the following reason: pretty sure this is the same general case that was in the post from a few months back -- jessamyn
Forum troll suspends critics' Google Accounts?
Post 103557 by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow deleted for the following reason: This seems like it's kind of running pretty freely with a narrative in a way that's not so great for a mefi post. If there's substantially a thing worth posting about here, maybe someone can find a better way to do it? -- cortex
2011-05-15
Planking death
Post 103528 by puffl deleted for the following reason: This is really too thin to make a good post. -- restless_nomad
2011-05-14
Mathowie's killing me softly, with his words.
Post 103463 by dflemingecon deleted for the following reason: this is on a site that is totally some cheesy fucko linkbait SEO tarpit, no thanks -- jessamyn
2011-05-12
2011-05-11
Pulling a Zuckerberg
Post 103400 by Lovecraft In Brooklyn deleted for the following reason: single link misleading newsfilter. -- jessamyn
Leave me alone.
Post 103392 by VikingSword deleted for the following reason: two can be as bad as one / it's the loneliest number since the number 101700 -- cortex
2011-05-10
2011-05-09
2011-05-08
HRC: Too hot to handle
Post 103296 by CheeseDigestsAll deleted for the following reason: Odd/weird/whatever, but pretty thin and we've had a lot of Osama-fallout miscellany lately already. -- cortex
Cryptic Articles used to give the UK a free press
Post 103278 by priorpark17 deleted for the following reason: Cryptic Daily Maily post needs some more context or explanation. Or not be from the Daily Mail. -- vacapinta
2011-05-07
2011-05-06
2011-05-05
Found Mummified after a Year
Post 103173 by jojo chandran deleted for the following reason: Short, gruesome article not good for metafilter -- vacapinta
2011-05-04
My Favourite Cricketer
Post 103135 by joannemullen deleted for the following reason: A pile of profile links with zero context is kind of pushing it for a post, but using the thread to take potshots at your fellow users is just totally not an okay way to go. -- cortex
2011-05-03
NOT AS ADVERTISED!
Post 103119 by Poet_Lariat deleted for the following reason: Eh, it's been linked already in other threads. -- cortex
2011-05-02
Osama bin Laden Reported Killed by US Forces.
Post 103074 by anti social order deleted for the following reason: Being discussed already -- vacapinta
Vivian Maier, new post of her photographs.
Post 103071 by ThenCameNow deleted for the following reason: We've had a couple posts about this before -- vacapinta
2011-05-01
The Hold Steady
Post 103059 by hirelearning deleted for the following reason: Oh hey look, you work for MSLGROUP, who are crowing on their website about their big Heineken marketing campaign. HMM. -- cortex