2015-05-31

"You have to wrestle with the accusations."

Post 150086 by zarq deleted for the following reason: This is a terrible thing that happened, but I'm not sure there's enough here to make it a conversation distinct from the many we've had on the subject. -- restless_nomad

2015-05-30

Scientists: Today's pop music making us stupid

Post 150071 by Seekerofsplendor deleted for the following reason: Hey, that previously is just a few days old, go ahead and add this there maybe. -- cortex

2015-05-29

"especially transgender and gender non-conforming individuals"

Post 150058 by feckless fecal fear mongering deleted for the following reason: Hey there, this is a good thing, but also an annual thing he does, and we've had a previous post on the very same proclamation. -- LobsterMitten

Love Your Professor

Post 150053 by CCBC deleted for the following reason: We've had plenty of fighty threads about campus politics these days, and how students are too soft, and shouldn't we be skeptical about rape claims, and so on, and we don't need to have another. -- LobsterMitten

Silent Majority Millennials

Post 150029 by y2karl deleted for the following reason: Seems like the site with the actual content is borked, post again in a day or two. -- cortex

I guess it really was a softer world.

Post 150026 by j03 deleted for the following reason: A "goodbye, A Softer World" post would be totally fine but it can't be one featuring a still-active Kickstarter campaign. -- cortex

2015-05-28

In nekoatsume something like this costs exactly 20 gold sardines.

Post 150005 by phunniemee deleted for the following reason: Link isn't working for me but we saw this back in 2011. -- LobsterMitten

But there are often blind spots in these comparisons

Post 150003 by andoatnp deleted for the following reason: We already have an open long-fighty post on this issue and don't need another. -- LobsterMitten

2015-05-27

There are already 4889 Apple Watch apps available.

Post 149976 by colie deleted for the following reason: This seems like it's just some semi-sketchy app/watch content mill's landing page for watch stuff, no real there there. -- cortex

Basic income for all?

Post 149970 by gottabefunky deleted for the following reason: Heya, posts including active fundraisers are a no-go for the front page, even if it's more a post about the reception of said fundraiser than about the fundraising itself. -- cortex

Consensus Has Got To Go

Post 149966 by anemone of the state deleted for the following reason: Consensus is apparently in the air; go ahead and add this to the other consensus-related post that showed up three minutes earlier if this isn't already one of the links. -- cortex

2015-05-26

15 ways to ditch your (mental) luggage

Post 149954 by storybored deleted for the following reason: -- restless_nomad

"...that doesn’t mean my kids should have to smell their farts.”

Post 149952 by wallabear deleted for the following reason: This is funny but rather insubstantial for a fpp, sorry. -- restless_nomad

Pentagon report: West’s support for Islamist rebels would create ISIS

Post 149935 by standardasparagus deleted for the following reason: Hey there, it sounds like this piece is misrepresenting the nature of the evidence in a kind of inflammatory way, which isn't going to make for a good discussion. -- LobsterMitten

Flooding in Houston

Post 149933 by arcticseal deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- LobsterMitten

2015-05-25

"Do all black people like chicken & watermelon?"

Post 149910 by huguini deleted for the following reason: There's not a lot of content there for a post, and titling this with the most offensive choice of "questions" asked is really a bad way to go here -- taz

2015-05-24

John Nash killed in Car Accident

Post 149889 by MisantropicPainforest deleted for the following reason: Hey there, let's see if anyway can put together a few more links or something beyond the bare fact here. -- LobsterMitten

Forgiveness is a limited resource

Post 149887 by Evilspork deleted for the following reason: Hey, if we're going to have a post about this, it really needs more context and to be more than a single-link half-jokey snarky thing -- taz

2015-05-23

I'm sorry I will be an idiot!

Post 149882 by Chocolate Pickle deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure there's all that much to discuss here - it's a one-off joke. -- restless_nomad

"You don't belong here."

Post 149877 by ourt deleted for the following reason: This is a bad thing, for sure, but there's not nearly enough here to sustain a Metafilter thread, sorry. -- restless_nomad

2015-05-22

The Genderbread Person

Post 149868 by joseph conrad is fully awesome deleted for the following reason: Sorry for the late delete, but given the cited attribution problems, plus the fact that the site owner is also explicitly selling his book on this site, perhaps it's better to skip this -- or maybe a redo that includes the background. -- taz

Thirteen Aphorisms

Post 149860 by Chocolate Pickle deleted for the following reason: Eh, I don't think anybody's really sitting around wondering what Ted Nugent has to say at this point to the degree that it merits a post. -- cortex

It all began with Larry "Bud" Melman...

Post 149853 by AlonzoMosleyFBI deleted for the following reason: Bummer about the facebook visibility wall; do-over if the content gets rehosted in a generally available way would be fine. -- cortex

2015-05-21

Nothing valued is here.

Post 149838 by Sticherbeast deleted for the following reason: Double. -- restless_nomad

GMO - the science

Post 149823 by storybored deleted for the following reason: We've had a bunch of fights about GMO over the years and it sounds like this piece is from a questionable source anyway, so maybe better to skip it this time. -- LobsterMitten

2015-05-20

Printing a wall-sized world map

Post 149789 by mr. manager deleted for the following reason: This map's no good, we're going in circles! -- cortex

2015-05-19

This is a High Concept Reality Show

Post 149766 by Atreides deleted for the following reason: This is bizarre for sure, but seems like it's not the product of someone who's in a good place, so it's maybe kind of point-and-laugh to throw attention on it. -- LobsterMitten

2015-05-18

your feline's feces, frisked, for a fee

Post 149746 by captivepredator deleted for the following reason: Heya, looks like this is about something running an active Kickstarter; a post about it after that's done could be okay but right now that's not workable. -- cortex

Sam Harris and Noam Chomsky - An Unpleasant and Fruitless Encounter

Post 149739 by xigxag deleted for the following reason: Post-text-as-sarcastic-takedown-of-post-subject is generally not a workable approach to framing a post to the front page. -- cortex

*arm flail*

Post 149733 by feckless fecal fear mongering deleted for the following reason: Already! -- taz

2015-05-16

I don't need feminism because what I need is to bite you

Post 149705 by ChurchHatesTucker deleted for the following reason: Raising cat consciousness is a worthy goal, but we discussed this tumblr back when the 'women against feminism' thing was originally going around and I don't know that we need to rehash it. -- LobsterMitten

Thing Explainer

Post 149703 by HillbillyInBC deleted for the following reason: Aw, sorry, I love Up-Goer Five and I'm beyond excited for this book, but just the announcement that there will be a book isn't quite enough for a MeFi post. A post needs to have something for folks to read or look at on the web. Maybe when the book comes out he'll have sample pages to link to, and this could be a post then? -- LobsterMitten

Cruz control

Post 149701 by growabrain deleted for the following reason: Funny but a bit thin for now; as you say, maybe later? -- LobsterMitten

2015-05-15

Girl Scouts Are Our Future

Post 149686 by five fresh fish deleted for the following reason: Neat, but this is a pretty short blog post and kind of more of a here's-my-personal-thoughts approach to your framing than is really normal for a front page post. -- cortex

The KING is gone...

Post 149684 by shockingbluamp deleted for the following reason: earlier today -- cortex

Kittens against oppression

Post 149682 by Lanark deleted for the following reason: This is a little too much "this is my opinion" to work as a mefi post. -- cortex

Analyzing Mad Max car chase scenes with infographics.

Post 149674 by joseph conrad is fully awesome deleted for the following reason: Heya, the previously is from two days ago, go ahead and add this stuff there. -- cortex

We Don't Need Another Hero(ine)

Post 149670 by helmutdog deleted for the following reason: There's a post about the movie from a couple days ago, and a new one just to gawk at horrible people being horrible does not seem like a good use of the front page. -- cortex

The Thrill Is Gone

Post 149663 by jfuller deleted for the following reason: Posted about just now, sorry. -- goodnewsfortheinsane

2015-05-14

2015-05-13

Gratuitous sexism

Post 149606 by jedicus deleted for the following reason: Eh, I appreciate a good deadpan Hasselhoffian condemnation of endemic sexism as much as the next person but this seems kinda thin for a post. -- cortex

1. Eternal life. 2. The strike zone. & 3. Good waves

Post 149602 by gwint deleted for the following reason: Heya, looks like we just had a post about Norris a couple months ago. -- cortex

2015-05-12

The Big Lebowskemoji

Post 149591 by joseph conrad is fully awesome deleted for the following reason: Double. -- restless_nomad

Men In Black no, not the movies.

Post 149582 by eggtooth deleted for the following reason: This seems kinda thin for a post about notional international governmental disclosures. Maybe we can wait until either the US or Russia does, in fact, make some definitive statement about the UFOs next week and there's some concomitant substantial reporting to link to. -- cortex

Saying No to Obamacare

Post 149577 by zzazazz deleted for the following reason: Active fundraiser link makes this a problem in any case, but "people are being brutal in the comments" is pretty unlikely to be a good basis for a post regardless of sympathetic or not-so-sympathetic intentions. -- cortex

2015-05-11

Denzel Washington's commencement address

Post 149557 by Seekerofsplendor deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry, this seems to be a nice but not very distinctive commencement speech; if there's something I'm missing about why it rises above others, hit us up at the contact form. -- LobsterMitten

Two steps back

Post 149546 by savitarka deleted for the following reason: Sorry, this does suck but I don't know that we need a brief post on yet another stupidly sexist game tie-in. -- LobsterMitten

The Web Sucks

Post 149543 by rankfreudlite deleted for the following reason: Not clear why this would be a good post for MetaFilter? -- LobsterMitten

2015-05-10

PRO: If your early world is intolerable, you create a world of your own.

Post 149523 by Apocryphon deleted for the following reason: This article is past ironic and into generally hostile sarcasm here, sorry. -- restless_nomad

Unhappy Mother's Day

Post 149520 by NotATailor deleted for the following reason: This is far too much on the editorializing side, sorry. -- restless_nomad

7s looking for 10s but they think they’re 11s

Post 149517 by Cash4Lead deleted for the following reason: This sort of provocative broad-generalization stuff tends not to lead to great Metafilter threads, sorry. -- restless_nomad

2015-05-08

The Satanic Temple Just Filed a Lawsuit Against Abortion Restrictions

Post 149482 by Peregrine Pickle deleted for the following reason: We've got a no-ongoing-fundraisers rules for posts to the front page, but it'd be fine to revisit this after the fundraising process has finished in a couple months. -- cortex

2015-05-07

“I am worth less than a shoe,” she said.

Post 149453 by Fizz deleted for the following reason: Double. -- LobsterMitten

"Mad Men's Love Affair with '60s Pop Culture"

Post 149440 by ourt deleted for the following reason: Posted previously -- goodnewsfortheinsane

2015-05-06

Totally Not Satoshi

Post 149427 by bbuda deleted for the following reason: Double. -- restless_nomad

Two Great Tastes

Post 149416 by chrchr deleted for the following reason: A single link to a promotional site for a self-published book doesn't seem like a great post -- taz

:(

Post 149413 by rorgy deleted for the following reason: It's an amusing little blip, but also pretty thin for a post and we've got a loooot of Election 2016 to get through still given the first half of 2015. -- cortex

From the social policy journal "Duh"

Post 149412 by Johnny Wallflower deleted for the following reason: Looks like there was a pretty in-depth post about Housing First stuff a couple months back. -- cortex

2015-05-05

America's Music Triangle

Post 149377 by mmiddle deleted for the following reason: Looks like the site is returning a 403.6 - Forbidden error for some or all viewers; let us know if it becomes accessible! -- taz

2015-05-02

Sex and gender in radical feminism explained clearly

Post 149314 by Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory deleted for the following reason: Sorry, but what is essentially someone's arguments about transwomen not being real women is not a good post for Metafilter -- taz

Beauty is Bestowed by Men

Post 149310 by Peregrine Pickle deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry, but we had a discussion on this issue and similar experiment not too long ago. -- taz

2015-05-01

Oops.

Post 149283 by kinnakeet deleted for the following reason: There's an open Apple Watch thread, feel free to add this there. -- goodnewsfortheinsane

More than you probably want to know about boxing rings...

Post 149282 by jim in austin deleted for the following reason: Heya, there's an active thread on Mayweather-Pacquiao, this could maybe go in there as a comment. -- goodnewsfortheinsane