2016-02-29
Brexit Backgrounder
Post 157534 by storybored deleted for the following reason: Hey there, better to put these in the open Brexit thread -- LobsterMitten
2016-02-28
Ulay, Oh
Post 157495 by little_dog_laughing deleted for the following reason: Geniuses, lower your voices. Stay out of trouble and you double your choices. -- Eyebrows McGee
2016-02-27
Sniffing out the truth
Post 157464 by Joe in Australia deleted for the following reason: This is a bummer but there's definitely a sketchy-if-sporadic spammy redirect happening on phones on the discovermagazine link. If there's a not-attributionally-problematic alternate link we could bring this back with that. -- cortex
"Obviously at some point they were conscious; somebody felt threatened."
Post 157475 by Rainbo Vagrant deleted for the following reason: This is terrible, but not clear why it's a good post for Metafilter. -- LobsterMitten
2016-02-26
The Dog Thief Killings
Post 157462 by infinitywaltz deleted for the following reason: Sorry, but this seems sort of lookylou Gonzo horror-show poverty tourism "Western white guy points out how savage and paradoxical these Others are," with quite a lot of violent description intended to shock, but without actually bringing much examination beyond this that might make it worth working through an angry discussion -- taz
Wikipcdia
Post 157460 by storybored deleted for the following reason: This is kind of content-farmy, sorry. -- LobsterMitten
#FreeKesha - can we?
Post 157458 by divabat deleted for the following reason: The situation sucks but we just had a month long thread on it, and this link doesn't seem like a huge development. -- LobsterMitten
2016-02-25
Matt Taibbi on How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable
Post 157409 by bodywithoutorgans deleted for the following reason: Sorry, better to take this over to the open Trump thread. -- LobsterMitten
Kanye On The Couch
Post 157427 by chavenet deleted for the following reason: I think on balance the humor here isn't outweighed by the meanspiritedness, sorry. -- restless_nomad
2016-02-24
"Librarians are more freedom fighters than shushers."
Post 157394 by anotherpanacea deleted for the following reason: Looks like this post is... [sunglasses] ...a little overdue. -- cortex
2016-02-23
Law and order in Reddit’s Karma Court
Post 157355 by ellieBOA deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry, but this is getting flagged a lot, and the court finds that while the OP is innocent of malice, much of Reddit is guilty of being a habitual offender against humanity via hate speech and other bigotry, including posts from the article's main link. -- taz
2016-02-21
And then there were three... er, four... um, let me get back to you.
Post 157322 by AlonzoMosleyFBI deleted for the following reason: We have a couple of active campaign threads already, why don't you drop these links in the Nevada and South Carolina thread where they're already discussing Bush's drop out and at least one of these links has appeared. -- Eyebrows McGee
Waving your goodbye, up there in the sky
Post 157312 by schroedinger deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry, but Metafilter isn't really for writing articles on a topic, which is something better for your own site or blog -- taz
7 Ways Social Justice Language Can Be Abusive in Intimate Relationships
Post 157309 by Blasdelb deleted for the following reason: Hey, it's not really clear what's going on here. Are these articles related to each other in some way, or just an arbitrary handful from everydayfeminism.com? We've linked to the site before (including three currently open threads), so if this is kind of "oh hey look, here's an interesting site," this isn't an undiscovered site for mefi. Please contact us if you'd like to discuss. -- taz
"I do not believe using your body to take care of yourself is shameful."
Post 157328 by roomthreeseventeen deleted for the following reason: Sorry for the delayed delete. The subject of the articles seems an interesting person, but the clickbaity presentation is so overblown that it invites pushback, which given the subject can get ugly in so many ways. -- LobsterMitten
2016-02-20
A pure love song to analyse you～Die～
Post 157296 by Heywood Mogroot III deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry, but this kind of personal-bloggy style doesn't work here. -- restless_nomad
20 Tips for your first abortion.
Post 157304 by frumiousb deleted for the following reason: The piece itself is interesting, but as a post it's kinda thin, especially without any reporting on the trolling. There's not much conversation to have beyond "Trolls are terrible" without more context. -- Eyebrows McGee
2016-02-18
"How VIP do I gotta get?"
Post 157227 by paleyellowwithorange deleted for the following reason: Yeah this is a bit thin, sorry. -- goodnewsfortheinsane
Why was the late Justice Scalia enjoying a free stay on a Texas ranch...
Post 157239 by MisplaceDisgrace deleted for the following reason: Probably better to keep the discussion corralled in the existing Scalia thread. -- LobsterMitten
A lady always keeps her legs crossed
Post 157247 by Daddy-O deleted for the following reason: This is problematic in a variety of ways, sorry. -- restless_nomad
2016-02-17
"I am telling you, there is going to be a revolution."
Post 157220 by Fizz deleted for the following reason: A cranky op-ed is not a good way to open a conversation about a difficult topic, sorry. -- restless_nomad
2016-02-16
Word choice is hard here.
Post 157187 by Huck500 deleted for the following reason: This is not the way to approach this. -- LobsterMitten
I can’t imagine life without my white male privilege.
Post 157197 by blue_beetle deleted for the following reason: This is thin, and sarcasm without context tends to lead to acrimony more than anything. -- restless_nomad
Come Home Cardinal Pell
Post 157194 by bangalla deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry, but the active crowdfunding campaign is a no-go here. -- restless_nomad
Come home (Cardinal George Pell)
Post 157189 by adept256 deleted for the following reason: Sorry, open fundraising campaigns are a no-go for the front page. It will be fine to repost once the campaign period has finished. -- LobsterMitten
California is Chile. Georgia is Libya.
Post 157188 by Cool Papa Bell deleted for the following reason: This is going over like Djibouti in Alaska, amirite? -- LobsterMitten
2016-02-14
Martin Shrkeli Tricked out of $15M in bitcoin to buy Life of Pablo
Post 157123 by WhitenoisE deleted for the following reason: Extremely thin. Three tweets? -- Eyebrows McGee
"Prone to fits of mania, narcissism, and power-failure."
Post 157138 by Fizz deleted for the following reason: Looks like we had a post about High-Rise late last year. -- cortex
"This is about family values."
Post 157132 by Johnny Wallflower deleted for the following reason: It's a decent chuckle but "introduces bill" is a lot different from "passes law" and this is a wee little legislative-news-of-the-weird blurb for a post. -- cortex
2016-02-13
Your New Porn Star Name: Elementary School + Fave Soft Drink
Post 157107 by valkane deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry, but a Mefi post needs to have a link to some particularly good interesting thing, and this is just a link to the entire run of Community. I get what you were going for with this but there's not enough there there for a Mefi post. -- LobsterMitten
2016-02-12
Is netradio finally squeezing out the little guy?
Post 157088 by p3t3 deleted for the following reason: This is blatant friends linking, which is not ok here. -- restless_nomad
2016-02-11
The Queen is Dead, Long Live Bureaucratic Protocol
Post 157051 by firstbest deleted for the following reason: Hey sorry, this is interesting but I'm not sure what the linked site is (clickdimensions?), plus the misleading title is serving as an insta-derail; fine to repost if these problems can be resolved -- LobsterMitten
2016-02-10
Trans activists, don't throw mad people under the bus.
Post 157016 by roomthreeseventeen deleted for the following reason: Eh, this seems like kind of a deep-in-the-weeds editorial, and the whole pitting-trans-activists-against-mental-illness-activists framing of it seems like sort of a needless fightstarter for a post about a couple of already complicated subjects. -- cortex
2016-02-09
I heard there was a football game at your concert
Post 156975 by clawsoon deleted for the following reason: We're already discussing Formation and the Superbowl performance over here. -- LobsterMitten
Investigative report on the closure of Toronto's Gender Identity Clinic
Post 156966 by PercussivePaul deleted for the following reason: Hey, this is a super highly charged topic that we discussed recently, and if we are going to reasonably cover it again, it needs to be a much more in-depth presentation. -- taz
2016-02-08
No more nurseries?
Post 156936 by floweredfish deleted for the following reason: Heya, this sort of "and here's my opinion about it" rhetorical personal framing is pretty much a no go for MetaFilter posts. -- cortex
Yale Educator Recounts ‘Painful Experience’ of Halloween Email Furor
Post 156950 by shotgunbooty deleted for the following reason: She doesn't seem to have anything new to say on the events from last fall and her book doesn't seem to be about that; we had several lengthy threads about her/this and I don't know what's going to be helped by revisiting Christakis still not understanding why the students were protesting. -- LobsterMitten
2016-02-06
Gulp.
Post 156906 by Fizz deleted for the following reason: Might be a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal, but it's too thin as it stands. -- Eyebrows McGee
It's a League Game, Smokey
Post 156905 by MoonOrb deleted for the following reason: Double. Don't be shocked if your hist'ry book mentions me. -- Eyebrows McGee
2016-02-05
Taste Sensation that's Not Sweeping the Nation
Post 156885 by valkane deleted for the following reason: Sorry for the delayed delete - having looked more closely at the links, this is actually pretty thin with basically one news article to go on. If this is a real thing, it'd probably go better with more in-depth resources for folks to talk about beyond the kind of news-of-the-weird angle. -- LobsterMitten
She's dead... wrapped in plastic
Post 156875 by urbanwhaleshark deleted for the following reason: Folks seem pretty mixed on this, plus unexpected dicks, meh. -- LobsterMitten
2016-02-04
Bernie or Hillary?
Post 156822 by Chocolate Pickle deleted for the following reason: Sorry, this is pretty slight and probably better as a comment in one of the open election threads. -- LobsterMitten
2016-02-02
Equivalents to the UK's old National Record of Achievement?
Post 156780 by knapah deleted for the following reason: Hey, it looks like this was meant for Ask Metafilter; you can go ahead and repost over there -- taz