Moral heuristics, public policy, and self-defeating tribalism

Post 97589 by kliuless deleted for the following reason: this is again seeming like a giant linkdump of articles loosely based around a theme that is again somewhat inscrutable given the framing. This seems like a grwat post, but for some other site. -- jessamyn

This city deserves a better class of criminal.

Post 97586 by d. z. wang deleted for the following reason: there are several open TSA threads, please put this in one of them. -- jessamyn

How does Google work?

Post 97575 by Phire deleted for the following reason: No offense Phire, but this is infographic blog spam for a skeevy pay per click blog. -- mathowie

The Panopticon finally pays off

Post 97573 by mecran01 deleted for the following reason: not actually stolen (that's scott in the photo) and he's not in Vermont either (bay area, California) -- mathowie

mini time travel

Post 97545 by mdn deleted for the following reason: This was just posted yesterday. -- mathowie

Comic People

Post 97544 by Dim Siawns deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this should be a comment in yesterday's thread about it. -- mathowie

take this beard and shove it!

Post 97542 by analogue deleted for the following reason: News of the weird stuff usually isn't great for mefi and this doesn't seem like an exception. -- cortex

Postal Worker Secretly Films Customer's Racist Rant

Post 97532 by ericb deleted for the following reason: Random crazy racist woman establishes herself as shitheel on camera, sure, why is this good for the front page of mefi? -- cortex

Advertising in context - one day only, presumably

Post 97506 by bhb deleted for the following reason: Buh? -- cortex

THESE ARE MY GOOD SWEAT PANTS!

Post 97503 by DMan deleted for the following reason: I hear Robert Downey Jr. didn't even read the previous post. -- cortex

Actress Michelle Nicastro, Soap star, "When Harry met Sally," & Eponine dies at 50

Post 97496 by randomkeystrike deleted for the following reason: Not a big deal, randomkeystrike, but if there's gonna be an obit post for Nicastro it might need to be something with more meat and context than a short Variety blurb. -- cortex

Curtis Got Slapped By A White Teacher

Post 97495 by Drainage! deleted for the following reason: This is a little too Something-Awfulish. -- cortex

Anxiously awaiting the results of this case...

Post 97453 by greatgefilte deleted for the following reason: Manitwoba -- cortex

Explaining SE Asian politics through the medium of naked women

Post 97438 by Paul Slade deleted for the following reason: Tin probably needs to be presented a lot more clearly and with some context. -- cortex

What shall we do with this iPhone?

Post 97345 by Biru deleted for the following reason: It's a post, Jim, but not as we know it. -- cortex

"An Unbelievable Case of Concealment."

Post 97333 by ericb deleted for the following reason: sorry, just missed it. -- mathowie

Toby Jones Big Ass Post & Commentorium

Post 97325 by Rat Spatula deleted for the following reason: Twoby Jtwos -- cortex

No more shines, Billy.

Post 97294 by apranica deleted for the following reason: Sorry, I gotta whack this one. -- mathowie

Windmill, windmill. sigh

Post 97279 by vapidave deleted for the following reason: you might need a little more context with this one. I'm all in favor of SLYT posts, but folks aren't getting this one. -- jessamyn

Black Man Loves Pokemon

Post 97263 by livejamie deleted for the following reason: eh -- cortex

"I wanna screw the whole world"

Post 97249 by ReWayne deleted for the following reason: right now this is a three post blog and a "coming soon" link, can you post a link to it when there's something there? -- jessamyn

Coolest marijuana invention ever

Post 97246 by Gregstonificatore deleted for the following reason: wikipipe seems to be trying to spam us. -- jessamyn

The World of Legal Drugs

Post 97212 by bhb deleted for the following reason: so high right now -- cortex

Understanding italian politics in two words.

Post 97210 by - deleted for the following reason: despite the title, this post still needs more than this to make it explicable to most people, if not everyone. -- jessamyn

Anything worse than this isn't fun

Post 97198 by twoleftfeet deleted for the following reason: Daily Mail is kind of a famously bad source unless you've got a specifically good reason to link to it, in which case saying why is probably a good idea. More generally, you do indeed have control over the framing of your post and putting this in a more explanatory context and skipping the crappy-hed stuff would make the post a lot more workable. -- cortex