Looking for Chuck Norris Legal Team C&D

January 31, 2006 2:26 PM

I can't find the ask mefi post about Chuck Norris's legal team issuing a C&D.

The search function yields this: "Ask MetaFilter | Community Weblog
January 30, 2006 8:30 PM PST. 20 most popular tags in the past month: Posts by category in the past month: January 30 ... I run a t-shirt site, and have received a "cease and desist" letter from Chuck Norris's lawyers .."

Clicking it simply brings up ask.metafilter.com. I did look through all of the January 30th posts but couldn't find it, and I haven't seen any notes about it being deleted.
I'm looking for it because a law student friend is curious about it.
posted by drstein to MetaFilter-related at 2:26 PM (13 comments total)

I'll just take a wild guess that the questioner asked to have it removed.
posted by smackfu at 2:30 PM on January 31, 2006

voila
posted by squeak at 2:32 PM on January 31, 2006

Oh. Y'know, I didn't know that was an option.

I kind of wish there was a way to note that 'such & such has been removed' because sometimes folks (like myself) do search back through old posts for various reasons and it's confusing when the posts simply disappear. :-)
posted by drstein at 2:33 PM on January 31, 2006

squeak: Why thank you. Obviously, I missed that one. Hrm.

Sorry to bug y'all. I guess yahoo's search function just sucks. heh.
posted by drstein at 2:38 PM on January 31, 2006

The post is in the January 30th posts and has not been deleted. It's one click off of the main page if you click on "previous questions" at the bottom of ther main page. I added a chucknorris tag to aid in findability, but the page that you retrieved from the search was just a cache of the main AskMe page that mentioned the Chuck Norris post as being a recent post. The search function doesn't do real well at posts that have been posted in the past week or so, since they're not indexed that quickly. I'm not sure what sort of coverage Yahoo or Google has for posts before that.
posted by jessamyn at 2:39 PM on January 31, 2006

Oh. Y'know, I didn't know that was an option.

Well, it used to be that deleted questions were no longer visible in any way. Then there were complaints that they just magically disappeared. So now you can see them if you know the URL, and see why they were deleted. Great.

Except that occasionally questions have been deleted not for breaking the rules but because the questioner decided the question was a bad idea altogether. For instance, asking for advice for a friend who committed a crime, which may have seemed like a good idea but is essentially admitting guilt and is a very bad idea. So in those cases, I imagine the thread would still disappear entirely. Leaving it up with a deletion reason wouldn't solve the problem at all. I figured that was the case here. Guess not!
posted by smackfu at 3:12 PM on January 31, 2006

The shirt is still available too, although the mouseover message was changed a bit. Rolling the dice, I guess
posted by lobstah at 3:28 PM on January 31, 2006

I just checked, and it looks like pages are taking about 20 days to show up in Yahoo (I suppose this will be highly variable though).

Strangely, mathowie's comments seem to be indexed more often - here is a search for a 7 day old post. It could just be coincidence, but then why do mathowie's comments show up the quickest?

Which brings up a related question... There is still a problem with redundant results, the Posts_tagged_with pages, archives pages, the_day_in_posts pages, and the *Filter comments/answers by pages. I thought that there was a change in the last month or two that was supposed to help that, but it doesn't seem to have worked. Is it just going to take longer? Maybe more search terms could be added to the search pages here, like -"*filter comments by", to eliminate some of the extraneous results.
posted by Chuckles at 3:59 PM on January 31, 2006

He put it in "fasion and clothing" rather then "law and government" by mistake.
posted by delmoi at 6:06 PM on January 31, 2006

For instance, asking for advice for a friend who committed a crime, which may have seemed like a good idea but is essentially admitting guilt and is a very bad idea.

Just for the record, it's not an admission of guilt if your friend says you might be in trouble, it's just their opinion. The only problem is that you personally could be suspended by the DA. IM-IANAL-O
posted by delmoi at 6:08 PM on January 31, 2006

Ugh, not 'suspended' subpoenaed.
posted by delmoi at 6:10 PM on January 31, 2006

that, or the vice-principal sends you to detention for the rest of jr. year.
posted by crunchland at 2:18 AM on February 1, 2006

Except that occasionally questions have been deleted not for breaking the rules but because the questioner decided the question was a bad idea altogether. For instance, asking for advice for a friend who committed a crime, which may have seemed like a good idea but is essentially admitting guilt and is a very bad idea. So in those cases, I imagine the thread would still disappear entirely. Leaving it up with a deletion reason wouldn't solve the problem at all. I figured that was the case here. Guess not!

Those still exist too.
posted by Rhomboid at 3:19 AM on February 1, 2006