Why was my post removed?

October 20, 2006 7:52 PM

Why did my post at AskMeFi about iTunes 7 get removed minutes after I posted it?
posted by crapples to etiquette/policy at 7:52 PM (26 comments total)

what was the question?
posted by Manhasset at 7:59 PM on October 20, 2006

We need some guidelines on which questions deserve MeTa threads versus which questions should be e-mailed directly to an administrator. I mean, if you're not going to link to your question, and if you're not going to tell us what your question was, then how do you expect the community to help?
posted by cribcage at 8:14 PM on October 20, 2006

Can you include a link or give us an idea of when you posted it? I don't remember seeing it.
posted by jessamyn at 8:20 PM on October 20, 2006

I blame the Axis of Soros.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 8:26 PM on October 20, 2006

I looked back through the last two days of posting, checking all the number gaps in posting numbers, and didn't see anything about iTunes 7.

Could it be that it didn't actually post?
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 8:34 PM on October 20, 2006

Who done stole crapples' AskMe post?
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese at 9:00 PM on October 20, 2006

I looked back through the last two days of posting, checking all the number gaps in posting numbers, and didn't see anything about iTunes 7.

Jinx. Not. Lol.
posted by econous at 9:00 PM on October 20, 2006

Oh, crapples!
posted by cortex at 1:54 AM on October 21, 2006

Whoops - It looks like I have accidentally committed a MeTa faux paux! My apologies. I can't provide a link to my post because it doesn't exist - that's the point. I posted it. I saw it there with zero comments. I read someone else's post, then when I went back to the main list of posts mine was gone. I figured some administrator deleted it or something.

Still don't know what happened to it, but maybe I'll just post again. Thanks.
posted by crapples at 6:39 AM on October 21, 2006

Well, if you can post it again before your seven days are up, then it didn't post the first time. I'm not doubting what you saw, exactly, but I am saying that neither mathowie or I remember removing such a post and a cursory link-number-gap check doesn't show anything there either. Do you rememebr what questions it was before or after? Did this happen right before you posted to MetaTalk?
posted by jessamyn at 7:41 AM on October 21, 2006

Who took my soda?!? It was RIGHT. HERE.
posted by jonson at 8:01 AM on October 21, 2006

I can't provide a link to my post because it doesn't exist - that's the point.

If your post is "deleted" by an administrator, the thread is (2) closed to new comments and (2) removed from the AskMe front page; but it stays online, along with whatever comments that had been posted before deletion and an explanation from the administrator explaining why it was deleted. "Deleted" is a somewhat misleading term. If your thread had been deleted, it would still exist.
posted by cribcage at 8:29 AM on October 21, 2006

Well, if you check the urls of everything posted on 10/20 like I just did, aside from some juggling message numbers having to do with anonymous posts, there are no gaps. Nothing was deleted from AskMe yesterday.
posted by crunchland at 8:31 AM on October 21, 2006

Here's an example of a deleted AskMe.
posted by cribcage at 8:34 AM on October 21, 2006

Hey! I left my ice cubes in the sink, and now there's nothing in there but some water! A fish must've stole them!

With apologies to Bert & Ernie
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:38 AM on October 21, 2006

No fish were involved in the loss of crapples not-actually-posted-to-Askme question.
posted by five fresh fish at 1:51 PM on October 21, 2006

Nor, for that matter, the loss of your icecubes. That was all Quonsar's fault.
posted by five fresh fish at 1:52 PM on October 21, 2006

my first comment in this thread - "this post is better suited to AskMe" - was baleeted by an overmodulous zealot.
posted by quonsar at 2:22 PM on October 21, 2006

I knew it!


*Considers location of the felonious fish, decides to just let it go and make new ice cubes*
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 2:23 PM on October 21, 2006

Icecubes = water = thing that fish pee in.

Freeze your vodka instead.
posted by five fresh fish at 5:01 PM on October 21, 2006

my first comment in this thread - "this post is better suited to AskMe" - was baleeted by an overmodulous zealot.

It was a dumb joke meant to confuse a newbie, said by a long-time member. It wasn't helpful, the opposite of helpful actually, so I deleted it.
posted by mathowie at 5:11 PM on October 21, 2006

That thievin' fish is in someone's pants. I just know it.
posted by ninjew at 7:45 PM on October 21, 2006

on reflection, that should have read "overmodulous zealerator"...
posted by quonsar at 7:51 PM on October 21, 2006

MetaTalk: If your thread had been deleted, it would still exist.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 8:50 PM on October 21, 2006

I posted it. I saw it there

It was Princess Preview in the Interface with the Anchor Tag.
posted by If I Had An Anus at 8:54 PM on October 21, 2006

This thread is a lot more fun than the one about y2karl.
posted by timeistight at 10:38 PM on October 21, 2006