Comments on: If you dupe a deleted post, does it make a sound?

If you dupe a deleted post, does it make a sound?

Plutor — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:52:25 -0800

One is deleted because it has no link. The other is deleted because it's a dupe of the first. But can you dupe a deleted thread? Can you dupe a thread that has no link? Or is this just capitalist revisionism?

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:52:36 -0800

Dupe dupe dupe dupe

By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:02:40 -0800

James Brown is still dead!

By: googly

googly — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:05:19 -0800

Not capitalist revisionism. Post-Soviet purge.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:08:21 -0800

Very odd. Did cortex not realize jessamyn had nuked the first? Personally, I think nickyskye's should be reinstated with an added news link or something; we're going to have a thread about this, and really, who the fuck cares how it's worded?

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:09:04 -0800

Any future links to Yeltsin's death that serve only to tell us that, Hey! He's dead! should also be dumped.

By: and hosted from Uranus

and hosted from Uranus — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:10:23 -0800

I believe the cortex deletion happened before the jessamyn one.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:11:23 -0800

I'm pretty sure I beat jess to the punch, actually. But very Keystone Kops regardless, I guess. When I saw 'em, I thought the second thread was a bit better presented, but the comments had already devolved into This Is Going To Get Deleted silliness.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:13:16 -0800

a chorus of Boris.

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:14:04 -0800

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:14:23 -0800

I axed the Wikipedia link one -- it's really a stretch to link to Wikipedia in an obit post -- and restored the other one which I hadn't seen. Sorry about that. Sorry cortex!

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:14:36 -0800

I've ressurrected the first one, with an added link to the news link from the second one; let's see how that grand experiment plays out.

By: Firas

Firas — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:15:59 -0800

*smacks head on table*

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:16:26 -0800

wait, WHAT?

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:17:11 -0800

Both threads are now up. Doubleplusgood undelete?

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:17:26 -0800

Thank you both for giving me a laugh this morning.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:17:44 -0800

Guys, put down the ladder before you knock someone out the window.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:18:08 -0800

Which thread should one crap on/in?

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:18:22 -0800

Hundreds of Hand-Drawn Turkeys.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:18:34 -0800

Okay, I have to go fix library wireless and drive through a forest fire to get there. cortex, sweetie, do what you think is right.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:18:36 -0800

classic.

By: Firas

Firas — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:18:43 -0800

nicksyke thread has better comments. Keep it.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:19:12 -0800

Leave 'em both, it's funny!

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:20:29 -0800

These posts, they ~~undelete~~ undulate?

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:24:19 -0800

It's like O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" performed via interpretive dance by Scooby and Shaggy.

By: kosem

kosem — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:24:32 -0800

To the death!

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:31:21 -0800

This is the best thing ever. God bless the MeFi Trinity.

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:34:05 -0800

This was enormously entertaining to read.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:34:18 -0800

It's a good thing Matt's banned, or this would have gotten even trickier.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:39:45 -0800

Was it the Sumerian ban?

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:41:09 -0800

I thought Jessamyn had an invisible plane.
Please advise.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:42:23 -0800

You can certainly dupe a deleted double-post. That would be called a "triple post." And you can also dupe a post with no link, but it will also get deleted, so why bother?

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:42:25 -0800

Remember the sunscreen.

By: evilcolonel

evilcolonel — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:45:20 -0800

"Someone famous dies of old age" newsfilter almost never makes for good posts anyway. The simple fact that a lot of people rush for their keyboards and post about it hoping to be first is enough to justify deleting the lot.

All of us know where CNN's web site is, and know how to read newspapers.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 12:14 PM on April 23 [+] [!]

Many, many MeFites seem to feel this way. Many, many other MeFites disagree.

Hmm, what to do, what to do?

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:47:50 -0800

I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cat's, I'd delete it again and again.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:05:53 -0800

wait, WHAT?

This thread made me laugh so hard, I am going to have to check into hospitalised for exhaustion.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:07:13 -0800

Grammar Police in the parking lot.
Keep your head's down.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:27:37 -0800

Invisible Dupe!

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:46:42 -0800

I want one~!

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:47:23 -0800

Dupe dupe dupe dupe

...of Earl
Dupe, Dupe, Dupe of Earl
Dupe, Dupe, Dupe of Earl
Dupe, Dupe, Dupe of Earl....

As I walk through this world
Nothing can stop the Dupe of Earl
And-a you, you are my girl
And no one can hurt you, oh no...

And when I hold you
You'll be my Dupess, Dupess of Earl
We'll walk through my delete-dom
And a paradise we will share

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:50:20 -0800

It could have been Dupe of URL if the first one had one....

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:02:46 -0800

Invisible Dupe!
posted by mathowie at 3:27 PM on April 23

Hey, you're banned! Back to the cornfield!

By: nola

nola — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:11:43 -0800

This is just very funny.

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:13:40 -0800

Boy, Matt. You sure dance funny. And what's with all the crazy clothes? I can't even imagine why you need to wear a helmet. Full body slam dancing in the woods?

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:22:43 -0800

jessamyn: [attempts to poke cortex in the eyes]
cortex: [blocks with palm] Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo!
mathowie: [tweaks cortex's nose, producing honking sound]

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:36:42 -0800

why I oughta

By: Robert Angelo

Robert Angelo — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:48:06 -0800

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:55:16 -0800

jessamyn writes "Okay, I have to go fix library wireless and drive through a forest fire to get there."

I'm imagining jessamyn saying this in an anti-hero whisper.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:06:28 -0800

The wireless is saved! I trust everyone was able to work this out?

By: Fuzzy Monster

Fuzzy Monster — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:14:02 -0800

and really, who the fuck cares how it's worded?
posted by languagehat

Eponysterical!

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:27:09 -0800

Eponironical!

By: Falconetti

Falconetti — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:35:59 -0800

dupe dupe dupe, dupe dupe Iran

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:38:42 -0800

"'Dupe the Whales'?"
"Gotta dupe somethin'."

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:02:55 -0800

Now that that's resolved can we discuss a moratorium on "." as the title. Not only is it impossible to search for it also makes tab text that looks like MF is flipping the bird.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:05:38 -0800

So it's a wash, is what you're saying?

By: dg

dg — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:31:42 -0800

I trust everyone was able to work this out?
We've never been able to work anything else out, why should this be different?

Seriously, though - kudos to the admin ~~mob~~ ~~bunch~~ team for not taking themselves too seriously over this.

By: tula

tula — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:48:24 -0800

In Soviet Union, dupe deletes you!

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:48:47 -0800

Ah, a complete shambles. I'm beginning to feel a sense of belonging.

By: elr

elr — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:53:47 -0800

I guess I checked out metafilter earlier, in that brief, beautiful minute or so where there were no obitfilter posts.

I knew it was impossible that absolutely no one posted a link and I thought, "Finally! The admins are finally going to force people to make a best-of-the-web post when someone dies."

I'd consider it.

A little ghoulish... but maybe if we drew a line in the sand, say that starting with the next person to die, whose name is on the 2007 death list, we (meaning you admins, natch) nuke any obituary threads that don't feature an interesting link that has something to do with the person. Sure "interesting" is a subjective word. I'm using it here to represent any webpage that isn't a death announcement, dry wikipedia biography, or imdb page.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:30:56 -0800

Seeing double posts marking the passing of a lifelong drunkard is fitting. Keep them both up.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:40:57 -0800

All of us know where CNN's web site is, and know how to read newspapers.

But nickyskye is so much nicer than those awful people over at CNN! And didn't you hear Sheryl Crow? Newspapers are bad for the environment.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:46:30 -0800

What kind of an asshole would dupe a deleted post? Some kind of whore for favorites or something?

By: !Jim

!Jim — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:17:00 -0800

These posts, they ~~undelete~~ ~~undulate~~ ululate??

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:19:10 -0800

These posts, they ... ululate??

Well, if they do, I sure wish someone would link to the sound files. (Preferably WAV or AIFF).

By: wool sock

wool sock — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:38:35 -0800

It sort of makes a quiet "squish" sound, and a little later, it seems to emit a great deal of vocally and nasally detectable flatulence.

By: !Jim

!Jim — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:10:24 -0800

Vocally ~~detectable~~ delectable flatulence? No wait, probably not.

since we're doing the <del> thing