Deleted Thread deleted? May 7, 2011 9:17 PM Subscribe
What's happened to the Deleted Thread blog?
It hasn't been updated in over a month. I know it's not an 'official' Mefi site, but has puke & cry/bob sarabia/dead cousin ted finally just thrown in the towel, or is it something more sinister?
It hasn't been updated in over a month. I know it's not an 'official' Mefi site, but has puke & cry/bob sarabia/dead cousin ted finally just thrown in the towel, or is it something more sinister?
This post was deleted for the following reason: Poster's Request -- frimble
He's been busy but I think he'll get back to it. Nothing sinister.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:27 PM on May 7, 2011
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:27 PM on May 7, 2011
I'll just open this back up then.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:32 PM on May 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:32 PM on May 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
That's what Osma said!
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:39 PM on May 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:39 PM on May 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
The deleted posts extension works great. I never would have checked it out had the blog not stopped updated, but it's actually better.
posted by Perplexity at 9:44 PM on May 7, 2011 [6 favorites]
posted by Perplexity at 9:44 PM on May 7, 2011 [6 favorites]
Well, there is one way to check how fast the deleted thread blog gets updated…
posted by yaymukund at 9:53 PM on May 7, 2011
posted by yaymukund at 9:53 PM on May 7, 2011
Well I hope none of those were sockpuppets for anonymous-type questions, since now everyone knows all his usernames.
posted by IndigoRain at 10:06 PM on May 7, 2011
posted by IndigoRain at 10:06 PM on May 7, 2011
Ok, he links them in his profile. It's all good. Never mind.
posted by IndigoRain at 10:07 PM on May 7, 2011
posted by IndigoRain at 10:07 PM on May 7, 2011
I can't believe it's updated manually. Isn't that sort of thing what computers are for?
posted by iotic at 11:28 PM on May 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by iotic at 11:28 PM on May 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
The guy running the blog ate pop rocks with soda and DIED.
posted by The Whelk at 6:43 AM on May 8, 2011 [7 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 6:43 AM on May 8, 2011 [7 favorites]
In a parallel universe somewhere, my evil self would be opening a Metafilter clone called www.metafiltrand.com that uses a distinctive red color scheme. It takes the deleted Metafilter threads, opens them for comment, and grows its own community. Mathowie would be pissed, but after typing the cease & desist then he realizes it's all ok because I'm skimming off his fighty, problematic users. Soon we've got this system in place where when cortex and jessamyn have had enough of someone's whining, they close up the account and deliver it to my fighty site, where I take the new user on board. It's the "Take it to the red" program. My team of 20 moderators and those who voluntarily registered at my site school the washback users in how to interact with others and participate productively in threads.
posted by crapmatic at 7:07 AM on May 8, 2011 [13 favorites]
posted by crapmatic at 7:07 AM on May 8, 2011 [13 favorites]
Confining the troublesome users to one site would just allow them to breed and specialize.
posted by The Whelk at 7:14 AM on May 8, 2011
posted by The Whelk at 7:14 AM on May 8, 2011
I'm breeding right now.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:20 AM on May 8, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:20 AM on May 8, 2011 [2 favorites]
Put the frogs down and walk away.
posted by The Whelk at 7:23 AM on May 8, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 7:23 AM on May 8, 2011 [1 favorite]
Hmm, and then once fighty users have been rehabilitated enough, they could graduate to a halfway-house site with only 10 moderators. Called "ascending to the purple".
posted by likeso at 7:34 AM on May 8, 2011
posted by likeso at 7:34 AM on May 8, 2011
Purple ...like a bruise.
It's time to let the healing begun.
posted by The Whelk at 7:50 AM on May 8, 2011
It's time to let the healing begun.
posted by The Whelk at 7:50 AM on May 8, 2011
Not frogs, toads.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:59 AM on May 8, 2011
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 7:59 AM on May 8, 2011
I'm specializing right now.
posted by mintcake! at 8:25 AM on May 8, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by mintcake! at 8:25 AM on May 8, 2011 [1 favorite]
"Course it's Pete. Look at 'im!"
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 8:40 AM on May 8, 2011
posted by St. Alia of the Bunnies at 8:40 AM on May 8, 2011
likeso: "Ah, that explains the warts."
That's a myth! MYTH!
posted by galadriel at 9:09 AM on May 8, 2011
That's a myth! MYTH!
posted by galadriel at 9:09 AM on May 8, 2011
So, who wants to stop me form posting this?
posted by The Whelk at 9:36 AM on May 8, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 9:36 AM on May 8, 2011 [1 favorite]
"What you are about to watch is a mysterious video. It's origin is attributed variously, and almost certainly spuriously, to various abstract artists or surrealists."
Watson did it.
posted by likeso at 9:47 AM on May 8, 2011
Watson did it.
posted by likeso at 9:47 AM on May 8, 2011
likeso: "Ah, that explains the warts."
That's a myth! MYTH!
Yeth?
posted by kate blank at 11:25 AM on May 8, 2011 [2 favorites]
That's a myth! MYTH!
Yeth?
posted by kate blank at 11:25 AM on May 8, 2011 [2 favorites]
I think everyone here needs counselling.
posted by tumid dahlia at 9:09 PM on May 8, 2011
posted by tumid dahlia at 9:09 PM on May 8, 2011
I had a Jack The Ripper theme session and man it took five seconds to come up with a Victorian Worker outfit from my closet.
posted by The Whelk at 9:19 PM on May 8, 2011
posted by The Whelk at 9:19 PM on May 8, 2011
I made an automated version here using the google data API; it checks every 15 minutes. I also sent a memail to p&c about pointing it at his blog instead.
I'll leave it running for now if people want to subscribe to it, but consider it temporary/proof of concept.
posted by cj_ at 2:37 AM on May 9, 2011 [3 favorites]
I'll leave it running for now if people want to subscribe to it, but consider it temporary/proof of concept.
posted by cj_ at 2:37 AM on May 9, 2011 [3 favorites]
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posted by Devils Rancher at 9:23 PM on May 7, 2011 [1 favorite]