That's what the search function is for April 11, 2012 10:14 AM   Subscribe

Seeing quintuple (and counting!)

So after seeing the deletion of the fifth post on the Blue about Caine's Arcade, I got to wondering: What's the record for most deleted double (triple, etc) posts?
posted by jenny76 to MetaFilter-Related at 10:14 AM (28 comments total)

James Brown had a pretty good run when he died, and so did that godforsaken Maestro In The Subway thing; both were a few years ago. Michael Jackson's death kicked up a bunch of deletions too but that was more that we had a series of very lazy posts before one stuck around than doubles coming along after the keeper post.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:18 AM on April 11, 2012


I almost posted about Caine's Arcade last night, but I didn't even have to let the "double link" detector do it's work. I just searched the front page for "Caine" and saw that someone had beat me to it by several hours.

I'm not surprised that breaking news gets reposted many, many times. I'm kind of surprised that this particular FPP was posted five different times.
posted by asnider at 10:26 AM on April 11, 2012


How many deletes did the Harry Potter Magic Vibrating Broom have? That seems like it was at least five...
posted by entropicamericana at 10:41 AM on April 11, 2012


Of course, people without the deleted post script can't see the other deleted posts...
posted by smackfu at 10:45 AM on April 11, 2012


Those color photographs from 1910s Russia might win for long-term staying power.
posted by theodolite at 10:50 AM on April 11, 2012 [1 favorite]


Caine is the James Brown of Sill Living People... the hardest working boy in web virals.
posted by oneswellfoop at 10:56 AM on April 11, 2012


I want to see all the deleted posts; somebody with access to the script should link to them.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 11:54 AM on April 11, 2012


MetaFilter Deleted Posts is an active archive of links, taking over for Delted Thread, which went dormant about a year ago.

Direct links culled from MeFiDeleted, for the curious:

Buy the Fun Pass (April 11, 2012 9:35 AM)
Make Your Own Fun (April 11, 2012 6:55 AM)
Caine's Arcade (April 10, 2012 5:54 PM)
Caine's Arcade (April 10, 2012 10:44 AM)

Original: Four turns for a dollar. 500 turns for two dollars. (April 9, 2012 8:35 PM)
posted by filthy light thief at 12:05 PM on April 11, 2012 [1 favorite]


And those were links to BoingBoing, Wired, a Vimeo link to the same video, an actual double of the original YouTube link, and a link to Caine's Arcade website, where his college fund is up to $82,152.65, from $7,000 on the morning of April 9th.
posted by filthy light thief at 12:10 PM on April 11, 2012


Last comment: it is now the 9th item past the front page, which means some of those doubles were posted while the original link was still there to be found on the front page of MetaFilter. The search function wasn't even necessary.
posted by filthy light thief at 12:12 PM on April 11, 2012


an actual double of the original YouTube link

Which?
posted by empath at 2:16 PM on April 11, 2012


Why didn't it catch the youtube double when I submitted the link, btw? I looked for it.
posted by empath at 2:17 PM on April 11, 2012


And those were links to BoingBoing, Wired, a Vimeo link to the same video, an actual double of the original YouTube link, and a link to Caine's Arcade website, where his college fund is up to $82,152.65, from $7,000 on the morning of April 9th.

It always warms my heart whenever someone successfully turns their lonely child's highly flammable pedophile magnet into a Breaking Bad-style money laundering operation.*
posted by Sys Rq at 2:31 PM on April 11, 2012 [3 favorites]


Get Your War On? I still chuckle sometimes when I remember the goofy intentional double-posts that started showing up for that one.
posted by stopgap at 3:49 PM on April 11, 2012


MetaFilter Deleted Posts is an active archive of links, taking over for Delted Thread, which went dormant about a year ago.

Who updates that blog? I'd like a refresh of the archive, as the deletion reason for my recent post was updated for accuracy, but is not reflect on the blog.
posted by vidur at 4:31 PM on April 11, 2012


Wow, I have a similar question: There were about 3 deletions in a row the other day and I wondered what the most deletions in a row was. Also, is anyone sad enough to collect deletion reasons? There was one recently along the lines of "fuck of from Mefi you fucking spammer", which I believe was by Cortex, and made me laugh mightily. Anyone got any other favourites?
posted by marienbad at 4:47 PM on April 11, 2012


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posted by cashman at 5:27 PM on April 11, 2012


college fund is up to $82,152.65, from $7,000 on the morning of April 9th

Just passed 100K. You can sit and refresh the page every minute or so, it never stops climbing.
posted by donnagirl at 5:54 PM on April 11, 2012


Just passed 100K. You can sit and refresh the page every minute or so, it never stops climbing.

Oh, hey, by the time he's old enough for college, that'll be enough for a year's tuition at a public university! Maybe even two, if he's in-state or his folks invest it wisely in the meantime.

Sorry. Feeling hella pessimistic about what college tuition has been and is likely to continue doing.
posted by Lexica at 6:37 PM on April 11, 2012


Well, thanks. I had a nice happy bowl of cornflakes, and you pissed in it.

Actually, no. I'm dumping these flakes and making a new bowl. It's still sweet, I'm still glad I donated, it's still buckets more resources than he ever would have had otherwise, and it still affirms my hope for the human race. Grouchy won't win today.
posted by donnagirl at 6:50 PM on April 11, 2012


I wasn't pissing on the donations, on the project, or on the kid — I was bemoaning the current trajectory of college tuition. I saw a projection recently that tuition at the UCs (all? just the big ones? it wasn't clear) is heading toward $30,000 a year.

Thirty thousand dollars a year. For a state school. And recent headlines have been making the claim that "Harvard is Now Cheaper than San Jose State".

Yeah, I'm a little pessimistic about that. Sorry if the cold water of present reality diluted your cornflakes to an unappetizing degree.
posted by Lexica at 7:27 PM on April 11, 2012


Oh, it's clear what you were saying. I just don't think there's anything to be grumpy about in this story, and I'm sorry I let what you said distract me from that.
posted by donnagirl at 7:30 PM on April 11, 2012


Funny about that. I watched the video and found the website, and was really surprised when a metafilter search for arcade cardboard caine's didn't come up with anything. Neither of the links I posted had been used before, so I threw it up there. I refreshed the page a few minutes later, supposing that a double would be removed quickly, and was not disappointed.

From now on I'm going to assume that Really Cool Viral Thing implies Already Posted and go get a coffee.
posted by klausman at 10:32 AM on April 12, 2012


vidur: "Who updates that blog?"

Which one? The original Deleted Thread blog was maintained by a MeFite who is now deceased.
posted by subbes at 6:10 PM on April 12, 2012


The MeFi wiki has a page on deleted threads, which notes there's also a blog for deleted AskMe questions, but it doesn't state who is behind the deleted thread blogs. Here's some info on the now-dormant site, and cj_ posting about the two live blogs, which are "automated using the GData Python API and a front-page scrape every 15 minutes looking for missing post ids, similar to the GreaseMonkey script."
posted by filthy light thief at 7:49 PM on April 12, 2012


vidur: "Who updates that blog?"

Which one? The original Deleted Thread blog was maintained by a MeFite who is now deceased.

I meant the new one, which seems to be updated regularly.
posted by vidur at 8:14 PM on April 15, 2012


I believe it is run (well, managed; I think the blog itself is automated) by cj_, as referenced here.
posted by cortex (staff) at 8:19 AM on April 16, 2012


Thanks!
posted by vidur at 7:58 PM on April 16, 2012


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