Comments on: Is My MetaFilter In My YouTube?

Is My MetaFilter In My YouTube?

TangerineGurl — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:01:02 -0800

I thought there was a way to view a removed FPP? Do those land somewhere? I was just enjoying a link that was posted, but now the FPP is gone! I assume it was removed.

By: FAMOUS MONSTER

FAMOUS MONSTER — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:01:58 -0800

ici

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:03:37 -0800

They exist at the URL they were originally at, so you can look through your history of whatever browser you are using and they will be there. Alternately they do show up on the deleted posts blog but sometimes not until later. There are a few Greasemonkey scripts that allow folks to see the deleted posts inline.

By: griphus

griphus — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:07:14 -0800

Here is the most popular deleted posts script. If you use Firefox, you'll need to install Greasemonkey. Chrome can run scripts natively.

By: the man of twists and turns

the man of twists and turns — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:08:52 -0800

Posts are also sequentially numbered, and referenced by those numbers (not the titles). If you know about when the post was made, you can go to a post near it and manually move through the post numbers in the html address.

By: TangerineGurl

TangerineGurl — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:17:58 -0800

Great tip, themanoftwistsandturns, I had not thought of that.
Jessamyn: I knew there was probably a greasemonkey thing, but was after the link that FAMOUSMONSTER posted.

Thanks!

By: TangerineGurl

TangerineGurl — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:22:31 -0800

griphus -- Thank you! Installed. Chrome.

By: John Cohen

John Cohen — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:25:42 -0800

In addition to what everyone else said, if you've favorited any comments in the thread, I believe those will still show up in your favorites. (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong about this.)

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:40:43 -0800

One quirk of that script that is heavily non-intuitive, TangerineGurl, is that if there is no post newer than a deleted post (in other words, if it hadn't been deleted it would be the post at the top of the page) then the script won't catch it and you'll have to find it by manually manipulating the URL, as the man of twists and turns mentions.

By: TangerineGurl

TangerineGurl — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:42:59 -0800

I found it!! I found it!!
[and I think the comments killed the post]
I had not even GOTTEN to the comments!

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:55:33 -0800

This makes me miss puke & cry

By: stagewhisper

stagewhisper — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:12:31 -0800

He's referring to deceased metafilter member puke & cry who kept an excellent deleted posts blog for a number of years.

By: buggzzee23

buggzzee23 — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:31:42 -0800

Whatever happened to lofi.mefi?

By: zamboni

zamboni — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:19:39 -0800

It's here, but it doesn't display deleted stuff any more. Now what about Baby Jane?

By: IndigoRain

IndigoRain — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:48:06 -0800

RIP P&C. <3 :'(

By: the man of twists and turns

the man of twists and turns — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:02:56 -0800

using my suggested technique, I've stumbled across the rare and elusive deleted MetaTalk thread.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:07:35 -0800

Wow. Here is the thread talking about that deletion where mathowie reads everyone the definition of censorship.