MetaTalk posts tagged with deleted

wth?

Baby_Balrog — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:12:16 -0800

Why the hell did this thread get deleted? I've seen this story all over the rest of the web - I was interested in reading about it on metafilter. When ortho posted it I was even more psyched because he did a bang-up job of collecting links that the other sites missed. Also, what kind of bullshit deletion reason is this, "don't. you know where metatalk is." That doesn't even scan for me. What does the Israeli organ harvest story have to do with metatalk?

deleted comments show up in side bar

idiopath — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:53:12 -0800

I can see the favorites this comment has, and it shows up in my side bar because it was made by a contact, but the comment has been deleted.

greasemonkey scripts that try to track deleted comments?

peter_meta_kbd — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:27:30 -0800

The faq says there are greasemonkey scripts that try to track deleted comments. Is there anything working? I couldn't find anything following the link. The deletions here are so regular it's like using the internet from China.

Deleted Posts Accessible to the User?

WCityMike — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:30:12 -0800

I recently had a MeFi post deleted. I know it will still show up in my Metafilter Recent Activity for a while, but once it goes from there, is there any way to track it and any deleted posts from my past? This is something I thought I knew, but I didn't. The deleted post doesn't show in the post-count for my profile -- which I suppose is probably understandable, since that's publicly accessible -- but for the longer-term, it'd be good to know which posts of yours got deleted, if only to make it easier not to repeat the same mistake in the future ... If not, could this perhaps be a pony request? Having a subpage or some sort of user-accessible linkage to the deleted post, perhaps along with the deletion reason? I suppose it occurs to me that having that information accessible to the user whose post was deleted could be valuable for the site itself, i.e., letting prior deletions serve as self-tutelage for the user. I'd like to think I haven't had that many things zapped over the years, but having them handy would mean I'd be less likely to repeat mistakes in the future.

Where did they go?

caddis — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:39:04 -0800

So when did lofi stop showing deleted posts? Is this a new feature or a temporary bug?

Thread deletion marker pony request

goo — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:25:39 -0800

I can haz pony filter: Some sort of live marker of deleted posts, perhaps in live preview, would be really nice. We spend time composing interesting, referenced, pertinent answers/ posts, and then formatting and posting them - only to find the thread has been baleeted in the interim. A marker of deletedness, perhaps in live preview, would save time and not leave posters with that "Uh, bugger. That was a waste of time and effort" feeling. Not a high priority, but it would be nice to have eventually.

Open All Nite!

geekyguy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:21:11 -0800

Mass deletions? 79140, 79144, 79147 and 79149 are all showing as having been deleted but none of them are closed for comments or given a reason for closure. Is my Greasemonkey broken or is your Blue broken?

Stunty McStuntster

davidmsc — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:58:13 -0800

Yes, this stunt post was a bad idea... ...but I felt it was just in light of the absolutely not-FPP-worthiness of this post. And I knew that mine would likely be deleted. But come on. I'm no newbie. I've been here at MeFi for a long time. I know what's good and what's -filter. And posting a few images - no matter how good they might be - is REALLY stretching "Best Of The Web." Look, I know I'm in the minority here at MeFi. Not liberal. Not Democrat. Not progressive. But I'm not exactly a McCain fan, either. But the level of worship here of The One is astounding. And to be honest - really - I'm OK with that. I know where MeFi stands, mostly. I was just trying to inject a tiny wee-little bit of perspective with my admittedly bad and stunty FPP. And demonstrate how awesomely lame such an FPP is/was/will be. Photo galleries as FPP? Eh. Maybe. But a photo gallery about a politician who is in the public eye as no one before in history (probably), both here and on the TV and on the radio and on blogs and on various filters, nearly every moment of every day, often accompanied by doe-eyed worship, and being photographed more than any other politician ever? Come on.

Censoring irony

internationalfeel — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 07:59:30 -0800

My post, Project Censored as censors? was, ironically, deleted for reasons which have nothing to do with the posting guidelines. I complained and was asked to raise it here. It was apparently too "editorialish". I don't know how you measure that, but I could point to any number of undeleted posts that are arguably just as editorialish. If I'm allowed to post it again, here it is. I think it's concise and to the point (and it doesn't break any guidelines)

cemetery gates

plexi — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:12:22 -0800

Although cortex callously and without hesitation deleted my fabulous single link youtube front page post, I still see it, albeit with a re: sidebar.

Is this a feature?

No one here but ghosts and odes to Dan Savage.

desjardins — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:48:50 -0800

Disabled accounts show up in "nearby users." I clicked on this profile and then had to click on this username (because, WTF? Was santorum taken?). Well, to make matters slightly weirder, a search for santorum brings up the username and the user's "real" name, though it's no longer visible in the profile.

Where's my question?

reenum — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:30:56 -0800

I posted a question in AskMeFi and can't find it. What gives? I asked a non-anonymous question which is still not on the green. Did I violate a rule of some sort?

Oh, come on

orthogonality — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:18:43 -0800

It's an interesting story in its own right. Its surface correspondence to the Palin rumors makes for a a good 'hook', which I used, but I don't think that makes the possible solving of a 260-year old mystery less interesting or worth reading about. The coincidence is amusing, but the post doesn't rest on that, and if anything it makes the post more fun. And it certainly doesn't belong in the existing Palin thread. I really don't see how this is a bad post.

Huge threads - can we make them smaller?

billysumday — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:04:50 -0800

Re: the Bristol Palin pregnancy thread being deleted - uh, the other post in which it is being "discussed" is sort of inaccessible. So recently, the thread about Sarah Palin's daughter was deleted and posters/comments were directed to the previous thread in which the Sarah Palin announcement was discussed. But with over 1500 comments, the page loads very, very slowly. It's not really worth it. Could there be some sort of system where every 500 comments or so are hidden - if you wanted to read the first 500 comments you could open them up, but if not, skip ahead to where the discussion is occurring? It just seems that at a certain point, a thread that big becomes non-functional.

Why deleted?

Sitegeist — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:40:03 -0800

My answer deleted. Please explain why. I posted the two word answer "New man." to this question. I wasn't trying to be smart. It was deleted. Here's the part of the questioner's answer that I read that led me to give my answer:

The problem for me is that I'm painfully shy when it comes to sex. I get embarrassed so easily! Rational or not, I can't even bring up what I like because I'm too terrified of being made fun of. I haven't really had much trouble with this in the past because past boyfriends were a bit controlling, which worked perfectly for me in the bedroom.

In other words, it wasn't a problem in the past with previous lovers but it is with the current one. Why is my answer of moving on from the current lover not considered valid then?

metaask

plexi — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:25:52 -0800

I asked a question and many of the responses were that I am "biased." Is a judgement of character a prerequisite for answering a question?

It's a shame a derail can get a good post on cervixen deleted.

pwb503 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:20:54 -0800

It's a shame a derail can get a good post on cervixen deleted. It seems two or three people stated they found the link NSFW. Other than saying something is NSFW when I didn't think (and don't think...) it's NSFW, I don't know how I could have stopped the derail. The Mefi FAQ doesn't spell out the SFW/NSFW guidelines so I made a judgement call like anyone does when they make a post. Sorry if you don't agree with me. Can we repost it with a, "...Borderline NSFW?"

Gee, man.

dersins — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:03:05 -0800

I would like to congratulate gman on the occasion of his thirteenth deleted post of 2008. Is this a record?

I, Item, would like to be able to view deleted Ask Metafilter threads. I don't see what the harm will be, as long as a minor hoop has to be jumped through to view them ala lofi.mefi.

Item — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:49:14 -0800

I'm beguiled by deleted threads and have a hunch others are as well. Any chance of getting a version of lofi for Ask?

MehCain.

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:05:10 -0800

It's disappointing that the McCain thread was killed off. Yes, the material is jokey, but it is an interesting find on the web (who doesn't find more obscure quizzo trivia fascinating?) — which makes it good Metafilter material on that basis — and it also makes a valid point that is good for the kind of discussion that was starting to develop — which also makes it good Metafilter material, as the site is also about comments — before the thread was prematurely euthanized. Tough call, but I have to say I disagree.

Best deleted reason this week

Rafaelloello — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:25:14 -0800

Best "deleted for the following reason" of the week

RSS feed scrubbed of deleted posts?

pantufla_milagrosa — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:05:31 -0800

Greetings from a neophyte mefite. I was wondering: is there a way to get versions of the RSS feeds which don't include front-page posts that have already been deleted? If not, it's a feature suggestion, so please discuss. Apologies if I'm being dumb and this is simply not possible using RSS. (For a while I enjoyed the "guess if this post has been deleted" game, but it's getting old...)

Moderation ate my homework!

Slothrup — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:24:27 -0800

I'm not sure what happened to that gaming/game reviewing link that was just posted a few minutes ago, but after having just spent a decent amount of time transcribing some portion of a Zero Punctuation review, I'm hesitant to let the effort go to waste. And, here it is: I'll be the first to admit that in my reviews I tend to go straight for the gay jokes too much. Somehow a burn becomes doubly funny when you imply that the subject also likes it rough from men with hairy bums. I've honestly been trying to cut down on them lately but jesus, look what I've got to work with. Two inseparable muscular men -- one big and grizzled, the other young and spunky -- running around in gimp masks, knocking down big missile erections, plainly sexually uninterested in the only woman of their acquaintance; and despite ostensibly making a lot of income as contractors they can only afford one parachute between them, which they're a little to eager to share. Okay I promise not to make a big thing of this. Besides, the game plays more like a recruitment video for private military contracting than an endorsement of the bumming lifestyle. We're quickly and frequently reminded that the military is shit and so is everyone in it, while merceneraries are unstoppable immortal badasses who make tons more money and like it rough from men with hairy bums. NO! Bad Yahtzee! I meant to say, and you get to wear funky skull masks like it's Halloween every day except it's you giving out the candy and the candy is bullets.

Metafilter self-fashioning

synecdoche — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:01:27 -0800

Is there something more to this post that got it deleted? It showed up in my RSS feed and I was interested to see the answers, but when I went to the thread I saw it had been deleted. I was a bit surprised-- though there is the one link to the geek fashion web site, otherwise seemed like a legitimate question offering an example of what the poster was looking for. I'm just curious if there is something that links puloxer to the website. (He hasn't posted anything else before, but I don't think that necessarily means that the post is only a plug and not also a legit AskMe.

Always Attach A Rider To Something Innocuous

benzo8 — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:25:30 -0800

Nice catch Cortex... A question, and a pony, erm, rider attached to the end. Sometimes, I don't know how you guys catch these self-linkers so quickly. Do you check the whois of every link posted or what? Some kind of Spidy-sense which tingles when things "just don't seem right"? And the pony? Can we have some indication on the Recent Activity page if a thread we're watching is deleted. That way we don't sit there F5ing the page and wondering why no-one has responded to our awesome wit/outrageous flame/insidious troll/disgusting dump yet...