MetaTalk posts tagged with deletedpost

Are Sarah Palin posts persona non grata?

double block and bleed — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:07:42 -0800

Is Metafilter just not capable of discussing Sarah Palin, or was it my fault? I found what I thought was a funny (if also cringeworthy) YouTube video about Sarah Palin. So I posted it to the blue. I was unexpectedly called away for a few hours and when I returned, my post was deleted. From the tone of the deletion message, I can clearly see that I've pissed cortex off. FWIW, I feel bad that I made the mods' job harder. I'm OK with my post getting deleted. I had hoped things would go better. The comments certainly did turn south very quickly and I am well aware that I'm not a special snowflake. What I would like to know from my fellow mefites is if the comments turned ugly because of the way that I presented it, or if its just a hot-button issue that we have a hard time being civil about. Is Sarah Palin the new circumcision, or do we just need better posts to frame the discussion?

What did I do wrong?

philip-random — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:40:51 -0800

Why is Glenn NOT being killed in a horrible accident NOT best of the web? Last night, I dared to mount a FPP which consisted of a single link to an Onion News Network story: Victim in Fatal Car Accident Tragically not Glenn Beck. Upon waking this morning, I noticed it had been deleted. After patiently (and vainly) waiting all morning for it to pop up in Deleted Threads, so I could read the reason for the deletion, I now feel compelled to nudge the issue a bit. Was it deemed: 1. just not funny? 2. offensive? 3. too thin? 4. in contravention of some unknown (to me at least) rule about single-linking to The Onion? 5. other? Please educate me. I just watched the clip again and, no it wasn't just the beer I drank last night, it's a darned funny piece of satire that works on more levels than one.

Deleted FPP "shadow" question

stbalbach — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:53:47 -0800

Deleted post shows up on Front Page shadowed out. Cool. Is this only visible to the original poster, or for the OP and anyone who made a comment in the thread? Thanks.

where's the gift list?

history is a weapon — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 14:45:03 -0800

There was a list in the last few weeks of a bunch of weird places to get christmas gifts. One was the american science supply and the author commented that a similar list was put up last year. Searching metafilter and ask metafilter has proven fruitless. Can someone get me back to the post? thanks.

Oh where, oh where, oh where has my post gone...?

hadjiboy — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:26:31 -0800

Just wondering what happened to my Metafilter post (why it got deleted). Did I do something wrong? I checked my email and there was no reason given over there too. Sorry if I'm being a bother Jess; just wanted to know if there was something I could've done better to make the post stay up (liked the andaman site that I'd linked it to).

Quick Draw

sluglicker — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:10:02 -0800

I've never seen one of my posts deleted so quickly. You guys are good!

Why was this deleted?

JeffK — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:18:10 -0800

I have to disagree. I thought things were just getting interesting. There was no name-calling or other objectionable activity going on, was there? What gives?

Complaint on single link FPP on Katrina

Necker — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:14:55 -0800

Oh please....

Too graphic for the front page?

specialk420 — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:01:45 -0800

too graphic for metafilter?

Deletion Reason

lacus — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:43:05 -0800

On Ask MetaFilter I appealed for advice on how to get around being banned from a blog. It seems the thread has been deleted. Why?

My first post to metafilter was deleted. Why?

Leege — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:17:18 -0800

I recently posted my first thread to Metafilter today. Within five minutes, it had been taken down. Did I happen to violate some policy/taboo/sense of etiquette?

This post was deleted for a political reason?

Steve_at_Linnwood — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:57:12 -0800

This post was deleted for the following reason: fuck zell miller

Why was my filepile post deleted?

Tryptophan-5ht — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:13:34 -0800

I just had a link nixed about the return of filepile.

Ranting and raving

bshort — Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:42:33 -0800

Apparently tjenson has hir panties in a bunch about matt deleting a thread and is now stomping through other metafilter threads ranting about it.

Why'd you delete my post?

KettleBlack — Thu, 09 Jan 2003 21:51:33 -0800

"This post was deleted for the following reason: I am r00t. ph34r m3 luz3r. you're p0st suxx0rs. you R 0wnzered." I know I'm new to metafilter, but since when is there an 31337 club you have to be in to post to teh front page? I thought that was a mondo excellent link and I think you do the metafiller community a gr8 disservice by d3l33ting it.

What happened to this post with an image?

lazaruslong — Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:42:54 -0800

Am I imagining things, or was there not a comment post by 4panels on this thread that had a picture of someone....I have forgotten who. Was it deleted? I know that both FPP (especially FPP) and comments-based jpegs are bad form, but are they delete worthy?

Is there some sort of official policy regarding deleting posts?

zerolucid — Sat, 30 Mar 2002 09:13:51 -0800

Is there some sort of official policy regarding deleting posts? I didn't even know it was done until mine was deleted yesterday.

What are the criteria for inappropriate posts?

waxpancake — Tue, 12 Dec 2000 22:57:44 -0800

I was just reading a post that linked to a photo on Yahoo News about a swastika symbol made from trees planted in 1930s-era Berlin, which were rediscovered in the 1992. I clicked to see the comments, and the post had been deleted. I refreshed the front page, and it was gone.

What are the criteria for inappropriate posts on Metafilter? If Yahoo News was comfortable showing it, why not us? Was it because the link text didn't mention objectionable material? (It was something like "Looks like Johnny Appleseed had some competition.")