I have a vague unsubstantiated feeling that some comments I've written got tossed into the memory hole. Am I being paranoid, or is this normal with some justification I'm not aware of?
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posted by MikeWarot
on May 9, 2013 -
460 comments
This post by Lemurrhea was just deleted. I can certainly see why it needed to be deleted (it was an exceedingly thin post informing us that Neutral Milk Hotel has started touring again after 15 years). I get that, but I'm perplexed by the mod reason for its deletion. restless_nomad:
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posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow
on Apr 29, 2013 -
80 comments
Hey, what's the deal with a joke comment being deleted from this
recent MetaTalk thread? It was mild joke and I thought the bar for deleting comments from Metatal was much higher. I would ask in the thread, but when someone else did that, their comment was deleted, so here we are.
posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Apr 25, 2013 -
16 comments
So, my comment suggesting that people not come into the Thatcher thread and say 'As an American, I don't know much about this, but you should probably be more nice about her' was deleted. I imagine the place to put it is here?
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posted by Acheman
on Apr 8, 2013 -
1147 comments
I made an ill considered remark in timsteil's
folkstreams post and he made a polite response which made me feel ashamed after I saw his consternation. I wanted to clarify my harsh out and went to make a clarifying comment when my computer crashed and I had to reboot. And when I got back, I made my comment and then saw his was already deleted. I am getting so sick of the editing of our conversations.I really think sometime that there should be placeholders for all deletions you make. You are overdoing it, in my estimation.
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posted by y2karl
on Mar 17, 2013 -
54 comments
Why was
this post deleted? The given deletion reason ("Wacky conspiracy stuff isn't really a good post for Metafilter. -- taz") doesn't really apply to the linked video, which is quite obviously comedy
lampooning wacky conspiracy stuff.
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posted by Sys Rq
on Sep 3, 2012 -
126 comments
I notice that a few posts have been deleted already today (and yesterday there were seven!), so I was wondering if the mods have any stories about days where they had to delete an extreme number of posts from the blue?
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posted by rebent
on Aug 20, 2012 -
51 comments
I don't quite understand why
this FPP (about pet adoptions) was deleted. The reason given is that 'Heya, posts built around charity/fundraiser stuff are kind of not okay in general. If you want to make a post about adoption stuff in abstract independent of the sort of Get Out The Adopt angle, that'd be more okay.'
Except that the charitable foundation mentioned in the post doesn't solicit donations, so there's no fundraising aspect involved, zero, zip, nada. As far as I know it's funded entirely by some rich person's bequest in memory of a beloved dog. They don't even have a donate button on the website, and the text of the FPP made it clear that they were in the giving-it-away business rather than the taking-it-in business.
I'm not quite sure how to do a post about pet adoptions 'independent of the sort of get out the adopt angle.' Unless it's a post saying 'why you shouldn't adopt' or 'the dark side of pet adoptions' or something. This FPP was about a) the cool commercial video, which is a cut above most efforts of this type and b) the existence of resources for people who are interested in adopting a pet but might be worried about the cost.
posted by anigbrowl
on Jun 8, 2012 -
123 comments
In a thread apparently inspired by a
comment I'd made elsewhere a few days ago, I have had a comment deleted. Hardly my first time, but what I don't understand is why mods delete comments presumably because they disagree with the content itself. I responded in-thread a few minutes ago, but Metatalk seems more appropriate. And I'm sure my in-thread comment has already been deleted.
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posted by hincandenza
on May 3, 2012 -
305 comments
I'd like to know the reasoning behind keeping some posts up while deleting others, especially as it pertains to these particular threads.
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posted by misha
on Apr 20, 2012 -
268 comments
I'm uncomfortable with
this deletion, the post seems fairly "just the facts", albeit with one grammar meh, the comments were good thus far, etc.
posted by jeffburdges
on Mar 22, 2012 -
121 comments
This is just to say / the best deletion reason / I have ever read /
was in this post / forgive me / for posting it / it was fantastic / cortex / have my manbabies
posted by WinnipegDragon
on Mar 22, 2012 -
95 comments
Could we get a time stamp added to deletion reasons? They are the only type of comment that isn't time stamped, so all we know is that the deletion occurred sometime after the last comment (or sometime between posting and any comments).
posted by OmieWise
on Dec 23, 2011 -
43 comments
Has the standard for deleting comments changed? It's been clear for a long time that early comments in a thread that tend to poison the thread ("This will end well"; "Getting popcorn," etc.), and comments likely to provoke a fighty derail, will be deleted. But is it now mod policy to
delete jokes on the grounds that there are enough jokes already? Are we required to have serious discussions? This is the first time I've seen inoffensive jokes deleted on the blue, and I think it's something worth talking about.
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posted by Dasein
on Dec 14, 2011 -
981 comments
Maybe it was not written dispassionately enough, but a
post I feel is newsworthy was deleted - please weigh in?
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posted by ancillary
on Oct 11, 2011 -
45 comments
This thread was deleted with the reason being "let's not". That reason is obtuse and may be difficult for some people to understand. Could we have a clear explanation of why the thread was deleted, please?
posted by Brandon Blatcher
on Sep 25, 2011 -
144 comments
I have sent a query to admin, but to help me get a better idea of what the MeFi community (overall) thinks, and the perspective they come from, I'm looking for feedback and discussion about why my
FPP was deleted. I'm looking for reasons why, not simple statements of objection. I'm not looking to respond or debate with anyone. Unless a technical question is asked of me, I probably won't respond. I would sincerely just like to read and take or leave what I find. Thank you.
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posted by ottimo
on Aug 31, 2011 -
269 comments
If a link has been posted and deleted, am I right to assume that reposting the link, even as a sub-link in a post leading on another link about the same thing, is a bad idea?
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posted by running order squabble fest
on Jul 29, 2011 -
67 comments
All of the discourse about his TRULY TRULY TRULY offensive language and questionable behaviour aside.... would it have been better for the community if the mods had refused to publish this question? I wonder if they would have let it through if it had been a racial epithet...
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posted by taff
on Apr 22, 2011 -
425 comments
Why was
this deleted? It seems separate enough from the main Wikileaks saga going on elsewhere, and I can't recall it being discussed all
that extensively here previously.
posted by schmod
on Dec 15, 2010 -
80 comments
I appear to have just gotten my first comment deletion, out of this
thread. Out of concern about aggressive moderation and love for the MetaFilter community, I have several pony requests.
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posted by eschatfische
on Dec 6, 2010 -
192 comments
