MetaTalk posts tagged with deletion

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?

Hypothetically speaking...

disillusioned — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:16:01 -0800

Why was this question nixed? It seems to me that this question is totally fair game in AskMe. It's asking a hypothetical that also touches on some interesting concepts with physics and I've asked plenty of great hypothetical questions (does it burn more, the less, or the same amount energy to cllimb stairs two at a time vs. one at a time, etc) that enforce my love of AskMe. I guess I'm asking for clarification on the specificity threshold swiffa apparently breached since it seems largely arbitrary.

deleted post reconsideration?

dbiedny — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:56:46 -0800

Self-links and deletion on Mac Tonnies death FPP So At the end of my obit post for Mac Tonnies, I included links to a few interviews I've done on my podcast. I sincerely apologize for the link inclusion (they're considered some of his best interviews), but wouldn't it have made more sense to simply remove the podcast links and let the rest of the post remain? Mac's blog (and easily "best of the web") and work was followed and respected by many, and his death is a huge shock. If I resubmit a reworked version, no self links, will it remain? My heart is already broken enough over Mac's death, and to have this post deleted feels like another punch to the gut.

Why?

Skeptic — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:50:56 -0800

What was the problem with this post? Seriously? The links were interesting and informative. It could have developed into a nice thread. The moderators appear to have come to the conclusion that it was merely a congratulatory stunt directed at some particular Andrew. So what? Should good posts be nuked merely because of the perceived motivation behind them, apart from blatant PepsiBlue cases of commercial motivation? Moreover, cortex's comment about "your personal FB status update" is unnecessarily sarcastic. FB status updates aren't generally link-laden. Shouldn't moderators show a bit more restraint before wielding the scissors?

It's a penis; get over it.

Mitheral — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:12:27 -0800

Can we please stop the "Why hasn't it been deleted?" thread shitting in the penis post. It's been up for a good 14 hours now which includes a complete EST/PST business day. Considering mathowie, cortex, vacapinta, and jessamyn have all commented since it was posted it seems extremely unlikely the mods won't have considered it for deletion by now and have decided to leave it up.

Outrage? Why, yes.

Sys Rq — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:42:53 -0800

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is crappy terrible news but is there anything here besides an outragefilter post? Two short news articles on crazy people behaving badly doesn't give people much to discuss other than "wow people suck" -- jessamyn 1. Just as there was more to Those Other Two Threads than just outrage at the tragic events detailed in the few thin articles linked (more than "fuck the Right," even), so too is there more to this--certainly enough to sustain a serious discussion. Granted, a discussion of the Minutemen might necessitate the quick deletion of some Mike Watt jokes. So be it. 2. To read a headline like "Three Minutemen arrested for robbery/slaying of a Mexican-American and his nine-year-old daughter" only to summarize it as "crazy people behaving badly" not only trivializes the issue, but is disgustingly flippant and callous besides.

Notification for deleted posts?

cmyr — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:54:07 -0800

So earlier this morning I posted something innocuous but inane in an askme thread that had been more or less answered. Just now, logging in, I see that that comment has been disappeared. This is fine, and not particularly worthy of complaint, but I find it sort of annoying that there's no notification or anyway for me to know that the reply was ever made at all. I do know, as a good mefite, that askme is serious bizniss and that threads are to be kept on topic. I just think it would make broad sense if there was some sort of trigger in place for a memail to be sent to users who have comments removed? There'd be no need for a customized message or anything, just "Your comment has been deleted. Please read the FAQ." Surely this wouldn't be too tricky, and would help avoid confusion in the future? If this has been discussed in the past, I apologize. I did a quick search and didn't find anything, but I don't spend tons of time on the gray.

This is a stupid question on multiple levels.

mpls2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:10:25 -0800

This is a stupid question on multiple levels. I love how the OP asks "why do urban black males...?" and then apologizes for the post being too race specific. Not just "urban", not just "black", but specifically "urban black". Without the racial aspect the question is "why do criminals wear dark clothes?" Has to be a troll.

Danke

pianomover — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:38:12 -0800

Thank you for deleting me. I was following this link and still am, but got caught up in a wild veer from the post. When I woke up the next morning I felt like an idiot for going off topic, but all trace of said idiocy was gone. Thanks

Is something up with the AskMe database?

vsync — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:24:13 -0800

It seems like half the time I try to post an answer on the green, it will show up saying it was successfully posted, then disappear. This isn't just in preview, it POSTs the comment and I get a full HTML page back with the new comment included. But if I look later, anytime between minutes and hours later, the comment's gone. It disappears from my posting history too, and I've gotten no mail from admins or anything like that. This doesn't seem to happen on the blue.

Four minutes of hate and a deletion

Artw — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:01:05 -0800

Attention MeFi posters! Madonna is not on the approved cool celebrity list.

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?

FPP Deletion re Clinton and Subprime?

ZenMasterThis — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:09:50 -0800

Why was my MeFi FPP about the Clinton administration's connection to the subprime crisis deleted? I've been following MeFi threads on this subject fairly closely and this looked like new, interesting material

I must really rank

Rafaelloello — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:54:32 -0800

Outright censorship? I was super-censored by Jessamyn. You won't even find this on Deleted threads with GreaseMonkey. http://www.metafilter.com/75263/Documented-History-of-the-Bubble All the supporting docs are in the second link and Jessamyn super-deletes it because it's "kind of sketch"? Smacks of censorship. I didn't think she rolled that way. Raf

Time and Effort Wasted

netbros — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:40:00 -0800

Awesome comments go bye-bye with deleted post. Makes you wonder, why make the effort to inform?

It's not my decision...

matty — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:03:56 -0800

The Veteren's case against John McCain post was deleted, and I can understand why, but... It was a single link post to a blog... so I'm not going to say it wasn't deletion worthy - but for those who actually got a look at that blog, it was chock full of some interesting links and information. So for me personally, it ended up being a good post. There's some links in there to IAVA, the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America homepage - which I'd never heard about but as a vet will SOON be joining. There was another link (also at IAVA) to the action committee's political scorecard, which ranked members of congress on their votes since 2001 as they related to veteran's issues. I took that report and dumped it into Excel, sorted it, and came up with some surprising results - even to liberal 'ol me. Such as... 98 Dems received scores/grades of an 'A'. Republicans received zero 'A' scores. The IAVA requires you to be a veteran to have membership. I may be an exception, but by and large most vets are quite conservative. That makes for some interesting info that was conveyed in that single link post. I understand why the post was deleted, but I think it was still a damn good post once the link was further explored.

Yeah, really.

Kickstart70 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:25:38 -0800

Yeah, really. It's topical (during a very political time, where such issues are being widely discussed), interesting, well-written, and had never been posted before. I honestly don't see the problem. Or is NewsFilter the rule? Does the date on this really matter?

Clarification on reasons to delete answers

dobbs — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:01:42 -0800

Poster asks: Does dating through craigslist actually work? I answered simply, "No." My answer's been deleted. This is not the first time my on-topic answers have been deleted from threads and I find it pretty annoying. Further, someone else posted "Yup" and there answer is still there. WTF? Yeah, I know I could email ops and ask wtf but I've done that before and have never been satisfied with the answers "It was flagged" or "It was a judgement call" or whatever. I don't see how those excuses are relevant. The barometer should be: Is it on topic? Does it answer the question asked? If those two are Yeses, the answers should stay, regardless of the number of flags something gets or whether the ops like the wording/tone/whatever.

Why wasn't the Timecube theory of finance question deleted?

electroboy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:56:43 -0800

Why wasn't this post deleted? It started out as a sort of naive question about Atlas Shrugged, but quickly devolved into a Time Cube-y style theory of how thermodynamics relates to economics. I'm not even sure it was a legitimate question, because it seemed like the poster was using it as a platform to espouse his crackpot beliefs and frequently posting that people "just didn't get it" in the thread. I fully admit that I took a few shots at the poster, because of my general annoyance at the whole A is like B, therefore B is like C..... Science!, nonsense that's unfortunately fairly common. It's off the first few pages now, but I think leaving it up is a mistake. It really serves no useful purpose and doesn't reflect on the site or the poster particularly well. Did this just slip by the mods or was it left up intentionally?

I HATE YOU ALL (EXCEPT OBAMA)

mr_crash_davis — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:04:36 -0800

Followup to this post.

Fightin' Obama and the howlin' wingnuts

Artw — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:22:45 -0800

Hmm. I thought the WWII Post/Obama post was interesting and don't see the excessiveness GYOBness. What's that all about?

deleted militarization thread

ornate insect — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:10:27 -0800

Not sure why the "Militarization of Consumer Companies" thread by five fresh fish was killed? It seemed to me like a legitimate discussion? Granted it was a one-link post to an LA Times Op-Ed piece (albeit an op-ed w/substanitive claims and subtantial, detailed factual data), but I've seen similar posts that were one-link to opinion pieces that were not deleted?

Please kill my thread

Lord_Pall — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:39:55 -0800

Hey can someone kill my thread? Not to be a pain, but it went over like an anvil. I don't particularly want to debate methods of incarceration or whatever, and all it's going to do is engender ill will. Tonally, it's not even vaguely appropriate for a real discussion of incarceration and public safety. As thus, any chance to get it expunged?

GAME OVER

ShawnStruck — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:37:37 -0800

This post was deleted for the following reason: I freakin' hate it when I go to delete a double and some has already snagged like the perfect deletion reason. It's like, hey, thanks, DAD. -- cortex (more inside) 'Cause I'm insatiably curious about behind the scenes stuff: has this really happened that often? Can any mods (or users) share any other examples of a user pointing to a double or triple or what have you with an "ooh, shoulda thought of that" comment?

keep comments while still killing posts

zeoslap — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:25:44 -0800

I was a little sad to see the Purple Reign post deleted; I realize that the post itself was DOA but I loved some of the links posted within the thread. Perhaps there is a middle ground that is a step above killing that would still allow folks to at least see the comments while still culling the post.