The Beatles
post from filthy light thief was deleted because it was a double, but the original post had only a 7 minute video, while thief's post had the whole hour-long show. Is a double post always deleted even if the double is better than the original ?
posted by Pendragon
on Apr 17, 2013 -
27 comments
Hey, I just posted
something that was deleted because it was a double. I didn't know it was a double because the
original post that it doubled had a different link and keywords (I even searched,
nothing came up, wish I'd thought to search for just "iron"). However, it was an exact copy of
another double that
did match the URL and keywords
exactly. So, it seems to me, that when searching past posts in the "New Post" form, it should search through deleted posts as well, to avoid these "doubles of doubles" type situations.
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posted by Deathalicious
on Jun 13, 2012 -
74 comments
I'm not entirely sure how I came to it but I was reading
this post at Gawker & wandered down into the comments only to find
this odd bit of writing. Some of the replies were witty but then (MeFi's own?) Gawker editor Maureen O'Connor pointed out it was essentially identical to
this anonynmous AskMe from 5 years ago. At the very least I figure it's a curiosity worth pointing out to my fellow MeFites who have too much free time on their hands & want to dissect it under the usual microscope.
posted by scalefree
on May 27, 2012 -
52 comments
I've been noticing more and more lately that many people who comment in a thread are not reading the thread very closely, and as a result they end up repeating things that other people have already said. This was especially apparent in
this thread about the animal escape in Ohio, but it's by no means the only example. Can we do a better job?
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posted by albrecht
on Oct 20, 2011 -
154 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
Search seems to be failing me when I check to see if my post is a double. This has happened several times despite efforts to ensure it's not a double.
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posted by bwg
on Jun 16, 2011 -
28 comments
This is not a double/previous post. I actually wanted to post about the fantastic
Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog which has not been featured here before and chose the
Katzenclavier [sic] post to introduce it. The fact that there has been a recent post about Katzenklavier has no bearing on my post. It may have
some relevance to the previous post but as rivenwanderer said in the comments "the Strange History blog is fantastic". Maybe I should have just posted the general URL of the site but I thought I'd point out a particular post that I found interesting and let everyone explore for themselves as rivenwanderer and I'm sure many others would have. Une leçon apprise. Minor gripe - the 'original post' didn't have katzenklavier in the tags
[not that that would have helped considering my cut and paste misspelling, but still].
posted by unliteral
on Jun 15, 2011 -
20 comments
This is the second time I've made an FPP that's been a double and it hasn't turned up in my searches before posting, or warned me in preview that the site has been linked to before.
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posted by empatterson
on Jan 12, 2011 -
55 comments
Double indemnity?
My post today was considered a
double. Given (1) the original post was mostly an preview announcement from the Economist about the upcoming, still-unaired program and (2) that History of the World in 100 Objects is one of the most awesome things on the internet, I'd like to have something posted about this on the blue again for edification and discussion, even if it isn't my FPP.
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posted by blahblahblah
on Mar 19, 2010 -
60 comments
Idea: the Metafilter link-checker. Take the part of the 'new post' process that double-checks against prior posts, add the part of Mefi that conjures up the related posts, put a link to the feature up on the two lines of links near the logo.
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posted by WCityMike
on Sep 18, 2009 -
42 comments
My Askmefi question only recieved one answer...I realize that this must just
happen every so often, but I'm wondering, a) how I might avoid it, and, b) can I ask the same question again in the hopes of getting more answers?
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posted by Griffinlb
on Mar 15, 2009 -
67 comments
[previous-filter] mefi checks if fpp links have previously been posted. how about doing the same for a few of the other large sites out there?
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posted by krautland
on Aug 30, 2008 -
42 comments
When I preview my inchoate FPP, the link search informs me that my links were found in three previous threads, but only sometimes.
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posted by prefpara
on Jul 9, 2008 -
27 comments
My blushes at making a duplicate post to the blue have been spared more than once by the code which scans my proposed URLs and looks to see it there is an existing match. Phew! However I have only ever found a way of accessing this facility after having first of all composed a post to the point where I can preview it - hence wasting quite a lot of time. Is there a way to access this scan directly?
posted by rongorongo
on Apr 4, 2008 -
19 comments
Apologies if this has been asked.... I sometimes see new AskMe postings appear that I *know* I've seen before.
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posted by Morrigan
on Feb 12, 2008 -
47 comments
Not sure why, but my first post was deleted. It was about the News Corp discussions with Microsoft. Definitely not spam, so I'm not sure what happened.
posted by JD Rucker
on Feb 3, 2008 -
55 comments
Has this 1994 interview with Cheney, in which he advises to not invade Baghdad, been posted yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I
I couldn't find it using the search feature, but thought I would do a pre-emptive check here and get flamed before a smaller audience if I'm wrong.
posted by mecran01
on Aug 13, 2007 -
46 comments
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).
posted by hadjiboy
on Jul 9, 2007 -
35 comments
Today's edition of what irks me: Hijacking threads with
unsupported claims of doubleness. Either put up or shut up--don't shit on good threads just because you read boing boing and have a bad memory.
posted by null terminated
on Apr 10, 2007 -
63 comments
I did a google search, looked through the tags, and did a mefi search (for bee and bees) and found no posts that were related, but
this still seems to be a double. Why didn't
this show up in my searching? This kind of thing has happened to me on a few of my recent posts -- how can I change my search methods to find archived posts more reliably?
posted by cubby
on Apr 3, 2007 -
22 comments
PonyFilter: It's annoying to click on the same link twice in a post. How about sending the New Post form back for the user to "fix" it?
posted by Armitage Shanks
on Mar 14, 2007 -
31 comments
An Immodest Proposal: One of the interesting phenomena I've noticed as other aggregating sites are on their ascendancy (can you Digg it?) is that many links that had been MetaFiltered long ago (in Web time) get a new wave of attention, which flows back around here, and BANG!
Double-triple-quadruple post!. And how many times lately have we seen comments like "Didn't see it the first time; glad it was reposted"? Maybe what we need is a
separate place for "Re-Current" posts or links, where we can acknowledge that WE got it months/years ago, and re-open comments on it. Obviously, such a sub-Meta would require a lot of moderation/maintenance, and maybe it should be an off-site project. How should it work? Can we/you make it work? Why bother? Any volunteers?
posted by wendell
on Mar 6, 2007 -
34 comments
would it be too newsfilter / doublepost to link the
closing arguments in the scooter libby trial? the
previous post three weeks ago was pretty generic, and the commenters in the thread are right that it was almost impossible to follow what was going on (and i say this as a law student who's fascinated by these things). today, however, was some grand drama, with the defense breaking down into tears, and Fitzgerald going after not just Scooter but
Elmer Fudd himself with both barrels. this is stuff that's actually accessible to the general public, but i hate crowding the blue. (grey, i got no problem with, apparently...) thoughts?
posted by spiderwire
on Feb 20, 2007 -
31 comments
