2016-02-29

Secret Service Fail

Post 157540 by pjmoy deleted for the following reason: Sorry, this isn't a good way to post to Metafilter -- taz

Brexit Backgrounder

Post 157534 by storybored deleted for the following reason: Hey there, better to put these in the open Brexit thread -- LobsterMitten

You wouldn’t color pentagrams would you?

Post 157522 by zardoz deleted for the following reason: Sorry, but this is basically a point-and-laugh LOLXTIAN thing, which doesn't really make a great discussion -- taz

2016-02-28

Ulay, Oh

Post 157495 by little_dog_laughing deleted for the following reason: Geniuses, lower your voices. Stay out of trouble and you double your choices. -- Eyebrows McGee

2016-02-27

Sniffing out the truth

Post 157464 by Joe in Australia deleted for the following reason: This is a bummer but there's definitely a sketchy-if-sporadic spammy redirect happening on phones on the discovermagazine link. If there's a not-attributionally-problematic alternate link we could bring this back with that. -- cortex

"Obviously at some point they were conscious; somebody felt threatened."

Post 157475 by Rainbo Vagrant deleted for the following reason: This is terrible, but not clear why it's a good post for Metafilter. -- LobsterMitten

2016-02-26

The Dog Thief Killings

Post 157462 by infinitywaltz deleted for the following reason: Sorry, but this seems sort of lookylou Gonzo horror-show poverty tourism "Western white guy points out how savage and paradoxical these Others are," with quite a lot of violent description intended to shock, but without actually bringing much examination beyond this that might make it worth working through an angry discussion -- taz

Wikipcdia

Post 157460 by storybored deleted for the following reason: This is kind of content-farmy, sorry. -- LobsterMitten

#FreeKesha - can we?

Post 157458 by divabat deleted for the following reason: The situation sucks but we just had a month long thread on it, and this link doesn't seem like a huge development. -- LobsterMitten

2016-02-25

Matt Taibbi on How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable

Post 157409 by bodywithoutorgans deleted for the following reason: Sorry, better to take this over to the open Trump thread. -- LobsterMitten

Kanye On The Couch

Post 157427 by chavenet deleted for the following reason: I think on balance the humor here isn't outweighed by the meanspiritedness, sorry. -- restless_nomad

2016-02-24

"Librarians are more freedom fighters than shushers."

Post 157394 by anotherpanacea deleted for the following reason: Looks like this post is... [sunglasses] ...a little overdue. -- cortex

“I didn’t support him at first but the memes were too dank to ignore."

Post 157388 by ND¢ deleted for the following reason: i love you man but there are enough plausible open-threads-about-Trump that this could go into as a comment that I'm not even gonna do a search for it because I believe in you -- cortex

2016-02-23

Law and order in Reddit’s Karma Court

Post 157355 by ellieBOA deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry, but this is getting flagged a lot, and the court finds that while the OP is innocent of malice, much of Reddit is guilty of being a habitual offender against humanity via hate speech and other bigotry, including posts from the article's main link. -- taz

2016-02-21

And then there were three... er, four... um, let me get back to you.

Post 157322 by AlonzoMosleyFBI deleted for the following reason: We have a couple of active campaign threads already, why don't you drop these links in the Nevada and South Carolina thread where they're already discussing Bush's drop out and at least one of these links has appeared. -- Eyebrows McGee

Waving your goodbye, up there in the sky

Post 157312 by schroedinger deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry, but Metafilter isn't really for writing articles on a topic, which is something better for your own site or blog -- taz

7 Ways Social Justice Language Can Be Abusive in Intimate Relationships

Post 157309 by Blasdelb deleted for the following reason: Hey, it's not really clear what's going on here. Are these articles related to each other in some way, or just an arbitrary handful from everydayfeminism.com? We've linked to the site before (including three currently open threads), so if this is kind of "oh hey look, here's an interesting site," this isn't an undiscovered site for mefi. Please contact us if you'd like to discuss. -- taz

"I do not believe using your body to take care of yourself is shameful."

Post 157328 by roomthreeseventeen deleted for the following reason: Sorry for the delayed delete. The subject of the articles seems an interesting person, but the clickbaity presentation is so overblown that it invites pushback, which given the subject can get ugly in so many ways. -- LobsterMitten

2016-02-20

A pure love song to analyse you~Die~

Post 157296 by Heywood Mogroot III deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry, but this kind of personal-bloggy style doesn't work here. -- restless_nomad

20 Tips for your first abortion.

Post 157304 by frumiousb deleted for the following reason: The piece itself is interesting, but as a post it's kinda thin, especially without any reporting on the trolling. There's not much conversation to have beyond "Trolls are terrible" without more context. -- Eyebrows McGee

2016-02-18

"How VIP do I gotta get?"

Post 157227 by paleyellowwithorange deleted for the following reason: Yeah this is a bit thin, sorry. -- goodnewsfortheinsane

Why was the late Justice Scalia enjoying a free stay on a Texas ranch...

Post 157239 by MisplaceDisgrace deleted for the following reason: Probably better to keep the discussion corralled in the existing Scalia thread. -- LobsterMitten

A lady always keeps her legs crossed

Post 157247 by Daddy-O deleted for the following reason: This is problematic in a variety of ways, sorry. -- restless_nomad

2016-02-17

"I am telling you, there is going to be a revolution."

Post 157220 by Fizz deleted for the following reason: A cranky op-ed is not a good way to open a conversation about a difficult topic, sorry. -- restless_nomad

2016-02-16

Word choice is hard here.

Post 157187 by Huck500 deleted for the following reason: This is not the way to approach this. -- LobsterMitten

I can’t imagine life without my white male privilege.

Post 157197 by blue_beetle deleted for the following reason: This is thin, and sarcasm without context tends to lead to acrimony more than anything. -- restless_nomad

Come Home Cardinal Pell

Post 157194 by bangalla deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry, but the active crowdfunding campaign is a no-go here. -- restless_nomad

Come home (Cardinal George Pell)

Post 157189 by adept256 deleted for the following reason: Sorry, open fundraising campaigns are a no-go for the front page. It will be fine to repost once the campaign period has finished. -- LobsterMitten

California is Chile. Georgia is Libya.

Post 157188 by Cool Papa Bell deleted for the following reason: This is going over like Djibouti in Alaska, amirite? -- LobsterMitten

2016-02-15

Enrich Your Valentine’s Day with These “Loving” Plants

Post 157156 by tammysons deleted for the following reason: Valentines Day was yesterday; today is Get Banned From MetaFilter For Spamming Day. (Also Presidents Day.) -- cortex

2016-02-14

Martin Shrkeli Tricked out of $15M in bitcoin to buy Life of Pablo

Post 157123 by WhitenoisE deleted for the following reason: Extremely thin. Three tweets? -- Eyebrows McGee

Game of Thrones Season 6: Hall of Faces

Post 157140 by Marky deleted for the following reason: No real problem with a GoT post, but just a link to an HBO teaser is pretty thin -- taz

"Prone to fits of mania, narcissism, and power-failure."

Post 157138 by Fizz deleted for the following reason: Looks like we had a post about High-Rise late last year. -- cortex

"This is about family values."

Post 157132 by Johnny Wallflower deleted for the following reason: It's a decent chuckle but "introduces bill" is a lot different from "passes law" and this is a wee little legislative-news-of-the-weird blurb for a post. -- cortex

2016-02-13

Antonin Scalia (1936-2016)

Post 157110 by Wordshore deleted for the following reason: Double -- LobsterMitten

Just in time for Valentine's Day

Post 157109 by nevercalm deleted for the following reason: Double -- LobsterMitten

Your New Porn Star Name: Elementary School + Fave Soft Drink

Post 157107 by valkane deleted for the following reason: Hey, sorry, but a Mefi post needs to have a link to some particularly good interesting thing, and this is just a link to the entire run of Community. I get what you were going for with this but there's not enough there there for a Mefi post. -- LobsterMitten

2016-02-12

Is netradio finally squeezing out the little guy?

Post 157088 by p3t3 deleted for the following reason: This is blatant friends linking, which is not ok here. -- restless_nomad

2016-02-11

The Queen is Dead, Long Live Bureaucratic Protocol

Post 157051 by firstbest deleted for the following reason: Hey sorry, this is interesting but I'm not sure what the linked site is (clickdimensions?), plus the misleading title is serving as an insta-derail; fine to repost if these problems can be resolved -- LobsterMitten

2016-02-10

Starring Johnny Depp as Donald Trump

Post 157022 by AElfwine Evenstar deleted for the following reason: Double. -- restless_nomad

Return to Empok Nor

Post 157017 by Artw deleted for the following reason: at least I get to make a "Computer, human flesh, hot" joke -- cortex

Trans activists, don't throw mad people under the bus.

Post 157016 by roomthreeseventeen deleted for the following reason: Eh, this seems like kind of a deep-in-the-weeds editorial, and the whole pitting-trans-activists-against-mental-illness-activists framing of it seems like sort of a needless fightstarter for a post about a couple of already complicated subjects. -- cortex

2016-02-09

I heard there was a football game at your concert

Post 156975 by clawsoon deleted for the following reason: We're already discussing Formation and the Superbowl performance over here. -- LobsterMitten

Investigative report on the closure of Toronto's Gender Identity Clinic

Post 156966 by PercussivePaul deleted for the following reason: Hey, this is a super highly charged topic that we discussed recently, and if we are going to reasonably cover it again, it needs to be a much more in-depth presentation. -- taz

2016-02-08

We Slay

Post 156946 by a.steele deleted for the following reason: Bunch of discussion in here, would be totally okay to add this as a comment in that thread. -- cortex

No more nurseries?

Post 156936 by floweredfish deleted for the following reason: Heya, this sort of "and here's my opinion about it" rhetorical personal framing is pretty much a no go for MetaFilter posts. -- cortex

Chicago police officer sues victim's family over shooting

Post 156932 by marienbad deleted for the following reason: Ugh, that's awful but I'm also not sure a thread to say as much repeatedly is going to help anything. -- cortex

Yale Educator Recounts ‘Painful Experience’ of Halloween Email Furor

Post 156950 by shotgunbooty deleted for the following reason: She doesn't seem to have anything new to say on the events from last fall and her book doesn't seem to be about that; we had several lengthy threads about her/this and I don't know what's going to be helped by revisiting Christakis still not understanding why the students were protesting. -- LobsterMitten

2016-02-06

Gulp.

Post 156906 by Fizz deleted for the following reason: Might be a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal, but it's too thin as it stands. -- Eyebrows McGee

It's a League Game, Smokey

Post 156905 by MoonOrb deleted for the following reason: Double. Don't be shocked if your hist'ry book mentions me. -- Eyebrows McGee

2016-02-05

Taste Sensation that's Not Sweeping the Nation

Post 156885 by valkane deleted for the following reason: Sorry for the delayed delete - having looked more closely at the links, this is actually pretty thin with basically one news article to go on. If this is a real thing, it'd probably go better with more in-depth resources for folks to talk about beyond the kind of news-of-the-weird angle. -- LobsterMitten

She's dead... wrapped in plastic

Post 156875 by urbanwhaleshark deleted for the following reason: Folks seem pretty mixed on this, plus unexpected dicks, meh. -- LobsterMitten

2016-02-04

High School Girl?

Post 156830 by Sokka shot first deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- LobsterMitten

2016-02-03

Maybe that boombox isn't so romantic, Lloyd Dobler

Post 156804 by Kitteh deleted for the following reason: That's an interesting result, but a short pop-sci news blurb about a study isn't great post material generally speaking. -- cortex

Bernie or Hillary?

Post 156822 by Chocolate Pickle deleted for the following reason: Sorry, this is pretty slight and probably better as a comment in one of the open election threads. -- LobsterMitten

2016-02-02

Equivalents to the UK's old National Record of Achievement?

Post 156780 by knapah deleted for the following reason: Hey, it looks like this was meant for Ask Metafilter; you can go ahead and repost over there -- taz