The Patriot Act gags librarians

Deleted thread: 70386

This post was deleted for the following reason: as much as I am delighted to see my six year old site on reddit, this has been on MeFi before, thanks for the MeFiHighFive though. -- jessamyn

posted by Wild_Eep

The impending storm over McCain's POW record?

Deleted thread: 70380

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not a good political post for MetaFilter. If this turns out to be something, super, otherwise saying this *might* be something and adding a bunch of wikipedia and profie page links are really not particularly excellent. -- jessamyn

posted by vizsla

PROUTLY collapsing

Deleted thread: 70378

This post was deleted for the following reason: screeds are rarely good posts for mefi and long unattributed pullquotes are worse. -- jessamyn

posted by infini

4 Reasons Why You Need Stress!

Deleted thread: 70374

This post was deleted for the following reason: Jesus, at least try a little. -- cortex

posted by ineedmotivation

Things get ugly when kids get high....

Deleted thread: 70369

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a crappy post. -- cortex

posted by bobbyone

475 Kent Avenue

Deleted thread: 70356

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is looking more and more like you are in some way involved with the main blog posted here. This is something you sort of need to not do here. -- jessamyn

posted by Ebray

Mefiers vs. YTers

Deleted thread: 70341

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is more of a metatalk type thing. -- cortex

posted by zardoz

Sweet 16 drives her own school bus...every day!

Deleted thread: 70333

This post was deleted for the following reason: a 22-year old news blurb about a minor event does not make for a decent post -- mathowie

posted by Rafaelloello

¡Ask a Mexican! es muerta.

Deleted thread: 70314

This post was deleted for the following reason: There's not really any new content here, and the previous (and pretty thorough) post was just a few months ago. I'm not sure we really need an update on this one. -- cortex

posted by zorro astor

Jews from Arab Countries, the forgotten refugees

Deleted thread: 70308

This post was deleted for the following reason: This post seems to be a little broken, and maybe not such a great presentation of what is a pretty hot-button topic around here. -- cortex

posted by worbid411

Man Claims "Wombat Rape" Changed His Accent

Deleted thread: 70293

This post was deleted for the following reason: Brief one-link news-of-the-weird blurbs really aren't good front page material, real gems or otherwise. -- cortex

posted by nímwunnan

Super Tuesday Tornado Hillary

Deleted thread: 70292

This post was deleted for the following reason: I am sorry but this is not a good post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by meanderthal

Not that you'd think this'd be best of the web ...

Deleted thread: 70285

This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this would kind of go better in metatalk where we already pretty much decided it wasn't really great for metatalk either. -- cortex

posted by WCityMike

HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!

Deleted thread: 70279

This post was deleted for the following reason: This post deserves a light-punch hadoken. Please try harder in the future. -- cortex

posted by aftermarketradio

Determinism Made Me Write This

Deleted thread: 70276

This post was deleted for the following reason: self link, banned -- jessamyn

posted by pkerr1975

Praying won't regulate cellular intake of glucose

Deleted thread: 70267

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a terrible thing that is happening. At the same time this is an angry post about dead children that is not very well suited to metafilter. What is there to discuss other than "oh my gosh, these people are ignorant assholes" except for, I guess, the prayer angle which dooms it if nothing else does. -- jessamyn

posted by stevis23

War Journals, satire, etc.

Deleted thread: 70253

This post was deleted for the following reason: It's cute, but it's also a single election-jokey comment on thread at a poli-blogger's site. This sauce, as the kids say, is weak. -- cortex

posted by Tlogmer

So you want to get her back?

Deleted thread: 70252

This post was deleted for the following reason: Hey! A bald-faced self-link, a week and exactly three throwaway comments after you joined the site! Get bent! -- cortex -- mathowie

posted by monkee

Million Dollars with Facebook?

Deleted thread: 70244

This post was deleted for the following reason: Well, as predictable balls-out bullshit self-links go, this one has spunk, I guess. Banned. -- cortex -- mathowie

posted by bmilly

It is a hand-powered, spring-operated boxing mechanism.

Deleted thread: 70233

This post was deleted for the following reason: a {broken} link to a cache of a website? -- jessamyn

posted by generalist

Nahsville Neighborhoods

Deleted thread: 70219

This post was deleted for the following reason: wrong site, you want ask mefi, two doors down on the left. -- mathowie

posted by locoindio

Which of these hookers would you pay for?

Deleted thread: 70215

This post was deleted for the following reason: just because this isn't from Cracked doesn't mean it's not a SLLP (single link list post) which are now on the "better only do this if it's really awesome" list. This is not really awesome. -- jessamyn

posted by crossoverman

WalMart: apparently they can go even lower

Deleted thread: 70213

This post was deleted for the following reason: pretty sure we covered this before, also just a one-link zomg walmart outrage doesn't make for a good post -- mathowie

posted by Inversehelix

Bad days for whirlybirds

Deleted thread: 70199

This post was deleted for the following reason: dude, these are snuff films. don't post them on mefi -- mathowie

posted by tkolar

Your mother is coming upstairs. Close the dwarf porn?

Deleted thread: 70196

This post was deleted for the following reason: we're a little cracked out here on metafilter today. -- jessamyn

posted by jbickers

Baseball Season Starts Anew

Deleted thread: 70194

This post was deleted for the following reason: dude, you run armchairgm.com. Don't freaking self-link. -- mathowie

posted by DNL

Tina Fey Disses Jon Stewart

Deleted thread: 70192

This post was deleted for the following reason: Between the (acknowleged) recent thread about women in comedy, the kind of thin material in the post, and the thread just not going well, I think we'll go ahead and pull this. -- cortex

posted by lunit

Death comes in the night on little cat feet!

Deleted thread: 70176

This post was deleted for the following reason: If Andrew W.K. was deleting this double post he would do it so hard that his own skull would break, and then he'd chug a beer through the hole in his skull and it would be SO AWESOME -- cortex

posted by Navelgazer

Okay, so his prose is difficult.

Deleted thread: 70172

This post was deleted for the following reason: I hate to pull the rug on you like this, because you clearly put some time into the post, but you've got basically some personal discussion of Wolfe padded out with links to Amazon, and links to Amazon make for pretty crappy post material. -- cortex

posted by sonic meat machine

Sharing the Presidency

Deleted thread: 70164

This post was deleted for the following reason: a single news link post to another obama article? -- jessamyn

posted by think.how.simple

Barry O

Deleted thread: 70156

This post was deleted for the following reason: There's at least three different obama-related threads open at this point; this isn't so fundamentally significant that it really needs a new post all to itself. -- cortex

posted by popcassady

The Bedsitter Man.

Deleted thread: 70154

This post was deleted for the following reason: mystery meat posts about websites that immediately go down with unretrievable archives are not really great posts for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by Taksi Putra

Food Fight

Deleted thread: 70149

This post was deleted for the following reason: Food fought. (Wait, didn't I just do the past-tense-rendition-of-key-verb joke like a week ago? I need new material.) -- cortex

posted by Asparagirl

Daniel Kitson, Edinburgh 2005

Deleted thread: 70145

This post was deleted for the following reason: Honestly, two posts about the same specific guy-you-like, from the same user, less than a year apart: seems really kind of not okay. -- cortex

posted by Ira.metafilter

Unfinished or Abandoned Structures in Florida

Deleted thread: 70141

This post was deleted for the following reason: If you're going to get decent at your SEO job, you might want to figure out how to not sound like such an SEO SPAMMER ALL THE TIME. Er. Sef-link, banned. -- jessamyn -- mathowie

posted by Eavesy

Men: Take a Hint!

Deleted thread: 70122

This post was deleted for the following reason: when you're crossposting your link from digg, just adding a bunch of tired news articles from 2-8 years ago doesn't mean it makes it a good post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by Picklegnome

In dreams, you're mine.

Deleted thread: 70112

This post was deleted for the following reason: wow, people HATE this. -- mathowie

posted by objet

This little piggy, well, um...

Deleted thread: 70106

This post was deleted for the following reason: le double poteau -- cortex

posted by sweet mister

three pointer

Deleted thread: 70104

This post was deleted for the following reason: THIS IS A PRETTY CRAPPY POST - $CIENTOLOGY KILL$ - XENU.NET -- cortex

posted by plexi

Thomas Beatie is pregnant with his wife's child

Deleted thread: 70103

This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm my own grandpa. -- cortex

posted by jaimev

We Tell Stories: professionaly made interactive fiction from Penguin

Deleted thread: 70100

This post was deleted for the following reason: done got told -- cortex

posted by stbalbach

Camcorder Simplicity

Deleted thread: 70098

This post was deleted for the following reason: please refresh your memory about the site guidelines -- jessamyn

posted by Crackerbelly

How can we forgive and forget things that happened just yesterday?

Deleted thread: 70094

This post was deleted for the following reason: not the real guy on YA. It's only been up for ten min... -- mathowie

posted by jdotglenn

Fox News Chaos

Deleted thread: 70092

This post was deleted for the following reason: GYOB -- jessamyn

posted by East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

Expelled from Expelled!

Deleted thread: 70074

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a link to a comment in a blog. -- jessamyn

posted by rdone

Family Resemblance?

Deleted thread: 70071

This post was deleted for the following reason: I have watched both of these videos and I can safely say that if there is something interesting about the relatedness of these two people who have videos up on youtube it completely escpaes me and you have completely failed to illustrate it in your four word post. -- jessamyn

posted by Rafaelloello

Name (my|your|his|her|its) job!

Deleted thread: 70068

This post was deleted for the following reason: don't link your friends' websites here please. -- jessamyn

posted by pheideaux

Germany or Florida?

Deleted thread: 70062

This post was deleted for the following reason: The critical reaction to this post seems to be critical indeed. -- cortex

posted by Parannoyed

Cage Match Replacing Election

Deleted thread: 70054

This post was deleted for the following reason: Meh + electionfilter + something kind of fishy going on here besides. -- cortex

posted by henryw

It's back

Deleted thread: 70036

This post was deleted for the following reason: what in the name of hell -- cortex

posted by AceRock

Who's the father?

Deleted thread: 70030

This post was deleted for the following reason: Pretty thin post, eh. -- mathowie

posted by tylerfulltilt

Iraq War

Deleted thread: 70021

This post was deleted for the following reason: there are all sors of ways to note this anniversary that dont start a fight. this is not one of them. -- jessamyn

posted by bobbyelliott

Barack's more perfect union...

Deleted thread: 70009

This post was deleted for the following reason: There's an ongoing metatalk thread about this; notable as the speech is, this is a pretty automatic "scoop" kind of post and it'd probably be good to let the speech simmer a few days and let people react to it if we want to see a post with some good context, etc. -- cortex

posted by drpynchon

Open the Pearly Gates, HAL

Deleted thread: 70003

This post was deleted for the following reason: The other obit post is honestly a much better presentation. -- cortex

posted by tzikeh

Take the Awareness Test

Deleted thread: 69996

This post was deleted for the following reason: No makeup tests! -- cortex

posted by spec80

Bear Stern is fine

Deleted thread: 69995

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is not a good post. It'd be fine as a comment in the open Bear Stern thread. -- cortex

posted by kingfish

Be my baby

Deleted thread: 69977

This post was deleted for the following reason: seen it -- jessamyn

posted by sweet mister

I'm in the mood for

Deleted thread: 69979

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is metafilter, you want to ask this in ask metafilter, I'm pretty sure. -- jessamyn

posted by shothotbot

Whats the music clip used on this website?

Deleted thread: 69966

This post was deleted for the following reason: Go here. -- cortex

posted by modernsquid

Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh Barack O'Bama.

Deleted thread: 69965

This post was deleted for the following reason: oh you did not just build a post around a self-link to your own youtube video -- cortex

posted by chiefbluefeather

7 Mindblowing Audio Illusions

Deleted thread: 69950

This post was deleted for the following reason: One mindblowing self-link. Banned. -- cortex

posted by richdan

Enough with the pleasantries. Go ahead, make my day!

Deleted thread: 69930

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty thin and going not so great. -- cortex

posted by HotPatatta

The Atheist Delusion

Deleted thread: 69928

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a book review post. It happens to be about atheism. it's going badly in the comments already. was something else supposed to happen here? -- jessamyn

posted by wemayfreeze

Christianity By The Numbers

Deleted thread: 69926

This post was deleted for the following reason: Don't abuse the mods to make your point -- cortex -- mathowie -- jessamyn

posted by Baby_Balrog

Buddhism By The Numbers

Deleted thread: 69925

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not a good post for metafilter. either it is some sort of stunt in which case your irony is too arcane, or it's just linking to the tenets of a religion in which case, why is it good for metafitler? -- jessamyn

posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul

Commercials.

Deleted thread: 69914

This post was deleted for the following reason: these are two really meh ads from the 50s/60s one of which is "arguably racist" and one of which is sexist. An interesting topic which could maybe show promise with more effort or some sort of context. As it is, what is there to say? -- jessamyn

posted by gman

Squirrelling the Wiki

Deleted thread: 69908

This post was deleted for the following reason: um, what? -- mathowie

posted by five fresh fish

Mac users feel superior to PC users, new study shows

Deleted thread: 69903

This post was deleted for the following reason: Hey, great post, Corey Kossack of clubenetwork.com. Enjoy your banhood. -- cortex -- mathowie

posted by entrepreneur35

The Day of a Pyro

Deleted thread: 69901

This post was deleted for the following reason: lol pwned -- cortex

posted by boo_radley

The Real Prostitutes in the Elliot Spitzer Sex Scandal.

Deleted thread: 69900

This post was deleted for the following reason: self-link, banned -- mathowie

posted by ghostdog

cloud

Deleted thread: 69897

This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously more or less -- jessamyn

posted by Dave Faris

Soldiers & Civilian Brief President on Afghanistan

Deleted thread: 69895

This post was deleted for the following reason: it's not not axe grinding just because you do all your commentary with the subtle "oh look the word says one thing but I'm linking to another" routine. -- jessamyn

posted by WCityMike

Hello? Can you hear me?

Deleted thread: 69894

This post was deleted for the following reason: I am pissed off I had to listen to this just to make sure I knew what it was before it was deleted. Please don't do this here. -- jessamyn

posted by growabrain

I'm gonna go Old Testament on yo azz!

Deleted thread: 69888

This post was deleted for the following reason: bible fought -- cortex

posted by andythebean

Measure your brain power with Flash!

Deleted thread: 69884

This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, slightly inscrutible login-required frontend kinda takes the sparkle outta this. -- cortex

posted by KokuRyu

Browser Voodoo

Deleted thread: 69878

This post was deleted for the following reason: I am resizing this post like crazy right now. "HEY MISTER, ARE YOU JAVASCRIPT", they yell at me as I walk down the street, and I say yes. Yes, I am javascript, and I am all kinds of altering your browser experience. -- cortex

posted by Kronos_to_Earth

Did Obama hire Ben Crowshaw?

Deleted thread: 69875

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty much exactly the sort of daily-update electionfilter stuff that doesn't need yet another post. -- cortex

posted by jpdoane

Nashville or LA

Deleted thread: 69873

This post was deleted for the following reason: Wrong site. You should post this to Ask Metafilter. -- pb

posted by locoindio

Seriously, Kansas. C'mon.

Deleted thread: 69869

This post was deleted for the following reason: *uses crowbar to pry crappy post off of front page* -- cortex

posted by billysumday

Lord Cornbury

Deleted thread: 69865

This post was deleted for the following reason: A wikipedia entry by itself is rarely a good post; one used to riff off a current-events story (for which there's even an open thread!) is generally an even worse idea. -- cortex

posted by celerystick

You have been...

Deleted thread: 69852

This post was deleted for the following reason: seems like a lame rickroll joke -- mathowie

posted by sweet mister

When is a racist not a racist?

Deleted thread: 69849

This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry, this is kind of lame local news centered around an attention grabbing racist. -- mathowie

posted by indienial

Riches of Embarrassment

Deleted thread: 69841

This post was deleted for the following reason: Seems to have been killed pretty badly. -- cortex

posted by telstar

Japanese whaling and the Australian way

Deleted thread: 69833

This post was deleted for the following reason: GYOB. -- jessamyn

posted by DirtyCreature

3 hour tour, 6 months probation

Deleted thread: 69827

This post was deleted for the following reason: Gosh, Skipper, you sure you should be postin' this? -- cortex

posted by bonefish

We're listening...

Deleted thread: 69813

This post was deleted for the following reason: doublechinpost -- cortex

posted by Blazecock Pileon

Wait, BARACK is evolving!

Deleted thread: 69809

This post was deleted for the following reason: ytmnd pages need to be really really good to get over the threshold of yet another ytmnd page added to mefi -- mathowie

posted by CrunchyFrog

The Eco and the Id

Deleted thread: 69804

This post was deleted for the following reason: Reusing existing threads is one of the key tenets of ecoposting. -- cortex

posted by sfenders

Sinbad Speaks

Deleted thread: 69802

This post was deleted for the following reason: If we don't want to get election fatigue by November, we gotta skip these minor daily election semi-news posts and stick to really major stuff only. -- mathowie

posted by Artifice_Eternity

Stuff White People Like

Deleted thread: 69784

This post was deleted for the following reason: I still contend that the original is funny, but all these derivatives are lazy and lame -- mathowie

posted by ELF Radio

Mid life crisis: how to solve the problem

Deleted thread: 69775

This post was deleted for the following reason: self-link, banned -- mathowie

posted by skalitenko

Spitzer

Deleted thread: 69771

This post was deleted for the following reason: don't do this here. make an effort. thank you! -- jessamyn

posted by bustmakeupleave

God Hates Obama

Deleted thread: 69752

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty dang thin, bucko. -- cortex

posted by brownpau

The Simpsons theme on two guitars

Deleted thread: 69751

This post was deleted for the following reason: posted before -- mathowie

posted by mattoxic

Andy Abraham will represent UK in Eurovision 2008

Deleted thread: 69736

This post was deleted for the following reason: It's kind of fun how the whois info for that "unofficial eurovision site" you built this perfunctory-ass post around matches whois info on other websites you run. And by "fun" I mean "bannable". -- cortex

posted by lawrencee

Oh my God! (but distinctly not yours!)

Deleted thread: 69720

This post was deleted for the following reason: LOLXTIAN nonsense -- mathowie

posted by Phantast

Not While I'm God

Deleted thread: 69717

This post was deleted for the following reason: Not While I'm Mod -- cortex

posted by Capt Jingo

Video Production 101 A Primer

Deleted thread: 69716

This post was deleted for the following reason: Yuck. You've coauthored something with this guy and have at least two websites promoting the hell out of him, and this post reads like a sales pitch. I don't know what the hell you were thinking, but you're banned now. -- cortex

posted by xenophanes

I'm the internet

Deleted thread: 69707

This post was deleted for the following reason: double posts are the internet -- cortex

posted by boo_radley

Out of the Blue

Deleted thread: 69696

This post was deleted for the following reason: Fatal flaw: they should have tried to model an elephant's brain. -- cortex

posted by chunking express

Civilization = Accommodating Different Beliefs?

Deleted thread: 69678

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a pretty flawed way to try to present this as a not-doomed thread. -- cortex

posted by cogneuro

Shouldn't be that interesting.

Deleted thread: 69667

This post was deleted for the following reason: This appears to be a mix of double and broken: the colliding chocolate and peanutbutter of FAIL. -- cortex

posted by dios

I am not a computer critic.

Deleted thread: 69665

This post was deleted for the following reason: Sad to hear Mr. ELIZA has passed, but a wikipedia link and an article that the vast majority of readers won't be able to actually read is really pretty thin. If someone can put together a better post for Weizenbaum's death (and life), cool, but this should probably go. -- cortex

posted by morizky

McCain Joins The Anti-Science Anti-Vaccine Crusade

Deleted thread: 69659

This post was deleted for the following reason: if you want to have a debate on the issues and not people grouchy about vaccines and/or autism, it's really best to keep your snark somewhere inside the thread. -- jessamyn

posted by gramcracker

instruction cards for looking after a baby

Deleted thread: 69638

This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request. -- jessamyn

posted by hurdy gurdy girl

Suspected Terrorist Puppy

Deleted thread: 69610

This post was deleted for the following reason: There may be a point, some time in the near future, where this whole thing has settled down enough that a good, non-speculative post could be made about this, but I don't think we're there yet. This is just kind of gross right now. -- cortex

posted by augustweed

Smart, normal, curious, not radical, and post-Boomer

Deleted thread: 69593

This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems not so much like a hell of a good blog entry as it does like an okayish, info-lite blog entry from a rich famous guy. NCSA Mosaic 4evar, though. -- cortex

posted by chuckdarwin

Oops!

Deleted thread: 69591

This post was deleted for the following reason: Does it still count as a juxtaposition if you're combining two things that are exactly the same? -- cortex

posted by Kirth Gerson

All the music google can find

Deleted thread: 69587

This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request -- jessamyn

posted by carsonb

It's 3 a.m. Parody

Deleted thread: 69575

This post was deleted for the following reason: gah, let's not completely overdose on electionfilter media/meme minutia -- cortex

posted by augustweed

chicken, chicken, chicken

Deleted thread: 69569

This post was deleted for the following reason: chicken -- jessamyn

posted by krautland

Controversy over alleged subliminal message in campaign ad

Deleted thread: 69550

This post was deleted for the following reason: not really great for metafilter - there are tons of political blogs to go OMG CLINTON on regarding campaign controversy manufactured or non. -- jessamyn

posted by desjardins

Keep it short and descriptive. Required.

Deleted thread: 69542

This post was deleted for the following reason: yeah, sort of seen it before -- jessamyn

posted by mzurer

Drawings of authors and literary figures by comics artists

Deleted thread: 69538

This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously -- jessamyn

posted by Kattullus

$1,000,000 For Hillary Clinton To Pose Nude

Deleted thread: 69536

This post was deleted for the following reason: self-link, banned. -- jessamyn

posted by Cranky Media Guy

does this woman make my gender look stupid?

Deleted thread: 69532

This post was deleted for the following reason: Gender-baiting obamafilter op-ed that everyone thinks is insulting? Probably not a great post. -- cortex

posted by Vic Morrow's Personal Vietnam