You're doing it wrong.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: oh come on. -- jessamyn

posted by auralcoral

2 Real Prices of Gas

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This post was deleted for the following reason: two gas price charts are pretty thin gruel -- jessamyn

posted by yoyoceramic

LSD and UNIX

Deleted thread: 71265

This post was deleted for the following reason: oh my god man i am having like the weirdest sense of deja vu right now and HOLY SHIT THE COLORS -- cortex

posted by Schroder

Purple Reign

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Fragile, doomed youtube links aren't great post material. -- cortex

posted by donovan

Barack Obama reaches out to a new audience. (SLYT)

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This post was deleted for the following reason: April 29th, 2008: bobbyone posts bollytwo -- cortex

posted by bobbyone

Many pictures of things that people on the internet find to be funny.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: fun while it lasted, now dead. -- jessamyn

posted by Lord_Pall

Tour Rome!

Deleted thread: 71252

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

posted by lipsum

Giant squid comes out of ice

Deleted thread: 71243

This post was deleted for the following reason: it's squid vs squid around here this week! -- jessamyn

posted by chuckdarwin

Making the NYPD Accountable? Good luck with that ...

Deleted thread: 71238

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

posted by bwg

The Beginning. Only the Cunning Will See the End.

Deleted thread: 71233

This post was deleted for the following reason: DAMMIT FRITOLAY WHY YOU GOT TO BE ALL LIKE "OOH YOU LIKED MYST WHY DON'T YOU SIGN UP FOR A SPOOKY MAILING LIST" FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD -- cortex

posted by Dave Faris

Soldier's father exposes deplorable conditions at Fort Bragg

Deleted thread: 71225

This post was deleted for the following reason: You just posted something hosted on the website of your own radio show. -- cortex

posted by shawnwasson

“Throw Some (Canon in) D's”

Deleted thread: 71208

This post was deleted for the following reason: There's some at the very least not exactly kosher friend-of-friend stuff going on with this post. -- cortex

posted by matthewstopheles

GTA IV!!!

Deleted thread: 71204

This post was deleted for the following reason: If you love this game so much you should maybe compose a more excellent post about it? -- jessamyn

posted by auralcoral

Exclusive Free Album Project > Audiobulb

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This post was deleted for the following reason: oh for christ's sake. -- jessamyn

posted by room

Four Years in New Zealand

Deleted thread: 71189

This post was deleted for the following reason: I hear they're going to call the video game "Bilbo Bobble" -- cortex

posted by chuckdarwin

Ridiculously pregnant

Deleted thread: 71188

This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, this is all ripped straight from someone's recent book. Funny, but not really cool. -- cortex

posted by Brandon Blatcher

Future Gattaca stopped

Deleted thread: 71185

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not a good use of the front page of the blue. -- jessamyn

posted by Chocomog

this has gotta the bottom of the barrel

Deleted thread: 71173

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is not the way to do it. -- cortex

posted by lemuel

Deleted thread: 71152

This post was deleted for the following reason: I really love this site, but we did just see it a few days ago. -- cortex

posted by arnold

Typeracer

Deleted thread: 71154

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

posted by mrgrimm

Humphrey Lyttelton dies

Deleted thread: 71149

This post was deleted for the following reason: died earlier -- mathowie

posted by feelinglistless

Once Again

Deleted thread: 71131

This post was deleted for the following reason: Jesus, why not just splash around some gasoline and light a match? -- cortex

posted by Capt Jingo

flying priest's baloons found!

Deleted thread: 71120

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is pretty lightweight -- cortex

posted by genmonster

MJ shattering

Deleted thread: 71107

This post was deleted for the following reason: Moderator deleting a weird SLYT post. -- cortex

posted by AceRock

Bum fights? No, Bum Bots

Deleted thread: 71103

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

posted by fixedgear

Good old fashioned Eugenics

Deleted thread: 71092

This post was deleted for the following reason: Kind of a stinkbomb, here. -- cortex

posted by Mr.Encyclopedia

Darth Vader is an Antijedite.

Deleted thread: 71085

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

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson

Is god imaginary?

Deleted thread: 71072

This post was deleted for the following reason: thanks for the wendell tag, that really made this all go a lot easier. -- jessamyn

posted by oxford blue

But Mommy, where do boobies come from?

Deleted thread: 71063

This post was deleted for the following reason: I have seen this previously, and it freaked me out, is there a book for that? -- jessamyn

posted by Megami

Public Art

Deleted thread: 71062

This post was deleted for the following reason: There was a post about Muller a few months ago. By you. -- cortex

posted by pt68

Did John McCain cover up his complicity with his North Vietnamese captors?

Deleted thread: 71055

This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm sure there are good ways to look into what's up with McCain but one Counterpunch link is really not a great way to do politicsfilter here. -- jessamyn

posted by QuietDesperation

Going nuclear in Pennsylvania

Deleted thread: 71048

This post was deleted for the following reason: you're not by any chance related to the user with the same initials who contributes to the blog where this SLBOE post originates, are you? -- jessamyn

posted by wensink

Is Renting Saving You Money? Think Again!

Deleted thread: 71035

This post was deleted for the following reason: you can't do this here. -- jessamyn

posted by Brent Mitchell

Best Bands - some favorite 21st century rock bands

Deleted thread: 70992

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is one of those not-very-good list posts. -- jessamyn

posted by doutzen

Darwin 2008

Deleted thread: 70958

This post was deleted for the following reason: Contrary to previous theories, 70958 actually descended from 61212, not 70913. -- cortex

posted by chuckdarwin

An Earthquake Rocks the Midwest

Deleted thread: 70957

This post was deleted for the following reason: Yup, we heard about it. Local non-catastrophic earthquake news probably isn't really front-page stuff, though. -- cortex

posted by sixcolors

No, thanks, I'm allergic to kiwi. And rodents.

Deleted thread: 70955

This post was deleted for the following reason: kinda messed up when someone grabs worth1000 images and makes a movie out of it -- mathowie

posted by misha

...and they use real cream and butter

Deleted thread: 70950

This post was deleted for the following reason: Cheap eats at culinary school restaurants are pretty great, but this is awfully thin on content for a post to the front page. -- cortex

posted by Tablecrumbs

Student Suspended When Dad Calls Him From Iraq.

Deleted thread: 70942

This post was deleted for the following reason: please don't do this here. -- jessamyn

posted by caveat empress

Foreclosures In Texas Are Down

Deleted thread: 70937

This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really an interesting post. -- mathowie

posted by Brent Mitchell

step3profit.com

Deleted thread: 70936

This post was deleted for the following reason: The suckiest suck that ever sucked. -- mathowie

posted by peewinkle

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. - Darwin

Deleted thread: 70913

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

posted by anastasiav

Most Hated Song in the World

Deleted thread: 70910

This post was deleted for the following reason: freakin top 40 radio its like i they can't go two hours without playing stairway and this -- cortex

posted by Pater Aletheias

Dick Assman.

Deleted thread: 70907

This post was deleted for the following reason: Sure, it's ghastly, but kind of an amazing thing to leak onto the web. -- mathowie

posted by gman

Some pictures

Deleted thread: 70901

This post was deleted for the following reason: removed at poster's request -- mathowie

posted by Taksi Putra

...

Deleted thread: 70896

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is going all sorts of unredeemably wrong and is sort of an outragefilter post to begin with. Why is every week a referendum on something shitty being done to teenage girls on MetaFilter? -- jessamyn

posted by prefpara

Boogie On

Deleted thread: 70891

This post was deleted for the following reason: this needs to not be here now. -- jessamyn

posted by vronsky

In Soviet Russia, pinhole camera eats you

Deleted thread: 70863

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

posted by yhbc

6 billion and counting... down.

Deleted thread: 70869

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is sort of a comment on another post and we've seen it here many times before. -- jessamyn

posted by arcadia

A cross between Star Wars and The Ten Commandments

Deleted thread: 70856

This post was deleted for the following reason: Audience of two. -- cortex

posted by puddleglum

Where Deutschland at? Where Deutschland at?

Deleted thread: 70854

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

posted by jason's_planet

Your guide to becoming a Taco Bell Hero

Deleted thread: 70849

This post was deleted for the following reason: The post builds this up but it's really pretty standard training materials, no insidery dirt to be found. -- mathowie

posted by porn in the woods

Boy oh boy.

Deleted thread: 70841

This post was deleted for the following reason: Man, being coy about gossipy election posting doesn't actually make it better. -- cortex

posted by three blind mice

Who Owns Washington? One word: Health Lobbyists

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This post was deleted for the following reason: not very interesting, looks like a self-link -- mathowie

posted by AliaCamu

"Times Square was the happening place. Big date. Hop in a taxi. And go see 'Night Train' at the Globe Theater."

Deleted thread: 70801

This post was deleted for the following reason: Color photographs from Metafilter during the Previous Thread. -- cortex

posted by goodnewsfortheinsane

You're the best around!

Deleted thread: 70795

This post was deleted for the following reason: meh, a minute of build up for one lucky punch -- mathowie

posted by P.o.B.

Jam Session

Deleted thread: 70788

This post was deleted for the following reason: ha ha ludwig_van's Sharper Image catalog showed up late -- cortex

posted by ludwig_van

Gore and Carter to endorse Obama?

Deleted thread: 70778

This post was deleted for the following reason: If this does happen, that'll be news, but right now this appears to be rumorfilter from unnamed sources, and "from digg" isn't really much help there. -- cortex

posted by donaldekelly

Sometimes Mommy Needs A Cocktail - and Daddy Too!

Deleted thread: 70766

This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really clear what's interesting enough here to merit a post. -- cortex

posted by grateful

Politics is a continuation of war by other means

Deleted thread: 70757

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

posted by misteraitch

The Weird Uncle of Invention

Deleted thread: 70742

This post was deleted for the following reason: When you get Gizmo wet, he multiplies. -- cortex

posted by louche mustachio

Do you diss every night of the summer school?

Deleted thread: 70754

This post was deleted for the following reason: I think at a certain point we find ourselves straddling the line between neat stupid weird and merely stupid stupid weird, and this seems sort of on the wrong side of that line. -- cortex

posted by Frankieist

Making Things

Deleted thread: 70749

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

posted by owhydididoit

Modern Life is Rubbish.

Deleted thread: 70740

This post was deleted for the following reason: this thing has obnoxious ads all over it, popping up and popping new tabs even. ugh. -- mathowie

posted by Phantast

Dick Cheney's Fly-Fishing Vacation

Deleted thread: 70735

This post was deleted for the following reason: We kind of covered this already in Ask MeFi yesterday -- mathowie

posted by webhund

Why, it was an inside job!

Deleted thread: 70730

This post was deleted for the following reason: removed at poster's request -- mathowie

posted by blacklite

"I was working in the lab... LATE one night..."

Deleted thread: 70729

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a good collection of links but it's the subject of a post still being discussed on the front page and probably needs to go there -- jessamyn

posted by Bathtub Bobsled

A-Rod's Baby

Deleted thread: 70709

This post was deleted for the following reason: People apparently hate this. -- cortex

posted by Del Far

The Bastardization of Dr. Seuss

Deleted thread: 70707

This post was deleted for the following reason: I would come up with some sort of Dr. Suess presentation here but I'm kind of too annoyed at you for the stupid self-link so I'll just ban you instead. Something something red. -- cortex

posted by jbrosowsky

Seriously, stay OFF my lawn!

Deleted thread: 70706

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is not going particularly well and seems to be itself an example of what it is trying to decry in some ways. -- jessamyn

posted by besotted

We're Recording Artists, Not Playback Artists

Deleted thread: 70685

This post was deleted for the following reason: just like that old time rock and roll -- cortex

posted by Rykey

A safer alternative?

Deleted thread: 70681

This post was deleted for the following reason: You have formatted your post as a zingy gotcha attack on the thing you're posting about. Not a great idea. -- cortex

posted by auralcoral

Uwe Boll responds to online petition

Deleted thread: 70674

This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm looking forward to his production of Uwe Boll Petition Post 3: The Deletening. -- cortex

posted by alby

Art and aphasia

Deleted thread: 70664

This post was deleted for the following reason: Yup, just recently. -- cortex

posted by nebulawindphone

Suffer the little children to come unto me

Deleted thread: 70640

This post was deleted for the following reason: seriously, this is already going so terribly badly that I don't see much of a reason for it to continue. what is there to "discuss" about child rape and how lousy it is? -- jessamyn

posted by mullingitover

metafilter: right between boingboing and treehugger

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this post was voted #2 on the alltime best posts to already be in metatalk instead -- cortex

posted by [son] QUAALUDE

Our own Tibet

Deleted thread: 70636

This post was deleted for the following reason: This seems like a really awful way to go about making a post about this stuff. -- cortex

posted by XMLicious

MetaFilter on Time's first annual Blog Index

Deleted thread: 70614

This post was deleted for the following reason: Metatalk is the place for things like this. -- cortex

posted by spish

Just Keep It Under A Bazillion Jillion, Guys

Deleted thread: 70608

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

posted by Rykey

Don't look down.

Deleted thread: 70606

This post was deleted for the following reason: i'm a double / you know what i mean / and I do my little turn in El Chorro -- cortex

posted by telstar

Newborns made of chocolate.

Deleted thread: 70598

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

posted by swift

It’s dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: don't. -- jessamyn

posted by Scoo

Making Kissin' cousins look tame

Deleted thread: 70578

This post was deleted for the following reason: The link is a really thin writeup of a news-of-the-weird story, and the post is full of "squick, rite?" editorial/bloggish tone. This is really not a good way to post. -- cortex

posted by Megami

Sexy Japanese Girls Anime

Deleted thread: 70566

This post was deleted for the following reason: Self linking is not allowed. -- pb

posted by yelloriversouth

Unicorn vs. Narwhal

Deleted thread: 70559

This post was deleted for the following reason: double vs. post -- cortex

posted by Del Far

Should Assholes be Let Off the Hook?

Deleted thread: 70540

This post was deleted for the following reason: save the editorializing for YOB please. -- jessamyn

posted by five fresh fish

The Dying of the Light

Deleted thread: 70532

This post was deleted for the following reason: Like double warmed over. -- cortex

posted by Toekneesan

There will be Pokemon!

Deleted thread: 70528

This post was deleted for the following reason: jesus wept WE JUST BANNED YOU FOR THIS LIKE LAST WEEK, REMEMBER? -- cortex

posted by cd4337

Game Journalists are boring

Deleted thread: 70504

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

posted by TheSpot

"Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgeon!"

Deleted thread: 70500

This post was deleted for the following reason: could be a good post, but this is presented in kind of a jokey fark way -- mathowie

posted by bardic

The Legend of the Golden Domino.

Deleted thread: 70485

This post was deleted for the following reason: Well, heck. Sorry, Dave. -- cortex

posted by Dave Faris

Don't stick your hand in the fire and you won't get burnt.

Deleted thread: 70475

This post was deleted for the following reason: lolxians without the lol. -- jessamyn

posted by amyms

It's a bra, made out of bacon.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: raw bacon is kinda gross, plus I guess it's just a single image -- mathowie

posted by raw bacon is kinda gross, plus I guess it's just a single image -- mathowie

International Dialects of English Archive

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This post was deleted for the following reason: posted previously (and I put better tags on the earlier post) -- jessamyn

posted by ozomatli

Insects on Stamps

Deleted thread: 70446

This post was deleted for the following reason: if there is a more subtle point to your post such as "it's all in the links" it might be a good idea to explain that in your original post. Wikipedia links are rarely (ever?) good single link posts to metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by matkline

And I thought that I might get a date out of the deal. Sheesh.

Deleted thread: 70436

This post was deleted for the following reason: Mentioning this in one of the existing April Fools posts would be fine; a great big hard-sell post to the front page really isn't necessary at this point. -- cortex

posted by caveat empress

The Art of Memetics: Pirate Edition

Deleted thread: 70430

This post was deleted for the following reason: Uh, I'm willing to hear you out if there's actually extenuating circumstances here, but your registration email matches one of the folks who wrote the foreward for the damn book. The part where this isn't a self-link is pretty unclear to me. -- cortex

posted by metameme

April Fools on the Beeb, 1957

Deleted thread: 70426

This post was deleted for the following reason: April Redundancies! -- cortex

posted by spock

12 Things That Women Do That Men Find Irresistable

Deleted thread: 70423

This post was deleted for the following reason: lists posts generally don't go well and this list post definitely isn't going well. -- jessamyn

posted by WCityMike

Are Payday Loans Worth It?

Deleted thread: 70417

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

posted by mona2s

What we have is a problem of talking about race.

Deleted thread: 70410

This post was deleted for the following reason: Dobbs is a creep, and that was exactly the wrong idiom for him to trot out under the circumstances, but this is more of a Ha ha! live TV gaffe than anything; we've heard worse from better and this is just an argument waiting to happen. -- cortex

posted by three blind mice

1.21 gigawatts ?!?

Deleted thread: 70409

This post was deleted for the following reason: If it's a mild one-linker April Fools thing, we're probably better off just sticking it in the April Fools Roundup post from yesterday. In this case, someone did, in fact. -- cortex

posted by scblackman

What Every American Should Know about the Middle East

Deleted thread: 70406

This post was deleted for the following reason: really oversimplified uncontenxtualized bloggish primers on hot button topics don't really make for great MeFi threads. -- jessamyn

posted by MetaMan