Tuesday, August 31, 2010

US DOJ fails to act to prevent prison rape

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A short single-link editorial is rarely a good post. Including explicit metacommentary about how the site works in a post is pretty much an instant delete. We're totally fine talking about the subject via the contact form or in metatalk if you want to, but this is not the way to do it. -- cortex

posted by GnomeChompsky

Rule for dealing with Evil Overlords

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This post was deleted for the following reason: No biggie, but this was already old back when it was old. -- cortex

posted by governale

Stripped of Dignity

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a recreational outrage/sign my petition post. -- jessamyn

posted by reenum

doot doo doo doot

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Maybe just add this to the Gaga thread down the page a bit? Don't think we really need two on the same day. -- cortex

posted by divabat

Monday, August 30, 2010

The Pirate Bay Documentary

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link to fundraiser page, not so great. maybe link to some more information about this and make a fuller post out of it tomorrow? -- jessamyn

posted by NotSoSiniSter

Ten great designs of 2010

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This post was deleted for the following reason: you are not allowed to link to your own things on metafilter. this is a self-link. you are banned -- jessamyn

posted by vhof

A collaborative music/spoken word project

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Great project, but it was posted before. -- pb

posted by thsmchnekllsfascists

Friday, August 27, 2010

America the Dumb

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, there's a lot to be depressed about on this front but a Newsweek slideshow clickfest is kind of weaksauce for a post about it. -- cortex

posted by IvoShandor

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Yeah. Why "Bless You?"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: One slight blog post is generally not a good metafilter post. -- cortex

posted by dzaz

Coxisms

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Kinda sketchy ad-laden site and it's throwing up malware warnings on some of the internal links. -- cortex

posted by lauratheexplorer

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Don't you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.

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

posted by anansi

Child Protection Laws

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this seems more like a recreational outrage sort of post than something that will make a good post for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by lauratheexplorer

Anti-semitism, party of 1

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This post was deleted for the following reason: please link to this in one of the many open threads on the Park 51 project, there are several. Thanks. -- jessamyn

posted by Sophie1

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Inception explained for Mac users

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, this is pretty thin for a post. -- cortex

posted by feelinglistless

A letter to a 6th grader.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: framing matters - if you're going to draw some sort of Obama connection don't be coy SAY WHAT YOU MEAN, otherwise leave it off, it's distracting and confusing and detracts from what might otherwise be an interesting essay. -- jessamyn

posted by electricsandwich138

Monday, August 23, 2010

fancy menu for our times

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link blog post with sort of one-off joke. Not terrible. Not great. -- jessamyn

posted by kingfish

Russia in Color, c. 1900

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I don't know what other tags to add to the existing most recent post, but we have really really seen this. -- cortex

posted by outlandishmarxist

Inside the Mind of Simon Cowell

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not that funny or interesting of a short video about a pop star judge. -- mathowie

posted by lauratheexplorer

Christwire Addresses the Moral Dilemmas of Our Day

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I've taken a poll and popular support is swinging toward Barrabuswire.com. -- cortex

posted by reenum

It's a Magical World, Chewie, Ol' Buddy...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: single link t-shirt post not great for metafilter. -- jessamyn

posted by cerebus19

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Incredible Russian Photographs

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Neat but we've seen it several times before. -- cortex

posted by BZArcher

But it is just a hood

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not to say someone couldn't in theory put together a good post about the situation from the museum, but this is mostly you talking about your personal feelings about the whole thing and that's not how posts to mefi are supposed to work. -- cortex

posted by COD

Friday, August 20, 2010

Nerd rage, any?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Previous thread is just two days old, go ahead and add this there if no one has already. -- cortex

posted by polymodus

But you said ALL dogs!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I know it's spoof stuff, but spoof bigotry is still kind of "hey check out this bigotry" in a way that's really not great for a post if it's not somehow just really, really superlative. -- cortex

posted by mippy

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Randy Rainbow Calls Dr. Laura

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not really worth a new post, probably better as a comment in the older post -- mathowie

posted by ericb

Richer Counties are Democrat and want to raise Taxes?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: One short news blurb about the situation is really thin for a post. -- cortex

posted by Metheglen

Bear With Me

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Please put these links in the other post about bears guarding a Canadian grow-op and jesus christ did I actually just type that sentence how is this my life -- cortex

posted by Cobalt

It's hard to overstate my satisfaction ...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this can go in the previous slowed down thread. -- jessamyn

posted by WCityMike

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Love Between the Covers

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This post was deleted for the following reason: [insert joke about getting coffee with this poster] -- cortex

posted by modernnomad

Is your husband gay?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Seems to not be standing up that well to the traffic being thrown at it. -- cortex

posted by bobbyelliott

Betty Draper::Emma Frost

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This post was deleted for the following reason: "couldn't resist" is often not a jumping off point for great posts especially if your main point is "oooh eye candy" -- jessamyn

posted by vhsiv

The Majestic Plastic Bag

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Thread 94876: The Plastic Bag Mockumentary Post It's Okay To Like -- cortex

posted by ericb

Michael Bloomberg Wants to Play Cowboys and Indians

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is too editorializing for MetaFilter and a little too NY-centric for other people to need the nitty gritty details about a topic already being discussed in one or perhaps two open threads. -- jessamyn

posted by Leta

Opium Made Easy

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I posted a repeat link / and I know why -- cortex

posted by sveskemus

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Penn is skeptical about the efficacy of prayer

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this seems more like something suited to your own blog - atheism is a well-trodden topic on MeFi and Penn Gilette using an easy target here is not really a great way to discuss this here. -- jessamyn

posted by Metheglen

Churchill Deep Zoom

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

posted by gman

Monday, August 16, 2010

Girl/Camera/Mirror

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This post was deleted for the following reason: a tumblr blog full of stolen photos of girls taking their own picture? a little not-that-great-akshualy -- jessamyn

posted by mrducts

In Praise of Luddism

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This may be better as a comment in the other thread. Posts framed in terms of direct reaction to other posts/comments on mefi aren't generally a good way to go. -- cortex

posted by outlandishmarxist

Stage Assault at the Gathering of the Juggalos

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This post was deleted for the following reason: the difference between loljuggalos and "this is fucking abhorrent" isn't really so much for an FPP. It's really a "look at this assholes" sort of thing which is already turning into an loljuggalos thread. -- jessamyn

posted by griphus

The Malevolence Engine sees all weaknesses

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Strange game; the only winning move is not to post. -- cortex

posted by mccarty.tim

The Malevolence Engine sees all weaknesses

Deleted thread: 94762

This post was deleted for the following reason: Strange game; the only winning move is not to post. -- cortex

posted by mccarty.tim

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Hey, Hey, Hey!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Oh look, a chubby criminal. -- cortex

posted by HuronBob

My Roommate, The Diamond Thief

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is the exact article linked in the "previously" link. -- jessamyn

posted by reenum

Saturday, August 14, 2010

“We have no statement from anyone, just one withdrawn paper. The scientific community needs to know if this was a quirk or a pattern.”

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

posted by availablelight

Thursday, August 12, 2010

MozBackup - A useful program for Mozilla Firefox

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This post was deleted for the following reason: eh, this is more lifehacker than metafilter -- mathowie

posted by AZNsupermarket

The longest photographic exposures in history

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This post was deleted for the following reason: dammit it's overexposed -- cortex

posted by Combustible Edison Lighthouse

Ack!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Ack! sweat lines! sweat lines! -- mathowie

posted by blucevalo

"i am in love with this movie i think its genious"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This would make for a funny blog post but, yeah, Y!A is pretty much a known shittrap already and a post just putting together a bunch of content from there is maybe not so great for metafilter. -- cortex

posted by hiteleven

Forever 21 Staff Tackles and Chokes Deaf Shopper Suspected of Shoplifting

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Kind of another authority brutality story, nothing much to discuss aside from outrage -- mathowie

posted by stringbean

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

A Really Long Post About Gay Marriage

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Sorry this is pretty old, doesn't really cover new ground and people kind of hate it -- mathowie

posted by Leta

REAL COWBOY GEAR!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: ebay posts are short-lived and this Puck guy is really lame, sorry. -- mathowie

posted by mrgrimm

How much longer before they start talking about final solutions to the "Muslim Problem"?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: There are two recent threads about the mosque stuff, I'm not sure we need another thread right now just to talk about people's conflicting opinions on the subject. -- cortex

posted by saulgoodman

For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his

Deleted thread: 94642

This post was deleted for the following reason: The only color I can see is JAMES BROWN. -- cortex

posted by mattdidthat

I Quit

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yeah, Fakey McFakerson and we've seen it already down in the Slater thread. No biggie, SAS. -- cortex

posted by Short Attention Sp

CHN Pad

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Did you mean to post this to askme maybe? -- cortex

posted by kingfish

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

She likes 'em saucy.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a bad mix of news of the weird and "crazy people r crazy amirite" interesting-ish event but maybe not quite right for here. -- jessamyn

posted by Cody's Keeper

Video Interview - Atheist Christopher Hitchens: 'How Am I? I'm Dying'

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is probably better as a comment in last week's Christopher Hitchens post -- mathowie

posted by Alex930

Heres your fuckin peanuts!!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: It's a funny story but this is a really slight news-of-the-weird post. -- cortex

posted by shockingbluamp

Sunday, August 08, 2010

wendy4bigotry

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This post was deleted for the following reason: maybe have more than one link fleshing this out? It's pretty thin outragefilter/Conservatives Say The Darndest Things right now -- mathowie

posted by Talez

Where Do You Draw The Line?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This ain't much to go on -- mathowie

posted by amyms

Saturday, August 07, 2010

Sucks to be that guy...

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This post was deleted for the following reason: what is claimed to be happening is not really what is happening. As a single link video post with twelve word description, there maybe needs to be more "what is awesome about this" angle. -- jessamyn

posted by shockingbluamp

Friday, August 06, 2010

"But how does he smell?"

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Why'd you post this? -- mathowie

posted by No-sword

Thursday, August 05, 2010

Young Me/Now Me

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Been me, done that -- cortex

posted by grapefruitmoon

The Human Spirit

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This post was deleted for the following reason: hail mary -- cortex

posted by netbros

Federal Judge Overturns California Prop 8.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Being actively discussed down the page a bit. -- cortex

posted by charlesminus

There will, of course, be appeals.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Head on down the page a bit. -- cortex

posted by quin

The Wal-Mart of sex trafficking

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Link to a short news blurb is not a great way to make a post. If someone wants to make a thorough post out of this, that'd be okay. -- cortex

posted by Theloupgarou

Underhanded business practices, negligent customer, or ...?

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This post was deleted for the following reason: I think you meant to post this in Ask MetaFilter. -- pb

posted by Smuth

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Bloomberg makes his stand

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Just about the worst way to frame a great speech. Someone else try making this post without the editorializing -- mathowie

posted by Slap*Happy

Judge Blocks Most of Arizona Immigration Law

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Yay! Also: seen it. -- jessamyn

posted by twoleftfeet

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Somebody satirized Wikipedia, and nobody came to the party.

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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is not a good post for MetaFilter. -- pb

posted by harold_dumbacher

Fail VS Fail

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This post was deleted for the following reason: lame, farkish. -- mathowie

posted by onecopywriter

Reagan Youth... SEIG HEIL!

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This post was deleted for the following reason: A little too much editorializing on what is already a meh post. -- vacapinta

posted by snottydick

Monday, August 02, 2010

Yacht Rock

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This post was deleted for the following reason: Not sure where this belongs but....not here. -- vacapinta

posted by ktrain

Sunday, August 01, 2010

On a cool, clear night (typical to Southern California) Warren G travels through his neighborhood, searching for women with whom he might initiate sex

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This post was deleted for the following reason: if you can't link directtly to the diffs this isn't really a great post for MeFi since yes, someone should fix that and encouraging lulzy wikipedia editing isn't really what we're about. -- jessamyn

posted by alby