Yeah, this isn't really a suitable bot for MetaFilter.
November 22, 2014 4:23 PM   Subscribe

Have you ever wanted to pretend the mods are removing tweets from your timeline? Well, now you can! [via mefi projects]
posted by Going To Maine (21 comments total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
 
I love that it doesn't link to the deleted post, that's brill.
posted by Nelson at 4:34 PM on November 22, 2014 [3 favorites]


Kind of already being discussed in the existing barbie thread

Worth it for that one alone.
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 4:35 PM on November 22, 2014


This gets my vote for the coveted title of "Most Convoluted Twitter Client Of All."
posted by JHarris at 4:39 PM on November 22, 2014 [6 favorites]


(That is, the mods delete a post and fill in what they want the tweet to be for the reason. Rube Goldberg would approve.)
posted by JHarris at 4:41 PM on November 22, 2014 [1 favorite]


I would imagine some sort of ticking time-bomb scenario in which a mod must tweet something or else a kitten won't get a treat, but they only have access to the Metafilter moderator tools... and for some reason the only FPP they can delete is the one for CAPS LOCK DAY.
posted by Going To Maine at 4:46 PM on November 22, 2014 [3 favorites]


FOLLOWED
posted by The Whelk at 4:52 PM on November 22, 2014


"This really needs to wait until better sourcing than HuffPo is available, sorry."
posted by cacofonie at 4:52 PM on November 22, 2014


I would imagine some sort of [...] scenario
Ok, who leaked the script for MeFiMovie? That bit was gonna be all AN M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN FILM.
posted by distressingly thick sheets at 4:52 PM on November 22, 2014


Too many duplications.
posted by oneswellfoop at 4:53 PM on November 22, 2014


"This is a complex and interesting article about a topic that is just about categorically impossible to discuss civilly here. Sorry."

Too bad, now I really want to see this article.
posted by Rangi at 7:16 PM on November 22, 2014 [1 favorite]


The Chandler stuff seems to be a messy distraction to an otherwise good post. Maybe try again with a slight reframe tomorrow?

I don't disagree, but he was one of the six main characters. It seems weird to ignore him.

I mean, Could it be any weirder to ignore him?
posted by Horace Rumpole at 7:19 PM on November 22, 2014 [5 favorites]


Double got posted more than twice.
posted by arcticseal at 8:24 PM on November 22, 2014 [2 favorites]


If you're curious about the posts themselves, there's the deleted posts blog, too.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 12:48 AM on November 23, 2014 [2 favorites]


I can't let a deleted posts thread go by without shouting out to the departed puke & cry, who ran the original Deleted Thread blog.
posted by JHarris at 2:19 AM on November 23, 2014 [5 favorites]


Now you too can experience being silenced all your life!
posted by panboi at 5:12 AM on November 23, 2014


Cool project - I really didn't like that there weren't links and attributions, at first - it means I have to trundle over to http://mefideleted.blogspot.com/ to look 'em up.

However, if people like the poetry/humor of just putting the text in - who am I to argue?

This was done in coordination with Mr. Matt and Mr. Cortex, right?

Nice job.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 8:58 AM on November 23, 2014


This feels like it could be a gold mine for MetaFilter taglines.

MetaFilter: It is neat, but we saw it before.
posted by brundlefly at 11:11 AM on November 23, 2014


> This was done in coordination with Mr. Matt and Mr. Cortex, right?

From the Via link:

At a Portland meetup last month I had the chance to run the idea past mathowie and cortex and now I've followed through.

The project uses (with permission) a feed from the MetaFilter Deleted Posts blog

posted by languagehat at 2:05 PM on November 23, 2014


Hey, thanks for posting my project, Going To Maine—I'm glad people seem to be enjoying it!

I was on the fence about linking back to the original deleted posts but this bot is supposed to be more about the collective voice of the mods than about the collection of stuff-that-just-won't-fly. I did run it past mathowie and cortex (I believe my words were "is this the kind of project that could get me banned?") because some deleted posts really don't need any more attention. Our mods do a great job and I'd hate to make more work for them.

Funny fact: when I started the bot running a week ago it took a few hours to run through the backlog of deleted posts available on the Deleted Posts blog's feed. Several of the deletion reasons were "Double" but Twitter didn't let all of these through ... because they looked like doubles.
posted by Songdog at 2:35 PM on November 23, 2014 [3 favorites]


Related, though a self-link: the MeFite friends on my trivia team encouraged me to expand to Ask MetaFilter, which I have now done with @askmedeleted.
posted by Songdog at 2:00 PM on December 8, 2014 [3 favorites]


Every time @askmedeleted shows a message about how a question would be better suited to metatalk, I rush over expecting some drama. Every time, I am disappointed. Stupid metatalk queue.
posted by Going To Maine at 8:43 PM on December 14, 2014


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