Disappeared into the Blue

March 13, 2011 9:10 AM

Atlantis post vanished from the Blue? I'm running the Deleted Posts script, and I can see other deleted posts, but this one seems to have just disappeared.

So there was a post about scientists discovering the Lost City of Atlantis up on the Blue a little while ago, I guess it was posted somewhere between 8 and 9AM CST. It was probably quite silly as posts about this topic tend to be, but I figured I'd check it out in a little bit, just for the debunking, if it hadn't been deleted.

Lo and behold I refresh my browser and it's gone! Which would be perfectly normal, except that I'm running the Deleted Posts Greasemonkey script, which normally lets me see deleted posts. I can see other deleted posts (like this unusual non-banning self-link and this thin post about a cat that looks like Hitler. But not the Atlantis post.

So, I guess what I'm asking is, what gives? Is this some sort of arcane policy decision at work? I'm guessing it's more like a glitch of some kind. Anyway, I'm curious as to what went down there.

posted by Scientist to Bugs at 9:10 AM (37 comments total)

Deleted post scripts rely on the difference in post numbers. Until there is a post made after the deleted one, it won't show up that way.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:12 AM on March 13, 2011

The Lost Post Of Atlantis.
posted by jonmc at 9:12 AM on March 13, 2011 [22 favorites]

D'oh! Thanks for clearing that one up. Now I feel like a chump. :-D
posted by Scientist at 9:12 AM on March 13, 2011

It sank beneath the waves.
posted by the quidnunc kid at 9:13 AM on March 13, 2011

You should be asking Donovan, not Jessamyn.
posted by jonmc at 9:15 AM on March 13, 2011 [9 favorites]

When we were in love I pretended you didn't exist
That way I loved you more
You suggested we get married and move into a house
I suggested that we jump overboard
And live underwater in the lost city of Atlantis
Where mermaids sing
And tuxedoed dolphins bring you breakfast

I feel good.
I feel better than James Brown.
I feel better now.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 9:21 AM on March 13, 2011 [4 favorites]

I was making my second "first post" to metatalk. I guess it wasn't good enough, again. I didn't realize there was a show coming out on atlantis. Thought it was interesting enough and it was from reuters so I figured it might be real.
posted by TheBones at 9:21 AM on March 13, 2011

HAIL ATLANTIS

Maybe it fell in a lake.
posted by The Whelk at 9:38 AM on March 13, 2011

The post in question.

For the record I am fine with deleting any Yahoo news posts.
posted by cjorgensen at 9:41 AM on March 13, 2011

FNORD
posted by boo_radley at 9:44 AM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

Don't worry Scientist, I was wondering too.
posted by futz at 9:52 AM on March 13, 2011

I guess it wasn't good enough, again.

It wasn't terrible, it was just really thin [single link to a news wire post] and the weird tie-in made it seem a little sketchier. So not terrible definitely, just thin and oddly timed with all the real tsunami news.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 10:05 AM on March 13, 2011

*kicks Billy Batts to death on floor*
posted by jonmc at 10:19 AM on March 13, 2011 [3 favorites]

Can't let the Wraith know we found it.
posted by furiousxgeorge at 1:38 PM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

Scientist, just to further elucidate this (known) issue with the Deleted Posts Script, what I usually do when this situation occurs is to click into the most recent thread and change the URL to the next higher number. You don't even really have to change the title part after the final '/'. For example, if the top post is
http://www.metafilter.com/101506/Get-along-Kid-Charlemagne
then you can just change it to
http://www.metafilter.com/101507/Get-along-Kid-Charlemagne
and it'll pull up the deleted thread.
posted by carsonb at 1:38 PM on March 13, 2011

On board were the Twelve:
The Whelk, The Quidnunc Kid, The Straightener, The Card Cheat,
The Young Rope-Rider and the other so-called Gods of our legends.


(Always loved how he says "The twelve," and then can only remember, like, five of them.)
posted by klangklangston at 1:47 PM on March 13, 2011 [5 favorites]

It's actually fascinating archeological news. There is a National Geographic special which apparently airing today; This is an announcement with some details from the University of Hartford.

Perhaps this post could be redone when some more information - maybe some scholarly or at least more details publications? - have been released? I really want to know more about cities in this period - what would a pre-500 BC city in southern Spain look like? what kind of society, economy? What makes the researcher consider the other cities to be "memorial cities"?
posted by jb at 2:46 PM on March 13, 2011 [1 favorite]

What makes the researcher consider the other cities to be "memorial cities"?"

The ring motif, apparently:

Recently discovered 2,800-year-old ruins display an image carved in stone of what looks to be an Atlantean warrior -- guarding the entrance to the lost, multi-ringed city! They don't say how they know what an Atlantean warrior looks like. There's another copy of the PR on Physorg. They don't date their archeaoCadiz in the pr but that would seem to but an upper bound on it. So this is long after Thera (1500-1700 bce). And Cadiz is on the other side of Gibraltar. Maybe tomorrow there will more material for a FPP.

Atlantis has, of course, been found many times, once even in Bolivia.

posted by psyche7 at 3:29 PM on March 13, 2011

There's a show about this on the National Geographic Channel tonight: Finding Atlantis.
posted by homunculus at 5:30 PM on March 13, 2011

Numeric URLs, without titles, pull up threads fine, by the way: for example http://www.metafilter.com/101507
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:57 PM on March 13, 2011

FWIW, I was kinda hoping for a good post on the Blue about this :(
posted by digitalprimate at 6:20 PM on March 13, 2011

Great choice of posts to link in your example, stav! Partyin' partyin' yeah!
posted by BeerFilter at 7:07 PM on March 13, 2011

I am so sick of these quests for Atlantis. It was obviously Crete before Santorini blew.

WHY IS NOBODY LOOKING FOR LENG?
posted by meehawl at 9:02 PM on March 13, 2011

I just copied and pasted from the comment earlier. Hadn't looked at that post until now... I see that it is not my cup of tea.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:21 PM on March 13, 2011

(Always loved how he says "The twelve," and then can only remember, like, five of them.)

Smoking all those banana peels fogged his memory.
posted by jonmc at 9:24 PM on March 13, 2011

There's a show about this on the National Geographic Channel tonight: Finding Atlantis.

...and it's totally idiotic. WTF, National Geographic?
posted by homunculus at 9:35 PM on March 13, 2011

"The Magician??"
posted by drjimmy11 at 10:23 PM on March 13, 2011

Didn't James Cameron find the corpse of Jesus a while back, what happened with that?
posted by furiousxgeorge at 10:37 PM on March 13, 2011

*doffs wizard hat*

"Their story has the ring of truth. It rings true."
posted by markkraft at 6:32 AM on March 14, 2011

I can't wait to find out more about Kull.
posted by josher71 at 9:10 AM on March 14, 2011

That's my wizard hat and I want it back.
posted by The Whelk at 9:42 AM on March 14, 2011

I'd rather know where Cimmeria is. The homeland of my favorite historical figure
posted by Redhush at 10:48 AM on March 14, 2011

Don't pray to Crom for help. I know that much.
posted by josher71 at 10:53 AM on March 14, 2011

According to the new Conan the Barbarian trailer, smoke is what's best in life
posted by homunculus at 11:05 AM on March 14, 2011

Sunk beneath the Blue = GONE TO ATLANTIS.
posted by Artw at 12:48 PM on March 14, 2011

for gods they whear
posted by Potomac Avenue at 12:55 PM on March 14, 2011

To hell with Crom
posted by 7segment at 8:26 AM on March 15, 2011 [1 favorite]