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My "Ask MeFi" Post was plagiarized on another website! [more inside]
posted by Jon44 at 7:54 AM - 121 comments

I don't quite understand why this FPP (about pet adoptions) was deleted. The reason given is that 'Heya, posts built around charity/fundraiser stuff are kind of not okay in general. If you want to make a post about adoption stuff in abstract independent of the sort of Get Out The Adopt angle, that'd be more okay.' Except that the charitable foundation mentioned in the post doesn't solicit donations, so there's no fundraising aspect involved, zero, zip, nada. As far as I know it's funded entirely by some rich person's bequest in memory of a beloved dog. They don't even have a donate button on the website, and the text of the FPP made it clear that they were in the giving-it-away business rather than the taking-it-in business. I'm not quite sure how to do a post about pet adoptions 'independent of the sort of get out the adopt angle.' Unless it's a post saying 'why you shouldn't adopt' or 'the dark side of pet adoptions' or something. This FPP was about a) the cool commercial video, which is a cut above most efforts of this type and b) the existence of resources for people who are interested in adopting a pet but might be worried about the cost.
posted by anigbrowl at 11:19 AM - 122 comments

Deleted comments discouraging. [more inside]
posted by nickrussell at 8:07 AM - 256 comments

What does (or doesn't) Metafilter do well? [more inside]
posted by GnomeChompsky at 6:16 PM - 161 comments

Are we, as a community, doing the best we can in anon askmes? [more inside]
posted by smoke at 5:37 PM - 126 comments

Sex and the Negative Guy: " . . . you are choosing to trust your health with a person who has a demonstrated history of making poor decisions about their own health." [more inside]
posted by MeiraV at 12:03 PM - 18 comments

Were there some comments deleted from this post? [more inside]
posted by XMLicious at 5:25 PM - 59 comments

Can we stop with bullshit, hateful mental illness accusations? [more inside]
posted by Snyder at 8:15 PM - 622 comments

FAKE!!! Wait, maybe not. Could we consider not derailing a post with screams of FIRE errr... FAKE, without a bit of evidence that points to that? Could we especially not do it when there seems to be evidence that it ISN'T fake?
posted by HuronBob at 6:05 PM - 78 comments

Metafilter collectively piled on to this OP so hard that she returned to update that she was actually essentially being triggered by the responses. How can we do this better and keep our own issues out of being helpful? Is there a way to "report pileon"? Should there be? [more inside]
posted by corb at 12:33 PM - 237 comments