Fixed typo in Pritzker's name in this comment.

One comment deleted; it was a correction comment from the OP and got missed when the title was changed.

One deleted; if an Ask requires some level of expertise, it's not a great idea to jump in without knowing the subject matter pretty well.

One deleted; it was not a bad comment in isolation but was unrelated to the subject of the post, and was likely to cause a derail.

Folks, i'm not going to delete the "smith" derail because i don't think it's significant enough to warrant leaving a big hole in the thread, but this conversation really needs to get back on the rails.

Two deleted; please do not get into back-and-forth exchanges with other users in Ask!

One deleted; please don't get into back-and-forths with other users in Ask!

Post title corrected, as pointed out by OP.

One comment removed for not answering the question.

Hey folks, no comments removed but two comments in we're already off the rails. If the issue is that the post doesn't summarize the article well enough, that's fair feedback, but "what does this link to" read as combative rather than curious, and it pulled three more comments into a meta-conversation about hovering over text instead of the actual subject. Let's use the rest of the thread to actually engage with the link. Flagging and moving on rather than litigating the link format would be appreciated. Thanks.

Removed the first comment and a few replies to it. Posting a single link with the headline as a comment at the beginning of a thread lacks context so please try to articulate your point so that members understand the relevance of the comment in the context of the thread. Also, in general be careful when posting the first comments within a thread, as it can easily derail the conversation right of the bat.

Nothing deleted, but note that "open season" can be interpreted as a call for real violence and it makes people uncomfortable and picks up flags. Exercise caution in the future, please!

Fixed to reflect the correct movie; deleted a comment about the correction.

One deleted. Folks, it's true that FanFare is a discussion site for fans, but "fan" is a very broad identity category and criticism, including harsh criticism, is not "shitting up" a discussion. It's certainly not something that warrants sniping at another user by name.

Several deleted, a couple for being fairly insensitive about a kid's trauma, a few for not answering the question, and a few for getting into a back-and-forth with other users/meta-discussion about the question. Meta-discussion needs to go to MeTa; clarification questions are okay but folks do need to be sensitive when the question involves a kid; and while personal anecdotes are sometimes okay (and i've left a few of them up), there does need to be some kind of throughline to an answer.

I did leave up a few answers that were much more focused on parenting advice than legal/bureaucratic next steps; all of the ones i left up are from before the Asker clarified that they are not looking for parenting advice.

One deleted for being very dismissive and not answering the question.

Fixed Guy Williams' name in this comment; removed a comment about the correction.

Added USPolitics tag. Please carry on.

Added USPolitics tag. Please carry on.

Nothing removed, but please note that "pansy" is often considered to be homophobic, and is not generally acceptable language for MetaFilter.

Two deleted. Apple's history with the IDF is potentially relevant to this conversation, but it is not okay to accuse other members of being paid shills. (One was deleted for that reason, and the other was a reply to the deleted comment.)

Two comments deleted as noise.

Fixed wording in OP at user's request.

Made links in post clickable.

Removed extra querystring params from youtube link in OP.

Fixed links in this comment and added song titles (for visibility) to the links in this comment. Also, one comment deleted as a duplicate.

Fixed a typo in the OP!

One deleted for using a homophobic trope. It was clearly inadvertent but didn't need to be here.

One comment deleted for being in the wrong thread. jenfullmoon, i believe you want the MrBeast thread!

Fixed link in this comment. Also, two deleted: the first invoked a dodgy racist/sexist influencer and was only sort of orthogonal to an answer anyway, and the second was a response to the first.

Fixed link in this comment.

Moved first paragraph of OP above the fold, to accommodate folks with titles turned off.

Fixed a typo in OP.

One deleted for not answering the question.

Fixed double negative in OP.

One deleted as spam.

Fixed munged HTML links in OP.

Two accidental comments removed.

Corrected book title as requested. Please carry on.

dsword: Whoops! Apparently i'm the one who was confused, then; i've restored your comment and edited the previous mod note!

One deleted. pantamisiac, sorry to see you go; if you want to talk about it, feel free to reach out via the Contact Form.

Removed links from this comment, with the user's permission, as they were redundant.

Fixed link in this comment.

One deleted for being in the wrong thread. dsword, i believe you want the MetaPi thread!
Restored the comment; it was in the right thread after all!

One deleted for being hostile.

One deleted (wrong thread!)

One deleted at user's request.

Fixed URL in bgrebs' answer.

Fixed typo in post.

One comment removed as requested.

Updated post with the Direct Guardian link.

Added Rewatch category at user's request.

Made an email address correction in the OP at the request of one of the club organizers!

EDIT: out of an abundance of caution, we've actually just gone ahead and removed all the email addresses that aren't obviously single-purpose club emails. If you are a club maintainer and would like us to put yours back in the post, let us know!

One deleted. Folks, please don't get into back-and-forth conversations with other users in Ask.

Two comments removed. Folks, your enthusiasm is appreciated, but please don't ruin the game for other people who might want to play it by posting giant lists of colors!

One comment deleted as noise. LOOKING, please do note that AI-generated comments are against the guidelines on MetaFilter.

UPDATE: I apologize to House Hippolyta for how i handled the "possible LLM" flags yesterday; i absolutely should have done more due diligence before making a public mod note. There is more discussion over in the ongoing MeTa about LLM comments.

warriorqueen: "Also, what happened to reaching out to members first? (I'm aware this was an aspirational comment, not policy.)"

Yes, I should've reached out privately first. What i saw was a user who registered in 2023, who'd never made any comments before making two in the same thread, and between that and the flags i was absolutely less charitable than i should have been. (I genuinely thought the account might've been hijacked.)

It's my bad for not doing my due diligence here. I'm very sorry, House Hippolyta, and i'm going to issue an apology in the main thread as well.

One comment removed for not answering the question.

Several comments deleted. Full transparency: three of the four were mine, and the fourth was a reply to me. They were fighty and were going to cause a derail, so i would've requested deletion, but i'm also the only mod available for the next several hours, so i had to do the deletion myself. Sorry, folks, i wasn't modeling good behavior there.

House Hippolyta, folks have flagged your comments: it looks as though you may have used an LLM to generate at least portions of them. Please note that this is against the content policy and you need to write your comments yourself. This was a bad call; i've posted an apology below.

Added "AI" tag. I don't think we have consensus on whether "AI"-generated content needs its own tag, separate from "AI" (which is more for posts which are about "AI"), but this will work at least for now.

One deleted for not answering the question.

Well, this thread seems to pretty much have been strangled, but for the record, some notes:

• I've reinstated one comment that thyme previously deleted; it didn't violate the guidelines for MeTa (although i concur in their statement that folks should make sure they are leaving space for other people to talk)


• Folks need to avoid resorting to personal insults against other community members, even in MeTa.


• Folks also need to avoid imputing the worst possible motives to other community members, especially when you have very limited information. Just as one example: millions of people across the Global South are still "giving money to Nazis" by being on Twitter, and folks who want to keep up with the Global South are often still reading stuff there too because there is nowhere else to get the information.

Highlights link fixed in OP, and one comment about the correction deleted.

Fixed credits block in OP, at user's request.

No comments removed, but let's please not have discussions of whether something is AI or not within the post itself.

Fixed typo in the title.