One comment deleted. It's against the Ask MeFi guidelines to get into back-and-forth exchanges with other users, and there are a couple comments in here that are skating on the edge of that, but this one was particularly snarky.

One deleted for not answering the question (and recommending a thing that the Asker specifically said they did not want.)

Two comments removed; one for not answering the question and the other as a reply to that one.

paduasoy: "There was another previously - mods, could you tag that one and the 2002 one with EmmyNoether?" Good suggestion; i went ahead and tagged those both!

One deleted. Comments that consist of LLM-generated content are against the guidelines, particularly in Ask.

Fixed typo in this comment.

Obviously, suggesting that people who perceive the ads as racist are merely "influence[d]" by other people's complaints, and/or are suffering from "hysteria", is wildly unacceptable. Unlike the previously deleted comment (from a different user), this one was not at all ambiguous, so Liquidwolf, i'm giving you the day off.

"Don’t love that you are covering for the racist who called us insane for seeing it. People should know who said that." I understand feeling that way, but while the comment itself definitely needed to go (several folks interpreted it the same way i did, hence it getting flags), there was at least one innocuous alternative interpretation of exactly what was being called "insane". It's on record in case of future issues, but this is not something that's been a pattern for this particular user so i'm not gonna put them on blast at this time.

Fixed some messed-up formatting in this comment.

Fixed weird formatting in OP and deleted a comment about the correction.

Also, one deleted; many Black folks and other people of color have expressed that they think the ad is really racist; you may not agree, and it's fine to say that, but calling their considered interpretation "insane" is not something we are gonna allow here. (Replies left up for context.)

One deleted at user's request.

Made link clickable in this comment.

Made link clickable in this comment.

Added USPolitics tag. Removed mistakenly-added USPolitics tag; please disregard. My bad; i misread something.

Fixed typos in OP.

One deleted. It sorta answered the question but i think encouraging software piracy as a solution in this instance is a bit too far afield.

One deleted; it was one of those comments that's probably fine later in a thread, but as the second comment it's going to irritate everyone and possibly derail the thread entirely.

One comment removed; in this particular case, an apology is unnecessary and potentially revives the derail.

Made links clickable in this comment.

CCBC: just fyi, more discussion about the regulatory side of things is happening over in this other thread. This thread here is more discussing the evil sex cult side of things. (They are way overlapping, and i'm not telling you to go away! Just that you may get better results in the other thread.)

(Replaced link in OP with a link to a different unroller; the original unroller apparently got hugged to death.)

Two more deleted. Folks, please note that you do have to answer the actual question.

Two deleted; one for misreading the question and one reply to that one.

One deleted for not answering the question.

Several comments deleted for not answering the question and getting into back-and-forths with other users. Folks, i don't know why several of you decided to wild out in this Ask, but it's not acceptable.

Made link clickable in this comment.

(Deleted one more that i'd missed as part of the thread cleanup)

One deleted for asking a question already answered by the OP. The OP has already indicated that their kid does not vape, folks.

Several comments deleted. Sorry for leaving a big hole in the thread, but folks, what part of "this needs to not turn into a general thread about Palestine/Israel/Zionism" was unclear? Also, being an asshole to other users isn't acceptable even if you think they deserve it, and meta-discussion about how polite our discourse should be needs to get taken to MetaTalk.

One deleted. jeffburdges, i believe you want the Elon Musk documentary thread?

One deleted (asked a clarifying question that was already answered in the OP)

Folks, i'm not removing anything at this point, and i'm aware that i participated in the early stages of this derail, but at this point it is getting pretty derail-y. It'd be good if comments in this thread stayed relatively focused on Sheeran, his tour, the other acts, etc. You don't have to stop talking about Palestine entirely—it's obviously a critical piece of why this is happening—but this needs to not turn into a general thread about Palestine/Israel/Zionism. (If someone would like to make a general "news about Palestine" thread, there certainly is plenty of it recently, and i invite you to do so.)

Fixed link in OP. Also deleted some comments related to the correction.

Two deleted for not answering the question.

One deleted for not answering the question.

Added "7up" and "UpSeries" tags to post.

One deleted; jeffburdges, pretty sure your wage-theft comment was intended for a different thread!

Nothing deleted, but folks, we all really have to get out of the habit of complaining about the headline, the format, the link source, etc. in the first couple comments in a thread. It is corrosive to discussion! If your first impulse, seeing a FPP, is irritation or disgust, it's okay to skip it and come back later (or not at all)!

One deleted; this thread is definitely not going to be improved by an unrelated mention of Israel.

Again, folks, please keep discussion at least vaguely focused on the OP. If you want to talk more about "AI" in general, there's an open MeTa for freeform complaining.

Hey, folks, i get that this stuff is just … all-encompassing, but please try to keep the conversation focused on this particular link rather than having it turn into another generic "AI" discussion?

Fixed link in this comment to be clickable.

One comment deleted. The content is clearly marked as being Instagram; if you avoid Facebook and their works (which is 100% valid!) it's totally okay to just skip this one.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.