Undeleted Threads

Many threads get deleted, for various reasons - duplicate links, too thin to sustain conversation, too axe-grindy. A select few threads get the Lazarus treatment and come back from the dead.

List of undeleted threads

• Jan 2003: someone committed suicide while chatting on IRC, a "family member" asked mathowie to remove the post, he did and then reconsidered.
• Aug 2003: Someone managed to goatse an article we linked to, and once it was fixed mathowie revived it.
• Sep 2004: a thin post got closed, then it was found to be staged, so the post was reopened.
• Dec 2004: a cryptic post looked lame & got "wtf?!" comments, so it was axed until someone defended it.
• Jan 2005: It looked like a self-link, but it was just framed badly.
• July 2005: A broken link got a thread closed, but a correction salvaged it.
• Feb 2006: a post was misformatted, then fixed by the mods.
• Feb 2006: A question about exercise was too open-ended. A bit of clarification helped. (Note: longboatish thread, with images.)
• Mar 2006: at first glance, a dupe, but on second glance, enough was added to bring it back.
• Mar 2006: a too-NSFW post was defended. Then, "welcome back to the front page, massive cock."
• June 2006: Self-link, wiped & rewritten.
• Aug 2006: a cryptic puzzle "made no sense," but it was undeleted.
• Apr 2007: Boris Yeltsin died, there was a dupe post, both got axed, then resurrected, then one was closed again. This was the Keystone Kops incident.
• Jul 2007: A cool promotion for the Simpsons Movie was deigned a double. Mathowie opted to let it slide.
• Sep 2007: a potential self-link was canned, then brought back.
• Feb 2008: This Garfield remix has been done. Oh, wait, it's new.
• Oct 2009: An AskMe question about surviving in vacuum seemed like hypothetical chatfilter. It was deemed answerable and revived.
• Feb 2012: Apparent double. It brought enough more to merit a comeback.

This list started with Pronoiac's list, with a brief description of method.