News just came out that Nicholas Hoult is joining the season 2 Harry Potter cast.
I like him and a lot of things he’s been in and didn’t see it anywhere on Lemmy yet, so I posted it to lemmy.world’s News community.
Post was a link to the article that first broke the news, used it’s title as my post title, followed all instance and community rules.
Post was removed as “not news” and I was temp banned for “multiple rule violations.” Of course the mod can’t list what rules those would be, because it didn’t violate any of them. If the News community only allows posts on certain news topics then it should specify those in it’s rules.
This is actually worse than Reddit. At least Reddit has so many users that when mods keep doing things like this it creates enough drama that they stop or end up replaced. Lemmy mods seem to remove anything they personally don’t like and ban anyone who questions them.
Oof. YDI.
OP has a point about other entertainment news being allowed previously.
That’s true, it is inconsistently applied. But Harry Potter posts are just bait on Lemmy. It’s notable to me this is the hill OP is willing to die on.
Then wouldn’t Nicholos Hoult taking a role in harry potter be news here because its controversial, clearly ppl have opinions on actors joining that franchise that are based in politics
My polisci teacher from years ago would tweak out about how literally everything is politics, everything is decided by politics, there is nothing that isn’t political
I don’t check every post in the community - not enough time in the day. If it’s reported, I review. If not, it will likely fly under the radar
The OP being a difficult user doesn’t have much bearing if they follow the rules of the community when posting. The rules should clearly state if Harry Potter is a banned topic.
“Only news on things I think is interesting matters.”