Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

Gedaliyah

What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Removed/Locked Posts

Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).

Deleted/Locked for being a ‘Substack Blog’. However there are no rules against Substack blogs and Erin In The Morning is on MBFC.

Deleted for being a ‘self post’. It is not, I do not run Transvitae or have any affiliation to it.

Deleted for being 'Substack blog. Please repost this story from a journalistic source. It’s an important story '. Erin In The Morning is one of the leading journalistic sources for breaking trans news and investigations written by a trans journalist, who is also the wife of a trans member of the Montana House of Representatives.

Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.-

It is unfair because these were valid articles that were removed for reasons not within the rules or outright fabrications. It silences awareness of systemic discrimination and violence against a minority group. Marginalising issues trans peoples are facing in an ever increasingly transphobic world because they do not come from large scale news corporations who would rather run articles against us.

  • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.world
    20·
    15 hours ago

    i am sorry and have restored the posts i do not see this “substack” rule and the news is important according to me.

    i removed the politics post because there is someone who often posts the content from a website that match the username to bring people to their site and i thought your name was for the website posted.

    • quill7513@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      1·
      36 minutes ago

      Could you communicate this to the other moderators there? One in particular bans all substack links, even ones with their own domains for using substack as their software for being blogs.

    • velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      10·
      14 hours ago

      I’m curious about the news community rules at this point- JonsJava said that a post will be removed even if it doesn’t break the rules if there’s enough user reports on it. Why not just update the rules to not allow substack or popculture or whatever is actually against the rules instead of making users play a guessing game of what will be unpopular that day?

      • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
        11·
        14 hours ago

        said that a post will be removed even if it doesn’t break the rules if there’s enough user reports on it

        Jfc that’s such a backwards thing to do. They’re just flat admitting all it takes is reporting for any reason and you can have a post taken down

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          3·
          7 hours ago

          At the very least it should be using a threshold based on the number of comments and upvotes. I was in one of those threads when it was deleted and it was very active. Feels shady af when an active thread like that just suddenly disappears (because how this platform handles deleted threads also sucks, it just disappears).

        • velma@sh.itjust.works
          9·
          14 hours ago

          https://sh.itjust.works/post/64954642/26874272

          It was reported numerous times for being off topic.

          Pop culture really needs it’s own community. I think it deserves to be here, but in a place people want it.

          I try to let the community help decide what belongs. The more diverse the reports, the more likely it doesn’t belong. That’s why we have the “… at moderators discretion” in the rule.

          They let “at moderator’s discretion” do a lot of the work in that community. It makes it very frustrating to participate as a user when the rules are following the community’s whims of the day.

          • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
            7·
            13 hours ago

            I’m all for a community deciding direction, but using reports for that is wild, as is “at the moderators discretion”.

            I do wish there were better options than a poll and a meta thread, but even that is better than just going off reports. Or whatever a mod thinks in that moment.

            • velma@sh.itjust.works
              8·
              13 hours ago

              JonsJava does a lot of whatever he thinks in that moment when it comes to moderating.

              He reported me for vote manipulation for a single downvote on a comment.