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.
Can we not just rename that instance to lemmy.murica? Then everything about it makes sense at least.
I mean, I guess mistaking America for the World is also the most murican thing imaginable.
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.
Could you communicate this to the other moderators there? One in particular bans all
substacklinks, even ones with their own domains for using substack as their software for being blogs.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?
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
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).
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.
Weird, usually they just ban people for reporting too much in their words.
Also hate how they just delete instead of lock
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.
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.
Mod is a PTB. Erin is legit. Sorry you don’t like our existence. We’re just trying to live. Also, mod can go fuck themselves.
Erin is the best
PTB that gatekeeps what and what not actually is “news”.
It’s a known problem unfortunately.
The rules themselves have a degree of usefulness, but they get applied like this way too often as a thinly veiled laziness as the best possible interpretation of intent.
It’s PTB for sure
There is no rule against substack in news, and in politics the claim of a self post was wrong.
Expecto Transphobia.
If you didn’t know, substack is a blog platform that not only hosts Nazi blogs, but promotes them: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/substacks-nazi-problem-wont-go-away-after-push-notification-apology/
So regardless of what happened here, you should avoid substack to begin with.
seems like it simply isn’t discriminating against political opinions
Try reading some of the articles linked here.
There’s a difference between “isn’t discriminating against” and “actively promoting so they can make more money.”
This attitude of all voices are equal is how we end up with authoritarian regimes that promote racism, misogyny, ethnic cleansing, homophobia, transphobia, and other ills that just about everyone with any empathy knows are wrong.
Tolerance is a social contract. Those that hold these intolerant principles have broken the contract and threaten all of human society and are owed no protection or quarter.
Their rules do list blogs, opinion pieces, and editorials as things they don’t want.
Umm… and did you look at that MBFC you linked? Mixed in factual rating and medium credibility.
Just wanting to point out that the medium credibility stems mostly from a fact check where there are multiply witnesses who in part even stand publicly behind their statements while the cops deny what they are accussed of. That results in an “unproven” verdict by Snopes.
I dont trust cops at all, so I dont see are this as dimishing Erin In The Mornins credibility at all and maybe even increasing it.
MBFC is pure biased Zionist trash.
Wait, but didn’t you use this blog being listed there as a point in it’s credibility? o_O
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Expand rules 2 & 6, they also note they will use MBFC to determine credibility.
The language for the rules are vague, which makes it easy to apply to anything they dont want for any reason.
@trahr@sh.itjust.works upd8s:
While I wait for my admin to fix our fed issues, @cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone has informed me that article is plagiarized. I will be editing both.
Secondly, I’ll ask @Ada@piefed.blahaj.zone & @squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone to sidebar a blurb about banned sources like transvitae, transphobic journos, etc…
