I made an admittedly editorialized post, but that is allowed. There is no rule against editorializing titles. The link was to this excellent story by Erin Reed:
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/iowa-dem-josh-turek-releases-anti
The story documents the efforts of Democrat-in-Name-Only Josh Turek to graft Republican anti-trans policies and bigotry into the Democratic party. The (supposed) automoderator flagged the post and removed it for being a “substack post.” However, it was likely a manual removal as I would expect automoderator to work quickly, while this was up for hours.
The rule cited was:
“Social Media adjacent hosts like Substack are allowed, but ONLY if they tie back to a company/subsidiary. No personal or friend group blogs and no self-promotion. Articles should be worth reading.”
This article clearly meets this requirement. Erin in the Morning is an entire journalistic operation with multiple employees. I’m sure they’re incorporated in some form. Erin Reed is the most prominent trans rights journalist in the US, probably in the world. She’s nationally famous, has won numerous national journalism awards, and has a Wikipedia page. She frequently appears on national media and speaks at events of all kinds. She is one of the most prominent transgender people in the United States.
But apparently if you’re trans, to c/politics, regardless of what you accomplish, you can never be a real journalist, only a blogger. Real journalism is for cis people only.
JL has been calling CMS like substack “blogs” for a while now, and removing any link using them. It’s an absurd statement, but at least he’s being consistent(ly wrong).
They have a point on the world comm but none at all on the politics comm side. Then again the rules are written to basically make everything up to the mods decision
I think the thing I despise about lemmy.world beyond Jordan and his toxic beliefs is this obsession with rules as if that negates the incredible amount of bias inherent to how the mods behave on world and politics.
They hide behind their rules as if it makes their moderation nonbiased which I find so stupid it is difficult to keep my head from exploding when I think about it.