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.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    This has been the standard MO for world mods whenever Jordan is brought up so yes.

    Lmao, like lemmy.world mods are part of some cabal who circle the wagons around one mod.

    I don’t know if it’s possible for you not to project an obsession with this one rando on the backwater of the Internet onto me, but:

    • I went into this post not even knowing who the removing mod is. The post doesn’t say, I didn’t look, and I’m not chronically online enough to have made any assumptions. Your comment, after I’d already read the post and considered my response, was what told me this was Jordan.
    • I barely know who Jordan is. I think I’ve ever interacted with them a few times, and that drama with them a while back (I think it had to do with them power tripping and being a Zionist? I can’t remember) pretty much passed me by from what I can remember. I have no compelling baseline reason to want to defend them for anything they say or do.
    • One thing I do vaguely remember about the drama is Jordan’s power tripping being protected by the LW admins, which is maybe where you’re getting the idea to blame the mods. In reality, a community I moderate and the one I care about the most, !vegan@lemmy.world, was the target of a power-tripping LW admin who was protected by the other admins. I’ve let that be a bygone, but I have no particular allegiance to the admin team, their actions, or who they choose to associate with. I leave them alone, they leave me alone, and that’s been the status quo for I think over a year now.

    TL;DR: I could not have given less of a shit who removed the post. I cared about what the OP wrote in their post, which was “The post was removed claiming a Rule 2 violation. I don’t think it was a Rule 2 violation, and here’s why.”

    • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Lmao, like lemmy.world mods are part of some cabal who circle the wagons around one mod.

      The power mods and admins absolutely do.

      TL;DR: I could not have given less of a shit who removed the post. I cared about what the OP wrote in their post, which was “The post was removed claiming a Rule 2 violation. I don’t think it was a Rule 2 violation, and here’s why.”

      Yet you’re upset with me calling out a ptb. I think you care more than you let on