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Why was a post about "What's the worst Lemmy community you've run across?" removed due to rule 2 when it seemed kinda weaksause compared to what is normally here? (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Just wondering what the limit is on rule 2 as I see things like covid vaccine effect questions, what scams are still around and other spicy topics. Don't want to make anyone upset but it seemed odd.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that post had 5 comments, 2 were hexbears. Here's the post in response detailing why they were banned from the comm they claim to have had a bad time with

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes I read that as well, I thought it was a bit silly and did not really think the dunk tank was looking good. I would say that was a bad time, and the 2 hexbear comments where just straight insults (rule 2) but the whole post is pulled. Does this mean any hexbear can just comment nasty style and the whole post gets pulled?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

one was an insult. Do you think the post was removed for insulting comments, or for insulting premise?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is what I am asking. There was 2 insults and 3 supporting comments with a positive overall vote. I want to know if it was nuked due to the post itself or the comments.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Initially the post itself and confirmed by the comments. Mod tools on Lemmy are very simple and I didn't have time or interest in babysitting a thread that was already looking for a negative, unhelpful discussion. If you really want this discussion, try [email protected].

At the end of the day, it was a mod judgements call about the type of content we want to see on this community.