I posted this meme to the Lemmy Shitpost community. I reckoned that it might generate a bit of debate, and would probably end up locked, but the entire post got deleted, and moreover, I’m now forbidden from sharing political posts to the community. Political posts are not against the rules of the community.
I have reason to believe that the post was deleted not because it was controversial, but because the moderator (Decoy321) disagreed with the political slant of the meme. The reason I find this suspicious is because other controversial posts, such as one about veganism remains up, and Decoy321 seemed to enjoy the fact it was controversial:
How dare you shitpost in the shitposting community. Your post is exactly the kind of thing I like to see there.
I agree, the mod probably didn’t like the political message.
I’ll be honest. Even as an anarcho-communist, I don’t care for these kinds of political reductions.
However, given that it’s a shitposting community, seems like lost-nuance is kind of part and parcel to the spirit of the community (which is why I don’t go there). I’d call this PTB.
you angered the libs by pointing out they’re fascists.
the meme is still up in [email protected], so they can mald about it there.
Watch this comrades!
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This meme below got removed a few days ago. I think if you post anything controversial that rustles enough jimmies to make people rage-cry report you, they just remove the post rather than deal with angry nerds.
Or they just really hate trains, the jerks!
Edit: Same mod
AHA! I found it. I was looking for this meme for days. Now I can make the edit I wanted to make.
down with trains!
*This message was written by big unicycle
You are now a moderator of c/lemmyshitpost
Hear me out. A monorail made solely of unicycles strung together. Win-win!
I mean, that’s why we are against train. With train tracks, we can have 2x density, with bidirectional traffic.
Unicycle or bust
I disagree with your meme, especially during primary season, but I still upvoted because I think everyone should be able to post their “controversial” memes.
Great meme, PTB.
PTB, as they say. If you scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds.
Removed by mod
PTB
Good meme :)
Flyingsquid has been inactive for a year now
I had a quick look through and pretty much every moderator on that community has almost no activity recently, I wonder if they’re using their accounts for moderator action only, and participating on another account.
You can search by mod action on the modlog page, flying squid hasn’t been doing anything since he left, as a user or a mod. I don’t know about the others.
Something something it’s more dignified to be killed by blue, just don’t post in .world, help grow other servers
Someone has to get dirty rolling around in the trenches with the hogs, gotta burst their bubble occasionally. But yep, you’re right.
lowkey ur first mistake was participating in a shitpost community lmao
edit: ptb obviously
It was Decoy321. Says so right in your modlog.
I don’t see it, what am I missing? Can you share a screenshot and I’ll add it to the post?
Using the summit app.
They might be using an app. Some of them show a more detailed modlog.
That helped, thank you! I looked at the API request directly in raw JSON, and I can confirm it was indeed Decoy321.
“you’ve started quite a shit show”
well excuse you for not assuming a shitpost community would be such a refined and gentlemanly establishment 🤣
No problem.
PTB
That was a great post!
Angering the moderators who support murder is valid, PTB.
FWIW, I sprayed some holy water their way. It was great following your rhythm that day.
No shit show in the community with “shit” in the name!!1!
[…] because […] disagreed with the political slant
no shit.
But that’s kinda the thing with discussing politics online… Usually ends with some flame war.
The thing is, it wasn’t even that bad. People were disagreeing, but for the most part, it wasn’t too bad from what I saw. Only one comment was deleted for incivility prior to the entire thread getting nuked.
I 100% agree with the mod comment. Seems to me this has to be considered top tier shit as well.
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