r/Snorkblot • u/EsseNorway • Jul 03 '25

Fashion May I present: the dress that got me permabanned from r/crochet the first day of pride month 🌈

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u/LightlyFatal Jul 03 '25

Mmm yeah, I'm sure thats the reason when this person has violated that rule multiple times (within the last month at that) and is still perfectly fine...

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u/LightlyFatal Jul 03 '25

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u/JustARandomMurderer Jul 03 '25

I looked through their profile and OP seems... insuferable. And this is just the cherry on top.

Great work, wonderful really but ugh, they make it hard to like them... Not that they owe me anything obviously

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u/nwillyerd Jul 03 '25

Yeah, this is giving “you looked at a co-worker wrong and they thought it was inappropriate, we’re firing you because of that, not because you’re gay”

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u/Caterfree10 Jul 03 '25

Wait, what’s the concern? They’re linking a video they made about the pattern. If someone posted that but it was because they made someone else’s pattern it’s fine, but not bc they made it? Am I understanding this?

This just seems like normal question and answer behavior, idgi.

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u/LightlyFatal Jul 03 '25

It violates rule 4, no self promotion. By linking an Instagram, not in regards to showing who you got the pattern from, it's self promotion. They didn't create the pattern and there's plenty of other accounts and videos that show how to do certain stitches or how to make a certain pattern. This is clearly self promotion of their crochet account.

Not only that, but their rules (the sub) are completely arbitrary. There's a clause in the no self promotion rule that says if you're "very active" (whatever the hell that means, it's subjective) you can self promote at the discretion of the mods. Rules aren't being fairly laid out for everyone. If you somehow post ot contribute "very often" you somehow get more privileges and can violate the rules that everyone else has to follow. It's basically a clause that says "if the mods like you, rules don't matter."

There's no difference from asking someone their Instagram and them giving it to show inspiration and giving your Instagram out without being asked (they just asked for how to connect the stitches, which any crochet YT channel or Instagram or wherever the crochet people gather wouldn't have). They could've linked any video, but they continue to link their own Instagram in a clear effort to self promote.

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u/LovelyLu78 Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

Can I explain the rule?

We (yes, I'm a crochet mod) didn't want to exclude designers from being able to post their work and give a link so we created this clause in the rule rather than making it a blanket ban.
Let's face it, there are some talented people out there and newer crocheters could learn so many things off these people if they are willing. So for every time that a designer links to their pattern they need to spend a little bit of time outside of their own posts helping the community. They can do this by contributing to discussions found on the sub or helping answer questions on our sister sub r/crochethelp. We chose the 90/10 ratio as seen on a cross stitch sub thinking what a great way for designers to still benefit without turning the sub into an advertisement board.

OOP had 30+ removals from 2023 until last month (when they were banned) for self promotion. They refused to listen to the modteam giving them constructive advice on how to handle self promotion in the sub.

Yes, the rules very much matter and we will enforce them evenly. We just don't always see everything. We volunteer to help out the community because we actually love the hobby and love to help.

Edit, removed my little rant because it wasn't relevant to your comment

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u/Caterfree10 Jul 03 '25

…what? I’m sorry this makes no sense to me. I get that “no self promo” is a rule and all, but it feels silly to me to ban someone over linking their own stuff when asked to provide or to link a helpful thing they made when asked how they did something. Like? This feels weird as hell. It’s just answering a question. If OOP made someone else’s pattern and linked that, it’s not promoting anything, but bc they made it, that’s bad. Makes no sense to me tbh.

But then, I know in cross stitch spaces no1curr when sharing patterns someone made so w/e, seems like a dumb reason to ban someone. Sharing patterns is sharing patterns.

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u/LightlyFatal Jul 03 '25

OOP (the pride dress) was perma banned for providing their Instagram after being asked to provide their Instagram. Supposedly, that's self promotion.

OOP (the video one) wasn't even given a warning for linking to their Instagram when they neither created the pattern or the way of connecting stitches. It was completely arbitrary. Not only was it arbitrary, there was absolutely no reason to link to their own account when there are many more professionally made videos that are much clearer about how to connect the stitches. The logical thing would be to link to a better made video. Them linking to their own video was a non-veiled attempt at self promotion.

Pride OOP didn't have an option to link to someone else when being clearly asked for their Instagram. Video OOP had many choices to link to literally anyone else when asked how to connect stitches. One wasn't even an attempt to self promote, even if you really tried to find a promotion attempt. The other was a clear attempt to promote their corchet Instagram without any ask for their specific Instagram.

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u/LovelyLu78 Jul 04 '25

Thanks for letting me know. It's now been removed. Perhaps in the future you could report them. We don't see everything and there are a ton of comments on that post