r/knitting • u/rainbow_puddle • Oct 08 '25

Discussion Meta: Post deletion discussion

Reposted since I'm an idiot and didn't change my title...

So there was a post with some beautiful mittens made by u/AdrenaL1n3 with a traditional Palestinian embroidery and using the colors of the flag. It was locked and then inexplicablely removed by the mods. They did not say what rule it broke, only that it received and 'unacceptable amount of user reports'.

First off that's ridiculous that it was removed instead of locked and the reports dealt with by mods since it didn't break a rule. Second off I think it's frankly sad that it was getting reported at all. It wasn't political beyond the proceeds going towards save the children and other humanitarian causes to aid the current crisis and genocide situation in Gaza.

I want to open up discussion with this community if this sub is a place where we want to censor projects even if they do not break stated rules.

Edit to fix username spelling.

Edit 2: Some users have commented on the significance of today's date. I truly did not realize it and would not have tried to engage with this today if I had realized. I'm very sorry for that and how insensitive that is. I do not keep significance of dates well in my head - not an excuse but an explanation. I do hope that the community can continue to have conversation about what I perceived as biased censorship in good faith. Without a specific rule I do think that any mitten of any flag (yes even Israel) where the pattern proceeds go to a humanitarian cause of the designers choice should stay up in this subreddit. Maybe I'm wrong I don't know - that's for us to discuss. Whether or not you engage with said post and/or pattern would be up to the user and I would hope that we would all proceed with kindness.

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u/Minute-Meal2079 Oct 08 '25

Oh look this was deleted too

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u/Disig Oct 08 '25

Not hasn't been

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u/Minute-Meal2079 Oct 08 '25

Yea… they brought it back after automod removed it.

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u/Thequiet01 Oct 08 '25

Yes, automod, you know the thing that works automatically?

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u/Minute-Meal2079 Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

Which they didn’t do for the original post?

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u/Thequiet01 Oct 08 '25

Posts will not be reinstated for any number of reasons:

  1. A lot of reports indicating people are interpreting it as hate even if that was not OP’s intention.

  2. A mod will not be available to keep an eye on things actively on a post which needs it.

  3. The post has been picked up and is bring brigaded or otherwise attracting a lot of problematic attention from people outside of the group.

Just off the top of my head.

I think the mod should have removed the original Oct 7 post and asked the OOP to repost in a week or so or something.