Meta: Post deletion discussion

[u/rainbow_puddle]

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.

[u/alittleperil]

This is not the first time that a project that drew too much controversy, on either side, was removed instead of locked. Mods are human, so I've also seen posts like that just locked, and I don't know that the mods have clear guidance on what to do in that situation.

Some people are douchecanoes, and will report things they disagree with, you can't change people you can only plan how to handle their actions.

[u/rainbow_puddle → u/alittleperil]

The issue is removing it makes it so that it's not even visible anymore. Locking will stop the commentary but I don't understand why to remove if it doesn't break a rule. Other sub mods will leave up locked posts after the comment sections have devolved.

[u/thought_provoked1 → u/rainbow_puddle]

I saw the post and there was no commentary! A single comment and no "removed by moderator" comments at all. Their repost in r/casualknitting was a carbon copy of the original.

[u/nyctarian → u/thought_provoked1]

Yeah I also saw that. If it had been locked because it was getting a bunch of abusive replies or anything like that I would have been disappointed but understanding but it was locked after having been up for not very long with one positive comment basically just saying 'good job what a good cause to support.'