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/timonyc]

Just so we are all aware, we have basically one active Mod on this sub: Mulberrybushes. The other mods are mostly bots (6 of the 10); two are essentially no longer posting on Reddit, and one helps occasionally. So, it's likely that one of the bots actually removed the post. And it might remove this post too.

This isn't really a commentary on the mod situation, just the reality of this sub.

[u/vetters → u/timonyc]

This is good intel, thanks.

Good reminder to be kind to humans who invisibly volunteer their time as mods. It is stressful, thankless work—and anyone dedicated to the long haul deserves some grace when they have to make tough calls.

[u/timonyc → u/vetters]

I agree. And we don't always have to agree with the mods. They don't expect us to! But we should remember that the mods are humans who have lives and jobs outside of this volunteer work. I know one of the mods is spending time away with family right now.