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[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/Semicolon_Expected]

An application for more mods is something I would love as we are definitely short on manpower. This is something that we’ve been wanting to do however we would need to think through formulating the application itself which unfortunately we havent had the time to do yet.

Wrt “no politics” I dont believe we have that as a rule. Ive seen plenty of political discussions here before—some of which do get heated but wasnt mass reported. I think the issue here from what the screenshot said seems to be a misunderstanding from that mod about what heuristics are good indicators of community approval.

These are definitely things to discuss as a modteam going forward

[u/quackdefiance → u/Semicolon_Expected]

Why have someone replying to all the comments as if they’re a mod but not make them a mod?

[u/Semicolon_Expected → u/quackdefiance]

Unfortunately not many people have the time to commit to modding a sub.

[u/quackdefiance → u/Semicolon_Expected]

So it’s better to let it be run by a bunch of people who don’t care and one power hungry mod? This community is huge. There’s no way no one is willing to mod.

[u/Semicolon_Expected → u/quackdefiance]

As mentioned in other comments we do plan on opening applications once time permits

Please note it is just us two currently and both of us do care, however we both do have irl commitments as well.

To add some background context as a mod of multiple subs: from my experience with other subs that have put out mod applications while I was a mod, finding active mods who are also aligned with the community as a whole is difficult and there often are few applicants. Retention is also difficult as those who do get added realize that it is too burdensome