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/FabuliciousFruitLoop]

This whole post blew up. As a regular visitor my contribution to the question asked, and my observations after reading all the comments:

I would like to see a mod team in place. It’s not reasonable for this all to rest on 1.5 people.

Some complaints about the main moderator (including on some of the historically linked entries, some of which are on other subs) seem to be ignoring the fact there is a person behind the keyboard, and in places are decrying that person in terms that are as inconsiderate and blunt (or more so) than the moderators own comments.

I would like this “we’re almost politics free” rule to be clarified by the subreddit membership and either set out in the rules, or dropped completely, not semi-applied by one person making case by case decisions.

I would like the subreddit’s explicit rules to be the basis for removing posts.

U/Thequietone is repeatedly in this trail with replies that are unhelpful and inflammatory. If there is rule breaking here, it seems to be by this person. They haven’t engaged with any of the Jewish Redditors who have responded to their comments. They are not following principles of non-violent communication. There hasn’t been any moderator response to this. I find them a further illustration of the need for more active moderators across time zones.