Mainly on @Aatube@kbin.melroy.org . This account to moderate subs while providing actual reasons for deletion! A feature mbin appears to lack?
Posts
3
Comments
20
Joined
3 mo. ago
I would've removed the post if I saw it before it gained traction. The thing with these things is people usually upvote them because they see it at !all instead of thinking it fits !upliftingnews, and too much of these posts can dilute the quality of our community and drive away users who wanted the specific thing we're looking for.
Your submission in "Sexual predator Noel Clarke loses libel case against The Guardian" was removed as not uplifting.
Your submission in "LA Ice protests spurred US military to identify ‘hotels to avoid’ due to ‘harassment’" was removed as not sure if schadenfreude but definitely not uplifting.
you know what?
you've just darn saved this post from removal, my friend.
This might break rule b) and I don't find it uplifting (a bit orphancrushingmachine when you think about it, even) but I don't think there's much use in deleting this at this point.
Your submission in "Police seize supercars worth more than £6m in crackdown on antisocial driving in London" was removed as i don't see what's uplifting here, sorry.
Your submission in "Horror moment superyacht bursts into flames off Ibiza coast before sinking" was removed as schadenfreude. Note that this is your second time breaking the rule in three days.
I do not find it comfortable to dehumanize such a large group of people, especially the ordinary citizens who may well be trapped under their regime. The context here is completely unrelated to Russian soldiers, who are guilty but also definitely not mindless anyways.
It's not a community rule, but I was under the impression that it fell under the instance discrimination rules.
guy repetitively referring to russians as "orc"s
I'm new to moderating on Lemmy.World since I only have this account as a community I moderate is on .World. This user has persistently been using "orc" to refer to Russians and a user who defends Russian driving. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orc says it's an ethnic slur but https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1811354/i-will-not-call-russians-rushists-or-orcs-that-s-dehumanising-interview makes it out slightly more nuanced as a dehumanizing pejorative.
The comments' not receiving admin action has got me wondering. Is this time for some sort of ban? Does this violate the instance rules?
Meta Featured
Enumerated list of rules
I don't think it's possible to summarize the rules any further (besides dropping the parenthetical) without causing more people to just read the summarized summarized version and think they've understood all the rules and go on to break some rules. and there's a certain charm to the persuasion-style sidebar we have i wanna preserve lol
On the formatting: I'm very keen on preserving the semantic formatting of HTML. HTML without the style attribute is really only supposed to tell you the relation between the elements instead of styling things. It lays out how the page is organized so any client/user may decide how to customize that layout themselves if they want to. Replacing semantics with styling removes that semantic meaning and in certain cases can make it harder for screenreaders. Here, the semantics have to be inferred from the decoration.
But thanks for your time!
Meta Featured
Enumerated list of rules
and nay, it doesn't need to be textual
Meta Featured
Enumerated list of rules
okay this was something I worried about. I made sure to format the list with markdown syntax that would generate HTML for accessibility but it looks like it's just made things more inaccessible. I'll see if changing to headings make it better.
Meta Featured
Enumerated list of rules
i think a lot of news from months ago has quite a bit of relevance to the current day, and i haven't seen much posts about things that happened years ago. for the latter case i think it really depends on community sentiment reflected on the comments of said posts.
Meta Featured
Enumerated list of rules
Since it's slightly less than easy to glean the rules from the sidebar, here's an itemized collection of rules. For example, the schadenfreude rule can be referred to as a)1.
a) Posts must be uplifting.
- This excludes schadenfreude.[1]
b) Posts must not overtly deal with toxic politics.[1]
c) Links must not be low-effort.[1]
- Links must not go to a copy of a copy of a copy.
(Try finding the original source instead! Links do not have to be textual, so there's no need to find a content farm to post a video.) - Posts must not be fake news.
[1] https://lemmy.world/post/30918729
If there's something you think that should be on here but isn't, feel free to say so!
i'm not going to remove this since while this might be a bad post because of the OrphanCrushingMachine aspect, it still fits with the sidebar and arguably generates the emotions the community is looking for. though if you feel like a vote on whether to forbid such posts with this post (or another one) being the bar, feel free to say so and we'll set it up.
Your submission in "Americans Say No As Terrified ICE Agents Flee From Angry Citizens" was removed as schadenfreude.
I don't think we should ban until IamNobuddy shows a pattern of continuing to post things from utubepublisher.in. They's seemingly-habitually posted these links for a very, very, very long time and their posts two weeks ago here were the reason I issued the utubepublisher.in clarification. But I think after this warning we should remove the user's utubepublisher.in posts on sight.
Your submission in "How the diamond industry lost its sparkle" was removed for schadenfreude.
Please stop linking to utubepublisher
Over the past week, I've seen a lot of discontent on this source, which gets a lot of deserved flak for seeming like a content farm that adds little to its original sources.
I discussed this with @sga013@lemmy.world, who pointed out that we do actually have a rule against such outlets instituted in the "no schadenfreude" post:
We are also banning low effort news or fake news. This could be news which is not adding anything new at all or is a copy of a copy of a copy (and bad one). Please try to fetch original sources. This is just to maintain a standard. This does not restrict you from posting a news which is targeted at a small group, or is published by a small group which may not be publishing a very fancy, furnished looking posts. Essentially - a no fluff rule.
This applies very much to www.utubepublisher.in . I've added a mention of the above rule to the sidebar, and please take care to not post articles like that of this outlet from now on. Instead, post the original source
Your submission in "An Italian mechanic Andrea Marazzi has transformed a 1993 Fiat Panda into the world’s narrowest electric car, bringing innovation, nostalgia, and sustainability together on four wheels." was removed for: borderline. i held off on removing this since i felt like the sheer will here to create a better thing is uplifting and inspring but then I also don't want this sub to turn into the "cool DIY products" place..