I just had to remove about 15 posts, (and someone kept making new accounts) from atlantic and variety, from people claiming we’re homophobic?

I just added a harsher signup and posting timeout as a short fix, which I don’t really like doing, but I have shit to do today and I have no choice.

edit: To clarify the mod policy here, homophobia / transphobia is a bannable offense.

I wouldn’t hesitate to remove explicitly homophobic or racist posts, and I don’t hesitate to remove western propo either (at least for now, until we decide what sectarianism is allowed here)

  • vendemiaire
    102·
    5 years ago

    Why is it necessary to remove these articles?

    • Muad'DibberOPMA
      126·
      5 years ago

      So far, they’ve been only from atlantic, guardian, and variety, very anticommunist western news sources known for completely unsourced lies about VZ, China, Russia, NK, etc.

      edit: To clarify the mod policy here, homophobia / transphobia is a bannable offense.

      Not believing completely unsourced articles from western news companies owned by tech billionares about muh russia or china isn’t.

      • vendemiaire
        8·
        5 years ago

        Then there should be an actual rule against those sources in the sub, not just banning people ad-hoc for breaking an unspoken agreement.

        • fidel_castroM
          73·
          5 years ago

          that was me. brigading is not okay, no matter what reason people claim.

            • Muad'DibberOPMA
              125·
              5 years ago

              How is it brigading? I’ve been here for days

              . You know anyone can check this right? Stop lying.

            • fidel_castroM
              44·
              5 years ago

              You dont see to be banned anywhere. Why would you need to make new accounts?

              Edit: now you got banned, but that wasnt me lol

      • fidel_castroM
        105·
        5 years ago

        Homophobia is bad and we should fight it always. But signing up to a site and making baseless accusations is not the way to do that.

        • vendemiaire
          5·
          5 years ago

          I’m not agreeing with everyone else that just doing this automatically counts as homophobic, but the modlog is public. People can see what’s happening.

          • fidel_castroM
            42·
            5 years ago

            Then lets have a discussion about it. Brigading is not going to solve this issue.

            • vendemiaire
              5·
              5 years ago

              I’m not one of the people brigading, just pointing it out. The articles were first removed before all this started.

              • fidel_castroM
                21·
                5 years ago

                Sorry I got confused between all the brigaders, and I didnt check your profile or anything.

          • fidel_castroM
            22·
            5 years ago

            I dont know why he initially deleted that post, but it was reposted like 10 times, and that is definitely not the right way to handle a disagreement. Neither is brigading from another site.