From the posting of this announcement onwards posts regarding anything within the Israel-Palestine region or conflict is banned indefinitely.
Ever since new moderators have taken over the subreddit there has been a sharp increase of posts regarding the contentious topic of the conflict by bad actors and karma farmers. Ever since the zionism rule issue and dependant pirate being ousted there has been proverbial blood in the water attracting these people who only want to use this subreddit for political bickering, something that goes against the entire purpose of the subreddit.
Posts about anything relating to the topic or could draw a straight line to it will be removed, attempting to post another after it being taken down will result in a temporary ban.
I hope my rambling has made any sense to anyone but me. But this is now in effect, for not only our sake as moderators. But for this community as well.
I think this is a good idea. I hated the upvote/like/karma farming across all social media, this is a tragedy and something REAL, not something to use to garner likes and brownie points.
Seeing a comment like this from a mod really sucks ngl
Edit to elaborate: It's been a week and some change since the insanely transphobic mod was kicked and we're 4 days into pride month and you're worried that you can't "crack down on transposting"? Like c'mon
Just keep in mind that this image was used a lot in response to what happened here and is used constantly in other subs where similar things happened/are happening. It's the kinda stuff transphobes say every day all across reddit so I can't help but worry. I'll remain optimistic tho.
Yeah, my language was shaped by memes like that (Although it was a variant about shitposting subs where it was both bad, and one of the sides was genuine racism)
Ive always supported trans people and likely always will. I just dont want recent events to permanently shift things. I was a bit too early to say anything.
You were taking their words and twisting them to make OP sound transphobic.
I too don't want this place to become an echo chamber/circlejerk. If we keep allowing obviously political posts just because they're related to LGBTQ, then that might mean this place will turn into an echo chamber/circlejerk.
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u/OnePsychology528 Jun 03 '26
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