[meta] confusion around rules

Hi all,

I’ll be honest, I love this community, but I’ve been frustrated with moderation lately. I love that I’ve found such an active community, and I participate a lot here, but a lot of posts I want to talk about are getting removed.

For example, why was the post about Alexander removed? I was honestly really excited to talk about that, I thought I was alone in thinking Wesley was a better person on the enterprise, and wanted to talk more about Alexander, but by the time my comment was typed out and I hit submit the post was removed.

I’m not trying to pick a fight, it’s actually the last thing, but I’ve been honestly disappointed with how many things are removed here. Just because something isn’t positive doesn’t mean we hate star trek or even a show or character, we come to Lemmy and message boards to have a bit of fun. I thought the rules allowed some off discussions like that. If anything it shows how much we like star trek that we want to talk in depth character discussions!

Mods, an alternative I’d suggest would be to lock a post and pin a comment on why it’s locked and what rule was broken. That would help a lot of us in understanding what the rules are and why things had to be removed. When you remove a post it shows up still for us on other instances, and just says removed by mod with no explanation.

Anyway, thanks for listening

PonyOfWar , (edited )

I’m still confused what happened to the post that compared critic and audience ratings of the various Star Trek shows. It was an interesting post with an, as far as I could see, civil discussion but it was deleted. A later post asking about the reason for the deletion was also promptly deleted. Heavy moderation is one thing, but it bugs me a little that there is seemingly no communication about why that post wasn’t okay.

scarecrw ,

I didn’t see the content of the post, but the modlog lists the following:

Removed Post “Unpopular opinion: Wesley Crusher is not the worst TNG character… Alexander is.” reason: Rule 1 + No be cares about your “unpopular opinion” luke warm takes

gk99 ,

Sounds like good moderation to me. Terrible title that implies an opinion is wrong and that OP was never interested in discussion at all. Talking at people isn’t talking to people.

RootBeerGuy , (edited )
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Disagree. Unpopular opinion posts are a thing. They are exactly what that poster has done. Deleting the post saying no one cares about an unpopular opinion is quite bad moderation unless there is a rule not to post such a type of topic.

Edit: The moderator who deleted that post should also read their own rules again, especially rule 4. Calling something a luke warm take that no one cares about is quite far from being nice.

maegul ,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

I thought the post was to Risa, which doesn’t really have rules, and not the main “StarTrek” community?

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