Since yesterday, Jordanlund is continuing to remove reporting like that from the reputed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_Site_News (article depicted in the screenshot is https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-spy-yoni-koren-stayed-jeffrey-epstein-apartment-ehud-barak) just for being hosted with substack. He is now moderating World News and Politics at lemmy.world.
Yes, legitimate news sites use Blogging platforms, they also use Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube and we don’t allow those links either.
goodness, that is not the point. That means these outlets post to their own website while also reposting the thing on twitter. In so many cases, their own website uses substack/wordpress! For example, https://time.com/ is the official website of Time magazine, as in the publisher of Time Person of the Year. It uses WordPress, as you can see by going to https://time.com/wp-admin/.
If he wants to target blogspam, he should be targeting things like The Daily Beast and https://www.utubepublisher.in/, which use none of the technologies he’s targeting. This ban on CMS technology is arbitrary and does not prevent poor publishing that simply registers a domain, as anyone may register a domain.
i’ve never seen a meta thread in that commag. i suspect that Jordanl enforces the “post news articles only” rule quite well. here’s where it’s been discussed:
https://programming.dev/comment/15884017
https://lemmy.world/comment/14172977
Jordanl simply repeats the same argument about X and disengages when people ask him to respond to the well-known refutation
I haven’t seen one either, but then again, I haven’t seen one in most other communities. Jordanlund is definitely PTB-y and abrasive in general, but give it a [Meta] or [Discussion] tag, open the discussion and make your case. If he shuts the discussion down by just removing the post/banning you I’ll definitely move it over to a PTB verdict.
@[email protected] - are reasonable [Meta]/[Discussion] posts fine to discuss what the community prefers for rules & similar on /c/[email protected]?
No, the community doesn’t set the rules.
First off, thanks for taking the time to reply.
There’s setting the rules and there’s discussing the rules. Am I understanding correctly that you would not allow a reasonable discussion with the members of the communities you moderate where they can give input regarding which rules they prefer?
Be aware I may quote you on this :)
They are welcome to PM me or the others on the Mod team, the mods have a discord channel where we can discuss such things amongst ourselves.
Usually it’s more along the lines of “So and so got banned, they promise to do better if we un-ban them, how about it?” that kind of thing.
But self posts and meta posts aren’t allowed.
Alright, then I’ll do just that.
Here’s your reply @[email protected]
I’m abrasive in PTB because the audience here a) is biased as fuck and b) are generally bad actors complaining about not being treated like special snowflakes.
The complaint here is a great example. “You’re being mean!”
Well, read rule 1 before you post:
“Blogsites are treated in the same manner as social media sites. Medium, Blogger, Substack, etc. are not valid news links regardless of who is posting them. Yes, legitimate news sites use Blogging platforms, they also use Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube and we don’t allow those links either.”
Hence my verdict of “YDI” for the OP.