https://lemmy.world/c/christians

This community does not affirm practiced LGBTQ+ lifestyles

Rule 8 of this community is in clear breach of the first goal from the lemmy/mastodon.world code of conduct

  • Antik 👾English
    10•11 months ago

    I didn’t want to remove it out of a kneejerk reaction. They had this in their sidebar:

    • Rule #6: Banned subjects include pro-Nazi and/or pro-racist sentiments; support for conspiracy theories such as Q-Anon, International Jewish Conspiracy, Holocaust denialism, etc.; “is X the mark of the Beast?” drivel; anything calling for direct/indirect violence against any individual or group, including LGBTQ+ individuals or groups; pornography of any kind; gore; spam; asking for money; pro-Mormon and/or pro-Jehovah’s Witness posts.

    • And then there was rule 8 🙄

      • Antik 👾English
        13•11 months ago

        I think our views on LGBQT are clearly laid out on https://mastodon.world/about

        There is a difference between hosting those communities here and federating with instances who have them.

        Unless it turns out to be problematic we won’t defederate.

    • @rist097English
      -4•11 months ago

      I think you made a rushed decision, you are creating a dangerous precedent and you will be bombarded by people being outraged by minor things requesting you to ban communities for no good reason. In this case, if there was a violation it could be resolved with discussion instead of an outright ban.

        • @rist097English
          -6•11 months ago

          The community was not even active, so there is no one maybe to send an appeal. If you look at the upvote, and downvote ratio of this post, you can see that there is no unanimous opinion on this case, and the decision should be taken more carefully on this one. If you don’t want to push your other users out of the instance.

          • Antik 👾English
            11•11 months ago

            They have a rule in the sidebar that clearly goes against the instance rules. They can appeal and if they don’t have anyone to do that there is another problem because that goes against the moderation rules on this instance.

            • arkcom
              -2•11 months ago

              You could delete the rule and then put a post in the community asking for someone to step up to moderate.

              • @Ensign_Crab
                4•11 months ago

                I’m glad to see rules being enforced in the face of bigotry instead of the constant leniency to which bigots have become accustomed and to which they regard themselves as entitled.

              • Antik 👾
                3•11 months ago

                And then there would be people complaining that we as admins go around changing community rules behind moderator’s backs. You can’t please everyone.

                We leave the door open for the moderators of that community to sort things out.

                Maybe to clarify when we delete a community, all posts are still there. They are just “invisible” so nothing is lost.

                • arkcom
                  -2•11 months ago

                  They can appeal and if they don’t have anyone to do that there is another problem because that goes against the moderation rules on this instance.

                  If it’s against the rules to be unmoderated, there should be a way to add mods, since there’s obviously no way for the current non-existent mod to do so.