• Bleeping Lobster
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    31 year ago

    The politics sub for my country (UK) was doing an AMA with some shitty hard-right misinfo rag. Using an undelete util, I was able to see that they’d deleted any questions relating to the publications track record of provable dis- and misinfo. And they weren’t questions like “fuck you you pieces of shit”, they were well-written and polite. But didn’t fit the narrative trying to be built.

    I commented something like “Why are fair and reasonable questions being deleted? I thought this was ask me anything, not make x publication look good”

    I was immediately banned for ‘persistent mod abuse’.

    • @1TransientOP
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      11 year ago

      Wow. Do you have screengrabs of the deleted questions?

      • Bleeping Lobster
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        11 year ago

        I don’t, unfortunately. I messaged one of the mods who from their post history wasn’t a hard-right saboteur about it, didn’t get a response but I think I was silently un-banned… I accidentally commented on a post a few months later thinking I was in UnitedKingdom sub and it went through / was replied.