At least 3/5 times, my post gets removed either because:
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it violates some subsection of some dot point in those extensive sidebar rules that I didn’t study thoroughly enough, or
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some mod decides it would be better if I posted as a comment in their dedicated mega thread on the subject, or
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the Automoderator removed it without explanation, and the mods are all currently on holiday or too busy to GAF.
Anyone else have this problem? And is lemmy any better?
Well if you read my post, sometimes it’s not just a question of reading the rules - you have to literally study them. Sometimes they are voluminous, and contain caveats.
Can’t say I ever experienced that in the 11 years I had my reddit account. Perhaps you and I post differently?
If you encountered a community like that, maybe they needed those, there is a reason they are there and people keep posting.
For the immaculate example, see r/askhistorians where I guarantee your answers will get removed even when properly sourced since it has to do with how tight their quality control is, which that was needed to make one of the best communities out there.
Rules are not a reddit especific thing, once communities grow bigger over here more and more will develop and perfect rules that better suit their identities, it is a necessary part of this kind of social media.
Your post kindd of reminds me of another post today where someone pointed out at 4 deleted comments, with no context and basically said “reddit doesn’t respect freedom of speech, see how far mods have fallen since the blackouts” which was useless circlejerking, communities are no different that subreddits in that particular sense, moderation and rules will still be present here, a mod deleting your post has nothing to do with them being on reddit or not.