I’d be very interested to know how an article discussing the recent Prodigy cancellation that doesn’t take a “star trek is ending” viewpoint is considered “Fake News”
and warranting a moderator removal action by @[email protected]. Whom expanded on their reasoning in a direct message stating:
That website has been publishing misinformation for years, and they will not be getting any clicks from us
This seems like a heavy handed mod overreach that we are trying to escape on Reddit considering it’s an opinion piece being shard and not a news article claiming to present any facts other than what is already public.
If there are sites we seem untrustworthy, it should be up to the community to approve lists of banned sites. Not be up to the whim of wether or not that article comes from a site the mods/admins personally like.
I’d encourage the mods to explain their actions, it appears as though the article presented a viewpoint that wasn’t popular by a admin of the instance so it was removed without prejudice. This is an infringement on the values that those of us as Trekkies hold dear.
If there are sites we seem untrustworthy, it should be up to the community to approve lists of banned sites.
Yes, as an admin you can police you instance however you want. However, removing star trek content from this community because you don’t like the opinion presented is only self sabotaging to the growth of Lemmy and the Fediverse as a whole.
Moving forward, let’s try to keep this community from fracturing off across other Lemmy instances because of some moderator overreach. I’m hopeful given the usually stellar reputation of this community they will public ally explain their actions and present a plan moving forward that will hold mods accountable should they be found removing content that doesn’t violate our community standards and rules.
Not a mod, but just tossing out there that there are a few genre sites that do not make any effort to meet basic journalistic norms.
It makes sense, when this disregard of minimal journalistic standards is an established fact, through a pattern of articles and analysis pieces, for mods to have an automatic policy of removing posts amplifying their content. Promoting unsubstantiated rumour and gossip without any credible sources doesn’t meet the minimum standards for example. The mods shouldn’t be under obligation to verify the lack of journalistic standards in every single piece of content from the source once the pattern is established.
This particular site and one other definitely fall into the category.
If this was another Trek-related subreddit, there would be a pile on from regular users telling everyone to ignore it and not to give them clicks.
TL;DR: to me, articles from sites that make no effort to meet basic journalistic standards shouldn’t be considered meeting community guidelines.