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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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I posted this meme to the Lemmy Shitpost community. I reckoned that it might generate a bit of debate, and would probably end up locked, but the entire post got deleted, and moreover, I'm now forbidden from sharing political posts to the community. Political posts are not against the rules of the community.

I have reason to believe that the post was deleted not because it was controversial, but because the moderator (Decoy321) disagreed with the political slant of the meme. The reason I find this suspicious is because other controversial posts, such as one about veganism remains up, and Decoy321 seemed to enjoy the fact it was controversial:

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[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It was Decoy321. Says so right in your modlog.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I don't see it, what am I missing? Can you share a screenshot and I'll add it to the post?

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Using the summit app.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They might be using an app. Some of them show a more detailed modlog.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

That helped, thank you! I looked at the API request directly in raw JSON, and I can confirm it was indeed Decoy321.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

"you've started quite a shit show"

well excuse you for assuming a shitpost community would be such a refined and gentlemanly establishment 🤣

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago