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Surveillance footage shows Hamas bringing hostages into Shifa Hospital on Oct. 7
(www.timesofisrael.com)
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Not all mods bother replying to comments they remove, I choose to because I believe transparency is an important part of moderation.
As to the question, engaging in personal attacks violates rule 5 in the sidebar (which I wrote BTW):
"Rule 5: Keep it civil. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (perjorative, perjorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (perjorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect!"
Ok, I understand that your stance is that ignorance is not a neutral statement of fact but a personal attack, and I do appreciate you replying unlike the last mod I asked that just deleted my comment without answering. Which I also had no idea about because I don’t monitor the mod log of every place I comment.
It’s just a really awful policy for the exact reason I’ve been underlining over and over: if polite lies about mass murder are fine and calling someone ignorant for saying heinous shit isn’t fine, you’re just creating an environment where impoliteness is worse than bigotry. And yeah I see the rules against that, doesn’t seem to be doing anything about the overt lie that hospitals haven’t been bombed.
“It’s the rules” is a terrible justification for leaving up lies about mass murdered civilians as long as they’re polite.
If the facts are on your side, I absolutely encourage you to refute incorrect information, just don't attack the other user in the process.
"I'm sorry, you're wrong. - Link."
"Reality disagrees. - Link."
That's all cool.
Ad hominem attacks cross the line. When you start going after the other user, that's a problem and we don't want flamewar threads top to bottom. That's why the rule exists.
If you don't want flame wars then removing obvious flame bait--like lies about mass murdered civilians and hospitals not being bombed--would go a lot farther than deleting everyone that calls that shit what it is.
I've explained the mod position multiple times. It's not up for debate. You're now starting to shade over into a different form of disingenuous argument affectionately called "sealioning".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
From here:
https://wondermark.com/c/1k62/
Don't argue with mods. You can't win, you can only get removed or banned.
If you want to run a community where it's more offensive to say someone is ignorant than it is to lie about mass murdered civilians I'm not under the delusion that I can make you do anything else. Just don't expect me to not say it's a shitty policy or to ignore what it allows and what it doesn't allow.
Warned, 3 day ban.
So the rule actually isn't "don't make personal attacks", it's "don't tell the mods that their policies are bad." Maybe you should add that to the sidebar.
Repeated sealioning. 7 day ban.