*** The thread last night was locked and later removed because there was no attempt at political discussion, simply a drive-by post with no commentary, and the follow-on comments also were also inflammatory without any effort at substantive discussion. If you want to start a new thread on this topic with commentary on the political implications of the Instagram post, go for it -- Staff ***


This story, posted by head of Babylon Bee, is allowed to stand on liberal Instagram, but last night it was taken down twice on here. Not long after it was posted...and zero people crossed any lines...they just called it out for it's ridiculousness. And some were saying "Gender Queer" was way out of line for kids.

Just trying to get a grip on the rules...first thought was that maybe it was already posted by someone else, but I searched and searched and couldn't find a duplicate story on here. Is Texags really censoring this harder than liberal Instagram??? Please tell me I just missed a thread on this that still remains.

https://instagr.am/p/Ch9mtafO2MA

Sorry, I don't speak woket*** so no idea what they're trying to say.

More like Ire. As in i DGAF about special snowflake pronouns. I can sort of figure them out in context but won't be attempting to replicate them.

Jumping in here to provide even more information. Our preference is for OPs to provide clarity around what they want their thread discussion to be about. When it comes to Twitter posts, etc. sometimes the posts coupled with a thread title makes it clear what the thread discussion should be about. Our preference is always to have the OP's take on what they are posting, so there is no ambiguity. When there is no take, but it's pretty clear, we will leave it up most the time, as already stated above. There is also the problem of threads quickly digressing from the posted topic. This happens most often when the OP does not provide enough of a "prompt" for people to respond to, so users will post whatever. This is a difficult type of thread to moderate. What is a thread derail in that case? What constitutes a trolling attempt when there really isn't a good OP to measure it against? These are all things, and many more, that the mod team must take into consideration when evaluating threads like this.

In the cases last night, there was ambiguity and eventually open hostility against moderation. Those cases will get locked or deleted every time. In the case here on this thread, you've made it less about the Time article and more about your accusations against moderation and the threads deleted last night. We will lock or delete threads like this. Today we have locked it in order for it to stay up and people to read these messages as reminders.

Please read or re-read the posting policies:
https://texags.com/terms

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