This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
All posts should follow this basic structure:
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.
Some acronyms you might see.
Relevant comms
The moderators have a source blocklist in their rule set. Mintpress is not listed in it.
That Mintpress?
MintPress News was a major media domain that spread disinformation about the White Helmets, a Syrian volunteer organization.[7] The site has been accused of regularly publishing pro-Russian propaganda,[8] and has been described as a conspiratorial website by media studies and disinformation scholars.[9][10]
LOL. Y'all should check out the imperial NyTimes.
Reading the wikipedia page I am not seeing a source to the MintPress article about White Helmets. Can you link the White Helm article they are talking about?
Click on the [7] and follow the link. Its all there if you are genuinely looking. It connects to a very in depth analysis.
[7] redirects to pay 30 bucks to read a paper. Am I doing something wrong?
Mixed on this one. Its not listed in the block list, but it should be. Mod made the right call, but, yes, it's technically not forbidden.
NPH (no power tripping here) it’s likely they just forgot to update the sidebar and this could have been solved by a quick convo with the mods.
i would not say YDI (you deserved it) tho as it’s not even punishment or silencing to get a mod action like this. they are keeping the community in shape—that doesn’t mean you are in trouble.
YDI. A blocklist is not an exhaustive resource of unreliable sources that will not be accepted, it just hits the most common unreliable sources.
The rule says check the blocklist for not allowed sources. If the mods decide a source unreliable they should add it to their blocklist.
Even funnier that New York Post is allowed but discouraged.
If the mods decide a source unreliable they should add it to their blocklist.
How long are you expecting the blocklist to be, then?
100% PTB, but why even use worldnews community at .world? It's nothing more than an inferior version of reddit: the same echo chamber of western narratives, but with less activity and less content.