added a reference to !politicaloptimism@piefed.social .

Your submission in “A bill that would give legal immunity to pesticide companies such as Bayer, the owner of Roundup, was defeated in Tennessee” was removed as schadenfreude (rule a)1).

Your submission in “There are more registered Democrats in 2025 than registered Republicans” was removed as toxic politics (rule b)).

Your submission to !UpliftingNews@lemmy.world has been removed for involving toxic politics (rule b)).

I would’ve removed this post if I saw it earlier. It’s an interesting article (that surprisingly hasn’t been posted anywhere else yet) but it documents another problem in our society, not any sort of progress or resolution. I would remove, say, “The fight to release the double-tap boat strike video” even if we didn’t have the toxic politics rule.

pinging some of the other mods for their thoughts: @NickwithaC@lemmy.world, @sga@piefed.social, @wolfeh@lemmy.world

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I’m hoping it’s not just because the outgoing one was controversial. If it is, then I’ll probably remove this post since rotation of the Interpol president is bound to, required to happen every four years and it is borderline schadenfreude.

Added rule d) to clarify our current civility policy.

Removed: I don’t see how this is supposed to be uplifting

Your submission in “US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information” was removed as schadenfreude or toxic politics .

It is not.

Your submission in “Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday” was removed as toxic politics (rule b).

Your submission in “DHS agents retreat as Chicago cops refuse to shield them from swarming protesters” was removed as schadenfreude.

I am once once again asking for your bars—what should be the bar/criteria for removal?

I think we should ask for and respect the decision of the community instead of imposing our own judgements. And of course, we still remove personal attacks (not that your admittedly negative-ish comment counted as one /gen).

What would be your criteria for removing a post as “orphan crushing machine”? (Also, political posts meeting the “More clarification” paragraph at https://lemmy.world/post/30918729 are already removed, the most recent but weak example being the post on Sanders having his tour go to NYC for a Mamdani town hall.) (Separate threads, separate comments.)

What would be your criteria for removing a comment?

I would’ve removed the post if I saw it before it gained traction. The thing with these things is people usually upvote them because they see it at !all instead of thinking it fits !upliftingnews, and too much of these posts can dilute the quality of our community and drive away users who wanted the specific thing we’re looking for.

Your submission in “Sexual predator Noel Clarke loses libel case against The Guardian” was removed as not uplifting.

Your submission in “LA Ice protests spurred US military to identify ‘hotels to avoid’ due to ‘harassment’” was removed as not sure if schadenfreude but definitely not uplifting.