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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 17, 2022

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From the sidebar:

All links must either include a submission statement or significant commentary. Bare links without those will be removed.

My commentary is in subcomment, for crying out loud. You really have nothing better to do?

The rules are in the sidebar, for crying out loud.

When I am clearing out the moderation queue, no, I have nothing better to do.

That's nice. Please consider this a formal request for an appeal, and send it to other mods for consideration. This is the most extreme case of pedantry I've seen in a while.

Just DM or ping @ZorbaTHut.

I'm seconding the request to restore the post. I came to revisit it a few days later only to find it removed because of a technicality (the commentary being in a sub-comment).

@ZorbaTHut

I'll repost the URL here for you, but in general, the reason we have that rule is because we don't want people just linkdropping with quotes; I'm reasonably sure it was an overall negative. I'll admit that "I posted my commentary in a subcomment" isn't something I expected people to do, but I still think I'd rather people just put it in the main comment rather than a blockquote.

Edit: Arjin asked and I've kinda reconsidered in this one case; this isn't a policy change, this is a single exception because there was a lot of work involved. I'd still rather they'd posted the commentary in the top-level post but, y'know, next time.

This was the standard practise in the BLR subthread. I assume thats where the OP picked it up.

Probably, yeah. BLR subthread is long gone though :)

Since I scanned the magazine myself, and manually transcribed parts of the article, I thought it doesn't count as a "bare link".

Anyway, the problem is solved now, and I'll be more careful in the future.