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They don't have to explain their art, but I think it would likely be helpful in resolving this situation that is preventing people from seeing your content if qrstuv explained what their intention was in posting pro-israeli government propaganda with no additional context for months in a non-art news community 🤷
/c/news most certainly is an art community. It's bizarre art, mind you, whose schtick sometimes feels a bit drawn out, but art nonetheless.
Don't believe me? Leave a comment reply with an abbreviation and get back to me in 2 days.
Most of the posts on /c/news are locked with no ability to leave a comment, though? And the the comments that were made on some of the posts before they were locked are just people earnestly responding to the article?
Coming from someone who likes weird humor, I'm not seeing anything that would distinguish it from any other news community,
That's part of the schtick.
Oh I guarantee you something did, though it may've expired by now. The remaining records may've just been lost after our home instance suffered a data loss.
The records appear to be fully intact on my side, it seems they were only lost on SDF itself (but other instances such as mine appear to have a complete mirror of the missing content, AFAIK) Feel free to browse it from my instance to find examples of what you mean: https://slrpnk.net/c/news@lemmy.sdf.org.
Uh... Okay. So if I have this right (and I'm genuinely asking in good faith), the 'schtick' is to mostly post pro-Israeli news and lock the thread, and then sometimes not lock the thread and potentially (though from my end scrolling through the pages, seemingly never?) do something involving abbreviations in the comments?
Cheers!
What I've gathered is that the schtick is to find some really cringey/odd article from NYT bordering more on opinion rather than news, share it on /c/news, wait for people who stumble upon it not knowing the schtick to leave their serious comments, and then after 2 days lock the post (all posts do get locked after this period, are the ones you see more recent?) and tempban everyone who left a comment for some asinine reason (ex: "abbreviations").
My best guess is that it's absurdist commentary about the antics that some self-absorbed moderators get up to.
Ahh, I see what you mean now after looking at the modlog.
I think that's actually quite a funny idea, though I still have to question that particular material being chosen to bait in people, as ultimately it helps spread Israel's message (though it is probably unlike to be terribly effective on lemmy) for the sake of some laughs with an inside joke.
And as most people who stumble across it are likely to never know the context you just shared with me, it's fairly indistinguishable from the 'real thing', which means getting treated in the same way as the real thing (and that has clearly resulted in a not ideal outcome for Funhole, and some distress for its contributors).