#community rules

I look back on my latest reblog, about ten hours ago, of @anexperimentallife​‘s post about Maus to check whether the Popper Paradox of Tolerance infographic has been removed from my latest reblog as it was from the OP and from reblogs of the OP; and what do I see:

Huh.

So I click on the question mark in the banner to review the community guidelines. There isn’t anything in this post that meets the guidelines’ definition of adult content unless somehow there’s a misapprehension that there’s an excerpt from Maus which includes the famous depiction of concentration camp nudity which got the book banned last week in Tennetuckybamaippi or wherever. Except I noticed something, circled in red here:

Even if that excerpt was included in Rob’s post, it falls outside prohibition by the guidelines.  

Now, this isn’t my first rodeo. I know the drill for appealing a flagged post:

So I just need to click on the button in the banner and ... hang on. This banner doesn’t have an appeal button.

This banner looks more like the banner for after an appeal’s failed, but the text is significantly different from that banner: 

What we have here is, apparently, a unappealable flag on a post which does not violate the community guidelines being a political exception.

I deleted at LiveJournal for less.

I tried to add this as a reblog to my latest reblog but, my reblog ten hours ago being flagged, of course the reblog ten minutes ago doesn’t appear on my dash either. Stay tuned for developments as they arise.

DIBS: A Chicago winter staple. Shovel your parking spot, claim it—but for how long? Is it fair? Is it chaos? From history to unwritten rules, we break down this fiercely debated tradition and why it’s not disappearing anytime soon.

Ah, winter in Chicago. The time of year when the temperature drops, the lake-effect snow rolls in, and the most sacred of unspoken laws takes effect: DIBS. For the uninitiated, DIBS is the time-honored Chicago tradition of reserving a freshly shoveled parking spot with whatever household junk is lying around—lawn chairs, old crates, a broken fan, or, in some cases, an inexplicably placed…

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oh my fucking god no this is not me and whoever the fuck it is DO NOT DO THIS. FROM MY COMMUNITY RULES:

When sharing bugs, match them to the flowers it's just polite. We're growing those flowers to get certain bugs.

When the second part of the event comes along and people are growing the new flowers, DON'T DUMP ALL THE OLD BUGS ON 'EM ffs.

If you've gotta get rid of bugs from the previous part of the event, scroll to the bottom of your friend list and unload them on someone who's been away for a few days it's not that difficult.

This is a dumb rant but honestly this time of the month is when I really can weed out the rude players from the polite players.

ACPC players RB if you agree.

I would love to have ducks; they are awesome (and they and their eggs are tasty). However, I live in an apartment (with a dog), and the only reasons I can get away with a real garden is because I’m on the first floor… and the leasing office doesn’t care what I do as long as I obey certain community rules. I’m sort of at the back end of the property, and my apartment faces a courtyard of sorts; no one driving by or even through the parking lot can see my garden.

A neighbor even farther back actually has a rooster, but I’m not sure that was actually approved. It’s a lovely young rooster with copper-red feathers with black tips. I call it Copper, though I don’t know what the owners call it. I tried feeding it snails one day, but it was too scared of me to do more than peck at one or two while keeping an eye squarely on me. Probably because I had recently been chasing it LOL. I’d be very happy if it hung around my garden, but I rarely see it, mostly just hear it cock-a-doodle-dooing some mornings. Besides, my dog would also keep it away with barking, etc.

I feel left out.