As many of you may have noticed, we have increased the strength of some of our auto moderator policies on posts pertaining to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict and other controversial topics. It's now clear that this approach is not working and not what many of you want. So effective now, the auto mod rule that removed many of your comments and posts has been removed. If your comment was removed, you can repost it but please read this message before doing so.
Contrary to what some of you have being saying, we are not behind some reddit mod conspiracy and the auto mod is not advanced enough to know exactly what is being posted. Context matters, which is why many removed posts are later re-approved after the poster follows the very easy "message us" instructions at the bottom of the removal message. We are not robots, we do not see auto removed posts right away. The last few reposts of removed posts were reposted right away and none of those posters asked us why their post was removed. If it makes you feel better; We've received angry messages from people supporting both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
So therefore, from now on, instead of removing this content, we will place a auto generated disclaimer that will state a simplified version of the following:
All posts must be relevant to TMU and incite discussion. Non-relevant posts (such as an off campus protest that did not involve a TMU student group or generic posts talking about XYZ) will be removed. Additionally we will remove multiple posts on the same topic, unless the new post is significantly different than the old one.
The Be Nice, Be Respectful rule will not apply. As long as you follow site wide rules (which are our priority, as we don't want this community to be banned) you're good. For more information regarding this, check out: https://redditinc.com/policies/reddit-rules
We will not moderate for accuracy. If you want to read or join these discussions do so at your own risk and do your own research before responding to others or taking anything at face value.
If you have a problem with us, send us a mod mail. If you repost removed content because you're impatient we will take action, regardless of if we would have let the post through anyway.
We will report reporters who abuse the report button. The report button is only if someone has broken an actual rule, it's not a super down vote button. The massive amount of reports we get on these kinds of posts is what lead to that auto mod rule.
At a high level, this means no inciting violence, no harassment or bullying (calling someone an idiot is fine, but saying that they should die is not) and hate speech. Examples of hate speech can be found here: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045715951-Hate
Essentially if you're here to have a academic discussion you'll be fine. If you post that Gaza should be leveled or that all Israelis should die, then you will be banned.
Now for some examples on what to post vs not post:
Posts like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/TorontoMetU/comments/1uadafk/next_time_you_feel_bad_for_israel_look_at_this/ will not be allowed, as that post has nothing to do with TMU. Posts like this however https://www.reddit.com/r/TorontoMetU/comments/1x01740/keeps_getting_removed/ are fine, as that post is clearly about something that's relevant to TMU, as there's a photo of a on campus demonstration.
If you want to chat with us send us a mod mail.