Alt text: an image of a poster with the text "Did you see: - A tent in the Wood? - Someone shoplifting? - A person sleeping in their car? No! You fucking didn’t! People are struggling, don’t make it worse

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Of course they won’t address it. It’s a growing instance and they will not do controversial removals unless absolutely necessary, because that could damage that growth.

    That is not exactly what I said in the DM ;) I do not plan to grow this instance beyond say 1k MAU or so and will rather close registrations completely.

    I am slightly wary of this community, as it has the potential for a lot of unnecessary drama (as seen in similar communities on other websites), but only discussing shoplifting is IANAL not illegal and I personally find shoplifting not morally objectionable if done by poor people trying to somehow make ends meet (and the target is a large corporation or so).

    But I think it might make sense to clarify the community rules of /c/shoplifting a bit to make it more clear what type of contributions are actually preferred.

    • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netMEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      I am slightly wary of this community, as it has the potential for a lot of unnecessary drama (as seen in similar communities on other websites),

      tbh that’s something I am unsure on how to approach. I would this to be a community where folks can celebrate shoplifting (as I stated in another comment) and at the same time I don’t want to cause you and other server admins and other communities on this instance trouble with that. If you or others have any suggestions regarding this I would love to hear them. (Also in private messages if that’s preferred.) At some point I will also try to make a post in !meta@slrpnk.net about this

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        “celebrate” seems an odd word in this context, but I do think our society needs to “normalize” that people need their basic needs covered one way or the other. If we as a society fail to provide the weakest with what is needed (despite surplus being available), we can’t really complain about them trying to take it themselves. And this shouldn’t be seen as charity, but rather as a human right.