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I posted this article on c/politics and it was quickly taken down by mods. I was informed that the reason was

Rule 1, no social media or blogs

However, c/politics rule 1 states:

Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.

I am curious if all substack articles are removed from that community, or just ones that the moderators disagree with.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No. No videos. We aren't going through video by video picking winners and losers.

Same for Twitter links, same for blog posts.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So despite coming from the same source and containing the same content, this is unacceptable but this is allowed.

I guess you are free to run your own community in whatever arbitrary and silly way you like. You might consider consolidating your rules - it would probably be a good idea to make sure that the rules on your sidebar are the same as the rules in your pinned post.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Neither would be allowed as the second link is simply a video hosted by MSNBC. No video links are allowed regardless of who produces them or who hosts them.

The Sidebar clearly states to post articles only. The sticky goes into more detail about what that means.

Videos are not articles, neither are twitter/facebook/reddit posts, or blogposts on Substack or any other blog posting platform.