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> Thank you for submitting to /r/memes. Unfortunately, your submission has been removed for the following reason(s):

> Rule 1 - ALL POSTS MUST BE MEMES AND FOLLOW A GENERAL MEME FORMAT

> All posts must be memes following typical setup/design: an image/gif/video with some sort of caption; mods have final say on what is (not) a meme

Reddit mods, man.

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> 4,613 points

> 96% upvoted

> Removed by a single moderator for subjective reasons while the sub's front page is full of crap

Ah, the quintessential Reddit experience.

Well to be fair Hackernews posts can get flagged too by the community itself where people then later talk about how or why a particular post gets flagged and discussion starts moving about the moderation/flag issues in HN.

(But this isn't to say that the fault's within the moderation community of HN which are great but just the issue which to me is imo that if many users flag a post, it can get flagged and the friction of getting it back is hard or a post typically ends up dying usually if it gets flagged in general imho)

There’s nothing subjective in the removal reasons.

Born too late to be a Stasi bureaucrat, born right on time to be a Reddit mod.

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