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I've seen a disturbing number of posts about the Russia-Ukraine war justifying or making light of Russia's actions. These feel like either some douchebags trolling about this serious matter, or active Russian propaganda. I feel either scenario is grounds for taking down posts and/or issuing bans.

I won't be surprised if it's both. Don needs to do something about this site.

They're probably the same people who spammed wojak & chad vs wojak stuff prior to the invasion. So likely trolls I guess

Yes, he needs to sell this site to someone else.

To be fair, shouldn't we document memes from both sides of the war? Unfortunately this also includes trash-tier vatnik propaganda. But keeping only pro-Ukraine memes while discarding all pro-Russian memes would make our documentation efforts pretty one-sided.

Just show your disapproval through a dislike, ignore, and carry on.

I feel either scenario is grounds for taking down posts and/or issuing bans.

As mentioned here we've been tossing out a lot of bans recently over brand new and suspicious accounts commenting and uploading in the Ukraine conflict entries. The ease of access to VPNs means we can't ban them all, but most don't make it past their first comment.

Please understand, however, that some of these posters are regular users. Not paid shills, not sockpuppets, not alts, they just actually think like that. Being wrong isn't against the rules.

I first want to say that I don't envy the jobs of the mods or the administrators, it's tough.

One can't ban someone from uploading content, but as Mod Jill said at some point (I think) it's not great to the atmosphere to have that kind of propaganda constantly flood in. Throughout the years there's also those who do take it at face value, turning documentation into misinformation.

The fact that these posters are regular users shows there's a different problem than just trolls. There's always an issue of this site regularly hosting /pol/, and I don't know when that started happening.

G*ymerG*yte

But you don't understand, censorship is bad unless it's censorship for things I disagree with!!! Then it's good!!!

I think it would be good idea to make Anti-Ukrainian Posts entry for cataloging stuff like that. It's ugly , but still part of the Internet culture.