I'd like to suggest having a sticky in the Gaza Strip Megathread about what is and isn't appropriate to say.

...Because I don't know what the line for this sub is. Like, the policy of this sub in the past has always been a blanket "No justifying war crimes (with exceptions)". But I'm seeing a lot of people now justifying war crimes, and not getting deleted, and I don't know what's an appropriate exception anymore. Other people don't know what's an appropriate exception anymore. Even if you delete posts, because you delete them silently, it's not apparent what's rule-breaking at all.

Like, here's an example: take this comment chain. There's a lot of what I personally would consider rule-breaking. And I know the mod policy is "If you suspect it's rule-breaking, report them, and let the mods decide", but... I can't just report all of them. There's so many, and so many more in the rest of the thread. It's not worth my (or anyone's) time to - to put it bluntly - report any post that disagrees with me.

And I'm pretty sure these are good people, they're not trying to cause trouble, they just don't think something like "There's an easy solution to famines: Hamas surrenders" is (potentially) war crime apologia. If you made a sticky clarifying what is and isn't, those people aren't going to make those kinds of posts.

And because it alleviates what at least I, and I expect a lot of other people, fear: that there is no policy. That the mods, because they don't want to upset people with slapbans, won't put the boot down for anything less than an obviously atrocious post. And I want to emphasise, I don't know what your policy is. I can't see what posts get deleted and what was just missed by mods. So "Only the insulting and genocidal posts get deleted, and everything else is fine, so long as it's not siding with Hamas" is an actual fear. If you make a sticky, that fear goes away.

...And meanwhile, what's the downside? I can't see any problem with a sticky clarifying what's allowed to be said, and what the sub will consider to be supporting war crimes.