Post #2361790

2026-04-15 15:39 UTC

Did you end up removing his posts with the altered comics? Or are they still out there to disseminate his inferior versions across the internet? And just to be clear, I think not banning beep is an idea with no upside.

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@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 16:13

The only rule Beep was breaking at the time was the per-day post limit. While cleaning that up would be tedious, it'd still be doable; the main reason we haven't (that I know of) is that those posts are long-since submitted and have hundreds of existing discussions which other users contributed to. The per-day post limit is mainly relevant for new posts, so enforcing that rule as it should've been when they were posted wouldn't really accomplish anything except make a lot of user comments inaccessible. It'd be functionally random, too – starting at the first posts, leaving post *n* and post *n + 1*, then removing everything until the next 24 hours after post *n*, loop until we get to the last post they made before it was upped to 5 and Beep was forced to stop breaking it. (That wasn't your question; just addressing it since it has the more complicated answer.) As for the altered comics, [there was no rule in place at the time](https://web.archive.org/web/20260129205541/https://lemmy.world/c/comicstrips) that comics need to be unaltered and have attribution. We (at least I) don't do *ex post facto* rule enforcement. Of the existing reports for posts/comments made before dohpaz42's rule changes, none (that I saw) were for violations of the rules that existed at the time, so the only reports I ended up acting on were the ones that violated [Lemmy.World's terms of service](https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/).

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