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I thought it was a teenaged boy. Either way, it’s in the right spirit and the mod hasn’t made any posting rules to say only outwardly passing men count as just guys being dudes.

No posting of personal information was in the lemmy code of conduct when I created this community. Like all communities, this one has to follow those rules and the rules of the instance. It’s since been removed from the code of conduct I believe but, as others have commented, censoring the names of private individuals seems like the decent thing to do - especially as we’re sometimes laughing at the people in these screenshots. I’ll add it as a rule of its own in the sidebar for now.

Currently I’m the only contributor here and I’m happy to continue taking the few seconds to censor full names and social media handles in the screenshots I post. I also make the effort to post the context, any follow ups and news links when possible, so there isn’t any need to go to Reddit/Twitter or wherever it’s from.

However, I’m open to feedback on the rules and how this community is run, as stated in the stickied post. Would you like me to open a vote on whether we should keep the rule about censoring identifying info (or make your own post about it)? Or we could just go by the up/downvote ratio on your comment as an indication of what the majority want. Upvote to get rid of the rule, downvote to keep it. Currently 4 people vote to scrap the rule, 10 people want to keep it.

I’m with you. It’s a huge bugbear for me and I’m not even sure why it annoys me so much! But this is a cross post, I only censored identify info in the second photo to comply with the rules.

Neither had I! I assumed it was a fake interaction that I was happy to take at face value because it’s entertaining - but it looks like it’s real. There’s one more screenshot of people offering him jobs in his DMs, but it’s not that interesting.

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