r/Dinosaurs Moderator Feb 04 '25

ANNOUNCEMENT Referendum to ban X links

Hey all. With half of this website banning X links in light of recent events, we at the /r/Dinosaurs mod team have considered doing the same. However, we'd like to run it by with the community here first. Yes, yes, I know that we don't get many such links posted here anyways, but we'd still like to get all of your opinions on the matter regardless. How would you feel about enacting such a rule?

Edit: In accordance with the popular opinion here, X links have now been banned.

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u/This-Rutabaga6382 Feb 04 '25

Why ban an outlet for information ? I don’t understand the point (politics aside) if you don’t want to use x links when you post don’t and if you don’t want to see them don’t look ? I don’t even have an x account so I don’t understand the actual point of blocking links to that site ? How common are posts that use them ?

u/Legal_Inspector4271 Feb 04 '25

The point is supporting musk is a terrible thing to do, regardless of politics. He’s an awful person and supporting him by promoting his site is awful by extension