Is removing an offending post really uncivil and impolite? I feel like you were taking offense where there was none but misunderstanding of the culture.
Depends, what is “offensive”? I posted a q for advice that a mod deemed categorized as something belonging to another sub. Ok, fine whatever, classification is often subjective but delete?! That’s passive/aggressive...
If you don't nuke things that look vaguely relevant but nevertheless aren't wanted, then they will keep piling up, until your sub is no longer serving its intended purpose at all. Subs dilute easily, and have to be defended from that as well as from fools.
Well, unless your sub isn’t dedicated to some “obscure craft practiced in one specific valley in the eastern Alps” (you catch my drift) nuking “things that aren’t wante” is borderline squatting, particularly if the sub is something as generic as “diy”... demanding that one read an FAQ as lawyerly as an EULA on penalty of deletion is not necessary.
The other point that the deletionists miss is that sending people elsewhere just doesn't work; it's never worked. All those mods need to keep /r/diy as a dump for everything they don't like, and setup /r/truediy as their pure diy sub.
I catch your drift, but I'm pretty sure I disagree. I would just like it if, say, r/programmerhumor was actually programmer humor, without all the software gore and bad UI. Because all those things are easier to find, they'll crowd out the desired content. That will continue if you try to move to /r/realprogrammerhumor per DanBC's suggestion, unless the new mods are more zealous.
A few reddit mods are fucking arseholes about removing posts, which is especially frustrating if they don't have pinned posts telling you what the rules are, or if the rules are unclear.
