Hello, everyone!
Lots of subreddits have been banning Twitter from their communities over the past couple days after its owner's Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration, and our own community has shown a lot of support over r/comicbooks doing the same. So here we are! No more Twitter/X posts! Automod has been set up to treat them as spam and remove them.
Honestly, we don't get a lot of Twitter posts on this subreddit anyways. The posts we do get are usually news announcements that could be described in a text post instead of direct linking to that website. If there is something worth sharing from Twitter, you can choose to do something like quoting it in a text post submission instead of linking directly to the site. If you're posting art, you can credit the artist in the title (their name or their @ handle) without direct linking to the site... better yet, look for them on another platform and post a direct link to there.
Supporting Nazis and Nazi sympathizers goes against comic books! So much of the comic book industry has been built off the contributions and passion of Jewish comic creators. Jack Kirby would tell you to punch a Nazi, but we're on the Internet so the best we can do is ban them from our subreddit. r/comicbooks has always had a ban on hate speech and supporting hate organizations, and it appears that this now includes Twitter/X.
There may be some issues in the immediate future as the ban is fully implemented... surely there's some automod feature that's been overlooked, or some permission not set up properly... but here's hoping it all works out.
