content: [Meta] Just noticed a very popular post was deleted from /r/pics and the top of Voat I went back to this thread from my comment history to see if there were any new and interesting comments, only to find that a mod had deleted it: https://voat.co/v/pics/comments/1165222 Modlog: https://voat.co/v/pics/modlog/deleted This post was 90.57% upvoted (48 to 5) and I had found it from the top of /v/all. It had 57 comments at the time of deletion. Clearly the /v/pics community wanted to discuss this post. Why was it deleted? The moderator made no comment in the thread to explain it, as far as I could tell. ElNino says it was deleted for violating rule 3: https://voat.co/v/pics/comments/1165222/5780181 I propose that if a submission is embraced by the community despite violating the rules, the rules don't accurately reflect what the community wants from that subverse, and should be ignored in that case.