[Closing soon] Thread with the horrifying truth about the massacre closed without warning

Option 5, No this is not the intent of the website and you broke the sites TOS which others already mentioned beforehand....

I'm sure it's possible to create a thread about the massacre, or praising/condemning Hamas/IDF, or whatever your propaganda of choice is without resorting to posting tons of links of NSFL material. The pro-Palestine thread doesn't have that, and most NSFW links there (from what I saw anyway) did not show corpses, blood, people getting killed, etc. You do not need shock to convey a good point.

There exist news websites and articles that discuss said material without needing to show it. I'm sure that the mods would be completely okay if links to such sites were used, similarly to the pro-Palestine thread (although that one is mostly Youtube shorts from pro-Arab sources rather than news articles, but it mostly adheres to rules).

The site has a clear rule against NSFW material. I wouldn't expect the mods to be okay with a thread discussing everyone's favourite porn fetishes with example videos despite a short warning, because it would be similarly against the site rules.

Not to mention your poll is laughably biased. Like sure the pro-Palestine one isn't great but this victim shit-slinging is not a good look.

As much as I agree with the sentiment behind the pictures and videos needing to be out there and easily available, since there is a site rule against gore, then that rule needs to be upheld.

Option 5, reopen the thread or create a new one with useful info and links in place of the inappropriate content. It doesn't have to be good, or nuanced info, clearly, just not gore.

All 4 voting options are biased and manipulative, there won't be any useful or representative info out of it.

Also, what others said about site rules, but you already know that.

You can go on 4chan reddit twitter plenty of places to discuss this topic. I agree with you though that they were fine with the ukraine shit but not this which is weird. Personally i think that neither of these things should have ever been on the site except for when people are doing a relief bundle etc
TLDR Have some keys regardless of what propaganda you preach cause this is a key site

I understand that emotions are running hot but kindly understand that this really isn't the place for posting links with photos of graphic death and violence. Talking about the deaths is fine but I feel links to photos of tragic and graphic deaths (esp without the deceased's family's consent) does everyone a disservice. Even if it was for a good cause, that was a step too far.

The incompetence and hypocrisy of this site's moderators is for the history books. How can you lock a thread and still leave the image links? You go on a witch hunt for unactivated key but dead babies are just another day in the office. I commend the OP of the original thread for courage; they must be one of the "untouchables". If this was any other account, they'd be banned within a minute.

While I don't doubt the existence of the raids and massacres themselves (as you can find articles about them all over the news), all this thread did was linking tons of photos from random telegram links claiming they were from the victims, while there was nothing to prove they weren't just taken from somewhere else (at least from the links themselves, I didn't click any of them). They could have been from other massacres, AI generated or anything really. If the thread had linked a few articles from trustworthy sources it would have served its purpose better than corpse photos taken from dubious sources, but all I saw was a Wikipedia link in Hebrew and an article from the Daily Mail (which is well known for publishing stuff for shock value without verifying it).

Besides if we allow that sort of pics on the site I can't wait to see it turn into a porn forum. That way it would mirror whatever Steam's becoming perfectly -_-

I usually stay away from commenting in all of these threads; I am personally against all of these sorts of threads in general. But I also respect that the mods have kept them up to preserve the freedom to post what users want on the site.

I did want to comment that if you read the closing reason for the thread in question, it has nothing to do with politics. That thread blatantly breaks rule 2 under the 'User Content' section in the site rules:

Inappropriate content. If you are posting content that may be considered NSFW (not safe for work), prefix any links or images with a NSFW tag to warn others. Do not post pornography, or explicit content, such as real life images depicting severe injury, gore, or death.

Now whether you agree with the site rules or not is a different question. But that thread blatantly breaks the rule, and just because it talks about terrorism or politics, doesn't mean it should get immunity to the rules. Now, I also believe the same thing for all the other threads; if they do in-fact have gore or violent material attached, they should be locked too. Even if the thread isn't about politics or terrorism, and is in fact about a game or giveaway (the point of the site), but also contains gore; that should be banned. However, I don't believe the main posts in any of those other threads are full of gore. And I'd assume mods take per-comment actions if something like that is posted in the comments.

A) Second thread was done as a counterpoint to the first thread, thus deliberately was done in the same way and tone. It would not have been posted without the first thread. So it was done to rile up the forums and to provoke, not in good spirits.
Deletion for shitposting is okay because of this.

B) Allowed Age to register here at SG is 13 years. As such, there are laws the site owner has to abide by what kind of content is allowed on this site and what not. As the site owner is canadian and I guess the site is also hosted on canadian servers, canadian laws apply. Now, I am no expert in canadian law, but I am pretty sure that those images and videos are not allowed on a site that can be frequented by minors.
So deletion is also justified.
(I have no idea about canadian laws regarding the massive amount of hentai games on this site. If, for example, german jurisdiction would know that SG makes hentai porn games available to minors, SG would be IP-banned in germany and CG would maybe even be persecuted and threatened with jail time.)

C) The right thing to do is: Both threads need to closed.

Oh, and addendum:
There is a proverb that goes: Every story has three sides: Yours, mine, and the truth.
This is especially true in a war.

While I do understand your emotions, that thread was too much indeed: the situation is deeply traumatic to any sane person, the site would definitely do better without more shock content, you don't need to hit interlocutors' heads with a hammer to persuade them, many of us are hurting enough already. We need to somehow mentally survive during horror, not to get destroyed psychologically. On the other hand, I get how the ugliness of the so-called Palestine awareness thread with all its indirect support of terrorism could provoke the OP of that thread and how this indifference to suffering might lead to the wish to show what Hamas is actually doing. Considering all this (and the fact that Israel is actually also killing innocent civilians, however much it is difficult to accept this information), frankly, I'd close both threads just because i don't see a better option, but it would be awesome if any of you or someone else could find energy to create a new one, without blatant shock content, because right now thanks to the mods' weird behaviour we only have the Hamas one (wouldn't call it a Palestine one, the OP obviously doesn't care about civilians).