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Sure, so why not advocate in this community for combining the two, rather than targeting the users in that other community and complaining about the mod in that other community?

Who are they trying to have a discussion with? The users of the community whose mod already told them they weren't interested? If I were that mod I'd've deleted their comment too

• Don't use pesticides
• Reduce or eliminate outdoor lighting
• Create habitat

1 is a no-brainer.

2: Artificial lighting will confuse lightning bugs or prevent them from mating, since females need to see that fancy swoopy-light dance to find a mate. When they don't mate, you lose out on the next generation.

3: I've had success in my yard because I've carved garden beds out in my lawn where I've planted a lot of different native plants, and I try to only minimally disturb the beds throughout the year, so lightning bug larvae have free reign in the leaf litter in fall and winter

You don't understand, those eggs made a choice to harden up, just like those potatoes chose to become soft liberal cucks

I appreciate your feedback, but disagree I'm the one being harsh. I think OP complaining about another community not being interested in merging with theirs and naming/shaming them is in poor taste.

My child's going to love this

It'd be better if you accepted you broke that community's rules and the mod was justified in removing your comment rather than complaining about it and putting them on blast so publicly

I get you don't think you were engaging in self-promotion by publicly talking up your community within their community, but you actually were, and it's explicitly against their rules. And yes, as a mod of this community, it is your community, as it is for anyone involved in this community who has an interest in driving traffic to it

They have no obligation to leave up your comment which is actively trying to redirect their traffic to your community. I don't get why you think removing it was a problem

Your intentions here may be positive, but you're basically asking them to shut down their community and posting an ad for your community on theirs to take their traffic. I can see why they removed it and don't see any problem with that. Send them a DM next time

It hasn't even been released yet

Wow, thanks for posting this, now I know what an utter piece of shit Scott Ritter is:

Ritter is a contributor to Russian government-owned media outlets RT and Sputnik. He compared Ukraine to a "rabid dog" that needed to be shot. He compared the treatment of Russians under Ukraine law to Nazi Germany's treatment of Jews. In October 2022, he posted a provocative tweet about Bucha to test the reaction of Twitter. The tweet stated "Bucha was a war crime, Ukraine did it". DisInfoChronicle (the website of NGO Detector Media that claims to refute Russian disinformation) wrote that Ritter was being used by Russia to "promote narratives needed by the Kremlin".

As if that's not enough:

Ritter was the subject of two law enforcement sting operations in 2001. He was charged in June 2001 with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl. He was charged with a misdemeanor crime of "attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child". The charge was dismissed and the record was sealed after he completed six months of pre-trial probation.

Ritter was arrested again in November 2009 over communications with a police decoy he met on an Internet chat site. Police said that he exposed himself, via a web camera, after the officer repeatedly identified himself as a 15-year-old girl.

The next month, Ritter waived his right to a preliminary hearing and was released on $25,000 unsecured bail. Charges included "unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of a communications facility, corruption of minors, indecent exposure, possessing instruments of crime, criminal attempt and criminal solicitation". Ritter rejected a plea bargain and was found guilty of all but the criminal attempt count in a courtroom in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 2011.

In October 2011, he received a sentence of one and a half to five and a half years in prison.[3] He was sent to Laurel Highlands state prison in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, in March 2012 and paroled in September 2014.