It probably shouldn't be allowed in the future, but given that it has > 300 up-votes and is only now spurring a finer definition of the rule, I think it warrants an exception. If OP reads this, they now know to post this kinda thing in a different community in the future. But removing this particular post seems a little harsh.

Edit: This is an awesome approach to moderation btw. People like you make lemmy great, thank you!

I havent read the rules of the comm. but ive always perceived whitepeopletwitter as a place to post text based social media screenshots.

We need to keep the cycle going. Remove the post, so that OP can make their own fuck this I'm done post.

Do whatever, ruleslawyering is not helpful. Is the community enjoying it? It stays. Is it detrimental? It gets removed. The "rules" should be more like guidelines to suggest to posters what type of content the intent of the community is, not what type of content is permissible.

Is someone posting vaguely in the direction of the intent of the community? That would be good enough for me.

Anyone trying to separate posts into increasingly niche communities (like the asinine dontdeadopeninside and nosafetysmokingfirst split on reddit) is not helping the community of posters and lurkers.

People like this need to accept and understand that we don't want to talk about US politics everywhere, all the time.

I don’t tend to think of wpt as specifically twitter posts. Maybe that’s how it started, but over time it has become a more generalized “screenshots of short text posts” type of thing in my mind. The “or similar” in the rules leaves a lot of ambiguity, but in my mind Twitter was always about short text posts, so any short text posts would fall under that “similar” umbrella. I wouldn’t object to seeing something from Facebook, Instagram, or Reddit being posted here as long as it was a text post and not super long, so it feels disingenuous to complain about a Lemmy post being here.

the original was twitter

As in, the post was originally on Twitter? I'm not sure what this means

It should be in YPTB, but they’ll just use that as more proof of their “outrage”.

Fighting to remove as many posts as possible on Lemmy when we barely get any posts at all doesn't make sense; ignore the people requesting you take a popular post down for some potential technicality.

I don't see the original. All I see are Lemmy related images and that, to me, doesn't belong here.