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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


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-A few days ago, a moderator on Digital Art banned me for supposedly posting "furry" (anthropomorphic animal) art. My works are based on yokai characters (Japanese mythology), kemonomimi (humans with animal ears and tails), and beasts (normal and mythical animals). Nothing falls into the furry category, which is exclusively for anthropomorphic animals. And it should be clarified that I have been posting in that community for months without any warning or comment about my works. I tried to contact her through comments in another community she moderates (I barely use Lemmy to post, and I'm not going to download external apps to open chats just for this, plus I don't speak English), but she decided to delete them and not speak to me.

(I won't get into a discussion about this; if you don't believe me, just look up the terms mentioned. Labeling everything as furry simply because it has an animal percentage is pure ignorance, and I'm fed up with the topic because I've explained and shown it a thousand times to some stubborn people. Please don't try to convince me to use the word "furry" as something universal, because it's NOT, and I know what I draw and what I don't.)

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[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

It seems like I need to clear something up here as I have not seen any screenshots of the modlog that show which mod took actions against your content so here is one from https://phtn.app/modlog?user=23220995 where you can see who took action in the modlog:

Here you can clearly see that I did in fact not take action against your posts on !digitalart@lemmy.world and only against your posts in !imaginarymerfolk@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I have maybe taken one action as a mod in the Digital Art community in my time as mod so I was never really an active mod of that community.

And as a few people already mentioned: yes I meant that you can contact people through built-in direct messages here on Lemmy. And it's really not hard to find, just click on the profile of a user and the button is right there:

I hope this clears everything up.

Edit: And the reason why I didn't appeal the ban or didn't take any further action is because I don't want to be a mod in that community anyway and want nothing to do with this. I took like 1 minute to figure out what happened and just summarized it to you to make it clear why you were banned by someone else and then took action on the posts in my own community. And because I was the one who responded I'm now dragged through the mud. I find it horrible how I'm accused of being queerphobic/homophobic/transphobic by people without them knowing the full story.

Edit2: Here are screenshots from the modlog to see my activity in that community and how I've tried to remove myself as mod multiple times:

[–] UserChan__@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

See? Only one moderator has access to the modlog, but nobody believed me, lol.

Anyway, that clarifies what I've been saying. There you can see the ban, which wasn't months ago. Although, if it's true that "there are errors in Lemmy" and my posts only disappeared a week ago, I can accept that explanation. That said, I didn't accuse you of anything other than the Digital Art ban (the queerphobia and homophobia came from other people, and I'm not even interested in the community where I contacted you; I just went there to contact you and then left). And I don't want to appeal it. I still insist that Lemmy's direct messaging (not the apps I don't want to download) isn't secure, and the message itself says so. I also don't know where to see a message if I receive one because there's no chat icon. I don't know if you think I'm new to social media because I'm not. I don't need a tutorial, but if the platform is missing something essential, it's obvious that anyone would take a shortcut like commenting on other sites. And because of how I had to resort to a "public statement" for someone to listen. Likewise, even if you don't want to be a moderator, which is understandable, while you still are one you should listen to your users when they tell you that a sanction was unfair, because I already clarified, my uploaded content there isn't furry, and the term isn't an opinion, it's a fact. As an artist, although you're not obligated to understand or accept every aspect of art, you also can't base a historical term (like what is and isn't furry) on a personal opinion. Avoiding listening to me was, from my perspective and experiences with people like that, simply washing your hands of an issue that could have easily been resolved with a couple of correct actions. Being responsible isn't about evading the issue, even if you don't want to be contacted through other means. It doesn't matter if they say (referring to both moderators and users of this thread) that I'm "the villain" (also because of the points system, they don't deny my point) because the record only confirms what I said, and I'm also aware of what I did and didn't do, just as I'm willing to accept if I made any mistakes, like blaming you (although only partially, as I said, you could appeal or try to talk even in the comments) or accepting that the fact that my posts disappeared a week after (not months ago) the ban, because platform errors happen (Lemmy is very unstable) and I'm not certain if that's what happened or not.

I doubt you'll even consider lifting my ban; otherwise, you would have done it from the start. But whether you lift it or not, it's clear your colleague (if it's not an automated bot, though you're also a moderator manually) doesn't seem to like my art, and I don't think I'm treated well there. It's up to you whether you lift it, and then I'll decide whether to stay or leave. This whole thing is ridiculous and could have ended with a simple discussion.

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 38 minutes ago

The ban was 3 weeks ago so you are correct that it wasn’t months ago but you can also see that your first post was removed 7 months ago. So you had plenty of time to notice that your art wasn’t welcome in the community.

As for why I don’t want to have anything to do with it and won’t remove your ban is because as I said I didn’t want to mod this community any more and that decision was made by me about 1 month prior to you getting banned (as you can see in my screenshots) and I feel like it is not really my decision to unban you since it isn’t my community. I think you just have to accept that some people consider your art as furry art and that they don’t want to have it in their community. I’m sorry.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago

Thanks for the the update

[–] Nima@leminal.space 2 points 4 hours ago

"I find it horrible how I'm accused of being queerphobic/homophobic/transphobic by people without them knowing the full story."

you aren't wrong. there's quite a few individuals in this thread doing a good old fashioned witch hunt over furry art being removed.

conflating it with homophobia/transphobia and applying labels to innocent individuals without first verifying facts. very creepy, imho.

[–] YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

The mod you talked to didn't ban you according to your modlog.

So far I was only able to recover these posts:

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[–] UserChan__@lemmy.ml -2 points 12 hours ago

I read that comment before it disappeared, although I think he could have appealed the ban and he didn't. What a waste to post there.

[–] Astertheprince@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

PTB, what is up with Lemmy users defending anti-furry shit? I thought we were better than this. Shame on all of you who are sticking up for this mod.

[–] UserChan__@lemmy.ml -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

People just want to hate. My stuff isn't even furry, and they treat it like I posted something inappropriate. I've stopped getting angry and just respond with mockery.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

The powertripping is baked into the rules, which is rather common for small niche communities, and a poor fit for general, broad categories. Like... 'art'.

[–] UserChan__@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

They're trying to force things on me, lies, wow, what a lovely place Lemmy is! I appreciate those who offer me support, even those who are ambiguous. Unfortunately, there are many people who seem allergic to research and don't understand that my art went months without being banned. The moderation dates are from when the post was published, and I know this because, unlike some, I realized the ban happened a week ago, and before that, my drawings remained untouched because they always reappeared. It doesn't even matter anymore whether I believe it or not; the outcome isn't going to change, and I'll continue with this unfair ban. But at least I defended myself. That art community is a mess, and many of the comments only reinforce the idiocy of all this; they always turn a plea for help into a circus. Grow up! It's all a race to see who's right instead of reasoning. I've been on the internet long enough to know who's an idiot and who isn't. This will be my last comment on the subject because they are truly exhausting, and I can be sure that I told the truth.

Como decimos nosotros en estas situaciones: Cállense gringos.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I think maybe this community needs a rule against appeal to authority, to try and get people to focus on whether the actions are justified from a moral and practical standpoint instead of just "They own the community and have the right to do it, YDI" or "It's in the rules and you didn't follow it, YDI" which could be the answer to any action posted here. We're not trying to enforce the Reddit mod code of conduct on Lemmy, we're trying to improve the community by calling out mod actions that are morally or practically unjustified.

Although that might be hard to enforce so I can understand why it wasn't done. People can be very subtle and sound reasonable, even if they're just appealing to authority blindly.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago

There's no rule preventing people judging yptb posts morally or "legally". People routinely do it.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (6 children)

This is essentially an argument over what "furry" means.

Obviously, your art means furry to the mod whether you like that or not. This you already knew though because the ban was the 7th action against you in that community.

You can't say you thought your work was still welcome there after 6 post removals in the previous 7 months. That's just disingenuous.

As for "I barely use Lemmy to post, and I’m not going to download external apps to open chats just for this, plus I don’t speak English", this is just bullshit. You put the effort in to learn how to post, and did it in English. This seems a pathetic attempt to bolster how innocent you are trying to seem.

It's their community to do with as they please. I can see why someone may consider your art furry and why you say it isn't. Regardless of that, it has been clear to you for 7 months that it wasn't welcome in that community and you persisted in posting against their rules.

YDI.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Very strange rules there.

Traditional art is allowed, and the community is called "digital art."

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (4 children)

Even for a rule violation an immediate permaban for a regular poster is just egregious. PTB

EDIT: Seems like we didn't have the full picture here and the user in question has been told multiple times that the mods considers their art "furry art". I'm not going to judge whether the rule against furry art is good or not, but I withdraw my PTB judgment because the op was warned after all.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

Modlog shows that OP's posts have been being removed for 7 months.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

100% agree. First offense permaban is for things like spam bots or egregious rule breaking.

People who otherwise participate in the community should be treated with moderation.

I'm not getting into the furry vs anthropomorphic animal debate, that's not my field.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago

Are we certain this is first offense? The mod logs screenshotted in a few places in this thread show removals over months.

OP insists that's because it's showing the date the posts were made, and not the timestamp of the mod action, but that's definitively not how the modlogs work. I can bring up some screenshots of mods taking multiple actions against a doxxing post to demonstrate if needed (long story, someone accused me of doxxing them because it happened while we were arguing and I took the time to break down the timeline of events to show it made no sense to be me).

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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I think Tywèle having prejudice against people she considers furries is a red flag in my book maybe she didn't start that rule but she's clearly enforcing it with prejudice. Something good to keep in mind, maybe she didn't know it but anti-furry sentiment is frequently used as a smoke screen to cover up queerphobia. I can't say that she's using it for that, but anti-furry sentiment has a bad reputation for a reason. And she already was giving me bad vibes before.

Also I did very recently create a new Digital Art community on Pawb.social !digitalart@pawb.social despite being on pawb.social it's not exclusively a furry art community, it is a general purpose digital art community that people like you can post your art in, without having to worry about assholes like the mod who banned you.

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tywele isn't the mod who banned you, or removed your posts.

I’m not going to download external apps to open chats just for this

Lemmy has direct messages built in, she likely meant this.

Looking through the images themselves, I'd personally consider them furry except the last one that got you banned, so PTB I suppose.

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

That is exactly what I meant. And yes I didn't remove those posts or ban them. See my recent post.

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