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Banned from News@Lemmy.World on my first post for 'spam' which it was not(lemmy.world)

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Hi all.

First, thanks for reading. I’m not exactly sure if this is the correct location to raise a concern about a ban/deletion, but I guess it’s as good as any.

So:

  1. I dont know which mod it was. Log is redacted?
  2. post deleted & banned from the News@Lemmy.world community
  3. screenshot of modlog attached
  4. screenshot of comment attached.
  5. It was an appreciated post with 106 upvotes 26 downvotes at deletion and several positive responses yesterday. When I came back today (I’m in Australia so timezones…) the comment was deleted and I was banned - and several negative comments have appeared which I would have liked to respond to.

Original post: a news article about Proton Mail.

My post: Essentially I took the time to read the article and included the quotes of what was written by the CEO that was being discussed in the article - as many in the comments had surprised me by jumping straight to him being a literal Nazi. As not a single other commenter had included the quotes to discuss the source, I thought that would be a valuable contribution. I also gave my opinions which you can see in the comment on the modlog, the formatting is messed up so I included a screenshot of the (recreated) comment. https://lemmy.world/modlog/1347

What I didn’t notice was that the article writer had omitted the first part of the Twitter post from the CEO in her quotation of him - so I quoted her, and in doing so missed the context that the CEO had actually started “Great pick by @realDonaldTrump” at the start - which does of course change the context of his Twitter post to praise. This was clarified for me in the angry responses. I would have edited my comment and owned my mistake, however stood by the rest of the comment regarding Proton’s official follow-up.

So, is that deletion and ban fair?

Update 10 hours later: contacted a mod directly to see if i can find out more about the ban or perhaps get it remedied.

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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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Sorry, I didn’t read this. But ultimately they’re just doing you a favor by removing you from that community, I don’t think it has a nice atmosphere in the first place. Just take this as an invitation to focus on something else. Practically anything is better than commenting on the news on lemmy.world.

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pulsewidth@lemmy.worldOP
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Thats fine, i get it was long. Apprecitate the advice. If it doesn’t get restored i will move on from @lemmy.world entirely tbh. I dont feel like i posted something incredibly challenging, and it certainly broke none of the rules on that comm - so i was quite surprised at the ban and deletion as a ‘welcome to lemmy’ after lurking for a year or so.

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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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It’s not the length. Well, not the length of your post.

It’s the length of exposure people have had to that community lol. You see it in a title or post here, you already know what the deal is. No need to read anything else

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liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works
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PTB, .world is trash, nearly all other news communities are better.

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pulsewidth@lemmy.worldOP
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Modlog

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_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Welcome to Lemmy.world, where the rules are made up on the spot and nothing you say matters as long as it fits the official Democratic Party line.

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bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works
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It’s more extreme than Democratic Party line.

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tyler@programming.dev
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.world has a discord server. You could report the mods there.

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goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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Does that work better then on their support comm?

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tyler@programming.dev
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I do not know. I was just making a suggestion.

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pulsewidth@lemmy.worldOP
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I’ve messaged a mod on the News channel first to see if they can help, someone suggested to me that this could have even been an automatic moderation (since it was my first comment and it was long maybe?). The mod log is not clear as it’s obfuscated/private. If i still have no luck i’ll try their discord, thanks for the suggestion.

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