-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.)
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.
O sea, según tú, ellos pueden descartar mi arte, bajo una etiqueta que no es, porque ya expliqué no, una no dos, sino más de diez veces que no entra en lo furry, entiendo el baneo de un par de dibujos como el de Shinebone Alley al ser más confuso, pero el resto… Wow. Debo creer que esto fue “justo”. Increíble. Y sin poder apelar por capricho de los moderores. Bueno, estoy acostumbrada a lo injusto de las comunidades. Y aún así es decepcionante, tenía una mínima esperanza de recibir apoyo y un poco de justicia por algo que no hice.
Modlog shows that OP’s posts have been being removed for 7 months.
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.
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).
Technically and literally I didn’t infringe on anything because it’s not furry-related. What she creates without knowing what she’s banning is another matter entirely.
Removed by mod