-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.)
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.
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.
There’s no rule preventing people judging yptb posts morally or “legally”. People routinely do it.