-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.)
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.