I made some off-hand comments on a post on 196 and didn’t realize they’d be taken the wrong way. I made a few more comments to help clarify my idea but caught a blanket ban from blahaj.zone with no warning or message.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=588349

I’m mortified :( It’s never been my goal to make others feel bad online. I had a quibble with the wording on a meme and clumsily worded my idea of “Our differences shouldn’t be minimized because they make us special” was seen as transphobia/TERF rhetoric.

But with no prior warnings or even a message from a mod to ‘cool it’, I got banned from the entire instance. I love these communities (feel free to look at my 2.5 years of comment/post history) and I would like to be able to continue to participate.

So, is there a formalized method of ban appeal beyond messaging mods? Their instance has like 12, so I don’t want to spam them and have it seen as harassment.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    There’s a no threadiverse-wide appeals community, but it sounds like it might be useful if it becomes standard. We have !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com but that’s more about speaking truth to power, although it’s been used before to convince mods to reverse bad moderation actions

  • Blaze@piefed.zipEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m as trans-positive as they come, but ‘being able to give birth’ is actually a meaningful difference.

    That’s true, but from a categorical standpoint, all trans women are incapable, which, at the very least, is a distiction with non-zero significance.

    https://lemmy.world/modlog?userId=588349

    Hm, good luck with that ban appeal

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Oof yeah I saw those comments in the wild…

      I don’t blame them for dropping the banhammer considering their instance rules and how strictly they enforce them (even if I don’t necessarily agree with some of the enforcement).

      • Triumph@fedia.io
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        10 months ago

        Yeah, blahaj, don’t bother. There’s an elevated amount of odd positions that are popular there, and don’t you dare question them.