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 [email protected] 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.

Update 48 hours later: contacted the entire mod team, and got back feedback from several of them - all helpful. My post has now been undeleted, and my account unbanned from the News community 👍

  • @pulsewidthOP
    1•1 day ago

    A great outcome for this.

    I gave each of the first 2 mods I contacted 24hrs to response, as I was concerned over a server-wide ban for ‘PM spamming’ or something. Having not heard back, I lost patience and sent PMs to entire mod team.

    That got multiple positive responses back from five of the mods, a few of which commented that they couldn’t see why that would warrant deletion or ban. The mod that remedied it said he’d unban me immediately and take it to the mod team to discuss why the comment was deleted, ‘in case there were details they weren’t aware of’ (since the modlog was so bare). An hour later the comment had been undeleted too and multiple messages from mods sending apologies for the delay and hassle - so it looks like nobody saw an issue with the comment.

    It was not made clear to me if it was an automod action, and it seemed like at least some of the mods can’t de-obfuscate the modlog either, because they asked me if I remember who made the ban (I obviously do not know). I did ask the mod who got my issue fixed, I’ll edit this comment if they have futher info. But for now I’m taking the win and getting on with using Lemmy.

    Cheers all for the support and recommendations.