Edit /u/givesomefucks has now permanently banned two people from Mental Health, a supposed “safe space” in the last 3 hours. That seems odd for a community with an average 1 post per day. And that the other now banned account, /u/betterdeadthanreddit, was banned right after I called it out as being an alt of his along with /u/dingus in the comments here. I’d imagine the comment leading to that lifetime ban doesn’t match whatever the comment said, and he’s trying to hide that he has a bunch of alts modding a bunch of communities and banning users on this instance for no actual reason.
Hello, I’m relatively new to Lemmy and not sure how the instance administration works.
I spent around 3 hours writing up a long post for the Mental Health community detailing my personal history of symptoms, the issues I had with diagnosis, and the understanding of the root causes of AI that led me to realize what was causing my trouble with the medication I was on as well as why symptoms that were actually caused by ADHD had been diagnosed as Major Depressive Disorder or the like more than once.
Because the post got very long, I decided to break it into sections with headers and some bullets to make it easier to read.
The post had several replies that were all normal discussion on the issue, and violated no rules of Lemmy.world or that community. One of the two mods, presumably u/givesomefucks, removed the post without warning and listed the reason as “AI rambling about serious medication and how the doctors don’t know better.”
I tried to message the two mods listed and got no response from either. Since I was in the middle of multiple conversations in the replies, I created a new post questioning deleting a long post in what they describe as a safe space to share and discuss mental health issues.
While continuing conversations in that new post, I got a popup that told me I was banned from the community. The reason they put in the modlog this time was “medical misinformation.”
Both of those modlog entries are false. The first is an assumption they made at a glance. They then deleted that post based only on their assumption without bothering to read the post first.
The second is a blatant lie. There is nothing at all in either post that is medical misinformation. In the first post I even took the time to explain the various symptoms that can present depending on which neurotransmitter a person has a deficiency in the availability of as well as why my medication that targeted only one of those neurotransmitters was causing me to be tired even though it was a stimulant, and how a severe deficiency of both neurotransmitters can be diagnosed as depression since those symptoms aren’t commonly associated with ADHD.
All of that information is accurate and all of that information can be verified.
In the second post, the one that I was banned from the community for, I had never even given medical information in the post. It was entirely calling them out for deleting a post without bothering to even read it in what they claim to be a mental health safe space.
The first post URL is: https://lemmy.world/post/50462838
and the second post is: https://lemmy.world/post/50461425
You’ll note that one of the comments is a user saying that the entire lemmy.world instance isn’t a safe place for any community.
The Mental Health community averages one single post per day. It’s not a lot to ask of a moderator, and something they volunteered for. This is not how to grow a new communication platform.
It has now been 2 hours since my first post was deleted and 30 minutes since I was banned from the community. I have messages both moderators twice now, and neither of them has bothered to reply.
If the moderators of the lemmy.world Mental Health community are unable to keep up with that whole post per day by actually reading it and communicating with the poster if they see an issue, and they need to rely on removing posts based on blind assumptions and then instead of correcting their mistake doubling down by banning users based on complete lies then I volunteer to take over as moderator of that community.
Did you forget what account you’re using? You were banned from Mental Health right after I called your account out as an alt. You’d think the big red box telling you you’re banned would have caught your attention looking at the post.
Your comment above states that the post was deleted. It was not. What does my ban have to do with the presence or absence of the post?
Maybe it’s more of an anti-you conspiracy that we’re all in on but the site’s been having issues. Chances are pretty good that you got a message had text errors because of a server error (or, again, the conspiracy) but it’s still there.
Non-responsive.