I mean, not long ago on a evolutionary timescale we were hunter-gatherers, living only in small familial groups. People have changed a lot and we’ll continue to, there’s no reason to believe our current flaws are inescapable. That’s just defeatism and apathy
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.
I guess there’s a post for every lurker where they go ‘ok i’ll finally make an account so i can make a comment’ and for me it was a large body of people calling the ProtonMail founder a Nazi because he posted praise of Trumps pick for Assistant AG for the DoJ Antitrust Division that may actually take action on the big four tech companies to break up their monopolies. This is a guy and a business that I have no connection to other than using Proton for a few years now. However, I thought it was worthwile to post his words that had been declared by the vast majority of commenters to be utterly unnacceptable to the point of people uprooting themselves from Proton and swearing off the service.
Perhaps the famously left-leaning media source Medium are sock puppet shills too? Because they just came out with an article defending the guy also. https://archive.ph/xoleo (archive version to avoid the Medium paywall / ads).
I will not be responding to more messages calling me a sock puppet because the only way I could prove it to you people is to go back in time and make some posts about Pokemon or DeepSeek or some crap before I made a post about something important (the wild political polarization of our era that has everyone pitchforks-ready at all times).
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll check it out
I’ve messaged a mod on the News channel first to see if they can help, someone suggested to me that this could have even been an automatic moderation (since it was my first comment and it was long maybe?). The mod log is not clear as it’s obfuscated/private. If i still have no luck i’ll try their discord, thanks for the suggestion.
Thats fine, i get it was long. Apprecitate the advice. If it doesn’t get restored i will move on from @lemmy.world entirely tbh. I dont feel like i posted something incredibly challenging, and it certainly broke none of the rules on that comm - so i was quite surprised at the ban and deletion as a ‘welcome to lemmy’ after lurking for a year or so.
While I agree with you for the most part, actually none of that is the point of this post - the point was is it valid to delete my post as ‘spam’ and ban me.
A sock puppet account is a false account made for deceptive purposes - this is a flat mischaracterization of my account. What would be my deception? I made it clear I’m a proton user of many years, made it clear i’m posting my opinion, made it clear it’s my first post, and quoted from the source instead of going off on an extreme take… like, say, presuming the CEO to be a Nazi defender and profiteer because he posted a single comment to thank Trump for a cabinet appointment. A cabinet appointment btw that has been widely cautiously praised by left-wing progressives. Only ‘cautiously’ because it’s Trump. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-antitrust-agenda-nominees_n_6771d727e4b094f547727973
A broken clock is right twice a day - even Trump sometimes does things that are helpful. Probably by accident or because they align with some other goal he has - but good nonetheless. Go on though, continue the personal attacks for me having a perfectly valid opinion - without researching one of your own.
Removed by mod
Unfortunately they’re so stupid and egotistic that they’re giving it a red hot go anyway