I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on [email protected] to thank someone for a recipe that looked good, and found out I had been banned.

Odd, considering I hadn’t posted to that sub at any point in the past. I checked the modlog to find that “Mod” had banned a bunch of people citing “Rule 5.”

Their Rule 5 states: Bad-faith carnist rhetoric & anti-veganism are not allowed, as this is not a space to debate the merits of veganism. Anyone is welcome here, however, and so good-faith efforts to ask questions about veganism may be given their own weekly stickied post in the future (see current stickied discussion).

I (and hundreds of others) seemingly broke rule 5 of this community without ever posting there. What is going on?

And my apologies if this isn’t the place for this, but I had no idea where else to post the question.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    532·
    2 months ago

    From what I’ve been told there is a rift between mods of the community.

    I had the same issue as you and contacted the mod team no understand how I violated rule 5. One of the mods confirmed I hadn’t violated rule 5 and unbanned me. I was then immediately rebanned again by the original mod.

    There was another conversation about it on /c/unpopularopinion and it looks like people were getting banned simply for downvoting one of the mods.

    • Ace T'Ken@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      222·
      2 months ago

      I’m kinda dumbfounded. I’ve only posted (or commented) once in the past nine days. The one that happened to be at a similar time was this comedy one on a completely different Community on a different instance for a goofy anime question. Did… did I really just get banned from talking to vegans for… not liking anime?

      This might be peak stupid internet if so.

      • ccunning@lemmy.world
        171·
        2 months ago

        My only comment in the community was a suggestion that someone reformat their post to make it more legible ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        I totally get what you’re feeling.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      192·
      2 months ago

      One can only hope that mismanaged communities will be outgrown by better ones when enough people simply get together somewhere else.

      Banning your good faith readers is a fast path to irrelevancy.