-A few days ago, a moderator on Digital Art banned me for supposedly posting “furry” (anthropomorphic animal) art. My works are based on yokai characters (Japanese mythology), kemonomimi (humans with animal ears and tails), and beasts (normal and mythical animals). Nothing falls into the furry category, which is exclusively for anthropomorphic animals. And it should be clarified that I have been posting in that community for months without any warning or comment about my works. I tried to contact her through comments in another community she moderates (I barely use Lemmy to post, and I’m not going to download external apps to open chats just for this, plus I don’t speak English), but she decided to delete them and not speak to me.

(I won’t get into a discussion about this; if you don’t believe me, just look up the terms mentioned. Labeling everything as furry simply because it has an animal percentage is pure ignorance, and I’m fed up with the topic because I’ve explained and shown it a thousand times to some stubborn people. Please don’t try to convince me to use the word “furry” as something universal, because it’s NOT, and I know what I draw and what I don’t.)

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    It seems like I need to clear something up here as I have not seen any screenshots of the modlog that show which mod took actions against your content so here is one from https://phtn.app/modlog?user=23220995 where you can see who took action in the modlog:

    Here you can clearly see that I did in fact not take action against your posts on !digitalart@lemmy.world and only against your posts in !imaginarymerfolk@lemmy.dbzer0.com. I have maybe taken one action as a mod in the Digital Art community in my time as mod so I was never really an active mod of that community.

    And as a few people already mentioned: yes I meant that you can contact people through built-in direct messages here on Lemmy. And it’s really not hard to find, just click on the profile of a user and the button is right there:

    I hope this clears everything up.

    Edit: And the reason why I didn’t appeal the ban or didn’t take any further action is because I don’t want to be a mod in that community anyway and want nothing to do with this. I took like 1 minute to figure out what happened and just summarized it to you to make it clear why you were banned by someone else and then took action on the posts in my own community. And because I was the one who responded I’m now dragged through the mud. I find it horrible how I’m accused of being queerphobic/homophobic/transphobic by people without them knowing the full story.

    Edit2: Here are screenshots from the modlog to see my activity in that community and how I’ve tried to remove myself as mod multiple times:

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        She’s practically admitting she has the power to lift the ban, but she doesn’t want to. However, she keeps replying, justifying, and deflecting the issue with “it’s not my responsibility, but I still have the ban removal button” instead of simply doing the right thing or stopping making excuses and being honest about how she just insists my art infringes on something when it doesn’t.

        It’s an old trick to wash her hands of the matter.

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      See? Only one moderator has access to the modlog, but nobody believed me, lol.

      Anyway, that clarifies what I’ve been saying. There you can see the ban, which wasn’t months ago. Although, if it’s true that “there are errors in Lemmy” and my posts only disappeared a week ago, I can accept that explanation. That said, I didn’t accuse you of anything other than the Digital Art ban (the queerphobia and homophobia came from other people, and I’m not even interested in the community where I contacted you; I just went there to contact you and then left). And I don’t want to appeal it. I still insist that Lemmy’s direct messaging (not the apps I don’t want to download) isn’t secure, and the message itself says so. I also don’t know where to see a message if I receive one because there’s no chat icon. I don’t know if you think I’m new to social media because I’m not. I don’t need a tutorial, but if the platform is missing something essential, it’s obvious that anyone would take a shortcut like commenting on other sites. And because of how I had to resort to a “public statement” for someone to listen. Likewise, even if you don’t want to be a moderator, which is understandable, while you still are one you should listen to your users when they tell you that a sanction was unfair, because I already clarified, my uploaded content there isn’t furry, and the term isn’t an opinion, it’s a fact. As an artist, although you’re not obligated to understand or accept every aspect of art, you also can’t base a historical term (like what is and isn’t furry) on a personal opinion. Avoiding listening to me was, from my perspective and experiences with people like that, simply washing your hands of an issue that could have easily been resolved with a couple of correct actions. Being responsible isn’t about evading the issue, even if you don’t want to be contacted through other means. It doesn’t matter if they say (referring to both moderators and users of this thread) that I’m “the villain” (also because of the points system, they don’t deny my point) because the record only confirms what I said, and I’m also aware of what I did and didn’t do, just as I’m willing to accept if I made any mistakes, like blaming you (although only partially, as I said, you could appeal or try to talk even in the comments) or accepting that the fact that my posts disappeared a week after (not months ago) the ban, because platform errors happen (Lemmy is very unstable) and I’m not certain if that’s what happened or not.

      I doubt you’ll even consider lifting my ban; otherwise, you would have done it from the start. But whether you lift it or not, it’s clear your colleague (if it’s not an automated bot, though you’re also a moderator manually) doesn’t seem to like my art, and I don’t think I’m treated well there. It’s up to you whether you lift it, and then I’ll decide whether to stay or leave. This whole thing is ridiculous and could have ended with a simple discussion.

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        The ban was 3 weeks ago so you are correct that it wasn’t months ago but you can also see that your first post was removed 7 months ago. So you had plenty of time to notice that your art wasn’t welcome in the community.

        As for why I don’t want to have anything to do with it and won’t remove your ban is because as I said I didn’t want to mod this community any more and that decision was made by me about 1 month prior to you getting banned (as you can see in my screenshots) and I feel like it is not really my decision to unban you since it isn’t my community. I think you just have to accept that some people consider your art as furry art and that they don’t want to have it in their community. I’m sorry.

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          Basically, this is the “not my problem, even though I still have the moderation button” handbook. You admit I’m right about the timing (three weeks, not months), but then you use circular logic to justify that “your art isn’t welcome” based on a seven-month-old deletion that, again, stems from your personal opinion and not a technical definition. And as I said, I accept that if that time has passed and it was Lemmy’s mistake to keep showing my drawings even though they were “deleted,” I should be allowed to. Furthermore, you’re blaming me for something I didn’t know, because it’s not like I received notifications warning me of a violation. The public log shows the creation date and the reason for deletion, but it doesn’t provide any warning to someone new to the platform. I literally had to learn how the moderation log works because of accusations that “I’m a liar,” and ironically, I ended up learning about the Modlog, something the average Lemmy user doesn’t know and is left with only the public information, which is open to interpretation. Nor should they assume that users who aren’t familiar with all the functions, such as viewing their own public log, know everything. What your response implies is this: You admit the timing error, which I appreciate. But there’s a “It’s not my community” fallacy: You say it’s not your responsibility to lift the ban because “you no longer wanted to moderate,” but you’re still an active moderator enough to respond and review logs. It’s a complete contradiction: if you have the power to view the Modlog and respond, you have the power to correct an injustice. By saying “you have to accept that some people consider your art furry,” you’re admitting that the rules of that community aren’t based on facts, but on opinions. Ignoring the very history of art.

          But if you don’t want to lift the ban—because it’s clear you won’t, not because you lack the power, but simply because you don’t want to—then you’re not doing it. If you remove it, good for you. I assume you understood something about this whole circus (which wasn’t the goal; it was to get you to lift an unfair ban). Anything logical will do. I’ll decide in time whether to post there again or not; currently, I don’t feel like it, even without the ban. For me, it’s fine. With such poor moderation and prejudiced moderation based on opinions rather than facts, it’s not worth being there. It’s easier and more honest to admit that you clearly don’t want to reinstate me because of one of your opinions, than to keep making excuses. I have no problem admitting a mistake, or saying, “I think your art is garbage, and that’s why I won’t lift the ban.” Because I have no qualms about telling you that you’re just avoiding and dragging this out. After all, you’ll carry on as if nothing happened, and I’m the one who takes the flak from people who think I’m the problem, even though it rolls off my back once I see their attitudes, their racism, and their aversion to information. It’s not for nothing that I prefer to respond with memes in Spanish, because it’s impossible to reason with the majority in this thread anymore. I’ve already had my fill of headaches arguing with dirty, pseudo-expert walls. Now all I can do is read, knowing full well that this will all come to nothing, because you’re too lazy or you don’t want me there, and as I said, I only have one thing left to accept about this ridiculous problem: Not everyone is willing to reason. And I’ll just move on with my life.

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            What do you expect will happen if I unban you? Clearly the other mod doesn’t want your art in their community, so if you keep posting there they will just remove it again and ban you again. If you don’t post there again, why do you want to get unbanned? So in the end it doesn’t really matter what I do.

            Regarding the modlog: Everyone can view the modlog it is not restricted to mods. The view from my screenshot where you can view which mod removed what is just from a different frontend called “Photon”. I also just took a look at the modlog when I’m not logged in (with the Photon frontend and the default frontend) and it definitely shows the time when a mod action was taken not when the post or comment was created that the mod action was taken on.

            I feel like this whole thread is just because of language barriers and your misunderstandings of how things work and you pulled me into this drama for no reason since the mod you should be talking to is @3D@lemmy.world or @InfiniteSpaces@lemmy.world and not me.

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              The “Modlog” fallacy: You yourself admit that you use Photon to see the logs clearly. This confirms my point: Lemmy only shows what’s public to the average user, not what you control. Even I understand that simple explanation and see the error, because Photon isn’t for public use on the platform without being a moderator. Furthermore, you admit to having the power to unban someone the whole time, and you didn’t use it. You probably didn’t even mention that you got into trouble because of moderator X, and you didn’t tell that moderator about the issue, even though they’re active in the community, as I saw a moment ago. And since they’re only active in the community where I was banned, I can’t contact them through a comment; otherwise, I would.

              Confirmation of timing: You just confirmed that the logs show the time of the action (the ban), not the creation of the post. This proves I was right all along: the ban happened weeks ago. My confusion, which I already mentioned in my other comment, stemmed from the mistake of continuing to show my drawings and then disappearing.

              The gaslighting of the “misunderstanding”—that everything is a “language misunderstanding”—you continue to underestimate my knowledge, even the most basic and obvious, but you don’t take into account the fact that I research what you tell me. The misunderstanding was seeing my drawings untouched less than a week ago; the lack of definition and prejudices you have in art are not a “misunderstanding.” You impose it and don’t appeal to complaints. It’s a condescending way of saying, “It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that you don’t understand English and you got confused.”

              “If you’re going to come back, you’ll get banned; if you’re not going to come back, why do you want the unban?”

              The reality: It’s about cleaning up something I didn’t even do. The ban is an unfair stain based on a lack of understanding of an art concept that doesn’t apply to mine. Demanding an unban means demanding they acknowledge that the sanction was a technical and artistic error. It’s not just a whim; it’s about the dignity of defending my art and myself.

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                Go to https://phtn.app/ and login, everyone can use this.

                I don’t have any more words to try to explain myself and will retract myself from this conversation because it’s draining me mentally to absolutely zero.

                If you want acknowledgement that this was an error take it up with @3D@lemmy.world who was the mod who banned you, I’m out.

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                  That’s a “bureaucratic trap.” Sending me to an office you know is locked and whose key you have in your pocket. It’s an incredibly cynical move: someone offering a solution (“talk to them”) knowing full well that the platform doesn’t have a working direct messaging (DM) system, I’m not going to use external apps, and I can’t post in a community where I’m banned.

                  It’s the equivalent of telling me, “If you want me to put you in handcuffs, go talk to the guards on the other side of that locked door.” You’re literally the only one I could contact, and you ignored me, even though you could have told your “colleagues” that someone wants to communicate but can’t because of the ban. You’re the only one I contacted because you’re in communities I can visit. The other moderators are sitting pretty with an unfair warning that I never violated, and it’s their ignorance that caused this problem. “This is exhausting,” of course it’s exhausting, but you yourself keep dragging this out even though you still have the title of moderator. It’s incredibly ironic that you and the moderators who have the power to end everything with two clicks, complain of being tired in front of the person who has had to research, debate with 40 people and defend their artistic identity against a wall of ignorance for days. Do you think I didn’t get a headache a few days ago arguing with so many incompetent people who think they own a term they misuse and judge my work based on that ignorance? Everything could have been solved in two clicks, but no, they prefer to keep justifying their inability to listen to their users, instead of providing a real solution called listening without causing more problems.

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      “I find it horrible how I’m accused of being queerphobic/homophobic/transphobic by people without them knowing the full story.”

      you aren’t wrong. there’s quite a few individuals in this thread doing a good old fashioned witch hunt over furry art being removed.

      conflating it with homophobia/transphobia and applying labels to innocent individuals without first verifying facts. very creepy, imho.

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    The mod you talked to didn’t ban you according to your modlog.

    So far I was only able to recover these posts:

    spoiler

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      I read that comment before it disappeared, although I think he could have appealed the ban and she didn’t. What a waste to post there. (And partly this post that went nowhere, just people bothering).

      P.S: In Shinbone Alley, they’re normal cats; they don’t interact with humans like humans. Like Tom and Jerry. But in that case, I can somewhat justify the confusion.

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    The powertripping is baked into the rules, which is rather common for small niche communities, and a poor fit for general, broad categories. Like… ‘art’.

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    Very strange rules there.

    Traditional art is allowed, and the community is called “digital art.”

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    This is essentially an argument over what “furry” means.

    Obviously, your art means furry to the mod whether you like that or not. This you already knew though because the ban was the 7th action against you in that community.

    You can’t say you thought your work was still welcome there after 6 post removals in the previous 7 months. That’s just disingenuous.

    As for “I barely use Lemmy to post, and I’m not going to download external apps to open chats just for this, plus I don’t speak English”, this is just bullshit. You put the effort in to learn how to post, and did it in English. This seems a pathetic attempt to bolster how innocent you are trying to seem.

    It’s their community to do with as they please. I can see why someone may consider your art furry and why you say it isn’t. Regardless of that, it has been clear to you for 7 months that it wasn’t welcome in that community and you persisted in posting against their rules.

    YDI.

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      Hats the thing about attempting to do the same thing over and over expecting different results?

      Just open a new community OP. Calm it furry art and do your own thing. You can’t force other people to accept your own thing

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      First, I was never notified, and it was a week ago that I saw the deleted posts. Although I don’t have a screenshot of how much time passed, I don’t need to make a big deal out of something that “was fair,” and in this case, it wasn’t. That tactic of taking screenshots of deleted posts to say “we warned you for months” when the ban was only a week ago is cheap manipulation. By deleting the posts recently due to the ban, they create false “evidence” that they try to pass off as a long history of “disobedience.” It’s a way to justify their own incompetence and lack of artistic judgment. If the ban was a week ago, there are no “months” of warnings. They’re trying to rewrite the timeline to make it seem like I’m the “rebel” and you’re the “patient” ones, when in reality, you’re the ones who can’t distinguish a human figure from a furry. Furthermore, I realized something while being “new to Lemmy” that you either don’t or conveniently choose not to mention. The dates you show in your screenshot aren’t from the exact moment the post was deleted; they’re from the moment the post was made. Therefore, your “argument” that “they’ve been deleting them for months” is even more invalid. And I literally realized this by looking at your own deleted comments and posts. How ironic that a newbie foreigner would notice something so convenient, right? So yes, I’m still right that I was banned a week ago without any prior warning.

      Second, is this the same old issue of whether I post in English again? Seriously? Some of you seem to think only Americans post here. These sites are universal, and English is used for that purpose, whether you like it or not. I’m noticing a certain condescension regarding this issue, which isn’t even relevant to the case itself. Do you expect me to post in my language when many probably won’t translate it? What a ridiculous argument. The “you don’t know English and you still post” attack is pure xenophobia. On a global platform like Lemmy, using a translator to participate is perfectly valid. Using it as a weapon to invalidate your technical opinion about art is pathetic. Basically, they’re telling you: “You don’t have the right to defend your art if you don’t speak our language perfectly.”

      Third, believe me, I did want to contact the moderators, but as I said, messaging on this site doesn’t guarantee that my messages will reach them, and there isn’t even a chat section outside of other apps the site recommends, and I’m not going to register there. Or maybe it’s just my own inability to know where it is or how to use it. I’m not going to mess with something I don’t know.

      Fourth, I never said “I don’t know how to post,” read carefully, I wrote “I post on Lemmy and I’m leaving.” You can accuse me of whatever you want, but I didn’t break any rules. They never warned me because I never received any notifications, and that “they deleted it months ago” thing—so why did the posts disappear a week ago? Your accusation doesn’t make sense. I’ve literally been posting since October, and the few posts I published—I never received a single warning, nor did anyone even tell me, “We consider this furry” (even though it isn’t, under any circumstances). If I hadn’t posted my characters, I would have stopped posting, period. I would have posted something else or just left on my own. But if you think I’m such a bad user for defending my art against injustice, that’s your problem. I know what I did and what I didn’t do.

      Literally, the only furry thing is the TMNT fanart; the rest aren’t furries. But you guys don’t seem to get that. I’ve been polite, I’ve been patient, but calling me a liar is a whole other level for you. And on top of that, you’re being condescending about the language, as if posting in English, Spanish, Italian, French, or whatever is important. What a way to deflect the issue and make me look like a problem for something you did without even telling me.

      Having said all that, because I don’t plan to continue a fight I didn’t start, but rather wanted to end before it became a public circus due to your incompetence. If I’m the villain in your story, fine, I’m not going to keep justifying the obvious; I’ve already made everything crystal clear.

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        Yeah, lemmy simply doesn’t notify you when a mod takes action against your posts or comments, and it’s not always clear in indicating what has been deleted or not to the user who posted it. It’s a pretty frustrating issue with the software/system.

        If the mod doesn’t DM you, or make a comment on the post before they remove it, you won’t be notified.

        But the mod logs are time stamped based off when the action was taken. You can look through the code yourself, or I can share a screenshot of multiple mod actions over the course of a few hours against a single post that all have different time stamps (based off the time each action was taken) rather than all having a single timestamp of when the post was made.

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        Don’t bother trying to explain yourself to these people, anyone who’s trying to justify such severe actions towards someone for furry art or being a furry is already walking a fine line. As I or others have said, anti-furry sentiment is very often a smokescreen for queerphobia, and unfortunately this community has the highest counts of queerphobia, considering its purpose and what it’s about.

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          I know, when you explain once, it’s fine, twice if you’re generous, but if they ask for three explanations, it’s because the other person is stupid.

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            You’re responding to multiple people as if they are a single person. I don’t think it’s the multiple people asking you the same thing at the same time that are the problem here.

            You can in fact, answer once and just link your other response if it’s so damn frustrating.

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      People just want to hate. My stuff isn’t even furry, and they treat it like I posted something inappropriate. I’ve stopped getting angry and just respond with mockery.

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    Even for a rule violation an immediate permaban for a regular poster is just egregious. PTB

    EDIT: Seems like we didn’t have the full picture here and the user in question has been told multiple times that the mods considers their art “furry art”. I’m not going to judge whether the rule against furry art is good or not, but I withdraw my PTB judgment because the op was warned after all.

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      100% agree. First offense permaban is for things like spam bots or egregious rule breaking.

      People who otherwise participate in the community should be treated with moderation.

      I’m not getting into the furry vs anthropomorphic animal debate, that’s not my field.

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        Are we certain this is first offense? The mod logs screenshotted in a few places in this thread show removals over months.

        OP insists that’s because it’s showing the date the posts were made, and not the timestamp of the mod action, but that’s definitively not how the modlogs work. I can bring up some screenshots of mods taking multiple actions against a doxxing post to demonstrate if needed (long story, someone accused me of doxxing them because it happened while we were arguing and I took the time to break down the timeline of events to show it made no sense to be me).

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      Technically and literally I didn’t infringe on anything because it’s not furry-related. What she creates without knowing what she’s banning is another matter entirely.

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    They’re trying to force things on me, lies, wow, what a lovely place Lemmy is! I appreciate those who offer me support, even those who are ambiguous. Unfortunately, there are many people who seem allergic to research and don’t understand that my art went months without being banned. The moderation dates are from when the post was published, and I know this because, unlike some, I realized the ban happened a week ago, and before that, my drawings remained untouched because they always reappeared. It doesn’t even matter anymore whether I believe it or not; the outcome isn’t going to change, and I’ll continue with this unfair ban. But at least I defended myself. That art community is a mess, and many of the comments only reinforce the idiocy of all this; they always turn a plea for help into a circus. Grow up! It’s all a race to see who’s right instead of reasoning. I’ve been on the internet long enough to know who’s an idiot and who isn’t. This will be my last comment on the subject because they are truly exhausting, and I can be sure that I told the truth.

    Como decimos nosotros en estas situaciones: Cállense gringos.

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      I think maybe this community needs a rule against appeal to authority, to try and get people to focus on whether the actions are justified from a moral and practical standpoint instead of just “They own the community and have the right to do it, YDI” or “It’s in the rules and you didn’t follow it, YDI” which could be the answer to any action posted here. We’re not trying to enforce the Reddit mod code of conduct on Lemmy, we’re trying to improve the community by calling out mod actions that are morally or practically unjustified.

      Although that might be hard to enforce so I can understand why it wasn’t done. People can be very subtle and sound reasonable, even if they’re just appealing to authority blindly.

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        There’s no rule preventing people judging yptb posts morally or “legally”. People routinely do it.

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    I think Tywèle having prejudice against people she considers furries is a red flag in my book maybe she didn’t start that rule but she’s clearly enforcing it with prejudice. Something good to keep in mind, maybe she didn’t know it but anti-furry sentiment is frequently used as a smoke screen to cover up queerphobia. I can’t say that she’s using it for that, but anti-furry sentiment has a bad reputation for a reason. And she already was giving me bad vibes before.

    Also I did very recently create a new Digital Art community on Pawb.social !digitalart@pawb.social despite being on pawb.social it’s not exclusively a furry art community, it is a general purpose digital art community that people like you can post your art in, without having to worry about assholes like the mod who banned you.

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        Also transphobia too. A lot of anti-furry people who’ve attacked me as of late were also being extremely transphobic. I’ve also seen it used that way in other places, like on Reddit.

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          🫡 i support our draconic troops and their struggle against transphobes like pugjesus. In the fight against transphobia I’m gonna stand on the side that has the dragons

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      i think its just that once you let furry artists start posting in an art community, it tends to get flooded with mostly furry art.

      an exclusion doesn’t necessarily mean prejudice. in this case it might just be to prevent it becoming only furry art.

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        i think its just that once you let furry artists start posting in an art community, it tends to get flooded with mostly furry art.

        This is a slippery slope fallacy and a pretty bad one at that considering just how few furries there are on the Lemmy side of the fediverse as a whole.

        an exclusion doesn’t necessarily mean prejudice. in this case it might just be to prevent it becoming only furry art.

        They gave the person a permanent ban over art that isn’t even furry art, their behavior and responses to the OP do seem prejudiced. If they had given a temporary ban this would be different but seeing as they didn’t, and seeing that they never shared any reasoning for why they came up with these rules, I think your comment is giving them both more charitability than they deserve. Especially considering, anti-furry sentiment is very often used as a smokescreen for homophobic and even transphobic rhetoric.

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          the OP had 6 posts removed previously. this is not exactly an innocent first time occurrence.

          also, you and I and the mod in question have different opinions on what is and isn’t “furry art”. so its really just up to the mod to decide what that is.

          also not everything has to be some cry from the oppressed. its a piece of furry art that got removed. its possible to just… not want furry art in your instance. no homophobia, no transphobia, no phobiaphobia, just please no furry art.

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    I’m sorry but “people with animal ears and tails” is furry related. I like furry shit so I’m not trying to argue. But 98% percent of people would call that furry or furry adjacent even if they aren’t fully anthropomorphic characters.

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      Even other furfags have more common sense than you OP. Stop posting furfag shit! None of us wants to see it!

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        You should shut the fuck up and get off the platform. I dont even care if this is sarcasm thats fucked up to say. I can’t believe you would comment that shit anywhere.

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    The rule is “furry or anthro related”. Even if your art isn’t strictly furry, from the one or two I see in your post history, it certainly has the same vibe as that genre so I’d call it “related”. Doesn’t really seem like a power trip, especially since they recommended other communities. I don’t see that they acted out of prejudice or spite from your explanation.

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      I’d been posting stuff about a demon and a woman with wolf ears and a tail for months, not furries. There was never a single comment from the moderators about it, and like I said, it’s not furry.

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    Tywele isn’t the mod who banned you, or removed your posts.

    I’m not going to download external apps to open chats just for this

    Lemmy has direct messages built in, she likely meant this.

    Looking through the images themselves, I’d personally consider them furry except the last one that got you banned, so PTB I suppose.

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    So many furfags here sticking up for OP. YDI. People don’t want to look at disgusting furry porn every day and so many artists don’t want to be associated with furry porn. Take your furry porn and stick t up your furfag ass!