I tend to browse /All and by New on Lemmy. I went to respond on a thread on !vegan@lemmy.world 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.

  • Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You know what? Even with missing the content, I think your statement is fair. I’ve got a sore spot for using fallacies and disagree with your arguments against the reasons for a vegan diet, but you seem genuine in your motives. I apologize for calling you a nugget head.

    • Ace T'Ken@lemmy.caOP
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      2 months ago

      I legitimately appreciate that.

      As an aside, it’s odd how much was purged from this thread. Not just deleted, but straight up purged so it doesn’t show in the modlogs. I don’t think I’ve seen that done on my instance outside of the illegal stuff. Is that normal here on .world?

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        2 months ago

        I don’t read comments often enough to know what’s normal. The only good reason I can think of is anti-bot/anti-spam measures and even then it’s a bit strange. How do you know they were purged?