I have been permanently banned for staying on topic!?

Here is the offending comment:
It did not violate any community rules. Reddit doesn't make any sense.
Update: they have reversed the ban because rule 9 did not show up on old reddit. Despite the fact the 9 rules show up on new reddit and mobile.
- Reddit makes perfect sense: having you there is no longer profitable.
  Fuck them to be honest..
- Damn, they are probably going to ban me next
  
  We're on thin ice! After this latest exodus, I think reddit realizes how dangerous lemmy is becoming since they had to roll the bans back immediately
  
  But you’re so friendly though.
  
  Hope not, your doing good work!
- An admin banned you and disguised it as a ban from mods.
  (Or perhaps a mod is secretly just an admin / bootlicker for the admins)
  
  I got banned for rule 9 according to the person who banned me yet the community only has 4 rules 🤨
  
  What makes you think it was an Admin and not just a mod of the group?
- We are in the information war against corporate regime...
  It is silly to expect for them to let us win.
  Revolution will not be televised but people in the know, know
- Considering the sub in question is /r/redditalternatives, you posted this in a thread about alternative communities on lemmy, and there's a reply to your comment which promotes more lemmy (and mbin) instances that isn't removed... I really really doubt the reason for the ban was you mentioning Lemmy. That would be very inconsistent of the mods, and actually suggest a vendetta against you personally rather than lemmy.
  Did you reply to the message asking what rule you broke? Like the ban message instructs you to? Might have also been an accidential ban.
  It did not violate any community rules. Reddit doesn't make any sense.
  Sadly, sidebar rules on Old Reddit aren't real and so can't be relied upon. There are in fact more than just four rules. There's nine of them.
  That said, even with the expanded list of rules I can't find any that might apply. Unless their automoderator is so heavily sensitive to non-civility that the very word "cuss" is seen as bad language. Which I very much doubt. It does mention that linking to websites containing malware leads to an immediate permaban, but I doubt that's the case here?
- You broke rule 1. You didn't include an elevator pitch.
  
  But is a perma ban justified for that?

I got permanently banned on both my accounts from the entire site for "violating reddit TOS".
When I submitted my appeal asking what I was banned for they immediately responded saying that my appeal was denied, but still never told me what rule I apparently broke.
10+ year old account with hundreds of thousands of post and comment karma. I was top commenter on several large subs. I had helped tons of people with things over the years in DMs. All gone in an instant because one admin decided to go on a little power trip. And there is of course zero recourse as the user. You're just gone.
Reddit has been a shit hole for a long time now.
- Is that subreddit just kept around as a honeypot?
  
  Certainly has the vibes of something like when they finally caught the pirate bay guy and then the FBI or whoever it was kept the site up just to track users who didn't get the memo that it was compromised.
  
  I can’t think of a better reason
  
  Reminds me of Something Awful's lolocaust
- Gotta ban you before you delete your comments
- At least you didn't lose anything of value
  
  Eh. I kinda miss the more specific subs that don't exist here. Mostly for specific video games or software. I also enjoyed answering the many many questions people would ask on certain subs. Often times it led to people DMing me and I enjoyed those conversations. Especially the ones where I helped someone get over something or work though something. Idk I like helping people.
  And less important....the porn account had years and years of fantastic and specific things I had found over the years on there. Lemmy's porn library is miniscule by comparison.
- I mentioned it in this group before - was just like you. 10 years. 3Million in Karma. Perm Banned. After 2 years of being banned I appealed and was reinstated.
  
  You waiting for 2 years to appeal or it took them w years to reinstate your account? Lol

I’m surprised they even allow such a subreddit to exist
- Well... people keeps mentioning alternative with like less than 100 users, and also spreading what I call the "Tankie Dev FUD" (as if the devs have any control of any instance besides lemmygrad and lemmy.ml). So its probably a good way to seem neutral, while causing confusion on where to migrate and splinter the migration.
  (Plus, with all the dissent gone, they could just go ahead and do anything with zero resistance)
  
  Just counter with Mbin lol
  
  that sub is ass they suggest everything but lemmy and its all unusable with no userbase
- Honey pot?

Welcome to the club
I politely asked a mod about a subreddit rule and got a sitewide banhammer for harassing a mod
I appealed a few weeks ago and they never responded
Their system won't let me send another appeal because it says I've already sent one
I had been on reddit for over 10 years, the whole thing is absolutely wild to me
I was livid until I found Lemmy, I much prefer this over reddit. It feels like old reddit and I even got my 3rd party app back!
- Welcome!
  Anyway... So have you heard about Linux?
  
  !linux@programming.dev is a mandatory sub 🐧😎😉
- Don't appeal directly from your account. If you do a search you will find a general appeal link. Then you fill in your user name and make your appeal

Has anyone tried promoting alternatives via images? Obviously mods can still see them and hand out bans, but bots can't automatically detect them if they're deep fried enough.
- Yes, cant find the post, but someone posted the image from the GlobalSwitchDay post onto reddit and it got removed and a warning or temp ban or something:
  Fediverse alternatives iamge
- There is one on !growthefediverse@slrpnk.net
- Love it!

!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Haha...
  YDI✊
  
  I always deserve it 🥴

Huh, pretty sure the mods do this on purpose. I mass edited every single comment of my account (roughly 6 years of shitposting) into a promotion for Lemmy.
Just checked it out. Nothing happened. Accept one mod from 40kLore who saw it, banned me and asked me to dm him if I’m not a bot.

Whats a “reddit”?
- The site this community is about. 🤔
  
  Ohhhhhhh oh right. That's the Elmo Musk one?

Getting suspended or banned for almost saying nothing is not new on reddit.
- It a right of passage for any self respecting shit poster...
  If you are towing the regime lines, you are a bootlicker.
  
  Getting suspended on reddit is the reason I came to Lemmy.

Probably just a bug. /s

Moderation shouldn't be a thing. I miss Usenet kill files. Let users moderate for themselves.
- That's called Peer to Peer networks.
  P2P will require users to store the data itself.
  Which means, if images are also allowed, CSAM will be an issue.
  Most "normies" (for lack of a better term) will just delete the app/program if CSAM got on their local copy of the content. Like who wants risking jailtime for social media / forum?
  Brair is a P2P communication app, and its "Forum" feature does not allow images, which I suspect is because the Developer didn't want CSAM to become a problem, and can't think of a moderation solution (it currently does not have any moderation tools, the public Briar forums are a true "Free Speech" place, theres nothing to stop hate speech there, even racism, but luckily, Briar is so small/niche that I haven't see such comments yet)
  So if we want P2P"Reddit-like" platform to share memes, such platforms need a moderation feature, perhaps a group of people appointed to view and mark images as CSAM via consensus voting and prevent it from spreading throught the network.

Anyone with an account have a view of the mod list? How many mods were added in the last year?
- Your comment reminded me of something. After they finally unbanned me I went to see what was up in some of my favorite groups. I went to the mod list and literally half of them, though still listed, were permanently banned. Why are they banning the people working for free for them?

Reddit admins/mods are garbage

Do they still hand out temp bans for upvoting spicy leftwing content?