Got banned from fedora discord a while ago

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Hey

I got banned from Fedora Discord quite a while ago, apparently a permaban.

Long story short, I was just chatting with a fellow member about how we disagree about some of GNOMEs design philosophies but apparently we were doing that in the wrong channel or something. I for some reason got muted by a mod (felt like a little child at that moment, like “shut up, I’,m the stronger one”). So I wrote directly to the mod to confront him what the heck of a communication culture that is and that’s apparently what got me perma-banned.

I understand, writing in the wrong channel should be avoided but it was just an innocent soon to end conversation and nobody was being disturbed or interfered with. Also, IIRC, it was some kind of a “General” channel, so not even completely wrong to chat there. It seemed to me, that the mod just didn’t like that we were disliking GNOME, for some reason.

ANYWAY, TLDR - I personally think, that a permaban is a little bit exaggerated for an offense like that and I was wondering whether there are any steps or things that can be done or people who can be contacted to maybe have the ban deleted. I signed up to the Fedora Discord when I started using it around two years ago and it is still my main desktop distribution.

Thx

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I’m not familiar with the details of your situation, but my suggestion would be to let some time pass (around one month might be about right), then contact a different mod and ask if you can be reinstated if you agree to avoid that subject. There is a list of moderators here:

Good luck. :slightly_smiling_face:

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That sux. When mods abuse their power it is very uncomfortable for the community. Maybe they just had a bad day - I don’t know.

I’m not sure the Discord channel is an official Fedora channel. As such I don’t think we can intervene.

We have a great community on Matrix - chat.fedoraproject.org

Drop by there, we would welcome you.

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I think it has been at least a year since that happened :slight_smile:

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At least it says “Official Fedora Discord”…

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If it’s discord.gg/fedora then follow the link glb posted and reach out to the owner. Looks like she works at RedHat and is unlikely to have banned you for the reasons you have stated.

If it’s another channel, it is not official.
Feel free to name the channel.

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Moderator abuse
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Yes, it is discord.gg/fedora. I already reached out to Rhea and am hoping for a response :slight_smile: Many thanks!

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Hi, to be clear I’m not with RH anymore and even then Discord and RH were two unrelated things :slight_smile:

And yes it was a rule of 3 - warning, mute, ban - and as it was something like 2 years ago I think that we can reverse it.

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Thanks for the update and nice to meet you.
It was the red hat you see :wink:

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Thank you, I was really shocked when I discovered that I must’ve been banned permanently. It’s not like I’ve done anything offensive or harmful against the community or anything illegal.

As I already admitted to you via email, I might have changed my tone towards the mod a bit, but only after I truly felt mistreated and I hope it is still ok to think that this was an iteration of mod abuse at least to a certain degree.

I can’t even fully remember all the details but I don’t think I had said anything which would have justified a de facto permaban… :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

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Hi, should joining the server be working again? It still doesn’t work for me…

I can wait, just wanted to make sure the correct ban is being lifted.

Thx