Banned from politics

Can someone please lift my ban on the politics board? It’s been over six months now, seriously.

It’s simply not happening. Everyone who weighed in was explicitly against it.
Just to clarify a few things... Gaining partial privileges is notoriously difficult (especially on the Politics board), but when someone actually manages to earn them, we are willing to consider lifting restrictions only if you can convince us that the issues leading to them were part of a past phase. Often, we realize we were being naive and everything just ends up spinning in circles again, but regardless, whenever we think there's a genuine chance for change, we’re open to trying. In your case, that opportunity doesn't exist. Not only are you making zero attempt in this request to claim you'll write differently, but furthermore, based on your previous posts on the General board, your activity on Politics via your burner account, and your time over at Alternative, we know you believe your conspiracy theories are somehow protecting and spreading the truth. On the other hand, you have a crowd of medically trained professionals persistently debunking you point by point (whom you simply ignore while looping through the same arguments indefinitely), yet you view the moderators as censors, brainwashed puppets, or agents for Big Pharma, rather than people simply doing their jobs.
No thanks, the restrictions stay.

What’s with all this drama over the moderator board and the alternative crowd? I got slapped with a ban on the vaccine thread, which honestly had nothing to do with actual American politics. Is this ban for life or what? I don't get why everyone is getting so worked up in the replies. Can someone actually unbiased take a look at my appeal?
Is there any way to get unbanned if I just stay away from the vaccine topics entirely?

Casey King59 said:I’ve been kicked out of the politics section. Does anyone know how long this lasts? And why? Why were all my posts deleted? You claim I’m presenting inaccurate data regarding vaccines, which simply isn't true. I am citing studies, just like everyone else on the topic, yet for some reason—according to you—these are considered false medical evidence, while anything from the pro-vax crowd is accepted. Are the moderators actually qualified enough to make such judgments? It feels like total censorship against skeptics, which doesn't reflect well on this site.

Casey King59 said:I would like to file an appeal because this ban is completely unjust. We were discussing vaccines, and every single one of my links was allegedly medically unfounded, whereas everything from the pro-vaccination side was deemed legitimate. 🙄Are the moderators supposed to be MDs to reach these conclusions? It seems to me that the moderators should maintain a more open mind, because right now, it leaves the impression of a heavy-handed purge of certain viewpoints.

Casey King59 said:Did anyone see the sky over San Francisco yesterday? F***ing incredible. Streaked with color everywhere.
A bit off-topic, but I’ve been banned from the politics subforum. They wiped all my previous posts too. 😂Apparently, I’ve become a threat to the establishment, haha.

Casey King59 said:That part makes sense, but I am appealing to a higher authority (the Supreme Court of this site, 😉) because I believe the moderators and super-moderators in politics are biased. Furthermore, I would like an answer to my question: why were all my posts in the thread about the "living wall" deleted, given that I wasn't even banned there? Perhaps I spoke too much about the corruption within the banking system. Surely JPMorgan Chase isn't funding this forum? If they are, then the scrubbing of my posts would finally make sense. lol
I don't quite understand how the appeals process works here, but I would truly appreciate a response from a higher level (from what I can gather, that would be the Admin). Thank you in advance.🙂

Casey King59 said:Because of my posts regarding vaccination, I’ve been slapped with a permanent ban on the politics board.
Apparently, according to the moderators, every single link I shared lacked medical merit—while, I suppose, everything posted by pro-vaxxers was beyond reproach. This is despite the fact that I consistently cited global experts and legitimate research studies. It seems the intense international debate surrounding the benefits and risks of vaccines holds no weight here, as our moderators clearly consider themselves more authoritative on the subject than world-renowned physicians.
To put it bluntly, impartiality appears to be a foreign concept to this politics section; there is an obvious push for state-sanctioned pro-vaccination rhetoric by the political moderators.
I noticed similar patterns during the discussion about the Living Wall, but this has truly crossed a line.
Furthermore, I should mention that over a hundred of my posts in the Living Wall thread were deleted.
The conclusion? They are nothing more than regime players.
I would ask someone higher up the hierarchical ladder—ideally someone with an open mind—to provide an answer.

To summarize.
It seems anyone else participating in the vaccine discussions who dared to refute those claims sentence by sentence was deemed part of some conspiracy. In this view, all mods and super-mods are censors acting in collusion, and the issue lies in everything except your own conspiracy theories. As for whether any moderator from the politics section might step forward, let me tell you: those who have responded made themselves very clear, and the answer is no.

And just for the public record, should anyone else happen to read this: you wrote a total of 220 posts across both Living Wall threads, and only 7 of them were actually deleted.

I don't see why my perfectly reasonable take is being labeled as "outbursts." And let's be real, calling something a "conspiracy theory" is just a tired way to dodge actual arguments. If I may offer one tiny bit of advice: maybe the politics moderators could chill out a little and stop banning people for every little thing? This isn't some prestigious scientific journal; it's just a random online forum. I get that you want to look busy, but this is getting ridiculous. Half my posts have a bit of humor in them too—clearly misunderstood, apparently—but hey, that's just who I am. Anyway, is this politics ban for life? My previous appeals suggested it was only for a few months, telling me to check back after the New Year (if I recall correctly)... but whatever. Peace out.

A partial ban is essentially permanent. We tell our users they can at least wait six months before requesting to have it lifted. That doesn't mean it gets removed automatically or even if they ask... It’s effectively the same penalty as a full site ban, just applied to a specific PDF.