So death threats are a 7 day ban, but misogynistic comment on an entirely different sub is a permanent ban?

So I'm not 100% sure this is the right sub for this but I couldn't really find another sort of mod abuse sub that had actual users. I recognize that I am most certainly an asshole in this situation, but I got banned Fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com for a misogynistic comment I left on a completely different sub.

imogen_underscore in that same thread made multiple death threats against me and has only received a 7 day ban. So I want to be clear here that in their eyes a misogynistic comment left on an entirely different sub is WORSE than death threats left in your own sub?

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This is the the death threat, btw:
bro I'm literally putting a curse on you rn. you're going to die soon
Damn, I wonder why misogyny got a longer ban than that. /s
- That was just one of them. They had one or two other ones. One was hoping I got hit by a bus and the other was suffocating I think? I might have that one mixed up for something else.
  
  So she did, I'll admit I missed those ones. Still, you have this still up on you account, undeleted, so I'd say YDI:
  And I would feel fairly confident that the commenter was a woman because attacking someones personality (that they don’t know at all) is typically done by women. If they don’t like something you said they tend to tell you that you have a crap personality or a tiny dick.
  
  You literally posted a screenshot with its pronouns, why do you have to misgender her?

Death threats are a heat-of-the-moment infraction, people don't usually mean it.
In contrast, misogyny reveals a deeply flawed character of the commenter, that makes them incompatible with participation in the community.
- Death threats even in the heat of the moment are at best legally a grey area and could be seen as a felony.
  Being a dick or a clown is 100% legal
  
  Appeals to Authority fallacy
  Consider the two following statements:
  "[Insert Racial Group] people should not be allowed to exist, they are inferior beings. They should be sterilized so these filthy roaches stop procreating."
  "If these health insurance CEOs keep denying claims, I'm gonna to their place and shoot them"
  The first one is protected free speech in the USA.
  Thw second one is potentially an illegal threat.
  But which commenter is a worse person? Which one is more deserving of a ban?
- That is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've read today.
  
  And that is why you'll never fucking get it and stay banned
  
  Impossible, you presumably read this before you posted it, so that can't be true.

It was the same mod that did both bans?
- It is. (i'm a mod of the community, but i only removed comments in that thread) tbh i'm not sure what blaze's thought process was here so i'll ask him and see what he thinks. Personally i would've just banned them all for a week.
- You'll have to forgive my lack of Lemmy knowledge idk how to see which mod issues the bans.
  
  If it was not the same mod then it really does not fit here.

wat da actual frickity fuck

Death threats against somebody the hive mind don't like are acceptable
That's just human nature for ya.

Have you ever been to Reddit? Surely have. And most probably you're here because of Reddit's moderators are completely crazy. Well, moderators here are completely the same. They are just fewer and more lazy.
Just make another account if that community is really important for you.
- Nah I don't give a shit about the community I am/was just flabbergasted that they rate a misogynistic comment as worse than death threats.
  That's just insane.
  
  If I was a woman I could see how online misogyny would affect me in a real way, being unable to participate in and feel welcome in communities day to day.
  An anonymous flame war death threat does not actually materially affect someone, unless there's some reason to think it's serious, the odds of which are negligible.
  No one's saying actual murder is less bad than misogyny, for fucks sake.

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