YDI, rules like that exist for a reason. People in charge of communities don't want hostile people attacking others or starting fights with people.

Not the friendliest comment given the general assumption of the community that people are largely posting things they have cooked, but not ban worthy.

They were banned for saying "ah yes a rotting corpse"?

Thats a bit precious to ban someone for a snide coment like that. Applied equally there must be many snide comments in other topics, such as the US GOP or to Marxist Leninists, that should be banned on Lemmyworld.

I'm surprised at the way the votes have gone on this one.

Edit: Why not just remove the offending comment? Was the rest of their behaviour so atrocious?

like you’re the one who’s being oppressed.

Who is oppressing you, exactly? Who’s forcing you to eat meat, and denying you the choice of what foods you want to eat? Please tell us where the sausage gulag is that you’re being held in so we can liberate you!

Edit to add: Those ribs look fucking amazing, if I do say so myself.

This is YDI.

Not for calling a dead thing a corpse, but because of your second comment.

When a community has a kindness/civility rule, we're all expected to follow it, no matter how strong our beliefs.

And, tbh, even if a community doesn't have a listed rule for civility, it really should be the default behavior anyway. Not that I can claim to always err on the side of niceness, gods know I'm an asshole. But when I'm an asshole and I get banned, I deserved it.

Civility isn't just not insulting someone. It's about trying to remember the human.

However! Had I been the mod in question, I'd also have banned the other user for being an asshole to you in the first place.

Extremism is always bad even for noble causes

You knew where you were posting. Their reply sucked by so did your comment, which wasn't kind.

In my experience, the best way to get people to think about their diets is to show them good vegan food because the hungry mind has no rationality. You're trying to slap a steak away from someone who's salivating. Show them a blackbean burger or quinoa shepherd's pie or tempeh breakfast wrap instead.

I mean they were right.

Just a tip for the future, if you want to sell veganism to people, soapboxing under a FoodPorn post of some barbecued ribs trying to argue that the picture is gore is not an effective way of doing it.

YDI.

I don't think you're making much sense in the reply there, but it shouldn't be a kindness issue, yeah.
The other person also was not banned.
I have to assume it was not about that reply at all but rather the initial comment.

Which yes, given the context, is quite inappropriate you got to realize.
Going to someones stuff they care about and calling it a technically correct but off-putting/controversial description is not nice. Either you are trying to ruin it for everyone there, or trying to bring an unwanted discussion into the post.

1. BE KIND
   Food should bring people together, not tear them apart. Think of the human on the other side of the screen, and don’t troll, harass, engage in bigotry, or otherwise make others uncomfortable with your words.

You should have easily been able to predict you would make people feel uncomfortable, writing "Ah yes, a corpse, how apetizing" on stuff clearly viewed and intended by the poster as food not gore.

You didn't say anything untrue, which was the problem. People don't want to challenge their cognitive dissonance and just want to share things they think look tasty on that sub. Society at large has agreed murder is fine if the victim is tasty, so other animals' corpses are exempt from most animal abuse rules.