The most insulting part was one of the mods last messages towards me was that they were doing it for MY "wellbeing" as if I can't handle reading mean words on a screen, before said mod unadded and ghosted me (over a year ago so I don't have access to dms or remember which mod)
There are no places except the official deadlock discord server to find LFGs reliably
I was banned because I had caught the ire of like 20 transphobic users, one of the last messages I saw before being banned was "ban the tr***", I had already had several mods on my friends list at this point...
Unfortunately, the in-game ban system is not intended to directly punish you, but to ensure the quality of games for other players, so I don't think temporary bans are going to be overturned for any reason
I also have a pretty vested interest in joining more teams once the game releases, and not being allowed in the discord is going to be a pretty big hindrance upon that
I know I'm likely not going to get anything accomplished because there are hundreds of posts on here claiming their ban was unjustified when it was, in actuality, quite justified, but I think my case is genuinely unique.
I was banned in the midst of a harassment campaign against myself (spanning across multiple servers, incited by myself reporting SA threats to a manager for a team I wanted to join) due to what the mods perceived as feeding the trolls and removed me for "my own sake", but one of the last...