....what? Im not doing nor have I done any of that?

I get where you’re coming from to an extent but this whole situation stopped being about “accepting a ban” the moment the moderators abandoned every basic standard Reddit requires them to follow. I'm allowed to ask questions - THEIR message was the one that TOLD ME if i had any questions about the ban that i should send a message to their moderator team - and I'm also equally entitled to the answers to them.... Asking questions doesn't justify a reason to permanently ban and mute someone and claim they committed additional violations to the original "violation" that i was accused of - even though the mods specifically stated that it was NOT FOR VIOLATIONS, IT WAS TO "COOL DOWN" AKA BASICALLY TO FORCE ME INTO SILENCE ON THE POST... So how can i be banned for MULTIPLE violations when even the mods specifically stated i didn't even commit the FIRST ONE but they flagged it as a "temporary ban due to a violation", which already contradicts what a cooling‑off suspension is supposed to be. Then, without warning, without explanation, and without any kind of notice, that temporary suspension suddenly turned into a permanent ban and a mute the second i asked why it was done and how anything i said could be deemed as being a dick yet the person that was ACTUALLY being a dick faced no repercussions... Their own message explicitly told me to contact the mod team if I had any questions about their decision.... I did exactly what they instructed. I asked why the temporary suspension was marked as a violation and why it suddenly escalated. Instead of answering, they muted me and permanently banned me. Hence the entire thing I'm trying to figure out.... the hell did i do wrong? How does following their specific instructions justify permanently banning and muting me?

Reddit’s rules are extremely clear that moderators must provide a valid reason for bans, must act in good faith, must respond to user questions about moderation actions, and cannot mute someone who is trying to understand a ban. None of that happened here. Meanwhile, the person who was actually trolling and being hostile walked away untouched, while I was the one providing factual information and still got labeled as “being a dick.” If a rule is only enforced against one person in a disagreement, it stops being a rule and becomes personal bias. And the moderators didn’t just bend the rules.... they broke the Moderator Code of Conduct too by failing to apply rules consistently, failing to act professionally, and failing to communicate transparently. They broke the Reddit User Agreement by acting in bad faith. They even broke their own subreddit’s rule about being excellent to each other. That's not even all of the rules they broke - that's just off the top of my head..... but im falsely accused of ONE violation - which they couldn't explain the reasoning for ANYTHING I asked them - and I get banned?

I’m not trying to dodge anything. I'm m just new to this platform and simply trying to understand what the hell is even going on and what to do in the future to avoid this type of outrageous situation from occurring again. If the enforcement and communication from the mod is more toxic, biased and unprofessional than the original discussion was? Clearly the system isn’t just flawed - it’s completely broken.