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I created a small crate to perform life insurance actuarial computation - rslife. Basically, this field is niche and is expected to have very few users. As a result, an organic marketing here and there would help to obtain some users to help me in testing out the crate in production.

I posted one in r/actuary and actuarial students really support it with an uptrend. However, my posts in r/rust were deleted twice and now I got banned from forum without knowing what violation I have done.

First post and convo: https://photos.app.goo.gl/oPwMTWxQndAWLNmF9

The mod then inboxed me. Wow all the big words and fallacies thrown at an ESL - English is not my mother-tounge just so you know. I was like... what?!? While the other users without domain knowledge was giving non-constructive empty comments. But hey I will not say anything against the mod - I admitted that I unintentionally committed those ... fallacies but only against empty comments and inputs. I only did what comes next.

I reposted an upvoted-trend post from r/actuary forum to show that "Common, my actuarial fellows can tell the effort. It is our profession after all!". The convo after was very constructive and people (trained and practicing SWEs with profound experiences I guess) start giving more advices on how I can improve to avoid common red-flag indicators during development.

The below is screenshot of the convo: https://photos.app.goo.gl/pb2KoSUTCWengbC86

Then I got banned from r/rust. The reason: trying to bypass the removal of moderator. I do not have time to create another account. Very futile. However, the moderator is behaving very unusual. If he somehow is associated with people in this forum or Rust community, I might got banned again maybe?!?. But for what?

I got banned because of what I am trying to do: Drawing a minor community - actuaries/actuarial students that are trained at school with high-level languages like R and Python to use our language, my favorite language via better functionalities and more approachable interfaces. What could be so wrong with this?

Somehow I feel that this will reflect really badly on the Rust community so I have an urge to tell what is going on here. At least to me, the moderator and some Rust users are very entitled that our language should only be exclusive to professional developers. Newbies and cross-professionals are not welcomed and get bashed on whatever they do (Vibe code sounds so annoying nowadays for example). I am not trying to make a fuss or anything but does any one have an impression that the mod does not sound judgmental here?

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