Why the Hell was I Thrown into Facebook Jail?
A week ago I went to post a late night shot of my view of Gig Harbor on Facebook. After the 3rd attempt to post it to my personal profile failed, I figured it was my app, so it went on Instagram:
I decided to try later in the evening to post it again, this time from my desktop. (Yes I would sort of be cross-posting, but every rule has an exception – or 3).
This time when it failed I found out why.
Facebook Jail!
The dreaded message that I had violated a community guideline popped up and I was barred from posting until October 31st.
My first thought was my client accounts!
Here’s the thing. If you are blocked from posting to your personal profile. You cannot post to your pages as the admin. Managing social media accounts for a number of clients, that was an instant moment of panic. I immediately tested to see whether I had the ability to publish to pages. I ran a test on my personal account and for TSO Media. It worked. Surprised, but content my business wasn’t affected, my next thought was why I was in Facebook’s proverbial jail.
With all of mine from the past week were still there and no other obvious reason, I let it go!
The next couple of days I published content and scheduled a post or two as normal. Everything worked as expected.
Until it didn’t.
On the morning of the 30th, I had a few notifications that posts were not published as scheduled. Crap! I tried to manually publish them. No luck. The ‘lockout’ now included my access as the admin on pages. The good news was I had very little content scheduled (I generally don’t scheduled much – social media marketing should be fluid, natural, and organic. Core content gets scheduled. The rest, a few posts a couple of days out at most.) and I knew I could post again on Halloween (albeit near midnight). My Facebook jail sentence now impacted my business and brand.
The trick now was how would I post content which needed to be published?
It is possible that having a 3rd party app like Hootsuite would allow posting (I couldn’t test it as I did not have it linked to Facebook preferring the native scheduling for what little I do). There is the concern though that since Hootsuite posts via access to a personal profile it could fail too. Fortunately I know a thing or two – and that there is a way to publish to Facebook within their own platform (well, sort of). Aside from two pieces of content, everything was posted as necessary. Problem solved!
The other two pieces of content? They serve as a perfect example as to why I work with select clients. We have a rapport built over time. A simple message to them that I had an issue posting and asked if they could manually publish the content.
There was still the mystery as to why I was banned.
I wasn’t thinking much about it, but it was nagging at me in the back of my mind. Then a random thought. Ads!
Not as in creating them, but in blocking them. About a week ago my personal feed was flooded with them. More than 90% had no interest or relevance to me, in any way. None of my behavior on the platform or through online searches would have made Facebook’s algorithm think otherwise. As I saw them, I clicked ‘hide’. When you do, there is a prompt for why. ‘Irrelevant’ is an option and since Facebook’s algorithm is relevance based and they asked or feedback, I gave it. The next prompt allows you to ‘hide all’. Since there was no relevance and would never be, I did – for every one of them.
I am guessing I hid and blocked future ads from at least 20 brands. To be fair, those for anything related to the outdoors (like REI and Klymit) and marketing, I left. They were relevant.
With no content removed and never an issue in the past, this is the only thing that made any sense and for good reason. I was messing with Facebook’s revenue stream (even though I was technically helping them by telling them what was relevant to me better help their ad placement – a benefit for brands paying for ads).
Clearly blocking advertisers (even if completely irrelevant) in quantity counts as using Facebook in a way their systems consider unusual. Or inappropriate. Or against their community standards.
And lands you in jail.
Damn irrelevant ads!
Why so many irrelevant ads?
Everyone gets a feed full of ads now and again. Most of those I speak with see a few every day. They are also quite relevant – or at least directly related to recent online activity. They vent about being stalked by Facebook (to be polite about it) and keep scrolling.
I rarely saw ads. I am more surprised when I do. Then I get slammed – 20 to 30 over 2 days with one every few posts – and few relevant.
Why?
Unlike most, when it comes to my personal feed, I, share little from pages to my personal feed (that is left to my pages), and I
- share no memes
- share little from pages (that is left to my pages)
- post few external links
- limit my interaction to only content which is highly relevant to me
- avoid political content altogether
- post nothing about sports (interact with very little too)
- post no content which references anything in the news or pop culture
- have no likes, interests, sports, movies, books, etc listed in my profile
- never click on sponsored links
When I post, it’s almost entirely original and about kayaking or pictures from my deck.
I am a nightmare user for Facebook.
They have NO idea what is relevant to me. I may have seen fewer than a dozen ads in the past 6 months that are even close to relevant. Effectively, I am impossible to target by brands. I cannot be used to to boost their revenue.
So, I suspect I get a barrage of ads to ‘test’ me or those brands opted for very broad categories where I do fit.
Then I hide and block those ads. This was the third such time in 3 months. I guess they didn’t like it so much this time.
Going forward, I’ll simply ignore the ads. (Of course this article is likely going to get me banned when I share it!)
It keeps me out the Facebook jail but hurts advertisers. They will see pointless impressions leading to lower conversion rates and Facebook will still have no clue as to how to target me.
Of course all of this is just speculation. Maybe I was just the random winner of a ‘Who gets banned this week’ contest.
I do need to thank Facebook though. I still could comment and interact. Plus, they did provide a bypass for publishing content when you get thrown in jail. So in the end, the only ones deprived by absence where those wanting to see pictures from my deck.
Another thought….
A comment prompted another possible reason for my ban – or at least why others are seemingly banned for no apparent reason. I have long suspected Facebook used keywords as part of how they target users for ads. If they are, it would be easy to create a sort of blacklist – words or phrases which, when used, automatically trigger posts being deleted or the author being sentenced to lock-up.
If my blacklist theory is correct, even benign use of a the word or phrase (or the post being deleted by the user as occurred with Tracy per her comment) could lead to a ban unless Facebook’s algorithm was sophisticated enough to read context.
Could one of my posts have run afoul of the list to end up in Facebook jail? Nothing was deleted as I mentioned above, but I guess it’s still possible.
How do I appeal it when I try to share a post and it says I’ve gone against Community Standards and so I can’t do some of the things I usually do? There is no choice of action on the page other than a button saying ‘OK’.
The whole idea that I would do anything against community standards is a joke, because ever since Trump got elected, I’ve been purposeful about being civil in my conversations, and most of the things I share, even when they’re political, are straightforward and factual.
A couple weeks ago I was restricted for the first time, and it said 3 days, and just a few days ago I tried to share something and it said I was restricted for 31 hours, even though I never got another notice. The math doesn’t work.
Facebook put me in jail for raising awareness about child sex trafficking 2 years ago and they said I was exploiting children . The ban originally was for 12 hours and then I appealed it, punched in the “misunderstood my post” option and they gave me 3 days. It’s absolutely ridiculous and no way to lift the ban otherwise. Why would they ban something from 2 years ago . I’m also pretty much always shadow banned . Have been since 2016…. as a Conservative, it really doesn’t surprise me .
FB unfairly restricted me again on June 23. They falsely accused me of hate speech., and refuse to prove it with the comment I made. There was no hate speech in the comment whatsoever. That’s why FB refuses to show me the comment. FB hires people who discriminate with unsubstantiated false allegations. Where’s the proof that my comment has hatespeech in it FB? Why won’t you show me the comment? It’s because you know that on your end that there is no merit to your pervarication.
Listen l get banned for saying gorgeous breasts love to suck them when a girl or woman posts very provocative pics or videos that are almost porn and its ok but they label my coments as bullying or harrasment figure it out. Plus people can put in sexual explicit drawings and its ok because FB says it is art
FB unfairly restricted me again on June 23. They falsely accused me of hate speech., and refuse to prove it with the comment I made. There was no hate speech in the comment whatsoever. That’s why FB refuses to show me the comment. FB hires people who discriminate with unsubstantiated false allegations. Where’s the proof that my comment has hatespeech in it FB? Why won’t you show me the comment? It’s because you know that on your end that there is no merit to your prevarication.
FB again put me in FB jail on June 23. They falsely accused me of hate speech. They erased my comment because they know there was no hate in the comment whatsoever. FB has people working for them that are biased, and accuse people unfairly w/ false allegations that they can’t back up. FB discriminates and deliberately fabricate
A while back Facebook put me in FB jail for a month for a ridiculous reason. A house was posted that was infested with jillions of cockroaches. Since it would have been useless to call a pesticide company, I posted, “burn the house down”. FB restricted me for 30 days because they said my comment went against their community standards. Since when did FB become an advocate for “COCKROACH LIVES MATTER “?
I totally sympathise with that as I have had much the same, I have made a inoffensive harmless comments several times and got unexpected warnings its very irrational and frustrating.
I once commented to someone “ you are joking” and they sent me a warning yet I see profane and insulting language in comments, and video of Violence, soft porn, porn, animal abuse, racism other perverted stuff and adverts that would lead you to unsafe sites just to name a few.
Interesting article.
As a veteran of Facebook Jail, that has been my experience too.
I have learned to anticipate at least a limited suspension of access every time I go on a binge of ad blocking.
And like you, none of the ads I block are relevant to my life.
Where I live FarceBook (FaceBook) is the only media people use to sell personal items…..vehicles, tools, furniture, etc. No one advertises in the local paper anymore and there is no Craigslist for my area.
About three years ago I entered a local contest, by a local business, and had to make a farcebook account to participate. I never ever did anything on farcebook again. Two days ago I went ro my farcebook account to look at the local “for sale” section so I logged in and was told I was permanently banned for violating community standards.
That is the truth.
Farcebook 😂 thats true I often say fleshbook because of all the females swamping the posts with scantily clad bodies and some of these very unshapely 😖
Just got thrown into Facebook jail again! Someone posted a picture of a billboard advertising fudge made in Uranus, Missouri and I replied, “I understand that you get an employee discount if you’re a fudge packer.” Well, that got me jail time even though people post worse stuff then that daily. Facebook talks about the freedom of speech yet act like the Gestapo towards its own users.
I was warned for this post on a comedian’s fan site – “I would kill my husband if he wore that.” People were discussing how embarassing guys can be to their wives, with photos. I responded to someone else’s photo. ALL of the comments were along this line. (This feed often includes good natured insults to each other and bad language.)
But apparently the Facebook robot Nazis can’t distinguish between mycommon slang and an actual threat to kill someone. No problem – just appeal, right? Wrong. The humans who read my appeal just sent me nanny-grams advising me how to be appropriate.
Same here !! You can’t use slang, I said I would kill them , knowing it’s a slang , Facebook jail . They must pic and choose ? Or maybe once in jail you are always under scrutiny? Red flagged ? Iv seen so much worse ! I said once why can’t men be stupid , lol face book jail . You can’t be negative about a Democrat or jail , you can be negative about a Republican and no jail .
This happened to me last fall, too. Completely misread a figure of speech among myself and my long-time school friends. I said I’d “like to shoot the person that came up with that idea.” It’s a conversational – but their punish-bots didn’t recognize that.
Recently I was banned for posting a funny meme about how I became a Toronto Maple Leafs fan – it showed a photo of someone sticking a knife in a socket. Apparently I was “inciting self-harm.”
On my 4 month old account, Facebook has flagged my account for nudity for 3 months. Nudity was makeup product videos. Simply tubes of makeup. I have reported the issue 12 times but currently still in Facebook jail
I just got a 24 hour for sharing a TWELVE YEAR OLD “memory”. You know, the memories from “this day” however many years ago that they shove in your face every day and tell you to share? Well, I thought today’s lineup was funny. 12 years ago I was a 16 year old scene kid. I had two posts in a row that included “RAWR” repeatedly and shared them laughing at myself. I kid you not, the memory said “RAWR. Boys suck” and I’m now banned for HATE SPEECH. After sharing what they sent me and told me to share. It’s 12 years old! And it wasn’t hate speech to begin with. Too many comments here but I saw someone mention a class action. I was just wondering why this has not happened yet. I personally watched an admin in my plant group cop a 30 day for calling her PLANT fat. Someone else for saying their own pet’s name. Something along the lines of “Chubbs” or similar. None of these posts go against the TOU so how can they continue to punish us? Why no option to be reviewed by a human? Ridiculous. I think a class action would be very successful. I’m stunned it hasn’t happened yet
No I have thought the same , why hasn’t a class action suit been filed against Facebook!! They are literally the rulers of the world 🤬
Just got censored for replying to a discussion that I think ” its ridiculous how lazy Americans can be”. Go figure. No opinions allowed unless they are favored by the reader. So much for free speech on Facebook. LOL
I am coming across a different problem. Has anyone noticed that many facebook groups, the admins act power drunk and wil ban you for simply disagreeing with them. They have the attitude “its my group, I can do whatever I want” and for simply having a disagreement of opinion, they abuse their powers and ban you. It has gotten so bad, I have gotten into a few verbal altercations on messenger with the administrators where I cursed them out (didnt care cuz they already banned me, I just wanted to give them a piece of my mind).
But this is an ongoing problem? Any suggestions, should I just avoid all facebook groups?
Ed, since all groups are created by an individual or page (including those created internally by Facebook) for a specific reason/goal/etc, the rules get set by the admin. If you violate those rules….which can include posting content the admin disagrees with…they can remove you from it. So yes, they can do whatever they want.
If the group is tied to a business as a way to offer free help or training and you recommend another business, I am pretty sure the content will be deleted. Do it again and you’ll likely get banned. The admin is entitled to control the content in their group.
I have been in groups with hard rules on what can be posted or not posted. I have been in others where the admins are more lax.
..Yes! Just got kicked off for calling Americans lazy. For real
Well heck, I was just booted from Facebook for one day and unable to post to groups for two because I tried posting a Booker T. Washington quote to my FB page. Was told it violated community standards and made suicidal comments or such, and was considered bullying. This is the Booker T. Washington Quote with a beautiful background pastoral scene that got me banned: “Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles he has overcome.”
Yeah, that quote. Does that sound suicidal to you, or bullying? I mean whoever’s working at Facebook today is singling people out to ban and coming up with any reason at all, because this is about as benign a post as you can get!
Having just reviewed my Facebook account, I see where my account is now back in good standing. Because I requested a review by the admin there (whoever that is?!) they agreed a mistake was made, and said they were sorry!
Apology accepted! This was my first time for getting booted, but I see how easily it can happen and for no seemingly good reason. I was flummoxed, but relieved that their review process does work when someone behind the curtain is there to review things! Ahem … . to algorithms.
Glad to hear, because that warning was ridiculous!
They probably banned you because it was to much for their juvenile minds to comprehend what it meant 😖
Just great to see I am not the only one who finds Facebook absolutely nuts in all regards. A platform seemingly out of control, of its own device.
Actually, it doesn’t matter whether they’re private or not. If they’re allowing something that is illegal and affecting the person reporting it, then they’re accountable for it.
If you went to best buy and they had a poster up saying you were a pedophile, they’re slandering you, unless you actually are a pedophile, and there would still be issues doing that. I’m sure you wouldn’t say “well, they’re a private company and that’s their right.
If Facebook is posting illegal content, the Best Buy analogy applies. Here, I think it’s closer to the equivalent of another customer saying or doing something and Facebook needing to decide if what has been said or done violates anything.
The big picture though, is that Facebook is arbitrary in what is removed. Ten people can post the same thing and only 3 get banned. I can post a quote from a movie that discusses killing people – something I post as part of a book club – and get banned. You could post something similar (or the same thing or worse) and nothing happens. That is all too common based solely on the comments here.
As for private vs public vs government – that applies to the argument around censorship, not legality.
This is so ridiculous. Someone made a fake account of me with my full name, using my pics stolen from my page and impersonating me making very disgusting sick posts. I reported the account to facebook, yet nothing was done about it. In fact, facebook told me that the account does not violate their community standard and kept it. I am beyond upset.
Whats worse is I know who is behind the account, its my estranged mentally ill uncle, I have proof that he made the fake account impersonating me (he got sloppy on one of his posts and forgot to crop his name from the screenshot image he took, also I do not know anyone else who would do something like this). The posts are very sick, he writes (using my name and photo) that I have sex with dogs, lick peanut butter off dogs butts, that I had incest with my late mother before she passed away and also made a video of me using one of my photos altered with a literal piece of crap in my mouth.
Oh and to top that off, I got thrown in facebook jail today for 24 hours, simply for swearing once on facebook. How is this fair? My uncle makes a fake account impersonating me with sick sexual posts, which facebook refuses to remove, yet I get a 24 hour ban simply for swearing once in one of my posts. This is not right?
What are my rights and options here? Its obvious its their dumb ai that is automated, not recongizing the account as fake and abusive. What can I do to get this account removed, as this is slander? I tried confronting my uncle, but he ignored my messages. I am so mad that I fear I could get into a physical altercation with him, all over a fake facebook account. And facebook would be legally liable I wonder? I need help
Kevin, Unfortunately as Facebook is still technically a private company, the rights you have are the ones they give you. All you can do is report the account and hope they remove it.
I went thru something similar a long time ago, when I had this group of “college kids” at the community college I attended, they were cyberbullying me on myspace – using my full name in their myspace posts, making fun of my aspergers disability with hateful posts. I reported all their posts and myspace took them down (myspace even deleted two of the bullies entire myspace accounts, after I reported their hateful posts).
Such a shame now, this can’t be done with this fake slanderous facebook profile.
This was back in 2006-2007, so I imagine its cuz back then everything was moderated by human staff, not AI. Also the world has changed so much, 15 years later and is not the same place, so why all this unfair nonsense goes on with facebook and other social media.
Wish me luck with this
Thats interesting, Two different people tried to scam me in marketplace and both times was scammers who had mimicked someone else’s profile 🥱 fortunately I realised and I withdrew my advert.
I’ve been placed on restrictions (again) for posting a sarcastic remark
on what the maximum sentence to an animal abuser should be
and I posted “send the infidel to the guillotine…CHOP-CHOP”.
Apparently this square-brained Zuckerbutt and his pinhead mob are clueless regarding history
(when the guillotine hasn’t been been used for centuries), and I was just being sarcastic.
I did make one post sometime ago that if Zuckerbutt and his FB mob made any attempts
to put me back in the “doghouse” again, that I would resort to witchcraft and turn them all into toads!!
Well, I hope Zuckerbutt and his ASSociates enjoy spending the rest of their lives croaking in the pasture,
and never get kissed by their spouses again!!
I recommend to all of our like-minds here to put a curse on Zuckerbutt and his mafia,
and bring them to their knees in shame!!
I was banned this morning – for a month – for saying (in response to a posting on the fact that Grant/Lee signed the end of the civil war on this date) and that Lee should have been hung for being a traitor and killing hundreds of thousands of Americans – FB doesn’t seem to have a clue about historical content or true historical facts older than 20 years!!!! Yet they support any fascists site that pays them. I find it infuriating and there is no recourse. If you have an honest factual opinion on anything political, or historical, that someone doesn’t like or agree with them BOOM – you are in FB jail. FB seems to be full of many ignorant “watchers”…..there is no recourse, or appeal, inspite of what they claim.
You are so right. I post derogatory comments about animals abusers etc. their images of killing dogs for food (hello China) are fine but when I say they should be taken out, I get the ban. Infuriating
It seems that facebook can show any degrading video but saying anything negative about animal abusers, mild porn, porn videos, its totally irrational, facebook seems to be swamped with animal abuse where someone put an animal in jeopardy then pretends to rescue it, many of these abusers seem to come from Indonesia or the like.
Facebook needs Elon to buy them out too.
Facebook is total bullshit with no context at all.
I recently served a 7 day ban, for posting this comment:
“Let me test it out…
Shoot all Russian soldiers!”
On a news article saying FB allows posts saying kill Russians!
Then now I am serving another 7 days “restriction” for continuously posting “hate speech”, all of which are historical facts backed up with the Wiki page in my posts.
Absolutely garbage – Facebook is worse than dictators and autocrats ( they are a violent death but Facebook is a slow death) – they want to take away the way you think , feel or see things – political correctness and the cancel culture are the biggest threat to democracy and liberty – it is not like they suspending you for threatening or harming or conspiring to harm someone, but because you are different and don’t like what you say, or you are not aligned with the people or the norms they have ( and they get choose what they are which is totally arbitrary) and those norms are the elitist scumbags – and what makes it even worse are those who complain to them because God forbid you were too honest or have offended something in any culture that is so true – so posting violent and gory images is passable to say the least but being an acid-tongued person is a crime – and not only that but they keep increasing the penalty all-around to basically corner you in and by the end you have no use of it , and once they do that you no longer have the passion and the drive to be on it or say something – they tether you like an animal – they are the lowest forms of humans – so my advice to you is be you and once they ban you create a new account but do not allow anyone to take away *YOU*
Yours was the best & truest description of Facebook DICTATORSHIP!!!!
I get off a 24 hour restriction, go in to give only some “LIKES,” post no comments or replies, and they give me an hour restriction.
Facebook is all about censorship and suppressing free speech…slowly but surely, like slowly boiling a frog by placing it in cool water first, then slowly turning up the temp. This article is enlightening…and I agree with the author’s experience. Been there, jailed for that. So what do ya do? GET OFF FASCIST BOOK. I know it’s like pulling the umbilical cord, because we ALL joined it, and now we need to leave! Hubby and I created our own social media site, because I kept getting jailed for posting pics of my doing my business FITNESS! Not our first rodeo with a social I don’t want to spam or otherwise be intruding, but I’m easily findable on Fakebook with info. #DrSeuzz #NoAgenda #TiredOfBullSh*t
How do I pull all my pictures from Facebook if I did decide on leaving there? I have a lot of pictures stored there and many Facebook will not let me delete or move,I tried . I need those pictures as a few very close family members have passed and pictures of them are there plus my Grandkids.
Kivalina,
The best resource I have found recently is: Deleting your Facebook account
Use FBP.
It blocks pretty much every single advert on Facebook and it has never triggered a ban in all the years i have used it. Totally free and works with pretty much all browsers.
Search (top left on facebook page) for either Facebook purity OR fluff busting purity.
It’s a free extensions than just massively cleans up the feed AND gives other options (you know if you have been unfriends, can see more people online at once (removes excess white space if you want), can change to a singlw column format…. the list goes on.
At its core though, it manages to block almost every single advert, week in week out, month in month out, year in year out.
I have used it almost since its inception….still have some issues it is far better than not using it, still see ads and have been banned while using it.
I got several warning for violating community standards
1) For saying “Oops”
2) For posting a picture of sasquatch that came from THEIR gif search engine. Got 2 for that one, actually. lol
I hate facebook with a passion. It is a garbage dump.
They have gone overboard. They dropped the ball in the 2016 election, when it was a free for all. Now they have gone in the opposite direction. Their bots drop you for memes taken out of context. When you appeal, you have no idea what is going on or if they are even doing anything and WHY this is happening. It is like saying you can have your day in court, only to arrive and the doors are locked. Now their bots are dropping perfectly legitimate users. I have raised over $2,600 for ACS. I donate to most fundraisers. Yet their bots blocked me. I buy from ads on Facebook. I am a valuable user. When FB needs to keep user numbers up and growing, they alienating loyal and valuable users. As a stockholder of FB, I find this concerning. They have always been the bad boy of the stock market, but not the STUPID bad boy. Now this behavior is plain stupid. Why would you drop users when you want to see numbers grow? Your bots should be able to see a pattern of a user of 14 years and money being raised for charity, NO? But one reposted meme and your bots go haywire and off the rails? I have had several friend throw in the towel. I will write a letter today, as I have a beautiful Celebration of Life Event on my Facebook page that I wish to keep for memories. Otherwise, I would quit it all. But it is the person I love the most and I am currently handicapped from a medical situation so it is my one connection to the outside world.
I watch those slopping eating people called mukbang, I was posting my comment how how dumb of a pig he was, landed in Facebook, really can that happen? Just from watching those videos? I mean people have posted more and worse things that what I said being a dumb pig.
You got hit with the anti bullying policy.
I told one guy he was a “nice try jerk” for making broad inflammatory comments about a certain group of people…he got butthurt, reported me for bullying…then taunted me in a few other posts about it so I knew where that ban came from. Yet because all the inflammatory trolling he was doing avoided using certain key word insults, all the people who reported him, was notified that his posts did not violate any community standards.
I’ve been hit with bullshit community standards violations every month, all of which, I might add are nitpicky techincalities. The algorithm’s lack of context makes me want to scream. Zuckerberg is a crook and I want to see society bring him to justice.
Omg I say anything. Seriously. And I’m in jail. This is my third 30d bid.
I keep getting bans because FB keeps going back further into my timeline and removing memes from 3 years ago or more, and then telling me they violate community standards. This one got me for nudity, which I guess technically is true, https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRpCxxVgw92ONl7xtugqONWwj4FSgY4qkuBUg&usqp=CAU ). That one they dug up from 3 years ago in my profile.
The most recent was https://preview.redd.it/ftu7lxg683q31.jpg?auto=webp&s=76c9767f4084f4829898cff303d96f767be65405 for violating safety standards or some trash…picture was shared to my account over 3 years ago.
Funny thing is, a few months ago, an ad for CBD pills found its way into my feed, in that ad was the slogan “FUCK ALL NIGHT” while the picture of said ad was a screenshot of some porno…not even censored, a girl in the missionary position getting railed by big black dude. I had screenshotted it thinking I could use it in my report of it, but that wasnt an option, and I didnt want to keep it on my phone for one of my kids to stumble across.
I just got a ban for, I kid you not, the following comment.
“If you know someone serving red velvet cake without creme cheese frosting, shoot that person now!”
Their own policies say “We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety.”
Clearly that’s not actually the case.
But what you said about reporting ads rang a bell with me. I recently started getting flooded with videos clips of TV shows that are obviously copyright infringements. The video is compressed vertically (so everything is too tall and thin) and it’s sped up so that the voices are high. This is all done to avoid bots that search for copyrighted content.
Anyway, because they were annoying, I clicked on the “see less” button. I actually tried to report them for intellectual property violations first but apparently you can’t do that unless it’s your own intellectual property.
A week later I got an obviously automated ban because even the stupidest person could not possibly have read my comment and thought I was actually inciting violence.
So TLDR: I got banned for an offhand comment because FB is mad I don’t want to see poor quality videos being posted by people without the right to post them. Sounds legit.
Yup, that’s totally their MO. They’ve hit me with garbage bans like that month after month and now my use of the site is almost totally bricked for the month.
Just got hit with this posting in a private group joking about people not tipping on cruises to make up for the impending fuel surcharges. I responded to the person, “Shall we take turns punching him in the face”? Bam! 24 hour posting, 2 days group activity. The thing is there was no person it was aimed at. It was just about a situation. Meanwhile, you have some of the nastiest people on a daily basis talking trash. Looks like the inmates are running the jail.
Agree with all the other posters who are complaining on here about FB. All of you are exactly correct. FB is nowhere NEAR what it was a decade or so ago. The authoritarian nonsense is horrible and out of control. Perhaps Zuckerburg and his team have let power go to their heads or something, or the fear factor of “something happening,” liability or what-not. It is just awful. Not just the bans, but also the constant warnings. Like too many things too fast, the algs. flag you and ban you from liking for a while. Probably can’t keep adding too many pages or either or that will be a ban. More and more and more and more privacy concerns, they probably even notify law enforcement about otherwise normal, non-psycho people who just happen to be a little enthusiastic on FB. It sucks, it really does. If you forget your password and are using an old email address that you no longer have active, I have found it is next to IMPOSSIBLE to regain access to your page. My FB page has not been active since 2017. I had changed my password one night, forgot it the next day, but since my email account that I was using with my page was no longer active either or accessable sp. I could NOT get in. I finally found some sort of “mail them your ID picture” option after my security questions failed too, but as of yet have not done so. It may be the last chance I have left, and I had that page since 2009 with well over a thousand, maybe 2000, people including many ACTUAL friends on there. It really sucks, they are so strict about everything, their algs. are out of control and overreaching. Vast majority of people are NOT stalkers or psychos or have malicious intent. It just goes on and on with FB. Maybe part of the reason they are bleeding customers and their stock is crumbling. I think perhaps it is time for them to go the wayside of history and let a NEW social network come into being. They truly have lost their way from the GOLDEN years of FB in the late 2000’s.Things are not the same. And it really sucks because some of us were long time users, for YEARS and through college. NOW, having not been on in years on my biggest profile…..perhaps I don’t totally regret it. Even though I miss my friends very dearly, pretty much all of them and old classmates, social media is my only connection to them. ALL of them. Now, I may have to start an entirely new page and add ALL of them back on or have to find other ways long into the future to finally reconnect. And you know how that goes—–some of them will not add you again, and you know what that means….not going to go through that pain if I can. FB turned out to be a double-edged, sweet and NOW bitter sword, reward. It really sucks. Facebook needs to loosen the grip, lighten up and CHILL OUT. Perhaps they need new management altogether. Hope something is done or, frankly? I hope the company just shuts down. Not fair to all those who love FB and have friends connections and charities and so much else though, I know this, but as that goes, FB needs to get its act together. I could say….so much more, and I hope to come back here to add more. But FB HURTS. It just hurts at this point. I am trying to live in the real world these days and even cutting out the Internet more and more. Social media is becoming exhausting. Once I find balance, I will be back, but because of FB it is going to take a very, very long, painful time. That site is traumatic, and it needs to get it together, it is totally getting out of control. Agree with ALL of you who are FED UP with the horror and Orwellian nightmare FB has become. Thank you, I have much more to say, glad I found THIS site, and I WILL DEF be BACK. WM
lastly, too many of you to reply in agreement to on here, but I agree with you all and I WILL be back. Thanks again and for the OP and this wonderful site.
Ugh. Here we are again. So, Facebook actually acknowledged that they made a mistake with my last restriction and removed my violation. But, now my horrible offense that earned me 30 days in FB jail was posting a gif – FROM FACEBOOK’S GIF BUTTON – of Sesame Street characters saying “derp.” Yep, using content provided BY FACEBOOK violates their community standards. You can’t make this 💩 up. But, hey, the guy I reported who was using horribly racist language is totally fine. Way to go, Facebook!
Honey I had someone call me a b****. I called her one back. I get hit with the ban. I’m like tf she called me stuff so i reported her. I’m on their radar like I’m sr kind of terrorist
Facebook’s become one of our primary methods of communication. Then after becoming so integral to our lives, they’ve found and used ways to muzzle us and have dictated how we can speak and interact as well as what and how we can say what we want to say. It should be very very scary to us all! The power Facebook has, with no prior prereq’s….
that is so true! you are dead on!
Man, you guys are SPOT ON. What others don’t realize is Facebook is profiting off us but act like they are doing US a favor. Without us, there is no them!
I would like to invite every facebook user to post the picture of the an from the the movie water boy twisting his nipples at the same tie and all of us get banned at the same time. if we are all banned, the site will fall over with loss of revenue. think about it.
I was banned for posting a picture of a an ? the dislexic bloke from the movie the water boy for a laugh. its riddiculous.
I just got restricted for the second time in a few months, for “bullying.” I know what the first time was, and it is so ridiculous. I was in a group for the video game “Destiny,” which is a story/lore-heavy first-person shooter game. Discussing the current event plot at the time, I expressed frustration with one character and said I was going to enjoy shooting him. Again, referring to a video game where bad guys typically become bosses who we as players defeat in a gunfight. Either Facebook’s algorithm or a bot decided I was threatening real-world violence against a real person. I appealed, and a human being agreed with the bot that threatening a space wizard named Osiris goes against community standards.
The second offense was also from this group, but they deleted the post and so won’t tell me what I supposedly said that was also bullying. But I am not in the habit of personally insulting fellow group members, so Iit was probably story-related content again. They also removed my ability to appeal.
Back in the slammer again. My horrific “bullying” that earned me 30 days was “It’s a bit early to be this sloshed” in response to a troll rambling disinformation about Jan. 6. Mind you, I’ve recently reported people for calling me a f*cking idiot, moron, stupid, etc, yet those insults are totally fine with Facebook. I’m so over this.
I got banned for calling someone a troll who literally posted my 5 previous mailing addresses in a group. Also, a few days later someone was using curse words against me so i reported it, they didnt take it down. So i called him a loser, boom another ban!
Calling someone “white trash” is offensive so the phrase is banned IN EVERY CONTEXT. I was banned for showing a picture of a bunch of trash cans. I said “I like the blue and the white trash cans.” Banned for a week.
Same with the phrase “fucking ho.” Calling someone that is offensive so the phrase is banned in EVERY CONTEXT. I found this out because I was banned for two weeks because I quoted Santa Claus saying “Yo ho ho, fucking yo, fucking ho ho ho.”
Just now I was given another suspension and I seriously have no idea why. We were discussing who we would want in our band and started quoting an old Bonzo Dog Doodah Band song. “Count Basie on triangle.” “Adolf Hitler on vibes.” Apparently suggesting that Hitler might have played a musical instrument is a no-no. How about Mussolini on sousaphone?
Freedom of speech only referred to the right of the people to express their opinion about government and for newspapers to report facts on the government without fear of retaliation.
It DOES NOT give you the right to say whatever you want whenever or wherever you want. You can’t slander people, you can’t incite a riot, and so on. FB is a private business that can ban you if they want, unless they’re doing so based on something like race.
I’m not saying I disagree about FBs idiotic AI that seems to target keywords, or their double standards. I posted about Trump being a traitor, rapist, coward, etc for 4 years and nothing happened. But I see minorities post racism and I get dubbed a racist for calling them out on their hate and lies.
As mentioned above, in cases like this, they’re in violation of the law regarding discrimination, and I’ve reported them for that, but you can’t use the freedom of speech argument when it doesn’t apply.
I was thinking about the Trump presidency myself. I saw people in his FB posts blatantly talking about murdering “liberals” and “illegals,” and often discussing open treason with 0 repercussions. I talked about taking out a video game character in a first-person shooter and was slammed for “bullying.”
Since you can’t see me rolling my eyes, and nearly leaving this whole site over the drollness of your comment, I had to tell you.
It could apply. Laws can be changed and companies can be FORCED to change, there are ways of doing so, legal ways.
I was put in Facebook jail again for calling out our piece of shit governor and other people who push disinformation and are dangerous. I’ve tried to find a way to let FB know that they are also a PoS by telling people they are restricted because of “bullying” when in fact, some people are just telling it “like it is”. I find it infuriating that I get told what to do by a publicly traded company with a wet behind the ears dictator who allow disinformation to be spread along with hate speech. Yes, the same hate speech he allows. I wish I could find the right person to let know how I feel about their arbitrary rules, but then they might have to do something right.
Hi Assuming you remember me, I posted all last winter/early spring about my times in facebook jail. I had been doing good for a while, no 30 day facebook posting bans since April (see my post from April 13). Well suddenly I wake up Monday morning to check my facebook and I found that my account has been disabled. Yep disabled, not a posting ban like before. My whole account is disabled and I was not even told why. I am guessing their stupid AI flagged something again. The email says I have 30 days to request a review to avoid my account being deleted. However, when I click on the link i get an error message where I am directed to Facebook security check and this happens.
I can’t log in past the security check with the following… (Error Sending SMS Could not send confirmation SMS. Please check the phone number and try again.) I did however receive the code on my phone, but there is no where to enter the SMS on facebook. Therefore I am not able to request review on my account.
My account is going to deleted in less than a month now and I have no way to request review because of this error. I have the SMS code but no where to enter it. My account I have had since 2007, my main reason I am so upset is many of my photos I have lost forever. I did backup some but not enough. Word of advice, backup all your facebook photos because you never know if you one day might lost your account.
I did create a new facebook page, using my full formal name (my old facebook I used my nicnkame and middle name as my last name) and so far have not been banned. However I am facing another problem, several of my friends are mistakenly marking my account as spam and denying my friend request. There have been problems in the past with scammers making virtual copies of real Facebook accounts by copying the photos and info from the real account’s “About” page to the fake ones and friend requesting the real account’s friends. Because of this, several of my friends think my new account is a spammer, not the real me.
Also if I message my friends on my new account, my message is sent to their message requests folder – many people do not know about the requests folder, so they do not see my message. That is another problem with facebook, since 2011 facebook began filtering messages from non friends into its “other folder” (now rebranded “message requests folder”). Many people do not know about their hidden folder, where facebook is hiding important messages (one of my friends told me she won concert tickets but did not know about it until she discovered her “hidden folder” 3 years later, long after the concert. I read stories of lost wallets being found and the finders messaging on facebook, but the wallet owners never received the messages because it goes into their hidden folder, which they do not know about. So ridiculous.
Also facebook has another stupid policy where if someone denies your friend request, you cannot re-friend them for another 12 months. This means in my case with my new account which my friends mistake as spam, once they discover its the real me, I have to ask them to friend request me because i cannot send a second friend request. Facebook sucks.
Wow. It seems these days the safest way to avoid trouble is to purge content and not use the service….but I am waiting for the point where they then deem accounts disabled for non-use of personal profiles.
I am glad that whistleblower came forward at the beginning of the month. She was so right, facebook does not care about you, you are just a number to them. And now if you get your account disabled, you cannot appeal because of the SMS error, honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if they purposely did that just to save themselves the hassle of reviewing your account.
I personally hope facebook continues to lose users and goes the way of myspace. I remember back in 2006/2007, myspace was the place to go. Everyone you knew was on it, everyone was having fun on it. And to be honest, it was a really fun time in society and online life and MySpace was the pinnacle of that. MySpace wasn’t political, it wasn’t full of conspiracy theories and hate speech and ridiculous falsehoods, and vicious arguments and people being blocked. It was largely about people posting fun pictures of themselves and sharing music that they enjoyed, and then people generally commenting in a friendly and civil fashion.
You could rank your top friends, and it was fun to see who would be up there on a frequent basis. And Tom Anderson from myspace allowed all this to happen, no he just wanted us to have fun.
Then when facebook surpassed myspace in 2008, it still had some of the fun of MySpace attached. You could share pictures and stories, and posts. But now, over a decade has passed, Facebook has become a cesspool of disinformation and asinine conspiracy theories, a place for people to argue and now run like a police state with AI bots that flag anything that is hate speech.
I am done with facebook, I only created my new account to keep in touch with my friends and to be on there, but I am not going to post like before. The facebook era has passed and it is losing users and popularity. I hope everyone starts bycotting facebook because it has gotten so ridiculous. In fact, the only reason why facebook hasn’t died yet is that we dont have another social media platform YET that can surpass it. But i believe it’s only a matter of time (I would guess 2022 or 2023 maybe) that this future social media platform overtakes facebook and facebook goes the way of myspace. Definitely time for change.
I started using Facebook for marketing in early 2008. It’s such a difference place now. Since I wrote this article, I deleted all but 200 friends (from several thousand). In June of 2020, my personal profile and my business pages have gone dormant – aside from updating a profile or banner image. I am only active in a handful of groups and all personal content is supportive and helpful.
I question no one, report nothing, won’t argue….all to not risk access so I can maintain what I do for clients who depend on Facebook.
It’s sad that what was once a great platform for connecting people and businesses is now the place to tear them apart.
It does suck. It actually stinks, especially their algorithm. It does suck, that’s why I deleted the application from my phone about 6-7 weeks ago and they still send me stuff about friends requests from people I don’t even know, although for spite, I mark any messages to my email inbox from them, as spam 😃 I guess when it comes to spamming they don’t have great community “standards” 😃
FB has truly lost it’s mind. Used to be a great place, Now they are authoritarian as get all and it is awful, just awful! All they want is to control users. Nowhere NEAR what it was a decade or so ago.
Same thing just about happened to me … Facebook lies and accuses me of being under the age of 13 . I been using facebook of 15 years . I had numerous accounts which I paid for . Things for sale on market place and several other local sites in my area. Family photo’s I stored on facebook of siblings who died. Highschool reunion pics , friends , game points , etc. the list goes on and on all this destroyed by facebook lies of accusing me falsely of being under age … They asked me to send in proof of my age . I did send in a copy of my Fl. Drivers License and my Birth Certificate . They appoligised and gave me back a blank account void of everything I had established over 15 years. Only to wipe it out again with same message after 5 hours of me working to restore friends and family in the PM section …. This is their LYING REPLY : George, You Disagreed with the Decision
ON JANUARY 16, 2021
It usually takes us just over a day to review your information. Check back here.
Your account is not visible to people on Facebook, and you can’t use it.
What happens next
We’ll take another look at your account.
If we find you’re old enough, you’ll be able to use Facebook again.
If we still find you’re not old enough to be on Facebook, your account will be permanently disabled and you won’t be able to disagree again.
Hi Thomas I was wondering what happened to your old account in the end? Exactly the same is happening to me with the sms code and im so upset I may lose lots of old photos and videos too 😢.
Thanks,
Nicky
If you want to know why you are in jail here is how:
Go to your profile page and go to profile settings (on mobile it’s the … next to edit profile)
Your account status will say what’s going on with your account (mine says warning)
If you click on account status it will show you in red if you are in jail, yellow on warning, then you can click on “restriction history” which gives you a list of all of your violations and the jail sentences it imposed. You cab click each one for more details.
So a few things I have learned.
1. Blocking and hiding ads gets Facebook’s attention. You do not ever want to get their attention
2. Reporting content, whether it is spam fake pages giving away free houses to the first 1000 people who like and share, violent threats, harassment, whatever, when you report content or a profile you get Facebook’s attention ( see #1)
3. Certain trigger words or images get bot caught, the more “attention” you have the more likely your posts will be bot checked. Trigger words are not just racial slurs or threats but anything a bot might think is one.
Example: I posted a video of dozens of vehicles fallen through a ice covered lake in Russia caused by carelessness with a caption crazy Russians. The video was of Russian people who made a big oopsie causing the loss of over 2 dozen vehicles. Wasn’t being racist, just point out it was crazy and that they were in fact Russians. This was hate speech.
Another example: me and another friend were discussing how we hadn’t seen a third friend in forever but he was always busy, I said we’ll just have to kidnap him some Friday night. And this was apparently a threat of violence. Because obviously we meant it literally.
****Here’s the important part****
Once you have a single violation whether it was a bot misunderstanding or what, your account goes into warning status.
Then Facebook takes a fine tooth comb and goes back over your last couple years worth of posts to see if they can gig you for anything else.
*This is why it seems like when you appeal it you get a longer ban*
As long as you are on warning status you are Zuck’s b**** so be extra extra careful how you word what you post. I *think* violations fall off after a year. So hopefully I can get back to regular status sometime before 2023.
Good luck and remember:
damn the man, save the empire!
This:
1. Blocking and hiding ads gets Facebook’s attention. You do not ever want to get their attention
Dude is that why my ban today went from 1 day to 3? Because I appealed it?
I was making a joke to a friend and they said I was bullying. I get tons of porn bot adds and I report them so I’m on their radar?
Exactly what has happened to me, repeatedly. They will block me for some dumb thing, but ‘Add’ it to the list of several Previous ‘violations’ from months before!
Just today, I shared a picture to a group…FROM A FACEBOOK AD IN MY FEED…and it was a ‘violation!!’ Blocked for 30 days!
WTF, FB?! YOU sent the picture to ME!!
I got 3 days in jail for bullying. Someone called me an F’ing dip shit so I responded saying it’s obvious he’s a short bus rider. Calling some 30+ year old cellar dweller a short bus rider is bullying?
I just got a week in Facebook jail for simply telling someone Thank you with a smiley face. I appealed it and they apologized for getting it wrong, but failed to take me out of Facebook jail. I can’t post anything and my business depends on it. This same stuff has happened several times in the last year for the exact same reason. If we can’t tell our customers thank you and it is considered harassment and bullying, we are in big trouble.
I used facebook’s gif option to post a gif from their library of gifs & i got banned for using it “facebook said it was harassment”. I hate this algo, I have a target on my main account forever by them. Best practice is to use 2 facebook accounts, 1 where you write & post whatever you want & they other is just to main connections with friends & groups… this sucks, this violates our freedom of speech
Though more than 1 profile is a violation of Facebook’s terms and they could ban you permanently for that. And Freedom of Speech doesn’t apply to private businesses…at least not know.
If you are in a retails store and say something the owner doesn’t like, they can ask you to leave.
That is not to say what Facebook is doing is OK.
This just happened to me too! I couldn’t figure out why a gif existed if it was ‘bullying or harassments’. Luckily, I already follow your advise.
Freedom of speech only referred to the right of the people to express their opinion about government and for newspapers to report facts on the government without fear of retaliation.
It DOES NOT give you the right to say whatever you want whenever or wherever you want. You can’t slander people, you can’t incite a riot, and so on. FB is a private business that can ban you if they want, unless they’re doing so based on something like race.
I am close to closing my Facebook account also. It’s ridiculous – once you’ve visited Facebook jail, you seem tarred with a brush of once a criminal, always a criminal. I initially said what someone had said was completely stupid, 3-day jail. In another post, I said ‘I’m so stupid”, 30-day jail. Another post, a Facebook gif from their gif selection with Buzz light year and, in a speech bubble, the comment, “I cannot see intelligent life”- another 30-day jail.
I have had someone carry out criminal actions against me on Facebook, yet that has met community standards, even though local police wish to speak to the person.
It seems that Facebook has ulterior motives, as they appear in some cases to promote abuse and in others are excessively strict to a point beyond the rational.
I’m having the same issue as you. I actually had a woman threaten me after i simply disagreed on a post having to do with perceived racism. I felt there were two sides of the story. Also that we were only given one side of the video. Some of the responses were vile. One was a threat. I reported it to FB. Their reply was it did not violate FB standard and would not be deleted. Seems one cannot disagree with the intended point of certain subject matter. This has happened to me several times. I now feel I’m a target of FB algorithm.
Unbelievable what I see and read not banned at all. Once you’re jailed your marked for life I guess.
I made three comments that sent me to jail AGAIN this month. One was a pic off a hair clip that resembled a spider, of which I am desperately terrified, and poster talked about seeing it clipped to a home baseboard. OP commented on same and it scared her and what would we do in situation. Wellll, silly me, I jokingly said I would just burn the house down. Guess what,!?! that was my third infraction in two weeks. How is that bullying? another was sort of bashing a certain pres. Funny how they allowed Trump to be bashed left and right, so I figure they’re of a certain party persuasion. I can’t even get in to ask about issues so makes me think THEY don’t follow their own rules. I’m not pc proficient, but it is hysterical that they certainly try to restrain freedom of speech. I mean, hell, they allow ALL forms of f words left and right. I don’t care for it, so I just scroll past. So what is the deal? It’s ridiculous and your next to last paragraph sums it up succinctly
Got banned a while ago on a meme video post of Naruto dub comparisons, which are fun as hell (Basically showing the different intonations per country).
The dub simply goes “Sasuke”
I made a comment saying “This is why German dubs fucking suck. Watch subs” or something like that…
Why? Because the entire video is just the word “Sasuke” in different languages with different ways of saying it….until the German dub translates the name “Sasuke” to “Sag’s schon, Sasuke”
So then I got banned for a hate crime against Germans.
I tried to appeal the decision but they wouldn’t let my argument fly: “I’m German”
So, apparently, I got banned for committing a hate crime against my own nationality by stating the obvious fact that German dubs are terrible beyond measure 😀
That’s like getting flagged for a hate crime against an entire country for saying “Bratwurst” sucks.
???
I’m really close to deleting my FB account… I get bans and warnings more frequently now for really basic shit, yet I see all these angry idiots posting whatever garbage they want on FB groups (hateful racist speech, conspiracy theories, rude comments)
It slowly kills my brain cells seeing the deterioration of reasonable speech.
i had shared the ironic and most humorous picture of the sign showing the way to the german school in capetown. anthropomorphic black block figure of a teacher pointing to the school . to the stupid pigdogs at facebook that looked like i was encouraging nazism. its a black figure. not adolf hitler at a party rally giving the siegheil. they zucked me for 30 days, but once thousands started mocking them they must have realized it made them look like the fools they are. then there was the valentine’s day meme of famous dictators wishing everyone a happy v day. that was also dropped. and i am developing some serious illness, maybe parkinson’s or even alzheimer’s . i called the doctors that told me its just anxiety attacks, and remember , this wasn’t even for public view; stupid shit children with fake medical degrees. got 30 days just now for that. it was between me and friends. oh, maybe it was the comment that once i find a doctor that knows what they are doing i will shoot the finger at them. got to remember, these weenies think finger pistols are as deadly as an ar-15. like bitten off pop tarts that make them see m-1911 45 automatics. yet they will allow real nazis and communists and islamist fanatics rant about killing jews and americans . go figure. they don’t seem to be bothered in the least by people mocking them with memes of FB jail. i have a question for the snowflakes. if they read everything we post, and can delete it, then why the hell not just delete it and move on? this is petty and childish and the typical leftist attempt at thought and speech control. maybe intimidation tactics. show us whose the boss. i swear, if somebody starts a social media site that does this, delete only porn and racist slurs and advocating violence and stops trying to bully people then brother, im there. their messenger is the only thing i can use. i can’t even add to my page about the arts, sciences, history and philosophy that is apolitical . zuck is a punk.
I’m constantly in Facebook jail and I’m a snowflake you describe. Even though they say real moderators look at the context of a post, it is obvious to me that a computer is flagging words that could be racist or hateful. I don’t believe the posts are actually read by someone and understood. They just hit “ban” and you’re gone with no recourse. It is annoying for everyone mostly because there is no way to appeal the decision. The board the is supposed to oversee appeals doesn’t exist because after filling out tons of time-consuming information, they tell you most appeals are not read. Some are picked randomly, but very few.I was banned for talking about the rich history of Swatstikas before Germany used it for my antique id group. Boom, BANNED. Hate groups aren’t always banned because of the ad money their bringing in. They use us little people so they can say they banned millions of hate content when they actually haven’t. I’m convinced of it.
You are doing exactly what Facebook wants, making this political and blaming it on an entire political party.
First of all, this happens to people on the left too, and just like Facebook has conditioned you to blame it on the left, these folks blame it on the right. I say the same thing to them:
Facebook isn’t left or right. They are GREEN. Most groups posing as BLM, White Nationalists, etc are not even Americans. They are Russians paying for ads that are designed to elicit negative emotions and anger. And like clueless people too blind to see our worth, fight each other while Facebook rakes In the cash. Their algorithms are designed to post political crap that is in exact opposite to what users ascribe it, the goal being to get a reaction from us. And like clock work, we take the bait which is red meat for their BS algorithms, which gets you a ban, all the while, Facebook takes more money for extremists posing as the groups you hate.
In short, no one is seeing this for what it is; a social media platform that abuses its members info, monetizing it. This way, they get to go telling government social media watch dogs that they are proponents of equality and have a “zero policy” regarding members having nefarious purposes. This while processing more payments from fake groups that are favored by them while we are foolishly trashing each other. We are enabling their ability to play both sides when we return from an undeserved ban, acting like we are privileged to be on a platform that don’t see us as even humane. We are just dollar signs and marks for cheap bans under the guise of keeping bad elements on their platform. Too bad this will persist unless we take our social media need elsewhere.
How do you appeal. I have no idea why I was blocked from interacting on FB
In theory, one can appeal. In practice, when one tries to, this is what one sees:
“To help keep Facebook safe, we sometimes block certain content and actions. If you think we’ve made a mistake, please let us know. While we aren’t able to review individual reports, the feedback you provide will help us improve the ways we keep Facebook safe.
Please explain why you think this was an error”.
Then there is a box for writing one’s message. Below the box is this:
“Thanks for taking the time to submit a report.
Learn more about what happens when you’re blocked or if your content was removed.”
Then there is a blue bar with “Send” on it. You press it, and this happens:
“Could not process your request
We could not process your request. Please try again later.”
I have tried three times, and even cut my post as short as possible. (There is no hint whatever of a character limit.)
I think Facebook makes it as hard as possible for people to challenge unfair blocks on their activity. Facebook may be many things, but it is certainly not user-friendly.
Let’s just say you cannot even though they say you can. You absolutely cannot.
I got banned from Facebook by saying that I’d burn my house down if a European hornet ever got in!
Facebook is a complete joke, I don’t think they actually read the Post they suspend, I think they have a program that reads curtain words AND that’s how they do it. I got suspended for 30 days just for telling someone to stop BITCHING. I’M serious. 30 day’s.
I got banned for a comment, contested, FB unbanned me saying Ooops, but then I was re-banned. Why? Funny thing is the re-ban isn’t for anything I posted recently. Its for a comment from a year ago that I was already banned and served Facebook Jail for. Double Jeopardy much?
I have decided that I am quitting Facebook as soon as I am UNbanned and that will be the reason why. I am just over the hypocrisy and tired of the b.s. I find it juvenile and toxic. Twitter is my go-to now. Much happier.
You don’t have to be out of Fakebook jail to deactivate. I’ve done it twice and will probably do it a third and final time while in stir (lol).
Each time I’ve been banned it’s always been because of standing up to internet bullies. If they only knew how easily triggered by bullies the victims can be when they were bullied in school. FB has no clue. But I am 57 and Old School is the name of my game and I will NOT be spoken to the way the bullies (online or not) dare to do these days. I WILL challenge these people and call them out. Tell them to meet me “outside” so to speak and we’ll have it out face to face. I always get banned for “inciting” violence while the rude comments the bullies make go undeleted and the bullies are free to bully again.
Yep…time to delete again. Just go to your security privacy settings and the options to delete/deactivate are right there to use regardless of whether you’re in Fakebook or not.
Personally it gives me great satisfaction to do so. Like a “Fuck you” of sorts to Fakebook AND Zark Muckerbugger !
exactly, and it sucks!
Don’t worry, I’m Romanian, was born in Romania and although I’m not religious at all, I was baptised orthodox by my family when I was a baby…
. I commented on FB not long ago about the narrow mindnded Orthodox Church in Romania campaigning against vaccination and I got banned for criticising that religion – MY religion actually! Since when are we not allowed to criticise our own religion?!
I also got banned in 2020 because I said that Hitler is probably boiling in a cauldron down there in Hell – they said that was racist!
I used to live in Romania during communism when I was young and it was a terrible life not to have freedom of speech but I swear, it wasn’t as absurd and as idiotic as what’s happening right now on FB. This social platform is infringing on my human rights! I used to have my account for 10 years on my first name only, without a surname and they threatened to close my account if I didn’t use both names! Who does that?! Anonymity it’s even recommended online, having an account on a first name didn’t bother anyone ( FB included!!) for 10 years! If I want to be anonymous and not be discovered online by certain people or my ex husband, I should certainly have the right to stay as anonymous as I want!
I got a 3 day ban for quoting someone’s disgusting post about gun violence and my post was simply a question responding why she would post something horrible?
Well, I’m back in Facebook jail. My first 30 day sentence. The crazy thing is is that the initial restriction popped up as 7 days but immediately after I disagreed with the decision, it changed to 30! How is that fair? I mean, I know nothing about Facebook is fair, but to drastically increase the penalty because I had the audacity to disagree with their decision? I’m so over this.
Omg I thought I was the only one. I got banned for joking with a friend (yes it was kinda mean) but it’s how we talk to each other. Wasn’t the first time won’t be the last. It said 24 hrs. When I disagreed it went to 7 days. Like when you talk back to your mom and she increases grounding. Everyone asked if someone was watching and reporting me on purpose but if this article has merit then that must be it. I started reporting ads too and now all of a sudden I’m getting banned all the time. 🤦🏼♀️
Exactly! FB gives you the option to disagree and then penalizes you for it. And, the reason I checked for disagreeing was “penalty is too harsh (or something like that)” and then, boom, harsher penalty! 😡
Once I started getting flagged for “community standards” violations, it happens so much more frequently. Half the time, I have absolutely no idea what I said that was a violation. I’ve reported people for saying horrible things but they are never removed. It’s so arbitrary and unfair.
That happened to me too! There was a crazy Covid conspiracy theory woman who was ranting and I said ‘look she’s clearly bonkers and can’t be reasoned with’ and someone reported it. I disagreed with the report and now I’ve got this idiotic yellow strip on my newsfeed telling me I violated a community standard. The whole platform sucks and if I didn’t manage three pages, I’d dump the whole sorry thing. My solution though will be to set up another account and make them page admins too so I won’t be locked out of my pages if I accidentally call someone bonkers again.
I’ve been suspended three times in the past 90 days. I hadn’t been suspended at all before this. Recently I’ve started reporting a lot of posts and images that are blatantly racist or transphobic. That’s the only difference I can think of. Facebook hasn’t removed any of these posts – even the ones inciting violence – because they claim they don’t violate their standards, even though they directly do.
exactly – I had someone call me stupid – I called him a moron and I got suspended for 3 days – he is still there – tsk tsk – but FB won’t let you talk to anyone – they just say it goes against their bullying policy –
Aug. 5th – I get a 24 hour restriction, plus no advertising or using FB Live for 30 days. No commenting or posting. I was in a video game group on FB and said if I had the chance to meet one of the characters from a certain video game, who would it be? I said the villain, “so I could shoot him myself.’ That way the main protagonist wouldn’t be killed in the end. FB saw that as “inciting violence.”
Aug 6th – 24 hours is up and I’m able to get back to commenting. I went to the group and warned people not to threaten the lives of any of the fictional characters because FB will send you to jail. Facebook saw that second post and then bumped me up to no advertising or using FB Live for 60 days. I actually got in more trouble for reporting to people about my restriction. That’s bonkers to me. No where have I seen that you can’t discuss being in trouble with anyone.
Fast Forward 3 weeks later to last night…
Aug 25th – I get a 3 day no commenting or posting restriction for saying in the same video game group that I only shoot at other online players in the game if they shoot at me first. Once again I’m in trouble for something taken out of context. I also can’t participate in and FB Group for 7 days.
There no way for me to appeal. You need some sort of a code that FB provides to take it up with a 3rd party appeal board. They say if no appeal code is there then you’re s.o.l. I said I “disagreed” with their decision but Amos they immediately I get a message that they are upholding their decision and that I did violate their rules.
You are now on their radar. I had very similar experiences that you did. I gather it’s their algorithm that comes into play, putting you in jail over key words that activate that said algorithm. You’ll just have to be really careful you don’t trigger them again. My last incarceration was for seven days. Why? Commenting on a post about those female soccer players taking a knee, saying “Stupid women.” Others call people “stupid” regularly on FB & no one bats an eye at FB Central.
I got jailed for referring to medieval Flemish painters as “Belgians are crazy!” There’s evidently words (crazy, stupid) that trigger their censor bots, who clearly don’t get context.
FB Community Standards/Appeals are more than just a joke (it’s getting very ridiculous now). I was banned/blocked from posting/commenting by FB for 7 days, just for a simple compliment/praise comment on one of the news media page which post an article relating to the Talibans stating that they will respect women’s rights, press freedom (where they will be allowed to work, study, etc) even though Afghanistan is now under them. The comment I posted is as follow – “Well done to the Talibans. A good step forward to tell the world that they are not oppressing the women (as how the world perceive them currently), even though they have taken over Afghanistan as the new government”. And for that, I got banned/blocked from posting/commenting by FB for 7 days (just because someone reported it as violence). How is this even considered violence when I am just praising or giving some compliment?
I’ve been banned on facebook quite a few times in the past 2 months, all of them under the “bullying” umbrella. Facebook didn’t read context, they apparently don’t care about it, if a comment is reported, you’re banned. The last ban, for 7 days, is because I dared to reply to a dude who was literally threatening to take up arms and kill all the “traitors” in the country, giving a few politicians’ names, with “you should see a doctor because you’re off by a lot”. This got me a suspension, without any right to talk to an actual human being and appeal my case. All of the previous violations were more or less in the same contexts…I have no idea who exactly is doing all of this, which 3rd party company manages these type comments, but it seems that freedom of speech around facebook has fallen to a level where if a psycho, who literally makes death threats and displays hate speech on a public post cannot be replied to in any way. I’m not entirely sure, but I have a feeling that if we gather up we can probably sue the company. My first incident in which I was disgusted with facebook was on my facebook page, when I did a “like” ad for my page and facebook literally had bots like my page. From that moment on, my fb page reach fell, boosting a post meant paying so bots can see it. I asked them to remove the bots but they said they can’t, so I’m left with that…All in all, facebook started well, but ended up in a situation where they’re too big for their own good.
Has anyone had a case make it through the oversight board? All of my appeals have not been selected and one of them is because I got banned for bullying, when the lady I had “bullied” was making fun of my disability and race and yet none of her comments got taken down. So I guess it’s okay to make fun of blind and disabled people but it’s not okay to question someone’s intelligence
Don’t worry Ginny. I got a 30 day ban for calling someone ignorant yesterday. My comment was justified because they were poking fun at people with disabilities. They still banned me. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
I just got band for calling someone ignorant got misinformation on cdc guidelines after she called me a liar.
Tell me about it. Just more zero tolerance nonsense that has been rife since the mid 90s. Tantamount to telling kids at school that they just have to put up with the bullying otherwise fight back and THEY get suspended while the bullies roam free.
My son went through this, as did I, but the difference was that I was from a time where you were allowed to fight back against the bullies and there were no reprisals. The bullies got in trouble and the families were brought to the carpet for not controlling and raising their brats right.
Contrast that with the mid 90s through today and the situation is a travesty. Not only in real life but even on the internet and sites like Fakebook. I don’t think the powers that be realize just how triggering bullying can be even as an adult, but especially so if you were a victim of it during your school years. But I do know that there is NO way I will take some strangers rude comments about me or my intellect sitting down. I will ALWAYS fight back and have told Fakebook this many times when they want to know my reasons for deleting my account. Its about to happen a third and final time.
I hope they go down like the Titanic. Mark Zuckerberg is the biggest control freak on this planet.
I had a similar instance. I posted a familiar pic that many others had posted before me. It was simple bench in a beautiful flowery area. The words that accompanied the bench were, “If you could sit on this bench and talk to anyone for one hour, who would it be?”
Harmless eh? Some people replied with their mom or dad who had passed away, others said an influential musician, etc.
However Facebook decided to take down the post, and put me into Facebook Jail for 24 hours! Apparently they have a standard against suggestions of suicide or self-harm. But my post said nothing of the sort, it didn’t mention suicide or self-harm in any way whatsoever! I would never condone that, and am against such things. Then Facebook provided me a link, to see if I need counselling. And I am thinking, what the hell is all this about? This makes no sense!
I’m cast out of Marketplace and have absolutely no idea why. There is no contact with Facebook that works. I must have posted s word they didn’t like. I haven’t a clue
I mentioned this before but now it’s just ludicrous. I like to interact on media pages on Facebook like Washington Post, the Hill, MSNBC, etc. After posting, literally, less than 10 comments, I get a “You can’t use this feature right now. To prevent misuse, we limit how often you can do certain things on Facebook. It looks like you’ve reached that limit.” I’m then blocked from posting for sometimes 24 hours, sometimes 3 days, but just on those pages. There is never a violation noted nor any clarification how long the ban will last. And, it seems that once it happens, it takes fewer comments to reach their random “limit.” I just got off the ban last night, posted a few comments and am now banned again. I’m so over Facebook.
It would be nice if FB updated their “you can’t do or say this” list. I’m blocked and have no clue why and no way to contact them.
It’s really time to not just stop using Facebook but to actively push a boycott of it and to push against this brand. There is something seriously wrong with this now, and Zuck doesn’t even seem to be at the wheel nowadays. Either the engineers or reviewers or someone there is screwing with the algorithm or actively screwing with people, on something that they put a lot of time and heart into, but no one cares. Facebook definitely doesn’t care about you, Zuck definitely doesn’t care about you, and you’re just nothing to them but a product they will use and abuse as long as they have other users. They haven’t even taken care of misinformation, hate speech, and pushes to violence with their platform and instead they are causing pain and suffering to everyday people with zero care? Down this Facebook. We need to actively push it–they aren’t worthy of the place they hold.
My crime? Someone was being extremely insulting in a thread and I said “Stop being ignorant.” And of course, I couldn’t go and report after because for whatever reason this set up my account for permanent banning (in the past I said something like “do you really want cops to just shoot you if you make a wrong move”? and things like this to try to communicate with people but not get banned–but of course who knows what the rules really are, right??)
All the while, the person being extremely insulting simply reported first (or had others report as well) like it is some kind of setup, but they won’t get banned. There’s something very wrong here. BAN FACEBOOK.
Facebook algorithms don’t understand context so after someone posted a meme about making cauliflower pancakes, I said “I’d have to kill anyone who served me cauliflower pancakes” and they suspended me for “violent threats”. It was obviously a joke to anyone with half a brain so I appealed the suspension, hoping that a live human would read the post and restore my account. Nope. I was told that with COVID, FB was too busy to review my appeal. Case closed.
On a previous suspension, I told someone that he needed to get educated and they suspended me for bullying. A few weeks later, someone made the EXACT SAME COMMENT to me and I reported it only to be told by FB that the comment did not violate their rules. When I appealed that decision, I was again told that FB was too busy to review my appeal.
I just got a 30 day suspension yesterday for saying that the current virus surge was caused by idiots who won’t get vaccinated and they said I was bullying, even though the comment was not directed at any particular person.
I want to know what kind of moronic buffoons are driving the FB bus. Ths is maddening.
I’m thinking the moderators they hire have single digit IQs basically. They HAVE to be stupid not to be able to tell the difference between true threats of violence and innocent comments that have been joked about and made by human beings probably since the beginning of time.
The problem I suspect is that Fakebook likes to come across as in league with the far left/woke culture and they would rather “cancel” you than truly pay attention the the context of a statement.
Ron I agree. Fb used to be so helpful and fun but now their “correcting” is not at all good for the general population. You get kicked off with no reason you can think of and no way to find out why.
I agree with you, a boycott is the way to go, but we need a platform where to organise ourselves and where we can publish stories like these here, to be accessed by as many people as possible, openly.
A boycott is useful as long as FB finds out about it publicly.
I got banned for saying “why are men so dumb?”, apparently that is “Hate Speech” I was replying to a post about 2 different colors of purple nail polish that her boyfriend had said were the same color, she was asking for opinions. I’m guessing that generalizing and saying “men” are dumb that’s me being a man hater.
The other day, I actually got banned for “hate speech”, literally for trying to FIGHT hate speech. Seriously, someone used the “R slur” for people with intellectual disabilities. As a disability advocate, I explained to this person how offensive this word was – I wound up getting banned, while the person who literally used a hateful slur didn’t. I really hope this was just their bots going wild, as otherwise it looks pretty bad.
I also know a lot of my friends who are black have been banned while speaking out against racism. It’s honestly pretty offensive..
I am actually disabled and got banned for standing up against a racist ableist. Sge literally made fun of my disability, talking about which races were poor or dumb, and everyone was telling her she was wrong but she just wasn’t getting it. So that’s when I chimed in and got banned for bullying
I learned recently that using gender words (man, woman, men, women, he, her) can get you suspended, especially when combined with specific keywords, like dumb or idiot or troll. Best to use substitute letters, like m@n, w0m4n, h3, and sh3. It’s ridiculous! Context is never taken into account.
This may be an attempt by Facebook to curb gender-related hate speech, but when I’ve reported blatant gender and identity hate speech Facebook doesn’t see a problem with it. Their algorithm is completely useless.
FACEBOOK POST —A Relative of Mine Commented on a Picture of Trump that somebody Posted-
My Relative Comment-“He’s My President”
One Hour Later, He was in Facebook JAIL !!!!!!
Called Me and I said call Facebook. Somehow He goy back on Facebook WHAT KIND OF CRAP WAS THAT !!!!
I thought We had FREEDOM OFSPEECH ??????? CAN ANYBODY TELL ME WHY THIS HAPPEND ??
I believe groups get together and report your posts — these groups target people who they believe are against their posts — like for me, its because I post facts and common sense vs their political lies (smiles) — Each time I have done that to “prominiate” democrats in our county, the next day I find that some post from months or years ago is the cause of a jailing.
Facebook allows people to gang up on you!
I find the same issue when I disagree with the political right. So not sure any particular party is being targeted.
HI PEEPS, last week I was posting a harmless photo from my iPhone that I posted To Myself on Messenger. That didn.t work because the post froze (went black) on my iphone, and on my laptop messenger I could see that it didn’t appear… So in the end I had to remove my messenger app to start over..
And low and behold the next day I was 24hrs banned for a satirical nude meme from 2011???
What to think of this? Was someone watching my messenger, was it a coincidence, was it AI?
Can anyone explain this.
Does facebook AI now monitor our private messages?
You remember me, I got my account restricted several times last year and posted here. Anyways, tonight I got a notification telling me that I have been restricted from sending messages for 24 hours. I can still post, but can’t send messages because something violated community standards. However, this does not show up in support inbox as violations so I have no idea what message prompted the ban. Does their AI now monitor our private messages or did someone report me? Im confused.
I just had a friend who runs a group be told by Facebook that they are requiring moderation of posts as a number of his group members were also in groups they (Facebook) shit down for community standards violations! Seems that they are now monitoring EVERYTHING. I now suspect people are being banned proactively by Facebook.
Best advice for those who NEED Facebook – it generates a good deal of income for me – is to avoid religion and politics (even in messenger), keep all comments positive, and if in doubt, don’t post it!
So I have had a ban for 30 days after a girl posted crap that was horrifying and erroneous and I said to her you are uneducated on the subject (she admitted she had not researched anything so calling her uneducated is correct, not a lie nor bullying. She even admitted it). Then I got off the ban was on one week and went to type to a classmate I haven’t seen in 40+ years I said “Steve, I hoe you’re doing well” when obviously I meant “HOPE” you’re doing well. It was a typo. I went to complain about it and for the past year plus (could be years I don’t k now all my time outs are the past year because Facebook lost it mind) it says “cannot process your request at this time try later”. Yeah right. It’s been like that 24/7 for a minimum of a year now. They never fix it. You can’t complain. They UNJUSTLY ban you from Facebook after getting you addicted like crack. Anyone want to start a class action lawsuit? That’s what we need to do here. Especially when I complained to them a few years back about someone saying to me (because of a game) that “I see you have a two year old granddaughter. Would be a shame if anything happened to her”. NOTHING happened to that guy. Not even a time out! Can you even believe this?????? I want to sue them sooooo bad.
Commenting to a woman committing animal abuse caused my jail. Irrational logic.
I commented that we should kill a bear that killed a human. I said “it (the bear) should be shot in the head”. 30 day ban.
I got a ban for “inciting violence” for saying a FICTIONAL VIDEO GAME CHARACTER should have been shot early on in the game. This was in a private video game group where we were all discussing the characters. The topic was “If you could meet one of the characters in real life, who would it be?” I said “(villain’s name), that way I could shoot him myself”. I got 24 hours, no commenting or posting, plus 30 days of no FB Live or advertising.
24 hours goes up and I warn the group not to threaten the life of the characters because you will be thrown in FB jail. I attached a screen grab of my restriction. Well someone, an actual, live body saw that post and sent me another warning. Because I posted that, they bumped me up to 60 days no FB Live or Advertising.
3 weeks goes by and I get a 3 day ban because in the same video game group, I said, “I don’t ever bother any other online players except if they shoot at me first then I’ll shoot at them.” They said I was inciting violence again. So now 3 days of no commenting or posting PLUS 7 days of no participation in any FB groups.
IT IS ALL OUT OF CONTEXT!
I’m so mad right now. I can’t appeal or dispute it.
Hi, Sue-
trying to type a reply here but all kinds of technical problems coming up. I also am in FB jail. As of June 2nd.
I want to sue them as well, but I’m in Australia!, A class-action they deserve indeed, I would love to be part of that because they’ve earned it no doubt.
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See, THIS is the kind of shit FB allows, Dare to call it out and, boom, 30 day ban.
Exactly!! 👍
I am serving a 30 day ban….what for?…I haven’t a clue. During my unfair ban I then receive a message from Facebook stating that they have reviewed a post I made in ……wait for it…….2017!!! and have decided it goes against their nudity standards.
The post was a picture of a woman wearing a bikini and a man wearing swimming trunks and leaning against a fence … talking!.
I then receive a further message from Facebook stating that a comment I left on a thread regarding the minimum wage was “Spamming”……WTF!
FACEBOOK has lost the plot but will never admit that their algorithms are set to such an appalling standard that I’m surprised folk are not banned just for signing into their Facebook accounts and as for appealing to this god awful “Oversight Committee”…….don’t bother.
I just got over a ban for a pic I posted in 2014….
That’s actually why I searched this topic.
I’ve also been clearing ads lately, so I’m curious if that has put me on some list?
, Hi I was removing something from messenger which didn.t work because the post froze on my iphone, had to remove my messenger app to start over.. And low and behold the same night I was 24hrs banned for a satirical nude meme from 2011???
My friend who is never on FB just posted in her neighborhood page about her thermostat being turned off randomly while they weren’t home and she got put in jail!
I got put in jail today till Dec 4. For no reason.
I wonder if there is a glitch. How long did it tell your friend till?
My daughter who has Down syndrome has been repeatedly locked out of her Facebook account. We have no idea why. It follows a pattern of twice being forced to reset the password as they claim the account is hacked (when it has not been). Then they completely disable the account and we must send in her photo and then so far a day or 2 later they reopen the account. It has happened 3 times over the past few months andis very upsetting to her. There is never an explanation. She publishes paintings of birthday cakes that she has painted and things like that.
Some guy posted a woman pulling down her bikini in order to make an antisemitic point (yeah, I know that sounds nuts, but it’s the truth). I reported him, FB told me that it was just fine. But FB not only went back to LAST YEAR when they decided to throw me in the slammer, they even included a post that THEY had *reversed themselves* on!!!
In a response, I quoted the author in quotations, basically saying people shouldn’t be compared to Nazis if ovens aren’t involved. My personal comment was he is a talking points parrot. Got the violation notice, contested it, and was confirmed by Facebook not to have violated standards. However, the suspension stayed in place. Been told it may be from past violations, but have already done FB time for those. I’m giving one week for all who want contact info via messenger, then I’m cancelling my account. Talk about fascists!
Is Mark trying to play God, judge and jury and throw his weight around by controlling what HE feels is acceptable and isn’t that a bit dangerous? Or is he justified?
Same. I posted a comment that said “Kill the filibuster!” The FB bot flagged that. I appealed. FB reversed the take down, comment was put back up – 30 day account restriction still in place. The issue is that the restrictions get progressively worse, no matter what. Even if previous socalled “violations” were legit, or not…and mostly, they’re not legit. Posting an election schedule or an article from the NYTimes (only one attempt!) is not “spam.” But, you get caught in FB’s algorithms and your account gets jailed anyway.
& here I thought it was because Facebook thinks I am Black (seriously – those are a lot of the ads I get, & I am NOT Black). I am sorry that I am not the only one this crazy crap happens to; in this case misery very definitely does not love company
I agree with all of you that the jail time from facebook has reached ridiculous proportions. My jail time has all been about WW2. The first was a quote from Joseph Goebbels about propaganda. They called it hate speech, yet there was nothing hateful about it. I can’t even discuss Nazi Germany or type “Hitler” without going to jail. (Now I do it with spaces. H I T L E R.) Oddly enough they don’t seem to have a problem with mentioning Mussolini. The new “board” they formed (to decide if Trump should be banned) said they believe FB is wrong for jailing people simply for discussing history. I do as well.
I got bounced today for my first one month offense. It was in a car Pursuit live thread and they said nothing was stopping the car so I made a joke they should bomb him and II it posted I deleted it because I remembered where I was. They caught it, and gave me a 7 day suspension. An hour later they said it’s 30 days.
The suspensions I have experienced in the past were based on items that were taken from Facebook and put into a private group for twisted humor. They labeled one of them bullying though it was nowhere like bullying. The time before this that I got suspended in October was for telling somebody they can’t call me an idiot. I have a friend who was suspended for talking about weed killer in a garden chat room. Another person was suspended for calling somebody else a virus. Many people and several of the groups I belong to have been suspended for simple things like posting a picture of a breathtaking sunset. The whole thing is ridiculous. I’ve been telling everybody we should start a postcard campaign. Or letter. Take a picture of what they violated and send it to them via snail mail and a nice bright envelope so they can see it right away stand out. I’m going to do it this time especially because it was so ridiculous. As soon as my comment hit and posted I deleted. Then there was the 7 day suspension turned into 30 days. I intend to write a letter this weekend and mail it. I could have delivered to his house since I live close by but I don’t cross boundaries. Two things people told me that I’m not quite understanding. One got in trouble for saying she was going to kill her husband for posting a terrible bikini photo of her. She went to Facebook jail for that she said she got to argue it and won her argument. There is no place I can find where you can argue. Another person who went to Facebook jail had their appeal denied and he’s sort of a hacker type and somehow could figure out it was somebody in France who reviewed the decision.
Being a moderator on several pages, I am very good at reviewing join request and seeing a fake account from a real one. I turned in every fake account and they come back with it’s not against Facebook standards. Really? So you’re okay with scammers on your site? Interesting. Anybody else wants to write a postcard or a short letter of protest send it to Facebook, 1 Hacker Way Menlo Park California 94025 attention Mark Zuckerberg
Thanks for this idea and the address. I’m going to do this from now on
I got suspended this week for two WW2 history related post that were posted in 2015! SIX bleeping years ago!
I’m so fed up, I’d be willing to join with other FB-Jailbirds and file a class action lawsuit for being retroactively punished for old post that were NOT against the rules when they were posted.
I literally just got a 24 hour ban for telling my best friend I was going to kick her butt for talking poorly about herself. Apparently that’s bullying.
Me too; three days for “bullying”; I was the one being bullied or harrassed by some guy calling me names and telling me to get off the “pipe”; I asked him “what pipe”? AND SHABAAM, I got fb jail for three days..the hardest part is not being able to question them or tell them they are wrong; they act as judge, jury and executioner, yet supposedly have all of these “community standards”? Oh well……if we could sue, or get zuker to do something about this it would be great.
I got banned for posting
a thread in my therapy group where we began creating a persona for our OCD and told it to go f off and we found telling it off therapeutic and freeingbut FB found that I was bullying… Yeah bullying my OCD
I would be willing to join such a lawsuit.
I’ve got you beat, just got banned for a post from 2010. 12 years ago! “RAWR. Boys suck”. Hate speech. I’m ready for that class action
I was thrown in fb jail just today for what was suppose to be a fun conversation between two of my cousins following a picture of a snake, my one cousin made the comment about how she use to catch snakes and bring them inside to terrify her mom I replied with “I’d beat up ass” they claim I am violent?? WTAF yet there are people all over FB threatening to murder all white people, molest children, kill children, behead people and Mark seems to feel that’s all ok? How can we hold these brainless empty heads full of air accountable for bulling us??? I have proof!
Sorry that was suppose to say I made the comment to my cousin “I’d beat yo ass” my words got changed don’t know why!
I’ve been in FB jail for 30 days twice, and since then I’ve spent a lot of time finding out exactly what lands you in jail. (Anytime anyone is sent to jail I ask them precisely what they said.) I have no doubt there are errors–once they told me they were wrong, put my comment back up but left me in jail for a month) but I have a hard time believing you were banned for blocking ads. I will add that I hide ads CONSTANTLY.
Me too, except I was barely posting anywhere!
I just got a 30 day ban for calling a video game character a bitch. I play Skyrim and there’s one NPC follower that is constantly blocking exit routes. I said if you use a cheat ring you can go through anything, including Lydia’s bitch ass
Lmao! Freaking Lydia! She’s the worst. I accidentally killed her because she jumped in front of me just as I let an arrow fly. Got her right in the hip.
I have been coming to FB for 16 years and I have never gotten in trouble for anything. Within the past 3 weeks I’ve gotten several restrictions thrown at me for out of context comments. I got hit for “inciting violence” after saying a certain video game villain should have been shot early on in the game…therefore saving the life of the main protagonist in the story. A fictional character! I’m not saying anyone in real life should be harmed. FB can’t figure out context so innocent posts are being labeled as going against their community standards. I also got slapped with spamming for commenting on a wildfire relief group. I posted a screen grab of a wildfire map and added the link so people could see if their homes were in jeopardy. FB said I was spamming and I have 60 days of no FB Live or advertising. I disputed it and they are upholding their decision.
I feel like I’ve been put on some sort of list for people causing problems and I’m now under the microscope. Anything I say will be looked at.
I was suspended from Facebook for two months and I have no idea of why.
Additionally, my four books and charity art page which are copyrighted that I originally posted on Facebook that they posted to Google has also been suspended from Google. Facebook asked me to to verify who I am asking me to send them a copy of my drivers license or passport and I elected to send a copy of my drivers license to no avail. I have been violated and I really don’t know why and that bothers me.
I too was banned for a month and had no idea why… it would be nice if FB would send you an email to let you know… But apparently, on whatever planet Zuckerberg comes from, such social niceties aren’t part of his cultural norms….
Anyway… After a lot of digging around, I found you can not only find out why you were banned, but appeal the ban.. On the FB webpage,
Try to post on your account… You’ll get the Popup saying you can’t post. Click on the Blue Banner at the bottom “See account Status” … It’ll pop up a new tab ‘You can’t post… Blah… blah… blah.. ” At the right is a box ‘See Why’… Click on that.. You’ll get a popup with all of your past transgressions… Click on them.. Sometimes they have automatically been cleared and others will have no info.. Click on the last date ‘View’ … You’ll get something like this:
Saturday, May 8, 2021 at 9:24 PM
Your comment didn’t follow our Community Standards on hate speech
You can contest the report by clicking the links…. It’s an awkward process… But hey! Alien technology, right? 😉
I’ve had two accounts permanently closed by FB and now I’m on my second 30 day ban on the 3rd account. I had a chance to appeal and filled out a few pages and sent it. A few days later was advised that my appeal was not selected. Very sad how FB has become. I report animals being tied up just to be eaten by another bit they are within community standards. Same as scammers, pedophiles and middle East death threats. All good to go. Scam ads are almost every other ad. You can’t post facts either, even with verified proof. FB has violated their own policies and should be banned. Time for something else.
I got banned for 30 days because I violated Cybersecurity Community Standards by using a “check in” option on FB. I checked in the Irish Pub in NY named John Sullivan’s. Basically said “Last stop for the night.”, tagged my daughter (she is 22) and boom – immediate sentence for 30 days. I disagreed, but of course, FB AI does not give a shite. I am genuinely curious what standard I violated.
Yep… I jokingly sympathized with my old boss’ wife that ‘Men are scum’… I appealed it and explained it was a joke.. and I even had a smiley face… But nope… Their AI called the ban and a supposed human being read the whole post and agreed it was hate speech.. LOL!
I got banned for “Hate Speech”. When a friend of mine complained that her husband can never hit the laundry basket with his underwear, that he makes a haphazard attempt to put them in the basket but never makes it in the actual basket so she always has to pick them up off the floor. I said: “Boys are gross”. Banned for 7 days!
Yes. This is a pattern I have seen. Men can say anything they want about women, but let a woman say anything about men, even as an obvious joke? BAN.
Yup as of today, I am on my 3rd 30 day ban since Feb. Todays comment that got me banned was “I found the ending bizarre and out of place.”. They marked it as bullying. The first ban was for copyright infringement, for sharing a video from a band’s official FB page that they implored people to share on Fb. The second one was for bullying also, for saying I am over all the covid dis-info. I deleted my account tonight, and won’t be going back there. Its ridiculous.
I got blocked for saying the sentence “well shoot the three of them aren’t even married.” I said the word shoot and forgot a COMMA so apparently now I’m looking to gun down three of the housewives of New York. Fucking ridiculous!!
I got in trouble for saying a video game character should have been shot early on in the game….in a private group for this online video game I was playing. A fictional character…apparently threatening a bunch of pixels is inciting violence. I can’t roll my eyes hard enough.
I just got a 30 day hit. Here’s what I said while talking about the 24 hour clock we use in police/military vs the normal 12 hour clock, “lol, no. The point of this post is about the 12 clock which is the idotic American norm.” They classified it as hate speech. Of course the appeal was denied in a matter of minutes, clearly not looked at with any human eyes. I run several community pages with many thousands of members so this is very annoying.
My last suspension was 7 months ago. While speaking of an actual topic, I said, “clearly you are uneducated on this topic.” It was classified as bullying. Like what?? 26 days to go.
I have had the same issue. Its Ridiculous 30 day ban for making a comment. On a post that was Purposely worded to get a reaction
From people. And then when I called the person out . I get a 30 ban . If Facebook would have bothered .to have a human look at the contents of the post . And the comments they would easily see that the ban is Ridiculous. But you can not get human Interactions. Everything is AI and it is Clearly flawed. I’m seriously thinking about Deleting my Facebook account. I dont use any other social media. So I wont be swapping one for the other .
Once I’m gone I will not be back .
Yup got 30 days for telling a person he was uneducated because he was wishing death on my elderly sick father and I for getting the vaccine. I used no profanity just the word “uneducated”. Prior to that I was in jail for 3 days for saying I got my stimulus because it was “government goods” 😳. I am SO ANGRY. Its time for a lawsuit because this is absolutely ridiculous. Yet the poster I called uneducated continues to spread misinformation and memes about the vaccine. Smfh.
Got another 30 days for calling a white supremacist a fool. Did those proud boys take over fcebook, too?
This one I know. You can’t use a derogatory word next to a group of people.
I have been banned for many different things. The latest: I posted to a crime group about a man who had murdered his wife. I said ” Women would do well not to stay with worthless men”. It was considered HATE speech. I am sick to death of FarceBook.
My guess is that they thought it was victim-blaming. Of course, if you said “Men should stop abusing women”, they would’ve gotten you, too.
So, now I’m getting a “You can’t use this feature right now. We limit how often you can comment, post or do other things” when I try to comment on public Facebook pages (like Washington Post, MSNBC). It does not give any time frame for my punishment. I have not gotten any warning, I don’t have a violation, I haven’t been doing anything suspicious. What is this fresh Hell and when will it go away?
I have been banned numerous times on FB in the past year for many of the same dumb reasons others have listed in their comments here; alleged bullying and sales of dangerous products and I’m tired of it. Tired of the FB bots accusing me of selling drugs I do not I’m a single full time Dad and a medical cannabis patient living in a county were cannabis is also legal to all. What I find most interesting about all of this is ! I have 900+ followers and since these bans none of them ever seem to react to my post anymore. I strongly believe Facebook’s algorithms and AI are targeting me and suppressing online activity from reaching my followers. Like I’m on a sh^tlist now…
Been dealing with this issue too never had problems before.
Today I couldn’t post anywhere on the feed without a spam warning.
Hadn’t spammed, no new violations either.
Never been a troll etc. Was banned for the word troll and labeled a bully.
Been called awful names and somehow those comments didn’t violate standards?
At this rate it’s not just the right being kicked, but everyone else. Heard so many horror stories just this year. In the end it doesn’t hurt me but Facebook will push everyone onto platforms where humans read comments.
I just got a 7 day ban for talking about the gardening tool called a hoe. I even said “gardening tool” in my comment. My comment was immediately deleted and I got the notification that I’m banned. I appealed and within minutes it said they reviewed my comment and that it went against community standards for bullying. Talking about gardening is bullying to them
The reason FB gets triggered when garden-loving users begin to bring the gardening tool hoe is because they think they’re saying the slang term for “whore”. Been in same place as you before.
i just got banned for saying i thought a elderly man had a antifa thug jump on the hood of his car. at first the man put his car in reverse and tried to throw the thug off. when that didn’t work and other thugs were heading his way he shifted into drive a headed off across the blocked intersection with the thugs chasing his car.
my statement was i was glad to see someone fighting back against this total lawless action(seattle,washington). really don’t understand facebook and i have heard much worse said about Trump and his family yet those morons weren’t banned. the double standard set up by liberals is appalling.
anyway so i am banned for 30 days. damn i hope i survive. kinda waiting for Trump to open his own media talks.
you really don’t have to do much but just talk against the socialist movement and they ban you. to to far from what hitler did huh???
Also, are you somehow unaware that Mark Zuckerberg is pretty much the epitome of a capitalist? It’s very much in his best interest to keep leftist thought repressed, and to further the aims of the republicans/democrats (who really are two sides of the same coin. They both espouse neo-liberalism – that is, capitalism with a modest social safety net thrown underneath. The same can also be said for all three mainstream political parties here in Canada). The moment I hear Zuckerberg call for collectivizing the means of production, is the moment I eat my words and apologize lol (because, you see, communism is when the proletariat/working class have communal ownership of the means of production, in a stateless society, free of hierarchy. By definition. Not sure if you know this, since most Americans and Canadians seem to be taught something like “communism is when the state does stuff, the more stuff it does, the more communist-y it is”. No wonder so many of them express shock when they learn anarchist/libertarian communists are a thing).
Anyhow, I totally dare you to pick up some Peter Kropotkin or Emma Goldman sometime. I promise it’ll blow your mind.
Half the language you are using here is abusive. There’s no double standards; you actually got what you deserved. I find this is the same with every conservative I ever hear about getting banned.
For my case, I simply commented that: “It’s easy to do it by yourself. You are just lazy after all”. Facebook took “You are just lazy” part as hate speech and throw me into the facebook jail. They let me protest for it through the Community Trial but … such Trial never exist in the first place. Facebook doesn’t have enough manpower to judge over countless errors, made by their stupid AI anyway.
I believe that facebook is getting worse and they are destroying the Democracy itself. It’s even worse than the Communist China Social Credit system.
I’m currently on the last day of my FB jail sentence. I’ve been labeled as an “online bully” and poster of “hate speech” for some comments that any normal human being would laugh at. I was able to see a list of my past infractions of FB’s so-called community standards. Some of them were things I was unaware of at the time because the punishment was to block me from online advertising on FB for 30 days. I have never advertised anything. My sin was to say “Boy those Brits sure are crazy” in response to a post where silly place names in the UK were shown. I learned that such a comment is considered hate speech. My current “crime” was posting a gif file of the wicked green witch from the Wizard of Oz stroking a large green orb next to her chief flying monkey. I added these words in quotes “Here’s the curvature you flat earth monkey” in response to another Wizard of Oz gif from a fellow anti flat earther in the FB group where I am a moderator: “Flat Earth Mockery and Ridicule.” The algorithm didn’t appreciate my sense of humor. It informed me that my account was suspended for bullying. I have no idea who the victim of my “bullying” is. I suspect that “monkey” is a keyword that the algorithm guards against. I tried to protest and request a review of their judgment against me, however, Facebook will not do reviews, claiming that the COVID19 crisis prevents them from having human reviewers available at this time. In the past, I have reported comments by others that truly were hateful. I reported a post that called for “Execution of globers. It’s the final solution.” FB’s response was that such a post did NOT violate their “community standards”. Needless to say, I’m quite disgusted with Mr. Zuckerberg’s platform and their misguided attempts to prevent bullying and hate, which are failing miserably to target those who truly deserve it.
“I suspect that “monkey” is a keyword”
A friend got a comment censored because she referred to her grandson a “little monkey”. It’s all getting rather ridiculous.
Totally agree with you mate . I have received many bans. For basically doing the same as you. I called some a bitch . Because her post was condoning racial violence.
I call them out and get the ban .
I have on many occasions reported this individual for their off the wall posts. Clearly looking for a reaction from people. But I get the same answer time and time again .
It doesn’t go against Facebook standards. Facebook takes no accountability at all . As in letting these posts be put on its platform.
And yet when people react they get banned. Crazy
It amazes me that the actual bullies or trolls don’t seem to ever get banned.
I had a girl tell me that “you die tonight” and then she posted a screen shot of a google search of my name with my address in it. I reported her and they said it doesn’t go against their community standards!! HOW!?! She posted my personal address in a PUBLIC POST threatening to kill me!!
My comment thats got me 30 days in facebook communist prison, was wimply, ” your a goose” to a person calling others motherf___ers, a__holes, pr__ks etc and that guy, to this day, IS NOT BANNED………. So I dont care what people say, this whole platform filters out anyone on the middle to left of politics and bans them, an allows right wing loonies to run the platform, period, this is not my first account restriction for such silly crap either.
Utterly disgusting facebook.
Why on earth are all the QNON and Trumpists permitted on this platform at all ?
Zuckerburg is a disgrace to right and wrong and facebook has no fucking clue about what fairness is, so has no right to govern anything, not even a social media platform, disgusting Zuckerberg.
Right now I’m banned for 30 days for saying that I’m sure Hitler is boiling in hell and his cauldron maybe exploding.
I was banned for 3 days in 2019 for posting 3 of these:
???
– question marks.
I posted them because I did not understand what the other person meant to say in their post!
I also was banned in the past for a post where I said “I agree” just agreeing to a regular, boring, bland comment of someone.
I was banned also for 3 days last year for correcting a guy who said Diogenes, the ancient philosopher of Ancient Greece lived in a jar and I said, “I think it was actually a barrel, that was his homeless shelter”
Any individual with the minimum knowledge of history or philosophy knows that, Diogenes was a homeless philosopher who lived in a barrel, it’s a fact! A historical fact mentioned thousands of times everywhere for 2000 years!
But when I reported a guy who used for his profile picture an erect penis, I was told that his photo did not breach their community standards
I want to create a group or a page where to publish these ( I have the screenshots) and invite everybody else banned abusively to do the same.
that would be awesome!
Same thing for me. I reported a person who said way worse than anything posted here and, nope, they think it’s just fine. I really don’t get it.
I have thought of this, too, but I figure I’d end up getting banned for it….
Yeah. I am blocked because I added people I don’t know as friends. That’s my facebook I want to do whatever I want do as long as I don’t hurt anyone or violate community policy. If you know these people I don’t really know in real life your algorithmes don’t work very well baby. Mates I give up on this crazy social media.
Came across some photos I posted in 2011 of the remains of a historic canal. Within the album, I described the remains of the historic lock’s dikes. Since the AI bots seem to be triggered by certain words, I wonder if I posted these photos now, if I would get flagged and thrown in facebook jail for hate speech, just for saying the word “dike” in reference to a long wall or embankment (even though it is spelled differently that the other meaning of “dyke” [deragatory term] referring to lesbians). Something I never thought would happen a decade ago, when I posted the photos, but the thought crossed my mind and I probably should use a different word in description if I post any similar photos in the future – I am that paranoid of facebook now.
Yeah….I’m paranoid enough to not post often and when I do, it’s in small groups and carefully worded.
one of my husbands friends has just received a 3 day ban for a photo and comment form 2013 where the twat word was used in banter, i think once the AI hits it keeps searching – why don’t they just have a cut off time or search a whole site and then ban and one ban over its a fresh start, we have other friends who have had posts from several years back getting them banned.
I just received a community standards violation of a picture from Full Metal Jacket that I posted on 8/13/2013. That post is almost 8 years old and those humanoids have a problem with it now. I’ve seen far worse on Facebook and the ones who posted them received no consequences.
I posted lyrics to Reba McEntire’s song Fanny. They included the words “I was born white trash”. Reba in her song story was singing as her character talking about herself. I got the 3 day suspension.
Sorry, the song was Fancy. One of her biggest hits.
White trash, white people and liberal trash has gotten me for hate speech
I always get thirty days in Facebook jail for the STUPIDIST reasons! I once called a man closed-minded because he told me that he loved ALL genres of music EXCEPT pop and rap and I got a 30-day ban for calling him closed-minded because it went against the “No Bullying and Harassment” rule. WITAF??!! I’m not allowed to call people closed-minded on FB?! How is THAT even harassment?! Just this week, FB told me that my comment went against the CS and I got another thirty days in jail, but they did not specifically tell me which comment got removed. You know where it says “About your comment” in bold text? Well, my comment was supposed to be underneath that text, but it wasn’t and I was just sitting there in my room pondering on what I said that apparently went against Facebook’s policies. All I knew about that new 30-day ban was I said something that shouldn’t have gone against their standards, but whatever I said did and I thought it was pointless to lift my ban if I didn’t know which comment of mine went against the CS, so I didn’t do that. This really sucks cuz I made a group all about musical theatre, but I can’t look over people’s posts nor post on it myself while I’m banned and now I’m afraid that the members of my group will think I’m a bad administrator. I feel like quitting Facebook cuz of how drastically their Community Standards have changed, but I don’t really want to cuz there are people on that site who I feel comfortable around and can connect to on a personal level. There are so many other dumb reasons I got banned for in the past, but I’m much too lazy to list them all.
I’m now permanently banned because I shared information about how a particular therapy is abusive and advised people not enrol their kids in it. I also called out bigotry and racism in my local community and campaigned for human rights. This flagged the AI’s attention and I got repeat mutes (although no explanation exactly what the issue was) and an eventual account deletion as a result.
Unreal!!
They are absurd, abusive, dictatorial.
We should start a class action against them!
No lawyer can defend for them the fact they banned me for 3 days for “???” expressing the fact I don’t understand the meaning of a post of someone… by 3 question marks!!
What sort of algorithm is that which consider “???” inappropriate?!!
It’s absurd, but they are within their legal rights as it’s their platform and we can choose to leave. We agree to their terms. Sad, but reality.
Try making a new Facebook account. I’m waiting for my current one to be revived.
That is a violation of Facebook’s Terms and Conditions. That is a surefire way to get more bans.
Got a 7 day stay in Facebook jail yesterday for bullying for saying “Loser. Trump. Didn’t. Own. The. Election. Nothing. Was. Stolen. From. Him. Capisce?” (punctuation for emphasis) to a guy claiming the election was stolen. What in the world is “bullying” about that? Does the algorithm think I called him a “loser?” If so, I’ve been called a hell of a lot worse that Facebook hasn’t removed. I also got a violation for organizing violence from posting an article that I’ve posted dozens of times that summarizes the election lawsuits. Not one thing about it is controversial in any way. It’s from a respected international news source and just lists the cases. It was never flagged the other times I posted it. What the actual hell?
Zuckerberg is a Republican by nature, a right wing puppet.
Your not alone for restrictions for posting anything politically left in anyway……
But if your a Trumpist, its all good, say what you like, post what you like, you wont be banned…. literally seen that happen daily for ages now….
I’ve been on a mission since my “release” to report any comments from Trumpers calling people names, spreading false information, or simply using phrases I’ve used and received violations for. Nothing. Not one has been taken down for going against community standards. I reported a guy for calling someone r*tarded but apparently that’s totally fine. I called someone a potato once and got a warning but calling someone r*tarded is a-okay. Unbelievable.
Totally agree with you mate . I have received many bans. For basically doing the same as you. I called some a bitch . Because her post was condoning racial violence.
I call them out and get the ban .
I have on many occasions reported this individual for their off the wall posts. Clearly looking for a reaction from people. But I get the same answer time and time again .
It doesn’t go against Facebook standards. Facebook takes no accountability at all . As in letting these posts be put on its platform.
And yet when people react they get banned. Crazy
Recently I got put in jail for 24 hours for calling someone a “twat”. Yesterday, I got thrown in for calling someone a “silly bint”. Yet I’ve reported people for telling others to kill themselves and FB comes back with, basically, “That’s fine.”
I just got banned. Pop up asking for ID. I send ID and 30 seconds later I get an email that I’m permanently banned.
About a month ago I stood up for someone who was being harassed on their personal FB page, I called the harasser a Coward. I got a warning.
Now this. I had 13 years worth of memories, photos of my kids and family, some of whom are no longer alive. I’ve been cut off from numerous family members and old friends.
With No explanation as to why. And no appeal process.
Yeah facebook does that at random from what I have heard, to random users. It happened to me about a year ago (I am the same Thomas who regularly posts here about being thrown in facebook jail multiple times). Yeah last April, I was on facebook and suddenly got the same popup asking me to take a selfie for face verification, then my account was locked until my photo was verified. I was unable to access my page or anything for almost 24 hours – my friends all told me that I was completely gone from facebook, one of my friends showed me on their phone that I come up totally blank like a deleted account on messenger as well. Luckily, after waiting almost 24 hours, I got the notification that my photo was approved and my account was restored.
its also happened to several of my friends who suddenly disappear from facebook, then are back. Sorry they did not approve you and you got banned, that sucks, I too have been on facebook since 2007 and have a lot of photos and memories there, so I feel for you. I strongly advise to backup your facebook photos as there is no guarantee your account will not be suddenly deleted. Facebook is not a photo storage service, a mistake I am guilty of making.
I got banned for saying a television character made a bitch move! It’s not the first time I’ve been banned for complete nonsense and the mad thing is, the bitch move comment wasn’t even reported. Facebook just flagged it!
Unfortunately, facebook’s strict AI filter is triggered by certain words and I believe bitch is one of them. I am on a 30 day facebook jail sentence right now all because I posted “Fuck Spectrum.” I have learned you cannot even swear on facebook anymore, even on your private page. It wasn’t like this until last spring when the pandemic began and facebook sent all its staff home and began relying on its AI to moderate everything. Got to treat facebook like you would your supervisor at work. Its that strict now.
I remember reporting death threats to FB and they successfully removed them, but that was, like, six years ago. I’m sorry that reporting death threats didn’t work out for you. Facebook should’ve taken action for them, but I don’t know why they’re not seeing a problem with them now.
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I reported a guy once who said “suck his *….* and wipe your mouth with *….* not to me, but another woman and he was referring to a politician…I thought it was too gross and too graphic and the response from FB was that his post didn’t go against their community stands 😳
Banned for 30 days after appealing a comment. I mentioned the attitudes that i endured at the hands of black women when i worked in retail. Marked as hate speech. Said they will not issue any restrictions. Appealed. Rejected and issued 30 days. Doesn’t matter if you’re black/white/whatever. Any dissenting on Jbook….INSTABAN!!!!!!!!
Hi you may remember me, I have been thrown in facebook jail several times in the past. Go back to November 15, 2020 and you will see I got 30 days for telling off a bully who purposely picked a fight on a facebook group, by writing to him “I will kick your ass, bitch.”
Then on January 10, 2021; I originally got another 30 day facebook suspension, this time simply for posting about how the Trump protestor rioters should all be handcuffed and thrown in jail and prosecuted, I appealed and surprisingly won my appeal and the appeal was lifted (probably one of the few appeals ever won).
Anyways I just got another 30 day suspension yet again. This time for simply swearing on my own timeline, which is set to private. All I did was post for my status “Fuck Spectrum” (for anyone who doesn’t know, Spectrum is the internet/cable TV provider that replaced Time Warner). I just simply wrote that because I was mad at the Spectrum Company. Within 30 seconds, I get the dreaded popup that my post violates community standards on hate speech and 30 days suspended from posting. This is so ridiculous, you can’t even swear on facebook anymore without being suspended. And hate speech???My post was directed at an internet provider company and on my private page. Seeing how quickly it got flagged, its obvious it was their unfair cruel AI who flagged me. Makes me wonder do certain words, even saying the “f” word automatically trigger the AI bots?
Facebook sure has changed. I remember way back in January 2008 when I was in college, one of my classmates on facebook (his name was Kevin) was a diehard Cowboys fan. During the playoffs, the Giants crushed the Cowboys and Kevin then went on facebook and posted “Fuck the Giants, Eli Manning looks like he has downs syndrome.” A post that many found offensive but allowed to go as freedom of speech, if it were now I imagine their AI would flag that. The AI has basically made facebook like military school.
This latest ridiculous suspension is upsetting as I am the administrator of a facebook group I started honoring my late mother who died from cancer. Her three year passing is coming up on April 20 and now I cannot post on the group honoring the three year anniversary because of this ridiculous AI military school moderation. So angry at facebook.
The whole world has changed since 2008. We have more visible hate in our society, more targeted violence, more groups fighting the hate and violence. Facebook was targeted by one during the last administration for allowing radical groups to promote themselves and post violent/hateful/bully rhetoric (and I am talking left and right extremists). This lead to the starting to crack down. The only way to do that is with a massive workforce of human monitors….or AI.
AI cannot always distinguish what is hate speech vs what sounds like hate speech – it cannot read context. Add in that they clearly target users who have already been banned – you’re now believed more likely to be a repeat offender and each offense makes the next ban more likely – so even if they were wrong, you pay for it. What started this post was being clueless as to why I was banned. Now, I only interact in groups and choose words carefully. I no longer use my personal profile. All is to avoid the ban risk since I manage client accounts.
I agree with the need to moderate, but a 30 day suspension is ridiculous. Because of my latest ban, I was unable to share about the three year anniversary of my mothers passing on the facebook group I moderate honoring her. Also I was not able to share about me moving to my new apartment or my cat dying, as well as very nice sunset photos. Got to wait until May 10 and then post everything and backtrack my posts by changing the times on my timeline.
The only good news is I believe the “posts that do not follow standards” violations expire after 12 months. I say this because the very first post, which got my account flagged was dated April 18, 2020. I noticed now that violation does not show up on account restricted anymore. My very first violation was a link I posted to an escort website called skipthegames in response to a dating thread. I had no idea at the time that facebook had begun moderating with algorithms and AI. I remember making that post a year ago and within 30 seconds, got flagged for sexual context and given a warning because first time – but that put on me on a “list” which led to harsher facebook jail sentences (second time it was 24 hour ban, third time it was 3 day ban, fourth time it was 7 day ban and fifth time it was 30 day ban). It will be interesting to see if my other violations that cost me 30 day bans will be removed after a year, time will tell.
Also it does seem that this facebook jail trouble all began right after the pandemic hit last spring. That makes sense as I remember reading somewhere that facebook sent all its moderating staff home and began strictly relying on AI for moderation. It seems coincidental that all these strict rules and dracorian sentences began around this time.
Absolutely the 30 day ban is ridiculous. I also have a problem that bans also block users from moderating groups and pages. Hard to separate that out, so it means I post little to nothing and what I post is something I would share with my parents and kids.
I have been banned for a month over 6 times from Facebook. Clearly I am on the shit list because now it’s to the point where I can use a word, say “ignorant”, when nine other people use the same word and are not punished but I am immediately banned. I’ve been out of my latest incarceration for a month or so now. Apropos of nothing; suddenly I am restricted from sharing. Not “banned”, just randomly they decided it was best not to allow me to share. No explanation, of course. I’m hopping mad. Really tired of the communication police.
I am wondering if I’m on some sort of Facebook target list too… in the part 4 months I’ve had 4 bans – for apparent acts of “bullying” by use of one or two word responses to deal with bizarre troll attacks of abuse towards my physical disability and content of conversations with others..
Cave monkey – a random tool was making suggestions that disability and covid are just gods way of getting rid of those not worthy of life. I’m a legally blind tube fed powerchair user on palliative care and I told this dude to go get off social media and enjoy single life as a nasty little cave monkey.
Banned for 30 days – appeal – decision reversed after 3 days of fighting every angle…
Moron – same result
Dork – was on a friend’s page last night, and a wierd little boy started leaving vicious posts on his page. I challenged the comments, reported a few that suggested disabled women should be raped and cut up into little pieces – and was awaiting my friend to return to his device to see the terrible posts and deal with it… I stated nothing more than one sentence “Hope you got enough attention from this crap darling. Goodnight dork…”
Ten minutes later I discovered a message from fb. I had been hit with a 30 day ban for “bullying”
WTAF – He can call for disabled women to be raped and murders but my response is a bigger worry ???
My depend didn’t see an issue with what I posted and is a bit scared that something on his own personal page wasn’t allowed to be dealt with him personally…
Any suggestions on how to deal with this. I’m 44 not 12 and I didn’t think I would be slammed so hard for something so small – and seem others have posted far worse…
You are definitely marked, this is the third time I’ve been thrown in Facebook jail for calling somebody a parrot
I’m glad I found this thread (even though the topic – like most Facebook banning or trigger words posts/articles – are aimed at businesses advertising effectively on Facebook.
I also received my third notice (and accompanying 3-day ban) for using the word “ignorant” in replying to an anti-mask, anti-vax person bragging in a comment on a NYT article. (I said that it wasn’t ignorance but prideful ignorance.) I was really shocked that was considered a violation of “bullying” and wondered if they were ‘following’ me more closely than others. But I also wondered if trolls collect on places like the NYT page and wait for responses to their comments and then collectively report the comments. Who knows?
But this has been odd, because I had been a FB “good citizen” for ten years until getting my first “warning” in December. For using the term “white trash.” Now, I was almost glad to get that warning because that told me that maybe, just maybe, FB was trying to get a little more serious about civility on the platform. But this current ban seemed over-the-top.
The second situation (and accompanying one-day ban) was absolutely bonkers and I appealed twice – which also made me wondered if the appeal process was remotely serious.
The short version, I had posted my own baby picture as a TBT post. I was an awful looking baby! Someone said that I liked cute. Here was my precise reply: “I look like a monster with claws! Burn it! Burn it” Obviously I was joking – it was a picture of me on my own wall. Nobody could take the comment seriously, right? Suddenly I was banned for violating community standards by inciting violence.
I immediately appealed because… duh. A day later, my appeal was rejected, but I took the opportunity to appeal the appeal because I wanted to clean the second strike off my record and because it was such a complete misunderstanding about my post. I had the opportunity to fill out a form but it included the caveat that because of the number of appeals that they receive not all are reviewed and mine never was. (What is the point of an appeal process?) Anyway, when I filled out this form, there was no opportunity to say (basically), “Can a human being with a functioning brain who speaks my language look at the post and the comments so that they will grasp that there was absolutely nothing resembling a literal incitement of violence?” Instead, the focus of form was on my justification of the incitement – like was I a revolutionary living under an oppressive regime with a valid reason for inciting violence. Absolutely bonkers.
From what I gathered from personal experience and seeing how others have gotten their accounts flagged, I believe its AI banned you. I do not think that you were reported, I think using the words “ignorant” or “White trash” automatically trigger the AI bots which flag the user’s account. Many others have used those words and been automatically banned as well. It is totally unfair and this is what happens when we rely on artificial intelligence instead of human labor. This all began when covid first hit back in March 2020, when facebook sent its workers home and began solely relying on AI algorithms to moderate content.
Thanks, Thomas.
The only reason I thought that this might have been a case of “mass reporting” is that when I went back to the comment thread on the post, there were a good number of replies to (I’m not precisely sure how they were tagged now) comments that were no longer there, so it made me wonder about being ambushed, as it were.
To be clear, I have said many things the last couple of months that could be called… far more direct than the “prideful ignorance” quip.
Feel like I am also on some sort of a watch list. I have been coming to Facebook for 16 years and I have never been in trouble before. I’m not a troll I guess you would say. But over the last three weeks I’ve had multiple restrictions thrown at me all for things that were taken out of context. Saying a video game character should have been shot early on in the game…in a FB group for that video game. Talking badly and wanting a fictional character gone is apparently “inciting violence” with FB.
I got a warning for calling a person a troll who was telling people who got the COVID vaccine that they were stupid and would suffer long term illness and other maladies in the future. According to reddit, using the word “troll” triggers their bots and gets you either warned or banned depending upon if you’ve been warned before.
Just got a 7 day ban because I told someone I am not getting the Covid vaccine and she called me a “HO” .. nice huh… I responded to her that attitude is ugly and instant 7 day ban for bullying .. so she can call me a Ho and it’s not bullying … WTH, I’m just so tired of walking in egg shells with Facebook I’m in jail monthly for stupid nonsense.
A few days ago I received a message on FB stating I didn’t follow community standards and I cannot fo live or advertise for 30 days because of something I posted. I am confused because it was posted 3 years ago. Does anyone know why something from years ago is being brought up now? My first thought was did someone, who maybe has an issue with me, stalk me on my page and got offended by this post? Or does FB randomly pick a certain amount of people and check for any violation s?
If you are curious about my post;
Valentine’s Day of 2018, it is a Valentine’s card and has a picture on the left of Jeffrey Dahmer and on the right says, “You’re so cute, I could just eat you up!”
Yes, it is a bit twisted, but I do have a sense of humor and many others agreed that it was funny.
Hope I didn’t offend anyone. And if you can help me out, Thank you and I appreciate it.
Mel, sadly there is nothing that can be done. I have no idea what Facebook is doing.
i also got banned 24h by fb. today (comment on texas highschool quiz racist questions about China i said “americans are Sh**Heads” , and on jan 6th 2021 other “americans are weird” , and nov 2018 “americans are savages”.. fb must really love only trumps..
Yesterday, I was ban for 30 days and my comment was removed. I appealed my case and it was granted. They said it was their mistake and my comment was put back up but I still couldn’t post on the fb app and it kept saying I was blocked for 30 days. So I logged in on the FB browser and I could comment with no problem on the browser. I was using the browser and than I received another ban for a comment I posted on the same day as the 1st comment that got me ban! They don’t like when you win your appeal and will target you. I appealed that one and it was denied! I looked it up on Reddit and a lot of people have this problem on facebook. When you appeal your case and it’s granted, fb will ban you for something else!
Very interesting! Thanks for that update, Tonette.
I was stunned that one of my comments against a bully was flagged against community guidelines. Don’t want to bore with the details, but she commented on my post with a condescending attitude, I initially replied neutrally, but she continued so I gave her a little back (just the same condescension she gave me). She FREAKED out and I responded that if she couldn’t take the same attitude back, she shouldn’t comment. There was nothing derogatory in this comment. Was it sassy? Yes. Did it have a passive-aggressive emoji? Guilty. Whereas my comment disappeared rather quickly, the bully’s far worse ones (including actual name-calling) stayed up until the group admin banned her (I didn’t report her comments, I wanted the others to see them). Afterwards, I had people commending me for handling her well and not stooping to her level.
There were no trigger words that the algorithm would have detected so I assume she reported it (she also blocked me after she was finished with her tirade). I was shocked that “under review” Facebook determined it did violate Community Guidelines. However, after these far worse stories, I’m going to count my blessings they just removed the comment instead of banning me. Absolutely ridiculous.
I posted a comment that FB algorithm thought sexual. I got banned for 30 days. I appealed and won the appeal. The comment was returned but I was suspended now for THREE days! Huh?
Well, I responded to a man I didn’t know, posting on my FB page and laughing, among other things, at an article about the deaths of children in Yemen. I called him what he is: “an ugly old man” who did something slimy by posting on the FB page of a woman he doesn’t know. (Women seldom do that; it’s, sorry, something some male creatures do. Yes, it’s a form of toxic masculinity.)
However, I got banned for 30 days for that, BUT I am on another FB group as someone posting the truth (it’s Students for Trump and the gross misrepresentations they post and the lies are dangerous). I reported TWICE someone who threatened President Biden (“will someone take him out?” “will someone take him out already?” etc.) and their response was to tell me to block him.
BUT I get FB jail for telling a creep to get off my FB page?
I literally had the same exact thing just happen. Suggested a bully couldn’t take what she was dishing. 30 days for “bullying.” Appeal failed.
Enlightening reading this Thread. I got half hour unable to do anything for a cheeky reply to someone on a news page a couple of days ago – nothing nasty, polite but humorous, came back on and “thanked” them for reporting me and suggested next time they counted to 3, & suddenly I was off again. Appeal refused immediately. Clearly I used some key words, so even though I used them carefully, it doesn’t matter.
Anyone any idea how long it stays super sensitive? I’m paranoid now!
I got a 24 hour ban for calling someone an unhinged QAnon fool, and guess what ~ they was, they was posting some of the most outrageous nonsense, I thought my ban was bad enough, I appealed and even went to the oversight board because its stupid, but after reading some of the responses here….jeeze, Facebook is really in a freefall from grace now.
I have just been thrown into jail for a comment, which apparently went against the community standards for harassment and bullying. The context is that this is in a discussion response to a local newspaper’s post asking “What is one thing the government could do to end male violence against women and other men?”:
Me: “Do you live in Basingstoke?”
Them: “Yes I do why would you like to meet up”
And then, apparently the comment that went against the community standards against bullying and harassment was my response:
“Not particularly, you don’t seem like a nice person and it’s a bad idea during a pandemic even if you did.
I was wondering though, firstly your profile says London, rather than Basingstoke. Bit odd that. Did you typo?
Also: are you frightened walking around Basingstoke at night?”
I’m at a loss to see how, especially given the context, that could be construed as anything like harassment or bullying.
And of course, there’s no actual way to challenge it.
One thing I will note: there’s no way of reporting someone with multiple profiles. Despite it being against “community standards”, you can’t report someone for it. That was what my previous facebook jail time was for, linking one person’s multiple accounts in a post. It was reported for bullying by the offender!
I got thrown in FB jail for 30 days for a sarcastic comment. It was a joke, not a suggestion but facebook said it violated their policy on child trafficking and won’t even review my appeal. I wasn’t even the only one to comment the same thing and other people’s comments are still there. This is now my 2nd 30 day ban this year. They banned me for 30 days the day before the insurrection. I run a political page on facebook. I honestly think they are purposely targeting certain people to keep us quiet.
If someone said that to me in that context, I would definitely be taken aback. I would certainly block and report. I’m surprised you are at a loss to understand how your words could be interpreted. First you insult her, and then tell her you are not interested… but then continue typing?!? One would think if you truly were not interested in engaging, you would have just said so and moved on. But you didn’t. First you stalk her profile by looking where she lives and ask questions about it, questions that are challenging and rather rude. And then finally you ask if she’s frightened while walking around… all during a discussion about male violence. Your comments are at best shallow, and at worst creepy and threatening.
Not offensive in the least. Therein is the problem with censorship. Everyone has a different perspective, and should not be silenced for expressing their views. I am a woman, I would not take offense, nor do I find them creepy. Not is looking at someone’s profile once or twice stalking.
I got Banned for a week today. Commenter calls me an A-Hole and starts harassing me. So I tell her she can take her attitude and jump off a Cliff. INSTANT SEVEN DAY BAN. But she gets off the hook. That’s what really makes me angry.
I am so glad a discussion like this exists! I made a comment last month basically telling a racist lig that he was a racist pig. I instantly got the popup warning me that my post might violate Community Standards, so I chose the “delete comment” option…except the post didn’t delete. I tried twice more. Still there. Next thing I knew I was suspended for 30 days even though I tried deleting the lost immediately. Appeals amounted to nothing.
Fast forward to 3 days ago. My 30 day suspension had been lifted a week ago. I made a comment to someone about a 3rd party having poor reading comprehension. All was well, until today I received a notification that my account was again suspended for 30 days due to my reading comprehension comment. Again…appealing did no good. Mind you, just yesterday I was told that a post displaying blatant trans-hate was NOT against Community Standards.
Bottom line…I am DONE with Facebook and their BS.
I’ve been banned for seven days for explaining to another poster that my friend was banned for typing “garden hoe” in a group about GARDENING! I explained it and put the phrase in quotes and was thrown in jail as well.
I think if you say “hoe” like the gardening tool on Facebook, they will think you’re saying the slang term for “whore”, which is actually spelled H-O. I called a girl a “hoe” on FB once, spelled it like the gardening tool so I wouldn’t get banned again, but apparently, Facebook saw right through my censorship and I got another thirty days in FB jail. I got so upset over that and I tried lifting my ban, but FB refused to have my ban lifted.
I had the Black Lives Matter raised fist, surrounded by the words of the phrase, as a profile pic last year for about a couple of months. Last month, long after it was changed, I was warned for violating standards. The image was flagged for “hate speech, inciting terrorism, etc.” 2 weeks ago, I was flagged in a friendly conversation for a comment I shared about how my family’s racist past influenced vague family records, due to shame towards interracial relationships, so that makes it harder for me to explore my ancestry. I ended with saying “F******, white people [eye roll emoji].” Today, I’m on a 24-hr ban for joking around with friends in a conversation about how atheists can’t go to Hell because they don’t believe in Satan. I, who was raised Catholic and am not an atheist, then said “Christians are more Satanic than atheists [laugh emoji].” None of these conversations were hurtful towards anyone and took place among close circles of people with shared experiences. I understand why the algorithms got stricter since the elections, but now they’ve even gone as far as banning Black groups for just talking ABOUT racism. Sounds like a half-a** “solution” on the company’s part in responding to pressure to do something, which they still haven’t really done.
I was just removed for the same EXACT “offense” to Facebook. If I hear them touting “we believe in racial equality” ever again, I Will slap this one in their face. I am banned for 48 hours because they scooped through my page and found a post from one year ago with the fist, and told me that I am not allowed to share “terrorist” propaganda.
This is truly disgusting . I’m here as we speak , because I just got banned. I was on Candace Owens page and said it’s sad that she’s only loved by white people because she talks down on her own black people . I can’t say white and black now???? Apparently that was hate speech……so as it looks we can’t speak on racism. Facebook let’s pedophiles post sex acts , people cursing people out , being out right disgusting , yet I’m banned for nothing ? This is my 5th 30 day ban since Corona…..I literally joked with my friend once and got banned.
I just got 30 days because I asked someone to stop being a bully. I didn’t swear, I didn’t insult them. I asked them not to be a bully.
I have 41 legitimate reports on people who used facebook to use litteral violence speech and hate speech, including members who told me personally “I will kill you F*ggot” — Facebook then reviews these and says “we reviewed, anc found nothing that goes against our family guidelines”. And ye EVERY TIME they find something that they THINK that I am saying (saying “white” is a flag for them” they have suspended me. So for every 41 reports (with them doing nothing) I have been actively removed from posting 5 total times, for 5 instances that do not merit their definition of hate speech. I really just wish that there was an alternative to Facebook. I think that Facebook destroyed us.
I am now on 30 day ban and it was a set up. A troll comes on, says something inflammatory, the commenters all jump in. I told the troll to “do better”. Troll says they are not my slave, calls me racist, harassing, bullying (all the community standards trigger words). I warn everyone to be careful because it’s a set up, as the troll says the same trigger words to everyone. Boom, we were all banned in a dragnet. FB has a real problem with their community standards. I have reported horrible worst name calling posts and they do nothing, doesn’t violate CS. I have reported violence, people threatening to kill and bring weapons, nothing.
Worse is I have a business page, which is why I was on FB anyway. And I cannot access that to interact with customers.
Oh, I have 2 hate speech charges, one for commenting on the series Duchess about British bawdy humor, I said it was nasty. Boom “hate speech”. I notice you can’t mention Brits as some are now saying Bri ish to avoide triggers. And another hate speech was correcting someone’s bad spelling of a German phrase. We were both speaking ironically of Na z is. Yet, the nazi types have no problem posting. smh. Facebook has a real problem. I think they went to the dark side. Look at FB and how it creates political issues in the world.
But that person is free to bully people on Facebook? Okay then.
I was just banned for saying ( on another page in reference to Johnny Depp being abused by his ex wife) Once (we) get and understand WOMEN are just as damned toxic as Men, then we can finally get somewhere… Previous violations were the safety of the C-19 Vax, posting a photo of Jewish people being told to get on a train etc. ( that was a 30 day ban which I got removed). Im a psych major with two degrees, almost three…
I commented, “I’ll punch him” in very obvious jest, laughing emojis included, when a FB friend commented that my husband was funny and a keeper for having purchased a “never mind the dogs, beware of my wife” sign = 30 days
Usage of the word “neanderthal” while discussing my anthropology class = 7 days
And here I was saying troglodyte. I didn’t know it was a bad word. I’m not sure what we can say anymore. I’m on a 30 day ban now for calling out a troll to do better.
I got Facebook jail because I said “men are weird” when I was talking about how some guys will hop on one social media app to another to chat with you. Apparently that phrase was hate speech. Wth
That’s a new one!
I got banned for 3 days for a similar situation. In a group about crime and forensics, me and another member were talking about an infamous serial killer from the 70s. I said he was weak-minded from the way he talks about his murders in the interview. Apparently to Facebook, me calling a serial killer “weak” was “hate speech” as well.
My husband got 7 day ban for sharing a gif from facebook gif that said good morning vietnam with robin williams from the movie good morning vietnam. They claimed it was hate speech. We share a computer and since his account was banned, for some reason I was also “temporarily blocked” from doing anything on my facebook as well. Now since that ban was over, I for some reason cannot join groups or post in groups I am already in. I even started a new account, and that account too is blocked from posting or joining groups. I didn’t even get the ban, my husband did.
Every time my husband goes to facebook jail (which happens a lot for dumb reasons), my account gets restricted from posting in, commenting, and joining groups. It makes no sense and there’s no way to argue it.
I got put in FB jail for calling my friend a CoonAss. I am from Deep South Louisiana and here most people use that as a term of endearment for a Cajun who really lives off the land like our ancestors. Even my friend thought it ridiculous as he refers to himself that way all the time.. what I don’t agree with is there is no why to explain any of this to the FB wardens. The called it “Hate Speech.”Which honestly hurt my feelings as I am NOT that kind of person. Also I was not been able to use my business page for which a pay for weekly,this makes me made.
I can see why Facebook banned you for that phrase, but I agree it’s not hate speech. In this case, it’s political correctness. Either way, the post should at worst be flagged, you get a message and a chance to reply….then the punishment, if there is one at all, is to explain WHY it isn’t being allowed, the posted deleted, and no ban.
I was just banned for three days for “harassing” Divine’s character Tracy in the film Female Trouble. I told Divine, acting as her parents, that only slutty girls wore cha cha heels, and that if she didn’t like it, she could just wreck the Christmas tree and leave. This comment was reviewed, and the appeal was rejected.
Facebook banned me for “bullying” a fake character played by a fake drag queen played by a deceased actor. This system is completely broken.
WOW!
I was banned today, IMMEDIATELY after posting a comment to one person on a VIDEO GAME page, about “killing them in pvp”. Apparently that’s harassment while tons of others can trash talk all they want. I’m done with Facebook.
That was likely flag for ‘killing’. A perfect case of bots not being able to read context.
I got the same thing!!!! I’m in a red Dead Redemption 2 video game group. Someone posted, “If you could meet any of the characters in real life, who would it be?” I answered, “Micah, because then I would shoot him on the spot”. Micah is the main villain in the game. FB slapped me with a 24 hour restriction for inciting violence. I also couldn’t advertise or use FB Live for 30 days.
24 hours goes by and I report back to the group and say to be careful and not threaten any of the character’s lives because FB will restrict you. I attached a screen grab of the the message FB sent me as proof. Facebook then comes back and changes my 30 day to a 60 day restriction on FB Live and Advertising. They say it’s for the post of me warning the group with the screen grab. How is that violating rules? You can’t say anything to anyone about being in FB jail? That’s a rule violation?
3 weeks later and I’m hit with a 3 day restriction to posting/commenting and 7 day restriction for posting in any groups because in the video game group I said, “I don’t ever start anything with anyone (other online players) unless they shoot at me first, then I’ll go after them, I don’t care what level they are at”. They said once again I’m “inciting violence.”
16 years of being on FB and I’ve never been in trouble. Now suddenly within 3 weeks I’m getting all sorts of restrictions thrown at me. I feel like I’m on a list somewhere with Facebook and they are being overly critical and not understanding context at all.
Last year I was banned for 3 days; later for a month! Then last week they said 4 days – the next day they said 7days – they didn’t like a post from LAST YEAR!!! I didn’t know they were that hard up to find someone to ban. I’m learning to word responses better but sometimes the posts we do there is no way of knowing that they won’t like them. What’s irritating is they don’t always say exactly what their peeved about – just like dictators -they do as they like to silence free speech.
Same! Just got banned for 30 days for a post from 2019… like what???? Makes me think I’m gonna just keep getting banned if they don’t care how long ago you posted it.
I was put in jail for three days because i posted something about capitalism.
Same. I just got a 7 day ban for a meme I posted in the beginning of November, that was completely harmless. This is after several other absolutely nonsensical banishments related to completely harmless and not offensive in any way, posts. All times I was apparently “inciting terrorism”.
Meanwhile, about a month ago, I saw a really vile comment where someone wished death on a poster. I reported it, and they seemed it completely acceptable.
So, I just scheduled my account for deletion. I’m tired of their games and I have no idea what their filters or keywords are or what their content mods are doing other than sleeping at their desks.
Ive just gotten a 7 day ban for telling someone they are an amazing mum and should proud of themselves, i dont know why but i didnt even get to comment it before i got the “youve been banned”. But im also getting repeatably banned over and over and over for a comment made in nov last year atleast once or twice a month. Via face its says after 21 days they no longer use that comment as a reason to ban you after highlighting it, but they just keep banning me, but they cant tell me what comment it was or when otherwise i wouls just delete it because it seems like they are using it to repeatedly ban me for it.
But the one today devestated me, this mum was having a hard time and i just wanted to tell her that she handled her situation so well and that her son, loves her for protecting him. But it also said im not banned due to November and this latest comment
I was banned for 3 days for.calling someone who’s a troller a troll. literally “she’s a troll.”
SMH. no wonder people are jumping ship. this is what happens when no humans are involved at all ever.
Agreed!
Same happened to me too! I just called a troll with 7different pages a troll and got banned immediately for 30days! What is going on with FB??
Just today, my girlfriend got a 30-day ban for picture she posted THREE YEARS ago. She has been banned twice, for a week, just in 2021 alone. Each time she appeals and they put the post back up – but keep the ban in place. It is the dumbest thing.
Wow! I have to wonder if Facebook is looking for content or if someone she’s friends with dug back that far to report it? And yes…dumb!
I was just banned for 30 days for telling someone why I was banned b4 for 7 days and the keyword was white!!!! I did call someone white trash that got me banned and have used “blanco garbage” to explain it to others.This time I still used white but garbage instead. Well that’s what got me 30 days. They def track words and accts. Everything I have reported, which has been much worse than my infractions, and clearly FAKE accts, all come back as “not violating” their standards. So there does seem to be more targeted accts like mine. I am very political tho and I liberal so it’s a myth about not targeting liberals. Also I was banned last night which I’m thinking they’re on high alert due to the impeachment!! When it’s a highly emotional time I’m pretty sure they hype up the security on rhetoric. If ur a previous offender they’re on u like flies on poo!!! Every time I appeal it is immediately rejected now also. I mean with in seconds I get the mgs it’s ok by their standards!! I’m sure my acct is “red flagged” at this point. I’ll always use emojies or dif languages from now on to avoid it. Never use the word white again thats for sure!!! 😂😅
Larry I have the exact same problem. My post are all motivational, nothing offensive. They re-post me after I complain then I’m banned anyway. 30 day ban today, 3 days last week, 1 day the week before. Soon I’ll probably be deleted.
Any Idea’s why? Anyone that can be contacted? Is this an attack from a jealous business or person or is FB making mistakes?
Tom,
I’m not sure there is anyone to contact. Nor do I have ideas why this is happening. This has been eye-opening. nothing makes sense from everything I am reading here. There is no pattern, no logic….aside from once you get banned, there’s a hairpin trigger and each subsequent ban is worse. It’s all bizarre!
It’s hard to believe that as advanced as Facebook is in coding, that they are having issues, like a glitch? It’s possible, that a few complaints hit a post and the algorithms engage to ‘automatically’ remove it? Maybe once someone complains about the post ‘following community standards’, it goes back up but there is nothing in place to un-ban the user?
I doubt this is a glitch. So much is getting banned from some yet the same content isn’t for others. There are far too many cases where benign content results in ban yet real hate-speech and standards violations don’t.
I have to wonder at this point if they’ve outgrown their coding and simply don’t have the employees with the skills to fix everything.
I got a warning 2 months ago for “bullying and harassment” (I wasn’t). Last week I got a 24-hour ban for the same reason (again, I wasn’t). Then 2 days later I got banned for 3 days for “hate speech and inferiority”. All I did was call a serial killer “weak-minded”. Apparently Facebook would prefer if I praise a man who murdered 17 women. Now they’ve got me afraid to post anything. I’m thinking of just deleting my account because there’s no reason to keep a social media account if you can’t be SOCIAL!
I have had 3 comments that were removed because they went “against our Community Standards on nudity or activity”. Each time I got to disagree and they all were restored within minutes and they said the made a mistake. After the 2nd one I still had to serve 24 ours with features blocked. After the 3rd one today I have a 3 day restriction, even though all the comments are back and they admitted they don’t violate standards. I tried sending support a message the only way I could find, through feedback. I’m sure that will get me nothing.
All 3 comments, by the way, were linked gifs from popular TV shows. The first was Mr. Burns trying to take a lolly pop from Maggie, the second was a Globetrotter on Futurama asking “Are you funky enough to be a Globetrotter”, and the 3rd on was Abed from Community saying “Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.”
Interesting that there was even chance to disagree. Facebook is clearly to large a company with very little in the way of an internal organizational structure. It sounds like one department sided with you and another failed to remove your jail sentence.
I don’t get how gifs get you banned, however.
It must have something to do with posting the link? I used to save gifs to my phone and then upload them like you would a photo, but FB seemed to have changed something and those no longer loop. They just play once and stop. Now I post the link and they work just fine. Or it could be the group I posted these in. It’s a Simpsons group, but some people were posting things that probably do go against the standards and maybe that group is being watched closer. My comments were removed immediately, so there was no chance someone reported them.
It is possible it is the group but thinking a bit more on it, the link could be the issue. I’m not sure how tightly Facebook is monitoring for content that violates copyrights. The gifs would normally be OK, but perhaps the site has contacted Facebook about them or Facebook is blocking the linked site.
I just got a 3 day ban for calling someone a “silly goose”. But when I reported literal death threats and a dude who dropped 6 N bombs in one sentence, those came back as not violating their community standards.
I had a normal discussion with someone and suddenly I got ”Your post didn’t follow our Community Standards on harassment and bullying” it wasn’t even a heated debate or me calling people names w.e
Seems like someone just disagreed with me and reported me for bullying…. for having an opinion. :/
and FB being FB they either didn’t even bother to look, or was what opinions? your not supposed to have those, STRIKE!
I have reported actual porn pages (yes even tho ones you dont want existing) and have been told they are perfectly fine and dont go against community standards
I’ve had the same experience!
I just got a 24 hour ban for posting a picture of giving myself a nose wax. I’m a barber and I was trying to promote that service on my personal page. Immediate ban as soon as it posted. Now I cannot even post on my business page. The terms and conditions Facebook says I “violated” pertain to “guns, animals, and other regulated goods.” I cannot even appeal this.
What the….?
That’s insane!
I was banned in 2018 for posting my titty. In a breast reduction support group. I was unaware of the no nipple issue and to be fair… the nipple didn’t look pretty (stitches) and was half covered with a bandage. Ok.
Then I started getting banned for swears… once for calling my sister an a-hole. On my own damn post.
Ok. I swore. Bad Laura.
Then, I jokingly said “omg I’m going to kill you … kidding say hi to mom” on a friends comment. Literally word for word. Bullying. 30 days in the hole.
This latest one I posted a shot of that dufus from the capital riot with Viking horns. I wasn’t being left or right… I literally changed the sign he was carrying …. erased the words and wrote “I suk” over them. I posted this with a comment of “well can the left and right agree this guy stinks?” On a post that two friends were arguing on (one was pro Trump one anti)
I feel like I have a target on my back since the nipple haha. I created another Facebook account… I didn’t try to hide anything are used a different email address… but I needed to be able to run a group of 4600 people that I created. I also am an admin on a news page that about 40,000 people follow. In addition to that I had several marketplace listings and plans for more since I am unemployed I could not access any of that so I created new account added myself as an admin on group and page… (I also painstakingly added friends including explaining to every old fart family member that it WAS me my account was not hacked) and then THAT was banned but it won’t say why. I’m sure they connected the dots… but what the hell!?!
I want to say I give up and honestly I could probably live without both of the pages and groups mentioned… but I’m also a member of groups for a medical issue (Huntington’s disease) and support. I feel like this is really cutting me off at the knees here. I did see that I may be able to appeal…. but I believe I would need to do each incident. This is fine but I’m just wondering if they will review them individually and even if say the most recent one is lifted… The account itself is obviously flagged as problematic.
(Sorry if grammar is bad… voice to text) great article though!
I got banned from posting and joining groups on Thursday Jan 14 for 7 days. I was entering contests, which I have always done for over 10 years now. The next morning, I was banned from sharing or liking posts until Sunday the 17th. Besides a few messages during the week, I didn’t retry sharing posts until Friday. I hardly used it at all and didn’t post in groups or try to join any and I was reblocked for another 7 days this morning and now 3 days for sharing posts. I waited my ban out for more then the allotted time, and I got reblocked for not even doing anything! I am at the point that I get scared to do anything. My share ban ends Wednesday, and I know if I try again 2 days later I’ll be banned. I have always used facebook to enter contests. I have never had a problem!
Naomi, contests may have raised a red flag if you are sharing them as part of the way to enter. It’s against Facebook’s terms for a brand to require that and doing it to too many groups or too many times could be seen as spamming. Odd is that I had never heard of being banned for it until now.
I posted below, back on January 12 – I am the one who is still suspended for 19 more days all because I posted anti Trump comments on a post in a facebook group and these two middle age men sent me taunting private messages that were reporting my comments, teasing me like kids at the playground.
I just wanted to say that I also noticed that while in facebook jail, I cannot unfriend or block anybody from my friends list. I decided today to weed out my friends list and when I tried to hit “unfriend,” it told me that this feature is temporarily blocked. Then if I try to instead block the person to get them off my friends list, the block works but they still remain on my friends list, yet blocked. That does not make sense at all. This worries me, what if somebody starts harassing me on facebook, am I unable to block them now while in facebook jail???
What really sucks even more while in facebook jail, I cannot sell anything on the facebook marketplace. I found it an easy way to make an extra $10 to $20 a week and have a lot of stuff I do not need and was planning to sell. Now I have to wait three more weeks all because of this. So annoying and ridiculous.
It’s a bit ludicrous, Kyle! Once is jail, you lose all access to Facebook. Managing brands, it meant being unable to post for them while I was jailed. I get not allowing me to post or comment, but when acting as a brand or selling?
Funny as I got days for post a bunch of anti-Biden and Pelosi comments and argued with some lady, who kept coming back for more and more. I called her a bigot and that was it.
I got banned for two weeks for revealing my gender identity.
I think we need to file a class action lawsuit against the white supremacist Zuckerberg. FB seems to only ban “Leftist” and “Unique” people who arent straight and white regularly.
The only issue with a lawsuit is that Facebook is still a private company and we don’t pay to use the service. If they want to become a right wing social media platform, they can.
Well, My ban includes my Oculus account. I have two headsets that I now cannot use without repurchasing the games and creating a new account.
I didn’t get the option to appeal.. or rather, it took all of 20-30 seconds. Sent my ID photo then perm banned.
I’m not sure what for. I was pretty active in threads.
I think their algos are completely screwed up.
Whatever they are using for their algorithms….is very screwed up!
Yep I posted below about the same thing happening to me. I’m transgender and shared in a facebook group about my story and coming out.
I got 30 days in Facebook jail for bullying & harassment
I mean really? Come on…
And jean I don’t think Mark Zuckerberg purposely banned us for being part of the glbqt community. I believe it was most likely homophobic Facebook users who abused the report button simply because they don’t like us and the ai as usual banned us cuz they probably worded their reports in a way that sounds like harassment
I got a 24 hour ban for coming to the defense of my friend who was falsely called a white supremacist and was being insulted up and down from some fat loser.
Facebook just gave me a 3 day ban for calling somebody a “snowflake”. The person in question was an obvious far right troll who goes about Facebook spreading fake news and hate speech, but seemingly getting a free reign to do so. Using his own term “snowflake” against him, when he got upset over some fact checking links I sent him was “harassment and bullying” according to Facebook.
Facebook seems to be on a bit of a political mission these days…..
They may be. It also may be that there is a mass effort from fringe groups to ban those they disagree with – the squeaky wheel gets the grease so to speak.
I reported a fake page just the day before. It had copied another person’s page then was claiming to be giving out free prizes and asking for credit card numbers.
I reported it (as did hundreds of other people).
But of course….. Facebook seen no wrong doing.
Same!! I got called trash two times by a lady and I get banned for 3 days yet I reported her comment and it didn’t go against community standards. I used no profanity. I told her to lose some weight as SHE was commenting on a women’s health page and SHE interrupted a conversation with someone else and naturally I was schooling them on the lies in conspiracy theories BUT seems like Facebook allowed that to grow out of control and now BANS PEOPLE that are speaking out against it!!!!
I’ve been wondering that.
Same thing happened to me with a photo that seemed totally innocent to me. No posting or commenting on pages other than mine for a week. What makes me nuts is I really have no idea why (And I do nothing with the ads so it has nothing to do with that) AND they do not really tell you AND they make it impossible for you to contact them to question or appeal it.
It’s absurd!
about 2 weeks ago I got banned for 24 hours. Then today 1/19 I woke up from a nap and tried to post something and I am banned for 1 week. I have no clue was to what I did or posted. There is no option (at least for me) to see why I am banned or what I have done. I am thinking about getting rid of Facebook all together. Its too big and it can’t be managed correctly. It seems as if their learning tools AI is not up to par.
I hear you Rick. If not for supporting clients, I’d be gone. So now I limit what I post in select groups.
I got a 7 day ban on the 19th as well, and I’d never been banned before. Still have no idea what I did wrong. Nothing in my support mailbox. Nothing that I can see was deleted. There is no appeal process. Very frustrating.
It sill amazes me that some get a chance to appeal while others don’t.
Same here. One minute I’m liking something and the next I’m banned until the 26th. They must hate jambalaya since that was the last pic I posted right before the handcuffs came on. I went to the place where they tell you what your crimes are and it tells me no complaints or infractions. Then they thank me for upholding their community standards. grrrrrr I’m trying to sell my book. I had book promo page takeovers scheduled during this period and I can’t even contact the page owners via messenger to tell them that I can’t do them.
I was banned 6 days ago. No reason given. No recourse. The only thing that was strange was that I posted an Elon musk article from Newsweek and I noticed a few days later that my comments were removed. I cannot for the life of me figure out why so many have been banned within this same timeline. My son hasn’t posted in a year and he was banned the same day I was !! We need answers !!!
Agreed that we need answers. The only way it seems to avoid jail….avoid posting and commenting!
If that’s the only way to avoid jail then we should just delete our accounts. What’s the point of social media if you can’t be social?! I love the FB groups and it saddens me that I can’t post anything for fear of being put back in jail for doing absolutely nothing wrong 🙁
Since I need to be on Facebook to manage client accounts, I cannot simply delete my account. I have ceased posting to my personal account and only maintain a handful of friends – The social interaction is mostly in messages. For groups, I am in a few groups. Each is based on a specific topic or focus (with 2 exceptions). They are structured and I only post/comment when I can guarantee it’s benign. The other 2 are community groups I use for local information. I never post/comment there.
It’s not perfect, but it keeps me on the platform and a bit of social interaction. It’s been a workable balance.
I’m a blind person, so I can not express myself with memes or images. I have not been banned from Facebook touchwood, however, I’m noticing a lot of my comments especially with links, getting “your post goes against community standards on spam so only you can see it”. But here’s the weird thing. I have absolutely no idea why, and I can’t view the full post. It seems to be flagging links, and the latest straw is that they flagged a link to a Phineas and Ferb song, which is, by the way, completely family friendly (if anyone’s seen Candace Against The Universe, then I linked Us Against The Universe as a song of optimism). I don’t just put links and call it a day, I will explain why I like the song and put context. I also do not post excessively. Bare in mind, it’s in a completely relevant place, someone was asking a question about favourite songs, people asking for recommendations and I put different links and reasons. I think some really cool info has now not been seen by people because it’s been blocked, probably by an AI that can’t read context.
I’m now finding it harder and harder to express myself, and I am an extremely optimistic person. I do not swear on my profile, and I mostly interact with comments. So why are some links to my favourite songs being banned, or links to stuff that might help other blind people. There’s a company in the UK called John Lewis, and this year, they had an audio described version of their Christmas ad. I linked it in a group and also linked the soundtrack version of the song (which is, by the way, different with extra verses), and all of the links got flagged, so no one in the group saw it, not even the admins, so a bunch of blind people now might be missing out on it. It’s incredibly random and absolutely baffling. I’ve disagreed with all of the decisions.
Thanks for commenting Aaron. I am constantly amazed by what I read here regarding what is getting banned or hidden. Most of it makes little sense, except your point that “AI that can’t read context”.
As for Phineas and Ferb, LOVE that show!!
I got put in face book jail for 30 days by telling a anti masker i hope you get covid……27 days i cant post like or comment
That one my be pushing it….but certainly not worth a 30 day sentence!
I got 30 days today for saying to someone that commented on a news post that Biden was a puppet…I only said and you’re a parrot. A MONTH! And I’m shut in, disabled and this is how I connect with friends. I got 7 days last month for saying I hope someone gets deprogrammed from cult 45. The bot flagging is ridiculous.
It is! I don’t understand it.
Oh don’t say par rot or use the par rot gif or polly want a cra cker. Boom 3 day ban. But I’m out for 30 for telling a RU misinformation troll who said Biden was senile “to do better”. Since I’ve been in prison, I’ve been reporting really bad comments and they say it doesn’t violate CS standards. However, anyone who calls it the Ch in a fl u will now get taken down, so go for it.
Divide you words up with spaces is another way to get by CS bs.
You are bloody amazing for saying that! So sorry that you’ve gotten banned for that.
I wish they would tell you specifically why you were banned. I received an email saying my account was hacked. Then I was blocked, I uploaded my DL as requested and I was blocked and they said 30 days. I’m like for WHAT? I checked again today it’s still saying thirty days and it has already been 9 days. I don’t understand it.
Being blocked is one thing. The have a right. BUT to not tell you why, not provide a consistent appeals process, and to seemly apply bans arbitrarily – it makes no sense, is bad customer service, and hurts their brand. At least, like you said, tell us why so we can avoid it in the future.
I completely agree with you.
Been in that situation since 2018.
I had never been banned from Facebook, until towards the end of last year.
My ban was lifted today.. I was online for less than 6 hours & I got slapped with another 30 day ban.
I posted a video clip of Tyra Banks from her chat show when she said ,she got bitten by a dog & then began foaming at the mouth,
My comment was replying saying ‘ There is crazy, then there is pretending to be a rabies infected dog’ That was apparently bullying & harassment 😐😳.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Wow! I think Facebook is trying to err on the side of caution after all the heat it’s taken over allowing hate speech and bullying. They’ve clearly gone too far the other way!
Robert
I was just restricted 24 hours for telling someone their comment was very rude. I’ve turned in so many comments for calling names or literally lying about something. Nothing happens because it’ doesn’t go against’ so no idea why just saying a comment was rude goes against anything. I’m going to collect my photos and be done with fb.
I here you. It’s hard to understand how you can be banned for this.
I’ve been in jail 7 times. I’m currently in jail for 30 days for posting a pic from my friends page. Mind you there are 3 friends who have this same picture. So I decided I would turn them in to FB and with all of them they said the picture didn’t go against their rules or whatever. But, why do I get 30 days and they dont even take theirs off??????? I HATE FACEBOOK!!!!!!!
What was the photo of?
Oh wow. Glad I came across this. I had exact similiar problems. I got a 30 day suspension two months ago, just for calling someone white trash. Then the other day, I got another 30 day suspension, this time for simply posting anti-Trump comments in a facebook group. What really irritated me, were these two trump supporter guys had the nerve to private message me and taunt me that they were going to report my comments in a childish manner..I am serious these two middle-age men teasing me like elementary school kids at the playground about how they are reporting my comments. I blocked both of the men and deleted my comments, but still got suspended anyways (I guess deleting the comments does not prevent their AI from seeing the reports). So ridiculous, they were definitely abusing the report button.
Others mentioned that once you get banned, your account gets marked. I agree and think that is true, seeing how easily I got suspended again, this time around. Also having two people report my posts at once made it worse. Its so awful people can gang up on a facebook member, simply for their political views and all report them at once, just to be mean.
Kyle, Glad you found value here. You also raised a good point – that deleting posts does NOT prevent them from being caught by the AI. Posts may be deleted from the viewer but Facebook still has access to them.
The other point – that more than one person reporting something makes it worse – exactly! Craigslist uses the same method. It take 2 flags to remove content. Facebook does not have, and needs, a method to prevent this ‘ganging up’.
Yeah its so ridiculous. I have been on facebook since 2007 and never had these problems. This makes me wonder if someone came across an old post say from 2007 or even like 2010 or 2014, and they flagged it, could I get thrown in facebook jail over that? Something I wrote a decade ago?
Also regarding users ganging up to report someone, it does not seem to mention how many reports it takes to get a post taken down and thrown in facebook jail. You mentioned that craigslist is takes two reports, it also takes two reports for yahoo answers. Oh and speaking of which Yahoo Answers has its own problems, particularly with this one troll who goes by the name Fireball. Anyone who spends time in yahoo answers, religion & spirituality has come across Fireball, a middle age methodist woman who starts arguments, types in capital letters and forces her religious views on people. She uses multiple accounts to report people who she disagrees with, to get the posts taken down. She reported me so many times, eventually yahoo answers deleted my account.
You can read all about her here – http://fireballtirh.blogspot.com/p/who-is-fireball.html
This raises another question, if yahoo answers deletes users after so many reports, do we have to worry about facebook deleting our accounts all together if we are thrown in facebook jail too many times?
Something I never gave much thought to, until recently, with my 13 years spent on facebook.
Kyle, I don’t think there is a set number of reports needed to remove a comment or post. My gut tells me there is one based on the nature of what is being pulled vs what isn’t.
Could a 10 year old post be flagged? In theory, yes. BUT it would have to show in a search for related content and that’s less likely. If that content is on a personal profile, it’s even less likely as you have control over who sees it. Still, a good reminder that what we’ve posted in the past can affect our future.
Interesting on Yahoo. I have yet to see evidence that Facebook has taken that action, but it seems plausible. Certainly something to consider. For now, the only bans I am aware of are for something flagrant or not being a real person. Yet, Facebook can delete a profile or business page for any reason.
I have been on facebook also since 2007 and was wondering the same thing. I posted below about how my facebook account was recently flagged for my post about how the Trump protestor rioters at the US Capitol should all be handcuffed and thrown in jail and prosecuted. That post was on my private page, meaning one of my “so-called friends” reported me. I had made that post three days earlier, so AI did not flag it on its own. Most likely, three days later, my “friend” saw the post on their newsfeed and reported it. So that makes me wonder about the timeframe for reporting posts and if something from a decade ago could get flagged.
P.S. I actually won my appeal and got my 30-day facebook jail sentence overturned, I will elaborate on my original post below.
Thank you.
It’s ridiculous how Facebook cherry picks what they consider inappropriate.
I responded to a nasty comment by some white supremacist who used a certain nasty racial slur to describe the BLM protesters. She even threw in the “hard r” for full hateful effect.
I responded by calling her a daft “c word”.. with a hard T.
I got flagged for “bullying”. Ms White Privilege and her disgusting racial slur stayed up.
How effed is that?
Jessica….completely effed and it seems too common.
I also do believe that people turn us in. Also, the more we go to jail the more they watch us and put us in for stupid reasons. I’m really over it. I don’t need Facebook other than to watch the news. But, I can listen to it on my Alexa. We have no Freedom of Speech at all on that site.
Linda, once banned it does seem we get flagged for things more and for things others wouldn’t – like we are being held to a higher standard.
There is and has never been freedom of speech here. Facebook is in charge. They get to choose what’s acceptable. We get to choose to stay or go. I stay for my clients and a couple of select groups. My personal profile has been dormant since June. It will stay that way.
They have risen above the law of the land infringing on our human rights and right to freedom of expression. I am challenging them
What rights are they infringing on? As best I know, they are not a government agency and we agree to their policies by choosing to use Facebook. What if Facebook decided to shut down tomorrow? Or charge every user $50 per month?
A few days ago, I was banned for 3 days for commenting that a man needed “a– beat and thrown under the jail because he victimized someone and was brought to justice. I had 24 hours to go on my ban, and received another ban for the same comment again! I reported why this was unfair and that any other person would have expressed anger in maybe a similar fashion for harming someone. In addition, there is a message that says to press a button if I disagree with the decision. Of course I press it and then 5 mins. later at 12am I get a message saying that they took a look at my comment again and that my comments violated the community. WTF!
Hi I posted here back in November, you may recall I got thrown in facebook jail for 30 days for telling off a bully who purposely picked a fight on a facebook group, “I will kick your ass, bitch.” You can read about my comment dated November 15.
Anyways tonight I again got another 30 day facebook suspension, this time simply for posting about how the Trump protestor rioters from Wednesday should all be handcuffed and thrown in jail and prosecuted. Yep a post condemning Wednesday’s capitol riots. And the thing is my page is friends only, meaning one of my facebook friends reported my post. I have an idea who, this hot-headed guy who is a Trump supporter. I cannot prove it was him 100% but I highly suspect it was, so I blocked him.
But this has gotten ridiculous. Their AI is unfair and biased and has caused me much stress.
I told a few of my friends about this and they do not believe me or understand about AI. They say that its my fault or that facebook can handle appeals to know what is wrong or abuse. I try to tell them, no AI is flagging stuff and there is no person to appeal to. Nobody except you will believe me.
Is there anything I can do because this has caused me stress. I am at the point where I want to take legal action against facebook for their unfair AI and hoping if enough people would to sign a petition. Is it worth just deleting my facebook at this point because this is not right. Anybody can report anyone just because they feel like it (in my case they are a Trump supporter) and you can unrightfully banned.
It’s absolutely ridiculous, Thomas. Sadly, once banned, you end up on a watch list. The AI is unfair, but there isn’t much you can do, even legally.
Well the thing that shocked me is I thought I would be safe on my own personal page. So it’s obvious one of my so-called friends (most likely that hot-headed trump supporter) reported my post and it got suspended
So apparently anyone can report anything now. Like I’m a Biden supporter and could report someone else for Trump support posts and get them suspended, but I would not stoop to their level
It’s just ridiculous that our freedom of speech is gone on Facebook, it was never like this back in 2015 even.
Hard to know who your friends are anymore!
There was never really real ‘freedom of speech’ but they have clearly tightened up the content moderation. The bots and AI aren’t helping. Add no manual review and it’s like the Wild West! I commend you for taking the high road.
You are certainly right. We can’t trust who are friends are anymore. Especially with the political situation, it has torn families apart.
I mean even my own father is a strong Trump supporter and he can get aggressive when you do not agree with his views. Makes me wonder if it wasn’t that hot-headed guy I mentioned, was it my father? Would be stoop that low and report his own son, simply for standing up against the Capitol rioters. This political situation has gotten so bad, I’m that mistrustful. Also my dad has bipolar, so he can get into manic rages, furthering my suspicion.
I already stopped posting in Facebook groups after my previous 30-day ban and avoided swearing anywhere. I thought that was enough, but now I guess even stuff on my private page I have to fear being considered offensive and risking Facebook jail.
Good news. I surprisingly got my facebook jail sentence and report overturned. After my post saying that the Trump protestor rioters at the US Capitol should all be handcuffed and thrown in jail and prosecuted got flagged and i was given another 30 day suspension, I appealed my post but nothing happened (I assumed as usual appealing would not help).
I was surprised, finally two days later, I received a notification that facebook determined my post did not break its community guideline and my 30 day suspension was lifted. The flagged post then appeared on my timeline, like nothing had happened. I still deleted the post immediately, not taking any chances, because I cannot conform who reported my post (this political situation has caused so much fighting between friends and family).
But I was so surprised, so maybe there is hope and that some flagged posts can be overturned, but this is a first.
This is awesome news, Thomas! I was only aware of one other case that was overturned and the majority of appeals are never acknowledged. Much appreciate you sharing this.
I agree, pulling the post was smart.
This is so ridiculous. I got thrown in Facebook jail all fit sharong my story on a post that I’m transgender and talking about my gender change.
Someone reported me and I got thrown in Facebook jail for bullying/harassment
How is this harassment? Someone didn’t like my gender identity and decided to report me purposely for that reason knowing that their AI would suspend me
This is ridiculous. We should have some rights or someway to stand up against Facebook’s unfair AI which bans for no reason
Is it worth abandoning Facebook at this point? We basically have lost our freedom of speech thanks to its AI