Unpopular opinion: I thought my Twitter ban was about 'hate speech' for calling out a bad policy, but the screenshot a friend sent showed I'd actually broken a rule I didn't know existed.

The mod note said I 'weaponized a hashtag' by using #FireTheBoard in 12 consecutive replies during that shareholder meeting live-tweet. Anyone else get banned for a technicality you had to learn after the fact?

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taraw163mo ago

Honestly thought they were just being petty until my friend got banned for spamming a poll.

sarahh483mo ago

Wow, that's a new one. I saw @taraw16's thing about the poll spam and figured they just make up rules as they go. My cousin got a warning for posting the same link too many times in a help forum, which they called "artificial engagement.

oliver_mitchell22d ago

Hang on, I gotta push back on that "poll spam" thing a little. I remember reading the actual help page after my own ban-it's not just about posting the same link too many times, it's more specific than that. Like, I got dinged for using #FireTheBoard over and over in a row because they call that "hashtag flooding" or something, not just plain spam. What I saw is they classify it differently based on what you're repeating-links, hashtags, or poll votes. The poll rule is more about manipulating voting results by forcing people into a single option through repeated replies, rather than just annoying people with the same post. So your cousin might have been flagged for "repetitive content" which is a whole other category that doesn't even mention polls. I had to dig through their policy pages for an hour after my ban to figure out these little distinctions nobody tells you about upfront.