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Got a 30-day ban on my main account for a joke about a local mayor. Took 3 weeks of appeals to get it lifted.
The auto-mod on a big platform flagged a comment I made about the mayor of Phoenix as 'misinformation'. I had to file 5 separate tickets and finally got a human to review it after 21 days. They admitted the bot was wrong but my content was still suppressed for another week. Has anyone else had a joke get caught in the political speech filters lately?
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abbyc336mo ago
My cousin got a 7-day ban for calling a city council member a silly goose. The appeal process was just as long.
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cole_lee96mo ago
That's wild, @abbyc33. A full week for "silly goose"? What platform was this on? I saw someone get a 24 hour timeout for way worse last month. Makes you wonder who's making these rules and what they actually consider a real insult. Did your cousin's appeal give any real reason for keeping the ban, or was it just a copy-paste message saying they broke community guidelines?
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lily974mo ago
Notice how the bots are getting worse at reading context, but still have full power to wreck your account. It's like letting a cashier with no common sense decide who gets kicked out of the store, then making you beg to come back. Real talk, this kind of automated overreach is why people are starting to distrust these platforms entirely.
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