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Re: Ask HN: Why do various new accounts keep getting blocked?

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Post by incomingpain »

jsdevtom wrote: post #10
incomingpain wrote: post #5

How much collusion do you expect between those major entities? I expect virtually none. They won't have some folder where they share 'john doe created an account, ban him on your platform' Do you expect you've been compromised and hackers are screwing with you? I doubt it. Flipside, what does make sense? You're on a list. Your government is the one who has decided you cannot have those accounts.

I really have no idea what could even make sense. The cause I consider most likely is that they have a bias toward blocking new accounts, and only if you do display certain behaviours, will they not block you.

>I really have no idea what could even make sense. The cause I consider most likely is that they have a bias toward blocking new accounts, and only if you do display certain behaviours, will they not block you.

No, if twitter just blocked all new accounts they'd be out of business very rapidly.

Twitter isn't actively talking to facebook about content moderation.

You're definitely on a list. Don't worry, practically everyone on HN is on a list or 2.

Re: Ask HN: Why do various new accounts keep getting blocked?

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Post by EddieDante »

jsdevtom wrote: post #7
evgen wrote: post #6

If you want to know why you are facing these problems please answer this simple question: How is anyone at these major service providers supposed to distinguish between your claimed legitimate use and a fly by night spammer churning through disposable fake identities? As you noted, you have no history or reputation. Nothing. The rest of us will gladly increase the cost of entry for you without any concern if it incre…

What about young people who are new to the internet? Should we increase the cost of entry (or just flat out ban it) for them too for their lack of online reputation?

Allowing young people new to the internet to get hooked on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, etc. does them no favors.

Re: Ask HN: Why do various new accounts keep getting blocked?

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Post by ffhhj »

Spam/scam bot farms exploit residential IP addresses. If that ever happened to me I'd backup/wipe out/turn off and then store all my devices, switch to another Internet provider/phone company, buy new devices, and create new accounts on them, then sell the old devices making sure the new accounts are never linked to these. If possible I'd move to a new place in between step 1 and 2 just to make sure. That's actually my escape plan if Google ever locks me out, they do location tracking.

Re: Ask HN: Why do various new accounts keep getting blocked?

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Post by evgen »

jsdevtom wrote: post #7
evgen wrote: post #6

If you want to know why you are facing these problems please answer this simple question: How is anyone at these major service providers supposed to distinguish between your claimed legitimate use and a fly by night spammer churning through disposable fake identities? As you noted, you have no history or reputation. Nothing. The rest of us will gladly increase the cost of entry for you without any concern if it incre…

What about young people who are new to the internet? Should we increase the cost of entry (or just flat out ban it) for them too for their lack of online reputation?

Those young people have absolutely no problem getting online and building enough presence to accomplish objectives. Maybe the questions you need to start asking are what makes you different from them or what are you doing that makes you seem downright sketch to all of these services. You are actively doing something that is making you appear untrustworthy or bucketing you in with the spammers. Figure out what that is and stop doing it.
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