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Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

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Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#11

Yes this is excellent. companies usually provide these services anyway to large clients. This is a win win for both the small clients and the lowly worker drone at Google.

Having been one of those drones, I can attest that it will be very popular. :D

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#12

we've been struggling with verifying our business on Meta and tried many ways to get around it with no success, do you think you can help with it? can you reach out to founders@activepieces.com?

I just shot you an email

Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#13
[Gripe] Viability/ethics of the program aside, I'd love to have this for Reddit, where my decade+ account was randomly thrown into an inconsistent Kafkaesque censored limbo.

In short: One more morning I woke up and it was shadowbanned for no discernible reason, I used the appeals page, the appeal was granted with an apology... but it wasn't actually fixed, and I can't contact anyone because the appeals page says my account is already back to normal and refuses to accept any input.

... Oh, and reusing an old throwaway account to ask for help led it to be killed the exact same way.

Well, at least I'm spending more time on other hobbies I guess.

Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#16

we've been struggling with verifying our business on Meta and tried many ways to get around it with no success, do you think you can help with it? can you reach out to founders@activepieces.com?

I reckon advertising the fact you're willing to pay to get around this, which I expect is probably against ToS and the employment agreement with the company name isn't the best choice.

we're not willing to do anything against the ToS, I haven't checked them yet and we'll do things in compliance with policies, I'm just posting a problem and looking for a valid credible solution. thank you for the note!

Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#17

How do you verify employees? Are they really going to sign up to this?

For now, I'm verifying them via their work email. So far, I've gotten decent feedback from my former colleagues and friends in big tech. Most of them take some sort of compensation for helping restore Insta / ad accounts - this is just a more direct way.

I'm shocked people take compensation for that. I would've felt super weird taking money for it (not least because with how much I make charging for a favor feels like an incredibly crass thing to do)

Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#18
On one hand: an action virtually guaranteed to get you fired.

On the other: $150

I used to work at FB and they have a team that tries to catch employees selling access like this. I can’t imagine risking that for what is essentially an hours pay for most tech roles there.

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post #18

On one hand: an action virtually guaranteed to get you fired. On the other: $150 I used to work at FB and they have a team that tries to catch employees selling access like this. I can’t imagine risking that for what is essentially an hours pay for most tech roles there.

Yeah, as someone who works for one of these companies, no fucking way would it be worth the risk to me.

Re: Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

#20
post #18

On one hand: an action virtually guaranteed to get you fired. On the other: $150 I used to work at FB and they have a team that tries to catch employees selling access like this. I can’t imagine risking that for what is essentially an hours pay for most tech roles there.

yes and it seems unscrupulous to take kickback money for this. on the other hand, as someone who has one of these problems, I'd be only too happy to pay an insider to fix it. It's not just the technical problem (account suspension etc.), it's the injustice of the thing in the first place, and then the rage of being put in an endless hell loop.
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