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Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

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Post by teekert »

ascar wrote: post #22

> He immediately gets angry at Facebook messing up his name. The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger: “It is the arrogance of a giant American corporation which considers the correct spelling of the names of millions of Dutch people an edge case.” This reminds me of the excellent "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Name…

Yeah, in the Netherlands we also don't use the "de" and "van" for sorting so it was confusing to find my badge under the "v" at American conferences the first time. Ah well, what can you do? A friend of mine had his FB acount blocked for failing to provide a real name (his last name is "Fun"), ironically after he gave FB a false name they did accept it.

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

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Post by jaspax »

Any guesses what tipped the automated system off? Two guesses:

1. The Big Lebowski uses the word "fuck" many, _many_ times, which may start to look abusive to an online system that doesn't know any better.

2. The movie contains references to nihilists and Nazis which an irony-unaware system may not be able to distinguish from actual endorsement.

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

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Post by blunte »

There are so many ways to have a problem with Facebook and be unable to get help. The list of ways grows...

My "favorite" is if you once had a spare FB account for playing some game, and later FB has blocked that account (for inactivity, or being obviously fake _after_ they instituted the real name policy)... but you still get occasional emails from FB begging you to come back and login - your friends miss you! Of course you cannot login, and you cannot stop the fucking emails from FB. There's no process for dealing with this, so you ultimately have to write a custom filter to process these zombie FB emails.

I urge everyone, no matter what your "need" to have an account on FB is, to just stop logging in. Don't delete the account... just never login again.

Facebook will continue as a bad and irresponsible actor of global proportions until we collectively send it the way of MySpace.

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

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Post by hnarn »

teekert wrote: post #71
ascar wrote: post #22

> He immediately gets angry at Facebook messing up his name. The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger: “It is the arrogance of a giant American corporation which considers the correct spelling of the names of millions of Dutch people an edge case.” This reminds me of the excellent "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Name…

Yeah, in the Netherlands we also don't use the "de" and "van" for sorting so it was confusing to find my badge under the "v" at American conferences the first time. Ah well, what can you do? A friend of mine had his FB acount blocked for failing to provide a real name (his last name is "Fun"), ironically after he gave FB a false name they did accept it.

> A friend of mine had his FB acount blocked for failing to provide a real name (his last name is "Fun")

Don't they have a process where you can submit a government ID and have your name accepted? Honestly I don't blame the minimum wage person responsible for name screening for flagging a name that is both uncommon and one of the most common adjectives in the English language, if the policy is that fake names aren't allowed.

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

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Post by barrkel »

robertlagrant wrote: post #59
Ballas wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is capitalized when used without a first name. (and the author is Hans de Zwart)

According to Medium. At the top of the article another name is given.

The Dutch language version of the article was written by Reinier Kist but the English version was translated by Hans de Zwart.

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

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Post by eythian »

robertlagrant wrote: post #59
Ballas wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is capitalized when used without a first name. (and the author is Hans de Zwart)

According to Medium. At the top of the article another name is given.

At the bottom it says:

> This article was written by Reinier Kist and originally appeared in Dutch in NRC on August 3rd, 2020. It was translated into English by Hans de Zwart.

In the original source: https://archive.is/g6H0F it is also "De Zwart" when without the first name, and I would reasonably trust NRC to get it right.

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

#78

Post by louwrentius »

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #39
louwrentius wrote: post #33

I think if you work at Facebook, I wonder how you can live with yourself, helping to make the world a worse place. Having worked at Facebook should make you a paria, nobody should hire you. Facebook should be a stain on your resume.

And where do you work? I can probably (almost certainly) find serious ethical lapses in your company, if it's large and/or has been around for a long time. Shaming people based on their perceived associations is just wrong, no matter what those associations.

I won't disclose that but rest assured, I don't work at Facebook or any other similar style company that is a detriment to a stable society.

If you work at Facebook, I despise you. (you in the general sense)

The foundation of the company is a guy who thought it was OK to create website to rate women. Fucking degenerate people.

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

#79

Post by dwighttk »

hnarn wrote: post #75
teekert wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, in the Netherlands we also don't use the "de" and "van" for sorting so it was confusing to find my badge under the "v" at American conferences the first time. Ah well, what can you do? A friend of mine had his FB acount blocked for failing to provide a real name (his last name is "Fun"), ironically after he gave FB a false name they did accept it.

> A friend of mine had his FB acount blocked for failing to provide a real name (his last name is "Fun") Don't they have a process where you can submit a government ID and have your name accepted? Honestly I don't blame the minimum wage person responsible for name screening for flagging a name that is both uncommon and one of the most common adjectives in the English language, if the policy is that fake names aren't…

>minimum wage person

You mean algorithm?

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

#80

Post by teekert »

hnarn wrote: post #75
teekert wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, in the Netherlands we also don't use the "de" and "van" for sorting so it was confusing to find my badge under the "v" at American conferences the first time. Ah well, what can you do? A friend of mine had his FB acount blocked for failing to provide a real name (his last name is "Fun"), ironically after he gave FB a false name they did accept it.

> A friend of mine had his FB acount blocked for failing to provide a real name (his last name is "Fun") Don't they have a process where you can submit a government ID and have your name accepted? Honestly I don't blame the minimum wage person responsible for name screening for flagging a name that is both uncommon and one of the most common adjectives in the English language, if the policy is that fake names aren't…

I don't blame them, but I would prefer to provide an accepted fake name myself over sending a document.
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