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Re: An account was suspended

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Post by TheCapn »

josephcsible wrote: post #148
themitigating wrote: post #122

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I'm confused about what he means. "After careful review" means that a human double checked it right?

Yes, that's what that means. He's upset because a human didn't actually double check it, so Twitter is lying by saying that.

I went through an entire ban appeal process with Electronic Arts over my Apex Legends account and was treated similarly.

According to one EA Forum Moderator, there are actual people reviewing appeals, but the fact that they upheld my ban saying it was correct only to revert it 2 weeks after I stopped fighting them tells me their process is flawed.

My best guess is bans are handed out automatically based on whatever heuristic, but the human review merely checks the log generated by the automated system for rudimentary errors. Was my account the one flagged and not a different user by mistake? Yes. Ban upheld. (except not, when they gave my account back with no apology)

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Post by mschuster91 »

matthewdgreen wrote: post #157
josephcsible wrote: post #145

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> There's no such thing as appropriate moderation at Twitter scale. It's societal techology we as humans do not have. Haven't Wikipedia and Stack Overflow figured out the right way to moderate at scale?

Twitter sees 829,094,400 tweets/day. Wikipedia has 166,666 edits/day. So we're already talking about a factor of nearly 5000x. The number of contributors is also spectacularly different: according to [1] Wikipedia had edits from only 122,821 distinct users in the last 30 days. Twitter claims 237.8 million mDAU (which could be a low or high count, since the "m" stands for monetizable and users may not post.) [1] https…

But only a tiny fraction of the 829 M tweets a day are abusive.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by [deleted] »

VexorLoophole wrote: post #105

Using the web and it's services really feels more and more like tedious work which is simply not worth it anymore. I don't want to sound like some old grunt (not even 30 yet), but every modern service uses some kind of automatic banning system and everything you invested can be gone in seconds. To spice things up, all these services also stopped providing any kind of support regarding these kind of problems. Ever tri…

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Re: An account was suspended

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

Huh1337 wrote: post #89
itsamoreh wrote: post #68

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"Television is more detrimental to humans than telephone ever was." "Telephone is more detrimental to humans than radio ever was." "Radio is more detrimental to humans than telegraph ever was."

How is telephone and telegraph detrimental?

I believe the OP's point is that almost every new technology is greeted with accusations of being worse than what came before and what it's assumed it will replace, whether or not that actually proves to be the case. The examples may seem facetious, but they're all real.

I do think a case could be made that the changes in communication driven by the internet actually are different, but it's not the change itself, per se, as much as the speed of change. Pre-internet these changes were generational, and they generally took a generation (or more!) to be fully adopted and integrated into society. Now they're coming every decade or less, sweeping through the world in a matter of years.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by Spooky23 »

psychphysic wrote: post #79
breck wrote: post #31

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I find Twitter amazing. (though I'm currently suspended again - https://twitter.com/breckyunits ). The trick is not to have a smart phone. When I'm coding I can pop in and out of Twitter. But then when I close the lid I'm unplugged.

But why do you keep getting suspended?

There’s a lot of abuse reporting abuse. If you interact with people, there are psychos who will put you in some sort of list and constantly report you.

I have a friend who is a minor public figure who gets taken down this way regularly.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by marcosdumay »

ipqk wrote: post #78
_madmax_ wrote: post #27

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At this point in time I think I am comfortable saying the web is more detrimental to humans than Television ever was.

I remember when Arab Spring was happening and thinking how amazing social media was going to be.

And then Facebook started taking money from governments, and the messages organizing grassroots movements became extremely short lived and started to lose reach.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by Huh1337 »

WaitWaitWha wrote: post #127

Question - if a business permanently suspends a user, will the user ever be able to come back to the account? (of course, theoretically no). Then, why not just delete the account , why only suspend? What benefit is it to the suspended user, more importantly to the business?

For example: Keeping a record of the user getting a ban. Keeping the data that led to the ban. Keeping the user data in case the ban needs to be repelled.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by breck »

djbusby wrote: post #82
breck wrote: post #33

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If you just stick to the sites that are public domain without ads, it's an amazing place. And of course the "purple app" that everyone is talking about ( https://www.farcaster.xyz/ ) is incredible.

You are the first person I've heard mention FarCaster.

Disclosure: I'm often wrong about these things.

    user: breck
    created: August 24, 2007

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by xwowsersx »

In that thread, someone replied with:

> Twitter management is a joke. @paraga doesn’t use twitter and hasn’t tweeted since July.

He's not included retweets in that, but this seems like a good point. How can the CEO not post his own tweets in the last 109 days?

Or do you all feel "well, the CEO is busy and has better things to be doing than tweeting"?

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by briffle »

MikePlacid wrote: post #121
AlfeG wrote: post #72

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I got my Amazon account deleted. I have old credit card linked to AWS with billing address in one city of Ukraine. Few weeks later after city been occupied I got message from Amazon that my account is locked due to sanctions. They give me ability to comply by removing offending credit card. But I can't do this because account is locked. I've got zero human response only broken scripts from support that I need to logi…

I’ve stopped using Amazon after AWS started political censorship. Actually, saves you a lot of money: much less impulse buying. It appears a lot of my impulse buying was caused by my trust in Amazon return policy :)

that is not political censorship, it is illegal for US businesses to do business with Russia because of sanctions. The sanctions themselves are political, but not following them is not a choice for US businesses.
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