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Re: An account was suspended

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Post by hk__2 »

bigsparky wrote: post #73
hk__2 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was on YouTube. This thread is related to Twitter, where you cannot report a tweet for "misinformation".

Yes you can "Misleading Info Reporting Flow - Some of you can report Tweets for containing misinformation. This is currently available in limited testing to some people in Australia, Brazil, the Philippines, South Korea, Spain, and the US, though we are exploring how to expand. These reports are reviewed and acted on independently from other Tweet reporting flows (e.g. for abuse), as this test flow is used to inform…

Thanks; I didn’t know about this.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by bigbillheck »

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?

I started poking around his tweets, which led me to his reddit account, in which he complains about getting his Fidelity account suspended for what turned out to be posting his account number in public. I also found his blog, in which he has a post interacting with an obvious scammer and along the way gave out his social security number (it's still up there buddy, I'd think about blurring it out if I were you).

Anyway if that's a pattern it might have something to do with that.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by josephcsible »

JadeNB wrote: post #207
mschuster91 wrote: post #162

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

> But only a tiny fraction of the 829 M tweets a day are abusive. But you have to read all 829 M to find the abusive ones—and you have to agree on what 'abusive' means.

I don't think the automated abuse detection systems need to go away. They should still be around, but only serving to notify human moderators of what they find, not doing any deletions or bans themselves.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by shitlord »

michaelmcdonald wrote: post #2

Ben's account is already un-suspended, but only because he has a major presence and large audience (I would be shocked if people at Twitter didn't see this minutes into it happening or if Ben didn't have some direct line to various high up employees there). For the rest of us peasants: good luck getting help.

My Twitter account was suspended for "spam" a year ago because I kept replying to someone with the same reaction image. They reverted the suspension pretty quickly after I appealed.

I guess they handle appeals differently depending on the alleged infraction.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by heckerhut »

We need web3 to unbreak the web.

Hear me out before you rage-downvote me. “Web3” most of all means a functioning identity model that is platform-independent, user-owned and thus scales the solution to the bot problem beyond the limitations of a single platform.

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Post by celeritascelery »

michaelmcdonald wrote: post #2

Ben's account is already un-suspended, but only because he has a major presence and large audience (I would be shocked if people at Twitter didn't see this minutes into it happening or if Ben didn't have some direct line to various high up employees there). For the rest of us peasants: good luck getting help.

This is another power imbalance that is so frustrating. The account was “permanently suspended”, which you think means permanently suspended. But that only applies to normies. All the words are meaningless if twitter says otherwise. It’s really like living under a medieval king who is a law unto himself.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by rogerallen »

michaelmcdonald wrote: post #2

Ben's account is already un-suspended, but only because he has a major presence and large audience (I would be shocked if people at Twitter didn't see this minutes into it happening or if Ben didn't have some direct line to various high up employees there). For the rest of us peasants: good luck getting help.

My twitter evolutionary art bot @tweegeemee is going through a fiasco like this, but I don't have nearly the same presence as Ben.

The account was suspended for 10 days and I'm still trying to get the app (separately suspended) that runs it unsuspended...

They must be going through some kind of crazy time over there between nation-state trolls, the Musk fiasco and the run-up to midterm elections. Yeesh.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by rjzzleep »

danso wrote: post #247
michaelmcdonald wrote: post #2

Ben's account is already un-suspended, but only because he has a major presence and large audience (I would be shocked if people at Twitter didn't see this minutes into it happening or if Ben didn't have some direct line to various high up employees there). For the rest of us peasants: good luck getting help.

I've played devil's advocate elsewhere in the thread, but this is such a petty and irrelevant kerfuffle, as far as Big-Tech-Censorship goes. By Ben's own description of how the @StratecheryINT account was operated [0] -- i.e. "a new account that has posted a bunch of links (all Stratechery interviews) in a short amount of time, from multiple locations around the world." -- this is exactly the kind of low-hanging frui…

It doesn't have to be a lot of links, if you piss off the wrong people and they massreport you you're temporarily out.

You can reach out to support, but I don't know that support actually ever responds to any requests. Apparently according to posts on reddit if you add your number to twitter and something happens you won't even be able to ever remove it. Similarly they have weird intransparent policies regarding what numbers are allowed on twitter.

At the end of the day, most tech giants are unreachable. I hate to be that guy,but in a way it's kind of like the big chinese tech dystopia that all HN so adamantly complain about.

Re: An account was suspended

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Post by Huh1337 »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #164
Huh1337 wrote: post #89

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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…

My point is, I don't think people really said that about telephone and telegraph. Not every new technology was taken as being worse, so dismissing problems of Twitter just because it's new and "people hated everything new" isn't really good.
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