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Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

leosanchez wrote: post #17
matsemann wrote: post #14

"X" is in a weird place now. The monetization of engagement absolutely wrecked the feeds from my cursory glance. Just ragebaiting, vague posting, abuse (for a while, every female posting would have someone in the replies doing "grok, put OP in a bikini" and it would post sexualized images of them). Someone vent viral by posting a picture of Steve Jobs' daughter (?), and people try to replicate that as that now genera…

> every female posting would have someone in the replies doing "grok, put OP in a bikini" I get these tweets randomly in my Timeline as well. What I don't understand is why does Twitter think I should know about someone asking Grok to put xxx in Bikini

My guess would be that they amplify tweets involving Grok as a form of advertising. I think they disabled tagging Grok for non paying users, so I guess they do it to advertise its capabilities. And because their user base is so toxic that mostly means amplifying things like that.

Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by eucyclos »

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #23
repsilat wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This hyperbole does more to turn people away from Bluesky and other sites more than X to be honest. There are clearly lots of politically moderate, wholesome "politically inert," and international X users. The people who are vocal about having left seem more extreme and less tolerant to me. Perhaps for related reasons, I've also recently heard Elon Musk being described as a "literal Nazi" a lot, and I'm sure that kin…

The dude did a literal Nazi salute on stage. Twice. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call him a Nazi.

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Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by matsemann »

charcircuit wrote: post #29
Mario9382 wrote: post #15

I created an account in X yesterday because I'm trying to get more involved into building in public and the social aspect of development and I was shocked to see nowadays you can pay for X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets. At the end I just deleted it and created an account into Bluesky instead.

>X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets. You are confusing X ads for X premium or you are mistaken.

It's probably not "the more you pay the more interactions you get", but there definitely is "if you pay, you get more interactions". Blue checks are boosted in top of replies etc., and is ironically often the exact people you don't want to see.

Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by croes »

charcircuit wrote: post #29
Mario9382 wrote: post #15

I created an account in X yesterday because I'm trying to get more involved into building in public and the social aspect of development and I was shocked to see nowadays you can pay for X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets. At the end I just deleted it and created an account into Bluesky instead.

>X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets. You are confusing X ads for X premium or you are mistaken.

Doesn’t matter what it is called. You can buy interactions, that’s like buying fake followers.

Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by m00dy »

crmrc114 wrote: post #2

Posting here since I am curious if any friends on HN have faced the same AI based banning. I have had a Twitter account since like 2008 and they just did this- like folks on reddit are reporting appeals just get robo-rejected. Is there any way to reach a human at X? I have some SWEs and SREs in my linkedin account as second and third person contacts but reaching out there just feels wrong. Putting AI in charge of Aut…

Nothing is wrong during AI revolution.

Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by indy »

Mario9382 wrote: post #15

I created an account in X yesterday because I'm trying to get more involved into building in public and the social aspect of development and I was shocked to see nowadays you can pay for X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets. At the end I just deleted it and created an account into Bluesky instead.

Out of the anger inducing frying pan and into the group-think fire.

Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by repsilat »

OuterVale wrote: post #27
repsilat wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This hyperbole does more to turn people away from Bluesky and other sites more than X to be honest. There are clearly lots of politically moderate, wholesome "politically inert," and international X users. The people who are vocal about having left seem more extreme and less tolerant to me. Perhaps for related reasons, I've also recently heard Elon Musk being described as a "literal Nazi" a lot, and I'm sure that kin…

> I've also recently heard Elon Musk being described as a "literal Nazi" a lot The chatbot run by his company has called itself 'MechaHitler' multiple times, and Musk himself did what is widely regarded as a Nazi salute during Trump's second inauguration.

I guess to expand on my earlier post, it's generally a good thing that these kinds of absurd allegations are counterproductive and generally not convincing, because if they were more readily believable they would be quite irresponsible. Real violence has occurred because of beliefs (and posts) like this.

Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by ksaj »

indy wrote: post #37
Mario9382 wrote: post #15

I created an account in X yesterday because I'm trying to get more involved into building in public and the social aspect of development and I was shocked to see nowadays you can pay for X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets. At the end I just deleted it and created an account into Bluesky instead.

Out of the anger inducing frying pan and into the group-think fire.

How can you tell when they are two different hive minds, with temperament being the sole differentiator?
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