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Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by rglullis »

KaiserPro wrote: post #24
maxlin wrote: post #19

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This. No other platforms has a system akin to CN's. For me personally, I could never stand using any platform that is aggressively tone policed towards whatever official truth. Not Truth Social, not BlueSky. Other places are like playgrounds, X is where the adults go to talk.

> any platform that is aggressively tone policed all platforms are tone policed, yes even real life. If you don't notice it, you're either not looking, or you agree with the tone.

Not all platforms are agressive about the tone-policing and "real life" is not a platform. AFAIK, we still don't live in a world where the moneyed class get to set the rules about who is allowed to exist in "real life".

Also: scale and context matters. Someone telling you to shut up on a movie theater is not out of place, but whoever was next to you in the theater does not get to decide what you say in a bar or a PTA meetiing.

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Post by lynx97 »

croes wrote: post #34
charcircuit wrote: post #29

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>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.

> You can buy interactions

You're describing advertisment in general. Same with FB. If I throw enough money at a posting ad, I will gain interactions.

Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by troad »

eucyclos wrote: post #32
hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #23

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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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Yes, let's get the protractors out to find out if the man who's turned Twitter into a far right cesspool, and has served in a far right government, and constantly tweets far right things, may just have far right sympathies. /s

Ceasing to believe what your own eyes and ears are telling you, in as far as those things may challenge your political beliefs, is generally a road that leads nowhere good.

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Post by dwedge »

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.

When X premium came out they said if I paid my tweets would be boosted more. I didn't pay, and my account with a few hundred followers went from 100ish views per average tweet to 10.

If you think you don't need to pay for engagement on there I can only assume you're paying for it and unaware of the difference.

Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by dwedge »

croes wrote: post #34
charcircuit wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

With a double edged sword - they also removed the organic engagement you previously would have gotten

Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by dwedge »

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…

Just to be clear, they are 10+ year old accounts, they haven't been paying for 10+ years, premium has only been available for maybe 3 years

Re: X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

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Post by lynx97 »

hactually wrote: post #13
shiroiuma wrote: post #6

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The classic "if it disagrees with me, it's a far-right neo-Nazi" rhetoric. Sadly thiss is becoming depressingly common in certain corners of tech discourse. X has the best AI news, the best virality for good content and sure - it has a lot of shit, but community notes and curated feeds keep the noise low.

Its not just in tech circles. It really started around 2020 with C. "Everyone needs to agree this time" extremely backfired and ruined our ability to discuss things.

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Post by Pay08 »

repsilat wrote: post #12
shiroiuma wrote: post #6

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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 people who are vocal about having left seem more extreme and less tolerant to me.

That's because they are. Not all of them, of course, and not companies, but the general populace absolutely is.

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