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I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by pocksuppet »

raincole wrote: post #60
superb_dev wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author was using instance A of Claude to update a `claude.md` while another instance B of Claude was consuming that file. When Claude B did something wrong, the author asked Claude A to update the `claude.md` so that Claude B didn’t make the same mistake again

Which shouldn't be bannable imo. Rate throttle is a more reasonable response. But Anthropic didn't reply to the author, so we don't even know if it's the real reason they got banned.

When a company won't tell you what you did wrong, you should be free to take the least charitable interpretation towards the company. If it was more charitable, they'd tell you.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by Lerc »

areoform wrote: post #11

I recently found out that there's no such thing as Anthropic support. And that made me sad, but not for reasons that you expect. Out of all of the tech organizations, frontier labs are the one org you'd expect to be trying out cutting edge forms of support. Out of all of the different things these agents can do, surely most forms of "routine" customer support are the lowest hanging fruit? I think it's possible for An…

There is a discord, but I have not found it to be the friendliest of places.

At one point I observed a conversation which, to me, seemed to be a user attempting to communicate in a good faith manner who was given instructions that they clearly did not understand, and then were subsequently banned for not following the rules.

It seems now they have a policy of

    Warning on First Offense → Ban on Second Offense
    The following behaviors will result in a warning. 
    Continued violations will result in a permanent ban:

    Disrespectful or dismissive comments toward other members
    Personal attacks or heated arguments that cross the line
    Minor rule violations (off-topic posting, light self-promotion)
    Behavior that derails productive conversation
    Unnecessary @-mentions of moderators or Anthropic staff
I'm not sure how many groups moderate in a manner that a second offence off-topic comment is worthy of a ban. It seems a little harsh. I'm not a fan of obviously subjective banable offences.

I'm a little surprised that Anthropic hasn't fostered a more welcoming community. Everyone is learning this stuff new, together or not. There is plenty of opportunity for people to help each other.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by pocksuppet »

Aurornis wrote: post #69
tobyhinloopen wrote: post #7

So you were generating and evaluating the performance of your CLAUDE.md files? And you got banned for it?

I think it's more likely that their account was disabled for other reasons, but they blamed the last thing they were doing before the account was closed.

And why wouldn't you? It's the only information available to you.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by ffsm8 »

mikkupikku wrote: post #116
ta988 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There will always be the "ones" that come with their victim blaming...

It's not "victim blaming" to point out that we lack sufficient information to really know who the victim even is, or if there's one at all. Believing complainants uncritically isn't some sort of virtue you can reasonably expect people to adhere to. (My bet is that Anthropic's automated systems erred, but the author's flamboyant manner of writing (particularly the way he keeps making a big deal out of an error message…

Skip to the end of the article.

He says himself that this is a guess and provides the "missing" information if you are actually interested in it.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by Bombthecat »

bastard_op wrote: post #108

I've been doing something a lot like this, using a claude-desktop instance attached to my personal mcp server to spawn claude-code worker nodes for things, and for a month or two now it's been working great using the main desktop chat as a project manager of sorts. I even started paying for MAX plan as I've been using it effectively to write software now (I am NOT a developer). Lately it's gotten entirely flaky, wher…

Have a max plan, didn't use it much the last few days. Just used it to explain me a few things with examples for a ttrpg. It just hanged up a few times.

Max plan and in average I use it ten times a day? Yeah, I am cancel. Guess they don't need me

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by Bombthecat »

throwup238 wrote: post #117
bastard_op wrote: post #108

I've been doing something a lot like this, using a claude-desktop instance attached to my personal mcp server to spawn claude-code worker nodes for things, and for a month or two now it's been working great using the main desktop chat as a project manager of sorts. I even started paying for MAX plan as I've been using it effectively to write software now (I am NOT a developer). Lately it's gotten entirely flaky, wher…

Anthropic has been flying by the seat of their pants for a while now and it shows across the board. From the terminal flashing bug that’s been around for months to the lack of support to instabilities in Claude mobile and Code for the web (I get 10-20% message failure rates on the former and 5-10% on CC for web). They’re growing too fast and it’s bursting the seams of the company. If there’s ever a correction in the…

Well, they vibe code almost every tool at least

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by enraged_camel »

syntaxing wrote: post #120

While it sucks, I had great results replacing Sonnet 4.5 with GLM 4.7 in Claude code. Vastly more affordable too ($3 a month for the pro equivalent). Can’t say much about Opus though. Claude code forces me to put a credit card on file so they can charge over usage. I don’t mind they charge me, I do mind that there’s no apparent spending limit and hard to tell how much “inclusive” opus tokens I have left.

Having used both Opus 4.5 and GLM 4.7, I think the former is at least eight months ahead of the latter, if not much more.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by hecanjog »

bastard_op wrote: post #108

I've been doing something a lot like this, using a claude-desktop instance attached to my personal mcp server to spawn claude-code worker nodes for things, and for a month or two now it's been working great using the main desktop chat as a project manager of sorts. I even started paying for MAX plan as I've been using it effectively to write software now (I am NOT a developer). Lately it's gotten entirely flaky, wher…

> I've been using it effectively to write software now (I am NOT a developer)

What have you found it useful for? I'm curious about how people without software backgrounds work with it to build software.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by mmkos »

cortesoft wrote: post #5

I am really confused as to what happened here. The use of ‘disabled organization’ to refer to the author made it extra confusing. I think I kind of have an idea what the author was doing, but not really.

You and me, brother. The writing is unnecessarily convoluted.
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