X blocked a paid user for no reason for "5-7 days" or forever
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Re: X blocked a paid user for no reason for "5-7 days" or forever
#2I'm pretty sick of VPN users being punished. If I was going to hack your site I wouldn't use a VPN. I'd change the MAC address on my device and use some free cafe wifi.
Re: X blocked a paid user for no reason for "5-7 days" or forever
#3I just got suspended for an innocuous reply to a journalist that I follow. It's the only time I've ever posted on Twitter. Something is wrong over there.
Re: X blocked a paid user for no reason for "5-7 days" or forever
#4The anti-bot stuff on X is overtly aggressive.
Re: X blocked a paid user for no reason for "5-7 days" or forever
#5I'm pretty sick of VPN users being punished. If I was going to hack your site I wouldn't use a VPN. I'd change the MAC address on my device and use some free cafe wifi.
Your MAC address is stripped at the first hop, so changing it does nothing. "Public" IPs, like those from a Starbucks, are also viewed poorly by anti-fraud systems.
VPN users get "punished" because of abuse from other VPN users. It's that simple.
Re: X blocked a paid user for no reason for "5-7 days" or forever
#6Not sure what the issue here is, if you change your location a lot using VPN, it will trigger their bot detection and lock you out, its a feature.
You can always ask for a refund in situations like this and resubscribe to x premium.
A real problem with these platforms not just x is mass reporting, fake DMCAs all pose vulnerabilities which are hard to address.
Even on HN, if you have non-conforming opinions of those with higher points, you will be censored, flagged etc.
Re: X blocked a paid user for no reason for "5-7 days" or forever
#7If you read the various TOS legalese you'll find they are well within their rights to do whatever they want to your account. They don't need a reason.
Would i say it's "right"? No. But it's literally what you're signing up for by using a closed service like Twitter. Free, open alternatives exist. Use them.
Re: X blocked a paid user for no reason for "5-7 days" or forever
#8The topic-starter added a comment there:
"So, yep, I really wasn't even using my VPN that much recently - it's the same one I used for months.
And even bigger problem, of course, is - why just looking at my problem where a user with almost 1000 followers and a community that actively chats and spends a lot of time on X (usually, it's good for ad supported platforms).
So why even quite active paid users can't be checked in at least a day (I think it should be minutes but alas), why 5-7 days! ;-)"
Re: X blocked a paid user for no reason for "5-7 days" or forever
#9If you read the various TOS legalese you'll find they are well within their rights to do whatever they want to your account. They don't need a reason. Would i say it's "right"? No. But it's literally what you're signing up for by using a closed service like Twitter. Free, open alternatives exist. Use them.
I was walking through this and thought, great, what if we used Mastodon and got kicked out. Do I just pick another provider from the fediverse implementing the ActivityPub protocol?
Then I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub#Account_migration
> ActivityPub has been criticized for not natively supporting moving accounts from one server to another, forcing implementations to build their own solutions. While there has been work on building a standardized system for migrating accounts using the Move activity via the Fediverse Enhancement Proposal organization, the current proposal only allows for basic follower migration, with all other data remaining linked to the original account.
How much of a problem is that in practice?
Re: X blocked a paid user for no reason for "5-7 days" or forever
#10The anti-bot stuff on X is overtly aggressive.
Which is funny, given such a large portion of these sites (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit) are all bots and spam.
They somehow have anti bot infra that is both incredibly annoying to real users and somewhat ineffective. And I'd even believe that they may have pretty good accuracy, but the sheer scale of the spam still impacts real users.