This must be an error, right?
An article posted in April of 2013 by one of our writers caused the above sequence of messages from Facebook. The article, about a campaign statement by Ruchika Darapaneni which took a stand on drug policy reform with regard to a certain leafy substance now legal in Colorado, apparently violates Facebook community standards.
Is that leafy substance now a prohibited topic on FB? Is this a copyright issue? That would be rather odd since it was posted by the self-identified campaign manager of the campaign on which Darapaneni was working as press secretary.
Is this just a Facebook glitch? Does anyone have any idea why this happened?
Antivaccinationists abuse reporting algorithms to silence pro-vaccine skeptics on Facebook
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2014/01/02/antivaccinationists-abuse-reporting-algorithms-to-silence-pro-vaccine-skeptics-on-facebook/
(Don’t thank me thank Mike Renzulli.)
“Facebook and the likely automated banning system”
FYI, I hid two posts that I didn’t want to see from my friends timeline and this is the survey they suggest you fill out.
P.S. Articles about cricket lollipops are yuck-e!
This post is now hidden from your News Feed.Undo
Why don’t you want to see this?
( ) It’s annoying or not interesting
( ) I think it shouldn’t be on Facebook
( ) It’s spam
Take a survey to improve News Feed.
Caution folks the Facebook AI may turn on you.
Sean Parker is one of the big shareholders of Facebook. He has also been a major donor to marijuana legalization causes.
i think (again dangerous) that there is an argument to be made about IPR not posting links to articles on its facebook page.
the argument goes, that anyone who takes a disliking to ipr, can pick an article and make a complaint about it, then facebook shuts down the facebook page….
so better to run the ipr facebook page as an extension of its open comments article for each month… and let non-admins put up links to relevant content. such as ipr articles….
this way the ipr administrators are better shielded from facebook policy wrath?
I use Twitter only via Facebook: when I post to Twitter, it also posts to my FB page. If I find info that I think is important, I tweet it. People must appreciate it because I get email that people have shared it or even “favorited” it. My point is to get as much info out to as many people as I can because the MSM isn’t doing it.
I far prefer FB, though, and would have a tough time giving it up.
My kids seem to be using snapchat, or tumbler. . .
Coincidentally I decided to deactivate my FB page early on New Year’s Eve. I found a lot of what I read there interesting, but it was just eating up way too much time.
Not seeing it.
Tweaker doesn’t appeal to me nearly as much. I like vk.com better than facebook, but not very many Americans on there, at least yet.
“Nowhere close. There are insane numbers of people spending insane amounts of time on FB. Unfortunately I am one, but it seems a lot of people I know who used to frequent IPR, yahoo groups and so on can now only be found on FB. I have not seen any signs it is slowing down at all, quite the contrary.”
There’ve been all kinds of reports about young people not using it anymore. Google Plus? NOBODY uses that, and for good reason. Twitter is where it’s at.
Yes, as mentioned earlier .. completely arbitrary and capricious.
If someone flags a post as offensive, then facebook may remove it. I was blocked from facebook for 3 days last year because someone marked a post as offensive. The funny thing is, the post was a link to another facebook page!
I looked at google plus for a bit and never really got it. Facebook clicks for me, and more importantly, many of the people I know and correspond with spend their time there.
All the above comments boil down to “I can’t leave Facebook but yes it is crazy and probably isn’t going to get less crazy unless it has a reason to do so.”
I would suggest that anybody who is punished with Facebook time out take the time they would have spent on Facebook and spend it on Google Plus.
Nowhere close. There are insane numbers of people spending insane amounts of time on FB. Unfortunately I am one, but it seems a lot of people I know who used to frequent IPR, yahoo groups and so on can now only be found on FB. I have not seen any signs it is slowing down at all, quite the contrary.
“I wouldn’t recommend leaving facebook, since a ridiculous number of people use it (man apparently to the exclusion of regular websites), but they have long had a completely ridiculous and capricious content policy that is very randomly enforced.”
Really? I didn’t know anybody still used it. I figured it had gone the way of MySpace by now. It will soon, I’m sure of that. Facebook has always been boring & restrictive, I’m surprised it’s lasted as long as it has.
Yes, they took it down, was my understanding, but they also put a 12-hour temporary ban on all of us who are signed up as IPR facebook admins from doing various things on facebook including leaving comments, changing settings, leaving likes or posting new articles on our personal pages, all over a 9 month old IPR article.
I see no sign of this on the IPR facebook page.
I don’t think it works that way.. Unless someone who gets your reposting of the article in their newsfeed reports you for violating facebook guidelines it is a separate posting as far as facebook knows. At least that is my limted understanding of it.
Becaue you are one of the admins of the facebook page, so the ban goes on all of us who are signed up with that role. It has nothing to do with who posted the article to IPR; as far as facebook cares, all IPR articles are being posted by the page, and the page is all of its admins collectively.
I guess I am waiting to be blocked since I reposted the article and the banning on my facebook account. I trust my friends will repost it if I get blocked. Might get a chain reaction on facebook.
I was blocked too. I wonder why we all got blocked when technically it should only be the person who posted the article. I mean hell, I haven’t posted anything on IPR or on the Facebook page in over a year!
Probably related to some complaint, I’m guessing. I am also blocked, although facebook keeps sending me crap that I can’t respond to. So annoying.
In unrelated news, I just noticed the article in question, which certainly should not violate community standards, does violate IPR guidelines; there is no alt party or independent candidate connection – it is about an opinion published by someone described as a small l libertarian who is working on a Republican campaign. I’m not sure why I did not notice it at the time.
I’ve been banned for 12 hours over this. This is the first time it’s happened to me, although I post 30 + articles a day and have for more than 4 years. It must be some weird snafu.
I wouldn’t recommend leaving facebook, since a ridiculous number of people use it (man apparently to the exclusion of regular websites), but they have long had a completely ridiculous and capricious content policy that is very randomly enforced.
IPR should do what every human being under the age of 100 has already done: abandon Facebook. Pictures of gay people kissing have also been deemed inappropriate, that’s what caused me to leave.
Perhaps ask what the issue was, though I have heard suggestions that FaceBook does not respond to these questions.
Perhaps competition is needed. Yahoogroups are not heard of as having these problems.
I have read several recent articles regarding Facebook changing from a focus on young adults to an older (and therefore less tolerant) user base.
This is probably just another sign on their part of corporate “correctness” in our current society.