Banned from Facebook for 3 days....lol

I should be grateful really. But how pathetic are Facebook? Their criteria for banning someone seems to be nothing more than "someone flagged a comment of yours." I often read news stories on Facebook and sometimes comment on them. Someone left a particularly dumb comment under a story so I replied to them along the lines of "That's a really dumb comment." No abuse, no threats, no bad words or hate or any of the usual reasons that someone would flag a comment as offensive. 
 
Next thing I know, I try to log into Facebook and it blocked me with a message that my "dumb" comment breached Facebook's community standards and that I have a 3 day ban. Most likely because the person I replied to got offended, flagged my post, and some half braindead "moderator" at Facebook drowsily clicked the ban button for the millionth time that day. 
 
How annoying. I'm going to take my rage out on Twitter. Hope they don't ban me too!

"Hate Speech" ... hmmmmphhhh.
 
Let's all hide our feelings and pretend.  FluffBook

jamesg1213
My daughter had a pic of herself with her new bike removed the other day, because someone had reported it as 'containing nudity'. There are some sad get-a-lifes out there.

That wouldn't have happened in Portland (where they have a yearly nude bicycle race through downtown).

jamesg1213
My daughter had a pic of herself with her new bike removed the other day, because someone had reported it as 'containing nudity'. There are some sad get-a-lifes out there.

 
That is SO true James. Where did this "right to not be offended" come from? I saw a story this morning about well, this: http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/24847/
 
I am truly astounded by things like this. I truly DO NOT get it. I'm not just saying that, I really don't get it. Why? There is not right to not be offended. I'm sure that EVERYTHING is offensive to someone somewhere. Perhaps everyone should just stay home all the time and live virtual lives. OH wait! I forgot about the OP... LOL. 
 
FB is a real waste of time. I go there now and then and it is the same old bunch of propaganda and BS... and I find myself spending too much time there when I sign in. It is usually to look at something I got in an email, then I stay too long. I have "unfollowed" so many organizations and people that there isn't that much there anymore, but at least it is now more posts from people I actually know and not so much political crap, that stuff gets old in a hurry because no matter what "side: it is, it is always half truths. I hate that.
Sharke, it's a gift horse.
 
J

I don't FB.....just FSF.

Mesh
I don't FB.....just FSF.

+1
 
Oh, and what I call "FB" would definitely be a violation of the forum's TOS. 

I pre-empted Facebook by banning Facebook. I do not have an account. Apparently that means I am unable to see all the crap that FB members think is important, can't log onto spam sites without creating a new account, can't "like" the spammers and marketers that I dislike, and will have to miss missing Sharke posting judgemental comments about other Facebook posters stupid comments that I will not miss missing either. But don't get me wrong, it is not technology or the Facebook application that I dislike. Even before there was an internet, I did not post Polaroids of myself doing inane or boring things on public bulletin boards in laundromats, or go through my neighbors' garbage looking for tidbits of their lives. I confine myself to seeding this forum with unsolicited opinions that no one else is interested in either.

The sad part is that, in the meantime, many people including yours truly have flagged pages and groups that were advocating systematic rape or making treats on certain groups and persons and promoting hatred - to no avail.
 
Receiving that e-mail notification saying that the fine fellows at FB have come to the conclusion that there was nothing wrong w/ a page encouraging something as unequivocally wrong as sexual abuse always comes as a slap in the face, especially when reports of people like you being banned for nothing are not entirely uncommon.
 
If they really want to help, they should implement a "verify that crap" function every time someone hits the "share" button on an article saying that you can cure cancer with lemon or that Pope Francis will be opening for Ghost in Italy... 
 
Personally, I try to keep my Facebook very light-hearted most of the time. AdBlock took care of the trending non-sense. I unfollow people who tend to post stuff that get my blood pressure up. My newsfeed is mostly filled with cats, music gear and music-realted stuff.
 
That is, unless every one including companies go on a bender about Back to the Future or something...
 
 

bayoubill
I too Am a former banned person.       Stand tall! Be Proud!

Yep. You can't say the word "bag." 
 
(Oops!  I guess I'll be back in a few days...  )

jamesg1213
My daughter had a pic of herself with her new bike removed the other day, because someone had reported it as 'containing nudity'. There are some sad get-a-lifes out there.

Would it be crass to ask you to post the pic?
 
 
I keed I keed.
 
(I'll get me coat)

jamesg1213
My daughter had a pic of herself with her new bike removed the other day, because someone had reported it as 'containing nudity'. There are some sad get-a-lifes out there.

I am not at all surprised. After all FaceBook  has to be sensitive to the cultural mores of a diverse user base. Obviously that includes persons who find the circular rims centered on protruding hubs too suggestive. 
 
The proper way to post bicycle pictures on FaceBook:

jamesg1213

bapu

jamesg1213
My daughter had a pic of herself with her new bike removed the other day, because someone had reported it as 'containing nudity'. There are some sad get-a-lifes out there.

Would it be crass to ask you to post the pic?
 
 
I keed I keed.
 
(I'll get me coat)

 
Sure...

 
 

The only nudity I see is the cement.

jamesg1213

bapu

jamesg1213
My daughter had a pic of herself with her new bike removed the other day, because someone had reported it as 'containing nudity'. There are some sad get-a-lifes out there.

Would it be crass to ask you to post the pic?
 
 
I keed I keed.
 
(I'll get me coat)

 
Sure...

 
 

 

I tried Facebook out about a number of years ago and it just didn't work out for me at all.
I was hoping to find out that I was gonna inherit millions of dollars from a long lost relative I didn't know I had that had been trying to track me down for the last 40 + years .
I felt pretty dejected when I found out that nobody in the whole wide world was looking for me for any reason at all , so I pulled the plug on FB …
I may change my mind someday if I decide to release a proper CD where I may need the social push FB can provide.
By proper CD I mean music that involves playing with musicians that are better than me , involving a proper engineer ( not myself ) and an actual mastering job by a pro ( not myself ) …
 
Kenny

kennywtelejazz
I may change my mind someday if I decide to release a proper CD where I may need the social push FB can provide.
By proper CD I mean music that involves playing with musicians that are better than me , involving a proper engineer ( not myself ) and an actual mastering job by a pro ( not myself ) …
 
Kenny

 
Following the big KISS Night here where my wife and I played, I started to receive a lot more requests and realized that Las Vegas has this whole scene of people whole live for live music and support the local scene.
 
Musicians and wannabe musicians, attending each other's concert, photographs and wannabe photographs trying to make a name, ladies who would otherwise be a bit mature to be groupies but who just hang out and attend shows 4 or 5 nights a week because they don't have a kids or a husband, only girl friends w/ that exact same life style...
 
It's a bit disconcerting at first, but I guess it works.
 
So I've started letting more people like that in on my Facebook, though I put them on a restricted access list.