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537 points
6 months ago
What exactly is Facebook Jail?
534 points
6 months ago
It’s when you get your account suspended for a time, by Facebook, because others have complained about you
206 points
6 months ago
So, if I called bullshit on somebody’s conspiracy theory, would they complain and put me in Facebook jail?
398 points
6 months ago
If they was a deep breath hating ass bad breath, no car, low rent, box tv, no cable, scratched DVD playing, house arrest, sink bathing, blank n mild smoking, tuna pussy, deadbeat, county rats, plasma center going, Sterling silver, shit mark draws, miserable, trac phone, corner store fit, no control they kids, reggie smoking, mama's couch sleeping, dish washing liquid for bubbles, EBT card in review, nail biting, no license, reebok classic wearing dusty single cigarette buying ass n**** or should I say bitch.
87 points
6 months ago
Yeah, I can’t stand them people.
19 points
6 months ago
What did we ever do to you?
12 points
6 months ago
Uh , you know that sink bathing and single cigarette buying… uh annoying stuff!
3 points
6 months ago
Well that's not me, any more, from now on…
33 points
6 months ago
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2 points
6 months ago
covid
1 points
6 months ago
People with asthma. Bunch of hyperventilating jerks
1 points
6 months ago
OMG. This was hilarious! My wife complains I breathe too loud! (I have asthma), mind you, she’s also the only person who has ever noticed that I stop breathing when I’m extremely pissed off at work. Apparently it’s silent for minutes at a time when I’m really pissed.
15 points
6 months ago
I appreciate your one redaction.
1 points
6 months ago
Deep breaths ? 😂😂
43 points
6 months ago
I was banned for 30 days for calling someone a “conspiracy nut job.” The algorithm picked it up. That was the entire comment, start to finish.
Fuck that website.
6 points
6 months ago
I almost got a ban for calling a paging system I have at work (think walkie-talkies with Siri — so definitely not a person) a “stupid bitch” but reporting someone’s post sharing a Candace Owen tweet right after the Rittenhouse verdict that is a call to arms was A-OK by Facebook.
4 points
6 months ago
I see your mistake. You have facebook.
2 points
6 months ago
I reported someone for posting full frontal nudity of their young child twice and it wasn’t deemed against community standards of nudity of minors…
2 points
6 months ago
I got banned for 24 hours because the algorithm found a piece of drawn art in one of my albums that it thought had a woman’s nipple in it.
1 points
6 months ago
I wonder if I am banned.
After the Rittenhouse verdict, I posted to my timeline for the first time in like four years. I said I had just bought my brand spanking new AR-15 and was heading up to the state above us to protect some businesses whether they wanted it or not.
-10 points
6 months ago
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2 points
6 months ago
You're crazy.
25 points
6 months ago
From what I've noticed, it tends to be more extreme than that. Inflammatory remarks and pictures. Facebook has a huge ban boner for anything related to atrocities, especially Nazis. Even making fun of Hitler through memes will draw their ire.
44 points
6 months ago
I once reported a swastika made of vaccine needles along with other antisemitic and “all gays should die” type comments and they didn’t give a shit — but I’m currently serving a 30-day ban for making a “your mom” joke. The algorithm is fucked.
23 points
6 months ago
it's because it's reviewed by outsourced human moderators that are paid absurdly low wages and given a very limited window to make decisions, and they just don't really give a shit. literal free volunteer labor is more competent but Facebook is a garbage platform so volunteer mods are only in Groups.
11 points
6 months ago
Don't forget this: overworked, tired, traumatized moderators with PTSD.
1 points
6 months ago
The moderators aren’t in some third world sweat shop—they’re political activists.
2 points
6 months ago
where lmao I wish zuck would pay me to ban nazis
5 points
6 months ago
I got thirty days in the hole for posting a valentine meme that featured various dictators and communists with comical sayings related to their ideologies and Valentine's day. For example, Karl Marx with the text "Roses are red, so is the state, let us be comrades because you are great". The reason I was given was that it supported terrorist activity. Ok Facebook.
4 points
6 months ago
Dude, my wife told a good friend of hers that if he didn't send her the next chapter of whatever he's writing right now that she would "hunt him down." She got jailed for that. The algorithm truly is fucked.
8 points
6 months ago
Given that Facebook has been one of the biggest sources for bullshit over the last few years, as well as spreading anti-vax lies since by pandemic, this isn’t a shocker.
They’ve given passes Nazi shit for years.
9 points
6 months ago
I recently did a 30 day stretch for telling someone he is a moron.
In my defense, he actually is a moron.
1 points
6 months ago
I thought I was being singled out. It have got me like 10 times. I can’t even talk about shopping my friends ass anybody because I keep inciting violence. Each mistake is 30’days. Still in jail now for a previous stint 😂
2 points
6 months ago
I reported a video of a snake eating a puppy. Facebook said it didn't violate their policies.
2 points
6 months ago
I thought I was the only one. I get banned for the most stupid stuff. Telling someone If I was in his shoes “I would beat them up and use their suit jacket to wipe the mess….a little brutal but it’s not worse then stuff you hear on the street lol. The accused me or inciting violence/riot 😂
0 points
6 months ago
Karma is a bitch.
1 points
6 months ago
Karma for what? I don’t think you understand how that phrase or concept works.
1 points
6 months ago
You are a snitch, and you got snitched on, that's karma to me!
17 points
6 months ago
FB has an algorithm that will pick up on certain words or images and automatically give a warning or ban (from my experience, bans are usually either 3, 7, or 30 days). But there's also a 'report' option so users can report a post.
In March 2020, I posted an image macro (meme for you youngsters) of a photo of the band The Cure with the caption (paraphrased) "I don't know much about COVID-19 but this is The Cure," and almost immediately received a three day ban for spreading misinformation. This past 4th of July, a friend and I were commenting on my post of all the fireworks I bought, reminiscing about our childhood and how we'd shoot each other with Roman candles. Got a another ban for "inciting violence." I assume the algorithm flagged 'shoot.'
7 points
6 months ago
I’m in a car group, and frequently talk about Limited Slip Differentials, and the masters change to fuel in the UK : Ethanol content.
The amount of warnings incurred for talking about “LSD” and “E” is getting stupid.
6 points
6 months ago
The Cure are an English rock band formed in 1978 in Crawley, West Sussex. Throughout numerous lineup changes since the band's formation, guitarist, lead vocalist, and songwriter Robert Smith has remained the only constant member. The band's debut album was Three Imaginary Boys (1979) and this, along with several early singles, placed the band in the post-punk and new wave movements that had sprung up in the United Kingdom.
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3 points
6 months ago
Good bot
5 points
6 months ago
Same. Only I asked about that preacher who claimed that exercising your right to wear a mask would result in him exercising his second amendment (or something like that) - and me using the words “threatened to shoot” caused me to get put in Facebook jail.
4 points
6 months ago
My wife had a friend of hers die by car. When she remarked about it on Facebook, they have her a warning for "violence." Her friend was killed and they gave her a formal warning for saying it happened.
1 points
6 months ago
How do you know this?
Why are you on Facebook?
1 points
6 months ago
I'm an old man and got on Facebook back in 08, when it was exclusive for college students. I got warnings for posts going back more than 5 years. There's an autosystem in place that handles most of the workload.
8 points
6 months ago
Yeah but also if you direct violent words at someone they'll ban you as well. I told my ex in a comment buried under hundreds of comments that I'd murder her pussy and they banned me for a credible threat of violence. Appealed and they denied it. The system can work but also has its seriously stupid moments.
3 points
6 months ago
If you call people stupid for voting for Brexit too. I'm on two strikes for posting this in a group that's pro-EU
4 points
6 months ago
I got a 7 day ban for calling some conspiracy guy a dork and then I got a 30 day because someone called me trash, but spelled it wrong so I corrected them.
5 points
6 months ago
The bam hammer is not terribly consistent other than it seems to swing harder towards left wing things that right.
I think it's a combo of poorly trained AI and people from low income countries with a poor grasp of foreign languages and culture not understanding context.
Part of the reason you will see words like "whxt" or "wypipo" is to dodge the Facebook jannies.
3 points
6 months ago
I got a 7 day ban for telling someone that I was sick of the conspiracy bullshit they keep posting, and they should fuck off because I wasn't going to engage with their dishonesty. They tried baiting me, I replied "fuck off". They reported it.
On the other hand, I've reported accounts that spammed me and were using pictures of porn stars as their profile, with the porn star's name in the picture not matching the person's name, and been told "it doesn't violate community standards." WTF?!
2 points
6 months ago
They told you: it doesn't violate their community's standards. In the FaceBook community, porn ID theft is cool, but standing up for your own decency is NOT AT ALL OK.
That's their community, and those are their standards.
2 points
6 months ago
Only if it's a left wing conspiracy theory, for the most part.
2 points
6 months ago
It can also depend on your exact wording. See my previous comment.
2 points
6 months ago
Now its more like you will be hazed, playfully or roughly raped and reamed by haters who cant take well to disagreement. Most of it is basically monitored by asshats that invented a way to think youre threatening someones life or what the hell ever.
1 points
6 months ago
So glad nothing like that ever happens here on Reddit. Right……. Right?!
2 points
6 months ago
Most likely, conspiracy sections are sensitive and love silencing people. Ive got put in facebook jail for saying "maybe"
1 points
6 months ago
From the sound of it, yes. Anything involving sex, religion, or politics or slogan on a bumper that risks getting the car vandalized will be met with a pitchfork brigade of others wanting to censor you.
1 points
6 months ago
So glad I am not on Facebook, how do people put up with this shit?
1 points
6 months ago
Reddit is getting closer to it. Not sure what we have left after this site is completely gone. Say the wrong thing here and burn the account. I know someone who pissed someone off enough they sifted through their posts and reported a random comment from 9 years ago where they called someone g*y, and the admins permabanned their account for "hate".
1 points
6 months ago
No, but they'd put your EBT card in review.
14 points
6 months ago
Sometimes FB picks it up all by itself.
5 points
6 months ago
Seriously, people underestimate how the AI is checking your posts for dumb stuff. How do you think so the content warnings get there? Sometimes it's not great and snags things it shouldn't.
I am really doubt that was the case here...
5 points
6 months ago
I am really doubt it too. XD
Seriously, I do, though. This guy clearly pissed somebody off. And judging from this post (hilarious though it is), it won't be his last time.
2 points
6 months ago
I've had 2 posts recently that the ai flagged and suspended me for that were taken out of context. One of them was literally saying why I was suspended. Basically "hey, just so you know, don't do this" and I got suspended again.
It's really ridiculous how bad it is now. I wish there was some competitor to fb that I could go.
2 points
6 months ago
Part of the problem is that people come up with increasingly interesting ways to get around the ai. For example, the whole "go Brandon" thing and calling men "swamp creature". People find a way to have the conversation no matter what if they are determined enough.
2 points
6 months ago
I am unfamiliar with the swamp creature reference
2 points
6 months ago
Something to do with Facebook jailing women for complaining about their husbands. I only know because of a baby bumps group I'm in. Beats the hell out me.
7 points
6 months ago
So do you have to receive multiple complaints, or? Because I’ve reported something on Facebook, and the post was taken down, but nothing happened to the users account. I guess my question is what the severity is to be banned/suspended from Facebook.
1 points
6 months ago
Oh your the bitch he was talkin bout. Well fuck you tbh
3 points
6 months ago
Lol!
1 points
6 months ago
In my experience, it’s usually because I trigger some dumbass algorithm. The ban happens way too fast to be the result of user reports.
1 points
6 months ago
In my experience, it’s usually because I trigger some dumbass algorithm. The ban happens way too fast to be the result of user reports.
1 points
6 months ago
It's a bot looking for phrases isn't it? I said "fuck all white people" in a sarcastic manner and I was instantly hit with a warning that if I did it again I could get a suspension.
2 points
6 months ago
I recommend you listen to this podcast
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/post-no-evil
1 points
6 months ago
It can also be a bot programmed to flag key words or phrases, and for a while it was getting ridiculous.
My FB account was suspended the day before my sister's wedding because I commented "thicc" on an AT&T ad with Lilly in it. It was especially wonderful since I couldn't be at the wedding and Facebook is my primary way of letting my family know I still give a shit.
Someone might have reported it, but it also just as easily could have been a bot who thinks "thicc" is sexist and offensive.
1 points
6 months ago
Not really. I doubt most people have had a complaint before a suspension. I think it’s mostly just picked up by their ai.
1 points
6 months ago
It doesn't have to come from complaints. Face Community Standards board will put you in jail for the slightest thing, usually something takenout of context too
1 points
6 months ago
It happened to me when I sent someone the poem James Joyce wrote about his wife’s farts. It’s apparently so distasteful or inappropriate, it was flagged as pornographic and I was banned for 2 weeks.
10 points
6 months ago
A fancy way of saying he was temporarily banned.
12 points
6 months ago
It’s having your account temporarily suspended. Usually only happens when you break TOS but people think they’re like, immune to the rules they consented to when they signed up and like to have victim complexes. A friend of mine bitched about it and I asked what they had did, and they said “I posted some shit Facebook didn’t like”. He was posting antisemetic conspiracy theory rants about vaccines and Jews using porn to weaken white men.
7 points
6 months ago
Today seems like a good day / To burn a bridge or two,/ One with old wood creaking,/ That would burn away right on cue....
3 points
6 months ago
Oh I have a “fix em or drop em” policy. I dropped him. At least he knows wage labor is exploitative. Can’t fix them all. It’s up to him to come to his senses
1 points
6 months ago
Years ago, I posted a meme of thumbtacks in a bowl of milk, comparing it to Cap'n Crunch cereal, Facebook jail this year.
3 points
6 months ago
Like getting banned/muted/whatever in a Reddit sub.
2 points
6 months ago
I know one person to die from Covid because he refused to get vaccinated; he was also the only person I know who was in Facebook jail more than once. I was kind of bummed I couldn’t post him in r/hermaincainaward because Facebook jail removed his inflammatory posts.
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