iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

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Bongos Bass & Bob

Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 29 May 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link

Ben Dongiro

Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 29 May 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link

lol - so my friend gets an obvious scammy "hey I'll be ur sugar daddy, here's $1k a week" FB message and she shared it with me, and we were having a laugh about it on FB. in a separate thread on a mutual friend's page, I parodied the post as a joke, and FB reported that i was banned for 30 days for "sexual recruitment", and then they rejected the appeal. but it still let me post for a full fucking *12 days* before this morning, they finally began enforcing it.

all for a joke callback post on a friend's page. but the person who posted the original post? nah, they weren't banned at all!

it's a hilariously terrible mess of a site, but the vacation is probably a good thing for me anyway.

Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link

congrats man

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 00:04 (two years ago) link

Whenever I flag and report a racist post, Facebook eventually gets back to me with a message telling me it didn't violate any of their policies, but feel free to block the post if I don't want to see it. I should really leave that goddamn site but I have 7,000 lonely boomers depending on me to moderate their comic strip fan page, so I stay.

Lily Dale, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 04:47 (two years ago) link

what strip?

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 06:29 (two years ago) link

Pluggers.

pplains, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link

Pluggers know their Ben Shapiro from their Dan Bongino.

eisimpleir (crüt), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 13:30 (two years ago) link

I've usually been successful getting some (if not most) racist content taken down, but transphobic shit basically goes unpunished.

Mods are Alt-Righters, no shock there I guess.

Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link

xp the strip is Pogo. And I was wrong, actually, we're up to 8,000 boomers by now. My brother and I started the group for no particular reason back in college, when Facebook was new and there were a million joke groups with like two members each. I did nothing to promote it; it just took off on its own and now I'm stuck moderating the damn thing.

Lily Dale, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link

Pluggers.


Nothing compared to the vile comments on the Sherlock Fox fan page.

Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link

xp the strip is _Pogo._ And I was wrong, actually, we're up to 8,000 boomers by now. My brother and I started the group for no particular reason back in college, when Facebook was new and there were a million joke groups with like two members each. I did nothing to promote it; it just took off on its own and now I'm stuck moderating the damn thing.


Jesus, Walt Kelly must be spinning in his grave. Show them the Jack Acid Society cartoons.

Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:26 (two years ago) link

I still report every obvious guns and ammo listing on FB Marketplace and have a zero percent success rate. Also a zero percent success rate at finding a $1200 Rhodes piano.

Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:29 (two years ago) link

I've usually been successful getting some (if not most) racist content taken down, but transphobic shit basically goes unpunished.

Mods are Alt-Righters, no shock there I guess.

― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, June 2, 2021 7:53 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

mods are low-paid, overworked, and working towards guidelines set by higher-ups.

《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link

transphobic shit basically goes unpunished

twas ever thus

mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link

so when the community guidelines say that transgender people are a protected group and someone is posting how transgender women aren't women, calls then Frankensteins, and other horrible things that I don't want to say here that are obviously in violation of the Community Standards, and then when reported, they insist even upon appeal that these comments don't violate community standards, they have no blame in the matter at all?

Like I know some of the review is done by bots/automated and I'm not defending Facebook as a company, but when I see people getting banned for saying Trump voters are "stupid" and not for extremely racist/transphobic stuff, none of these employees are letting their personal biases into the fray?

their community standards are fairly poor but even they're clear that this shit isn't allowed and it goes unpunished, even on pages which are supposed to be safe spaces for these people. comments criticizing the transphobic get removed as "bullying" where the offensive transphobic comments stay up.

Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link

xpost

Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link

well for sure some moderators working for whatever partner facebook farms out content moderation to will have extreme right-wing views - they look at extreme right-wing stuff on facebook all day, it's got to work on some of them. but their work is also insecure and highly scrutinized. if they were making many mistakes by not moderating things that they should they would be fired. if it's a systemic for users it's not an accident

《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link

systemic problem

《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link

I should really start keeping a file of all the horrible comments I report that turn out not to violate community standards, because it happens ALL THE TIME.

xp to Boring, Maryland: Oh, the Jack Acid Society comes up from time to time. There are some real Pogo experts in the group and they have a fine old time talking to each other about all the minutiae of Walt Kelly's art. I actually feel fine about the group itself; it seems to provide some interest and connection for a lot of people my parents' age, and I moderate it carefully enough to keep it from turning into a dumpster fire like most Facebook groups. I just wish it weren't on Facebook, because it keeps me trapped there.

Lily Dale, Wednesday, 2 June 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link

zero percent success rate at finding a $1200 Rhodes piano

Man, that's the last straw. Fuck Facebook forever.

Perhaps we could crowdfund this?

Nostradamusferatu (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link

xp my solution to this many years ago was creating a facebook page for my dog, which i kept secret, and adding fido as an administrator on the pages and groups i managed at the time (but have ling since abandoned) before deleting myself.

Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 18:08 (two years ago) link

make Beauregard Bugleboy the admin of the Pogo group

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 2 June 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link

lol crut

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 June 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

I just got a 30 day FB ban for writing "shut the fuck up you dumbshit hamster".

making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link

u fucked w the wrong hamster apparently

class project pat (m bison), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:08 (two years ago) link

Zuck apparently needs another run on the wheel this mornin

making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link

pick on a species your own size next time

A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link

"shut the fuck up you middle aged fat bearded guy with a bad back!"

making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link

*half of ILX turns around*

A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:22 (two years ago) link

Haha, a Facebook ban is probably good, you know? I woke up today and started yelling at some baseball analyst because he was making fun of the new name that replaced a racist name of a baseball team. I did this within 10 minutes of waking up and also picked a fight with the racist commenters on fangraphs.

This is not good for us, or for humanity

Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:59 (two years ago) link

to be fair, I'm very very glad they changed that team name, but the "Guardians" is indeed dumb and they copped out by not going back to the Spiders with their 1887 logo.

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link

hot takes of the day:
1. all mascot names are bad, but ones that replace racist mascot names are less bad and are therefore good
2. picking fights w ppl on twitter is never good, just find reportable tweets and mute/block and forget they exist
3. getting tempbanned from fb is good fullstop

class project pat (m bison), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:05 (two years ago) link

xp

Yeah, i think that’s the natural reaction! and people are just reacting to the new name.

But upon waking, my first thoughts were “I don’t recall the baseball ZiPS guy ever criticizing the name of the Cleveland Indians, or the stadium full of white people in Atlanta doing the tomahawk chop while also impersonating native Americans, but yet he suddenly has a lot of criticisms for the replacement name”

Which is just...I’m going camping for real. I’m packing right now, in fact I’m running late. I’m camping way down in the Ozarks, where there are no racists. No more Twitter for me today. And no more Facebook for you today, Nean! <3

Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:09 (two years ago) link

m bison I will ruminate on the hot takes while sweating my ass off in the shade tonight. I believe these takes are right

Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link

Have fun KM! Enjoy your trip!

Yeah there are a lot of ugly as fuck takes on sports Twitter, I can't stand 98% of sports guys tweets.

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link

my hoops burner acct is in fact the only good sports twitter acct afaik

class project pat (m bison), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link

I'm assuming that this will end in nothing but tears and ruin, but I've been helping some people put together a new group, a revival of one of the "Respect My Trans Homies" cis/trans alliance groups. So far all of the other admin seem to be normal and sane people.

Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 23 July 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link

I got dozens of targeted posts about linda rondstadt’s birthday.

Now the same is happening for Alison Krauss’s.

Why?

treeship., Monday, 26 July 2021 02:57 (two years ago) link

you are attracted to female folk singers?

mookieproof, Monday, 26 July 2021 03:06 (two years ago) link

I do like female folk singerz. I never liked the pages of these two specific artists though.

treeship., Monday, 26 July 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link

must be completely random then

mookieproof, Monday, 26 July 2021 03:27 (two years ago) link

But who is behind this? These birthday pushes? They come from different pages.

treeship., Monday, 26 July 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link

sounds like facebook sucks, maybe

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 26 July 2021 03:45 (two years ago) link

maybe you're close social media friends with people who are love female folk singers.....birthdays...

Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Monday, 26 July 2021 03:49 (two years ago) link

My ex who's struggled with disordered eating for 15 years has been getting non-stop ads for weight loss apps and shit lately.

Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 26 July 2021 07:41 (two years ago) link

when I still used it: Ad blockers and incognito mode was the way.

beard papa, Monday, 26 July 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link

keep seeing video on facebook with the progress bar removed, i find this sooo annoying lol

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link


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