Re:Discord bans me for using their official client
by Brian_K_White on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:03PM
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The new hell, same as the old hell.
At least when github ('s inscrutible AI) banned me in error they answered the email and reinstated the account in about a day.
I had only just barely cloned everything to gitlab and edited a bunch of links to s/github/gitlab before github was working again.
Maybe that is factor, that an effortless drop-in replacement existed, and the original of all the content I cared about was still on my own machines and github only hosts a copy, so they have meaningful competition.
They never did say what I supposedly did wrong though, other than a vague suggestion about possible spamming.
Merely when a human looked at the case they corrected it. I asked a couple times what triggered it and they simply didn't asnswer that part.
So it was some ML black box. They themselves don't even know why they did it.
Same thing is probably the case here, only with even fewer or shittier humans in the loop, and holding something hostage that you can't take elsewhere.
Actually hostage isn't even the right word because even kidnappers/hackers respond to the email and return your stuff for a price. These guys aren't even doing that.
At least when github ('s inscrutible AI) banned me in error they answered the email and reinstated the account in about a day.
I had only just barely cloned everything to gitlab and edited a bunch of links to s/github/gitlab before github was working again.
Maybe that is factor, that an effortless drop-in replacement existed, and the original of all the content I cared about was still on my own machines and github only hosts a copy, so they have meaningful competition.
They never did say what I supposedly did wrong though, other than a vague suggestion about possible spamming.
Merely when a human looked at the case they corrected it. I asked a couple times what triggered it and they simply didn't asnswer that part.
So it was some ML black box. They themselves don't even know why they did it.
Same thing is probably the case here, only with even fewer or shittier humans in the loop, and holding something hostage that you can't take elsewhere.
Actually hostage isn't even the right word because even kidnappers/hackers respond to the email and return your stuff for a price. These guys aren't even doing that.