How you can get banned from Facebook permanently

Re:How you can get banned from Facebook permanently by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @01:21PM (#25884768)

I dislike the direction for society you are proposing. Each bad actor should absolutely know how and why they are identified as a bad actor. How else could they possibly even attempt to defend themselves as not bad actors. The same kind of idiocy is allowed in banks now under the guise of BSA. The only difference is, banks typically face much harder restrictions and are actually heavily regulated. For that reason, I believe the parent's post makes more sense than a blanket 'it is too hard for us to do it'.

In short, you are proposing that we penalize good actors for actions of bad actors for no other reason that it creates inconvenience for a platform. That is not acceptable.

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Re:How you can get banned from Facebook permanently by jccooper on Saturday January 23, 2021 @01:37PM (#25884911)

Well, the good actors misclassified as bad actors should be told, so they can fix it. The bad actors should be told nothing, because that only helps them become more effective bad actors.

How you differentiate, I dunno. That's the problem.

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Re:How you can get banned from Facebook permanently by A4ET8a8uTh0 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:57PM (#25885990)

I am not certain this is the actual problem though. It is not about misclassification. It is about the underlying system.

Would you argue that a person accused of crime X should be told nothing about the nature of their transgression? To me it sounds very problematic.

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Re:How you can get banned from Facebook permanently by dogma1138 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @07:26PM (#25887520)

Would you be willing to live in society that has a legal system that works like this?

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Re:How you can get banned from Facebook permanently by qwerty456127 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @08:34PM (#25888035)

Some times you might have done/said something bad according to the context of a particular culture or rules of a particular platform (and even inflicted some actual harm or danger on somebody this way) but have no idea what, even after re-reading the rules.

I have been banned from a couple of forums/groups and I really have no clue about what might be the reasons but I don't insist there were none.

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Re:How you can get banned from Facebook permanently by my123 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @02:30PM (#25885301)

You suppose that a bad actor at one point will always stay a bad actor in the future.

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Re:How you can get banned from Facebook permanently by alpaca128 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:28PM (#25886281)

How exactly does it help when Facebook tells a bad actor what part of the publicly available guidelines were violated?

Why can't Facebook just have a hotline/chat that can verify a user's identity and tell them more, preferrable in less than 5 months of spamming their email?

And in the case of a permanent ban the user should at least be able to download all their account data; this feature is already implemented for compliance with GDPR anyway and the online platform wouldn't lose anything by at least not making pictures etc. inaccessible forever.

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Re:How you can get banned from Facebook permanently by feanaro on Saturday January 23, 2021 @04:06PM (#25886085)

And how do you propose to unilaterally and absolutely define what a "bad actor" is?

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Re:How you can get banned from Facebook permanently by dang on Sunday January 24, 2021 @10:02PM (#25898554)

We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email [email protected] and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

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