What's the dumbest reason why Instagram suspended your account?

[Heatman]

Account suspension on Instagram my Meta lately have been on the rise. If you go to Reddit sub about Instagram, you're going to see hundreds of complains about how Instagram suspended and permanently bans account without any good reason. Someone complained about being banned for posting a cat's picture. Imagine being banned from a public social media platform because you posted the picture of a cat?

What's the most dumb reason why Instagram suspended your account?

 

[Nomad]

Not on Instagram, my account on Facebook was suspended for a dumb reason. My sister had shared over a dozen images from her last trekking and I was reacting to these posts and suddenly Fcebook suspended my account saying that I was spamming, and asked me to do a video selfie. I did what I was told and my account was reopened after 24 hours.

 

[Heatman]

Not on Instagram, my account on Facebook was suspended for a dumb reason. My sister had shared over a dozen images from her last trekking and I was reacting to these posts and suddenly Fcebook suspended my account saying that I was spamming, and asked me to do a video selfie. I did what I was told and my account was reopened after 24 hours.

I had a similar experience on Facebook too. I used the word " I swear" which was in agreement to what someone was talking about and immediately my account was flagged and suspended for 30 days. I couldn't believe it. I appealed but it was declined. I served the 30 days ban.

 

[joelr]

This is the problem with algorithmic spam defense. It's too simplistic and too black and white.

So much of human language is contextual

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I unfollowed too many people at one time.

They said it was a violation, and I couldn't post for a week.

I unfollowed about 30 spam accounts that I guess I had followed when I first joined the platform.

No matter how much I tried to contact them, they ignored me. So, I demanded they refund my current $150 ad purchase, and they responded, apologized, and removed the suspension. I told them not to refund after they fixed it. It was funny though; they ignored me until it came down to the money.

 

[Heatman]

I unfollowed too many people at one time.

They said it was a violation, and I couldn't post for a week.

I unfollowed about 30 spam accounts that I guess I had followed when I first joined the platform.

No matter how much I tried to contact them, they ignored me. So, I demanded they refund my current $150 ad purchase, and they responded, apologized, and removed the suspension. I told them not to refund after they fixed it. It was funny though; they ignored me until it came down to the money.

Just imagine! It's only when money is involved they would ever lift a finger. It's like when you have a problem, they will never do anything except when you pay for Meta verification. They are just money grabbers.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Just imagine! It's only when money is involved they would ever lift a finger. It's like when you have a problem, they will never do anything except when you pay for Meta verification. They are just money grabbers.

They really are.

 

[Heatman]

They really are.

I've seen so many of their agenda being pushed in the Instagram Sub Reddit for users to pay for Meta verification in order to have full support. A social media platform that can't offer you any support unless you paid for it is utterly ridiculous.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I've seen so many of their agenda being pushed in the Instagram Sub Reddit for users to pay for Meta verification in order to have full support. A social media platform that can't offer you any support unless you paid for it is utterly ridiculous.

It is.

I think it will ultimately start backfiring on them at some point. People are going to start getting tighter on the money. Maybe it will cause people to get outside more and away from social media and the internet. That's when social media will start getting cheaper or even free again, when the majority stops using it.

AI features are going to require exceptional server resources, though, so I foresee price increases. Those increases might be what dooms a lot of these social media companies.

 

[Heatman]

It is.

I think it will ultimately start backfiring on them at some point. People are going to start getting tighter on the money. Maybe it will cause people to get outside more and away from social media and the internet. That's when social media will start getting cheaper or even free again, when the majority stops using it.

AI features are going to require exceptional server resources, though, so I foresee price increases. Those increases might be what dooms a lot of these social media companies.

Will people ever wake up and start walking out on using social media platforms? I don't think that's going to happen very soon with how so many people are addicted to these platforms. But if this push is going to happen, Meta and the rest will stop taking advantage of people's addiction.

 

[Carlos]

It's not technically "suspended," but I consider myself a bit lucky. I've tried to sleuth through instagram and trying to avoid the censorship, but even then... I still do, because instagram has unwritten rules. Like the nudity bullshit.

I understand not to post nudity. I understand it, but instagram uses that rule to pull down the "too sexy," "too popular" women. I follow Laura Marie Massie, and she has had to deal with censorship for months, maybe even years. She only posts bikini photos, but instagram removes posts that get real close to nudity.

I have a, like a separate buddy (who is a woman) in the YouTube sphere - she has a similar issue on YouTube. However, on instagram, I piosted a picture of the woman in bikini - but she put cake/food on her ...um. Um.... let's say crotch. If you know what I mean. So, I posted a livestream screencap of it, because I thought it was a) weird. b) funny. Like a meme. But instead, what instagram does, is shadowbans THAT post, and I contested it. They ignored it. Like these leftists are so entrenched into the idea of canceling women for the gorgeous body they have.

Oh, and as collateral damage, they went through my other posts, and made those shadow banned worthy. Like the "fight, fight, fight" image when Trump was shot in July. Yup. That was shadowbanned. There's no real reason to shadowban it, it's a famous image.

So, now I don't have reach on instagram for the YouTube channel CarlosX720. It's bullshit. Fuck meta and their censorship tirade.