Have you ever had a comment removed on Facebook for a ridiculous reason?

No, but on another social media account my ex friend called the cops when online I told her to F-off.

Yikes!

@RedDeer A year ago I started a new job that involved eight men and four women, including myself. I got along with everyone except two of the women who were old timers there. They were rude to anyone new. One wouldn’t even look me in the eye. I never experienced such disrespect in a workplace. I vented on Facebook and said I hate women. It was tagged as hate speech. Lol

I think FB has bots that do the censoring so it’s not always logical, and there are so many removals and people using the site and there are probably so few people working there handling the appeals.

One time, in a group, people were talking about traffic on the local highway and what a mess it is, and alternative ways to get home by cutting through the back roads. I wrote “I would just get off and exit 8 and shoot up the hill.” I had the comment removed for inciting violence. I don’t remember if I appealed it. I may have just decided not to touch it at all.

The other thing I have heard is that some people get their accounts shut down for such things, and there’s no appeal, (because nobody responds to appeals, not that there’s no appeal process) and I would hate for that to happen since I have a lot of photos and memories on the site. I am now really careful how I word things.

I am the admin in a few groups and there are admin tools, one of which is a filter, and we can put words in the filter where, when those words are used in the group, it alerts us so we can look at the comment and then decide to delete it or not. Since we don’t want politics being spoken about in the group, some of the words are “Biden,” “Trump” “Democrat,” “Republican,” and stuff like that. I’m betting that the FB bots have filters like that, so when phrases like “shoot up” or “suicide” are used, it alterts the bots and they don’t even look at it, because they’re probably shortstaffed, the site just automatically removes it.

Even if a group is private or secret, the FB employees have access to seeing everything.

Sure.

I’ve had a few things blocked, like something I linked or a meme had some sort of auto-censor block it. I just ignore it. Facebook has trigger words to help them mod what is posted. It is impossible for them to do it perfectly.

Sometimes when a group blocks or deletes what I posted I message the administrator to ask why and state my case, but usually not, I let it go.

I don’t want to be completely blocked forever so I just let it go, mods can be unreasonable or ignorant and you don’t know who you are dealing with. It’s not like fluther we know the mods for years and we can have a conversation with them.

As far as the suicide hotline, I completely understand your intention was only to be helpful and promote care and safety and supply information for where to get support, but I think also parts of the community are helping LGBTQ people feel terrified and despondent. I see this happening regarding the Latin American community.

I love how, almost instantly,folks figured a way around around algorithm word catch! We’re still smarter than computers.
I was thrown in jail once for jokingly telling one of my friends to “Shut up!!”

@JLeslie I’m sorry, am I reading what you wrote correctly? Did you just say their own community is part of the cause of them feeling terrified? That is utterly ridiculous if that’s what you meant. Every LGBTQ persons in my life, and there are many, are terrified for good reason and the ONLY reason is because of Trump and his rhetoric. Their fear is not coming from their own community. Their community is what is saving them right now and giving them hope. Full stop.

@jonsblond I’m Jewish, my husband is Mexican and Jewish, and my sister is bisexual, and my BIL is gay. I absolutely understand being afraid of hateful people who want to harm and kill us. It is real, bad things actually do happen. Every year I’m nervous to perform in Jewish celebrations, I have a very Jewish last name, I get asked if I’m Jewish or “my background” my entire life. I understand being afraid and concerned and that it might get worse, and depressed that Trump won. I think Trump helps to encourage and incite the haters.

However, I do think anticipatory fear can feel worse than reality and there needs to be some reality check and a little less scary talk. Caitlyn Jenner was at Trump’s party. Your community where you live isn’t going to flip suddenly and be 90% LGBTQ haters.

We need to watch for bad signs, prepare for the worst, but not be hysterical, it hurts our children and adults too.

Eight years ago we had fluther threads and I had facebook friends saying their young kids were crying because they were afraid their Latin American friends would be deported. Were their friends undocumented? No. It was ridiculous very young children were feeling that anxiety. That’s their parents providing those fears and stressing their kids out.

If someone is suicidal or very fearful I think it is important to get them help and acknowledge their feelings; but also, let’s realize how some of the conversation out there is causing the feelings of sadness and fear. The Democratic campaigning machine purposely ramps up the fear mongering (just like the Republicans) to get votes. Turn it off. Especially now, the vote is done, two months until Trump is in. People should turn off and stop reading the political stuff, do some happy things, unless they literally work in politics. The more the negative messaging is in people’s face the more upset they will be.

We can’t change the vote.

Going out and doing normal things, will help make people feel better. Not every Republican is trying to kill us.

The community is not harming their own. You just need to stop. Your fucking privilege is showing.

I’m done here. I’m done with you. I will not see anything else you write. You have been flagged for being off topic. Quit gaslighting the community. You are NOT witness to what I see.