It’s the automatic porn / indecency filters or something. It takes just the wrong keyword in the description (sometimes completely innocuous words) or the wrong overall shade of pink in your video and boom, it’s gone.
That’s the reason why I post implant-related videos directly here and not on Dailymotion anymore, despite the 8 meg limit. DM just drives me spare.
I used to post videos for my barefoot walking club friends on DM, and they kept getting deleted - even without any description - until DM finally sent me an automated email to tell me to stop posting “foot fetish” stuff, lest my account gets deleted. The damn filters can’t distinguish between a barefoot hike in the forest and a dirty video apparently.
The thing that’s nuts is, you can never figure out what their criteria for rejection are.
Social media can fuck right off, for that reason as well as a whole variety of other reasons.
That don’t matter. Apparently their filters measure the “hotness” of the overall hue of your video.
Case in point, I once shot a video in my living room in the middle of the night, with a low-level table lamp on for lighting. It was a video about some electronic gadget of some kind iirc. But crucially, the lighting was so bad the video was all reddish and darkish, and the porno filters mistook it for bedroom action and decided to save the children of the world from all that filth.
Since then I color-balance all my videos, always on the blueish side.
Well like I said, their criteria are arbitrary and - most importantly - you don’t get to know what they are. It’s like playing a game without knowing the rules.
It might be they didn’t like something absolutely random… but it might be they dislike implants.
And given how they completely nuked an account (which is far more intense than just removing a post like they do with porn), I thought a warning was in place.
There’s another kind of filter that trips REALLY easily in those video sites: it’s the copyrighted music filter. Don’t wanna upset those copyright holder none!
I once posted a high-speed velomobile video with the Ride of the Valkyries as a background music, and within 20 seconds of the upload, it got muted and a banner below said “music copyright violation” or something. I didn’t know Wagner still made money from his music…
I mean… if I don’t want you to get into my place, I will hide the mechanism to open the door.
That makes sense.
But… If I don’t want a kid to say a specific set of words, else I will put it on “time out”… then not stating what they can’t say is actually counter productive!
Not that I am expecting anything short of utter incompetence from facebook devs, though…
I want to cry when I see their algorythms…
That’s so weird, I’ve posted plenty about my implants, videos, boxes, needles, blinkies… always used all the tags even… just the occasional nut job commenting here and there but not much else of a hassle
I’m not even bothered about “a lost account”. I basically had to force myself into using that anyway.
But now I’m rather curious about what exactly happened.
Funny thing is…
If I search for the account, It just does not exist.
If I try to “recover it”, It states there is no account tied to my e-mail.
If I try to log in, use my e-mail and a wrong password, it just returns “invalid username or password”
Up to here, all going as expected…
But then…
If I try to log in using my e-mail and correct password… the app crashes! there seems to be just gibberish coming back from the server, and the app immediately shuts down.
Another thing related to this, Instagram moderates DMs too. A few months ago, I sent a screenshot of the Victoria’s Secret tracker chip hoax in a friend group along with a message explaining why it’s a hoax along with the fact that I’m annoyed that people actually believe in stuff like this. And a minute later, I got a warning about spreading false information. How ironic, my intention was literally to prevent spread of misinformation, and it was only posted in a private DM group.
Yeah, they definitely got bots reading through all our messages… not only insta, but pretty much every modern messaging service.
Then I’m not so sure if the fact that those bots are absolutely imbeciles** is a good or a bad thing…
** testament to the intellect of the developers behind it, not of the bot itself, who isn’t to blame if their progenitors were drunk while conceiving it.
I really wish more people were into IRC or even Jabber…
But now it’s a choice between using shitty services or isolating yourself.
I mean, I’m sure my friends already knew that is false information. I sent that to rant about the absurdity of technology and privacy related hoaxes that karens believe (which I saw earlier on Facebook).
