[71bw]

I create a new account every 6 months or so on Facebook when my old one gets banned for "violating the community guidelines" and I haven't been asked for an ID ever since 2019. Twitter, though, is way worse and I had to give up and I'm currently just buying aged accounts. Violates even more parts of the ToS than just ban evasion but at least the accounts last for years instead of weeks.

[randomguy0]

What in the world are you doing to keep getting banned and to also want an account enough that you’ll pay for them?

[ridgered4]

I gave up on facebook (but I wasn't trying that hard) but it seemed to be using the extortion practices a lot of services use now. At first it appears to let you create an account but upon logging in for the first time it demands a phone number for 'verification'. Microsoft was even worse when they migrated my mojang account, it let me use it for a little while before demanding the number.

Back when I had a facebook account I recall it suddenly up and demanding I scan my drivers license one day or I couldn't log in again...on the same and only machine I actually had used facebook on.

[thorin]

What do you have to do to get banned? I've seen people getting banned temporarily but I haven't heard of anyone getting banned permanently.

[pookha]

If you don't like somebody on Facebook you can report them for offensive content. I posted something that some asshole facebook friend didn't appreciate and they dug through my facebook feed and found one image that was borderline (somebody in politics in their drawers) and sent in a complaint to facebook. Got my account banned for a first strike. Same douche could have sent in more complaints and facebook would have happily given me three strikes. It's a Stasi system. Don't like your boss or your neighbor, report them...

[dncornholio]

What if my boss or neighbour didn't post anything that's against the TOS?

[Nextgrid]

It's not about what's against the ToS, it's about getting the monkeys who review the reports to judge that it's against the ToS. Given their working conditions, they have little incentive in making an accurate determination and may just be pressing buttons at random, so spamming enough reports will eventually yield a ToS violation even on perfectly clean content.

[jerf]

Your question contains the implicit assumption that "TOS" is some bright shining line that everyone, from all posters, to all of the AIs and humans analyzing whether something conforms, completely agrees with. Therefore, "just don't break the TOS" is a reasonable solution.

This is manifestly and obviously false, in numerous ways. I don't even need to cite capriciousness, cultural differences, or potential political bias; even ignoring those things, it simply isn't and can not ever be a bright shining line.

This is even before we consider that TOSs have been known to retroactively change. YouTube just made such a change; doesn't affect whether the videos are removed but the retroactively changed the monetization standards, with large effect. "Just don't break the TOS" is a non-starter in such an environment.

[nhtsamera]

That would be unusual, so you could probably report them for being a bot.

After all, Meta's TOS stipulates that you must provide accurate information about yourself, and that you cannot share anything that is misleading.

It also prohibits making groundless reports or appeals, so maybe you could take an eye for an eye it you get unfairly targeted.

[subradios]

They absolutely have, just gotta dig.

Remember the wave of people being in hot water over tweets sent in 2008?