Instagram bans

mclarkie

annat 

Reading through, I could/would not compare to the whole Horizon debacle

I didn't compare to the whole Horizon debacle, but someone on a morale high horse who thinks we all deserve to be banned decided I had compared it to the post office Horizon.

annat

Freelikeabird said:

annat said:

I have just started yet another ban after a few tags spread over 24 hours, hey ho!! I even tried a couple of companies with the suggested message. We will see if I get any response. I get the comment about raising an issue with who? Meta? waste of time, sadly. You would probably be deleted for complaining. 
Reading through, I could/would not compare to the whole Horizon debacle. However, I do agree with how some people feel, that some appear to get away with pages of tags and others hardly any? I know the rules will be changing, but in the meanwhile, reporting those who get away with it, feels a little uncomfortable with the spirit of things. Don't know how others feel? I personally have reduced entries so much, I will be completely gobsmacked if I end up winning anything  

If the reporting was in reference to my comment - I wondered if people were already doing that to those of us who got banned, and then tongue in cheek suggested we report the *companies* who are posting the competitions, since they're the ones asking for the tags! It was never a suggestion to report other compers.

Fair  Sorry  All I meant was that it is not worth becoming bitter against those who cheat and/or appear to get away with stuff

Freelikeabird

annat said:

Freelikeabird said:

annat said:

I have just started yet another ban after a few tags spread over 24 hours, hey ho!! I even tried a couple of companies with the suggested message. We will see if I get any response. I get the comment about raising an issue with who? Meta? waste of time, sadly. You would probably be deleted for complaining. 
Reading through, I could/would not compare to the whole Horizon debacle. However, I do agree with how some people feel, that some appear to get away with pages of tags and others hardly any? I know the rules will be changing, but in the meanwhile, reporting those who get away with it, feels a little uncomfortable with the spirit of things. Don't know how others feel? I personally have reduced entries so much, I will be completely gobsmacked if I end up winning anything  

If the reporting was in reference to my comment - I wondered if people were already doing that to those of us who got banned, and then tongue in cheek suggested we report the *companies* who are posting the competitions, since they're the ones asking for the tags! It was never a suggestion to report other compers.

Fair  Sorry  All I meant was that it is not worth becoming bitter against those who cheat and/or appear to get away with stuff

Oh absolutely, I didn't mention those who got/get away with multiple tags at all in my comment. Only those of us who were banned and the companies who posted.

It is bizarre that the auto banning system picks out some and not others, but I guess it's like was mentioned earlier in this thread that once it targets you you'll keep get banned for breathing the wrong way until it decides to target someone else. Whatever the issue with it is, I hope it gets fixed soon!

StarTrix

lottiegirl said:

on my 3rd ban this month ! Ive taken to sending polite messages to the different company's websites customer services /contact us pages asking them to consider doing competitions in a different way due to these bans on insta - probably won't make any difference but we will see.

I've sent a good dozen or so messages since last week. Only one got back to me (on both IG and FB), which was basically a polite "no".

mclarkie

Quite a good piece on Lowducks about this topic - https://www.loquax.co.uk/blog/comping/instagram-prize-draws-are-causing-user-bans-8054.htm

StarTrix

Instagram (Meta) was suffering an outage yesterday and overnight... Mwahaha! 😈

nigelh66

I am amazed at seemingly how far Instagram goes in banning people. I was banned like many others for liking/tagging competition posts. I kept trying to get back on and they advised I am permanently banned with no right of appeal. I tried signing up again through normal means and through linking to my Facebook account and now they say my name is banned. So they must be tracking me by name ? And in these times where ' Social Media ' is everything it is amazing that they can exclude someone for basically no reason ! ( I know it is their site and they can do what they like but you always see in the news reports of ' dodgy ' things going on with ' Social Media ' with no apparent problems ! ) 

mclarkie

nigelh66 said:

 ( I know it is their site and they can do what they like but you always see in the news reports of ' dodgy ' things going on with ' Social Media ' with no apparent problems ! ) 

Yes I receive plenty of pornographic spam and scams in my IG inbox everyday. 

StarTrix

My latest IG ban was until the 14th but I'm still banned 😔 

Largs

What I would do is BAN INSTAGRAM. That and TIKTOK. Everyone should read a book instead or walk more....