Well-nigh instantaneously, as I tried to post my weekly “Joe Collidge” piece on Facebook, I received the following message:
“Your message couldn’t be sent because it includes content that other people on Facebook have reported as abusive.”
What “other people”? Who had any opportunity to read it? I’d only just written it. Do they mean Mr. Algorithm?
I think I’ve figured out, though, which particular phrase set off the robot’s alarm bell. As an experiment, I’ll go back and try a minor edit. If it works, I’ll return to this post and add a P.S. In the meantime, I hope the picture of the happy puppies can spare me further censorship.
P.S.–I made the edit and still can’t post it. This time it’s some razzmatazz about not being able to download the message from my URL, whatever the deuce that means.
If any of you would like to experiment, try sharing the Joe Collidge post on your Facebook page and see what happens–and let me know.
I’m waiting with bated breath to find out what the abusive part was. Maybe the spelling? 🙂 🙂
I thought it probably was Joe’s mention of introseckshunul chickanno studies, so i replaced that with lego studdies, but it appears I was wrong. I can’t think what else they might have found to object to. The bowl of corn flakes???
Yes! Keep us posted!
See my reply to Phoebe.
Susan was able to post the article to her Facebook page, but not in the usual way: she had to copy and paste.
Someone probably had a standing complaint against you and they just decided to deny your future posts.
The post I made after it went up without a hitch. So did the ones I made before it.
Weird.