I know that at least three friends were also singled out by Facebook for editing their own comments on their own pages— on the same day —and who are also in the FB slammer. One infraction was for “going too fast.” Are we supposed to be slow messy typists? Inarticulate, even?
In my case, since it was my second comment of the day on a friend’s page—and only my second attempt to fix a typo on Lyn Hejinian’s name. BAM! The white wall of denial arose from the bowels of the Facebook police state and denied me egress to fix my typos.
So, “going too fast” can’t be the reason why I am in jail again but I was rather inarticulate on Ron Silliman’s page. Mea culpea. At least I know he would understand. Ask him about how Google censured him for posting about poetry. As for AI authorship, see Dana Gioia’s post on an atrocious IA-generated obit for #LynHejinian.
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| This is the comment in question. I tried to add Lyn Hejinian’s name, then Facebook misspelled it as Lynn Hijinian. I tried to correct it. In jail again. |
I make a lot of typos, or rather Facebook autokrap, I mean oughtacorrect—makes them, and I also write in fits and spurts—sentences do not come to me perfectly hatched. And don’t even get me started on where commas need to go. I also have dyslexia. FWIW We can’t comment on anyone’s posts, including our own, but we can write status updates and repost and like other peoples posts. Heh!
Meanwhile, the real spammers are allowed to continue spamming by tagging us in public forums, and we have no recourse to remove our names. I wonder why Facebook doesn’t shut them down—or does Facebook just have it out for outspoken little old ladies? Facebook is a bully. Reminds me of being back in the USSR.
Don’t worry Facebook, I’m keeping track of all your ridiculous bullying. Whatever happened to “let the punishment fit the crime?” And how, exactly does cleaning up a comment, that is fixing grammar, spelling or punctuation go against community standards? Please explain. Or would you prefer that we were all barefoot, pregnant and illiterate? Not to mention, inarticulate? in my case, it’s too late now.
I deliberately over-edited my status update post just to see if I could trigger the Facebook AI censorship bots. And I was rewarded with a notification that “We’ll let you know when your post is ready.” Too bad the FB sniffers are AI, meaning no human will read this—except youse guys. My intention is to let Facebook know that this censorship is ridiculous, not to mention unfair. Ultimately, I just want it to stop. Someday….
The gauntlet has been thrown down. I will use my extra jail time wisely. I will remove all ads from my newsfeed. Game on. Doesn’t Facebook know by now that I’m a bad article? Don’t you know that you can’t shut a a baddass Irishwoman up?
I will answer your comments here:
Lauren Boyd McLachlan in for a penny, in for a pound. Five more days.
#Facebookfail
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