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Hoe no! Facebook snafu spells trouble for gardening group

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I've reported clear hate speech, clear spam, and misinformation all to be told there was nothing wrong, I have up on reporting anything anymore, these companies don't care, they want people to argue because it keeps users on the platform.

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-Facebook's automated systems.

Facebook's crappy, tenth rate automated systems.

-We have plans to build out better customer support for our products.

We have plans to build out better customer support for our products before the end of the 21st century.

FTFY.

They are happy to ignore anyone who gets shafted by a false positive. They are impossible to contact. There is no customer service. They simply don't give a toss.

This is not just FB. Every other company that 'pivots to digital' will follow their lead.

My local bank branch closed. Ironically, the bank runs endless adverts on TV where they make a point of stating that 'they are there for their customers'.

Customer service is going the way of the Dodo.

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Moderating a Facebook gardening group in western New York is not without challenges. There are complaints of wooly bugs, inclement weather and the novice members who insist on using dish detergent on their plants.

Why would there be a need for moderators for a gardening group?

Western New York Libs need someone to remind them to eat their vegetables?

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Why would there be a need for moderators for a gardening group?

Western New York Libs need someone to remind them to eat their vegetables?

You kind of answered your own question there if you think about it.

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rainydayToday  02:34 pm JST

You kind of answered your own question there if you think about it.

Took me a few hours, but I'll go with the need to remind the libs to eat their vegetables. CNN reception is weak in those parts.

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Took me a few hours, but I'll go with the need to remind the libs to eat their vegetables. CNN reception is weak in those parts.

Yup, that is the point right there. If you can't even participate in a discussion group about something as benign and apolitical as gardening without people trolling you for holding certain political views that they made up out of thin air then you can't run that group without a moderator.

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rainydayToday  05:31 pm JST

Yup, that is the point right there. If you can't even participate in a discussion group about something as benign and apolitical as gardening without people trolling you for holding certain political views that they made up out of thin air then you can't run that group without a moderator.

Oh, I didn't know benign jokes are prohibited.

Since I do not belong to a gardening group though, I still can't imagine the need for a moderator.

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Oh, I didn't know benign jokes are prohibited.

Oh by all means go ahead and joke away. My point was just the irony of you asking why they need moderators at all, then trolling them with political talk in your very next sentence.

I frequent several message boards related to various non-controversial hobbies I have (including gardening, though not the one referenced in the article)and the moderators on all of them take a pretty strong “no politics allowed” approach because political talk is just poison to the discussions on them.

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Facebook (and all the other tech companies) is only interested in the money, anything else is not income generating therefore ignored or cut to the bare minimum

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This issue has been around for years and keeps coming back ad nauseum, a little like those unfortunate Brits who live in the English town of Scunthorpe and often have a problem telling people where they live.

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rainydayJuly 21  07:26 pm JST

Oh by all means go ahead and joke away. My point was just the irony of you asking why they need moderators at all, then trolling them with political talk in your very next sentence. 

I frequent several message boards related to various non-controversial hobbies I have (including gardening, though not the one referenced in the article)and the moderators on all of them take a pretty strong “no politics allowed” approach because political talk is just poison to the discussions 

And my point was I was intentionally being ironic--it is a component of a joke. Regardless, people should eat their vegetables.

Harry_GattoJuly 21  11:20 pm JST

Dear Ms Moderator:

Convince me that this is on topic

I'll spell it out Harry. Hoe no! Facebook snafu **spells trouble for gardening group**

The article is about posting, and moderators who flag posts.

I posted. And if you read the article in detail you see things like this:

A hoe by any other name could be a rake, a harrow or a rototill

See? There is a sort of perverse humor in the article about posts which might inadvertently offend.

So then you get my post, which is intentionally ironic, and humorous, and is similarly innocuous and would normally go against the rules, i.e. from the article:

“We reviewed this comment and found it goes against our standards for harassment and bullying."

See? Humor, can be a little deep sometimes. Hahaha. Get it? Deep?

This last remark is also on topic because the article references a "hoe" which is a garden tool, and is used to dig . . . dah dah daaaaahh---a hole. Maybe even a deep hole.

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This issue has been around for years and keeps coming back ad nauseum, a little like those unfortunate Brits who live in the English town of Scunthorpe and often have a problem telling people where they live.

Imagine the Germans who live in the little town called Titz in North Rhine Westphalia, or the residents of the small French town of Pussy in the Savoie Department.

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Harry_GattoJuly 21  11:23 pm JST

This issue has been around for years and keeps coming back ad nauseum, a little like those unfortunate Brits who live in the English town of Scunthorpe and often have a problem telling people where they live.

Then there's the colloquialism issue. In the US venanicular, 'fiddle' refers to a violin while in the UK it means to rape/molest.

Desert TortoiseJuly 22  03:45 am JST

This issue has been around for years and keeps coming back ad nauseum, a little like those unfortunate Brits who live in the English town of Scunthorpe and often have a problem telling people where they live.

Imagine the Germans who live in the little town called Titz in North Rhine Westphalia, or the residents of the small French town of Pussy in the Savoie Department.

there is a town in Austria that had a name that is an obscene word in English and early this year they phonetically respelled it to 'Fuggen'.

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