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Initially it said two things; "You have been banned due to your name" and "You have been banned due to violations of guidelines". I have read through the guidelines and an find nowhere a sufficient reason for my commenting suspension. And since my work is directly tied to my ability to navigate the comment section of media's social interactions I have to assume the reason is not good enough, otherwise I would have received an answer from someone, anyone really. Every MSN agent I have spoken with does not see my account in bad standing. So my conclusion is that a 3rd party who does not have access to my account but rather just the ability to remove my ability to comment on news articles is the final judge.
I have cancelled my subscriptions to Microsoft and all of it's products and may be planning legal action as to simply find out one thing... why.
Just a simple answer in detail as to what about my posts were in any way "wrong".
I have been working on research for nearly 8 year as to how the social aspect of the internet changes people, and now I have a new chapter. The unfettered power some get by playing "god" over someone else's work.
I genuinely would love for someone to have the fortitude to not hide behind anonymity in some dark corner and give a detailed explanation with examples of my "Crime". Because all of the comments I have made and read and reread do not violate any of the mentioned guidelines...
But now my work is directly affected without sufficient reason.
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I've had an account since 1990...something. I have never commented on anything at msn. Nor do I make inappropriate comments. I was going to make my first comment on MSN and read I was banned from commenting b/c of guidlelines. I repeat, I have never commented. Hmmm.
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I tried to comment for the first time and got a "The username violates our guidelines" which it looks like it auto uses your actually IRL name as a user name. Seeing I can list businesses, lawyers, famous historical figures ect that have my exact first and last name. Im not seeing how my name could violate anything
I did not recall using the Community for comment posts. in the past I discovered that I did make a post in 2015. My profile at the Community included an email address no longer used. I corrected the email address. It may be possible that rejections from the old email address flagged my account, and caused the ban. The ban has been lifted a couple of days ago.
