"This comment does not meet community guidelines" - so annoying!

Can someone give a detailed explanation of what exactly we can and can't write in the MSN comments? Totally innocuous and inoffensive replies are frequently denied by the automoderation because "This comment does not meet community guidelines", and you are given no clue as to what specifically was wrong. I had to give up replying to one person because no matter what I tried it just wouldn't let me do it.

No one here will be able to answer your question except to point you to

https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/guideline Click on Guidelines on that page.

Just speculation, but MSN felt that there were so many unacceptable comments a few months ago that they shut down commenting completely for several months. Perhaps they're being overly restrictive in order to avoid a recurrence of that situation.

Don

It's ridiculous. It literally will not let me reply with "Why is that relevant?" I mean really?? Why would that question be "against community guidelines"? It's absolutely baffling. Not asking you specifically btw.

I tried to reply to the article about the guy with the sprinkler keeping people off his lawn. I literally wrote. I like it but some communities out west will fine you if you run your sprinklers during the day. How does that not meet their guidelines???????? I found that if I didn't reply, and broke the comment up into several parts, I was able to post it. I like it when all you do is reply "I don't think that's a good idea" and it doesn't meet their guidelines. But you're reading comments that are abusive, bullying, advocate genocide, etc. but those somehow met the guidelines.

I tried to reply to the article about the guy with the sprinkler keeping people off his lawn. I literally wrote. I like it but some communities out west will fine you if you run your sprinklers during the day. How does that not meet their guidelines????? I found that if I didn't reply, and broke the comment up into several parts, I was able to post it. I like it when all you do is reply "I don't think that's a good idea" and it doesn't meet their guidelines. But you're reading comments that are abusive, bullying, advocate genocide, etc. but those somehow met the guidelines.

No one here will be able to answer your question except to point you to

https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/guideline Click on Guidelines on that page.

And... Your comments posted here won't reach MSN . Use the Feedback link that's on nearly every MSN page, usually at the bottom.

Don