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

Anonymous
2021-09-07T21:45:27+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-08-18T17:41:52+00:00

    I know. I typed a comment about how I never heard about other countries sending millions of dollars to help Ukraine, like the U.S. has and it got 'reviewed'. Aren't expressing opinions about the actions of the government, sort of a constitutional right? I keep hoping that someone from MSN will become aware of this site and/or people's complaints. But even if they did, they're probably not going to do anything about it. They'll just keep up with their "community guidelines" **** and continue to provide no explanation as to why or how your comment wasn't allowed to post.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-08-18T21:07:24+00:00

    I don’t think they discriminate as I’ve replied to many right-winged comments and gotten through. Tried to post using “sex” as in sex education and was barred. Changed it to s*x and got through.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-08-18T22:30:08+00:00

    Because they discriminate against left wing comments. lol They are a heavily right wing site that is clear. You can not mention any ism either or your comment will be banned so that's nice that they ban all discussion of any type of bigotry, even if it's a news article talking about racism or sexism all those types of words are banned. Sick and gross Microsoft.

    Putting an asterisk doesn't even work on a word they really hate like racism. And I was only using the word because they had an article that was discussing such issues but then you were banned from talking about them. They've made it so you can't use the * on the words they most hate,

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-08-18T22:34:55+00:00

    You will find that one of the words you used triggered a bot to "review" your comment, and that's all it is. Another bot probably "reviewed" no real people to have to spend money paying now that the bots are set up. I've done trials to see which of my words got the comment "reviewed". Shocking some of the words that are banned.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-08-18T22:39:17+00:00

    The government aren't allowed to ban you from expressing opinions on the government, but private companies are allowed to forbit you to use their platform for it. However your comment wasn't reviewed because Microsoft got pissed that you don't want money sent to help all the people being killed in the Ukraine. They just have a bot that decided one of the words you used might cause impassioned discussion. They have banned all sorts of words.

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