MSN, Community guidelines and standards being inappropriately applied.

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Anonymous
2023-04-07T17:36:27+00:00

I have been experiencing issues with posting comments on MSN for the past few months. My comments are often flagged as not complying with the community guidelines, despite my efforts to carefully craft them to avoid offending or accusing anyone. My intention is to provide supplemental information and alternative perspectives on topics and reports. I have also noticed that many news stories on MSN contain inaccurate and false information, and comments are often disabled for these stories. This creates a biased environment on the MSN website, as it does not allow for alternative information to be presented. I believe my comments do not violate the community standards and I would like to be able to resume posting comments like the one below, as sometimes presenting facts and refuting poor ideas is necessary.

“To explore the topic, I recommend looking into the double slit experiment and Schrodinger’s cat. Rather than simply providing answers, it is important to seek understanding by researching and contemplating the materials. Asking for answers is not affective, especially with complex topics like this, as human beings tend to have biases that hinder their ability to seek the reality of the situation due to cognitive dissidence. All I've given you some clues on what to research and I wish you the best of luck in your pursuit of understanding.”

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-08-27T16:39:48+00:00

    The weird thing is that in the comment above you see the exact same "keyword" you were just dinged for.

    I'm wondering the the AI is one of those "self-teaching" types. If it dings you once, it increases scrutiny of whatever you say next, and every time it finds a "keyword" (whether or not others use it) you are dinged again--and it snowballs. Pretty soon (as I noted when I started all this) it dings you for saying "sigh." I suspect there is a hierarchy of forbidden keywords and every time snow adds to the ball the AI digs deeper down into the hierarchy so eventually "auldtwa" plus "sigh" becomes against standards.

    This is why I don't think the AI is a nefarious political censorship plot against either side. This snowball effect can happen to EVERYONE no matter the content. You can see complaints in this thread from both liberals and conservatives. This is why I no longer read MSN news, for fear I will be tempted to comment and then have to go through the whole rigmarole of guessing what the AI has decided is the "wrong" part of whatever I said. That was how I got to "sigh." I just started deleting words till "sigh" was all that was left, and BANG, against community standards.

    I can find plenty of venues to comment on whatever the story is.

    They don't want the advertising dollars from my clicks on the numerous ads? They can just do without.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-08-27T15:16:07+00:00

    My only negative response is the reference to "free speech". That's a right guaranteed in the Constitution, but it only applies to the government. A private business has the right to limit or censor anything they want on their own platform.

    My objection is that MSN neither adequately states what these "community standards" are except within a very vague, general manner, nor allows for any sort of appeal or request for human review. If that's what they want, they should very clearly state that all comments will be refused if they reference the "key words" that MSN blocks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-08-26T01:39:21+00:00

    Your Welcome.

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