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
    2023-07-29T12:20:08+00:00

    Agreed, I disabled the whole community feature on a new tab on Edge because every other comment I tried to post would get stopped by the community guidelines bot. If they don't want to let people fairly discuss topics, I just won't participate.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-07-29T02:29:55+00:00

    I have found when commenting that very often one person can write a particular comment and another person writing almost the exact same type of comment will get blocked for not meeting the community guidelines which is difficult to justify. Sometimes my response to a comment if far more fairly written than the original comment, however, my comment /response gets blocked citing community guidelines. Nothing about my comment is something that would be considered bullying, or otherwise offensive, merely a different point of view. My response to one comment which was actually rather ugly was simply..."why would you say that about someone you don't know personally?" My response was blocked....but their comment was posted. It appears to me that the community guidelines are fluid, some comments to me would be considered bullying but get posted while others that would not be considered bullying get blocked and I am not the only one who has commented on this...

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-07-28T18:09:05+00:00

    As I said earlier, I just stopped using MSN news. Set up my own opening page with news sources I care about. Get most of my commenting kicks on Substack and Facebook.

    How many ads have I failed to click on, MSN? Let me count the ways.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-28T08:38:25+00:00

    It is ridiculous. Fact is.... the most powerful people in the world are those who are anonymously deciding what can and what can not be communicated. We never approved of these people or voted for them. We have no idea who they are. And no way to contact them. I think that has to change. As for the quote from Dr. King, I can see several words that would give MSN a fit. 'Black' for one. And of course 'Negro'. But there are other words - I have discovered - such a 'woman' and LGBT etc. And more often than not you can't say 'you' so we have play games with these fools by spelling words incorrectly. 'eu' for 'you' and 'eur' for 'your'. It truly is pathetic.

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  5. Don Varnau 19,930 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-07-28T08:34:56+00:00

    Having a conversation on this forum is close to impossible, I wanted to respond to this person...Maybe it's best I just say goby to Msn.Real Eetee ...After slavery"The quest of the Negro male for employment was always
    frustrating. If he lacked skill, he was only occasionally wanted
    because such employment as he could find had little regularity and even less remuneration. If he had a skill, he also had his black skin, and discrimination locked doors against him.
    In the competition for scarce jobs, he was a loser because he
    was born that way.
    His rage and torment were frequently turned inward because if they gained outward expression their consequences
    could be fatal. The Negro father became resigned to hopelessness, and he communicated this to his children. What part of this quoit from Dr. Kings Where do we go from here? does not meet Community guidelines.

    1. No one here can tell you why a comment was blocked. You will not be able to contact MSN staff to find out why a comment was blocked.
    2. Here's part of my canned response on moderation.

    (4) Moderation is a dysfunctional mess. It's being done via AI, via a bot, not humans and

         is random and inexplicable.

    Don

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