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
    2023-07-28T18:09:05+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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  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
    2023-07-29T12:20:08+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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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-29T12:36:35+00:00

    👍👍 I agree.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-07-29T21:32:37+00:00

    Chance are.... if you changed the first 'you' to 'eu' [sounds like 'you'] in the comment you tried to post it would have been approved. I think MSN blocks 'why would you' comments [Or anything like it - I haven't quite figured it out yet] because it sounds like an accusation and they won't allow that because it might make someone feel unsafe. [Or whatever] sigh Like I've numerous times already... It's ridiculous.

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