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
    2023-05-18T23:28:14+00:00

    You can call it whatever you want, they are Microsoft's (not a government) forums and they can make the rules.

    I'm sure there are many places where like minded people would be happy to have you participate in their community.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-24T03:00:39+00:00

    In actual fact I have reported dozens of abuses of the "guidelines" asking why, for example, the word "sigh" was flagged as profanity (I was able to post the exact same comment without that word.

    I give my email address. Absolutely no response. As far as I can tell the reports are round-filed.

    I just had one where the article was ABOUT LGBTQ issues (Apple's new rainbow thing). And when I tried to use LGBTQ in a perfectly innocuous sentence, it was flagged as "hate speech." The innocuous comment was allowed when I called the LGBTQ community as "the community Apple is appealing to."

    There are multiple other examples. I have had the question "why do you think that" flagged as hate speech. Other people regularly call me stupid, but that is apparently just fine. (I have reported those).

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-24T03:02:56+00:00

    I agree completely. There is no rhyme nor reason for the flagging and no one will explain why a statement is "profanity" (see my comment above about the word "sigh") or hate speech. It is driving me away from MSN.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-24T03:08:45+00:00

    The problem is not the rules. It is how they are applied--completely arbitrarily, not to mention with no clue as to WHY they are flagged. I am all for preventing hate speech but completely innocuous stuff is being flagged that way.

    On example: I had a three paragraph answer to someone. Flagged as hate speech, though it wasn't close. So I divided it into THREE posts, copying and pasting so the exact same words were used. All of them posted. You can't say it was context, because the answer was to different parts of the post and otherwise unrelated to any stream of argument.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-24T03:11:24+00:00

    my problem isn't having the opinion rejected. It is the WORDING that is rejected. I've been playing catch a mole trying to reword until I hit the magic combo. By "reword" I mean simply trying synonyms for the words I used--none of them profane or hate filled.

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