When a website tells you that you broke a rule, but doesn't tell you what the rule is.

Submitted ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

I was uploading images to imgur to clear space off my phone yesterday and got an automated message that “content” in one of my albums broke community guidelines and therefore the album was deleted.

What picture exactly broke the guidelines? I have no clue. I wasn’t posting anything I’d consider borderline.

How did this unknown picture break the rules? I don’t know, because imgur won’t tell me.

Can I appeal it? I don’t see any way, which sucks since it is almost certainly an automated filter and those are known to make mistakes.

This is a problem on a lot of sites, both with and without automated content moderation. I’ve seen people defend sites having unknown rules as a way to keep uploaders from gaming the system, but frankly to me that’s just stupid. People with enough time to figure out the workarounds will always game the system, while more normal casual uploaders are stuck essentially rolling dice.

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Tarogar@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I recommend using a platform that isn’t as infuriatingly stupid like IMGUR if you don’t like that to happen.

Honestly, the mildly infuriating part is that people still use IMGUR despite the fact that it’s well known that IMGUR has gotten this bad.

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- setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I use a variety for different things. My point isn’t imgur specifically, but how these hidden rules exist on different sites.
  
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  - dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    They aren’t hidden. It was probably on the Terms of service somewhere. They are not legally binding, nobody reads them, but is the way the company runs anyway. They’re not a cloud service, they claim they are a social network for image hosting. So they have no duty of care with user’s personal data or privacy.
    
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ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I had a Google Voice number for well over a decade. One day any text I tried to send returned an error message. Went through the automated process to see why and was told, essentially, that “you did something wrong worthy of suspension but we won’t tell you what it is.” Did the appeal thing a couple of times and got little to no useful response. I also found out that, while Google was stopping me from using my Voice number and giving me error messages, they were still allowing people to text and call me with no error on their end so friends, relatives and companies thought I was a ghosting jerk. Finally, after not being able to use Voice for about 4 months, I got the message that “You haven’t been using your voice number so we are going to reallocate it…yesterday.” 10+ years of texts and voice messages just…gone. Last messages from friends (and my mother) who had died…gone. Picture attachments in those texts…gone. Messages telling me that a friend had died and this is when the service is…never received. That was the beginning of my slowly continuing (and almost done) degoogling. Fuck Google…and companies like google.

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Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ever tried to apply for a visa waiver for the UK (ETA Electronic Travel Authorization)? They have the most fucked up app for that. You have to take a selfie, and it tells you “No, bad, try again”. And then you have to click through several pages of what to do and not to do again (all had been painfully followed in every attempt).

And why any of the dozen+ pictures was bad was the apps well kept secret. Finally, one had been accepted, without any discernible difference to the previous attempts.

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MantisToboggon@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Don’t lie, you know there were pictures of your balls in there.

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- athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  This close, they always look like landscape. Nope, you’re looking at balls.
  
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Naho_Zako@piefed.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Pinterest would do this shit even when it wasn’t my own posts lol. Like I never posted stuff to it, only saved others pins, but it would email me every time a one of “my pins” got removed, and rarely did they ever tell you why or what the pin was. I didn’t care much since I mostly saved memes and ~~stolen/reposted~~ fanart but the way they run that site is dumbfounding.

Dropped it a few years back anyway since it became infested with ads, promotions, and AI art 🤢

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perishthethought@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hope this helps.

https://alternativeto.net/software/imgur/

I like https://catbox.moe/

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- atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Also s3nd.pics
  
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  - perishthethought@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead - Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to s3nd.pics.
    
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Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That’s reddit for you.

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