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Did you read the post? I dont know why, they wont tell me.

Its just a generic "you violated our rules about offensive content/abuse/self-harm and suicide" or something like that. Then a link to where you can get help if you have some kind of mental breakdown. They actually twisted this as If I was suicidal so they can ban me for my own protection.

But I would bet a monthly salary some triggered long time twitter user with high reputation who just didn't understand the joke or does not have a compatible humor reported my tweet and the twitter admins just cater to these people and not to their own rules.




I read your post and it’s still vague as written so it’s not very convincing as an indictment against their policy. I’m not making a claim you are lying, it’s simply not enough to come to reach a conclusion it was all a big misunderstanding.


I'm sure you heard phrases like "Dead people don't lie" or "Dead people don't complain" These are so self-evident they pretty much can only be sarcastic.

Unfortunately (but probably intentional) they do not allow some way to publicly prove these cases of "bad moderation". Yet there is plenty evidence that they get it wrong all the time. For example thebabylonbee is still banned.


No they cannot be only harmlessly sarcastic. Context is very important.


Are you telling me these phrases can cause harm?

As I said before the context was a pun but it should not matter these are factually true statements that any reasonable person would agree on.


Can you copy and paste your 20 or so comments in that 3 month period so we can come to our own conclusions on whether a ban was warranted or not?




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