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To wonder what the hell *does* break Facebook community standards

62 replies

Hobbes8 · 30/07/2015 20:53

I saw some proper porn on Facebook today. Someone had tagged a friend in it and so it appeared on my news feed. I presume they had been hacked.

There was a series of pictures that were clearly pornographic, and some text about someone drugging someone. Full frontal genital penetration shots and the implication that it was rape as well. Really jarring when you're scrolling down minion quotes and kitten pictures.

So I reported it and clicked on the "sexually explicit material" option. I got a message back saying the post had been reviewed and judged not to contain nudity.

What the hell?! It's still there. I've heard about FB removing breastfeeding pictures and children in the bath, etc - how have they left this up?

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MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 30/07/2015 22:09

Someone on my feed had a picture of themselves reflected in a mirror in their pants removed. Someone reported it and the complaint stood. It wasn't offensive to anyone in the slightest. Odd.

crustsaway · 30/07/2015 22:14

I say its a massive huge thing almost like some beast and you need to police things yourself in this instance and stop trusting a bloody internet site to do it. I cannot understand peoples reasoning in this? it is what it is.

lemoncordial · 30/07/2015 22:37

Yanbu op. It's very annoying that their reporting tool doesn't work properly. I've reported similar spam porn before and got similar response. Yet I know someone who posted a photo of their baby's bum on a facebook group for an opinion on bad nappy rash and their photo got removed for nudity.

PeppermintInfusion · 30/07/2015 23:22

I reported a picture of a police man shovelling "remains" (it wasn't particularly identifiable but you knew what it was and there was a detailed commentary) after a tragedy, it was an incident within most people's lifetime so a relative of victim could have seen that and been so upset, never mind that it's ghoulish. Was I being oversensitive? I can't decide.

CrapBag · 30/07/2015 23:27

I reported a picture of a baby girl that had been bitten by ants. She was lying on her side naked and you could very clearly see her genitals on display. That didn't violate their community standards either. Angry

I contacted an online police protection type thing and gave them screen shots and everything and they also couldn't do anything.

I was not happy. It is disgusting!

lsa2 · 31/07/2015 00:00

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crustsaway · 31/07/2015 00:07

Its a damn internet thing. why on earth you are blaming something that allows you to keep in contact with people and freely post what you want to friends and family that costs jack shite I will never know. then moan some.

crustsaway · 31/07/2015 00:09

fucking report city.. delete and block... its not hard. why are you being so precious about it.

crustsaway · 31/07/2015 00:12

is facebook responsible for a twat that posts a dick shot when you actually get so much for nothing? If i was paying for a site then fair enough id expect something back.

ChwatFeechers · 31/07/2015 00:15

On and on like a broken record...

Boring fucker.

lsa2 · 31/07/2015 00:17

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crustsaway · 31/07/2015 00:17

I hope your arent referring to me chwat? if so id like you to actually declare and say so... then Id be able to call you a rude bitch

AradiaWitch · 31/07/2015 00:18

What pisses me off more than anything else is that FB regularly delete things that are NOT offensive, I know a lot of body painters whose photos are always being deleted, BF pics on groups I am on and artistic photos that may show a bit of boob. Yet photos of animals and babies bring abused, porn and graphic violence are ok? Wtaf?!

crustsaway · 31/07/2015 00:19

why do you need to discuss a report button when you should know full well what happens and not blame the site?

ChwatFeechers · 31/07/2015 00:20

Haha, did my comment follow yours?

You don't need permission.

Dawndonnaagain · 31/07/2015 00:21

People are not being precious crusts they are being responsible. Turning a blind eye to things like disability hate crime, or just deleting it, which in effect amounts to the same thing is irresponsible. Reporting it so that it isn't spread is the right thing to do.

crustsaway · 31/07/2015 00:22

hahaha chwat. neither maybe do you.

crustsaway · 31/07/2015 00:24

The site is what it is.. People do need to be responsible and not blame a site. People need to not expect and flipping huge media site to deal with it. Its free and down to the user to block.

crustsaway · 31/07/2015 00:25

I cannot understand the logic of something being free without a drawback.

crustsaway · 31/07/2015 00:27

Something is free therefore there is always a price... why on earth are people saying this shouldnt be so. Do you not realise this?

CloserToFiftyThanTwenty · 31/07/2015 00:31

OP, YA obviously NBU Hmm

crustsaway · 31/07/2015 00:33

Im not saying that you shouldnt report, im saying you get what you get and dont expect an immediate reply, or a solution either. there are, what, say, 50 million users. under those circumstances id sort of police myself?

DarthVadersTailor · 31/07/2015 01:56

Whenever I've reported something it seems as though the automatic response is that it doesn't break community standards, then a while later the post gets reviewed and then taken down. But it never gets removed 1st time no matter what the post is.

shadowfax07 · 31/07/2015 02:08

One of my FB friends recently received a death threat via Messenger from someone she doesn't know, apparently this doesn't breach their community guidelines either.

WTAF???

Hygge · 31/07/2015 06:35

Report it again and then hide or delete it.

A different person reviewing it might act more quickly.

I reported something which Facebook deemed acceptable, then months later received a message to say they had decided it was not acceptable and had been removed.

It was a picture of extreme physical violence in progress against a woman with a caption stating the violence was either punishment for her being pregnant or intended to cause her to miscarry.

According to Facebook some people find that funny and humour is subjective. Hmm At least they took it down in the end.