Don't have any answer, but I have been blocked lately when trying to critcize the quality of several articles.
Doesn't meet guidelines? WHY???
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Why does my profile picture not meet the guidelines Microsoft has for posting on their public forum? It's just a picture of my chin resting on the palm of my hand. It's a chin, a hand, and a part of my wrist, along with a bit of a sweater. What's wrong with that??? And why did my comment about Annie Wersching fail to meet guidelines? I said that I never saw her on one show someone else had mentioned, but I loved her in a few others that I named, and I mentioned that I got to trade messages back and forth for a while when she worked on Timeless, and that she was a sweet woman. What is offensive about THAT?
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Don Varnau 19,825 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2023-02-05T09:48:31+00:00 Why does my profile picture not meet the guidelines Microsoft has for posting on their public forum? It's just a picture of my chin resting on the palm of my hand. It's a chin, a hand, and a part of my wrist, along with a bit of a sweater. What's wrong with that??? And why did my comment about Annie Wersching fail to meet guidelines? I said that I never saw her on one show someone else had mentioned, but I loved her in a few others that I named, and I mentioned that I got to trade messages back and forth for a while when she worked on Timeless, and that she was a sweet woman. What is offensive about THAT?
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Sorry but...
You aren't communicating with MSN here. No one here can answer your question.
Here's my canned response on moderation. Please see, in particular, point 4.
I can't explain the moderation of comments to MSN articles, but here are some observations.
1. You may find useful information at https://www.msn.com/en-us/community/guideline
2. There were so many unacceptable comments that commenting was shut down for a few
months not too long ago.
3. Now that commenting is allowed again, moderation is very restrictive.
4. Moderation is a dysfunctional mess. It's being done via AI, via a bot, not humans and is
random and inexplicable.
5. If a comment you tried to post was banned, that will be in your activity feed, and you
can appeal that decision.
6. I've searched but have not found a way to contact MSN staff regarding this moderation
except the Feedback link that's at the bottom of nearly every MSN webpage. If you receive
a reply to the feedback, it will be a generic reply that doesn't address your specific issue.
Don
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