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>It is worth noting that FB get probably the world's largest amount of spammers, fraudsters and general bad people due to the fact that they have an absurd amount of users.

Yes, and they make a ton of money from those users as well. So the question is why the Facebooks and Googles of this world don't have proper procedures in place to deal with these things in a sensible way.

If a decision gets reversed only after exploding on Hacker News or Reddit it should be considered a bug.




> If a decision gets reversed only after exploding on Hacker News or Reddit it should be considered a bug.

The problem is that we only see the cases that go viral. We don't see the cases that didn't, and thus can't actually judge how many cases get reversed via the official escalation channels.




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