New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do I make an Instagram account that doesn’t get banned?
Ask HN: How do I make an Instagram account that doesn’t get banned?
4 by nojs | 3 comments on Hacker News.
After moving to a new city, I decided to sign up for instagram about a week ago. Immediately after I finished creating the account, I got a message saying it was suspended and I could appeal if I wanted to. Background: - Never had an account or logged into IG before - No VPN, and signing up from a first-world country - Adblocking extensions disabled - Never posted, commented, shared anything, the account was banned immediately before I could even upload a profile photo. I appealed (which meant sending a photo holding a handwritten code), and 36 hours later got an email saying sorry and that my account was banned in error. Great! I opened the app, signed in, uploaded a profile photo, clicked around a bit and then the same message appeared again - I was again suspended. Again, I send a photo with my face holding a new handwritten code. And again, they apologised and unbanned the account. Unfortunately, when I went to use the app my account is banned for a third time! Since there's no humans anymore, I figure I'm dealing purely with ML algorithms at this point. So what can I do to prevent myself being classified as a bad guy?
4 by nojs | 3 comments on Hacker News.
After moving to a new city, I decided to sign up for instagram about a week ago. Immediately after I finished creating the account, I got a message saying it was suspended and I could appeal if I wanted to. Background: - Never had an account or logged into IG before - No VPN, and signing up from a first-world country - Adblocking extensions disabled - Never posted, commented, shared anything, the account was banned immediately before I could even upload a profile photo. I appealed (which meant sending a photo holding a handwritten code), and 36 hours later got an email saying sorry and that my account was banned in error. Great! I opened the app, signed in, uploaded a profile photo, clicked around a bit and then the same message appeared again - I was again suspended. Again, I send a photo with my face holding a new handwritten code. And again, they apologised and unbanned the account. Unfortunately, when I went to use the app my account is banned for a third time! Since there's no humans anymore, I figure I'm dealing purely with ML algorithms at this point. So what can I do to prevent myself being classified as a bad guy?
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