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sad that going viral on social media is the only functional support system for many tech companies. good luck hope you get your mom's stuff.

by swyx 5mo ago

SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago
I was selling a GPU on Facebook marketplace during covid. The description was that the card was good for gaming or “turning dinosaurs into clean money”. Banned permanently and no way to ever reach a human. I sold a rifle legally on an online auction site. The buyer was offered to pay with PayPal they were given the option to use. The buyer took that option, making me break PayPal TOS. Banned permanently and no way to ever reach a human. Banned from Venmo, absolutely no idea why. SO banned from Venmo, absolutely no idea why. Banned permanently and no way to ever reach a human. Fuck. Big. Tech.
- maxbond 5mo ago
  > Banned from Venmo, absolutely no idea why. SO banned from Venmo, absolutely no idea why. Prior to 2013 or after? Maybe they merged ban lists with PayPal (who owns them).
- dcposch 5mo ago
  It's because Venmo is owned by PayPal
  - SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago
    It’s not though. All three of those events were separated by at least a year each long after PayPal bought Venmo.
- sieabahlpark 5mo ago
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- phlogisticfugu 5mo ago
  even though it was a joke, what you did looked like money laundering. which probably triggered a SAR which companies are legally forbidden from disclosing https://www.finra.org/arbitration-mediation/rules-case-resources/sar-confidentiality-requirements https://www.finra.org/arbitration-mediation/rules-case-resou...
dhouston 5mo ago
Fair criticism. The tricky part though with any scaled service is that for every legitimate case like this, there are many more bad actors trying to hijack accounts through exactly this mechanism -- so account recovery has to be conservative by default, which means legitimate cases sometimes get caught in the friction. Not an excuse, but it's a hard problem at scale and not just e.g. a cost-cutting thing or not giving a shit.
- yesitcan 5mo ago
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  - nikkwong 5mo ago
    Not every use of the em dash is Ai. I’ve long used it and always am accused of using Ai in responses — though I never do.
    - Sohcahtoa82 5mo ago
      It wasn't even an actual em dash — It was two hyphens --
    - maxbond 5mo ago
      No indicator of AI writing is going to last forever. We really shouldn't over index on the oldest indicator (which is liable to decay first). People are starting to say "delve" more in verbal conversations. This treadmill will keep moving. Unfortunately we have little choice but to keep up with it.
  - OsrsNeedsf2P 5mo ago
    Seems minorly AI ("Fair criticism.", emdash), but as someone who works adjacent to this space, the rest reads like something I'd write.
    - Sohcahtoa82 5mo ago
      It wasn't an em dash though — It was two hypens --

sad that going viral on social media is the only functional support system for many tech companies. good luck hope you get your mom's stuff.

by swyx 5mo ago

sad that going viral on social media is the only functional support system for many tech companies. good luck hope you get your mom's stuff.

SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago

I was selling a GPU on Facebook marketplace during covid. The description was that the card was good for gaming or “turning dinosaurs into clean money”. Banned permanently and no way to ever reach a human. I sold a rifle legally on an online auction site. The buyer was offered to pay with PayPal they were given the option to use. The buyer took that option, making me break PayPal TOS. Banned permanently and no way to ever reach a human. Banned from Venmo, absolutely no idea why. SO banned from Venmo, absolutely no idea why. Banned permanently and no way to ever reach a human. Fuck. Big. Tech.

maxbond 5mo ago
> Banned from Venmo, absolutely no idea why. SO banned from Venmo, absolutely no idea why. Prior to 2013 or after? Maybe they merged ban lists with PayPal (who owns them).
dcposch 5mo ago
It's because Venmo is owned by PayPal
- SV_BubbleTime 5mo ago
  It’s not though. All three of those events were separated by at least a year each long after PayPal bought Venmo.
sieabahlpark 5mo ago
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phlogisticfugu 5mo ago
even though it was a joke, what you did looked like money laundering. which probably triggered a SAR which companies are legally forbidden from disclosing https://www.finra.org/arbitration-mediation/rules-case-resources/sar-confidentiality-requirements https://www.finra.org/arbitration-mediation/rules-case-resou...

dhouston 5mo ago

Fair criticism. The tricky part though with any scaled service is that for every legitimate case like this, there are many more bad actors trying to hijack accounts through exactly this mechanism -- so account recovery has to be conservative by default, which means legitimate cases sometimes get caught in the friction. Not an excuse, but it's a hard problem at scale and not just e.g. a cost-cutting thing or not giving a shit.

yesitcan 5mo ago
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- nikkwong 5mo ago
  Not every use of the em dash is Ai. I’ve long used it and always am accused of using Ai in responses — though I never do.
  - Sohcahtoa82 5mo ago
    It wasn't even an actual em dash — It was two hyphens --
  - maxbond 5mo ago
    No indicator of AI writing is going to last forever. We really shouldn't over index on the oldest indicator (which is liable to decay first). People are starting to say "delve" more in verbal conversations. This treadmill will keep moving. Unfortunately we have little choice but to keep up with it.
- OsrsNeedsf2P 5mo ago
  Seems minorly AI ("Fair criticism.", emdash), but as someone who works adjacent to this space, the rest reads like something I'd write.
  - Sohcahtoa82 5mo ago
    It wasn't an em dash though — It was two hypens --