Scott Bell Needs Your Help

Submitted by WhatTheFekete on March 6th, 2019 at 11:56 AM

https://twitter.com/ScottBellDMN/status/1103330079264919552

Scott Bell finally got a response to his Twitter suspension.  See attached.  Follow the link and give him a retweet.  Enough momentum can hopefully get his account reinstated.  457 RT at the time of this post.

TLDR: He is suspended from impersonating himself since he has two accounts.  

Trip McNeely

March 6th, 2019 at 5:04 PM ^

I just got Twitter. I mostly only follow Michigan sports related things. I don’t follow any friends or family. Mostly because I don’t care about your kid or if you went to Traverse City this weekend. I can see where during an election year it would suck to be on Twitter. Everyone just voicing their shitty opinions on things.

 

Anyway, the way I have been using Twitter I really enjoy it.

LSAClassOf2000

March 6th, 2019 at 4:16 PM ^

More or less. You could show them the bagmen, the money, the escorts and all the hard evidence from the case and they would still tell the Wake Forests and the Tulanes of the world that if they ever open up Twitter again, they will have to put the school into receivership and forget having varsity sports altogether. 

Bigfoot

March 6th, 2019 at 12:21 PM ^

Twitter doing everything they can to ruin their business.  They've crossed into the water of having a small amount of people control the speech of a large amount of people, which is just crazy.  If it's a national security threat then fine, suspend people. If people are breaking the law there are other avenues to enforce punishment.  Otherwise, hands off and don't ruin what you have going for you.

MGoFunkadelic

March 6th, 2019 at 12:31 PM ^

delete twitter from your phones.  that ecosystem is toxic.

you can see all the twitter bs by going directly to interesting tweets linked on various websites but don't have to get sucked into the sludge.

HelloHeisman91

March 6th, 2019 at 12:34 PM ^

Jack and the woman who leads the team that makes the rules on Twitter, can’t remeber her name, were just on Rogan’s podcast.  After listening I can confidently say that I would hate her job.  Also, I can say that it’s just a group of people that have developed terrible algorithms to police this stuff and if it makes it way to human eyeballs they essentially just make it up as they go.  

WindyCityBlue

March 6th, 2019 at 1:01 PM ^

Yea.  I watched that Rogan podcast yesterday. Her name is Vijaya Gadde.  Certainly an interesting podcast where I thought the Rogan/Poole team was more prepared that the Dorsey/Gadde team.  Although I would say that the interaction was not at all adversarial.  Even though the questions were tough and pointed, the interaction was rather cordial.

What I thought was interesting is that the conduct policy that dictates the banning/suspensions of Twitter accounts is only a few years old. 

RedRum

March 6th, 2019 at 12:35 PM ^

get off twitter, the invasion of your privacy for profit is horrible. 

Get on Minds or some other open source platform that respects human beings.

HL2VCTRS

March 6th, 2019 at 12:38 PM ^

I’m cool with this as long as it’s applied to all, which would probably cut the number of twitter users by 30%.

Also, I can’t wait for the Pillsbury Doughboy to be suspended. That dude doesn’t even have fingers... there’s no way it’s him actually sending Tweets. 

 

HHW

March 6th, 2019 at 12:59 PM ^

Isn't Twitter owned/run by a Michigan grad...who probably follows Scott Bell?  This seems like an easy fix by those who can actually fix it.

alanmfrench

March 6th, 2019 at 2:37 PM ^

Thankfully someone at twitter fixed the issue. If you have twitter and you're not following him you should do so. If you refuse you should be ashamed of yourself. 

Don

March 6th, 2019 at 4:59 PM ^

Just to illustrate the insanity of twitter's "algorithms":

A couple of weeks ago I created a new twitter account for my business. I created it around 3 in the afternoon, but since I was busy with ongoing projects I didn't have time to post any content right away. Literally, I had zero posts. No actual content.

By the next morning I was ready to post, and that's when I saw that twitter had blocked me. I contacted twitter support with a message essentially saying "WTF are you blocking me for?" I got a response pointing me to a long list of transgressions that get accounts blocked, not a single one of which applied to me. I responded with another "WTF, none of these apply to me" and the next response was that my new account displayed suspicious automatic behavior consistent with bots and spam.

I contacted my much more twitter-knowledgeable daughter to see if she had any ideas why I got blocked, and her only thought was that since I hadn't posted anything right away, twitter automatically assumed that my new account was a bot.

After going through a variety of hoop-jumping and tests to prove I wasn't a bot, I was able to re-access my account.

Needless to say, the fact that twitter blocked me in spite of the fact I hadn't posted a single comment or image while ridiculously inflammatory stuff gets the thumbs-up from twitter moderators is a sign of how screwed up things are.