How do I get Facebook to prove that I violated community standards?

I’m glad you asked here first instead of just Googling Facebook’s phone number. As many people have already pointed out there is no Facebook phone number. If you do search for one you may find loads of listing claiming to be the Facebook phone number, which will connect you with a scammer who will steal your money purporting to get your account reinstated. And you will probably then get dozens more calls from their scammer friends telling you that the last guy was a scammer but they can really get your account fixed.

Do not pay anyone to get your account fixed.

Not to belabor the point, but It’s commonly spelled both ways.

Discourse doesn’t like either spelling, or for that matter the alternative form antivaccer.

How about with a hyphen?

It’s the web browser. Chrome, Edge, and Firefox all show it as a misspelling. It MuSt Be A cOnSpIrAcY.

Same goes if you search Facebook for help or customer service. You will find lots of fake Facebook groups filled with people trying to get help, and other people trying to scam them.

How do you know if a Facebook customer service agent is really a scammer? You get a reply.

Curiosity question. Is it Discourse, or your browser / OS that doesn’t like the spelling?

Reason I ask is that almost the only time I’m typing free text into a big box on a webpage is here. So figuring out whether it’s my browser’s (Edge) spellcheck or some feature of Discourse’s editor is hard. I’d have to go find some other non-Discourse website where I can type free text into a box to know.

I happen to be on a new Win11 PC I only got a couple weeks ago. So I don’t think I’ve polluted the browser’s or OS’s spellchecker with my typos or personal buzzwords yet. I definitely haven’t written anything about vaccination on this PC.

As of now, whatever spellchecker is checking this post is OK with “antivaxxer” but doesn’t like “antivaxer” nor “antivaccer”. Hyphenating the “anti-” leaves “vaxxer” as OK, but “vaxer” & “vaccer” are still wrong. But “vaxxer” without a preceding “anti-”, like in this sentence, is also flagged as wrong.

So there’s one set of data points; your mileage probably varies.


Overall I have the impression that current era spellcheckers in browsers / OS’s crowdsource a lot of their spellings. It’s easy for me to add my own words to the dictionary, but there seems to be no way to do the opposite; to say “Hey Mr. Spellchecker: that word really isn’t spelled the way you think it is. Quit correcting it wrongly.” And due to the aforementioned assumed crowdsourcing, I seem to need that feature more and more frequently.

Data point: I tried antivaxxer and antivaxer on Wikipedia. Both attempts redirected to “anti-vaccination activism.” Probably because antivaxxer carries a pejorative connotation.

So I tried RationalWiki. That also redirected to anti-vaccine activism, but the body of the article did embrace the term. RationalWiki does seem to have a preference for antivaxer.

I apparently violated something because I never posted. I just used it to look at pictures of my dogs when I have to board them.

A phone number for them? Hahahahahh. Let me ask Bill Gates, he might have it. /s

Never mind; misunderstood.

I know. But you might as well try to call Bill. You will never get to talk to a live person at fb.

Ah you edited when I was writing. Well and good.

I figured out what you meant after I posted. D’oh. All good.

About a month or month and a half ago I logged onto eBay for the first time in at least a decade. I found a vintage fountain pen that I wanted, and bought it. A few days later I got an email saying that my eBay account was suspended. The email pointed me somewhere to see why I was suspended. That didn’t tell me anything and it pointed me to a second place where I could solve the problem. The second link didn’t do anything other than point me back to the first link.

The automated help feature didn’t help at all but there was an option to get a call back from a live person. When I talked to a human I was informed that I had broken one of the terms of service. I had not done anything to intentionally deceive or defraud anyone, so I asked what exactly the issue was. They wouldn’t tell me. “If we tell you then you’ll develop a workaround”.

My account was permanently shut down. I then asked them to delete my account information and they refused since they need it to keep me from coming back…. I still don’t know the root cause.

It is next to impossible to add your input because they just don’t want your input. They look online for people that try to provide workarounds, then quickly plug those holes.