{"id":15776,"date":"2025-09-09T16:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disruptarian.com\/blog\/?p=15776"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:03:33","slug":"facebooks-community-standards-are-the-death-of-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disruptarian.com\/blog\/facebooks-community-standards-are-the-death-of-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s \u201cCommunity Standards\u201d Are the Death of Community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On September 9th, 2025, my Facebook group Business For Sale By Owner<\/em> was suspended for violating \u201ccommunity standards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was not some small side project. It was one of the fastest growing business groups on Facebook, with 190,200 members at the time of suspension. It was growing by over 2,500 members a week. Members posted and commented more than 10,000 times each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then it was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No vote by the community. No serious explanation. Just one click from Meta\u2019s \u201ccommunity standards\u201d branch, and years of work disappeared overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a moment, the group was restored and I got a few notices that Facebook admitted to making a mistake. But then less than 2 hours later it was gone again, citing “multiple violations” and yet they only list one.

And they even suspended my personal account, with over a decade of photos and videos of my children: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Rev.Ryan.Thompson\r\n \r\n <\/g><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The Post That Triggered It<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here is what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On August 31st, a member posted something that looked like a scam. It had the flavor of a get rich quick pitch. My first reaction was to delete it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then the author of that post contacted me. He explained that it was not a scam, and that he wanted to sponsor the post. So I looked again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It turned out he was right. The post was about arbitrage sports betting<\/strong>. That is when you take advantage of odds differences between sportsbooks to guarantee a profit. It is obscure and clever, but it is not a scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I even wrote an article explaining it: Arbitrage Sports Betting: The Loophole in the House\u2019s Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not long after, Facebook struck down the entire group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Pattern of Silencing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This is not the first time I have had a group suspended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n