Rant #2,978: Bad Boy

Believe it or not, yesterday’s Rant about how I spent this pass weekend—visiting my son’s place or work, watching Aaron Judge hit home runs, and going to a record show—received a warning from Facebook, because according to the social media outlet, it violated its community standards.
 
After I received this message, I went through the Rant with a fine-tooth comb, and for the life of me, I cannot find anything that goes against any standards at all, Facebook, or otherwise.
 
The only thing that I can think of is that a troll—a person who simply lives to complain about everything that is posted, no matter what it may be—reported me to the social media platform because for whatever reason, they did not like my post, and Facebook ran with it.
 
Was the troll anti-work? Is he or she a Boston Red Sox fan? Maybe the person prefers cassettes to vinyl records?
 
I have no idea, but this is maybe the second time I have ever been cited for violating the community standards that Facebook has set forth.
 
There was one other time that I can think of where I committed such an horrid act.
 
This was several years ago—way before the Ranting and Raving Blog commenced operations—maybe 14 or 15 years ago.
 
I don’t remember the exact instance, but I put up a photo which included a woman who was, let’s say, not just very endowed, but extremely so, and she was wearing some outfit that, maybe unknowingly, showed off her curves.
 
Again, mind you, she was not the only person in the photo, and the photo was not about her, but she was in the photo nonetheless.

Believe it or not, I think the photo had to do with "climate change," but I honestly don't remember.
 
Not only did Facebook jump all over this photo, but if I remember correctly, I got canned for seven days for having the audacity to post it.
 
Nowadays, you can find way worse on Facebook, including pictures of women in all stages of dress and undress, but that particular photo that I put up—which was not sexual in nature at all—got me thrown in Facebook Jail.
 
Flash forward to today, and I don’t have the slightest idea why I got a warning for what I put up yesterday … and I received the warning only on one particular site, and not on the other site where I put my daily Rant up for members of these two sites to see, and that is why I suspect a troll was the culprit in the warning.
 
And like I said, I have seen much, much worse put up on Facebook, including the following:
 
• Women in all stages of dress and undress.
 
• Posts filled with every curse word imaginable (I have a policy, which I have stuck to from the beginning of my Facebook participation, to never use curse words in any of my posts).
 
• Racist and anti-Semitic posts.
 
So I am sure the question that you have is this:
 
“After you saw the warning, what did you do?”
 
I disagreed with it, which you can do via Facebook.
 
They provide you this thing to read, which is more of an “in general” encapsulation about why you received the warning.
 
Then they give you the option of agreeing or disagreeing with what they said, and I disagreed.
 
And at that point, that was that.
 
I guess the troll won, because now Facebook will be looking at my posts with a more discerning eye,
 
Heck, the very post that you are reading now might just get me banned.
 
But the Ranting and Raving Blog will continue unabated, even if I cannot post on Facebook for a while.
 
I guess that is the price you pay for talking about things that are on your mind—
 
Even if they are as docile as the things I talked about yesterday.
 
I have heard of people getting into Facebook Jail for even more docile things, so maybe my time has come.
 
Open those gates … if I have to, I am ready to enter.
 
But I hope that the Facebook Jail is like the Mayberry Jail on “The Andy Griffith Show,” where the keys to the two cells were in plain site of those being “incarcerated” there …
 
And Otis the Drunk and the others could expect a hot meal from Aunt Bea as part of their time in the clink.