Couldn't believe that when I logged on to FaceBook today it said I was banned for 12 hours for my faceBook comment I made a couple weeks ago.

Comment: One of the fruits of polygamy is the 50,000 fundamentalists that practive polygamy today which wouldn't have happened if not for Joseph Smith.

WTF! Anyone else have similar experiences? And it wasn't from the person that started the thread so someone else must have flagged it but it seems like a fairly innocent (and truthful) comment to me.

Some mormon friend of yours, or friend of a friend, flagged it. Because I'm sure FB could give a rat's patootie about Joseph Smith.

Good for you. Being banned from Facebook for 12 hours is a good thing. Facebook sucks.

Agreed. I dropped facebook like a hot potato. I later learned that my TBM mother had been using it to spy on my son.

This is a good lesson for all of us that use Facebook to be careful about what we post if we want to continue to use the social media.

Lots of people get banned for what may seem minor things.
That's the nature of the social media.
They hold all of the power.

It behooves all of us who want to continue to use the social media to be respectful and careful about what we post and use propriety and good sense.

There are people who react strongly to sensitive issues that we may be unaware of. So, we learn quickly what is unacceptable.

I'm often appalled by the level of hate, and anger and nastiness spewed on the Internet in comments sections. I often block, Hide, and remove many people from my NewsFeed as they have no respect and decency.

Welcome to the world of social media!

Agreed. But saying that polygamous sects exist today as a result of JS is hardly nasty or confrontational... well to rational people anyway. I think it's important to be civil on the nets, but you shouldn't have t walk on eggshells.

I vomit every time I look at DW's Facebook page:

Nearly EVERYONE is repeating the propaganda:

Christian religion is the answer
Support our troops
Obama this and that
Republicans this and that
Gun control this and that
Anti guns this and that

Look how bitchin my kids are


Enough already.
Come up with something new or be silent........

But it was on MormonThink's FaceBoook page not some TBM or random discussion site. Only people interested in those issues would go on there to join that discussion. Just a disgruntled TBM I suppose.

That was an innocuous comment. They should be ashamed of themselves. Social media is meant for human discourse and exchange of ideas. Cultist are too easily offended by the truth. Perhaps it was a Mormon moderator. Who knows?

Beware of Mormon apologists on all sites, including this one.

+1 to both of your comments.

There is nothing that is angry, bitter, or hateful about this comment: "One of the fruits of polygamy is the 50,000 fundamentalists that practive [sic] polygamy today which wouldn't have happened if not for Joseph Smith." It is the truth, and likely a painful truth for those who prefer their history sanitized.

Maybe those who have buried their own anger and hate and bitterness under a thin layer of endless positivity can't help but see it everywhere as it bubbles up from within. Anger should not be buried but harnessed and focused as fuel to propel us through the debilitating parts of grief and recovery that knock us on our keisters and to motivate us, if we choose, to do something to effect change.

And because I've been around long enough to know how certain people try to derail with a strawman...no, I'm not saying ALL anger is good. My point is that not all anger is bad and, in fact, it can be very useful.

In the name of Surfer Jesus is hawwwt! Ahhh, men.

What Surrender Dorothy said, to the thousandth power.

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> Cultist are too easily offended by the truth

I think people like that PRETEND to be (and work at being) offended.

Maybe it's time for turnabout. Maybe exmo TBMs should start flagging derogatory comments about exmos as "offensive."

Flaming someone for leaving a belief system is just as "offensive" as hammering someone for being in one.

Joseph Smith burns in Hell. And all that follow him will find themselves there too.

Come get me MORmONS! :-PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

There is a similar post on my FB page about a Joseph Smith post--seems like this is a new weapon of choice for the true blues. I think it takes a couple complaints to ban you and people are ganging on on "apostates"--do they teach this in Sunday School now?

I once got banned for a month (it was the 3rd warning from FB) for pointing out the idiocy of giving the church a speaking as men pass when it makes false prophesies but condemning anyone outside the church who makes them like Pat Robertson or Harold Camping. I said nothing offensive but that didn't stop someone from getting their garments in a bunch and reporting me. They love to jump on the cross and wail at a moment's notice...

I have reported posts that called someone the N-word and said they should be hanged and shot. Facebook said they wouldn't even remove the post because it didn't violate their standards for "hate speech".
Facebook moderation is a JOKE. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

It is possible some true believers are up to something. Does FB take more notice if a post gets flagged twice? or several times? Or maybe there are believers employed by FB who are taking the opportunity to interfere with free speech.

Maybe it would be an idea for Mormonthink to keep track of who gets banned, and for what reasons, after commenting on their page. Could show up some interesting patterns.

I have been banned from 2 newspapers here in Utah for my negative comments about lds inc. and Obummar. I don't know why I was banned as no one gave me a reason but I think there are great negative comments concerning both subjects now so I just agree. I have also commented on facebook ads concerning Book of Mormon tours and inferred you might as well go on a Peter Pan tour because there is NO evidence that either exists. My comments were just removed within 20 minutes of posting ----- boy are those guys fast!

Is this what happened to me, too? I couldn't use FB this morning. Now I can. I make smart-ass comments about JS & Co. all the time on FB. Could it have been that? Would I have got a special message about being banned?

I thought the same thing happened to me this morning cludgie--turns out it was a "global" Facebook glitch that we were all experiencing together.

This is very, very interesting. I have heard people being banned from Facebook one too many times for comments about this faith to think of it as a coincidence anymore.

I got banned from Christmas 2011 for posting about JS. This was my post verbatim

"Just found out that our beloved prophet married girls as young as 14 and women who were already married. Yet a Mormon wife today will go ballistic and tear her family apart if her husband has a little bit of porn."

My step-mother heard about this post and banned me from Christmas. She claimed I had "bashed" JS on facebook. She loves 'ol Joe so much, I swear she is aiming for the CK so she can eternally suck his flaming sword.

See "report monkey" in the urban dictionary. Then for fun type in TBM for that definition.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=report%20monkey

We don't know why he was banned or have any way of tracking it. Too many posts so can't tell if one disappears. It was perhaps the TBM guy that started the thread about the 'fruits of the church'.

FWIW...this is just my opinion and my policy on FB.

I try and steer clear of all religious and politcal debate. I know some friends are liberal in their thinking. (...that's...ok...:) Also some are conservative in their thinking as am I.

Spouting facts or suppositions based off of facts about Joe Smith and mormonism will cause some TBMs to do what they think is right...and that would be reporting you. It's not right but FB is also not a political blog in general, just like this site..

I think this kind of thing is going to become more common as internet missionaries and TBMs alike take to social media to defend tscc. If you post a tscc or JS related status and someone reports you, I'm not sure facebook reacts to that. More often it's a comment you leave on someone else's timeline or a comment you make on someone's status, so keep this in mind when you comment. If you want to say "JS was a fraud and I'm glad I know it" in a status, you can report anyone who takes exception. Reports are handled by computers not people.

For any status or photo you post, you can tweak the privacy setting for that particular post so that it can't be seen by a particular person or group of people that you specify. To the left of "post" is a drop down menu for who can read your status update. Click on "custom" and you can list who can't see that post on your timeline. Click on the gear symbol next to your activity log and you can view your page as a specific person is able to see it.

For years I told my kids to be very, very careful of what they post on facebook including photos and what their friends post on there as well. Zuckerburg and co. don't make money just from the ads- they sell searches. Professional schools, employers, potential employers even some colleges and universities buy facebook searches, some for specific people, others using key words. I would be very surprised if tscc doesn't purchase searches.

The better question is how facebook or any internet searches are paid for, because responsible uses of tithes includes spying on members and ex-members- NOT

If I found out the traditional Christian denomination we belong to was using our money for spying on members, we'd be out so fast it would make your head spin.

Facebook has now decided that beheading videos are okay, but god forbid you should say something bad about Joseph Smith.

That's just what crossed my mind. Crazy stuff

Also banned recently: D. M. Murdock, uses the pen name Acharya S, author and proponent of the Christ myth theory. She has written six books and has a website called "Truth be Known".

She argues that Christianity is founded on myths from ancient cultures. I suppose that the Christian fundies are against the First Amendment including, and especially, the establishment of religion reference.

Wow, Leo that is shitty. If it were me, I'd me tempted to post that again and again, until the person who flagged the comment unfriended me.

Censorship! I knew there was a good reason why I'm not involved with Facebook.

Someone should start FreeFace.