{"id":12987,"date":"2024-03-11T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12987"},"modified":"2024-12-13T09:31:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T09:31:37","slug":"media-bs-fckin-fb-bullsht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12987","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA BS: F*ckin\u2019 FB Bullsh*t!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"612\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8526-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-12821\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8526-1.jpg 612w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8526-1-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Well\u2026 I\u2019ve just had a weird and quite upsetting FB experience. I guess it also reveals what an absolute wuss I am?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m trying to sell some Yamaha drum and cymbal hardware. I called several official UK Yamaha stockists, including the UK branch of Yamaha Drums, in London. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of them could really help me that much. Partly cause my gear is quite old (20+ years old). But one or two of the folk I spoke to suggested I join Yamaha Drum groups on FB. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I just joined one, called YAMAHA DRUMS Marketplace and Information. Note the last word. Ok, it also says drums. And  talking hardware. But surely that isn\u2019t the issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I successfully negotiated this private groups membership questions, only to have my first post declined\/blocked, and my membership if the group suspended when I had the temerity to ask why my perfectly innocent post was blocked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initial \u2018your post has been blocked\u2019 cited violation of group rules as the cause. I reproduce the group rules below. And also the text of my post. And I\u2019d ask anyone reading this (that\u2019s poss\u2019 only me, as far as I\u2019m aware) if they can tell me which rule I\u2019ve broken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, here\u2019s what I posted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"642\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8527-1-642x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-12822\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8527-1-642x1024.jpg 642w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8527-1-188x300.jpg 188w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8527-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here are the group rules:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well\u2026 I\u2019ve just had a weird and quite upsetting FB experience. I guess it also reveals what an absolute wuss I am? I\u2019m trying to sell some Yamaha drum and cymbal hardware. I called several official UK Yamaha stockists, including the UK branch of Yamaha Drums, in London. None of them could really help me &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12987\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA BS: F*ckin\u2019 FB Bullsh*t!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-3nt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25294,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12987\/revisions\/25294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}