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Twitter Suspends Elite Dangerous Player for Posting Poetry

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday October 20 2018, @06:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-wonder-I've-not-seen-a-Vogon-on-Twitter dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Social media giant Twitter has banned a Belgian Elite Dangerous player for tweeting a poem in reply to a tweet from the official game's account. Tim Wellens, the now-suspended Twitter user, has yet to regain access to his account at the time of writing, despite multiple appeals.

[...] In Elite Dangerous, the Thargoids are an alien race that is at odds with humanity. Twitter caught onto the threatening language that Wellens used — despite directing it at a fictional group — and suspended his account. According to Eurogamer, in an email to Wellens, Twitter support explained that they took action because he violated their "rules against posting violent threats."

He has since appealed the decision, pointing out that he "never ever threatened a real person or organization on Twitter."

"Thargoid or foe, I'm coming to kill you, was directed to the thargoids and enemies in the game," he told Eurogamer.

His appeal was met with a computer-generated email, and Wellens followed up by re-appealing his case. As of Oct. 8, his account remains out of his hands.

Good ole Artificial "Intelligence"...

Source: https://techraptor.net/content/twitter-suspends-elite-dangerous-player-for-posting-poetry

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  • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday October 20 2018, @07:57AM (4 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday October 20 2018, @07:57AM (#751315) Homepage

    Sadly, Randall never got laid from showing that woman all about Diet Coke and Mentos. His Magnum Opus [xkcd.com] never got him laid, either. Now he just looks like a goddamn idiot no matter how "smart" his comics are.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 20 2018, @09:16AM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 20 2018, @09:16AM (#751331) Journal

    How do you know he never got laid? Are you his sister or something? I know, sisters always know.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @10:46AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @10:46AM (#751364)

      You mean that your sister was literally the first to know?

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 20 2018, @03:08PM (1 child)

        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 20 2018, @03:08PM (#751403) Journal

        No, but it's always somebody's sister. In my case, it was your aunt's sister.