NewStats: 3,263,953 , 8,182,072 topics. Date: Monday, 09 June 2025 at 03:03 AM 1n3r3z

Sir

It appears that the use of word that describes terror perpetrating individuals now attracts ban?
Kindly confirm 🙏

Comments will still be banned here

I have been banned severally and I'm yet to even understand why I'm banned.

I keep wondering the instructions given to the bot that's making it do what it does....!!!!

I was yesterday, I was shocked، how seun? I didn't do anything wrong

The bots de madd

Ban banner bannest

Seun:
Dear Nairalanders,

In an effort to address persistent complaints about toxicity on the forum, we extended the mandate of the anti-spam bot to try and tackle insults, tribalism, obvious scams, etc.

While this move dealt a heavy blow to bad actors, the bot also made many mistakes which led to innocent people getting banned from time to time for no good reason.bI understand how you feel about this. It is simply not acceptable.


We have reduced the length of the bot bans from up to 3 days to no more than 30 minutes. We are also working to massively improve the accuracy of the bot. Meanwhile, if you are mistakenly blocked, please don' take it personally. We will fix it as soon as we can.

Best Regards,
Seun Osewa.

I got banned today and it's over 30 minutes

Make the ban at least 24 hours

The people leaving were the troublemakers. Open any front page topic now and see how clean comments are. Slowly, intellectuals will return. At the very least, comments will be well thought out.

SultanOfPuna:
Seun, you are destroying your site
Over 50% of banned
People are no longer visiting NL

A post will have 3000 views with only 13 comments
People are leaving Nairaland

Your Ad revenue is reducing.
Your online traffic is reducing

It's interesting to see how Seun is single handely destroying his company
Anyways that is his Loss not mine

Seun:
Dear Nairalanders,

In an effort to address persistent complaints about toxicity on the forum, we extended the mandate of the anti-spam bot to try and tackle insults, tribalism, obvious scams, etc.

While this move dealt a heavy blow to bad actors, the bot also made many mistakes which led to innocent people getting banned from time to time for no good reason. I understand how you feel about this. It is simply not acceptable.

We have reduced the length of the bot bans from up to 3 days to no more than 30 minutes. We are also working to massively improve the accuracy of the bot. Meanwhile, if you are mistakenly blocked, please don' take it personally. We will fix it as soon as we can.

Best Regards,
Seun Osewa.

What of someone like me that you blocked till 2032?

I can confirm this, I was illegally banned this morning, without sending no mails to the s, my was back active within a few minutes. I didn't send a mail because I was already tired of sending one.


-Kiss the truth!

Seun Harfar dat philosophy section?

It is good to tackle the tribalist but I do hope this won't affect your site traffic, your revenue and on a long run your company. Think about it sha

I chop block too in the politics section. Bot should be calming down.

AbokiWam:
Bros, Innocent people were being banned left, right and center.
Especially in the sports section.
That place has been dry for the past five days now

Imagine me collecting ban because I insulted Nicholas Jackson.
Football without banter isnt sweet.

Work on your bots.
Comments can be deleted without bans being issued.
Just like it is on tiktok

Lol.
Learn the art of insulting people without using insulting words

Okay. Good

meobizy:
The people leaving were the troublemakers. Open any front page topic now and see how clean comments are. Slowly, intellectuals will return. At the very least, comments will be well thought out.

You can write a well thought out article

But a censored word would lead to it being deleted..
How many people would have the energy to write in vain?

The bot isn't intelligent enough to determine the use case of some words

gabrieltemmy:
My old main was banned for years for what I didn’t know or do.

Even me too this very profile was permanently banned in the same 2007 I opened the ; then this was Emeka 7 ; so I opened another profile of Emeka 7. but the time they came up with a new face of the forum in 2011; was that new forum face that finally unmanned this profile and Emeka 7 became Emeka71 ; while Emeka 7. became Emeka72 ; kudos to the change of forum face done then when we were complaining; if not, this profile would have been banned forever.

I just saw this online 😆😆

Seun:
Dear Nairalanders,

In an effort to address persistent complaints about toxicity on the forum, we extended the mandate of the anti-spam bot to try and tackle insults, tribalism, obvious scams, etc.

While this move dealt a heavy blow to bad actors, the bot also made many mistakes which led to innocent people getting banned from time to time for no good reason. I understand how you feel about this. It is simply not acceptable.

We have reduced the length of the bot bans from up to 3 days to no more than 30 minutes. We are also working to massively improve the accuracy of the bot. Meanwhile, if you are mistakenly blocked, please don' take it personally. We will fix it as soon as we can.

Best Regards,
Seun Osewa.

You are just blaming the BOT, you were so fixated on sensoring keywords without taking cognisance of "context" ..

if i mention s- e- n- s - e your BOT is trigger already, put "make" in front is that an insult

please seun do better no dey fall our hands

Please we understood it’s for the betterment of everyone , 30mins is okay until its confirmed to be accurate, God Bless Nairaland

This is where I hustle, things has been on pause in the last 3 days going ON and Off because of constant anti spam ban, but I’m glad you have reduced ban duration to 30mins to mitigate this, Thank You

Seun:
Dear Nairalanders,

In an effort to address persistent complaints about toxicity on the forum, we extended the mandate of the anti-spam bot to try and tackle insults, tribalism, obvious scams, etc.

While this move dealt a heavy blow to bad actors, the bot also made many mistakes which led to innocent people getting banned from time to time for no good reason. I understand how you feel about this. It is simply not acceptable.

We have reduced the length of the bot bans from up to 3 days to no more than 30 minutes. We are also working to massively improve the accuracy of the bot. Meanwhile, if you are mistakenly blocked, please don' take it personally. We will fix it as soon as we can.

Best Regards,
Seun Osewa.

this your bot bans any comment.
Abeg, what words are we not supposed to use?

I just made a comment some minutes ago devoid of any insulting words, and I was banned.

Jesus Dey included in the abusive words?

Cmanforall:
Good

Baba Seun as I collect FTC on your post, make I send number?

That baba nor dey give shi shi 😁🏃

SultanOfPuna:
Seun, you are destroying your site
Over 50% of banned
People are no longer visiting NL

A post will have 3000 views with only 13 comments
People are leaving Nairaland

Your Ad revenue is reducing.
Your online traffic is reducing

It's interesting to see how Seun is single handely destroying his company
Anyways that is his Loss not mine

You people complain too much. Owner of company is trying hard to sanitize his company and you're complaining on his behalf. If we dig deep now, I won't be surprised to find you also amongst the people lamenting about how bad the situation was before he decided to take these drastic measures.

That bot does randomly ban anyone.
Kolo still dey e head.

Writers will adapt. The trolls who roused people for fun will return. Most of them have sensible s they use for regular posting. You will be surprised that those s have never for once gotten banned despite posting hundreds of comments. During my time on Reddit, their heavy use of AI moderation frustrated me for a few days. Not long after, I adapted and realized ways to edit my write-ups. Humans are the real threat to one’s enjoyment of a forum. They are too biased.

AbokiWam:
You can write a well thought out article

But a censored word would lead to it being deleted..
How many people would have the energy to write in vain?

The bot isn't intelligent enough to determine the use case of some words

Emeskhalifa:
It is good to tackle the tribalist but I do hope this won't affect your site traffic, your revenue and on a long run your company. Think about it sha

Tribalists were a nuisance. They were unneeded for traffic.

Seun:
Dear Nairalanders,

In an effort to address persistent complaints about toxicity on the forum, we extended the mandate of the anti-spam bot to try and tackle insults, tribalism, obvious scams, etc.

While this move dealt a heavy blow to bad actors, the bot also made many mistakes which led to innocent people getting banned from time to time for no good reason. I understand how you feel about this. It is simply not acceptable.

We have reduced the length of the bot bans from up to 3 days to no more than 30 minutes. We are also working to massively improve the accuracy of the bot. Meanwhile, if you are mistakenly blocked, please don' take it personally. We will fix it as soon as we can.

Best Regards,
Seun Osewa.

This not is thorn on people's flesh. I just made my assertions thos morning on a politics section and low I was banned immediately. I am even surprise that I could quote now, most probably because of the 30minites reduction. It is well. We are positive that you will succeed in your good endeavours to make nairaland great again, where people will call a spade for what it is and same to shovel.