Great, surprising news! Got a friendly email by Soundcloud support, maybe also auto generated, but: “The reason you’ve been having these difficulties is because your account was mistakenly detected as spam and, as a result, suspended from our platform. We apologize for any momentary inconvenience this situation caused. Our spam detection systems are in place to maintain the integrity of accounts on the site; but automated systems sometimes make mistakes, as in cases like this one.”
Everything is back online. I was fighting with their AI bot the other day, until it allowed me to open a ticket or something. No idea what’s spam in my uploads, LOL. Maybe I deleted and reuplaoded too often? No idea, I guess an AI makes the decisions over there? All followers are lost though.
Seems like their “sometimes” is more often than the definition of the word “sometimes”… This is not the first time seeing bots got whitelisted, but actual users got banned. Losing all the followers means you have basically lost all the connections and networks you have built all the years, and you need to redo all the networking. If the platform can ban a user at wish without any signs of warning while there is no easy way to contact the moderators of the platform, swarmed by bots that ripping user’s work, I don’t think it is a worthy platform to share music.
If you are not publishing music for money, and you just want to share them for fun while connecting other artists, Newgounds is also an option.
Including all the AI automated process and all the purely hyper-stimulation contents, we are already here. I really need to find some time to watch the movie in some days.
I just block their ADs anyway. I normally pay for online subscriptions, not limiting to email, cloud storage, domain name, website hosts and etc, but the subscription plans of YouTube Premium is really the least valuable service I have ever seen if not worthless which all the money you paid are only for removing ADs while there is no control to their algorithm or data collection, nor there are any exclusive contents. Their deal makes even Adobe looks like a great deal…
But essentially every platform acts like this. I’m an online seller, in my experience Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Otto, Kaufland and so on act exactly the same. They could ban your products without warning and without any informations, the customer service is mostly bad, and if you’re really unlucky your whole account could be banned, too. So what would you do? Not selling stuff on these platforms even if there’s no other option? In terms of those music platforms it seems to be common practice that AI could create stuff and post it on your account, and everyone would think you posted that stuff, because it’s available on your account. Or you’re getting likes by bots without noticing it and you get banned because of this, because it’s against the rules getting pushed by bots. Anything can happen nowadays. And yes, it sucks.
This is a good question, and in fact, I am still finding an answer for that since I have a plan on selling stuff in the future. There was a reason I said this in the earlier post:
The answer will become tricky when money is involved, and unfortunately, to sell stuff, you still need those platforms until it no longer works because normal people only rely on the big tech companies to do all the things; nonetheless, if you can develop a website or the people you know can, it could be a good idea to setup a website for selling your product because it give you the control to the website without fearing some tech companies banning you for no reason which is usually a good last resort backup to keep your business going. I am not fond of putting all my stuff onto a single platform and let my fate determined by a slot machine like system, so this is one of the reasons why I have a blog and a cheap share host just in case if things happens.
However, I haven’t sell my stuff yet, so clearly there are something I haven’t considered and I missed out.
Uh, they implemented advertising just like YouTube did over the years. Never heard advertising on SoundCloud, but now a couple of times within minutes. They even dare to interrupt in the middle of a song to let some advertising pop ups lower the listening experience. Gonna have a look for another adblocker that also blocks SoundCloud ads. If they continue getting worse and worse, I might consider to ignore SoundCloud in the future. That would be a pity, because it started really well back then…
Yes, but years go by until you’ve established your website reasonably well. And you’ll have to do a lot of advertising in every aspect on other websites. You’ll have to invest a lot of time, a lot of money, a lot of work and a lot of networking, and even if you do so, you don’t know how it will turn out. Most likely (not to say for sure) you will continue to sell much better on bigger platforms like Amazon or eBay, regardless what you’re doing on your own website.
ublock origin works perfectly for blocking all soundcloud ads and youtube ads, too. It’s then like the system had no ads. But it only works in Firefox. …Since Google was so angry with them, so they crippled the extension interface in Chrome now, just like Apple did before. I actually use this extension for more than 10 years now, I couldn’t imagine the internet without it…. What a horrible place that would be!
Great, surprising news! Got a friendly email by Soundcloud support, maybe also auto generated, but: “The reason you’ve been having these difficulties is because your account was mistakenly detected as spam and, as a result, suspended from our platform. We apologize for any momentary inconvenience this situation caused. Our spam detection systems are in place to maintain the integrity of accounts on the site; but automated systems sometimes make mistakes, as in cases like this one.”
Everything is back online. I was fighting with their AI bot the other day, until it allowed me to open a ticket or something. No idea what’s spam in my uploads, LOL. Maybe I deleted and reuplaoded too often? No idea, I guess an AI makes the decisions over there? All followers are lost though.
….Oh, did I wrote the exact same thing? Yes, because it literally happened the same 1:1, again No human being involved, I would assume.
Yes, bots all over the place everywhere. Annoying.
Yes, I wouldn’t use any of these websites if there were ads all over the place. I’ve got “uBlock Origin”, “Adblock Plus” and “AdBlocker for YouTube” and I switch all the time depending on what YouTube etc. detects respectively what’s working properly. I neither could click nor play anything on YouTube recently, so I switched from uBlock to AdBlocker for YouTube, and probably that’s why I’ve seen SoundCloud ads that I’ve never seen before. So I switched to Adblock Plus again and now everything is working as expected.
Yes, Back in the day when everybody optimized their websites as much as possible otherwise peeps would ‘click-off’ if it took too long to load… Back in late 90’s with a mere 64 MB RAM did just fine, Nowadays browsers hog GBs of RAM as shit loads/spies in the background & ads load up right where you need to navigate… even vehicles are going subscription or they’ll shutoff remotely if you don’t pay…
This is all digital iD prep, which will be a disaster if you bow to it, you think peeps accounts getting hacked now is bad you should research India as it went digital ID & account stealing is worse than ever & peeps have incredible hard time trying to prove that THEY are the real THEM when that happens… Folks the whole digital ID thing is the hill to die on…
No human being involved, I would assume.