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Twitter update: In Which Onyx Dun Goofed
8 years ago
Aight so, I kiiiiiinda fucked up my twitter account guys. XD So you remember how Microsoft announced the XBox One X during E3? Do you also remember some people calling it the Onex? Well, in a stroke of absolute brilliance, I uploaded the XBox symbol as my avatar and made a name change to XBox Ony X.
...literally three seconds later, I'm immediately restricted from my account. No e-mail to tell me "Hey, yeah, you violated trademark rules, so we had to ban you" or anything, just WHOP from the banhammer. Honestly it's not being banned that bugs me, it's just not being given the chance to fix it in the whole three seconds it was up. I did the whole phone number confirmation thing, but it refused to take the code they provided to grant me access to my account's features, instead giving me a "Well, something went wrong, there was a technical issue, please try again." So with no way to change the avatar that put the account in violation in the first place, I can only assume and treat this as a permanent block for that account. Ultimately not that big a deal; the fact is I did violate a pretty big should-have-been-obvious rule (even if unintentionally), so I can't realistically call foul here.
That said, I've gone ahead and set up a new handle that I will be using from now on: OnyxWasson. I'm in the process of refollowing anyone I had with the previous account, and I encourage anyone who followed that one to unfollow it and follow my new handle instead.
Anyway, the lesson here is, I need to think through my actions rather than give in to impulsive decisions. I might be an intelligent guy but I'm far from being smart :P
...literally three seconds later, I'm immediately restricted from my account. No e-mail to tell me "Hey, yeah, you violated trademark rules, so we had to ban you" or anything, just WHOP from the banhammer. Honestly it's not being banned that bugs me, it's just not being given the chance to fix it in the whole three seconds it was up. I did the whole phone number confirmation thing, but it refused to take the code they provided to grant me access to my account's features, instead giving me a "Well, something went wrong, there was a technical issue, please try again." So with no way to change the avatar that put the account in violation in the first place, I can only assume and treat this as a permanent block for that account. Ultimately not that big a deal; the fact is I did violate a pretty big should-have-been-obvious rule (even if unintentionally), so I can't realistically call foul here.
That said, I've gone ahead and set up a new handle that I will be using from now on: OnyxWasson. I'm in the process of refollowing anyone I had with the previous account, and I encourage anyone who followed that one to unfollow it and follow my new handle instead.
Anyway, the lesson here is, I need to think through my actions rather than give in to impulsive decisions. I might be an intelligent guy but I'm far from being smart :P
In the end, it's less about how you fall down and more about how you pick yourself up. Yeah, it's all good in the big picture, I think.