Yeah, in the Netherlands we also don't use the "de" and "van" for sorting so it was confusing to find my badge under the "v" at American conferences the first time. Ah well, what can you do? A friend of mine had his FB acount blocked for failing to provide a real name (his last name is "Fun"), ironically after he gave FB a false name they did accept it.
> A friend of mine had his FB acount blocked for failing to provide a real name (his last name is "Fun")
Don't they have a process where you can submit a government ID and have your name accepted? Honestly I don't blame the minimum wage person responsible for name screening for flagging a name that is both uncommon and one of the most common adjectives in the English language, if the policy is that fake names aren't allowed.
> I don't blame the minimum wage person responsible for name screening
My expectation is that the person who wrote the code responsible for rejecting my name in the mid-to-late 2000s was paid somewhat more than minimum wage.
I think GP was implying there was no support staff using that system -- it's entirely automated. That's why the engineer was so highly paid to begin with.
They do have a process for providing copies of your government ID to have your account unblocked, but I have 2 friends who did that and neither one ever heard anything back or successfully got their accounts unblocked. Normal American names, nothing funky. As far as any of us can figure out, they hadn’t done anything wrong in the first place, just randomly unluckily somehow displeased The Algorithm.
Facebook is fine until you get caught in the machine at no fault and with no recourse. I would have closed my account by now but I work in low-budget theater and Facebook events and Facebook advertising are unfortunately required to make it in the industry.
