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alessandro to PC Gaming · 1 year ago

Twitter Banned Runescape's Account Because It Thought An 8-Year-Old Created It

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Twitter Banned Runescape's Account Because It Thought An 8-Year-Old Created It

kotaku.com

alessandro to PC Gaming · 1 year ago
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A joke from 15 years ago caused some temporary headaches for the folks at Jagex
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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    What a shit of an article. The whole content would fit in 2 sentences (including title) + the website is cancerous as fuck

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      That’s Kotaku for you.

    • LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world
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      Without giving Kotaku the clicks, what is the jist of the article?

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        Account created when Runescape was 8yo, and that age used in registration causing Twitter to ban the account 15 years late as minimum age for it’s users is 13yo. Now ban reverted

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        The title + now unbanned

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    if the DoB has been on the account for years (presumably) from creation, kinda odd how this pops up now… checks like that should trigger on creation/change o_O

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      I almost wonder if a disgruntled fan who’s upset about the recent change of ownership (or just some recent update, knowing MMO fans) reported it to Twitter

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      My guess would be somebody ran a query against the database for this and they just took action on all of the results.

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    deleted by creator

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    Runescape knows a thing or two about false bans.

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    Isn’t the account literally older than 8 years?

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