Instagram mass-Banning popular pages

richardleb · Mar 31, 2015

Globalization said:
I don't think has to do with bots. If you look at the list of accounts posted they all are in a particular niche. Reposting pictures of hot girls an asses on Instagram should have never been a sustainable thing. People used to do the same thing with facebook years ago. They'd create a hot girl account and then friend request a bunch of people. Fb cracked down on that and it's likely they'll crack down on this too.

There are so many pages that repost pictures of others giving or without giving credits.
If that's the problem they will ban 3k huge accounts at least

nileshpatil88 · Mar 31, 2015

holy &^%$, thats lot of bans in a day!! but cool.. more for new players..

Battleaxewarriors · Mar 31, 2015

nileshpatil88 said:
holy &^%$, thats lot of bans in a day!! but cool.. more for new players..

Went from 23 popular accounts to 34.
This is going to be a long night! Could lose a 1.5-2k / day income over a night.

dondada7 · Mar 31, 2015

Battleaxewarriors said:
Went from 23 popular accounts to 34.
This is going to be a long night! Could lose a 1.5-2k / day income over a night.

Whos the others do you know? And how do you know all them that got banned are you all in some big group or summet. Anyway private your accounts for the night

Globalization · Mar 31, 2015

this_is_dev said:
recently a 100k+ account in quotes niche got banned, IG's reason for banning showed use of copyright images. However when the owner contacted IG support they got the acc back. My advise is to not to bluntly upload others' images. An even if you do at least give credit to the @photographer

Yup, that's probably it. All those accounts doing nothing but posting unoriginal content. They're probably trying to clean all that up. Im sure people are also complaining about their pictures and stuff getting "stolen" or reposted somewhere else.

Paper-Boy · Apr 1, 2015

I'm glad I'm no longer a part of this niche. Was a headache to keep accounts running, lol.

LleixG · Apr 1, 2015

this_is_dev said:
recently a 100k+ account in quotes niche got banned, IG's reason for banning showed use of copyright images. However when the owner contacted IG support they got the acc back. My advise is to not to bluntly upload others' images. An even if you do at least give credit to the @photographer

All the big accounts post pics without giving credit so it's not because of that.

jtluongo · Apr 1, 2015

I have a feeling all those accounts were owned by op. Instagram is not dumb and is catching on.

Battleaxewarriors · Apr 1, 2015

I survived the night, now there's around 37 popular pages that are banned.
A few people on Twitter are complaining to IG that their personal accounts got banned?

Could be a IG glitch or they are really trying to flush out some accounts.

jtluongo said:
I have a feeling all those accounts were owned by op. Instagram is not dumb and is catching on.

Yeah i totally have 10m+ Instagram followers.

Globalization · Apr 1, 2015

Battleaxewarriors said:
I survived the night, now there's around 37 popular pages that are banned.
A few people on Twitter are complaining to IG that their personal accounts got banned?

Could be a IG glitch or they are really trying to flush out some accounts.

Yeah i totally have 10m+ Instagram followers.

Can I ask you something? You're able to get all these followers an presumably all this traffic are you trying to leverage that towards your own brand? a website or a product of your own? if not, why not?

The Mentalist · Apr 1, 2015

Do you think watermarking images would be able to prevent bans? I see a lot of people who watermark but I seriously question if that actually would change anything...

Battleaxewarriors · Apr 1, 2015

The Mentalist said:
Do you think watermarking images would be able to prevent bans? I see a lot of people who watermark but I seriously question if that actually would change anything...

Watermarking does not prevent bans. If you are a photographer there is a 0.00001% chance that you get banned for violating their rules. You have to understand that i am promoting Adult on IG and i have been doing that for almost 2 years without ever getting banned.

Globalization said:
Can I ask you something? You're able to get all these followers an presumably all this traffic are you trying to leverage that towards your own brand? a website or a product of your own? if not, why not?

I am banking tons of money since i promote my website.

Nerds · Apr 1, 2015

Battleaxewarriors said:
Watermarking does not prevent bans. If you are a photographer there is a 0.00001% chance that you get banned for violating their rules. You have to understand that i am promoting Adult on IG and i have been doing that for almost 2 years without ever getting banned.

I am banking tons of money since i promote my website.

Battleaxewarrior, is there a good way to stay away from bans using other people's content? You have a total of 10M followers so it's obvious you know what you are doing for the most part.

Battleaxewarriors · Apr 1, 2015

Nerds said:
Battleaxewarrior, is there a good way to stay away from bans using other people's content? You have a total of 10M followers so it's obvious you know what you are doing for the most part.

Truth is. All the pictures i post are originaly from Pornstars or their production company, and i've never had any issues that affected my account.
I always post the picture, if the owner starts complaining then i just add her account name in my caption so she gains a bunch of real followers.

Globalization · Apr 2, 2015

Battleaxewarriors said:
Watermarking does not prevent bans. If you are a photographer there is a 0.00001% chance that you get banned for violating their rules. You have to understand that i am promoting Adult on IG and i have been doing that for almost 2 years without ever getting banned.

I am banking tons of money since i promote my website.

Oh ok, nvm. I only said that b/c Ive seen people that are able to get all these followers pushing the traffic to other people's sites. Initially that's fine, get the fast money but eventually I'd think people would get tired of playing this cat and mouse game with IG and not building something over their. All it would take is for one swift change in their policies or how they operate and everything could be gone.

Nevermind me, Im just a careful observer trying to figure things out myself.

Battleaxewarriors · Apr 4, 2015

FYI - IG Restored all pages, i guess a glitch in their security system or something?

HoNeYBiRD · Apr 4, 2015

Battleaxewarriors said:
FYI - IG Restored all pages, i guess a glitch in their security system or something?

it can be or they just changed their mind, it wouldn't be the first time, for instance they banned then restored a few celeb accs (@badgalriri) before when they posted inappropriate content, but if the accs of everyday users too were among the banned ones, maybe it was what you said, their security system acted a bit too nazi

jak19 · Apr 4, 2015

was getting worried as just building up a big account that has cost quite a bit

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