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Colorado
1 review
2 helpful votes

They've become a nuisance
September 7, 2023

Do I like Pinterest? I like the idea of Pinterest. I have more pins than most humans. I use Pinterest to find a lot of good recipes and ideas for work. However, their deletion of pins has gotten ridiculous. They're threatening to take action against my account for "offensive content" pinned on private boards (I like to store things that are private in nature to me, and no, I'm not talking porn or murder…more things of a political nature). They've also threatened my account for posting things that a particular owner of the content doesn't want on Pinterest. I understand them supporting that individual's copyright, but how am I supposed to know it's copyrighted? Usually I just repin what other users have shared and would have no way of knowing the owner doesn't want it on Pinterest. They deleted a pin of Sheldon Cooper alluding to having sex once a year (totally harmless). They took down a pin about suicide from a mental health perspective (it did not encourage suicide, it promoted awareness of the importance of dialoguing about it). Their community guidelines have become over the top. It's become almost weekly that I get their surprising emails about deletion of pins (which, of course, I have a higher likelihood of because of the sheer number of boards and pins I have). Pinterest is something I do for guilty pleasure and the last thing I need is to worry about the content I post, which is pretty benign in nature. They've become more of a nuisance than the Facebook police. The interesting thing is, the content they've been taking issue with is OLD, as in its been there for years. But all of a sudden it's (fill in the blank...offensive, hurtful, sexual, etc.). They're tightening their algorithms, which clearly have no brain to use common sense in deciding if something is actually offensive. Just what any of us needs...frequent threats from the Pinterest Police, telling us to go through ALL our boards to delete offensive content. I wouldn't say the content I save is particularly offensive to others–although with political stuff there will always be about 50% of the population who disagrees (but those boards are private anyhow). Content is subjective and Pinterest has a way of deeming non-offensive things offensive. With the number of boards I've got and the thousands of pins I've saved over the years, I don't have time to read through every board trying to decide what Pinterest might find offensive. A fun hobby should never become a headache.

Date of experience: September 7, 2023
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