Get banned on VKontakte. How to ban a person on VKontakte. Types of punishments on VKontakte

Hello everybody!

Freezing a page is something that can happen to any user in VK. The reasons are different and not necessarily yours. Therefore, everyone should know what to do if VKontakte is banned.

Imagine the disappointment of those who, at one point, see the words: "We found suspicious activity on the page and temporarily froze it." Do you want to know the reasons why this can happen to any of us? And how can you overcome this "ailment"?

Banned? For what!?

Users who lead Vkontakte publics are most disappointed. After all, after blocking a public page, they lose access to change and add new information.

Your page may be blocked for spam. Will you say that you are not doing such an unworthy business and it has nothing to do with you? - It may be so, but your friends can jokingly mark some of your messages as spam. Such seemingly primitive actions can lead to unpleasant consequences.

Or perhaps you are extremely sociable? If for a long period you add more than 15 people to your friends every day, you will definitely attract the attention of the Vkontakte administration. Therefore, in order to protect yourself from unwanted consequences, do not exceed this limit. Stretch the pleasure of subscribing friends to a group or page for a longer period.

Do you have an antivirus installed? Since the most common cause of "freezing" is the virus. There are special programs that may not even block, but simply imitate it by asking you to send an SMS to a specific number to unfreeze the desired page. Don't be so naive, don't fall for these tricks.

When installing programs to expand the capabilities of the site, be sure to read the reviews, since many of them can lead to the banning of your account by the Vkontakte administration.

And, of course, if you were rude in social publics or uploaded pornographic information, then your banning is quite logical and completely legitimate. Accounts that have promoted pornography through Vkontakte cannot be unblocked. But these users more often than not just create another account.

It seems that these are all the main reasons for freezing pages, if I find out about others, I will definitely inform you. Now we can analyze the process of unlocking an account.

Is it possible to unfreeze the VK page?

Thinking that blocking a page is forever? No, it's not that sad. The main thing is not to believe any messages that provoke you to send any SMS. The Vkontakte administration never uses such methods for any kind of operations with the social network. Keep track of the adequacy of the requests: if you are asked to link a page to a mobile phone number, and it is already linked, then do not give in, this is 100% of scammers.

In order to unfreeze a page, you need to contact Vkontakte technical support. You will be provided with a form to fill out. The questions will be extremely personal, so that the administration is sure that you are really YOU. I advise you to check the filled in several times, because due to some stupid mistake you may get a refusal to unlock.

You will be asked to provide screenshots, scans of documents, a photo in an embrace with a computer, which will show you and your VK page. Be sure to send these files, as without them your application will not even be accepted for consideration.

An easier way can also work, but unfortunately it rarely works. Try changing the password for your page. Perhaps you will avoid wasting time waiting for a response from technical support.

Interested in special unlock software? I checked more than one such resource, and I can say with confidence that they will not save your situation. You, of course, will be offered to send a free SMS, and I hope everyone has already understood that this will be another deception.

Advanced users can try making changes to the hosts file. There are legal programs that will clean and restore it with high quality. This option is unlikely to help you unban the page, but it will increase your chances of not falling into disgrace with the Vkontakte administrators.

If the quick defrosting methods do not work, then you just have to wait for the defrosting period or create a new Vkontakte page. Or you can, of course, take a desperate risk - take a break from the social network for a while ☺

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If you use the VKontakte social network quite often, then you have probably come across blocked pages at least once. Someone came across a blocked friend's page, someone on a group page, and someone himself fell under penalties from the site administration.

The reasons may be different, and I will tell you about them today. From this article, you will learn what they can get banned from VK, how to warn yourself against the anger of the site administration, and much more.

Blocking on VKontakte

There are two types of blocking on VKontakte:

Temporary freezing of the page.
Ban forever.

In the first case, the user (group) is blocked for one reason or another for a certain time. It depends on the exact offense for which the penalties were applied, as well as on how many times the page was frozen before.

As a rule, the first freeze is given for several hours or days. All subsequent temporary bans will last longer and so on up to 6 months, after which a ban is given forever.

In the second case, the account (community) is blocked forever with no way to restore access to it.

Why can a profile be blocked?

I have always divided the reasons for blocking into two groups: more serious violations and more harmless ones. In the first case, a ban arrives for distributing prohibited materials. Moreover, in some cases, not only the rules and policies of the VKontakte website are violated, but also the legislation of the Russian Federation. These reasons include:

Placing posts with prohibited materials.
Calls for violence, aggression, racism, nationalism, extremism, terrorism.
Insults of a different nature (personal, religious, etc.).
Deliberately placing links to viral sites or programs.

Almost always, the ban is given forever. The page cannot be restored. But there are also situations when the blocking is given for a while. It depends on mitigating circumstances, on the nature of the offense and other factors. The site administration is not stupid, and knows how to distinguish between situations when the rules were violated knowingly and unknowingly.

The second type of violation is more harmless. Most often they are associated with promotion and promotion, namely:

Using services that artificially wind up activity counters. In other words, programs and sites with which you can wind up likes, subscribers, reposts, comments and other activity.
Placing posts on your wall containing advertisements or other information about such services.
Suspicious user activity. For example, you use a service for the mutual exchange of activity (where, for a reward, you perform tasks of other users, and they do yours). If, for example, you were not an active user before, but suddenly you started to actively like, subscribe, repost posts, etc., then this behavior will be suspicious for the administration and they will already begin to watch you more closely.
Spam and distribution of various information. An account can be frozen both for spam in private messages to other users, and on their walls, community walls, in comments, etc.
The presence of a certain number of complaints from other VK users. The exact number of complaints, followed by a ban, has not been made public. According to various sources, there should be at least 5 of them. But it all depends on the nature of the violation.
Mass distribution of invitations to friends. Rarely, but it also happens, despite the presence of a daily limit for outgoing friend requests. The site administration is not stupid and perfectly understands when friends are recruited for the sake of promoting their product / service / brand.

Why can a community be banned?

The community, just like a personal account, can be banned temporarily and permanently. There is no clear distinction between these types of bans. It all depends on the nature of the offense and aggravating or mitigating circumstances.

The reasons for blocking may be the following:

A sharp change in the subject matter and nature of the published content. There are situations when the management of a public changes the theme of the community and the nature of the published content. The fact is that the existing subscribers initially subscribed to content of a certain nature and its constant updating. A sharp change in subject matter implies deception of these subscribers, since in the future content will be published to which they did not subscribe. Most often, a temporary ban is given for this, but if the administration has suspicions about the sale of the community, then it can be blocked forever.
Violation of the rights of third parties. For example, you published material without the consent of the copyright holder of that material. If there are such complaints, the community may be temporarily blocked.
The group was included in the register of Roskomnadzor. This includes communities in which prohibited goods are published or advertised: anabolic steroids and other drugs, weapons and gambling similar in effect (including bookmakers). In this case, the ban is given forever.
Boost subscribers. If you misuse or abuse services and programs for automatically cheating subscribers, you can easily arouse suspicion and get a permanent ban. This also includes the promotion of any other activity (likes, reposts, views, comments, etc.).
Distribution or advertising of services that allow you to artificially wind up activity counters (likes, subscribers, reposts, comments, views, etc.).
Insult to the person. If there are complaints from users, the community is temporarily blocked.
Spamming on behalf of the community or using spam to advertise your public is also prohibited by the site rules. Most often, a public is temporarily frozen for spam, but if you abuse or regularly violate the rules of the site, you can catch a ban without the possibility of further recovery.
Violation of other site rules and clauses of the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Precautions

How to avoid being banned and blocked:

Do not post prohibited content on the wall. There is no other way.
If you promote your public (or personal profile) using third-party cheat services, do not abuse them. Increase the rate of promotion gradually so that there are no sharp drops in the statistics.
If you are promoting a public (or profile) without using third-party services, then your activity should be natural. You should not start abruptly like everything on the first day and subscribe to everyone. Start small and work your way up gradually.
Use spam through "leftist" accounts. Today people do not hesitate to send complaints, as they are fed up with spammers. And it is better to completely abandon this type of promotion.

It is important to understand that with regular offenses, even harmless ones, sooner or later any VK page can be banned forever. Therefore, the first call will be temporary blocking. If you still received it, then you should think about the suspension of further actions.

Outcome

Today, when VKontakte is even more actively used for commercial purposes, it has become much easier to get a personal profile or community blocked. Be attentive and accurate in your work. Use each of the promotion methods wisely and try not to break the VK rules.

The most frequent question asked by us in those support has little to do with the performance of the program lately - "What should I do so as not to ban accounts?" , "What limits are better to set so as not to ban accounts", "…………………, so as not to ban accounts". This article contains the basics of safe working in VK, because the issue of account integrity is not one-god, and many factors are intertwined here. Later, when we carry out a series of tests, we will record a video.

Please pay special attention to the fact that we do not know exactly how the VK antispam robot works. point! We can only hypothesize, test and draw conclusions. It is worth considering the fact that the VK developers are constantly improving antispam, protection against cheating and the identification of fake accounts. Today it may be possible to deceive the system, but tomorrow, everything may be completely different. Our idea is simple - we have always recommended and will recommend working on the quality of the content you post and selecting your target audience (target audience) more accurately, and not striving to send out thousands of invitations or likes.

Usually inexperienced users set limits at the head of the table. Limits are the head! Observe the limits and everything will be ok! We froze the page, we need to change to a less aggressive strategy, increase the limits! etc…

Well, OK! Limits duck limits!

Vkontakt itself sets the following restrictions:

Maximum 50 friend invites in 12 hours
Maximum 40 invitations to the group per day
Maximum 500 likes per day
Maximum 20 messages to non-friends per day

And what will happen if these very restrictions are violated? Most likely nothing but a message from VK that the limit has been exhausted! Well, if you are a rebel and continue to send invitations after receiving such a message, then you may be scolded for being too active. Then why are accounts so often banned? As I said before, there can be a lot of reasons and factors. Let's take a look at the famous ones.

1. Number of complaints from other users- according to our observations - the most important reason. On average, 3 - 5 complaints filed per day can lead to a ban or temporary freeze. How to check this: on behalf of one account, send several invitations to your other accounts, and from them complain about the account that sent the invitation. Another way to check is to filter out users who have not appeared online for a very long time, say more than six months, and start sending invitations to them - there will be no bans. The same experiments can be done for likes and invitations to the group. How to avoid complaints? It is good to draw up accounts, choose the right target audience, make “torn” intervals (but this does not always help).

2. External links in posts- by sending private messages in a personal message or when inviting, with a link to a resource other than vk, literally after a few such messages, the account can come under the attention of moderators. The exact relationship could not be found, and the arguments about “blue”, “green” and “red” groups of accounts found on several forums could not be confirmed experimentally (which, however, does not mean that these arguments are not true).

3. Same text in messages- the more similar messages you send, the more likely you are to fall under the spam filter. For some reason, many people think that: “Hello, how are you, come to my page” and “Good morning, alive and well? come and visit ”- these are different messages, in these cases we recommend that you familiarize yourself with Bayes' theorem and its practical application, but, unfortunately, not everyone can understand the theory of probability. In general, sending messages is the most "banoDangerous" type of promotion and, what is worse, it greatly infuriates users (see point 1)

4. Sudden popularity- if your group stood unattended and then suddenly people poured into it, then you have a good chance to attract the attention of VK administrators. It is even worse if you used offers from various exchanges for the initial filling of the group. There are slightly less than zero live users, and detection of bots is not difficult for algorithms. Therefore, if, in addition to the "sudden popularity", it turns out that the subscribers are bots (or already dogs), we have bad news for you. According to our statistics, the threshold of suspicion is triggered when the number of subscribers increases by 15-20% or more on a weekly basis. In addition to account bans, you will also have members write-offs and even a group ban. Sudden popularity looks like this:

5. Sandbox- not so long ago, Vkontakte introduced additional restrictions for newly registered accounts. More precisely, not restrictions, but, let's say, "red lines" at the intersection of which the account is given close attention. If a “fresh” account starts to get 300+ likes, send out invitations to friends in batches and invite them to a group, they will be banned almost immediately. According to our tests, the sandbox time is from 4 to 7 weeks, after the expiration of which the account falls into the general heap. At the same time, the popular "tracking" of accounts (when after registration the account does nothing and does not even go to VK) does not help.
To successfully overcome the sandbox, you need to conduct minimal activity on your account. several invitations to friends, several posts. We do not recommend doing heaps of reposts from different groups, it is better to do 1 - 2 posts every 2 - 3 days from yourself than to produce reposts. Correct registration of accounts will also be very important. Usually, a newly registered bot in a sandbox looks like this:

What are the conclusions that suggest themselves?

The less you engage in outright spam, the less you will be banned.
The better (more informative) your accounts and groups are designed, the less you will be banned.

To everyone who contacted us in support with a question - why are accounts being banned, we tried to convey a simple idea: the program and the promotion methods it offers help to attract the user's attention (just like targeted advertising, advertising posts and contextual advertising) - the task of keeping attention lies with the content, which you post to your accounts and communities. If this is bad, then, firstly, you will have low efficiency, and secondly, most likely someone will complain about you.

Therefore, follow the 2 main rules of SMM - content and the right target audience.

May the Jedi Force be with you

One of the main sources of traffic and, accordingly, potential income on the Internet is SMM, or social media marketing. Creating a page and a group on Vkontakte, Facebook, Odnoklassniki, recruiting several thousand friends, sending them messages and making sales through social networks - this is the essence of SMM. It seems that VK promotion is not difficult at all. But ... our page was banned already on the 3rd personal message. How not to get banned? We looked for information and compiled a small but very useful list of rules on what to do in order not to ban your VKontakte account.

How to get banned from vk?

First of all, it is worth mentioning that there is no exact information on why and when accounts are banned. This is done by various anti-spam machines, the algorithm of which is constantly changing and depends on many factors.

Therefore, to begin with, we will express an obvious thought: do not cheat, do not cheat, work on the quality of the posted content and search for your target audience. Plus, you must comply with the limits established by the social network.

Vkontakte installed the following restrictions:

50 friend requests within 12 hours
40 invitations to groups per day
500 likes
20 private messages to non-friends per day

However, if you try to exceed these limits, then you simply will not succeed. A message will be displayed that the limit for today has been exhausted, your page will not be blocked for this. But despite this, VK can be banned if all the rules are followed. Therefore, we would advise you to set your own limit, which is equal to plus or minus half of the established VC.

What can you get banned for?

Let's take a look at several reasons why you are likely to get banned.

1. Links to external resources in messages. If you send private messages and insert links to a resource other than VKontakte, then your account may come under the close supervision of moderators. It is not known exactly how many such messages need to be sent in order for vk to be banned, but the less the better. You can, for example, put a link in the description for a photo or in the news, and in the message already give a link to this photo or news. Then it turns out that you send links only to the internal resource vk.

2. Same text in private messages. We are talking not only about full copying of the message, but even about texts that are close in content. For example, “Hello Igor! How are you? Come to my site ”will be approximately equal to“ Hello, Katya! Check out my blog. ” If you send at least 10 such messages, you will already be asked to enter a captcha, which means that you risk getting under the watchful attention of the moderators. And then there is nothing to wonder why the page was blocked.

3. Complaints from other users. This is perhaps the main reason for blocking an account. 3-5 complaints a day are enough for your account to be temporarily frozen. People can complain about spam messages, intrusive adding to friends or invitations to groups, comments or posts on someone else's wall, etc. But more often than not, private messages are annoying. In general, messaging is the most “dangerous” type of promotion in social networks. How to avoid complaints in VK - to correctly design your account and choose the target audience, not to send invitations and messages to everyone in a row, but to approach this deliberately, to make “ragged” intervals ”(for example, part in the morning, part in the evening).

4. Sudden popularity. At first, your group was practically empty and not visited for a long time, and then suddenly once - and crowds of people poured into it. This arouses the suspicion of VKontakte administrators and explains why VK was blocked. And if during the check it turns out that the majority of the participants are not real users, but bots from various exchanges, then the group can be blocked. The threshold of suspicion is overcome with an increase in the number of subscribers by only 15-20%. In addition to blocking your account, your subscribers will also be written off.

5. Sandbox period. These are additional restrictions for young accounts. If you cross a certain "red line", your page begins to get close attention of moderators. If a newly registered account starts inviting friends in batches, sending out invitations to the group and giving 300-500 likes, then it will most likely be immediately banned. Sandbox time ranges from 4 to 7 weeks. After that, the account falls into the general heap. The so-called “lay-off” of the account, when you do nothing for two months and then suddenly start spamming everyone, will not help either. To overcome the sandbox period without any problems, it is enough to conduct minimal activity: 2-4 posts per week, 10-15 invitations to friends per day. You should not actively repost other people's news, rather write something of your own.

Ban is the removal or closure of access to the page of a user who has violated certain rules. On Vkontakte, you can either add a person to the Black List or, by complaining to the administration, ban his page for good.

A sanction such as a ban on Vkontakte can be divided into three levels:

Black list;
Banned by a group;
Ban by the site administration.

Black list

The first ban level will help you most often. Half a minute, and the user cannot even view your page, let alone messages. If you don't know how to ban Vkontakte in this way, we will help you. Go to "Settings" and then to the "Blacklist" tab. This is where you need to enter the user's name or a link to his page. However, this method is not reliable enough, because the user will be able to continue to exist on the social network, the only thing that will not have access to your page.

The second level is a group ban. This means that if you are the administrator of one of the many groups, then in the blink of an eye you can ban a person who is spamming or breaking the rules.

How to block through the administration

As for the third level, everything is more serious here, and if any of the users clearly violates the rules of the Vkontakte social network, then by complaining to the administration, there is a high probability that he will be banned. To do this, go to the enemy's page and at the very bottom find the line "Complain about the page".

Now you know how to ban a VKontakte user. They will definitely pay attention to your application, even if only you complained. And imagine how much the operational administration will be if there are several people complaining.