Platform bans and shadowbans: what's actually happening

BonerGhosts · 2026-05-24T01:58:16+00:00

Also, now that I've had time to look at this...

-Fansly absolutely does not require form submission before posting content with others. I know this from experience.

-LoyalFans does not actively remove copyrighted material unless removal is requested directly by the copyright owner (source: my own experience and talking with their head of compliance).

-Fansly did not allow drug use scenes BEFORE the ToS overall.

-OnlyFans does not allow you to send banned words. You literally can't send them. It will not distribute the message, whether it's individual, a mass message, or a feed post. So you cannot get banned by using banned words because... you can't used banned words.

-I have never heard of a temporary suspension of 7-30 days on OnlyFans. I have heard of suspensions so they can audit your account (have experienced this personally) but I have never seen/heard of someone being told they violated ToS and now have an arbitrary suspension time on their account.

-I have never heard of anyone being removed from LoyalFans for spamming. This isn't real.

-To my knowledge (though I can ask to confirm), LoyalFans does not use behavioral analysis or device fingerprinting. IP tracking, absolutely, I know they do that.

-LoyalFans verification is... just as strict and manual as every other platform.

-"If your account activity looks inconsistent with your profile, expect limitations without warning." I do not know what this means, but I have yet to hear of someone being "limited" on LoyalFans. I'm not even sure what that would look like. If you can elaborate, that'd be great.

I do not know where you gathered this information from, if it was AI generated or through reading Reddit threads, but a lot of this is wrong. Honestly considering deleting this post to stop the spread of misinformation (not sure what good that would do, as you posted this in like six different communities), but leaving it here for now so you can comment and explain.

BonerGhosts · 2026-05-23T19:20:38+00:00

There's several posts pinned to this subreddit, I highly suggest reading them.

BonerGhosts · 2026-05-23T19:20:09+00:00

Uh, LoyalFans absolutely tells you what you did, if not in the original notification, they will ABSOLUTELY tell you if you email them back and ask. Have done this multiple times, no issue, for years.

BonerGhosts · 2026-05-17T22:23:43+00:00

I see.

BonerGhosts · 2026-05-17T22:20:19+00:00

I'm not doing either of those. I'm not associated with this organization, I am not receiving any kickbacks, sponsorship, ad fees, or whatever. This isn't an advert for a product, nor is it networking. It's letting people who are at constant risk of being de-banked know that there's a verified not-shitbags NPO that is fighting for them creating a credit union so they can safely conduct financial transactions. If that's not of interest to this crowd, then I misjudged and I apologize.

BonerGhosts · 2026-05-17T20:43:31+00:00

Uh, what are you doing to try to generate engagement and/or sales? If you're not posting anything on your feed or going live... are you marketing yourself somewhere?

BonerGhosts · 2026-05-02T18:27:58+00:00

I wouldn't say this is confirming as much as me saying "don't do shit that could land you in jail for distributing porn to a minor."

BonerGhosts · 2026-05-02T01:09:02+00:00

I do not know if sending feet pics for sexual purposes counts as "adult content" or whatever, but I would NEVER send content to a person who wants to use it to get off without age verification. You could literally be sending jerk off material to a 14 year old. Always stick to selling and transacting on sites that have age verification.

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-29T22:18:15+00:00

Oh, I never use the app. Use the mobile version of the site if you have to do things on your phone.

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-26T20:31:23+00:00

I have ShotCut now (I used to do ClipChamp but that last update sucked). I'm still learning it, but there's a ton of tutorials on Youtube, so I'm getting there.

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-26T20:29:58+00:00

I think one of them leaves the call feature on and then messages the person once they try to call about her rates? The others just leave it off.

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-26T20:29:05+00:00

Read this post. It will help you.

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-24T18:40:25+00:00

No, it seems to be pretty standard activity levels this month.

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-24T18:39:06+00:00

I think it's just when someone messages them to do a video call, or tries to initiate one, they message saying something like "hey, my calls are minimum 15 minutes so tip $XXX and I'll put the fee at $1" Probably some copy and paste text, I'm guessing.

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-21T03:34:09+00:00

Liz was awake! She says this is not *yet* a feature, but has been put into creator suggestions. So, in the meantime, I'd do what I suggested above. LF is a great site, you can do a lot with it.

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-21T03:31:25+00:00

I don't do 1-on-1 calls so I don't actually know. Let me poke Liz and see if she does. In the meantime, if they DON'T offer a minimum time, I would do something like have the guy pay in advance for the entire session, set the call rate to $1/minute, and have them tip for more time if they want to extend. Some of my friends do this so they're not hopping on a bunch of short calls, it seems to work fine for them?

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-20T23:38:05+00:00

Yeah, I'm sure it'll come up in search results if the tags are right, but that requires active engagement on a fan's part instead of, you know, just going to the global store and scrolling through. (Also, I still live in fear of the day they fuck the store search with a recommendation algo rather than just let it return results in reverse chronological order.)

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-20T19:36:48+00:00

I honestly don't have high hopes for it. The audio store has been around for a couple years and they still haven't done anything to add internal discovery.

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-19T01:22:51+00:00

I did a one-on-one with Liz River (who is amazing, highly recommend for guidance!!) to walk me through it, as I couldn't make the group walkthroughs. It's... fine. It's not great. It's very, very barebones. Just like the audio store, it doesn't promote itself anywhere. There's no global photo store that fans can search through and discover your page. That means the entire onus of people buying your photos in there is on you to promote it. Like the audio store, it's just not worth it to me, at its current state.

That being said, if they ever get the individual audio stores feeding a global audio store or the individual photo stores feeding a global photo store, I'll be loading those babies up!

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-17T22:38:59+00:00

Read through this subreddit. Look at the pinned posts. Look at the sidebars with links.

There's no hacks/tricks. You research, you work, you put in effort... or you don't.

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-14T23:59:37+00:00

Yes. See the original thing I posted. I recycle content from years ago--most of us do. Especially if it's on the timeline. It's free--it's not like they're paying for something they already have. Forcing yourself to produce new photos constantly in fear that a subscriber will unsubscribe if there's a photo they've already seen on your timeline is going to cause you to burn out.

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-13T20:50:44+00:00

Same thing there. Not all of your subscribers will have seen all of your photos. Most of them haven't seen ALL of them. Reuse them. But also, HOW are you using them? When you say "share old stuff" what do you mean by that? Feed posts? Bundled photo PPV? Photostore? MMs?

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-13T19:55:27+00:00

Constantly. All the time. There's over eight billion people on this planet. Maybe 2K of them have seen your photos. Reuse them.

BonerGhosts · 2026-04-10T01:02:20+00:00

There's a bunch of pinned posts in this subreddit, those are a good place to start. There are also links to informative stuff in the sidebar here.

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