Please -- can anyone help me solve a mystery? In 2015 I joined FB to vote for a friend's

[allegorical oracle]

contest photo of a butterfly (she finished in top 10). It was the only time I ever got on FB. Over the years, I've tried to get on again, but always get the following message:

"It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You've been temporarily blocked from using it. If you think this doesn't go against our Community Standards let us know." (Let us know is a blue-colored link.)

But to let FB know, I have to log in. But can't because I've been "temporarily" blocked for ten years, now.

Have tried to change the password or to start a new account, but nothing works. Have no idea how I did anything "too fast" or what standards I could've possibly broken by voting for a photograph.

[ZDU]

1. Please accept a congratulations!

10 years away from FB seems like a great position to be in! Congratulations!

[JoseBalow]

2. Facebook is cancer, they're doing you a favor.

Don't look back.

[Botany]

3. Stay off of Facebook

They had to pay a 5 billion dollar penalty for
helping Russia to rat fuck the 2016 election and then changed their name from Facebook to Meta.

[snot]

4. I'm having a similar problem with another platform.

It arbitrarily decided I need to create a new password, but it won't let me log in to do it. I was, however, able to create a new account.

Fwiw, facebook seems to be nearly dead in my part of the world... the censorship became so pervasive that my feed was useless – I and my friends never saw one another's posts unless we deliberately went to their pages, and every third post in my feed was an ad.

[allegorical oracle]

5. Oh you guys! Am laughing heartily. Keep getting bugged by old school chums to get on

there for social and reunion stuff. But you all are persuasive...and funny. Thks.

[GreenWave]

6. You may have to use a different operating system.

It's like my Vitamix. I made perfect peanut butter the first time and never duplicated it again.