Often, users of a social network are faced with the need to freeze a page on VK for a while or forever. The reason may be a simple reluctance to use a social network, or even a hacking of a page, as a result of which a decision is made about the need to temporarily restrict access to your account in order to protect the data stored in it, as well as to give time to restore security settings (change login, password and other).
It is important to understand that freezing a VKontakte page and deleting it are 2 different things. Deleting a page occurs at the user’s initiative and can be canceled within 7 months, and only social network administrators can freeze a page for a certain period, and restoration is possible only after its expiration.
However, certain actions can be taken to force the VK administration to quickly take action and forcefully freeze the account. We will look at them in this article.
Why can a VK page be frozen?
The main reasons why a page on VK may be frozen:
- Distribution of adult content;
- Distribution of prohibited materials:
- Sending spam;
- Artificial increase in likes, reposts, subscribers;
- Offensive behavior: obscene language, threats, etc.;
- Fraudulent activities on the Internet;
- Clone page or advertising page.
As a rule, it is because users send a complaint that the page is frozen and even blocked.
Contacting support
The only universal solution to the problem of page freezing is to contact the VKontakte support service with a request to remove the restriction. As a rule, in return, you are required to provide undeniable evidence that you are the owner of the profile, such as a passport photo or other data.
Read more: Contacting VKontakte support service
This solution will be especially relevant in case of permanent blocking, which in rare cases can still be canceled through technical specialists. Let us immediately note that it is usually easier to remove the restriction on active pages with many live friends, subscribers and photos, as well as completed verification.
How many days is a VK page frozen for?
For how many days is a VK page frozen?
Typically, the first freeze of a VK profile for committing minor violations does not have a time frame and is unfrozen at the user’s initiative at any time. To do this, simply log into your account using the current phone number linked to the page.
In the event of repeated frosts, a restrictive period appears during which restoration of access is impossible. The timing may vary, depending on the number of freezes and the severity of violations of the rules of the social network and range from 1 day to complete blocking forever.
You can find out how many days your VK page was frozen for directly on your page.
Why is my VKontakte page frozen?
Personally, in my case, this is the careless use of services for recruiting group members. Although the only service I used was Olike . This is what they wrote to me when I entered the page:
This page has been frozen for being suspicious.
Now I'll try to analyze it. Did I really give too many likes to then exchange them for group members? For the past almost 2 weeks I have been giving about 40-50 likes a day. A lot of? Don't think. I suspect that the service sometimes used my account to give likes on my behalf. But it is not exactly.
By the way, this is the third freeze of my page. The first time I was frozen for spam. Indeed, I spammed, but only a little. I wanted to attract at least some number of visitors to my young website. And the second time they froze it was when I attracted attention to my page by automatically liking the avatars of strangers through the SOBOT program. That's when there were really a lot of likes. About 200-400 per day. But I, naive, didn’t think that likes could get a VK page blocked. I thought they block only for obvious spam in private messages or comments. No, surprise! And now I have been frozen for the third time for a week.
IMPORTANT!!! If you use services for cheating anything on VKontakte, then do it gradually, wisely, and not like me. Don't be greedy! Of course, I want to promote the group faster, but, as they say, “The slower you go, the further you will go!”
Now I plan to put no more than 20 likes a day on Olike. This is enough to recruit 10 participants per day into the group. And I planned to recruit up to 1000 participants, and then on my own. In total, at this rate, the group has 1000 members; if it were from scratch, it would take about 3 months to recruit. Some more will be removed, and some will turn into dogs and will also have to be removed.
If this is slow for you, then you can buy a little more group members on Advego. Taking into account the commission, 1 group member now costs 1.65 rubles. But these participants at least give likes occasionally, unlike those who come from Olike.
How to freeze your VK page for a while
First of all, I would like to emphasize that freezing a VK page is an uncontrollable process and can lead to unexpected results. That is, the user cannot know whether the block will be temporary or permanent, and if temporary, then for how long. Therefore, it is worth considering simply deleting the VK page.
How to freeze a page in VK:
Actually, it's simple. In order for a VK account to be frozen, you just need to violate the rules of the social network.
It is important not to overdo it and not violate the laws of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, because you wouldn’t want police officers to come to you at 2 a.m. with an angle grinder?
Violations that can be done to briefly freeze a VK page:
- Sending the same message to many users or in many groups;
- Distribution of advertising messages.
Violations that can be done to freeze a VKontakte page for longer:
- Distribution of pornographic materials;
- Offensive phrases addressed to other members of the social network;
- Distribution of links to sites and online services prohibited in Russia;
- Increase likes and reposts.
Violations to avoid:
- Fraudulent activities;
- Extortion of funds;
- Threats;
- Distribution of prohibited content.
To speed up the freezing process, you can ask your friends to send a complaint to your page. You can also use your other VK pages to send a complaint, if available.
Reasons for freezing
If your page has been frozen, you will receive a notification about this when you try to log into your account. All functions of VKontakte will be completely blocked: you will not be able to communicate, view news or edit profile data.
Officially, the administration of the social network announced three possible reasons why the account was frozen.
Blocked by moderator
Your page may have been frozen due to a complaint from other users. Each person on VK has the opportunity to complain about another user of the social network. All accusations are reviewed manually by moderators. If they find the evidence against you substantiated, they freeze the page.
Reasons why a complaint may be filed against you.
- Pornography. If your page contains videos or photos intended exclusively for an adult audience, then the user has the right to write a denunciation to the administration. It is also prohibited to send 18+ materials in private messages unless the recipient has given consent.
- Sending spam. As you already understand, sending unwanted messages can entail quite natural punishment. Be especially wary of sending intrusive messages to strangers. According to statistics, it is strangers who most often send complaints for spam.
- Bad behavior. If you lose your nerves during correspondence and you no longer control the manner of your communication, then the interlocutor may, instead of retaliating with aggression, silently send a complaint for insult.
- Fraud. This is most often complained about by friends who suspect that your page has been hacked and is being used for deception and profit.
- Advertising page clogging the search. If an account was created for the purpose of marketing and promoting a product or service, then this must be indicated in your personal information. In the case when an advertising page is disguised as the profile of an ordinary user, moderators can block it forever! Then all efforts at promotion and promotion will be in vain.
- Clone of my page (or my old page). In this case, even you can file a complaint against yourself (if it is your old profile that you no longer use or have lost access to). This item can also be indicated in a message to moderators if the page is a copy of another person’s profile and was created without his knowledge.
Freezing by safety system
VKontakte has an automatic protection and security system that reacts with lightning speed to any suspicious actions that violate the rules. Why can they freeze you automatically?
- For spam. Sending multiple messages of the same content is interpreted as intrusive communication or advertising mailings. The security system monitors the content of your messages and can freeze the page if it suspects something is wrong.
- For using cheating services. Using any online services and programs to artificially increase the number of friends, comments, likes and other page indicators must be done extremely carefully. It is better to stretch out the cheating process over several days so that the blocking system does not work.
Breaking
One of the most common reasons for freezing a page is that it has been hacked or is suspected of being accessed by unauthorized persons. It is worth knowing that the social network VKontakte, like many others, collects information about its users. This is done for security purposes and to create targeted advertisements. Almost all your actions are tracked:
- what device you logged in from;
- what browser and operating system do you use;
- you have an official application or any other installed;
- what places do you visit;
- what groups and personal pages you visit.
This list can be continued for a very long time. If someone accesses your profile from an unusual place or performs actions that are unusual for you, this will raise suspicions in the security system. For example, you live in Volgograd and usually log into VK in the morning and afternoon, but suddenly at 3 o’clock in the morning you visited your page from the center of Vorkuta (which you have never been to because you can’t stand the cold). If something like this happens, VKontakte will freeze the profile.
How to freeze someone else's page on VK
It is worth understanding that all decisions on freezing and blocking pages are made by the VKontakte administration. User participation is minimal. The only thing he can do is send a complaint against another person if he violates the rules of the social network.
How to freeze someone else's page on VK:
- You should open the profile of the person you want to freeze or block;
- Click on the button with the icon with three horizontal dots, which is located immediately below the main profile photo;
- Select “Report page”;
- Select the type of violation and, if necessary, write a comment to the moderator.
How to block your account temporarily or permanently?
If it occurred to you to freeze your VK page temporarily and/or forever, then you probably have important reasons for this. If this is really the case, then here’s what you can do to have your VKontakte page frozen by administration employees:
- Violate the site rules - publish prohibited materials on your page;
- If you want, you can ask your friends to report your page.
- Increase everything you can and cannot (votes, subscribers, likes).
Sooner or later you will be caught and blocked.
But, of course, you should be prepared for the fact that you will be banned forever the first time - you cannot predict what the site administration will decide.
Therefore, if your plans do not include parting with your profile so stupidly, but you want to temporarily remove it from the network, then it is better to delete your account. Moreover, this can be done through the settings, and the page can be restored within 6 months.
To delete an account in the desktop version, click on the avatar thumbnail in the top right menu and select “Settings”.
In the “General” section at the very bottom of the page you will find a link to delete your profile. Click it and indicate the reason.
In the mobile version, you can get rid of your account in a similar way.
Why is blocking happening?
I would like to understand that it is impossible to unfreeze the VKontakte page IMMEDIATELY. It will be defrosted exactly at the specified time. It is necessary to know the cause of freezing in order to be more vigilant in the future, and thereby prevent freezing.
If your page was frozen by the administration, then it is likely that you have done something wrong to them. This usually happens due to the fact that individual messages and comments are marked as spam, and more than once.
In addition, practice shows that it is best to add no more than 15 friends per day, otherwise this may also affect the freezing of the page.
