How to deal with offensive groups on VK? Procedure for drawing up and filing a complaint

Since literally any user can create their own community on the VKontakte social network, you can often come across public pages that you personally don’t like or that even violate the rules of the resource. This problem is most relevant in cases where the group is actively imposed with various recommendations. In today's instructions, we will tell you about the main ways to block such communities, both separately for a personal page and with the assistance of the administration.

Method 1: Create a complaint about the group

Most often, the need to permanently block a group for all VKontakte users arises due to any unlawful actions on the part of its leaders. You can implement this task on your own by using the “Complain” option.

Read more: How to complain about a VK community

Option 1: Website

1. Open the home page of the desired group on the VK website and expand the “More” list in the menu on the right.



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2. Here at the very bottom you need to left-click on the “Complain” line.



3. In the Community Complaint window, place a marker next to one of the applicable reasons and add a more detailed description of the issue in the Comment text box. The comment must be composed with special care, and certainly not to neglect this opportunity.



4. To complete, click the “Submit” button, after which you will have to wait. Unfortunately, it will not be possible to find out about the further fate of the application, except in the event that the community subsequently turns out to be blocked.

Option 2: Mobile application

1. You can create a complaint in a similar way using the VKontakte mobile client. To do this, open the group, tap the three dots icon in the upper right corner and select “Complain” through the list.



2. On the next page “Complaint”, indicate the reason in the block of the same name and click “Submit”. For efficiency, as on the site, it is also better to add a comment in the appropriate field.

Support

If the public has no obvious violations and, for example, deceives only some users when selling some goods, this type of complaint will most likely not help. Therefore, we recommend using the social network’s support service, where you must provide clear evidence of fraud with screenshots and other media files.

Read more: How to contact VK support service

The official VKontakte client for the phone also allows you to compose and send an appeal. To do this, select “Help” on the main menu tab and go to the section with information about complaints.

Reasons for blocking a community on VKontakte

Next, the main aspects of imposing a ban on a group, public, or event will be given. If you are just going to create your own community or store with goods, carefully study the given list and try not to repeat the above mistakes.

Reasons for blocking a community on VKontakte

Suggestions for promotion in VK

You should never post or offer services related to promotion of certain actions within a social network. This applies to additional votes in polls, likes, joining diverse groups, adding friends or increasing reposts.

So that you understand, just because of one such post within a month, any community will be closed for an indefinite time, and in rare cases, forever.

Cheating of participants

At first, when the public has just appeared, it will be sorely lacking in participants. Some recruit new visitors through their friends and acquaintances, others advertise the community in thematic groups or talk about it in various chats. Well, the latter, due to lack of experience and the desire to start making money as quickly as possible, invest in getting subscribers.

There is nothing wrong with such an action, but you need to turn to the right services for help, and not click on the first link you come across from the search results.

There are only a few sites that have managed to establish themselves on the right side in providing such services - these are VKTarget and Socelin. Unlike other “professionals” in their field, they offer real users who subscribe to you of their own free will. Of course, it cannot be done without some individuals turning into “dogs” (dead accounts), but their percentage is extremely tiny. And since VK monitors the number of dead souls in communities, a large number of them will lead to immediate closure.

Spam

A very controversial method of promotion, which is suppressed in every possible way. When sending mass messages with a link to a group, you can get a guaranteed block for an indefinite time. If the spam was too aggressive, the administration will close your creation forever.

Community blocked for attracting members using spam

Rights violation

Many should already have been taught by bitter experience about copyright after the conflict between the administration of the social network and audio recordings. Therefore, under no circumstances should you use branded items without the consent of their direct copyright holders.

Are you planning to advertise a replica watch of a popular brand? It’s better not to do this, because without having the right to do this, blocking will follow immediately.

Conducting sweepstakes/financial pyramids

The administration of the social network does not allow the promotion on its site of resources that are obviously dangerous for other users. This applies to sites containing pornographic elements, as well as various types of pyramids, casinos, sports forecasts, and the like. If you decide to create a community dedicated to promoting this type of service, it will not last long. Such communities are frozen in 99% of cases without further appeal.

Accounts sale

The rules of most online games explicitly state that selling accounts is strictly prohibited and is punishable by account blocking. That is why the creation of communities with similar topics is immediately stopped, as is the resale of pages and groups within a social network.

Abrupt change of topic

This is a fairly common reason that can lead to a lifelong ban. Imagine a situation where a community with entertainment content suddenly decides to change course and go into news or political intrigue. At the same time, about 30 thousand participants have already accumulated and no warnings about this have been received from the administration. It is clear that an unauthorized change will result in a ban.

Prohibited advertising

Administrators are often contacted by advertisers who offer to place their post with a post pinned to the top of the page for an additional fee. In fact, there is nothing wrong with this, but before agreeing, read the text of the advertisement and the links to follow.

If the post talks about getting free votes or fraud that could cause users to lose their account or money, then this will result in restrictions on the use of your community.

Advertising closed groups

Those who use VK constantly remember the presence of posts where the story ended at the most interesting point, and the continuation could only be found by clicking on the link. Many of them led to closed communities, access to information of which was available only to subscribers.

Now such a decision has been stopped and is not allowed to be posted, threatening to freeze it.

Competitions without prizes

When increasing interest in your group by holding prize draws, do not forget that they must be real. That is, after the final counting of votes or the determination of the user at random, he must receive his reward.

But as practice shows, most participants are left with nothing, after which they write complaints, and unscrupulous administrators receive a well-deserved reprimand.

Reasons of a different kind

They manifest themselves in the creation of communities on extremist, suicidal or porn themes. The ban also applies to posts about drugs, child erotica, etc. Therefore, there is no point in thinking about creating such a page for a number of relevant reasons.

Community blocked for distributing links to malicious resources

Method 2: Leave the group

In the absence of visible violations on the part of the community and without significant evidence on your part, blocking is unlikely to be successful. In such a case, we can recommend only one solution - simply leave the group, using any convenient version of the social network.

Option 1: Website

1. If you're using the website, go to the Communities section and find the group you're interested in. Here you need to hover your mouse over the icon with three dots and select “Unsubscribe”.



2. The same can be done if you open the main page of the public and click the “You are a member” or “You are subscribed” button. Confirmation is required only when leaving closed communities.

Option 2: Mobile application

1. From your phone, the first thing you need to do is open the tab with the main menu and go to the “Communities” section. If necessary, use the search field to find the group you want to leave.



2. On the main page of the public, tap the “You are subscribed” or “You are a member” icon and select “Unsubscribe” or “Leave the community” through the menu.

Of course, the above is only indirectly related to the topic, but at the same time it will allow you to get rid of the constant mention of the community in your feed. And in general, the loss of subscribers, even in small quantities, can seriously harm any group.

How to block a VKontakte group

So, we have come to a very interesting topic. If you, young villains, want to know if it is possible to somehow block someone else’s VK group , then, most likely, you want to get rid of your competitors.

Let's look at the main ways that you will be advised to find out how to block someone else's VKontakte community:

• mass promotion of low-quality bots, where the content of dogs will be more than 50%. Mutual PR services are well suited here, for which they sell coupons because... Basically, these services use bots, which get banned instantly. Please note that you need to invite at least 30% of the bots from the total number of participants in the group, otherwise you will simply help your competitor with promotion.
• order a repost of your message, and then change the link to a prohibited product. Such groups are blocked instantly, and not so long ago extortion of money from large public companies for such frauds flourished. Communities of even more than 4 million people were blocked.
• get a job as an admin or editor and post prohibited content.
• find violations in the group.
• order a mass invitation to a group (works only for groups). There must be more invitations than participants.

There are no other ways to block a community of competitors. But the best thing is to never use such methods, but simply make a group of higher quality than that of a competitor and defeat him fairly.

P.S. share your personal experience - how to get the community out of the ban .

Method 3: Excluding posts from the feed

As an alternative to leaving the community, you can get rid of mentions of the group by blocking posts in your feed. This will also only partially help solve the problem if the public cannot be blocked in the main way.

Option 1: Website

1. First of all, open the “News” section and find any publication from an unwanted group. To block, hover over the arrow icon and select "Not interested."



2. In the block that appears, use the “Hide from feed” button, and the procedure is completed.



3. Additionally, you can open the main page of the public, expand the “You are a member” or “You are subscribed” menu and select “Hide news”.

Option 2: Mobile application

On a mobile device, hiding posts from a public page is much easier. To do this, open the “News” page, select any community post and use the “Hide source news” option through the “…” menu in the right corner.

As you can see, the procedure for blocking records from individual communities is quite easy in all versions.

How to contact the VK administration directly

If the complaint procedure does not suit you for one reason or another, you can contact support directly. To do this you need:

1. As when making a complaint, select the item “How to complain about a group”.
2. When a window with help information appears, instead of “Report the community”, select “This does not solve my problem”.
3. In the window that appears, select “I still have questions”.
4. Describe the problem.

Method 4: Blocking the site

The most radical method of blocking is to restrict access to the site as a whole on a computer or phone, for which you should use standard operating system tools or a third-party firewall. This will be relevant in a small number of cases, for example, if you want to impose restrictions on a work PC or a child’s device.

Read more: Blocking a VK site on a computer How to block a site from a phone

Sometimes you can find programs that allow you to block not the entire site, but only some pages. Unfortunately, this will not affect VK, and therefore it will not be possible to limit a separate community.

We tried to pay attention to all possible methods of blocking a VKontakte group, from the simplest complaint or contacting technical support to restricting access to the site. There are no other methods available today.

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Ban groups

Now let’s figure out what exactly is a VKontakte group ban ? This is a blocking of your group by the VK administration for violating any rules. This could be sending spam, cheating of participants that is obvious and illegal in relation to a social network, or prohibited group topics. Malicious violators of the rules are found using special VK filters (we'll talk about them a little later), as well as based on user complaints (of course, there should be several of them from different people).

Today, Contact's policy has become noticeably tougher. Now a VK group ban threatens anyone who uses even the slightest cheating, even the harmless sending of invitations - this activity, according to Contact, has also become classified as spam. But knowing all the rules for adding participants, you can still avoid banning your VKontakte group .

Banned? For what!?

The most disappointed are the users who run VKontakte public pages. After all, after blocking a public page, they lose access to changing and adding new information.

Your page may be blocked for spam. Will you say that you are not engaged in such an unworthy business and it has nothing to do with you? – This may be true, but your friends may jokingly mark several of your messages as spam. Such seemingly primitive actions can lead to unpleasant consequences.

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

Do you have an antivirus installed? Since the most common cause of “freezing” is a virus. There are special programs that may not even block, but simply imitate it, 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 reviews, as many of them can lead to the banning of your account by the VKontakte administration.

And, of course, if you were rude in social networks or uploaded pornographic information, then your banning is quite logical and completely legal. Accounts that promoted pornography through VKontakte cannot be unblocked. But such users most often simply create another account.

It seems that these are all the main reasons for freezing pages, if I find out about others, I will definitely let you know. Now we can look at the process of unlocking your account.