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Post by refugeepea on Jun 16, 2016 1:23:01 GMT
I would rather have promoted pins than suggested pins! In my feed; a photo of a dead man from a horrific car accident, aborted fetuses, and a woman after she committed suicide! I have zero boards with this type of thing. I occasionally go to the history area and randomly click on different photos. I NEVER save anything from there. The only organization I follow that would be under that category is The Smithsonian.   |
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Post by lucyg on Jun 16, 2016 1:24:14 GMT
Holy cow. Was one of your kids fooling around with your Pinterest?!
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 16, 2016 1:26:28 GMT
Holy cow. Was one of your kids fooling around with your Pinterest?! NO! They don't have the password to my laptop and there is a "kid" computer in our family room. ETA: It seems they have some kind of tracking. I do have random suggested WWII pins and black history. I've made it a point to NOT pin anything in the history category because I didn't want suggested pins. I had zero suggestions until now. |
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Post by MsKnit on Jun 16, 2016 1:27:00 GMT
Just checked. My feed is the usual.
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Post by garcia5050 on Jun 16, 2016 1:27:56 GMT
No issues for me either
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Post by myshelly on Jun 16, 2016 1:35:03 GMT
No, mine is all normal.
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Post by melanell on Jun 16, 2016 1:35:20 GMT
My Pinterest feed looks the same as it always does. What you are describing sounds awful, OP!  |
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Post by leannec on Jun 16, 2016 1:36:52 GMT
Mine board is fine but I'm not getting e-mail notifications of my pins being repinned like I usually do ... very weird  |
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 16, 2016 1:37:06 GMT
Well, they must think I'm into some sick stuff. Seriously, WTH would they think I want to see aborted fetuses? I will not give details, but it was incredibly disturbing the way they were in the photo.
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 16, 2016 1:38:03 GMT
Mine board is fine but I'm not getting e-mail notifications of my pins being repinned like I usually do ... very weird I turned all those notifications off, maybe I should check that again.  |
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Post by scrappinmama on Jun 16, 2016 1:38:21 GMT
Mine looks normal too. Could someone have hacked your account?
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Post by Zee on Jun 16, 2016 1:38:23 GMT
I had to go look! No, it's all my usual things. I haven't been on in while and I fell down the rabbit hole a bit. I love when they're spot-on with the suggested pins!
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Post by mom on Jun 16, 2016 1:44:44 GMT
My board is fine but when I went to pin an outfit, it had some error and wouldn't let me.
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 16, 2016 1:47:21 GMT
I had to go look! No, it's all my usual things. I haven't been on in while and I fell down the rabbit hole a bit. I love when they're spot-on with the suggested pins! Well, I am staying away from the history category and I would encourage others to do the same! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2016 2:05:51 GMT
 I don't have anything like that happening, but I did notice my Pea birthday cake board keeps getting all switched around. Cakes that have been in the same spot forever are suddenly in a different spot much much farther down.
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Post by joblackford on Jun 16, 2016 2:06:02 GMT
Oh my gosh! WHY would it think you wanted to see that stuff? (why would anyone, unless they were specifically searching? I would have actually thought the fetus photos would be against their terms of use. If you see them again you might be able to flag or report them. (Although hopefully you never see them again!)
Is there a button for hiding or ignoring or "I don't want to see this kind of stuff"?? I thought there might have been at some point in the past, but the way these sites keep changing I'm not sure if it's still there.
I liked it better when it just showed me stuff I chose to follow. I'm sick of computer algorithms doing a really bad job at trying to figure out what I want to see.
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Post by mzza111 on Jun 16, 2016 2:11:53 GMT
WTF! Who knew Pinterest had those kind of images!
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 16, 2016 2:25:18 GMT
Oh my gosh! WHY would it think you wanted to see that stuff? (why would anyone, unless they were specifically searching? I would have actually thought the fetus photos would be against their terms of use. If you see them again you might be able to flag or report them. (Although hopefully you never see them again!) The only thing I can think of is sometimes in the history category, there will be a photo of a murderer. I click on it to read the caption. The PHOTO of a living person; I don't want to see crime scenes. I have rarely seen these in the history feed. I am interested in true crime, but more along the lines of Dateline and 48 Hours. Still, none of those photos were related to murder. I cannot figure out the fetuses. I am extremely squeamish and have a hard time handling my own kids vomit. I blocked the users and reported the pins. As stated earlier, I'm staying away from the history board! I also sent them a message. |
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Post by Outspoken on Jun 16, 2016 2:34:48 GMT
I haven't gone to look at mine, but I can't believe the type of images you describe exist on Pinterest!!!  |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jun 16, 2016 16:07:39 GMT
That's awful! I'm so sorry you had to see stuff like that. If you see it again, flag it.
And I would drop an email to Pinterest about it anyway.
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Post by grammadee on Jun 16, 2016 16:19:04 GMT
Mine board is fine but I'm not getting e-mail notifications of my pins being repinned like I usually do ... very weird Thankfully, my email alerts have stopped coming, too. But if you click on the little YOU icon at the bottom, you get 3 choices in the drop down menu, and one of those is your notifications. Another is what the people you are following are doing. Forget the third choice. Hope you get this resolved refugeepea ! Maybe someone had referenced the abortion pic's as "murder" and that got them into the set of photos they referred to you? My Pinterest was acting as usual this morning. I keep a very narrow search window, just cards and scrapbooking. I DO have a small recipe board and also follow a gal who post a lot of food related pins, so I sometimes get food suggestions, and last week dgs (aged 3) was able to pin a plate of spaghetti on one of my boards LOL. |
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Post by hollymolly on Jun 16, 2016 16:53:45 GMT
I had to go look! No, it's all my usual things. I haven't been on in while and I fell down the rabbit hole a bit. I love when they're spot-on with the suggested pins! I'm jealous that your suggested pins are spot-on. Mine never are. Sometimes they are things I've already pinned, although they've gotten better about that. Most of the time they are things I am not remotely interested in. They may be from the categories I frequent, but they are things I don't like from that category, like home decor that is not my taste, desserts and other sugary recipes (I don't eat sugar and don't appreciate the temptation), or semester abroad info. |
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Post by refugeepea on Jun 16, 2016 17:02:14 GMT
I had to go look! No, it's all my usual things. I haven't been on in while and I fell down the rabbit hole a bit. I love when they're spot-on with the suggested pins! I'm jealous that your suggested pins are spot-on. Mine never are. Sometimes they are things I've already pinned, although they've gotten better about that. Most of the time they are things I am not remotely interested in. They may be from the categories I frequent, but they are things I don't like from that category, like home decor that is not my taste, desserts and other sugary recipes (I don't eat sugar and don't appreciate the temptation), or semester abroad info. Same here. I follow specific scrapbookers because I like their style or what they choose to pin. I get dozens of pages that aren't even close. |
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Post by Chips on Jun 16, 2016 17:18:09 GMT
That would be horrible!! I have been using Pinterest more than usual and all of my feed has been "normal".
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Post by julieb on Jun 16, 2016 17:21:08 GMT
Why is that even allowed on Pinterest?!!
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Post by SockMonkey on Jun 16, 2016 18:26:37 GMT
Out of curiosity, is your Pinterest account linked to your Facebook and/or Twitter account? And, are there any posts you've commented on or liked that may be in any way related to any of that?
Also, you can turn off "Personalization" in your settings. There's a tab that asks if you want Pinterest to use sites you've visited to make recommendations. If you have visited any sites on the browser that's logged in to Pinterest, maybe it's pulling from that?
Just some thoughts of why that might be happening. Mine is normal...
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