RE: https://mastodon.social/@gaza_verified_campaigns/116237170012975758

The account suspensions are really killing the usefulness of both these updates and the gaza.onl and gaza-verified.org/donate listing.

Not sure what the best approach would be here, but I'm betting @aral and @fabio have noticed.

You guys might already have a plan or whatever, but... Is there anything the rest of us can do to help?

@iamdorkside @fabio The darn thing is that we can’t just remove accounts that have been suspended as our goal is to try and help them get unsuspended (unless it was for repeat violations of anti-spam rules) and not have to reverify them if possible.

So I’m not sure what to do here.

Thoughts?

CC @staff

@aral @fabio @staff
I agree in as much but two of the campaigns have been suspended for tagging multiple times. I *might* have gotten through to them but .. 🤷‍♀️

@iamdorkside @aral @staff a workaround for now may be to exclude suspended accounts from the @gaza_verified_campaigns posts. The archive already stores information about the current suspension state on their parent instance anyway.

But I also feel that it’d be a bit unfair for someone to be excluded from the campaigns bot just because they have been (temporarily, at least in most of the cases) suspended.

This however points to a disturbing realization: accounts that have been suspended for at least a few days and haven’t had the chance to boost their campaigns actually get no donations.

@fabio @aral @gaza_verified_campaigns @staff

That might be true much of the time, but for some campaigns it might be that the data fetch fails.

https://kolektiva.social/@iamdorkside/116238366745945462

There's also the issue of suspended campaigns. @AhmedOuda, https://www.gofundme.com/f/Two-Brothers-Fighting-to-Save-Their-Family-in-Gaza

@iamdorkside @aral you’re right, that may actually be a bug (or actually an intended feature) with my campaign scraper. If it can’t fetch the campaign URL because it can’t fetch the profile (because it’s been suspended) then it won’t try and fetch new donations either. This can probably be changed - in that case it may keep using the cached campaign URL.
@fabio @iamdorkside @aral hi, there may be also a bug on campaign n° 2 of the list (tahani), I went to her campaign to donate and saw that she received multiple donations in the last 7 days. That's a good news for her obviously 👍🏻 but I'll find if there are more urgent campaigns that I can give to.

@duchesse
I think it might be related to the issues with campaign url not being available. The account @tahine21 doesn't have the campaign in profile (anymore?). Their appeal has raised more than the next appeal listed with an active account, @HadiSamir.

@fabio