I seriously don’t know what to do either, but I’m going to collect them all and then write a post. Maybe a little “A list blog attention” will get some accounts relooked at.

Many people admit they were doing something naughty, like I was, but others say they weren’t doing anything wrong and didn’t get an answer about what they were doing that got them kicked off Facebook.

Either way, there’s a lot of people out there who’ve been “erased” and who haven’t gotten the same treatment my account got for some reason (I was turned back on).

Drop me a line, or, better yet, leave a comment on this post.

Personally, Facebook should have a citizen review board where appeals of “erasure” could be taken and where a decent answer could be attained.

Some things that have gotten people kicked off?

1. Using a fake name. Mini Microsoft was kicked off.

2. Behaving like a spammer. Sending out lots of birthday party invitations got one person kicked off.

3. Using automated systems like what I was doing to look at things.

But, again, lots of people who’ve been emailing me and calling me say they haven’t done any of those three and still got kicked off and had no appeal.

Another place that people should go is to Satisfaction. They have a bunch of info for banned people there.

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Microsoft’s best known blogger is Robert Scoble, but Mini-Microsoft may have a claim on second place. His influence on the company received Scoble’s imprimatur after a company-wide change in a number of Microsoft’s internal processes became publicly known.

From Scoble’s post after the announcements: “Is Lisa reading Mini? Damn straight she is. This is the “Mini-smackdown” I wanted to see. Hopefully these changes will get us on a more customer-centric path.”

Danny Westneat at the Seattle Times interviewed the Microsoft insider better known as Mini, a blogger who has managed to keep his blogging like secret from his wife and his co-workers, save one who figured out his secret and chose to keep it under wraps.

Westneat knows Mini’s first name, since Mini slipped up and signed it to an email he exchanged with the journalist. That was one of many little mistakes Mini has made, ones that could lead to his outing, and who knows what kind of reprisals he would face if that happened.

In the article, Westneat related one particular exchange with the blogger:

How many people can claim to have taken on the world’s biggest tech company run by the world’s richest man, and eked out a victory against it? At least one, now.

On his blog, Mini posted on the changes to the review process that he had loathed in a number of blog entries, and how it was time to take a break:

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David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.