… and don’t I know it. Seriously - I really wish I could figure out a good way to get away from it but so far: no luck.
… anytime the the title of a post contains the words enchilada and
penis, you’re not going for a mainstream audience which is what FB is.
First off, this is a fantastic quote. Thank you.
Secondly, it was “echidna”, not “enchilada”. Though, frankly, I’m not sure whether that makes it more mainstream or less. Probably less.
Finally, a fun challenge for the BBS: Come up with headlines that include the words “penis” and “enchilada” while still appealing to mainstream readers. I feel like you can do it.
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Man sticks penis in enchilada, now banned from Walmart
Man sticks penis in enchilada, now banned from Tesco. Has health and safety gone mad? (Daily Mail version)
Enchiladas found to cause massive penis growth, sales skyrocket
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The Whole Enchilada, and 11 more Food-based Euphemisms for a Penis [Buzzfeed]
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Except, as stated above you in this thread, apparently it doesn’t violate FB’s terms and conditions. So I guess it is mainstream enough.
I read that more like, “Oh, heh heh, that BoingBoing. Um, uh-huh, that was a mistake which we have fixed, now please stop talking about us. Please?”
What I learned today:
Proofread more closely when using an iPhone, echidna and enchilada while somewhat similar mean different things…
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perhaps however I suspect FB likes the view number BB produces and contradicted themselves on the whole policy thing. So I will crawfish on the squeaky wheel part I guess but stand behind the syndication comments 
I run an online fine art photography magazine by the name of Musée. We produce our magazine quarterly, and each issue is theme based. Our last issue was 3 volumes, and titled Nude+Naked+More. Let’s face it, for many, myself included, facebook is a necessary evil; as a non-profit start-up, we rely on facebook to gain readers and steer traffic to our website and magazine.
We had a moderately respectable number of followers (2000) that we built up over two years, and just as we were hitting a productive stride in page followers and likes, all were lost because a cyber-stalking ex decided to report our page (and punish my ignoring his insane and threatening email barrage) because of a picture featuring a female nipple; interestingly, this same guy has a picture of a police horse with an erect penis trying to hump a human on his facebook wall. This happened over a weekend, and in trying to comply we missed a few photos we had posted a few months ago.
Facebook has not responded to our post compliance appeal, or to any of the the subsequent emails we have sent. So we have started from scratch ( https://www.facebook.com/museethemagazine ), and the reconstruction on our new page is coming along much slower than we would like, which is unfortunate, as we have a new issue based on the theme of Energy coming out in October. We aren’t a porn website or magazine. We provide a platform for emerging photographers and interview and display the work of renowned artists and photographers (in our upcoming issue we will feature, amongst others, interviews with and the work of Nick Cave, Marina Abramovic, and Mike Brodie).
Our facebook page wasn’t a T&A hook/front to steer people to cam chats, and the content on our page was far from vulgar, and it is dispiriting to know that either facebook can’t tell the difference between porn and art, or that it simply doesn’t care to. Anyways, we have a change.org petition set up https://www.change.org/petitions/facebook-end-social-media-censorship.
End rant.
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I did a small piece on the news website I work for about this; we have been subject to Facebook block before, due to pics that were considered inacceptable… But the tapir’s video seemed like too much. Good to see they realised that it was absurd!.
P.d.: Now I have to update the article!!
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With a community of over one billion people, our team processes over one million reports each week and occasionally we make a mistake....and if you are important enough, then we may even notice.
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Yahoo News:
Echidna Penises Make Refreshing Enchiladas, Promote Glowing, Younger-looking Skin!
If you started a page called “Tapirs are Whores” or “Rape a Tapir to Death Day” I’m sure it’d be just fine, based on FB’s current policy toward similar pages about women.
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I dunno, what if the tapirs were male?
No, wait. Food Network:
The Perfect Brunch
Echidna Penis Enchiladas and Purple Tacos - Made for each other!
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