VKontakte users often encounter the phenomenon of blocking a group that they created and administered, and made efforts and resources to promote it. To find out why this happened, you need to write to the moderators in tech. support. Having received a response and eliminated the reason for the blocking, there may be a chance to make the community active and working again.
Why are groups blocked?
Before we talk about ways to solve the problem, let's find out its root causes, since the easiest way is to solve the problem before it occurs. Below we list the main reasons for blocking publics and groups, by eliminating which you can bypass the ban.
- Cheat subscribers.
- Spam and community advertising.
- Publishing links and advertising promotion services.
- Placing dubious and viral links.
- Violation of the rights of third parties (based on complaints from copyright holders).
- Personal insult.
- Calls for violence, aggression, racism, extremism, terrorism, etc.
- The public was included in the Roskomnadzor register.
- Conducting dubious competitions and promotions.
- Change of subject.
- Other violations of the site rules or legislation of the Russian Federation.
You might be interested in: “VK rules: why groups and pages are blocked.”
Main reasons for blocking:
1. If a group specialized in one topic for a long time and then switched to another, then blocking will occur. Such situations are typical for groups with a huge number of subscribers;
2. Changing the name of the community without changing the topic;
3. The rights of other persons who were the copyright holders of the posted content or products were violated. To avoid blocking the community completely, then the content is removed from the group and access to it is blocked for community users;
4. Roskomnadzor employees can also contact VKontakte administrators with a request to block a particular group if it has been discovered that the community is using materials and resources included in a special Register of Prohibited Resources. In particular, publications may be pornographic in nature, talk about steroids, bookmakers and offices, weapons, drugs;
5. There is an active increase in subscribers, which is done to quickly increase the activity of the group. Most of the joined participants will just be bots. The higher the level of activity, the more suspicious the activity of the group or public looks. Moderators monitor such situations, and if bots are detected, the work of the community is blocked;
6. The administrators and management of the social network are very strict about ensuring that there is no spam on VKontakte. Therefore, if cheating is detected through spam, the community will be blacklisted;
7. Promotions/competitions were held that were of a dubious nature. The post could call for action, but subscribers did not receive any prizes. One-sided popularization of the group causes concern for moderators, and if a complaint is received from users, the community may be blocked;
8. The presence in the group of insults addressed to a particular user, posting posts containing obscene words;
9. Using applications or programs of a dubious nature. These could be special services that help increase the number of likes, subscribers, and friends;
10. Community theft has occurred;
11. There is an active sale of accounts;
12. Placement of advertising products, tobacco products promoting gambling, sports competition forecasts, online casinos, financial pyramids.
What to do if a VK group is blocked?
First, you need to find out the exact reason why the group was banned. You can do this by going to the community page from a PC. You will see a message like this:
All the blocking details will be indicated here. If a community is locked for a specific period of time, the time period will also be indicated. If you access the public page from a mobile device, the reason will not be visible. Therefore, do this from the desktop version of the VK website.
Secondly, write to the VKontakte support service. If the offense was not serious, your apology will be enough for the community to be unblocked. Otherwise, you can say goodbye to the group forever. For example, you are unlikely to be banned for cheating subscribers.
It is important to understand that each case is considered individually by the administration of the VKontakte website. For the same offense, in one case the blocking may be lifted, in another case not. It all depends on many different factors, as well as mitigating or aggravating circumstances.
In any case, contacting support will allow you to understand exactly whether communities can be unbanned. If yes, support staff will describe your next steps. If not, they will report that too.
It’s better not to risk the group being blocked
Thus, if there is at least one such reason and complaints from users are submitted to moderation, the community’s activities will be terminated until all circumstances are clarified. When the admins' conditions are met, then the group will be unlocked.
Let us remind you that not only ordinary publics fall under these rules; in 2015, the largest community at that time “MDK” was blocked, which at the time of blocking numbered more than 7.5 million subscribers.
How to contact VK support?
To write a message to support, follow these steps:
- Open the support contact form by following the link https://vk.com/support?act=new.
- In the first field, briefly state the essence of the request (for example, “The community is blocked, how to unblock?”).
- In the second field, describe the problem in more detail. Here it is necessary to describe the whole situation. If you are not at fault, explain it. If you understand why you received the ban, make it clear that you have realized your mistake and will not repeat it in the future, etc.
- Attach files and screenshots if necessary.
- Click the "Submit" button.
If unbanning is possible, then the VK administration will meet you halfway. If the community cannot be restored, then the answer will be appropriate.
Send a complaint about the group
I have already discussed this issue in the article -. Let's look at this point again.
We go to contact and click “Help”.
A list of popular questions will open. Here you need to write any text in the search bar. A message will appear stating that no answers were found for this query. And there will be a link “Write to us”. Follow it.
You will be taken to a form where you need to fill out your question.
In the title we write that it is necessary to block the VKontakte group. Further in the text of the message, we need to indicate her address (see), as well as the reason for the blocking. It is advisable if you attach photographs that clearly show the materials that you consider prohibited. When you have completely filled out the form, click the “Submit” button.
Now you need to wait until the administration considers the complaint and makes a decision to block the community.
Bottom line
If the page of a blocked group indicates the time frame for its unblocking, then nothing needs to be done. The community will be unbanned automatically on the specified date. In all other situations, you know what to do if you blocked a group on VKontakte.
Read about how to unban a channel in Telegram in the corresponding article.
Read further:
Blocking a page: why, for how long and why it is done
VK rules: why groups and pages are blocked
Blocked page: unpleasant, but not fatal
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Sending a collective complaint to a group
Please note that the more complaints are sent, the greater the likelihood that the group will be blocked.
How can this be done? VKontakte has a large number of groups where users work together to help each other. This could be, or sending collective complaints.
All you need to do is find such a group and post a message asking for help in blocking a malicious public page.
To do this, go to VKontakte and write “Complain” in the search bar. And filter by community. In the final list we look for a suitable group.
We see that the community “Complain about a group in contact and pages” suits us. We go into it and leave our request on the wall about the need to block the group. Don't forget to add her address.
Now you need to wait until active users see your request and also send a complaint to block the specified VK group.
This will greatly increase the chances that the administration will close the community.
Try the start page
If you are the owner of a VKontakte group and are actively involved in maintaining and promoting it, the “Login” start page will be useful to you - through it you can enter VK and other sites with one click, and also always see what’s new in VK - who installed like, leave a comment, write a private message. It is very comfortable. “Login” has enjoyed deserved popularity among active VK users for many years. Try it now:
Of course, not every user thinks about how to block a group on VK. But such situations do happen. There are several ways to accomplish your plans. Let's look at them in more detail
How to block a community after becoming a leader
All the options described above are ways to delete someone else's group while on the sidelines. Depending on the circumstances, they may work or fail. If a more powerful and radical approach is needed, then we need to take over the community first. There is only one way to do this - hack the administrator and personally fill the group with prohibited materials, provoking a blocking.
Leaders are ordinary people. They may have pages with specified contacts and phone numbers, a lot of personal information that provides the key to hacking. There are also many ways to infect his computer/smartphone based on Android, iPhone with malware. To do this, just start a correspondence and leave a disguised link in time. Hacking is a separate topic, but we’ll move on.
Let's say the manager's account is hacked. Now we fill the community with materials that violate the rules, and immediately complain about them.
In addition, it is recommended to transfer the rights of the manager to yourself or, better yet, your fake page. The main thing is not to overdo it and not to violate the current legislation of the Russian Federation, otherwise you yourself may be held responsible in the end.
Something that violates the rules of social media. VK network is best suited.
If you have ever wanted to block any group on the VKontakte social network, then this article is for you.
“The community was blocked for organizing attacks on VKontakte pages or communities.”
Quite a rare type of blocking, because most group administrators today are well aware of the ban for “raids.” As soon as you include in a post a link to another community or personal page with a call to “harm”, the group will be blocked at the very first request from the administration of the “affected” public. In some cases, technical support blocks communities and calls for raids on other sites and forums that are not related to vk.com.
However, if a call for a raid is posted under comments to a post on behalf of subscribers who are not admins, the community will not be blocked. Also, technical support will not block a closed group, which can even be used as a center for coordinating raids. Read more about this in the article What is the difference between a public and a group.
