(aka: Why I built my own sandbox – this taverna shoppe. com blog page)
Social media has a list of “forbidden words” longer than a CVS receipt. Use the wrong one and the bots throw me in time‑out like I’m a seventh‑grader with a contraband black crayon. (inside joke: Sr. Raymond hated when I used the black crayons. As a professional artist today, I use black in my work all the time. Sorry lady — you didn’t break me.
And now here we are, decades later, and instead of a nun snatching my crayon, I’ve got bots hovering over me like Sr. Raymond in 7th grade, waiting for me to slip so they can smack my post into detention. if I stayed on Facebook, I’d have to learn a whole new language just to keep the bots happy — and I already survived Sr. Raymond in 7th grade. I’m not doing that again.
I’m not kidding — I can’t even write something normal like baby stomach without the algorithm pulling the stop lever. But if I say little one’s tummy, suddenly the robot relaxes like nothing happened.
Facebook doesn’t have humans reading my posts. It has bots scanning for certain words.
If I use a phrase that sounds like:
- medical advice
- health claims
- symptoms
- body parts
- anything involving kids
- anything involving digestion
- anything involving food + health
…the bot goes: “Nope. Flag it.”
It doesn’t matter if I’m right. It doesn’t matter if it’s harmless. It doesn’t matter if I’m literally quoting a medical journal, peer review or even a cookbook.
The bot doesn’t understand context. It only understands keywords.
So yes — you end up having to say things like:
- “little one’s tummy” instead of “baby stomach”
- “tiny humans” instead of “kids”
- “food reactions” instead of “symptoms”
- “supporting wellness” instead of “helping digestion”
- I feel like a primary school writer or a TikTok medica “expert” – not like a professional medical writer/researcher which I spent the past 30 years of my life doing.
My website is where I can speak openly and teach without the filters or restrictions of social media protocol. I get to talk like a normal human here. No filters. No flags. No robot hall monitor. Just me, saying what I mean, the way I mean it.
So, now we can openly discuss information and topics without interference or a bot hanging over my shoulder. If you’re reading here, you’re getting the complete version — not the shortened or filtered one.
So welcome friends! Pull up a chair and lets talk about things that matter -Despina Manos