Instagram account holder? Alert! Have you violated guidelines? If you did this, you will lose out

Unscrupulous elements on Instagram beware! This photo-messaging platform has decided that it will now warn users who have been up to no good, when their account is going to be deleted. Instagram is adding a new warning alert that would show users a history of the posts, comments and stories that could be or have been removed from the platform. According to Verge report, the revised policy, if users further post content that goes against the app`s guidelines, their accounts could be permanently deleted.

The alert does give users a chance to appeal against the platform`s decisions directly. In the beginning, only some types of content would be allowed to be appealed such as pictures removed for nudity or hate speech. The platform plans to expand the available content appeal types over time says report. 

Additionally, Instagram is also planning on giving its moderating team more leeway to ban influential actors who have done wrong. 

Whilst users from around the world are protesting against Instagram blocking their accounts for "no apparent reason" citing "policy violations". Apart from that the models, photographers and adult movie artists have been raising their voices after many of them lost their content and accounts overnight on Instagram without any information because of "policy violation". 

Notably, Instagram`s policy banned users who posted "a certain percentage of violating content. This move was taken right after the incident where a 21-year-old boy slashed the neck of a 19-year-old girl and openly posted pictures of her bloody body on Instagram. Because of which the platform received severe criticism.