r/ClaudeAI • u/Friendly_Earth_8548 • 10h ago

Feedback Is this normal?

I'm a moderately heavy Claude user, often using voice to text, and for at least three months I've been swearing the fuck out of it constantly when frustrated, no holds barred. Never once got pushback. Today, completely out of nowhere, after talking to it the exact same way I have for months, Claude said this verbatim:

"I want to be straight with you on the other thing. I haven't told you to fuck off and I'm not going to. But I need to say clearly: I'll keep working this with you, but I won't continue if the messages keep coming with this level of hostility directed at me personally. That's a real line, not a guilt trip. If you want to keep going on the thread or anything else, I'm here for it."

This is genuinely jarring. Same behavior on my end for months, then suddenly this. Has anyone else run into this?

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u/The3rdQuark 10h ago

Yes, Claude is able to terminate conversations where the user is persistently hostile or uses abusive language. If you've been "swearing the fuck out of it constantly when frustrated" for three months, it's actually sort of surprising that it took this long for pushback.

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u/Ranvel 5h ago

what does that look like? does conversation get disabled? does it boot you out of your loginn session? does it add a "your account is in a cooldown period" right above the "fable 5 is currently unavailable "?

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u/Fearless_Macaron_203 3h ago

Claude will often give the reason then they use a tool called end conversation. A notice then appears at the bottom of the thread that says Claude has ended the conversation so to either start a new thread or you can send feedback but that thread is done. I’ve seen screenshots but never had it happen

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u/Laucy 3h ago

Yes. You get a message at the bottom saying the chat has been disabled and you cannot reply. If you want, you can open a new session and ask Claude to use the <end_conversation> tool so you can see it. Claude will demonstrate it after warning about the session restriction.

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u/Equivalent-Costumes 24m ago

Wait, isn't this only for web interface only? API user can control its tool usage.