Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin
Faceblocked: The Story of a Blog and Facebook’s Spam Filters (zixg.com)
5 points by fvryan on Aug 18, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


There really isn't a whole lot of story to this blog post. Mostly, Facebook blocked me and I haven't heard from then in two weeks oh by the way please fill out this appeal request for me. If you really want help you should at least post more details, there must be some back story to this. Also, how do we know you weren't spamming in the first place?


There is a post on the website that gives back story, but basically, when I first created the site, I would post links to my new articles in my fb statuses (Only did this 2 or 3 times). Other than that, I would message my friends with the link. (Again, I never spammed.. maybe only did this to 10 friends or so..) My site simply has never had enough content to be "spam worthy".. After a month or so, I had to take my site down. It was only after I revived it that I realized that it was suddenly in fb's spam filters.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: