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Tell HN: Facebook is blocking the publiccode.eu open letter initiative as spam

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Re: Tell HN: Facebook is blocking the publiccode.eu open letter initiative as spam

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Post by pjc50 »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #5

Facebook is fighting against the "huge target on its back" effect. The bigger of an audience you are, the more interest there is in posting abusive content, whether it's spam, trolling, or something else. The result is usually that you end up digging a bigger and bigger moat around your submission and curation process, so that your service is not completely flooded with crap. I think this is what you are seeing here,…

Indeed. It's possible that there's someone maliciously flagging your link as spam, but to a great extent Facebook and Twitter etc do not think deeply beyond "does this look like spam / is this getting reported as spam a lot".

Try setting up a publiccode Facebook page and see if that gets flagged.

Re: Tell HN: Facebook is blocking the publiccode.eu open letter initiative as spam

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Post by em-bee »

JimmyAxod wrote: post #4

.eu isn’t the most legitimate looking domain. They probably just have some rules around which domains tend to be spam/scam/bs

i think it's comparable to .us

neither are commonly used, but neither are spam domains

Re: Tell HN: Facebook is blocking the publiccode.eu open letter initiative as spam

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Post by madsbuch »

tremon wrote: post #14

Why would it not be spam? If many accounts are sending that link to their contacts, doesn't that exactly mimic bot-spam?

Absolutely not.

Proposing that just because something mimics something then it equates it is so absurd.

Re: Tell HN: Facebook is blocking the publiccode.eu open letter initiative as spam

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Post by madsbuch »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #5

Facebook is fighting against the "huge target on its back" effect. The bigger of an audience you are, the more interest there is in posting abusive content, whether it's spam, trolling, or something else. The result is usually that you end up digging a bigger and bigger moat around your submission and curation process, so that your service is not completely flooded with crap. I think this is what you are seeing here,…

They should hire more people to do things they have not successfully automated!

Oh, maybe that would carve too much into the profit margin?

Luckily we do have governance that can make companies comply with doing ethical business -- even though they don't hit bulls eyes every time.

Re: Tell HN: Facebook is blocking the publiccode.eu open letter initiative as spam

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Post by dncornholio »

fermigier wrote: post #6
JimmyAxod wrote: post #4

.eu isn’t the most legitimate looking domain. They probably just have some rules around which domains tend to be spam/scam/bs

".eu isn’t the most legitimate looking domain." -> Is this based on actual and specific information ?

A few years ago I changed the domain of a customers website from .eu to .nl because it refused to show up in Google. Anecdotal evidence suggests .eu is not a good domain name for your business.

Re: Tell HN: Facebook is blocking the publiccode.eu open letter initiative as spam

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Post by IntrepidWorm »

madsbuch wrote: post #17
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #5

Facebook is fighting against the "huge target on its back" effect. The bigger of an audience you are, the more interest there is in posting abusive content, whether it's spam, trolling, or something else. The result is usually that you end up digging a bigger and bigger moat around your submission and curation process, so that your service is not completely flooded with crap. I think this is what you are seeing here,…

They should hire more people to do things they have not successfully automated! Oh, maybe that would carve too much into the profit margin? Luckily we do have governance that can make companies comply with doing ethical business -- even though they don't hit bulls eyes every time.

Legally, the government can force compliance by large technical companies. In practice, there's no current chance of that happening. Believing that Facebook, Google, Twitter et. al. are beholden to the government given the past several years is somewhat laughable. Government is slow, and tech business is fast. Our politicians cannot keep up, even when they try.

Re: Tell HN: Facebook is blocking the publiccode.eu open letter initiative as spam

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

JimmyAxod wrote: post #4

.eu isn’t the most legitimate looking domain. They probably just have some rules around which domains tend to be spam/scam/bs

Does it matter if a domain LOOKS legitimate? I mean .com doesn't look legitimate anymore either because of the amount of bad websites on there.
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