Re:Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it ...
by mattkruse on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:09PM
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The other reason, btw, is because I don't want to be responsible for taking "destructive" action. If a user misunderstands a feature and doesn't know why they don't see their friend in their newsfeed anymore, I don't want to be responsible for that. I will never unlike, never unfriend, never unfollow, etc. I won't even trigger positive actions automatically. This is the kind of thing Facebook really cracks down on, and because it's very fragile, a change in their API could cause the wrong behavior from a browser extension. It's not worth it.
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Re:Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it ...
by cratermoon on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:38PM
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> If a user misunderstands a feature and doesn't know why they don't see their friend in their newsfeed anymore, I don't want to be responsible for that.
Oh that's a gem. It's so rare in the field to see developers thinking in terms of "what if my code does something the user doesn't expect?" and putting into practice the principle of least surprise. So much software seems to want to blame the user for doing it wrong, it's good to see a different approach.