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Re:Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropri... by jacquesm on Saturday May 05, 2012 @08:06PM (#3933675)
If you want to get rid of spam simply ban programmatic posting to walls from apps.

What users get up to is a lot less bad than what apps do.

And get rid of the 'like' un-feature. That will go a long way to restoring sanity.

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Re:Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropri... by mikescar on Saturday May 05, 2012 @10:30PM (#3933951)
Why ban API use by applications? Wouldn't that kill a large part of Facebook's valuation?

Users can turn email off for all or individual apps, and people could only add apps which use their information more responsibly.

I'm not a FB user, and in a more ideal situation the FB 'like' button would not be so heavy--you can't really remove it for sites because it's a lifeline, but for site performance it's slow.

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Re:Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropri... by jsprinkles on Saturday May 05, 2012 @11:27PM (#3934058)
So basically, get rid of Facebook, Jacques?
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Re:Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropri... by jacquesm on Sunday May 06, 2012 @10:14AM (#3935158)
Fine by me.
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