Facebook Spam Filter Catches Some By Surprise - adamsatuaturivess

A Facebook spam warning message. Source: Facebook

Facebook has gained its massive followers in break u by making everything you tell relevant to someone. But apparently that doesn't extend to the social network's spam sink in.

If Facebook's algorithms determine a comment you make is "first gear value," they hindquarters refuse to post it. At to the lowest degree that's what happened recently when tech savant Robert Scoble tried to comment on a Facebook post by Carnegie Andrew W. Mellon educatee Max Virginia Woolf.

The fact that Facebook's spam filter blocked Scoble's comment and called it "irrelevant or inappropriate" is ironic along a number of levels.

First, thousands of populate in general find both Scoble's and Woolf's everyday musings happening applied science highly relevant. Scoble's got more than 255,000 followers happening Twitter, has nearly 240,000 subscribers on Facebook, and 1.3 million the great unwashe have put him in their circles on Google+. And Scoop Woolf, who comments endlessly on the website TechCrunch, has quite a in effect Facebook following himself.

IT's likewise unputdownable that the comment Scoble was trying to cook was in response to Woolf's views about an clause discussing the relevancy (of whol things) of Pando Day-to-day, other tech blog that a author for The Kernel aforesaid is losing traffic because of "a disappointing want of decent journalism."

Not only that, the very nature of Facebook is tangential, isn't it? If I had a dollar for all post my friends have shared about what they're feeding, how much they're exercising, and other rot, I'd represent set. WHO eve knew that Facebook had a spam filter and wouldn't you think out it would work better than IT does? Ever seen peerless of those ridiculous free iPad game show spams float mastered your stream?

Anyhow, Facebook jumped all over this little drama and promptly responded.

Plainly Facebook doesn't want people cerebration that it's censoring exploiter posts. A company spokesperson told ZDNet the block of Scoble's gloss was probably a false positive caused past an self-winding spam filter and that Facebook engineers are investigating the situation.

When Facebook talked to Scoble, the company said several things could have flagged his post. For example, the spam filter is stricter for contributor posts from people who aren't Facebook friends. And apparently the system viewed the several links to websites Scoble tried to include in his comments spam-like-minded behavior.

"I actually appreciate that Facebook is trying to do something about remark quality," Scoble wrote on Google+. "I had to latterly change my privacy settings to only allow friends of friends to scuttlebutt on my posts because I was getting so many poor comments on my posts (when I did that the poor choice posts directly stopped)."

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