Crazy
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- Jun 13, 2009
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Just thought I'd throw this out there for anyone working with apps, even events, as I feel like the bot is sweeping their event database. The app sweeps are statistic-based indicators and events are probably a combination of statistics- & content-based indicators. The bot is apparently very aggressive, deleting even legitimate apps that appear even slightly "spammy"... can't believe I just said that word.
But here's some interesting reading:
http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=88512
http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=85383
http://fbdevwiki.com/wiki/Auto-ban_bot
Some excerpts...
But here's some interesting reading:
http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=88512
http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=85383
http://fbdevwiki.com/wiki/Auto-ban_bot
Some excerpts...
A few months ago facebook recruited a new CTO brey taylor to develop automated systems to replace costly human monitoring of apps, which is basically a computer program running periodically to remove applications.
It doesn't care whether your app complies to the policy or not,
it just measures statistical results such as number of comments or likes per post, number of removal/make as spam per post, click rate per post, etc to determine whether your application is "spammy" or not.
If your app is considered as "spammy", the system will remove your application.
There's an evil, evil bot going around deleting applications. There are even accounts in the forums of applications being banned even before they are released to the public. Apparently the bot only deletes "spammy" applications based on some secret algorithm, but it seems to remove just about every new application after it becomes semi-successful. It also occasionally forgets to notify you about deleting your application, but if you did get an email it looks like this: