Facebook gone a bit insane with their banned word lists?

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It seems to be almost impossible to start a facebook page nowadays with their "banned phrases" list - today I had a page denied it's creation because I used the phrase "shocking pictures". Is there a ready-made list anywhere so we could get a bit of a guideline when creating pages?

edit: scratch that, facebook is a lot smarter than I thought. The phrase "shocking pictures" is only banned when used in conjunction with "Oil Spill" - looks like they're filtering by what groups are popping up everywhere at the moment.
 
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SmileAtmysins said:
Are you sure you're account isnt flagged?
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Positive :) I changed the group to show another environmental disaster that wasn't oil spills, and it accepted it just fine.

And there's definitely a banned word/phrase list - for example, try start a page with "facebook" in it's title.
 
lleti said:
And there's definitely a banned word/phrase list - for example, try start a page with "facebook" in it's title.
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I have a page with "Facebook" in the title. Then again.. it's a year old so maybe that's a new thing.
 
Hmm, its possible. They've been cracking down on pages, very annoying. But i doubt anyone here/not working for FB has this list.
 
Does it ban your page 2-3minutes after the creation or directly doesn't allow you to create one?
 
ShOwA said:
Does it ban your page 2-3minutes after the creation or directly doesn't allow you to create one?
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Directly does not allow creation. There's a tonne of different phrase algorithms, it seems. I can create a group called "SHOCKING pictures of...etc etc", but if I put "Top Ten" at the start, it won't allow it's creation.
 
That sucks... what if I had a restaurant called "top ten" that would suck for my business. =/
 
More and more words are getting blocked :|
 
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You can't get any word that is sure you are not legal representative of that business/person.

Try to make some page with Manchester United players like Wayne Rooney or **************'s Cesc Fabregas etc. any could not make it..
 
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