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Facebook Says It's Filtering Comments For Spam, Not Censoring Them
bhagwad writes "Apparently Robert Scoble tried to post a long comment on Facebook only to have a message pop up saying 'This comment seems irrelevant or inappropriate and can't be posted. To avoid having your comments blocked, please make sure they contribute to the post in a positive way.' If true, this is huge. For one the self-moderating system of comments has always been the rule so far. And with countries like India rooting for the pre-screening of content and comments, is Facebook thinking of caving into these demands?" Facebook says there's a more innocuous explanation: namely, that the comment triggered a spam filter.
Who cares?
Totally random piece of shit.
You include a link in your comment? Maybe you get a preview, maybe you don't.
You want to change something? Maybe [x] actually means edit, maybe it don't.
You removed your comment with no preview to post the same content again with a preview? Maybe it shows up for your friends, maybe it doesn't. Who the fuck knows?
Settings? Yeah they are everywhere.
Want to link an image? Don't click it because that will give you a different image viewer than ctrl-click it to open it in a new tab.
It's amazing how that crap can be the biggest social media site around. Guess it tells how much people want to be noticed.