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Facebook To Demote Posts That Ask For 'Likes' Or Shares (recode.net)
Facebook is cracking down on a new type of clickbait: Posts that ask people to "Like" or share or comment to goose engagement numbers, what Facebook is calling "engagement bait." Their solution?
Demote the posts considered to be "engagement bait." Recode reports: Facebook has decided it doesn't like publishers gaming the system this way, and claims users don't like it either."People have told us that they dislike spammy posts on Facebook that goad them into interacting with likes, shares, comments, and other actions," the company wrote on its blog. So starting Monday, posts that Facebook considers to be engagement bait will be pushed down in News Feed. Beginning in a few weeks, publishers and Pages that continue to utilize this tactic will see their reach diminished for all of their posts.
I have always made it a point to never like, or share any post that asks me to.
But that didn't stop those posts from annoying me.
First law of people: People are generally stupid.
I've already had Facebook posts where I included a link marked as Spam. One of them was Ben Thompson's excellent Stratechery article on Net Neutrality, to a thread discussing Net Neutrality. Maybe I said something offensive like "This article is worth reading."
Maybe they have some other content filters active and they're not properly tuned. Or maybe they're doing 'semantic editing' and marking stuff as Spam if it meets some other threshold, including "we at FB don't like this post's content".
Hanlon's Razor -probably- apples, but I'm not 100% sure of that. Nothing Facebook or Google does surprises me any more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This has been going on in social media for years!
They're essentially the bastard butt-babies of chain letters.
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THANK GOD!!!
We didn't need a new term created to describe this.
Also, how about you all 'downvote' Facebook and social media in general? It's nothing but cancer.
Thomandy asks that people "Ridicule that disgusting like button".
Share this comment if you agree!!!
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
I'd estimate about 1/10th of the fake accounts do that right off the bat, and use such shared Likes/Follows to increase their non-bot appearance.
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How about these: "Copy and paste this. DO NOT SHARE"
Down-vote this comment if you hate puppies and children!
As a matter of fact, I do hate both: puppies are a larval form of an ugly yapping creature that might be a danger for a member of the Master Species caught away from a fence/tree -- and seeing what's happening to my brother and sister, I in no way want to get twenty years with no sleep or quiet.
But, I can't both down-mod (per your request) and up-mod ("funny") the same post.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Oh yeah, I forgot how they really go;
Mod up this if you love puppies, Mod down if you hate puppies, ignore this if you hate yourself.
93% of people will ignore this post.
[ ] See less of these kinds of posts.
[ ] Block this user
[ ] Set this user on fire
That must be why the "like" them so much. Users "hate" them. Damn. Even their solution sounds like click bait.
and I encourage everyone to like, share or comment on this post if they also agree!
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Is it only going to extend to explicit like requests?
What about "You won't believe what happened next" and "and what happened next broke the internet," etc...
They don't see the irony in demoting posts which ask for likes, while they simultaneously cover up the page with an unremovable popup asking you to join or login if you try to browse Facebook anonymously in incognito mode?
Wait, how will Jesus know how much I want those little kids to eat or have Christmas?
Facebook is obviously a godless heathen!
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
are damaging to the medium in which they are promoted. That's why they're illegal in postal mail.
Granted, damaging Facebook is like damaging the titanium spork you've stabbed yourself in the testicles with.
isn't the whole " like " thing the unwritten reason anyone even posts on Facebook ?
I'm certainly no psychologist, but it seems to me that the only reason anyone ( who isn't trolling ) would post on Facebook at all is for the positive feedback it provides via the " like " mechanism. That's kind of the reason for the " like " button to begin with. It makes folks feel good about themselves. Happy users are loyal users who will keep coming back and spilling every detail about their life for Facebook and the data vacuum it hides.
Perhaps I speak in error and the " likes " aren't the reward mechanism I think it is.
We could ask Zuckerberg, but I doubt he would be in a divulgatory mood on the matter.
Is it just me, or do some apps ask you how you like their software, and then only forward you to the App Store for an "official" vote if you select a high rating?
"My kid/pet/grandparent is missing, please share" [algorithm downvotes]
"Please share this link to find your local voting station" [algorithm downvotes]
"Evacuation order in place, please share and get out" [algorithm downvotes]
Etc..
Here's a better idea: an option to reduce content from people you downvote yourself, so you can more easily ignore those who do spam a million things a day, and not miss anything that's important and should be shared.
You're going to hell for not giving jesus the amens that he needs for our troops.
Yes, this is clearly the number one demon facing the internet, once facebook has protected us from this scourge we will all be able to rest easy again. Thank you for saving the internet facebook.
Don't care! F**K facebook.
I am going to kill myself. Please like and share.
Those type of scummy posts have been around since Facebook first launched. They never did anything about them since stupid people (women mostly) would constantly click and reply to them resulting in some "engagement" with Facebook that kept their eyeballs on ads.
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