Now Facebook Developers can See Their Spam Scores
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Two weeks ago numerous Facebook developers logged into thier account and came across to terrible news: their applications had unexpectedly been disabled without warning. The offender was Facebook’s spam-fighting bot, which automatically tracks the amount of negative feedback an application receives from users and blocks apps that are faring especially poorly. But the bot was acting more aggressive, and developers didn’t have a way to tell how often users were blocking their app updates in the first place.
Today, Facebook is rolling out some new features to address this.
In a blog post announcing the news, Facebook engineer Mike Vernal writes that developers will now have access to a ‘News Feed’ tab as part of Facebook Insights (their analytics product). Developers will now be able to track how frequently the posts their applications generate are hidden or marked as spam by users (the more they have, the worse standing they’re in).
the biggest news, though, comes at the bottom of the post:
In the coming months, we will be moving from per-channel enforcements to a more sophisticated ranking model where the amount of distribution that content gets will be a direct function of its quality. Good content will be seen by more people, poor content will be seen by fewer people (and potentially no one). We think this is the right long-term model, as it rewards apps that focus on great social experiences while minimizing negative experiences.