“we don’t need to try to make reasons out of minutiae”

Tell that to Emma and her friends.

But I understand what you’re saying.

Cheers!

Someone I know sent me an e-mail asking me to sign up for facebook a while ago.
I emailed her back that I would not because Facebook sells your info to advertisers.

She wrote back .’ No they don’t’ .

I sent her about a dozen links of proof that they do.
She never answered that mail.

She complains to me in some e-mails about all the spam she gets. ( duh )

A week ago I got another request .. from her .. to join facebook ..sigh ..

The mass of stupid is larger the the microbe of sense.

I’m not trying to make you defend yourself.
We ALL know how hard you work on the site, and that anti-spam bot tools are a necessary evil.

My only point was that there are a lot of legitimate reasons to hate facebook, and to be fair, this
really isn’t one of them, so we don’t need to try to make reasons out of minutiae.

And you are right, I’m sure facebook doesn’t do that. This anti-spam effort is a band-aid, and it’s both
too small and too wide, if you get my meaning.

“Sometimes when I post I get a message saying ‘Your posting too quickly, Slow Down’. Some days it seems no matter how long I wait, I get that message. Sometimes the only way to get rid of it is to flush the cache.”

That’s WordPress, not me. And it has nothing to do with URLs in comment posts.

I have no idea why it sometimes hangs up like that, any more than I know why, on other comment post delays, Akismet sometimes lets spam through, and puts genuine posts in the spam box.

In my own defence, when I’m here, which is usually 8-10 hours a day (and I usually try to check in at other times) I do my best to keep an eye on comment posts so they’re not delayed for too long when Akismet puts them in a delete or moderate queue.

I doubt that Fa$ebook does that.

Cheers!

come to think of it, you have something like that here Jon, not trying to make waves or be an ass, it’s just not
‘real time’ , and it can be just as annoying.

Sometimes when I post I get a message saying ‘Your posting too quickly, Slow Down’ . Some days it seems
no matter how long I wait, I get that message. Sometimes the only way to get rid of it is to flush the cache.

It’s another way of catching bot posts, but it can be a nuisance.

I hate facebook just as much as most everyone here, but lets try to at least be more fair than Fox News.

People complain about spam, and piss and moan that something NEEDS to be done and RIGHT NOW,
then bitch when someone attempts to do something about it.

I am not a fan of facebook but in this case they’re damned if they do and damned of they don’t.

I finally received my first one last night.
I didn’t immediately have any recollection of ever meeting someone with that name, but this same “person” was also supposedly a “mutual friend” of two of my known contacts.

With any requests I can’t immediately verify, I automatically just try send a FB message to this person, asking them to “remind me” of where we’ve ever been in contact. If the person is genuine, you’ll get a real reply.

Last night, I tried that with this new unknown “friend”, and couldn’t send the message.
A FB error kept popping up, telling me I needed a recipient in order to send a message. Since the reecipient field in the message box was already filled in with the name of this “person”, I would assume the profile didn’t exist, and that sending the expected friend confirmation would have invited something unwanted from a 3rd party.

Good thought. But if that’s the case, it shouldn’t actively interfere with what users are doing by blocking them. Should it?

Cheers!