I'm implementing a Facebook comment box on my website. It works for the most part. However, the two comments I made in the comment box do not show up on any computer except the one where I'm signed in to Facebook. But an associate has posted three comments, and hers have shown up just fine, so I know the box is connecting to Facebook and working.
Here's the thing: I am a new Facebook member (joined a month ago). I only joined for the purposes of this project. I have no friends on the site. So I am wondering if this is why my comments do not show. There is online speculation about this, but nothing conclusive or solutions.
My first comment does not even show up in my FB activity monitor. It was made while my post visibility was set to "only me." I did not tick the "also post to Facebook" box for this comment.
The second comment I made does show up in my FB activity monitor and is set to Public. This comment was made after I switched my post visibility to "friends" and ticked the "also post to Facebook" box. But it still does not show up in the comment box on the website, even though Facebook obviously knows it's there, since my activity monitor shows the URL of my website page.
My associate has been a member of Facebook for years and has tons of FB friends. So I am wondering if Facebook has a filter that catches new members like me who have no friends and begin to post comments. Note, however, that I have not posted comments anywhere else online so I can't imagine why a spam filter would be triggered aside from my newbie status. All I can figure is that Facebook doesn't let a new member's comments show off-site until they reach...what? A certain magic number of friends?
Here is the test page with the comment box. It is a Fancybox gallery in which the comment box is attached to the full-size image. Click on the thumbnail, and you will see the comment box attached to the full-size image. You will likely see the three comments from my associate (the singer, FYI--please refrain from posting her name for her privacy).
http://www.lycochoir.com/new/tattoo/thumbnails-comments.html
Do any experienced Facebook developers know anything about this phenomenon that might help me? I can't develop a comment box that I can't use myself, but there's no way to know how much Facebook activity is required to enable my comments to show up. And since the comment moderation feature is not working either, I don't know if the two issues are connected.
In case any other developer is asking this same question, I may have found the answer. The USA Today site says that in order for Facebook comments to be visible on their site, the user must have a profile photo and at least four friends. Their Q&A is almost two years old, so that could have changed, but that is the only hard information I've found on this topic online.
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I disabled facebook comment mirror on setting.
But on my website show: Your comment may also appear on Kim Nguyễn's Facebook Page.
Comment Mirroring allows people to participate in a single conversation, whether comments come from your webpage or from your Facebook Page. When you share a link to your website on your Facebook Page, comments from that webpage will also appear as comments on your Facebook Page post and vice-versa. This creates a richer conversation on both your Facebook Page and on your website because the comments will appear in both places.
You can turn on comment mirroring in the moderation tool by going to the Settings tab. In order to turn on comment mirroring, you need to be a Page admin for the Facebook Page on which you want to enable mirroring.
If you want people to be able to include photos in comments with comment mirroring enabled, you must also turn on Allow visitors to the Page to publish posts for your page. To make comments mirrored correctly, your Facebook page needs to be public to everyone.
Comment mirroring takes effect on new webpages created after the setting has been enabled. Once comment mirroring is turned on for a particular webpage, there is no way to disable mirroring (you can only turn off mirroring for new webpages going forward), so if the auto close feature is enabled and it is shared to your Facebook Page, new comments can still be made from the Facebook Page post, but not from your webpage.
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Will people know that we’re mirroring comments? When a person begins to write a comment on your website, they'll see a message that lets them know that their comment will also appear on your Facebook Page. The same message appears when a person begins to write a comment on an article posted to your Facebook Page.
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How does moderation work? All comments, whether left on the Facebook Page post or on the original article on your website, will show up in the main Facebook comment moderation tool, so all comments displayed on the article page can be moderated. If you hide a comment in the moderation tool, it will automatically be hidden on the Facebook Page, too.
First of all I must apologise that this question is not actually coding related. I am having a bit of a 'tish' with my partner as she wants to be able to post to open Facebook groups without the activity appearing in her timeline and her friend's seeing it. I'm saying it cannot be done and to make a new profile and deal with it. She just gets angrier and as I am an IT guy I am supposed to have a solution for everything.
Can someone help me settle this stoush? If you can actually accomplish hiding activity on a timeline that is coming from posting into an open group that would be awesome too! Because I've searched Google and it looks quite unlikely.
Also those of you that object to my posting, please let me know of a more appropriate place and I'll gladly put it up there instead.
Cheers
Whenever you post anything anywhere (except a status), its not "posted on timeline". Rather, facebook "share that story on the wall".
Now, privacy of that post is limited to the group only. So , no one except the group members can see that post. That story (whatever it is) is shared on the wall of the group members only. So your friends cannot see that story! I'm not sure how you said- activity appearing in her timeline and her friend's seeing it – as far as I know, it's not possible.
Also, you can always see the privacy setting of a post while posting itself. For eg:
Posting on own timeline-
Posting on an open group timeline-
See the privacy setting in yellow mark. For a group, it's not editable and limited to a group only!
so, for an open group if a user search for the group and wants to see the activity, then only he can see who's posting what. And that thing can be controlled only if the group is secret. ref
I have found that if a user posts a few links via 'whats on your mind' or graph api link publish that only the first 1-2 will show on their friends news feed. After a couple within an hour, no further link publishes appear in the friends area.
Secondly, i have notice that if you have 3 friends a -> friend -> b -> friend c that if a publishes a link, b sees it (except in the case above) and if b clicks 'Share' you would think that c should see it in their news feed. they do NOT at all. Note, this is using facebooks own 'whats on your mind' widget.
Should I log these as a bug, the 2nd is particularly concerning as links dont share. If its the graph/edge rank, then it appears that posting someone elses link doesnt have much ranking ? why isnt it just like posting your own link. even that seems to fail after a couple..
Facebook groups and filters content based on a variety of factors.
If someone is posting dozens of links from your site it's logical that they would stop showing up with any visibility in other user's feeds as the links have effectively become spam. After a period of time [short for a few links, long for many] things reset but if it's persistent you can see a page banned.
There's no bug in that, it's the intended functionality to keep Facebook relevant.
As far as sharing, again, Facebook will try to group similar items together and in the case of 3 people who are all friends already, this generally results in a single "story" with two individual "comments". If there are no comments with the share I'm not sure Facebook passes the activity along if the user has already seen the story.
I am developer of www.iloveskola.lv and I have created facebook login with API.
After user logs in with his facebook account he has opportunity to participate in voting game.
One question, 4 answers.
Each answer is facebook LIKE button.
When user press like button, LIKE content on facebook has been created automatically.
First 2-3 days its was working perfect, but now when user press button iframe content just blinks and nothing.
I checked this with mozilla(bug zilla) and saw following response:
for (;;);{"__ar":1,"payload":{"success":false,"show_error":true,"error_info":{"brief":"Invalid url","full":"URL could not be liked because it's been blocked.","errorUri":"\/connect\/connect_to_node_error.php?title=Invalid+url&body=URL+could+not+be+liked+because+it\u002527s+been+blocked.&hash=AQAh-oNvuhmlqYzH"}}}
For deep investigation you can try this system by yourself.
If our site is blocked want to hear explanation why this is happening.
If you were using Like buttons as a voting mechanism in a promotion (which is expressly against Facebook policy) it's quite likely users were marking the resulting stories as spam, removing the Like shortly afterwards, hiding it from their news feed, etc.
When you try to share a link and it fails, there's a link in the error message for contacting Facebook if you believe the block is incorrect.
Your site has been blocked, most likely because they deemed to be spam or breaking their terms of service regarding your contest rules. Contact their developer group to find out how to get it unblocked.
When my Facebook app posts to the users stream those posts do not get links for Like and Comment. Other Facebook publishing apps, like Instagram, get these links.
I can't find it in my Facebook application's settings. Anyone knows how to do it?
(I think this is the same question as this one: Facebook : Like and Comment Functionality against Wall Post but I'm not sure.)
See Traroth's comment to get a more to the point description of what it is I'm asking about.
It seems Nathat Totten is right about how these links are defaults and that they are controlled by Facebook. There are three things that confuses this issue.
One is that Facebook Test Users behave a bit more special than you might think. Even when they are friends, they are not fully so. Making these default links turn up only for the user that posts them (for Test Users, mind you, I'm hoping it'll work all right for real users).
Another is the documentation for actions in the Facebook Graph API documentation for publishing Post objects:
A list of available actions on the post (including commenting, liking, and an optional app-specified action). read_stream. A list of JSON objects containing the 'name' and 'link'.
Which made me start to try find out how to include the commenting and liking links myself. I can't find this info anywhere, so maybe that changed without the above quoted documentation reflecting the change.
Anyway, if, indeed this is a Test User issue, then I don't need to do anything special to fix this. I'll try to remember to come back here when my (iPhone) app is ready for the real Facebook world and I get to see if it works in that environment or not.