Knights of the Facebook
The pious and righteous Knights of Facebook have decided to block me from posting Notes to my account because I’ve “exceeded the limit for creating notes!” Oh horrors!
(stupid Facebook)
In all likelihood, I’ve been blocked from importing notes via an RSS feed from my web site because of the updates I made on my site today. During those updates, I modified between 10 and 15 entries, which must have sent alarm ringing in the halls of Facebook.
That Fenderson fellow is posting WAY too many notes! Shut him down! Shut him down!
That or Facebook is just stupid and their RSS reader software sucks.
I’m leaning towards the latter, given my previous experiences with them.
It seems I’m not the only one to fall to the overzealous sword wielded by the Knights of the Facebook:
In trying to understand why I was blocked, I stumbled across some not-so-helpful Help docs:
Why have I been blocked from using certain features?
Facebook has determined that you were using a feature at a rate that is likely to be abusive. Before you were blocked, you were given a warning to slow down your use of this feature. For example, if you were blocked from sending friend requests, then we determined that you were adding new friends too quickly. Please be aware that further abuse of such features can result in your account being permanently disabled and removed from the site entirely.
Dear Facebook,
(1) Abusive? Seriously? Updating 10 entries is abusive? Have you considered upgrading your servers if you can’t handle the traffic?
(2) I didn’t get a warning, so don’t come off all high and mighty. You just blocked me. No warning.
Have you run into this or similar ridiculous behaviour from Facebook?
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