I'd like to be able to use site comment features on sites that use the Facebook Comments Social Plugin. When I'm logged in to Facebook, I see my profile picture next to the comment box and I can see other comments if any have been made.
When I make a comment, it shows up right away, but doesn't seem to register publicly. If I log out of Facebook, my comment disappears.
More information is coming to light, as well (added March 26, 2013). There are several people affected by this bug who have attempted to get help on Facebook with the issue, so far withouth success.
After I added a fake app to my Facebook developer profile, I was able to post a bug to Facebook, however it has been since closed without being resolved.
Since Facebook comments are now being used as the exclusive online interaction method by several news media outlets, this problem means that some Facebook users are disempowered from being part of the community discussion of news of the day. Does Facebook wish for that to be?
Over time and in conversations with many people, I've learned more about this issue. From the perspective of websites which host the comments plugin, I've learned that comments from certain users, not on the site banned list, are automatically queued by Facebook for moderation.
Also, I recently ran across an answer here on Stack Overflow that indicates that "Fresh" Facebook accounts are designed to be held for moderation in the Comments Plugin, presumably to prevent someone who has just created a Facebook account from using the new account to post spam comments on other websites. I wouldn't consider my account "Fresh" but it is still less than a year old. In the Facebook response which closes the website report they state "The affected user you added to the report has no friends and we suspect the user to be fake and request moderation. This is by design." While it is understandable that Facebook wants to limit the potential for fake users to post in these comments, this metric apparently also snares legitimate users.
Q.Mark, I strongly recommend that site owners not use the Facebook Social Plugin to support commenting on their sites, unless they want to annoy visitors.
Facebook uses an Orwellian blacklist/censorship model which prevents many people from posting comments. Users get no explanation for why their comments won't post. Rather, it's made to look like a malfunction of the web site, and it is only apparent after the users waste their time composing a comment.
There's discussion of the problem here (among many other places):
https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=10200248881692914
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http://burtonsys.com/Why_cant_I_post_comments_on_sites_that_have_the_facebook_social_plugin.pdf )
A FB "Like" button is useful, but site owners should not use Facebook to support comments. Use Disqus, or LiveFyre, or anything else besides Facebook.
(I realize this doesn't solve your problem, sorry! But perhaps if enough site owners dump Facebook for comments then Facebook will stop what they're doing.)
I was able to post a comment, but it didn't show up on my profile even though share on fb was enabled.
To submit a bug, all you need to do is go to developers.facebook.com/bugs and start typing something in the search field, and you'll see an option to create a bug report from there.
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I built a Chrome Extension using the Google Slides API ~8 months ago, with users having to sign in with the OAuth consent screen as to be able to use the extension. The extension has over a thousand users, and for the past weeks I've had reports of people seeing an error that says "Sign in with Google temporarily disabled for this app".
I checked and indeed the OAuth page was still "being verified", although it still said it would only take a few days / several weeks. I'm not using any sensitive scopes either, so it all seems very odd. If the app didn't meet the criteria I would have been rejected, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
So my question is, how can I get it verified, or if anything rejected so that I can make a new submission? I looked all over the place and I haven't found a way to get it unstuck. I'm pretty sure 8 months for verification isn't normal whatsoever.
Google seems to manually validate each OAuth screen. That's a long (and costly process), but to my experience, it generally takes 24 hours if you don't use any sensitive/restrictive scopes. As it's your case apparently, I presume your submission has probably being lost somewhere.
My recommendations:
Check in the Google Cloud Console the status of your OAuth Screen. After logged in Google Cloud console, click on the hamburger icon and select "APIs & Services" > "OAuth consent screen". At the top of the page you will see the status. If it's something like "pending verification", go to step 2. Otherwise, make sure the form is completed and submit it to verification again.
Search in your emails if you have been contacted by "api-oauth-dev-verification-reply [at] google [dot] com" (the address might slightly change as they use a ticketing solution). Maybe they tried to contact you but the email went to spam?
Get in touch with the OAuth team by emailing "api-oauth-dev-verification-reply [at] google [dot] com". Make sure to add your
Google Project number in your email, so they will be able to check
what's wrong.
Disclaimer: I don't work at Google. But I'm bit familiar with that process now :)
I'm trying to get reCaptcha working on my website.
I found out I have to register my domain for this first, since I already have a google account this is quite easy, but the very last checkbox made me think:
How does google determine who the owners are?
And what kind of alerts will those be? E-Mails?
I'm a bit worried that some random person will get an E-Mail one day not knowing what to do with it since I'm not the only one working on that domain. And if they just mean my google account I'm registering this with...that doesn't make sense because they should've written "you" instead of owners then. - although your site is making this even more confusing. :D
I'm aware this is not directly a programming question.
I'm open for suggestions for a better Stack-exchange platform to ask this question at, there are too many - I couldn't find any other that seem to fit.
In the reCAPTCHA admin settings, there is a textbox where you can enter a list of email addresses for owners. This will grant them access to manage the reCAPTCHA settings and send them alerts, if enabled.
I'm setting up a website (wordpress) for a client.
For comments to posts on their site, they've indicated they want to use facebook Social comments app.
Do I create the app using my facebook ID , or do I ask them to make me an admin for their page?
Can I transfer an app some day to them?
(I did a little searching on here, i'm sure the question has been asked, perhaps I'm using the wrong terminology, as i'm not finding the answer i need)
Thank you for reading!
I think the answer depends on whether or not who will be moderating the comments and really "managing" the app. If your client would like to see/view/moderate comments, add them as a developer or a comment moderator. If you will be responsible, then obviously use your account.
I am busy researching the best solution to us to apply comments to my blog.
I know that there are a number of interesting solutions such as Facebook Comments
Basically I would like to hear opinions around what the best solution would be to accomodate the following requirements:
You should be able to comment using Facebook
If you dont have facebook you should also be able to comment as Anonymous
You should also be able to comment using your Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail IDs
Commenting should trigger email notifications
When someone replies to your comment or thread it should also give you an email notification
Interested to see what else is out there in terms of a solution other than Facebook comments
Thanks in advance.
Wez
I'd recommend disqus. It's used in lots of places and works well with my own blog(s). It allows for the user to authentic (optional) from several openID providers (google, facebook). In fact, it looks like it meets all of your requirements
I am researching whether the following is possible and if so how I could go about achieving it.
We collect reviews for businesses from their customers and we’d like to post these reviews to Google places as part of the reviews they have on their.
I was wondering how I would go about getting our website to “push” this data to the Google places website, I’ve done lots of searching on the APIs but have found nothing that says it’s possible or not.
Currently the Google Places API does not have write capability. It only has read capability. Right now only ratings are available, but I suspect reviews might come someday too.
Although you can send check-in signals and fix Places through the API. Hopefully Google will add the ability to send reviews and receive them.
If you're looking to get your content added to Google, you may want to talk to their content partnerships teams http://www.google.com/support/mapcontentpartners/
Since Google's local and maps initiatives are under the same people that would be the place to go.
I too looked into this as it would be of huge value to companies if possible.
My research led me to believe that it is not possible and could possibly violate Google's TOA with negative results for the company's Places page.
Instead, I built a workaround that makes it really easy for companies to collect feedback and get their own customers to submit the reviews: http://dallasmarketingservices.com/survey-local-unveiled-how-online-reviews-affect-your-local-business/
Maybe we will see this in the future though.