Facebook says NO! to explicitly shared photo upload

chramb1
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10 years 7 months ago - 10 years 7 months ago #36855 by chramb1

Facebook says NO! to explicitly shared photo upload was created by chramb1

In submitting the action for uploading a photo in JomSocial, I specified explicitly shared. Facebook has rejected this with the following message:

Thanks for your submission. I reviewed your action type, but it didn’t meet our criteria to become available to users. Here’s a list of changes that need to be made: Posting explicitly shared content needs to be optional for users. A sharing control needs to be in-line whenever a user shares something and it can’t be in a separate settings area. The content should have a user-generated component or the user needs to be taken out of the natural flow of the app in order to decide to publish the story back to Facebook. Your current action integration shouldn’t be labeled as “explicitly shared.”

(emphasis mine - they clearly do check the site and flow and see that it's a separate area)

So... should I uncheck it and move forward, or is this something I can remedy on my end and resubmit?

Last edit: 10 years 7 months ago by chramb1.

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10 years 7 months ago #36857 by alzander

Replied by alzander on topic Facebook says NO! to explicitly shared photo upload

Uncheck it and move forward. The only time we even submit that the action is explicitly shared is if you're using our {JFBCAction} tag, which uses a button and popup which adheres to their guidelines.. They have to click the button for the popup and then another button that says "Post to Timeline". That is explicitly shared because they are very aware of the action.

For the component integration actions (like JomSocial photo upload), there isn't that notification to the users and so we don't even try to submit it as an explicit action.

So, in short, you shouldn't check that as a capability.

I hope that helps explain,
Alex

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chramb1
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10 years 7 months ago #36864 by chramb1

Replied by chramb1 on topic Facebook says NO! to explicitly shared photo upload

Gotcha. Pity that I can't get higher promotion when people upload images, but I get the concept behind it.

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alzander
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10 years 7 months ago #36879 by alzander

Replied by alzander on topic Facebook says NO! to explicitly shared photo upload

Yeah.. now that we support explicitly shared actions, we'll be looking into some way to add a popup or checkbox to some actions inside components to check if the user wants it posted. That will be very difficult though to support all the different components and, also, since the user would have to opt-in, the amount of sharing would go down.. which is really what Facebook wants. They want less, higher quality, higher awareness shares when possible.

The other option, of course, is to create an "I uploaded this" button that the user can explicitly share the action on their own. For a photo, especially, that provides the benefit that the user can add a message and tag a place and people as well.

Hope that helps,
Alex

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