Hi folks, I received an email from Facebook saying that the FB app I’m using for social login is in violation of their incentive policies because Discourse rewards users with a badge for the first share, and this is against their policies on incentivizing users with rewards for actions other than the facebook-only actions they permit. Does anyone have any idea on how I should respond? Has anyone else who is using FB social login been hit with a similar notice? I know that the root of the issue is that this is a community platform that is not Facebook. They don’t have control over the data here and they want to cripple our capacity to communicate on platforms that they don’t control. It seems like my options may be to disable the first share badge, tweak it to exclude shares to Facebook, or remove FB login as a login option. Thoughts? [Screenshot_20210629-160006_Gmail]

Hi there Robert, Yeah that’s just rubbish for your community :frowning: Unfortunately you are not the only one that has had this issue there has been previous topics such as the one below. I think Justin is spot on here. Just disable the badge. [image] Facebook developer policy violation for the sharing badges? Support This is unfortunate, but more unfortunate is the fact that Facebook seems to be a moving target for policies like this. This also reads like Facebook is saying “We don’t want anyone to promote interaction on their platform — except ours.” That being said I’ll bring this to the team to see if we can do anything about it. EDIT: @anon20593648 unfortunately it seems these rules are inconsistently enforced. Our recommendation at this point is to turn off the sharing badge.

[image] rsmithlal: Has anyone else who is using FB social login been hit with a similar notice? [image] Facebook developer policy violation for the sharing badges? Support Hello, I recently received the below email from Facebook, with a screenshot of the “First Share” badge as proof that we are in violation of the policy. Has anyone heard of this before? I’ve seen dozens of other Discourse forums that use Facebook login & have badges enabled. Do I really need to choose between badges and disabling Facebook login? your app is currently in violation of Developer Policy 3.2: “Only incentivize a person to log into your App, enter a promotion on your App’s Page, c…

Thank you! I should have put more effort into the search before posting. This is very helpful!

Another option is likely to remove the Facebook sharing button, as that would remove the “incentivizing Facebook actions” part of it. To do this, remove “facebook” from the share links site setting.

Thank you. That certainly is another option, but I’d like to keep sharing to and from Facebook as features of our platform. Facebook would be a good channel to bring more people into our community hub, so making it more complicated for people to share to FB would hurt our outreach capacity.

It’s interesting that on mobile there is no such thing as a “Share to Facebook” button, as we just call the browser share API, which call the OS share function that will present all share targets installed on the user device. Maybe when this feature gets adopted more widely on desktops we remove any reference of a direct Facebook share button and this becomes a moot point.

Do you have any idea if sharing using the share API on the mobile view will still trigger the badge reward?

As far as you’re aware, is there any way to disable the share badge for specific share destinations (facebook), or should I just disable the badge entirely?

No, there is no way to disable the badge for a single destination out of the box. That said you can write, or commission on the #marketplace, a theme-component that removes the ?u=username part from the URL when the Facebook button is clicked.

That is an interesting idea, thank you. I could potentially write that theme-component at some point. I have until the end of the day to address this so facebook don’t disable my app, so I will have to remove the badge for now and then maybe add it back later once I publish a theme-component to help others.

Received a reprimand from Facebook because of the first share badge when using FB login. How to proceed?

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Falco (Falco) June 30, 2021, 3:40pm 9

Yes it will. The badge uses a simple query parameter in the url.

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Received a reprimand from Facebook because of the first share badge when using FB login. How to proceed?

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