Invites Violation - No More 20 Force Invite in Facebook Apps
Posted on February 14, 2008
Filed Under Facebook
I received an email from Facebook Platform Policy Team regarding this issue. *Sigh*
See, there’s no more virality. You gotta work harder to touch the userbase to use your apps.
Not only me, there’s a few people blogged about it here, here, here and here.
Dear developer,
Your application has been temporarily restricted from using requests/invites. This is because users of your application get trapped in a UI interaction for inviting friends.
If the user clicks the Facebook-rendered buttons “Skip”, “Cancel”, or “Skip This Step”, he must not be re-presented with an invite friends UI unless he explicitly selects to invite friends from a page that offers more than that single option. If you use another UI that does not have one of these buttons rendered by Facebook, the application must offer some other navigation option to leave the invite friends process, and the user must not be re-presented with an invite friends UI unless he explicitly selects to invite friends from a page that offers more than that single option.
If you correct this aspect of your application, the moratorium will be lifted. Please respond to this email once you have made the necessary changes and please include your application id for verification purposes.
If you wish to correspond, please reply to this message.
Thank you,
Facebook Platform Developer Operations & Support
Responded to them and hopefully the ban shall be lifted.
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