Banned By Facebook. Advice?

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by zachster • 16 years ago
5 5 16 years ago

My Facebook app, Profile Banner rose to over 1.25m users in less than a month. Facebook just shut it down for violating their terms. I was helping users tag themselves in photos that were not of themselves (possibly).

For sure a contributing factor was that I also allowed people to tag their friends in banners too, but I gave people an easy way to block themselves from that. And a tiny percentage of users ever used this feature. Really, I thought FB would at least contact me requesting a change before taking this drastic action. I'm naive.

Does anyone have any advice on how I might be able to recover from this?

FYI, HN user gdeglin called that this was going to happen. I guess a similar thing happened to one of his apps.

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