Facebook blocks Halloween Blog, Google cache page.

[Dancing David]

Being a good little zombie, when I read the hyterical story about time release curses on halloween candy, on which there is a thread (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=157825) here, i went facebook to try to post it on my wall.

Guess what? Facebook blocked it for being 'reported as abusive'.

So I tried to post this on Facebook,
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:tpp4ipDgs2IJ:www.cbn.com/spirituallife/onlinediscipleship/halloween/halloween_danger_daniels.aspx+The+Danger+of+Celebr ating+Halloween&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&lr=lang_en&client=firefox-a

And they refused, because someone said it was abusive. So I sent an E-mail to Rightwingwatch.org and MediaMatters.

Happy Weiners!

[gtc]

Are you sure it was reported as abusive by a Christian?

Maybe a wiccan thought the article itself was abusive.

[tesscaline]

This makes me wonder what Facebook's definition of "abusive" is...

Since I don't have a facebook account (and hopefully never will), I am not familiar with their ToU or any definitions they may have about such things.

[madurobob]

I posted this link with no probs:
http://www.charismamag.com/index.php/prophetic-insight/23723-the-danger-of-celebrating-halloween

Its the exact same story. Its still in my profile today with dozens of responses. So, maybe its just the CBN site that there is a problem with?

[David Wong]

I think it thought the URL was suspicious, since you were linking to a cache version of the article. I got an error too but it was a more general one.

[Dancing David]

That cool, I tested other caches pages to make sure. My guess is that it is not wiccans, myself and most of the ones I know find this stuff just hysterical.

Maybe it was CBN, since you can link the charisma page. They pulled it off of CBN, so maybe they don't want people to know they linked it in the first place.

ETA: I just tried again and the meassage is


Warning: This Message Contains Blocked Content
Some content in this message has been reported as abusive by Facebook users.

[madurobob]

ETA: I just tried again and the meassage is

Good grief - how do you even report something as "abusive" on FB? I've looked around briefly and found no obvious way to do that (thankfully).

[Dancing David]

Good grief - how do you even report something as "abusive" on FB? I've looked around briefly and found no obvious way to do that (thankfully).

There is a little thing that says 'report/block abusive post', I think it might not be obvious.

[GreyArea]

So I tried to post this on Facebook,
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:tpp4ipDgs2IJ:www.cbn.com/spirituallife/onlinediscipleship/halloween/halloween_danger_daniels.aspx+The+Danger+of+Celebr ating+Halloween&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&lr=lang_en&client=firefox-a
I couldn't get past the writing style at the end of paragraph 2. That is not professional journalism, it's a bad Church Lady impression.

Out of curiosity, I asked MS Word what grade level the article was written for. It gave an 8.1, and I'm not surprised.

For comparison, I found a New York Times article about school restrictions on Halloween costumes. It got a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level rating of 10.5.

Don't ask me about the grade level of the average Facebook message. ;)

[cwalner]

Don't ask me about the grade level of the average Facebook message. ;)

Can I at least assume that the number would be negative? :boggled: