New morning ritual:- Look at all of our events and find the Lyft spam comments. It's always Lyft. It's only Lyft.
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Go through the 7+ clicks it takes to delete each of them and block the fake account that posted it.
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Click on every account that clicked "Like" on it, and go through the 4+ clicks to report them as fake accounts. (They are usually in Wisconsin for some reason).
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Wonder, again, why about 1/3 of the time I have a "report as spam" option on the comment on the event, but the rest of the time I only have a "delete and block" option.
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Wonder, again, why FB doesn't give me the option of being emailed when someone posts a new comment to my events, so that these fuckers might get less than 24 hours worth of eyeballs on them before my next round of whack-a-mole.
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Shake an angry fist toward Menlo Park.
I like the idea of sending lyft an invoice for advertising on our events.
This was somewhat entertaining:
http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/internet/216911-inside-the-world-of-lyft-spam-on-facebook
"MURICA" doesn't seem like a single-driver-specific code.
This was somewhat entertaining:
http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/now/internet/216911-inside-the-world-of-lyft-spam-on-facebook
It's really common for a company's own marketing people to be too dumb to understand that they've recruited criminals to do a job for them. The nature of marketing is that it's basically a confidence trick at scale, and confidence tricksters are ironically lousy at spotting a con. It's not true that you can't cheat an honest man, but it is so much easier to cheat a con artist.
I have worked for a much smaller company where a marketing person had to be gently informed that the "100% ethical" third party they'd hired was just a spammer and the "personal guarantee" that everything was "totally above board" was worthless and they should pull the relevant promo codes and turn off the money.
And that's at a firm where there are actually good guys on board with some clout. I can't imagine that Lyft or Uber are the sort of places with lots of good guys. I mean, if you're a guy good in the "moving people" game you're working on mass transit or self-driving cars, or something that actually helps. Not trying to find a way to sidestep private hire and taxi regulations.
s/dumb/willfully ignorant/
I also have this hate.
And then the accounts I report all result in "we have determined that this profile does not violate our community standards", because they all have stock-photo profile pictures and not-obviously-fake names.
So you wish Facebook had some sort of "real name policy" and required ID from suspect accounts?
Given that they have a so-called "real names policy", I tried to make use it for what they claim is the only reason that it exists -- to fight spam.
To the surprise of nobody, it is completely nonfunctional at that. But it sure is good at harassing the innocent.
Sure. Why would you want to harass the guilty?
Those guys are scary.
We don't have an idea... but we have money!
Ha ha! No one actually lives in Wisconsin.