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Since Facebook's policy states that an App can't automatically fill the comment on the post, IMDb could create, next to the rating stars, a share button with (or without) a pre-filled text so we could just confirm or edit, and share our ratings in an easy manner. This wouldn't be violating any policy and would solve everyone's problem.
How about that?
If there's any problem with my idea, please thing of something else. We want to share our ratings! I want to share even as my fanpage persona.
How about that?
If there's any problem with my idea, please thing of something else. We want to share our ratings! I want to share even as my fanpage persona.
Posted 5 years ago
Pre-filled text would still be a policy violation, even if it's editable. Facebook is very clear about that.
However, I feel like this entire issue has been somewhat misinterpreted by IMDb from the start. The problem was that they were using the share-message field to hold the rating (pre-filled as share text), when that's just not the way activity-sharing is done on Facebook.
Video content ratings are already defined as an Open Graph action (video.rates), with parameters to provide the rating value, the rating scale, and the identity of the content (movie, TV show, episode, or "other"). Posts (called "stories" in Open Graph) using that action type can absolutely be automatically generated, in fact that's exactly how it's intended to be done. (Which is why Facebook requires that the user explicitly be asked whether they grant the app permission to post, and they have a review process for all apps that can publish activity via Open Graph actions.
The problem isn't that IMDb ratings can't be automatically shared to Facebook, but that IMDb was Doing It WrongTM. Now, granted, Doing It Right requires significant development work, and tighter integration with Facebook and the Open Graph API than IMDb have today. But saying "Facebook doesn't allow this" isn't quite accurate — yes, they don't allow what the IMDb was doing, but that's because what they were doing was bad, and there is a correct better way to do it.
However, I feel like this entire issue has been somewhat misinterpreted by IMDb from the start. The problem was that they were using the share-message field to hold the rating (pre-filled as share text), when that's just not the way activity-sharing is done on Facebook.
Video content ratings are already defined as an Open Graph action (video.rates), with parameters to provide the rating value, the rating scale, and the identity of the content (movie, TV show, episode, or "other"). Posts (called "stories" in Open Graph) using that action type can absolutely be automatically generated, in fact that's exactly how it's intended to be done. (Which is why Facebook requires that the user explicitly be asked whether they grant the app permission to post, and they have a review process for all apps that can publish activity via Open Graph actions.
The problem isn't that IMDb ratings can't be automatically shared to Facebook, but that IMDb was Doing It WrongTM. Now, granted, Doing It Right requires significant development work, and tighter integration with Facebook and the Open Graph API than IMDb have today. But saying "Facebook doesn't allow this" isn't quite accurate — yes, they don't allow what the IMDb was doing, but that's because what they were doing was bad, and there is a correct better way to do it.
And I guess it's a good thing IMDb didn't waste any time developing towards this, because Facebook have wholesale-deprecated large parts of their Open Graph API, and like most of the previous Open Graph actions, the documentation for
And what's Facebook's answer to those who need to post, or even have been posting, rating actions, but now can't? Years of experience with them say the smart money's on something very much like this:
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video.rates indicates that it "*Returns no data as of April 4, 2018.*And what's Facebook's answer to those who need to post, or even have been posting, rating actions, but now can't? Years of experience with them say the smart money's on something very much like this:
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