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How to prevent people posting links under my ads? (6)

12-05-2020 01:58 AM #1 revale (Member)
How to prevent people posting links under my ads?

Hi,

for some reason I never found out how to do it. I know that I can use page moderation to prevent negative comments and I'm making heavy use of it. But people who don't write anything to their links can still post under my ads. How to prevent even that?

Thanks

12-05-2020 02:08 AM #2 jeremie (Moderator)

I have never tried, so not sure it will work, but maybe you could put negative keywords such as - http - .com - www - so that it blocks the links?

12-05-2020 02:12 AM #3 vortex (Senior Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by revale View Post
Hi,

for some reason I never found out how to do it. I know that I can use page moderation to prevent negative comments and I'm making heavy use of it. But people who don't write anything to their links can still post under my ads. How to prevent even that?

Thanks
Never thought about that - good question for sure!

I just did a search in google - apparently there are services that can automate that for you. For example these ones:

https://support.statusbrew.com/hc/en...deration-Rules

https://napoleoncat.com/blog/control...automatically/

(Disclaimer: I've never seen or used these services myself.)

Also - and this is just a thought: I wonder if putting "http:" and "https:" in the "stop words" list would do the job? Have you tried anything like that?



Amy
EDIT: LOL @jeremie you posted while I was researching - nice coincidence on the stop words idea!

12-05-2020 04:27 AM #4 revale (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by vortex View Post
Never thought about that - good question for sure!

I just did a search in google - apparently there are services that can automate that for you. For example these ones:

https://support.statusbrew.com/hc/en...deration-Rules

https://napoleoncat.com/blog/control...automatically/

(Disclaimer: I've never seen or used these services myself.)

Also - and this is just a thought: I wonder if putting "http:" and "https:" in the "stop words" list would do the job? Have you tried anything like that?



Amy
EDIT: LOL @jeremie you posted while I was researching - nice coincidence on the stop words idea!
Thanks for the resarch. That looks like much more than I need. I've added now http and https to the moderation list but if I remember correctly I tried that before without success. People also post telegram groups. Sure I can manually remove all that but when running many ads that's time comsuning.

12-05-2020 07:41 AM #5 stickupkid (Senior Moderator)

And do you know WHY people are placing URL's? Why not tackle that by adding a sentence in your ad, or change angle totally so they dont? Grab it by the core, that plaster method of fixing stuff whilst you don't fix the source, is so short term.

Don't forget that the page moderation part is a trigger for bans. I'ts the easiest way for FB to find out if you "scam" people or not.

12-05-2020 01:40 PM #6 jeremie (Moderator)

Here are two comments extracted from the JSON sent by FB to the browser when you scroll.

Code:
"text":"Bonjour, \n\nhttps:\/\/www.service-public.fr\/particuliers\/vosdroits\/F16904",
Code:
"text":"Article
sur le statut risqu\u00e9 de l'expatri\u00e9(e) \n\n\ud83d\udcf7 Notre psychologue Karine Miquelis
pourlepetitjournal.com \ud83d\udcf7\n\n=> Sujet sur L'EXPATRIATION\n=> Une situation \u00e0 la fois plaisante et
mena\u00e7ante\n=> N'h\u00e9sitez pas \u00e0 commenter ou poser vos questions\n\nKarine Miquelis reste disponible et ce,
tous les jours, pour traiter des sujets qui vous importent.\n\u0040S\u00e9ance de psy - Site pour Francophones du
monde\nwww.seancedepsy.com\n\nBonne lecture
:-)"
As you can see in the second post, if the person does not put http in the link, FB will not store it. It will just render the link when processing the data in the browser. That's is why I was recommending to focus on .com or www. to filter. You can add other TLD if relevant, not just .com.

Quote Originally Posted by stickupkid View Post
And do you know WHY people are placing URL's? Why not tackle that by adding a sentence in your ad, or change angle totally so they dont? Grab it by the core, that plaster method of fixing stuff whilst you don't fix the source, is so short term.
Or you put your own links below your ad. Like to an other similar offer. Put 2-3 links, get them likes to build engagement and they will be the one displayed to the user.

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