Administrators Nathan Posted July 24, 2012 Administrators Share Posted July 24, 2012 Just received this earlier has anyone else? Hi, Thanks for your inquiry. We've checked out the circumstances of your Page's restriction, and we found that your Page obtained a large number of likes through inauthentic means. We strongly discourage Pages from obtaining likes by questionable methods such as: -Like-exchanges (getting users to like each other’s Pages), like-sellers, etc -Misleading and incentivizing users to like your Page Obtaining likes by such means leads to low user engagement and denotes a poor user experience, which is why your Page has been restricted from getting external likes. Accordingly, we have placed a temporary 30-day restriction on your site. Please note that if your Page continues to violate this policy, harsher enforcement will apply. Thanks, The Facebook Team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 wow.... What brought this on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nathan Posted July 25, 2012 Author Administrators Share Posted July 25, 2012 Not a clue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Leigh Posted July 27, 2012 Share Posted July 27, 2012 Have you double-checked the source? I mean is it really from Facebook? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nathan Posted July 28, 2012 Author Administrators Share Posted July 28, 2012 Yes it is, they placed a 30 day restriction on the page and unpublished it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Leigh Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 So what can you do about it? Is there any room for appeal? What is there to stop you from starting a new but similar page? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nathan Posted July 29, 2012 Author Administrators Share Posted July 29, 2012 I tried to appeal, but they said it was rejected. I could start another, but trying to figure out why this one was banned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Leigh Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 Just curious. How many likes did it take to get Facebook alarmed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Nathan Posted July 29, 2012 Author Administrators Share Posted July 29, 2012 I had about 7500. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Leigh Posted July 29, 2012 Share Posted July 29, 2012 7500? That's not much. I remember Namecheap doing a campaign once to get something like 30,000 likes. And it was definitely a case of getting people to like Namecheap specifically to be able to qualify for a special discount on buying domains. That's obviously contrived likes but I didn't hear anything about Namecheap being banned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic27 Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 I think this is some kind of misunderstanding. My cousin uses special bots to sell facebook likes and he complete orders of more than 30,000 likes for different pages almost daily and none of his clients has never complained about got banned. However, there are some speed adjustments in getting likes to avoid Facebook penalty. My cousin set it too to keep the automatic likes process slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlalexander Posted August 29, 2013 Share Posted August 29, 2013 Sorry to hear that Well, I also got almost the same "treatment" from Facebook but mine was a little but harsher. For some reason, I had an unusual amount of friend request from my new facebook account that I had created solely for the purpose of promoting my new website and for that reason Facebook blocked it and informes me that they wil only allow me access to my site after I identify a group of strangers by their facebook names. You can guess what happened next lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westmixxin Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 I simply love my Facebook fan page the way they design the page is genius, you continue to collect likes and once they build up you have the power to contact a huge amount of people at one time. And because of the advertised button the more likes you get the more people you can advertise to, when you use the advertised button Facebook advertises to all of your subscribers friends which is pure genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic27 Posted September 10, 2013 Share Posted September 10, 2013 Did you use any softwear to increase your page likes or post likes?? their must be somthing happen which leads you to this penalty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 I've never received any such message and I own pages with more likes than your own, although still not a hefty amount. I have around 16,000 likes on my largest page and I've never had a message anything like that one. It's a shame though. If you did participate in any like-buying or exchanging then that's likely to be the cause of the message, but if you didn't you definitely shouldn't be penalized in this way. If that happens again in the future, you should consider ringing Facebook and lodging an appeal over the phone with them. Maybe then they will begin to take you a little more seriously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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