Facebook Like without Confirm?

Asked 13/9, 2011 at 16:48 Answered 12/7, 2012 at 20:4

I think I have the same issue as here, but can't quite get enough out of the answers over there.

I'm using a Like button (in an iframe on a Static XFBML page) to allow users to Like a YouTube video, with the intention that since the user clicks Like it shares it to their Wall.

What happens is that they click Like, it says "You like this", but nothing is posted, and then after a random short interval the Like button is replaced by a Confirm hyperlink.

What I really want is no "Confirm" stage because a) it's clunky and b) the user has probably left the page by then. I know there's at least one app that does it... Is this behaviour possible for me to code, and if so, how?

Holocrine answered 13/9, 2011 at 16:48 Comment(1)

possible duplicate of Facebook like button is asking to confirm the action – Bombycid 13/12, 2013 at 14:51

this is a feature of the like button, so as to avoid spamming website that cheat user on the like buttons. The "confirm" feature will be turn on for suspicious site. When your site is well received and get positive feedback, the "confirm" feature will be removed automatically.

Significs answered 13/9, 2011 at 17:6 Comment(4)

This is in an established site with a few hundred fans and the videos in question have already been liked by some fans before we put up this new code. So, given that, does anyone anyone know how long it will take to go away? – Holocrine 13/9, 2011 at 17:39

I think facebook does not just count the no. of like.... it has a set of rules to determine suspicious sites. For example, if you site get 100,000 users accessing it and 100,000 of them clicked the same like button, this is very suspicious. For the exact rules, there won't be anyone that can tell you... as Facebook will never disclose that. – Significs 14/9, 2011 at 5:7

Well, I have done nothing like that! I understand why they don't tell you the exact rules - I was hoping maybe someone would say "Oh for my site it took a week, or 3 more likes" or something like that to give me hope! – Holocrine 14/9, 2011 at 9:45

has it gone away after these days? – Phenanthrene 5/7, 2015 at 6:51

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In your case it's because you implemented it using an <iframe> - I've tried it before and the <iframe> is the cause.

Tillfourd answered 12/7, 2012 at 20:4 Comment(2)

it happens on an "html5" implementation as well. – Quintilla 10/9, 2012 at 11:29

Do you have a source for that? – Keener 6/2, 2013 at 11:16

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