Application Verification vs. Better Developer Verification: Which Would Reduce App Spam More?

Just as the holidays have swung into full force, so has the amount of application spam within the Facebook platform. There have been several threads on the Developer Forums reporting such applications, and one in particular has spawned some ideas about ways to significantly reduce application spam in general.

While Facebook has both automated and manual methods for decreasing the spam of applications which abuse notifications (bucket allocation and user reports, respectively), these have not stopped some developers from simply creating new applications and cross-promoting them with their existing abusing applications to literally gain hundreds of thousands of users overnight.

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