Facebook should give developers access to (and votes on) user reputations

One of the big challenges of building any social service on the web is, has, and always will be spam (and, likewise, trolls). At any given point, some percentage of “users” generating content are actually marketers attempting to drive traffic to their own site or otherwise not helpfully contributing to the community.

Facebook, for its part, has invested massive amounts of people hours and technical resources into making Facebook a fairly spam-free experience. Some ungodly high percentage of Facebook’s employees are devoted to spam detection and customer service.

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