Link to Blog is considered SPAM in Facebook

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  zevenkamp · Member · Jul 16, 2014 at 9:03 am

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  I just saw a closed topic on this, but I still have the mentioned problem….
  Months ago (out of the blue) all my links in Facebook that point to my weblog:
  http://zevenkamp.wordpress.com
  are considered to be Spam?
  I myself and a couple of friends keep on getting the same message.
  In the previous topic I saw somebody here was able to fix this, don’t remember how or who, but could somebody please help me with this?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 16, 2014 at 4:47 pm

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  The only option I can think of is to try flushing your facebook cache by inserting your blog’s URL here: http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

  Apart from that this is a Facebook issue. You’ll have to follow it up with them as WordPress has no control over this. I’m sure there’s a way to appeal if Facebook marks a post of your as Spam. Good luck searching their help pages ;-)

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  zevenkamp · Member · Jul 16, 2014 at 6:11 pm

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  Yup, that’s what I thought, until I saw this article:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/my-post-marked-as-spam-by-facebook?replies=7#post-1242501
  Somehow staff member Csonnek (https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/csonnek) fixed this for a couple of people.
  Sure hope she’s also reading this…
  I wonder what she did that made this bad good, maybe she’s a close relative to MarkZ? ;)

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  timethief · Member · Jul 16, 2014 at 6:13 pm

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  That was way back on Apr 25, 2013, 10:48 AM

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 16, 2014 at 6:15 pm

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  If you read the last two staff responses on that thread:

  There was something at Facebook causing items from WordPress.com to be marked as spam, but the problem seems to have been fixed on Facebook’s end

  This is something on Facebook’s end. You can report it as a false-positive from within the error message they provide.

  Staff here didn’t fix it. Facebook did.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 16, 2014 at 6:17 pm

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  @kokkieh
  Exactly and good day to you.

  @zevenkamp
  https://www.facebook.com/help/

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 16, 2014 at 6:18 pm

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  @timethief
  Howdy :-D

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  zevenkamp · Member · Jul 16, 2014 at 6:28 pm

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  @Timethief: so if it happened then, I can’t happen again? And why do you refer to the (more then familiar) help page for this if it’s FB?
  
  @Kokkieh: sorry, you’re right, missed these 2 completely, probably because the first reactions looked very promessing, because FB is not repsonding to my (up till now) 3 support requests to make this go away..
  I guess they’re watching stock market news ;)
  Thanks so far…