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    From Crash@nogood@dontbother.invalid to nz.comp on Thu Nov 13 18:25:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.comp

    I am constantly surprised by Facebook sponsored content (ie ads)
    appears in Facebook with commenting enabled. All this does is allows
    posters to put up comments that rubbish the advertiser. The
    advertiser is rarely seeking feedback.

    Why do they do this? Surely the posts should appear with commenting
    disabled.
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    Crash McBash
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  • From Your Name@YourName@YourISP.com to nz.comp on Thu Nov 13 20:13:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.comp

    On 2025-11-13 05:25:56 +0000, Crash said:

    I am constantly surprised by Facebook sponsored content (ie ads)
    appears in Facebook with commenting enabled. All this does is allows
    posters to put up comments that rubbish the advertiser. The
    advertiser is rarely seeking feedback.

    Why do they do this? Surely the posts should appear with commenting disabled.

    Any sensible company wouldn't be using silly Farcebook in the first place. :-p


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  • From greybeard@nobody@nowhere.invalid to nz.comp on Mon Nov 17 09:33:40 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.comp

    On 13/11/25 20:13, Your Name wrote:
    On 2025-11-13 05:25:56 +0000, Crash said:

    I am constantly surprised by Facebook sponsored content (ie ads)
    appears in Facebook with commenting enabled.-a All this does is allows
    posters to put up comments that rubbish the advertiser.-a The
    advertiser is rarely seeking feedback.

    Why do they do this?-a Surely the posts should appear with commenting
    disabled.

    Any sensible company wouldn't be using silly Farcebook in the first
    place.-a :-p



    Not as silly as u might think.

    The advertiser gets to see how many nutters have nothing
    better to do than read your adverts and comment on them.

    i.e. its engagement.... the ads are working.
    and the advertiser know who u are!!!
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  • From Crash@nogood@dontbother.invalid to nz.comp on Mon Nov 17 14:03:45 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.comp

    On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:33:40 +1300, greybeard <nobody@nowhere.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 13/11/25 20:13, Your Name wrote:
    On 2025-11-13 05:25:56 +0000, Crash said:

    I am constantly surprised by Facebook sponsored content (ie ads)
    appears in Facebook with commenting enabled.a All this does is allows
    posters to put up comments that rubbish the advertiser.a The
    advertiser is rarely seeking feedback.

    Why do they do this?a Surely the posts should appear with commenting
    disabled.

    Any sensible company wouldn't be using silly Farcebook in the first
    place.a :-p



    Not as silly as u might think.

    The advertiser gets to see how many nutters have nothing
    better to do than read your adverts and comment on them.

    i.e. its engagement.... the ads are working.
    and the advertiser know who u are!!!

    When those who post represent a very small number compared to those
    who read the ad, the feedback from posters is statistically
    insignificant. The damage done though from negative responses is not
    so easily calculated, and can be prevented by simply disabling
    responses.
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    Crash McBash
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  • From Gordon@Gordon@leaf.net.nz to nz.comp on Mon Nov 17 03:22:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.comp

    On 2025-11-16, greybeard <nobody@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
    On 13/11/25 20:13, Your Name wrote:
    On 2025-11-13 05:25:56 +0000, Crash said:

    I am constantly surprised by Facebook sponsored content (ie ads)
    appears in Facebook with commenting enabled.-a All this does is allows
    posters to put up comments that rubbish the advertiser.-a The
    advertiser is rarely seeking feedback.

    Why do they do this?-a Surely the posts should appear with commenting
    disabled.

    Any sensible company wouldn't be using silly Farcebook in the first
    place.-a :-p



    Not as silly as u might think.

    The advertiser gets to see how many nutters have nothing
    better to do than read your adverts and comment on them.

    i.e. its engagement.... the ads are working.
    and the advertiser know who u are!!!

    Meta is an information/data gathering company, they want people to be engaged with then so that there is even more data to collect.
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