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Poker Forum => Online Poker => Topic started by: Matt D on September 07, 2015, 18:24:43 PM

Title: Facebook advertising of online events.
Post by: Matt D on September 07, 2015, 18:24:43 PM
Hi all,

As you may have noticed recently, we"ve not advertised any of our online events on Facebook. This is due to Facebook closing our APAT "page" - without any warning. On appeal, they said the reason why was that we"d been reported for advertising online games - something that is against their t&c"s. We weren"t aware of this rule, but that held no weight in our appeal ("ignorance is no excuse" etc.)

We still have our Facebook "group" as we had been using the "page" to advertise online games, and had never advertised them on the "group".  However, we"re obviously not allowed to advertise games on the group page, or risk losing that too.

With Facebook as our main way of engaging our members to alert them of online offerings, this is obviously of great concern, and was partly responsible for the low turnout for the Welsh Online Event.

Members are still allowed, and encouraged, to "share" APAT posts on their own Facebook profiles. In fact, this would be a great help.
Title: Re: Facebook advertising of online events.
Post by: Scousebill on September 08, 2015, 08:55:12 AM
What other Poker Facebook pages have they closed...?

I"m sure the Partypoker & DTD Forums are advertising online games...?
Title: Re: Facebook advertising of online events.
Post by: Matt D on September 08, 2015, 11:22:27 AM

What other Poker Facebook pages have they closed...?

I"m sure the Partypoker & DTD Forums are advertising online games...?


I agree it seems strange and not very consistent / borderline incompetent. However, we were directly reported by someone so Facebook had to investigate. It may be that other pages haven"t been reported so are able to get away with it?
Title: Re: Facebook advertising of online events.
Post by: Chipaccrual on September 14, 2015, 17:54:45 PM
I think you"ll be okay with groups. This may well explain why DTD moved all their Facebook content into private groups earlier in the year.