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by mooted1 4606 days ago
I regularly give apps permission to post on my wall, because almost every app will ask me before posting. In addition, the posts usually contain relevant content: spotify posts songs I listen to, goodreads posts book updates. Your app posted an advertisement to my wall without any prompting. This is so inappropriate (and speaking from experience, far from the most effective way to use your fb access), it bewilders me your startup thought this was a good idea.
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Currently, we post on wall for #1. when user join, as you can imagine the algorithm would not have much relevant data about user and to get user started it put random but definitely a trending/popular video. #2. when user share a video on joday by clicking share button.

brining relavant content is probably the most difficult problem and its never guaranteed to be accurate... our goal is to fail fast, learn from user behavior to serve more relevant next time...