"Top Mafia Forum" Issue

Hi all,

I will post this issue to all players in the world. This issue comes from one of my fave forum at FaceBook. Lots of my resources came from the admins post. Now it's my turn to do a favor..

Please read on..

"On July 21, 2009 Facebook took brash actions on a fan page and several of the admins related to that fan page. They disabled their facebook accounts and banned ALL admins from posting any additional content to that fan page. This was done without warning or notice. This fan page has almost 95,000 unknowing fans. Read more about that story here ...

Facebook Principles

http://www.facebook.com/principles.php

1. Freedom to Share and Connect

People should have the freedom to share whatever information they want, in any medium and any format, and have the right to connect online with anyone - any person, organization or service - as long as they both consent to the connection.

Top Mafia - Adds, Invites, Tips, Tricks, etc
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Top-Mafia-Adds-Invites-Tips-Tricks-etc/99274538125

The fan page started around May 13, 2009. It quickly became fan of many Mafia Wars players (a Zynga, Inc social networking game played by ~4 million fans a day, ~10 million fans a month). The fan page regularly attracted 1,000-2,000 new fans a day as a result of the pages consistent high quality info and screenshots delivered relating to the game.

While Jason Younker was the largest voice (also the fan page creator), he had promoted almost 10 other people to assist with administrating & moderating the constantly growing fan page to keep it SPAM free and new ideas for content evolving. His account along with Faye Kalius, another contributing admin, were disabled the same time that the fan page's publishing rights were revoked. As Jason recalls it, he was chatting with some of his other admins regarding a huge warning that they were seeing on their home page regarding a fan page TOS (Terms Of Service) violation. There was never any warning, notice, or anything otherwise given to any of the fan page admins, including the creator of what might have been in violation of facebook's TOS.

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About this Note

(this is the "Call to Action")
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We hope this note serves several purposes:

1) That our fan page becomes re-enabled

2) That nothing like this happens to any other facebook fan pages in the future. 95,000 facebook users deserve better

We encourage ...
● Facebook users to click on the "Share" button and let your existing friends know about this note
● Facebook Fan Page admins to create a copy of this note on your own fan page (contact Jason Younker and he can provide the note content along with attached images)
● Bloggers, content writers, anyone with an online presence outside of facebook to share this story as well

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Special Thanks
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We are going to give a special thanks to fan pages, bloggers, etc that share this info on their pages, sites, etc. While we would like to thank each and every individual that also clicks on the share button for this note, we feel that it would probably be to difficult to manage."

I don't know what happen to point no 1 of Facebook Principles. But I do hope that they keep their words. TOP MAFIA forum only created to help the fans just like what I did with this blog. Hope in the future FaceBook won't do such a thing. At least they give a warning like they used to. At least they give explaination about what happened, etc. I agree with the admins, we are the user of FaceBook. We deserve better!