Failures In Facebook Vocal Groups

Well, It's Probably Every Facebook Group

By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred Published about a year ago • 2 min read

A Nightcafe Creation By The Author

Introduction

This is a short piece, and it is aimed at Facebook Group Admins and Moderators. Facebook often doesn't make life easy for us, and then it will do something that makes things even worse.

I included the image because sometimes it feels as though we are fighting the impossible.

The Problems

I recently had to leave two Facebook Vocal Groups. I didn't encounter any bad stuff, but the stories I was sharing in the groups for members to read were not being published. In these groups, I had over fifty stories in "pending".

You only get the warning when you post, and then YOU can see all your pending stories, but you don't know they are pending. The only other people who might see them are group admins.

When I asked an admin in one group, they said I just published pictures, not poetry. While I know that some people find it apparently impossible to follow a link (I once had 100 likes on Blue Sky for a poem, but that did not translate into reads), I always introduce my piece with what it is about. I decided it was pointless to stay in the group even though I was a top contributor.

The other group gave me no response, so I left that one as well. There is no point in sharing your Vocal stories if no one is going to see them.

I am an Admin in VSS and have noticed stories being marked as spam that definitely are not spam. These are the stories that are then marked as pending to the author, and therefore can't be seen by group members and won't be read in that group.

In VSS, we ask members to introduce their stories; if they don't, they are usually marked as spam (with a message to resubmit with an introduction) and declined. Facebook does give great options for marking stories as spam.

If we see a story that is not spam, we do publish it immediately, but it is annoying, as we should be able to automate the process.