facebook submit link has a default silly description

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When submitting a post via the facebook submit link, the description comes
out as:

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This description clearly adds no value.  

My guess is that it's facebook that picks up the body text itself and just
gets confused if there's very little text in the post body.

Don't know what can bedone about this but thought it's better to document
it here in case we can do something about it.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [e-mail] on 17 Aug 2008 at 12:25

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Umm maybe that's the excerpt.. or bodytext parameter?

The thing is that I guess they were required, and if the post contains nothing 
but a video or a picture, then 
there's nothing to share except the silly footer.

Original comment by [e-mail] on 17 Aug 2008 at 2:27

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Oops sorry, mixed that with Digg. Yeah, it's Facebook's own doing. Their code 
doesn't really do much, just 
takes the current URL and window title and posts them somewhere.

Just noticed there is some info on using <meta> tags in the HTML: 
http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php

Janne, could you try those out as I intend to remain anti-Facebook until I die 
:) Not sure how much we want to 
bloat our code for Facebook, but some of those might also help Google and other 
robot overlords understand 
saasta better?

Original comment by [e-mail] on 18 Aug 2008 at 5:12

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This whole thing would be a non-issue if our users would edit the description 
to fit
the posting.  Which they won't.

Don't really know what we should put into the description meta field.  Surely we
don't want to post the body text under meta tags.

I'm sort of in the WontFix mood.  Why don't we just go ahead and WontFix this 
and
re-open in case someone other than me complains about this?  I think this 
strategy
goes well with your forever-the-facebook-opponent, doesn't it? :)

Original comment by [e-mail] on 18 Aug 2008 at 5:29

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Agreed! :)

Original comment by [e-mail] on 18 Aug 2008 at 10:13

• Changed state: WontFix