Anyway, Facebook jumped all over this little drama and promptly responded to ZDNet, which as well as to Scoble himself.

Apparently Facebook doesn't want people thinking that it's censoring user posts. A company spokesperson told ZDNet the blocking of Scoble's comment was caused by an automatic spam filter and that Facebook engineers are investigating the situation.

When Facebook talked to Scoble the company said several things could have flagged his post. For example, the spam filter is stricter for subscriber posts from people who aren't Facebook friends. And apparently the system viewed the several links to websites Scoble tried to include in his comments spam-like behavior.

"I actually appreciate that Facebook is trying to do something about comment quality," on Google+. "I had to recently change my privacy settings to only allow friends of friends to comment on my posts because I was getting so many poor comments on my posts (when I did that the poor quality posts instantly stopped)."

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