Bug Facebook integration either doesn't work and/or work as expected

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misterburke

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When clicking "Like" for a quiz the activity feed shows the like as being for the generic No Mutants Allowed - Your Post Nuclear News Center! site itself, rather than the specific quiz. Other vBulletin like features do not function this way, for example if you were to "Like" a specific thread, it would show in your activity feed as having liked a specific topic/title with a direct link to that thread/article/blog:

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When completing a quiz the option to post results to Facebook doesn't appear to do anything:

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It redirects with some parameters that I expect are suppose to trigger the Facebook share but ultimately it never occurs:

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Expectation is that a new window using a URL similar to the below would appear:
https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sha...lout.com/vbquiz.php?do=quizresults&taken_id=7

Though this would also not work since the URL doesn't contain anything that references the specific results of this quiz.

One of the many ultimate goals of running quizzes is to generate traffic and even more ultimately, ad revenue. In order to do so there would need to be enhancements made to the add-on to provide a deeper social media integration.

Suggestions/fixes:
- Like feature should be more specific and pull/contain information related to the quizzes available on the site or the specific quiz that was 'liked'
- Sharing the quiz on Facebook should make a post to that individual's news feed which contains the quiz result image as well as the result of the quiz taken with the link directing to the quiz so that other users will be inclined to take the quiz as well. Right now it doesn't appear to share anything at all.
 
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I should also mention that I read the documentation located here, though there isn't any specific coverage of the Facebook integrated features or if there are additional requirements in order to utilize Facebook, such as a relation to a Facebook app that may or may not be integrated with vBulletin:

http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/docs/vbquiz/

Being able to share and like things on Facebook does not require an app however, it can be accomplished autonomously.

I cannot roll this out until it works more seamlessly with Facebook, otherwise I'll be spending traffic on quizzes that I might not get back that won't bring in new traffic (and generate revenue). If such features worked I would also be more inclined to pay for the mod (since it would ultimately pay for itself).
 
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