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This morning I received this email from "Google+ team":
Quote:
Dear Ken Jackson,
We've determined that your posts may be in violation of our User Content and Conduct Policy.
Spamming, including sending unwanted promotional or commercial content, or engaging in unwanted or mass solicitation, is not permitted.
Continued violation of our policies can lead to the loss of your ability to use some or all features of Google+. Learn more
Sincerely,
The Google+ team
It came immediately after I tried to post a comment on an archeology video, so I assume that's what triggered it. And it failed to post with "unknown error" even after repeated attempts.
So what did I post? An innocuous comment that I think the video's author would agree with. "Promotional"? "Commercial"? "Mass solicitation"? None of that.
Has anyone else been harassed by Google+ and figured out why?
Given the general level of comments on YouTube, I'm mildly surprised that Google warns anybody about anything, let alone about an innocuous post about for Pete's sake archeology.
Most likely, the "repeated attempts" to post a comment ... although they failed ... triggered an automatic spam-detector which sent an automatic response.
Well, computer technology works most of the time . . .
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