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Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers

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Re: Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers

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Post by tshtf »

I use Google for everything from Google Apps to Google Voice. Given this recent behaviour of Google, I'm doing something wrong.

Over the next few weeks, I plan to do the following:

1) Transition my gmail account over to a domain I own. I'll email everyone I know, and change all my known addresses. Thankfully, Google lets me connect via IMAP to retrieve all of this.

2) Move my Google Voice number to my VOIP carrier. The directions are here: http://kevinpaffrath.com/2011/06/22/port-number-google-voice...

Life is too short to worry about when Google will delete your account for silly reasons.

Re: Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers

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Post by unshift »

tshtf wrote: post #3

I use Google for everything from Google Apps to Google Voice. Given this recent behaviour of Google, I'm doing something wrong. Over the next few weeks, I plan to do the following: 1) Transition my gmail account over to a domain I own. I'll email everyone I know, and change all my known addresses. Thankfully, Google lets me connect via IMAP to retrieve all of this. 2) Move my Google Voice number to my VOIP carrier. T…

> Life is too short to worry about when Google will delete your account for silly reasons.

which is exactly what you're doing...

Re: Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers

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Post by Aqwis »

> It is not a simple matter of using a “real name” - as much of a problematic grey area as that is. Another person cited in my Google+ article has now had their account deleted for the simple reason that they were using Gmail and Google+ with multiple account sign-in:

Does this mean I can actually get banned for using more than one GMail account? What the fuck?

Re: Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers

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Post by yanw »

Aqwis wrote: post #6

> It is not a simple matter of using a “real name” - as much of a problematic grey area as that is. Another person cited in my Google+ article has now had their account deleted for the simple reason that they were using Gmail and Google+ with multiple account sign-in: Does this mean I can actually get banned for using more than one GMail account? What the fuck?

No. It's a 2nd hand unconfirmed hypothesis, that is how panic spreads.

Re: Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers

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Post by rryan »

[deleted] wrote: post #5

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> ... by the bot ...

Just wanted to mention this post: https://plus.google.com/106912596786226524817/posts/A3mStMmX...

"we do not take automatic action based on the number of abuse reports submitted for a profile"

Also, a real-name suspension only locks you out of Google+, nothing else. A Google TOS violation, however, can cause you to be locked out of your entire Google account.

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