Google Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers

Post by code_duck » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 7:14 AM UTC

sliverstorm wrote: post #24

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…

Every time I see these posts with alarmists giving bullet-lists of things they are "going to do", it sounds a lot to me like they are trying to threaten Google. Just so you're not surprised and disappointed later, I'll let you in on a secret- they don't care . Even besides the part where they are Google, I have witnessed a long history of complaints to different companies, and the more false bravado and chest- and/or…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 7:36 AM UTC

Groxx wrote: post #92

Is there much evidence that this isn't largely a rampaging set of over-enthusiastic rule-enforcing bots, or an exploit being spread, or something non-malicious? It seems like people are leaping to conclusions, assuming Google has just now assigned some incredible amount of (stupid) employees to go around and wield the ban-hammer. Why the wait? Why so many at once? It feels more to me like an error than something inte…

Post by frossie » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 8:00 AM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #39

diolpah wrote: post #36

I believe I have woken up in an alternate universe today. Since when are random Google engineers so absurdly popular that a G+ account suspension is even noticed, let alone reacted to with a flood of tweets, emails, etc? Being a Google engineer appears to confer a seat at the popular kids' table, now.

Skud was actually Internet-famous before being a Google engineer - she was pretty well-known in the Perl and open-source communities before joining Google as part of the Metaweb acquisition: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/10173 http://search.cpan.org/~skud/ She wasn't actually at Google all that long - hell, I'm more senior than she was, but I doubt anyone would notice if my G+ account disappea…

Post by maigret » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 8:21 AM UTC

RexRollman wrote: post #31

I really like Google but they lack of human interaction when there is a problem is troubling.

Post by ulvund » Sun, Jul 24, 2011, 9:13 AM UTC

narrator wrote: post #96

The whole real name thing was the deal killer for me. The last thing I need is more crap that will be stored forever, probably sold, analyzed, run through a bunch of machine learning algorithms and used to give me a multitude of bayesian probabilities forever and ever with my real name attached. The whole thing is just creepy. Google + isn't a financial institution or a military contractor. Why do they need to identi…