Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
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Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
#2A lot of crying from the dev in these tweets, but has he considered that Google has a valid point? A button which appears to "report user" but really "reports content" is a big no-no in 2021, where being able to report user content is very important in a legal sense. It just feels like immature whining to me.
Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
#3What's hostile is the timing and bluntness of Google's treatment of developers on their platform, as well as the difficulty of getting a decent human conversation with the party you're doing business with.
But if Google sets clear rules about how your bad people/behavior reporting button must look, I don't see Obvious fault in such policy.
Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
#4A lot of crying from the dev in these tweets, but has he considered that Google has a valid point? A button which appears to "report user" but really "reports content" is a big no-no in 2021, where being able to report user content is very important in a legal sense. It just feels like immature whining to me.
What type of system would allow you report the user without the context? Banning users with consistent bad behaviour is much better for content quality than just removing content.
Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
#5A lot of crying from the dev in these tweets, but has he considered that Google has a valid point? A button which appears to "report user" but really "reports content" is a big no-no in 2021, where being able to report user content is very important in a legal sense. It just feels like immature whining to me.
I find this to be a rather strange take. Shouldn't this have been a feedback from Google to the developers, followed up by a swift change to conform, and everyone is happy?
The main issue here is lack of communication, and automated removals with little recourse from developers?
Complaining about this process does not seem like "immature whining" to me.
Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
#6A lot of crying from the dev in these tweets, but has he considered that Google has a valid point? A button which appears to "report user" but really "reports content" is a big no-no in 2021, where being able to report user content is very important in a legal sense. It just feels like immature whining to me.
Why not give them some notice to fix it rather than just outright ban it on a Saturday? I'm surprised how many people on HN defend these hostile big corporation practices
Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
#7A lot of crying from the dev in these tweets, but has he considered that Google has a valid point? A button which appears to "report user" but really "reports content" is a big no-no in 2021, where being able to report user content is very important in a legal sense. It just feels like immature whining to me.
Why not give them some notice to fix it rather than just outright ban it on a Saturday? I'm surprised how many people on HN defend these hostile big corporation practices
Because it would never happen to them, they are smart enough to name their report button however our corporate overlords want it.
Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
#8Watch the amount of these posts rise steeply in the future. Mass moderation is a Don Quixote fight, and in addition to their own products, big platforms increasingly force these policies on everything available in their app stores.
There was a great thread on moderation just now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26458826
Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
#9What's hostile is the timing and bluntness of Google's treatment of developers on their platform, as well as the difficulty of getting a decent human conversation with the party you're doing business with. But if Google sets clear rules about how your bad people/behavior reporting button must look, I don't see Obvious fault in such policy.
When did Google ever set clear rules? It's all rubber paragraphs that are enforced at the whim of anonymous bureaucrats who will never be held responsible for whatever decisions they make.
Re: Our app was banned because the button says “Report User” and not just “Report”
#10A lot of crying from the dev in these tweets, but has he considered that Google has a valid point? A button which appears to "report user" but really "reports content" is a big no-no in 2021, where being able to report user content is very important in a legal sense. It just feels like immature whining to me.
> has he considered that Google has a valid point?
Then why did Google not flag this during one of their release reviews?
Randomly banning already approved apps over minor wording problems without giving devs any time to react is insane.