My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups

Post by AjJi » Fri, Oct 22, 2010, 4:10 AM UTC

dfabulich wrote: post #72

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #66

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I think the best scalable thing that you could do would be to generate a lot more useful automated warnings via all registered channels. And then have a process you outline somewhere on timelines and how to correct. I think the biggest hassle from the user perspective is it all feels like a black hole and black box. I understand the argument behind keeping it a black box, but it doesn't need to be as much of a blackh…

Matt wrote a blog post about this http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/notifying-webmasters-of-penalt... and published a YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTI1TSmKmps Google attempts to determine whether you deserve a warning; the goal is to notify honest folks, without notifying real "bad guy" spammers that they've been caught. Naturally, the algorithm gets it wrong sometimes... detecting wrongdoing is easier th…