Hello is anybody experiencing the same as me, i always have been posting real and honest reviews some positive some negative always with feedback and since today i received an email that i cannot post any content on MAPS anymore, i believe this is after a 1 start post on google HQ since there impeaching the freedom of honest reviews to much!
They don’t give any feedback on why or what just the general nonsense!
@JoeNL siehe unter Anleitungen wie viele es betrifft
Hi @JoeNL : I’ll tag some specialists over here who posted many times about this issue. I’ll tag @Mortencopenhagen, @Janvanhaver and @Annaelisa @Ermest. But before they can help, make sure your maps profile is public, so that they can possibly see what’s going on. It sometimes a matter of the pictures you post with your reviews, sometimes it’s about the words you used, … Ai filters possibly are activated and after they think you violated the rules too many, you see this result. I don’t say that you violated the rules, but possibly something triggered the ai-filters. Now you must find out what triggered it and try to solve this issue.
Update1: I checked one of your reviews: Delphi Leiden or something like that. I saw a typo in your review: “in mij ogen” instead of “in mijn ogen”, but I think this wouldn’t be an issue. I can’t see if this review has a picture in it, but this one is public and visible to me. So, I suppose the reviews are currently hidden (the ones that seem to be blocked) and you can possibly edit them. But I hope Morten, Jan or Ermes can give you more tips.
Update2: I also checked your review of “Keukenhof” and again you made the same typo:
“Voor mij gevoel overrated.(…)” instead of “Voor mijn gevoel overrated. (…)” Again, I think this isn’t causing issues, but I personally would correct this. And as @@ @DeniGu @Annaelisa mentioned in one of her reactions: I as a possible visitor of this place don’t learn a lot from your review. If I have nothing to say about a place, I wouldn’t review. I only write a review if I think I can give some interesting info or trigger others to visit a place.
Hallo @KattyGeltmeyer danke für die Antwort aber es gilt für @JoeNL er benötigt den Überblick.
Ich selber bin bestens informiert, danke
@KattyGeltmeyer Hello, do you know if i remove there “fake” reviews or what ever google want to call this they will remove this “blocked account” status?
@Annaelisa where can i see how many are effected?
Unter @WilfriedB Beiträgen und noch einem anderen. Ich habe immer Krach mit den Kürzeln aber bei Wilfried sind über 800 Beiträge
@JoeNL to see how many of your reviews or media are public, create a permalink to your own profile and paste it into an anonymous browser session without logging into Google. @MortenCopenhagen did publish some more detailed instructions for that, but I don’t have a link handy.
You did post 68 reviews, thereof only 64 are public. Compare the numbers in the screenshot on the left without being logged into your own profile, to those, you see after clicking your profile (here it doesn’t matter if logged in or not, as long as your profile is public).
Displaying both sessions - logged in and not logged in - side by side, you can find out which reviews are hidden by scrolling down both simultaneously.
@JoeNL : Misschien hebt u hier wat aan. Morten is sowieso een localguide die echt interessante artikelen over dit onderwerp schreef:
https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/General-Discussion/Hidden-Reviews-Read-this/m-p/3551550
Maar ook Ermes en Jan hebben me al veel geleerd. De vragen die u mij stelt, kan ik niet beantwoorden, tenzij via het delen van bovenstaande link.
@KattyGeltmeyer and @JoeNL reg. “… I saw a typo in your review: …”:
Actually I did have such a case very recently. After I saw, one of my reviews was hidden, I opened just for further examination. At that point, I noticed the browser did mark a typo. So I only changed this single word and the review was accepted immediately. I briefly discussed it it with @MortenCopenhagen , who first thought Google Maps does not perform any spell checking. However, the rules mention “gibberish” as not allowed. So a wrongly spelled word, might be considered “gibberish” …?
@JoeNL @WilfriedB: JoeNl for sure can check this, but in this case, it was not gibberish language: he wrote something like “me eyes” instead of “my eyes”. It’s for sure possible that Maps stumbles on it and hides the review for that, but I can’t say this for sure. I just wanted to help Joe for finding this typo.
@WilfriedB @JoeNL @KattyGeltmeyer
Ich glaube in diesem Fall liegt das Problem anders. Ich bin zwar mal wieder in Zeitnot aber ich habe auch kurz auf Joe Profil bei Maps geschaut. Außer der Statistik ist ja wirklich Nichts zu sehen, keine Rezensionen und Fotos. In diesem Fall wird wohl höhere Hilfe benötigt, von wem auch immer
@Annaelisa doch, ich habe die Rezensionen gesehen. Möglicherweise hat er zwischenzeitlich das Profil auf öffentlich gesetzt, nachdem er weiter oben darauf hingewiesen wurde.
@WilfriedB @ii think that I have something different. They have blocked me from posting any new reviews.
see attached picture and translation here:
Media posting is limited
What happened
It appears that this account has been used in a way that violates our content policy. You may have been notified that one or more photos or videos did not comply with the policy.
Therefore, you cannot post media about places publicly with this account. Your previous media is no longer online.
Viewing content policies
What you can do
If you think we made a mistake, you can file an objection.
View objection policy
I objected and they rejected within 1 hour.
@JoeNL @WilfriedB @KattyGeltmeyer
Ja jetzt habe ich Rezensionen gesehen, aber es verhält sich alles sehr seltsam und Fotos sind auch nicht zu sehen.
Auf jeden Fall wird dieser Link für einen Einspruch benötigt.
Ich denke da kann @MortenCopenhagen helfen
Do you have any experience on how to have google unblock you from not posting more reviews?
Many thanks!
@JoeNL : Kijk aub ook even naar:https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/General-Discussion/How-to-find-your-hidden-reviews/td-p/3144700
Bezwaar maken heeft pas zin, als u echt zelf kritisch door uw foto’s en media gegaan bent en eventuele fouten oploste. U moet echt kritisch zijn, 2x dezelfde foto vanuit een andere hoek b.v. kan al een probleem zijn.
Foto’s en media mogen niet van het internet gehaald zijn, moeten de locatie tonen, geen selfie’s zijn, etc. Ermes, Morten en Jan zouden u dergelijk advies ook geven. U bent mogelijk geblokkeerd, omdat u het in de ogen van Google te bont gemaakt hebt. U zult hun vertrouwen moeten winnen, voordat u kans maakt om terug media te posten. Lees dus goed de richtlijnen, verwijder media die volgens die richtlijnen niet voldoet, en maak daarna pas bezwaar. Wat Ermes en Morten ook vaak adviseren, is om alle media en foto’s weg te halen en dan bezwaar te maken, en wacht dan totdat dit afgehandeld is. Pas nadat u terug in orde bent, kunt u daarna de foto’s etc. eén voor eén toevoegen en in de gaten houden welke foto of video etc. het spamfilter triggert. Maar dan nog moet u de richtlijnen van Google respecteren.
Media louter om de punten toevoegen, wordt niet beloond. Ik zou als belangrijkste advies meegeven dat niet u belangrijk bent, maar wel de locaties waarover u een recentie schrijft.
Besser kann man es nicht beschreiben
Stimmt @Annaelisa ! Wie ganz oben beschrieben, würde ich mich zunächst um jeden einzelnen nicht-öffentlichen Beitrag kümmern. Entweder so lange editieren bis er angenommen wird oder den Text zwischenspeichern und den Beitrag löschen. Einfach sagen “Ich mache alles richtig, schaltet mich wieder frei” funktioniert nicht.
Hi @JoeNL ,
You can request to have your Local Guides account reviewed via the official Local Guides Appeal form. Please describe your issue in detail in the respective field and allow some time for the responsible team to respond to you privately.
Learn more about how appeals work in this Help Center article.
Please note that I will change the topic of your post to How-tos as that’s the best place to ask questions about Maps and Local Guides on Connect. I will also mark my comment as the solution to make it more visible and help others who might be experiencing the same as you know what to do. Thank you.
