Recap : Spams free Vapi

Hi,

This meet up was attended by my school friend Ranjan who is also a local guide.

We identified common thing about spamming on Google maps:

  1. Majorly people post selfies/videos which are unrelated to the place.

  2. We found a few profile which were copying description from Wikipedia and pasting in the reviews.

  3. Some people have added fake locations in their name and are promoting their political parties like this one.

  4. There are profiles which download photos from the internet and post it on maps.

Possible solution :

  1. Enabling reporting profile feature. When a profile is reported, Google maps team can check it and delete the unrelated and spam content.

  2. The process of approving the edits should be expedited.

  3. Make more more local guides aware about reporting spams.

It’s an community driven initiative which can help a millions if fed with right information and used properly. It’s really sad that people use it for ulterior motives. I hope that more and more local guides like @rajuroyal will start reporting spam.

(P.S. - The meet up was conducted at Macdonald’s instead of coffee culture as it was closed because of renovation.)

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Great @PriyankaU that you clean the Map. In Europe at some places is the same issue…

All the for you with cleaning the map!

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Hello @PriyankaU

You are doing a fantastic work, because I believe it will helps thousands of people. Because of spam, anybody can be misguided. So it’s an another great initiative by you and my other Indian local guide friends that you are indicating and flagging the wrong informations.

Shukriya Priyanka :pray:

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Yes @PriyankaU so many unknown pictures are their in all locations…

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Es muy bueno tu post @PriyankaU , es un gran aporte sobre las malas prácticas. Las sugerencias que planteas son muy interesante, en ese sentido porque no las registras en el tablero de Exchange Idea, y someterla a votación, que muchos estaremos afor de ellas y Quin te dice, quizás en una de esas, tu idea pasa a formar parte de alguna nueva opción de Google Maps.

Farid.

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You are doing well @PriyankaU

Keep reporting spam photos for helping people batter.

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Hi @PriyankaU ,

Thank you for sharing your recap with us.

It’s is really important to have people like you and you friend, people who really care about Google Maps and it’s really great that you have the passion to report the spammers.

Thank you for participating in Local Guides Connect!

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@KashifMisidia Thank you soo much.

Thank you @NareshDarji bhai

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@FaridTDF Muchas gracias. Lo habĂ­a publicado en el intercambio de ideas, pero fue movido.

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@NirmalTeja @MoniV Thank you soo much.

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You are very welcome @PriyankaU , don’t stop being the person you are, keep on great meet-ups and great posts.

How sweet! @MoniV Thank you soo much.

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Hello @PriyankaU

Thank you soo much for supporting :slight_smile: Nice post I’m happy to hear thanks

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@MoniV I want to report a spam profile, can i inbox you the profile link?

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Hi @PriyankaU ,

Thanks for reaching out.

I will send you a private message with instructions on how to report this specific user so our team can look into this person’s account and take any appropriate action, though we won’t be able to share the final decision as we respect everyone’s privacy. We ask that you do not share any information publicly about the person you think may be violating our policies as we respect everyone’s privacy.

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