Reviews and photos disappear from the company page. Once again.

Hi fellows,

Once again I see the futility of my efforts to make the Maps useful and up to date. After successful publication, reviews and photos disappear from the company page after a while.

Here is one case. I visited this store over a month ago, then wrote a review and added some photos.

The review has been published, but the photo has not. Then I deleted the photos, and added them again, they were published, one became the cover photo. After a month, I see that this store has not published any photos again, and there is not even a review and rating.

Review text:

Excellent butcher shop, large selection, lamb tender, odorless, honest five points! The store is very clean, have friendly staff. Prices are like the average for the city, but with excellent service.

The photos were taken with the permission of the owner, I warned him about the publication on the Maps ahead, so the possibility of a complaint is excluded. In addition, the object is not verified.

Please pay attention to this system error, this is just one case out of many, this behavior has been observed for many years.

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Hi @SergeySud ,

If you have unpublished reviews [photos], which you believe follow the Maps policies, please fill out this form. We will forward your request to the responsible teams to look into your account. If your contributions follow the policies, they will be reinstated. Please keep in mind that this may take some time, and we will not be able to share the results with you.

If you need moderation assistance from a moderator in the future, just make sure to tag one of the Google Moderators. Please avoid tagging people not mentioned in the above article.

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Hi @InaS

Thanks for the answer. I filled out the form you provided.

As for the mention of moderators, this is a completely non-obvious necessity. It is not clear why in a public forum you need to personally contact a particular moderator. To do this, the user needs to store somewhere in the notes a reference to a special topic, constantly monitor which of the moderators is still active, who has already left the project. How does the user know that this particular moderator is needed, and not another, how to know that this particular moderator is not on vacation or on sick leave? I’m a Google Diamond Product Expert and have been actively participating in Google product community forums for over 8 years, but this seems strange to me.

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Hi, @SergeySud

I’m sorry about your issue. Sorry for not responding to your post before.

My fault, as I suppose that, as a diamond PE, you were aware of the issue with photos and reviews, that is very well known.

Actually the action needed to have a review (and the attached photos) released depends of the part of the world where the review is written.

In most of EU you now receive a notification about every single hidden review, and you can appeal for that review with just two clicks.

The feature, started first on France more than a year ago, is slowly rolling out in more countries.

For the rest of the world, as mentioned already by @InaS , the Local Guides can use the appeal form mentioned on this post: An update on how we moderate Google Maps reviews .

As you may know there is a global issue about Fake reviews, and all the provider of online reviews (not only Google) are acting on a strong way to block them, due to the possible legal implications.

For more details about the issue you can read: Your review has not been published. Do you know why?

Hope this may Help you also to provide assistance on the help community.

Feel free to tag me there (or here) if you need additional help.

Please be patient. It took around 8 weeks to have my reviews released

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