some one please help... my friends account suspended

Iam a local guide from bengaluru. why iam posting this … in a photowalk i meet a guy named deva … yesterday he called me… and send some screenshots… before he have 4.8 lack point in maps… now it is decreased to 1.05 lack… and he cant login his local guide account… page says, your local guide account suspended…he is fully panic… and sad situation… because he is a hardcore maps contributor… always in our conversations… he talking about maps… hardcore fan…

some people says this is a bug… or a glitch … SOMEONE … MODERATORS kindly check this…

screenshots added below

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Hi @rajevvalakom

As your friend has been suspended, here below you will find a link to know how to contact the Local Guides Team for a verification of the account:

Please remember that, who is banned, through the account, is the person that is managing it, as the account is not acting indipendently of him.

  • Bookmark this link, and follow the instruction in there to know how to contact the Local Guides Team: Why was I removed from the Local Guides program?

  • For your privacy, please edit your post, removing the contact informations in there. The team will not use this post to contact you.

  • It is your friend, that have been banned, or is you? I am asking because this account seem to be created only for writing this post. If so, close this account now. Having two account is against the Program Rules, so your other account will not be verified while this account still open. Many people say “I will close the second account when the first one will be restored”. The only result that they will have, in this way, is to have also the second account banned.

Thank you for reading

Ermes

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Thanks for the words…

It’s not his account… This is my account.

But I know the whole story…

Already he is contacted local guide connect in Twitter …but no Reply

Why these people contributed a lot for Google maps…

Why moderator’s treated contributors like these …

Uploading Bursts shots in Google maps is illegal???

Google maps team replied… In this issue…

They saying photo duplicating

Is the reason for suspending…

But I have a question…

Can’t upload a photo two times in maps…

But how he duplicated it…

It’s all Bursts shots … Each and every BURTS shots have different file names and different size too…

So user used a lot of data for uploading it …

Is this is a reason for a acaccou removal??

That is correct @rajevvalakom burst shots (duplicates, or near duplicates) are unwanted and will if repeated lead to account suspension. There is no need for bursts of similar images, Local Guides should only add useful information and images to Maps that everyone else will find useful. Please also note that that if you and “the friend” are the same person then this account will soon get suspended too - it would be better for your case to exit the program from this account and await adjudication from the Googlers.

Regards Paul

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