Hi, I’m trying to understand the line of thinking the AI used here to say this photo is not according the guidelines.
Does anyone have any idea?
It’s a photo from long time ago, 5 years taking in the canteen of a hockey club. There is no text, no people. No brand logos.
*The link leads to a general guidelines page.
Interior photo of a canteen at a sports club.
alert shown that’s given in Google Maps overview.The reason provided when clicking on the alert.
I don’t know if this also applies to your pictures @Latte , but very recently, I found a reason for mine:
When adding pictures to a location, you have two was to do so: directly to the description of the place or by writing a review and adding pictures to the comment. This way it happened to to add duplicate pictures, first while sitting in the restaurant or when Google on the Smartphone is nagging me to do so and later at home having more time on my PC write the review including pictures, which I might have uploaded before.
After recognizing this as a potential reason, I found changing the review and removing the images doesn’t really solve the problem. Instead the error changes from “May not follow guidelines …” to something similar to “Could not upload. Try again later”. While trying later never helped, found several case where completely deleting the review (after copying the text to clipboard) and then creating a new review and pasting the text, did work!
Thanks for posting, @Latte
The spamfilter is being worked on and I doubt it is always possible to understand its reasoning. It sure does make a lot of mistakes.
Here are some possibilities
Maybe this photo looks like something from a private home?
If you posted the photo with a review the images can also be removed when the problem is the text and vice versa.
Please check if it belongs to a review and check if the review is public.
Cheers
Morten
Hi @WilfriedB
We should never add a photo more than once. Photos added with a review will automatically also be shown under your photo contributions and under the photos uploaded to the pin/place.
Cheers
Morten
@MortenCopenhagen understandable and makes sense. The problem is to keep track of which of my images have been uploaded. Better would be, if Google verified this immediately while uploading. Even worse, it suggests me for uploading even those, I already did.
Anyway, good to know, this is one of many possible reasons, why a review might be refused years later.
I never follow any of those faulty prompts to add photos. Instead I upload a batch of photos by following the same order as they were taken in. That way I avoid skipping and duplicating any of them.
Cheers
Morten
Regarding accidentally posting duplicate photos (which might result in rejecting a complete review), I would like to share a trick, I learned only very recently, to discover all photos you posted for a certain place (on the desktop):
After clicking the main picture of a place, you see the the main picture enlarged on the right and the first couple of thumbnails on left. Above of the list thumbnails there tabs to allow sub-setting the the list (All, latest, videos …):
What I did not notice until recently, is the fact that you can slide that bar to the left and on the very right of it, there is the option “By you” (provided, you did post an images to this place - either as part of a review or directly):
“by you” is helpful, but I’ve found that it’s not always there.
With all the resources Google has available, you’d think they’d find a better way to help us detect duplicates without punishing us.
