| Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | jlaurel | 11/3/09 8:45 AM | I'm writing course notes for a sophomore (college) level survey, with tomorrow's material on Henry David Thoreau. All of a sudden, I got a a notification "The published version of this item cannot be shared until a Google review finds that the conten |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | Natepelletier | 11/4/09 3:27 PM | Funny this came up. I just came across this today at school. One of my co-workers and I started a website over the past couple of weeks and today he tried to share some of his homework assignments through Google docs. Needless to say he got the sam |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | Gill | 11/4/09 3:38 PM | I don't know, guys - we will have to hope that the Google Guides provide some insight on this. My guess is that some disaffected person somehow marked this as spam rather than an automatic algorithm. But that could only happen in a published version |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | jlaurel | 11/4/09 7:51 PM | Don't really think it's a real person, Gill. I taught the class for which the document was intended, overhead projecting a Word docx document, and adding to the document as I went along in class. I went back to Google Docs later in the day, and figur |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | marciarandre | 11/5/09 6:01 AM | Count me in with same problem. My document showed that I made several revisions that I did not make. Then, the doc was locked for inappropriate content. I requested a review, but have heard nothing back. Moved my document back to my hard driv |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | jlaurel | 11/5/09 7:50 AM | Thanks for report, marciarandre... that makes 7 of us so far in the past 48 hours zinged for inappropriate content. |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | Gill | 11/5/09 8:55 AM | <<My document showed that I made several revisions that I did not make>> And did any of those contain content that might have triggered the 'zing'? Makes you wonder what they're looking for.... [jlaurel, I haven't actually suffered this myself - just |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | marciarandre | 11/5/09 9:12 AM | I don't see anything that would have triggered a "zing". My list contains botanical names for plants - lots of scientific names, but nothing that I see that would be deemed in appropriate. |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | Gill | 11/5/09 9:52 AM | Hmmm - you don't have the dodgy "naked ladies" as one of your plants do you? I have tripped over this before on botanical sites. |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | jlaurel | 11/5/09 10:04 AM | Just for grins, about an hour or so ago, I uploaded my church's minutes (I'm church secretary; it's a long document still in rough draft) to see if that too would get zinged. Nothing. I did this to see if Google somehow had it in for me personally, o |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | jlaurel | 11/5/09 11:56 AM | Some movement to report, folks! I noticed that a Google employee stevedrennan had responded to posts several months ago about this issue. Looked at his profile; realized his profile said he was on Twitter; logged in to Twitter and "followed" him, the |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | jlaurel | 11/5/09 1:53 PM | Hi, all. Well... Some success, I guess. Resolution grade: A- (for the time it took to resolve the issue). Customer service: D- (for the convoluted way I had to go about getting help). Two hours after I sent the URL of the erroneously flagged "inappr |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | Gill | 11/5/09 3:26 PM | True, but we still don't know what triggered it to 'zing' you in the first place. |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | jlaurel | 11/5/09 4:29 PM | Exactly. Which is part of the D- grade. Kind of reminds me of the old Lily Tomlin act, as the telephone operator... "Because we're the phone company, and we don't have to tell you!" |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | conrad57 | 11/10/09 4:59 AM | I also had a shared document zinged. Copying the minutes and removing ANY word that contained a hint of s*x preference, allowed the same document contents to remain unflagged for the past week. I am not repeating those words here, simply to keep from |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | jlaurel | 11/10/09 6:38 AM | That's the strange thing. There was no reference whatsoever to adult themed stuff... no words, no allusions, no racy metaphors, no nothing. As far as I'm concerned, it's a public document; anyone is welcome to see it at tiny url dot com slash yf2hpk |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | Gill | 11/10/09 9:30 AM | I can see nothing in there that should cause blocking - unless 'naturalist' was mis-read as 'naturist'? Very odd. |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | Factorial | 11/20/09 5:59 AM | Could it be that documents which contain potentially copyrighted content are flagged? Perhaps you cited copyrighted material in your Thoreau paper which, thanks to Google Books, the big G is aware belongs to someone else. Just a thought. |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | jlaurel | 11/20/09 6:37 AM | Thanks, Factorial. I had thought about this... except I'm pretty certain that Thoreau's Civil Disobedience is free of copyright encumbrance -- having been published well before the 1920s. And while it's by no means crystal clear, there is such a thin |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | Gill | 11/20/09 9:22 AM | And in any case they should tell you *why* the page has been marked. |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | ahab | 11/20/09 9:31 AM | The 'why' most probably is a bug! Even their notification is buggy, see: "I got an weird e-mail from Google only containing --error-- in topic and title" http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=63d5d797abb1dadb&hl=en I don't thin |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | Gill | 11/20/09 9:41 AM | yup |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | HoganLong | 11/22/09 9:10 AM | I teach a class and one of the documents I made for the class was flagged by this system. My document has a list of websites (it is for an ecommerce class) My guess the program is looking for spam. |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | Gill | 11/22/09 10:44 AM | But the question is - what does it use as its criterai for 'is-spam'? |
| Re: Why was I zinged for inappropriate content? | jlaurel | 11/22/09 8:29 PM | Possible. But this is the third in a sequence of three documents (corresponding to three parts of the course). Each has had similar information... including in each of the other two documents sequences of website references. I vaguely recall turning |
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