I just did a post about Jerry Falwell which you can reach here if you make it past the Scary Content Warning that Google slapped on it the minute it went up, and which was replicated on two of the 8000 social media sites on which we lil' folk must hawk our wares if we want to see any traffic at all.
As an experiment, I'm making the title of this post -- "Jerry Skids" -- a slight variation of the title of the flagged post to see it that's what triggered the warning from the Google Decepticons.
I also tagged the previous post with a lot of naughty labels, so I'll test that next.
Anyhoo, here's the note Google sent me:
Hello,
As you may know, our Community Guidelines
(https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy) describe the boundaries for what we
allow-- and don't allow-- on Blogger. Your post titled "Jerry's Kids" was
flagged to us for review. This post was put behind a warning for readers
because it contains sensitive content; the post is visible at
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2023/07/jerrys-kids.html. Your blog readers
must acknowledge the warning before being able to read the post/blog.
We apply warning messages to posts that contain sensitive content. If
you are interested in having the status reviewed, please update the content
to adhere to Blogger's Community Guidelines. Once the content is updated,
you may republish it at
https://www.blogger.com/go/appeal-post?blogId=11363027&postI d=6958696997669486806.
This will trigger a review of the post.
For more information, please review the following resources:
Terms of Service: https://www.blogger.com/go/terms
Blogger Community Guidelines: https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
Or maybe they objected to my call to...
Plan Nine results: I have, step-by-step, altered a cat pic post to be an exact replica (except for this sentence) of the original post that Google flagged as violating community standards.
So lets find out what this does in 3...2...1...
Well, nothing happened. So, as the old programmer that I am, there remains one more test to conduct. Rather than starting with an innocuous post with a cat pic and gradually building it into a replica of the original, flagged post one "Update" at a time, what happens if I do it all in one shot, as I did with the original?
Well, we're about to find out.
Final results: Again, nothing happened. Theory #1 was that, starting with an innocuous post and building it up to community-standards-violating post was a way to beat the Google flagging system. Great theory, until I created an exact copy of the original post in one shot and nothing happened. So my guess is that either some troll told Google that I was up to naughtiness and, out of an abundance of legal department generated caution, they flagged it, or there is a glitch in the A.I. which causes it to be over-cautious so that *anything* with "Kids" in the header gets flagged. And maybe that has since been tweaked, but the flagging can't be undone except by a Google flunky who has better things to do.
Anyway, it's been a journey! I'm deleting all the test posts but this one so as not to confuse my future self as to what the hell I was doing back in summer of of 2023. Also, as fate would have it, my next post will riff on the original, flagged post for entirely different reasons that this now-completed experiment.
3 comments:
The note said that your content was "flagged for us to review" so it's not the content, it's the bastid whose set youse up! Your experiments won't even be seen by the Googs if it's not flagged by someone.
I would try your experiments on the re-submitting of the content to see what it might be? I'm guessing it's slander as if you're just by saying "kids" after Jerry it suggests something pedo?
Back in the late eighties we used to refer to Deadheads as "Jerry's Kids"...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
As CJ said, it looks like someone swatted you. They were pulling the same shite with Jackie Sue over at Yellow Dog Grannie awhile back.
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