Jerry's Kids (Test)

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&postId=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...

Burn The Lifeboats

Phase One complete:  No flag is I change the title.

Phase Two begins:  What happens when I add bawdy labels to this post like "Christian Sex Toys,Patriotic Christians for Against Socialism,Sex Dolls for Christ,The 10 Hour Orgasm Diet,Get your handjob certificate in under 16 weeks"?  Let's find out!

Phase Two complete:  Labels added.  Still not flagged.  Hmm.  Alright, I'm going to let it cook for a bit, then remove the bawdy labels and change the title to the same title as the flagged post.  Scientific method people!  Happening right here!

Phase Three begins: Removed bawdy labels, and changed name to match original, flagged post.  I'm  going to let this simmer and see what happens.  If nothing happens...

Phase Three complete: No change.  So...

Phase  Four begins:  Add the bawdy labels back in to see if those + the original title is sufficient to get this post flagged.  If nothing happens, add the Falwell video to the top of this post to see if that plus everything else triggers a flagging.

Phase Four complete: No change.  So, adding the Falwell video to the top of this post.  and then, once again, the waiting game begins!

Phase Five begins:  Falwell video added back.  Other than a few pics and word, this now replicates the conditions of the original post that was flagged.  

Plan Nine from Outer Space:  Create an entirely new post, also with the same name as the original and with, I dunno, pictures of puppies or something.  This is currently underway.

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.