Reinstated. :)

[ex_rising236]

As I've updated https://sites.google.com/site/rowanium/ to reflect, my profile has been reinstated. Just thought I'd post here and let everyone know as well.

Comments

O.O

[elke_tanzer]

It's good to hear that your account has been reinstated!

[dragonfly]

I know I specifically mentioned you in the feedback I gave. *g* Hope it helped.

[finch]

Welcome back.

[rainbow]

i'm heartglad to hear your account has been reinstated!

Got a strange question...

[elke_tanzer]

From what I've seen discussed (by you in comments on public G+ posts) of your appeals process, I see that Google accepted Facebook as a "reputable site". (Wow, that particular relationship between Google and Facebook is a joke waiting to happen, isn't it?)

Did you happen to have any of your websites in the links list of your profile at the time the account was suspended?

I'm wondering if one way for someone to fend off spurious suspensions might be to list a bunch of their websites in their G+ profile, pre-emptively... although... that would still depend upon whether Google might or might not consider them "reputable".

Hrm.

Re: Got a strange question...

[ex_rising236]

I didn't have it in the links, I have since will be removing it from the links again, and I don't really want them linked. Don't want anything linked, it's too much of a pain in the ass. Reputable or not, I have had the profile up for well over two years now. :P Though when the conflict came up, I quickly ducked over to Facebook, removed the mention of my given last name, and went, hey, let's be Thunder there too.

I don't really like linking any of my sites together, but that's the privacy nut in me. And although I do think that part of it was the Facebook, I also did raise some internal awareness over at Google that hey, that's my real name, and all, and got some pretty awesome emails of support from people who work there. I don't think that having to list other sites in their profile would be a good thing to have to do, either, because that's going back into the invasive privacy thing. But hey, what do I know.

[ex_rising236]

Who knows whether or not it helped, but it may well have helped to raise internal awareness over there about the matter and just how far reaching it was. :)

Re: Got a strange question...

[elke_tanzer]

I like your thinking on this.

The links list on Profiles can be set to varying levels of visibility, at least.

Thanks for the pondering-furtherness!

[cavocorax]

I'm happy to hear you're back! I really hope that google gets everything figured out and allows people to use whatever name they want.

It's sorta funny that I read this post, and then read about you in one of cnet's articles. I'm happy that people are finding out about it though - we need people to be vocal!