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inca  
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 More options Aug 5 2008, 2:58 pm
From: inca
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 11:58:58 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, Aug 5 2008 2:58 pm
Subject: Google accounts madness. Banned from all finance forums + all of google groups with no message
Prior relevant threads:
http://groups.google.com/group/Is-Something-Broken/browse_thread/thre...

http://groups.google.com/group/Is-Something-Broken/browse_thread/thre...

I suspect that my original account has been wrongfully banned starting
with the Google Finance Forums, though there is no way to be sure
since I never received an email about it. Thus I suspect some
automation may have been involved.

I want access back for that account, please. I cannot believe it is
acceptable to have false positives in an autodectecting scheme for
abuse or whatever. It just means the spammers will learn the system
and game it against regular users. Peer review moderation works
decently, but a lot better with meta moderation (e.g. slashdot).
Voting on abuse just plain doesn't work (e.g. digg). Also, there
should be no such thing as a permanent ban.

Any Google devs out there that feel like tackling this problem?

Cheers

P.S. If Google is hiring I can solve this problem easily and elegantly.


 
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 More options Aug 5 2008, 3:10 pm
From: just john
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:10:29 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Tues, Aug 5 2008 3:10 pm
Subject: Re: Google accounts madness. Banned from all finance forums + all of google groups with no message

On Aug 5, 2:58 pm, inca wrote:

> P.S. If Google is hiring I can solve this problem easily and elegantly.

Is that supposed to be some kind of THREAT?

 
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 More options Aug 6 2008, 8:32 am
From: inca
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 05:32:20 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Aug 6 2008 8:32 am
Subject: Re: Google accounts madness. Banned from all finance forums + all of google groups with no message
No, it's a legitimate offer. =)

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 More options Aug 6 2008, 10:07 am
From: inca
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 07:07:57 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Wed, Aug 6 2008 10:07 am
Subject: Re: Google accounts madness. Banned from all finance forums + all of google groups with no message
Further evidence of a broken moderation system:
http://finance.google.com/group/google.finance.22144/browse_thread/th...

Regular contributing users are flagged. The noise is winning.

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 More options Aug 8 2008, 4:43 am
From: inca
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 01:43:28 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, Aug 8 2008 4:43 am
Subject: Re: Google accounts madness. Banned from all finance forums + all of google groups with no message
Apparently this is an exercise in wasting time because the powers that
be have left no means for communication from us mere mortal users.

So, how about that open source, hmm? User-based help forums that work?
Crazy...

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 More options Aug 24 2008, 12:30 am
From: inca
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:30:02 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sun, Aug 24 2008 12:30 am
Subject: Re: Google accounts madness. Banned from all finance forums + all of google groups with no message
Some have reported success in a ban removal using this webform:

http://groups.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=groups_b...

I, however, am still banned. Even from Google Groups root page.

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