System Upgrade: Please Report Problems

[Mike Bobbitt]

Short answer: Yes.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Short answer: Yes.

I thought we ran a pretty tight ship compared to most of the internet.....

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

So did I! I've cleaned up a bunch of "violations" but in many cases the Google Policy Centre just lists a megathread... how do you even figure out what they might have found objectionable in the 462-page A Deeply Fractured US thread lol. Not 100% sure on a way forward yet, but I can say with certainty that if I can't turn the advertising revenue tap back on, the ads will all go!

 

[PuckChaser]

@Mike Bobbitt Post what you need cleaned up in the moderator area as some of us are on leave and bored. There's stuff in those megathreads pre-rule changes that likely is getting flagged by AI algorithms.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

So did I! I've cleaned up a bunch of "violations" but in many cases the Google Policy Centre just lists a megathread... how do you even figure out what they might have found objectionable in the 462-page A Deeply Fractured US thread lol. Not 100% sure on a way forward yet, but I can say with certainty that if I can't turn the advertising revenue tap back on, the ads will all go!

Why not just nuke the whole mega thread?

Is it worth keeping if it causes this kind of trouble?

 

[kratz]

Why not just nuke the whole mega thread?

Is it worth keeping if it causes this kind of trouble?

With that kind of thinking you'll quickly be promoted to DS around here.

 

[PuckChaser]

Why not just nuke the whole mega thread?

Is it worth keeping if it causes this kind of trouble?

Most of the time the adsense stuff is picked up by AI, without human judgement. For instance, it picked up obscene language in our thread about folks giving N@zi salutes which was universally against those morons. There's a manual review process but we did a bunch of our own AI-enabled clean up to remove older threads (like 20 years ago old) that could have problematic posts.

I'm confident our new rules meet Google's policy thresholds and we're just playing whackamole with old content posted pre-rule changes.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

Only answer if you feel like it, but let me get this straight:

If google thinks you are not a fine, upstanding website, to their standards, they then allow Adsense to bombard readers of the website…because?

 

[PuckChaser]

Only answer if you feel like it, but let me get this straight:

If google thinks you are not a fine, upstanding website, to their standards, they then allow Adsense to bombard readers of the website…because?

Might be more up Mike's alley. I think being dropped from Ad Sense added (no pun intended) some side effects. Ad Sense is a pretty slick platform that lets you pick size and shape of ads.

 

[da2root]

For lack of a better place to post this (I put it on Mike's board, but hoping a mod can help me)... this is da1root - I haven't been able to log into my primary account since May 22nd. When the system sends the "code" to let me login, it never actually gets sent through. Right now my primary email is [email protected] (xxxx's put in for obvious reasons) - if someone could reach out to me at that account so that I can try to change it to another email so I can get my access back Also I can't DM anyone directly so I apologize in advance for it being here....