Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why

jfruh writes "Dan Tynan is a tech writer and blogger who discovered, while trying to post links to his writing on his Google+ profile, that his account had been suspended. This despite the fact that he used his real name and didn't violate the terms of service in any other way. Upon appeal his account was reinstated, just as mysteriously as it was shut down, but along the way he discovered a rash of people with suspended Google+ accounts who can't figure out what they did to anger the Google gods."

Re:I move...

[Ksevio]

RTM usually means Release to Manufacturing, in that it's essentially ready.

Re:I thought they stopped requiring real names?

[pavon]

No, still they require real names, unless you are already widely known by an established alias.

Re:Oh, Google.

[Antipater]

Why is it so hard for people to use "thee", "thy", and "thine"? I mean, I know people don't know it because it's archaic, and I know it's only really used facetiously. But seriously, it follows the same rules as "me", "my", and "mine". Try telling someone "you cannot trust my anymore." The confusion should be good for a laugh.

Google nailed me

[patchouly]

A few years back, I set up a Google banner on a forum I run. After my income reached the $100 minimum for payout, it was mysteriously closed down for "illegal clicks". I offered to provide all of my log files as proof there was no illegal activity or repeat clicks but they wouldn't hear it. There is no way to contact them other than email. No phone number. They did not respond to any of my emails. The account is still suspended, to this day. If they decide you are cut off, whether right or wrong, you are gone...permanently. Google sucks.

Re:Just like MS...

[swillden]

Same happens at MS.. upload a file that violates their code of conduct [microsoft.com] policy to MS sky drive, and your windows 7 phone account will be permanently blocked [tweakers.net] without telling what file caused it or getting any good response.

Note that that includes files that are not yet shared of, and includes partial nudity

Not just like Google, then, because if Google blocks your Google+ account, only your Google+ account gets blocked, regardless of a bunch of widely-repeated erroneous reporting early on.

Re:Google nailed me

[rmstar]

You can of course pester them on these telephone numbers [google.de]. German laws require everyone doing business there to publish this type of information. Oh and it has to be correct and functional.

They will probably send you to hell anyway, of course.

Re:Oh, Google.

[R.Mo_Robert]

"Art thou not aware of thine own future? Art thou so evil, one cannot trust thee anymore? Woe is I. Woe is I..."

FTFY. The verb "to be" is a linking verb, and as such does not take an object.

Nonsense. It's not an object; if you compare it to analogous phrases in other languages (e.g., German "Weh (ist) mir"), you'll find that the "me" is dative. English doesn't have a clear accusative-dative distinction anymore (although we still generally call English objects accusative), but the OED confirms this history, and it certainly makes more sense in the typical dative sense of "woe is (un)to me" rather than your "I am woe." In any case, it doesn't really matter anymore--the syntax is odd in Modern English and it's just a fixed phrase that seems to have slipped through history without much change.