G+ Your profile is suspended and being reviewed

[samvara]

Links on the web (Optional):

Please provide us with a link to a reputable website where you are referred to by this name. Examples include Facebook, LinkedIn, a school or university student directory, or a news article.

...I'm confused

1. Since when is Facebook 'reputable'
2. I deleted my profile, why is not deleted?

Comments

[sara]

...yeah, I know nobody who uses a pseudonym on FaceBook. I'm sure that person named "Dada ToxicMassacre" who's "liked" one of the nonprofits totally carries a driver's license with that printed on it.

[samvara]

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I would possibly name a pet Dada ToxicMassacre. I might even enjoy it.

[sara]

When you run a One Of Those Institutions I Run, you get a lot of weirdos friending your FB page, let's just put it that way. And you know that my standard for weirdos is, um, more elastic than most.

Yeah, it'd be a great thing to call a goldfish, wouldn't it?

[samvara]

Heh, G+ was attracting a steady stream of people adding me to their circle despite no apparent relationship (on their part) or interesting content (on mine). It's not an etiquette I'm familiar with.

I called my fighting fish Ponyboy Curtis and was saddened by how few people got the reference.

[sara]

At least here, it's the weirdos we know. *GRIN*

[samvara]

I heart my weirdos!

[ironed_orchid]

One of my facebook friends is named ThePrinceofBleedingFlowers (no spaces). I'm sometimes surprised at the sort of content he posts, and then I remember that he's really not using his work name.

[japester]

If they consider LinkedIn a reputable source, then why did the kill prk's account?
News Articles, by their behaviour also don't count, as we've also seen.

::sigh::

googleminus, how is that you are still failing so hard?

[samvara]

eh, the message is not actually the message, if they'd just fronted up and said 'we intend to be an identity service and monetize you' then this whole 'no, really, we just want your friends to find you' wouldn't ring so false.

[prk]

They didn't accept my LinkedIn profile either, despite it being the same as my G 'plus' one.

What I think they're trying to say is: "Please provide us to a link with a reputable website that we think shows the name you're using is acceptable, but if we don't like it or believe it's really your name, we'll reject your request".

That said, I saw a link from the EFF on twitter this morning, suggesting Google may be softening their stance on things. I bet it won't be enough though.

Prk

[samvara]

I saw :(

maharetr sent me the same link - I'm not exactly getting my hopes up.