Ask HN: Google Maps flagging every review?

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2 years ago

I've had my Google account for over a decade and have been posting reviews on Google Maps for a long time. Since a couple of months, every review I post gets flagged automatically and then I need to click "submit appeal" so that (I'm guessing) a human reviews it and it's then published.

However, today, they declined my review without any chance for appeal:

"A moderator determined that your review doesn't follow our policies. Your review isn't posted."

And then there's a link to their content policy: https://support.google.com/contributionpolicy/answer/7400114#fake_engagement&zippy=%2Cfake-engagement

I almost always give 5 stars (I don't bother reviewing otherwise) and often write a few sentences (sometimes I just give stars).

Has anyone else been seeing similar behavior?

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