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>>benhur+(OP)
You’d think that there’d be a “this person is high profile and any automated bans will cause a stink” flag on accounts to require human review on such decisions, but apparently one of the richer companies in the world just can’t be bothered to hire a few extra people to avoid a PR problem.

That or they’re convinced that they’re this close to fixing the automated system, which they obviously are not.

>>ashton+9d
> That or they’re convinced that they’re this close to fixing the automated system, which they obviously are not.

Knowing Google's engineering culture, you're probably spot-on. Ignoring long-tail events like this one is a common failure mode of this kind of relentless metrics-driven optimization (and they should know better).