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I used to play World of Warcraft and I used a separate email address for all my WoW activities on web -- emailing, blogging, commenting on blogs, etc. One day
by nhashem 15y ago
I used to play World of Warcraft and I used a separate email address for all my WoW activities on web -- emailing, blogging, commenting on blogs, etc.
One day I was about to leave a comment on a blog when I got a message saying Google disabled my account due to the fact that they "perceived a violation." There was a little form I could submit an appeal/explanation to, and they said they would review my account within 30 days.
Being cut off from the WoW blogosphere wasn't the worst thing in the world. About three weeks later I did get access to my account. Turns out I was hacked and the hacker used my account to spam a bunch of people -- not surprising especially since I used a pretty crappy password. Luckily my actual Battle.net account was under my main e-mail address, so ultimately no damage was done.
Still, all I could think was, "man, if this happened to my main email address, I would be so incredibly hosed it wouldn't be funny."
- joshfinnie 15y agoI have to wonder how many complaints of Google shutting down accounts is due to the person getting hacked and the hacker commiting the violation. Not sure how Dylan can say the below quote with absolute certainty... On July 15 2011 you turned off my entire Google account. You had absolutely no reason to do this, despite your automated message telling me your system "perceived a violation."
- CamperBob 15y agoNot sure how Dylan can say the below quote with absolute certainty... He can say it because Google apparently can't be bothered to explain exactly what 'violation' he supposedly committed.
- omaranto 15y agoSo you're saying that when he wrote "you had absolutely no reason to do this" he meant "you gave me absolutely no reason to do this (and may or may not have one)"?