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> Didn’t take long to get banned from Google+ our Gmail is also gone...

This is a major concern for me and Google+. Who knows what violates their community standards -- and loosing my gmail (and google docs, and analytics and...) because of Google+ is unfathomable.

Google+ really needs to separate out its services so that running afoul of the Google+ "community standards" dosn't lead to the death of all your Google services.

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the thing to worry about with Google, is that they are notorious for changing the rules and banning people retroactively for things they did in the past.

happened to me with my adwords account, ran a campaign just fine...paused it...then 8 months later got my account permanently suspended by a bot for a campaign that's been paused for 8 months.

contacting adwords was useless since they just repeat that there is nothing they can do.

I had my five-year-old, $30k/year Adwords account suspended recently, through no fault of my own. I made a few polite phone calls and they were surprisingly helpful; eventually, in about two weeks, my account was reinstated. Although the telephone staff can't unsuspend your account, they can escalate the matter internally so that a human reviews your suspension. It has taken a lot of time, but Google might finally be starting to understand that customer service matters.

> Who knows what violates their community standards

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=...

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