{"id":4467,"date":"2011-09-06T18:02:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T01:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2011-09-06T21:24:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T04:24:37","slug":"google-plus-bad-name-policy-worse-than-useless-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/06\/google-plus-bad-name-policy-worse-than-useless-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Plus + Bad Name Policy = Worse than Useless + Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t use Google+, so I won’t use Google+<\/strong>. I’m not deleting my G+ account yet but that might come in a few months.<\/p>\n

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Excuse me Mr Google, tell me "Doctor Popular" isn't the name he goes by.<\/p><\/div>\n

Their common name policy has gotten several personal friends of mine banned. Heck, I’m in-person friends with Doctor Popular but I honestly don’t know his given name. His Google+ account was removed despite the fact that “Doctor Popular” is the name he really goes by everywhere, even at Google events!<\/p>\n

The ability to be Pseudoanonymous is important for a lot of reasons. I don’t have to describe them here. Here’s a hundred or so reasons to start you off<\/a>. (and don’t forget Locke and Demosthenes from Ender’s Game!)<\/p>\n

Google+ people, this is not a hard problem to solve, all you need to do is trust people by their reputation and history. You have tremendous records on us, use it to verify that the people that are registering are real. Give new users permissions and avatars based on their maturity as an online entity. Now, it’s possible that it’s Google+’s master plan to try and create a strict limit of 1 account per person to launch some evil master plan; if that’s the case, then G+ can jump off a bridge.<\/p>\n

Attention Google Plus Management, get your act together, you’re really screwing up.<\/p>\n

Here are some articles about this asinine problem.
\nGoogle Plus Deleting Accounts En Masse: No Clear Answers<\/a> by Violet Blue
\nTrapped in the Googlehole<\/a> by Doctor Popular
\nMy.Nameis.Me<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t use Google+, so I won’t use Google+. I’m not deleting my G+ account yet but that might come in a few months. Their common name policy has gotten several personal friends of mine banned. Heck, I’m in-person friends with Doctor Popular but I honestly don’t know his given name. His Google+ account was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4473,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions\/4473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}