Google has posted a brand new assist doc for posting restrictions round user-generated content material in Google Maps. That is particular to critiques, pictures, and movies customers might replace to Google Maps. This will additionally embody content material corresponding to rankings or Q&A matters.

I noticed this by way of LocalU who wrote, “That is the primary time that Google has damaged down the assorted kinds of restrictions.”

Listed below are these restriction sorts:

Quick-term restrictions

Posting could also be turned off for a specific place for a brief time frame to assist defend the place or space from a spike in irrelevant or offensive content material (for instance, throughout a real-world occasion that pulls off-topic commentary on a specific place). We monitor the place and after we see the abuse makes an attempt and the chance of policy-violating content material subside, we carry the restrictions.

Lengthy-term restrictions

Posting on a specific place could also be turned off for an extended time frame if its class or geographic space has skilled a steady sample of low worth or off-topic posts. Contributions are thought-about low worth after they don’t sometimes play a big half in serving to customers determine whether or not to go to the place.

The next are traits of locations the place we might limit UGC:

• Usually unvisitable or have restricted public entry. These are locations the place folks sometimes don’t have a alternative about which location to go to, that aren’t open to the general public, or the place entry to the place could also be restricted to people who find themselves stationed or assigned there. Examples embody police stations and prisons.
• Attracts ongoing, off-topic content material. These locations are regularly topic to unhelpful posts like harassment, hate speech, or offensive content material, relatively than critiques or posts about customers’ direct experiences at that location.

Partial vs. full restrictions

Relying on the quantity and sample of coverage violating content material, a specific place might have posting restrictions on some or all the kinds of UGC (together with Textual content Critiques, Rankings, Pictures, Movies).

Why some locations might not have posts, or have solely outdated posts

Some locations might have noticeably outdated content material with no latest posts, or no historic posts in any respect (once you had seen content material earlier than). This can be as a result of the place skilled abuse and the content material was eliminated.

Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.