Has anyone with a blog successfully have a decision overturned? (1 Viewer)

[Thomas T]

I just got an e-mail from Blogger that a post has been deleted because it didn't meet "community standards" but it didn't tell me specifically what was offensive about the post. It was a review of a telefilm with Candice Bergen called Mayflower Madam and this was the text:

A young socialite (Candice Bergen) with roots going all the way back to the original Mayflower descendants is in a financial crisis after being fired from her job as a buyer for a department store. Reduced to answering the telephones for a sleazy "escort" service, she decides to begin her own escort service catering to a prestige clientele. Based on the autobiographical book by Sydney Biddle Barrows and directed by actor turned director, Lou Antonio. It's not an especially good movie but the story of a Manhattan socialite running a high class call girl service is just too fascinating not to be interesting. As Barrows, Candice Bergen fits the part to the manor born which brings a strong sense of authority to the project. There's not much you can say about a telefilm like this, it is what it is and accomplishes what it set out to do. While whether it was worth doing in the first place is another question. With Chris Sarandon, Chita Rivera and Caitlin Clarke (DRAGONSLAYER).

I've appealed the decision but is it made by real humans or a robot?

 

[ChristopherG]

seemed pretty innocuous to me...

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

I just got an e-mail from Blogger that a post has been deleted because it didn't meet "community standards" but it didn't tell me specifically what was offensive about the post. It was a review of a telefilm with Candice Bergen called Mayflower Madam and this was the text:

A young socialite (Candice Bergen) with roots going all the way back to the original Mayflower descendants is in a financial crisis after being fired from her job as a buyer for a department store. Reduced to answering the telephones for a sleazy "escort" service, she decides to begin her own escort service catering to a prestige clientele. Based on the autobiographical book by Sydney Biddle Barrows and directed by actor turned director, Lou Antonio. It's not an especially good movie but the story of a Manhattan socialite running a high class call girl service is just too fascinating not to be interesting. As Barrows, Candice Bergen fits the part to the manor born which brings a strong sense of authority to the project. There's not much you can say about a telefilm like this, it is what it is and accomplishes what it set out to do. While whether it was worth doing in the first place is another question. With Chris Sarandon, Chita Rivera and Caitlin Clarke (DRAGONSLAYER).

I've appealed the decision but is it made by real humans or a robot?

I've never read anything so offensive! I can't believe you called an escort service sleazy! How dare you!

All joking aside, I have no idea how that was in violation of "community standards" and it would seem an actual person never read it because why would that get banned? I can only guess that because you mention an escort service maybe they have an algorithm that picks out those two words together and removes those posts automatically because they are trying to avoid having people promote real escort services on their site.

I have no idea what would happen if you appeal it but if a real person did read it, I can't see them saying that is offensive. Somehow, I have a feeling if you remove the words "sleazy escort service" it would not be banned. How then do you provide an explanation for what she is doing in the film? Maybe, answering phones at a business that "helps men meet women for single evening speed dating (wink, wink)."