> As a person who formerly worked on the technical side of anti-abuse (both content and account) at Google
oh well, did you “dogfooded” your own human-review system once flagged by your anti-abuse bots ? Of course not, and that’s why your system suck. If your are/were working at google, you are part of the problem, and if you want to do something about it, you should come down from your ivory tower.
I would say that Googlers are pretty likely to get locked out of their accounts, it happened all the time when I was there, usually for exceeding rate limits of one kind or another (Googlers get orders of magnitude more emails than anyone else for some reason). Dogfooding is generally practiced at that company. Every major system I worked with had new releases inflicted on insiders first.
oh well, did you “dogfooded” your own human-review system once flagged by your anti-abuse bots ? Of course not, and that’s why your system suck. If your are/were working at google, you are part of the problem, and if you want to do something about it, you should come down from your ivory tower.