Before I begin, I moderated 3-5 communities on Google+ 2011-2019, I spent time moderating communities with over 1 Million plus users and had a lot of direct connection with site moderators as well for assistance. The way Google+ handles spam and bots was pretty awful because it always affected normal users of the platform, if a user post a duplicate post or posted too soon in a time span it would flag the users post to an inbox for review, the issue is that it flagged users who posted a lot of content and not users who were bots. So you’d have a user with 10 thousand follower user complaining his post was hidden. The system works by flagging the entire users account making it invisible until the user stops posting for a set amount of time, people would have to wait 2 days or comment on a lot of post to eliminate the flagging. Google thought this system would stop spam, but nope SEO PC software was manipulated to create users (reported and ignored by the Google+ team in 2016) that had AI like human users beating the method. This allowed them to post content that was riddles with malware and ip loggers. Spam inboxes jumped from 7 spam post to 7000 spam post in a years time. All I was able to do was watch large users accounts become abandoned since we could not assist then, communicating with the Google team was awful and yes the security issues started to show as google would start slowly moving employees away from G+ to the YouTube team.
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