I posted this in the Adsense section but posting here assuming more of you reading here actually USE Google+.. If you are an Adsense publisher, please join the G+ Adsense Publisher Community
As webmaster and adsense publisher, why would it make sense to use a site powered by them? We'd risk getting censored if anything interesting or uncomfortably honest would be said.
It's just another place to gather and share ideas/help each other. The Google+ communities are run by G+ users, not by Google, so censoring is up to the owner of the Community, not Google
Well, I'm a skeptic about this. Doing such a thing would be evil but shouldn't be discarded as possible. I keep track of all these things that change. One day some posts might just disappear and no records would be kept because not even the wayback machine has access to the gplus conversations.
Ehrm.. As far as i can tell the new communities are open and accessible to anyone, even without a Google account.. sooo.. But yah, after reading your posts here and your blog, I'm getting the idea that you will most likely not be participating..
Where have you read this news about the community content being open to the public? Google groups content is open to public when desired since years ago, I don't know if the same rule will apply to google community content. And you are correct, I have no good reasons to participate in creating a g-community. I'm a webmaster, too attached to servers, logs and tweaking things around. I see the advantages from the comfort of no admin-worries about hosting, attacks or cloud distributed content but fail myself to open my hand of the advertising revenue and independence from other vendors.
Interesting, google didn't send a trademark alert to you? I got emails from paypal or ebay when I registered some domains with their trademark name. Try to offer lessons for ebay. Not really need to use their trademarks, I dropped the domains after expiration. Adsense is getting harsh on the rules. Just got some sites banned to display ads due to layout issue. I don't know if google is evil, at least adsense is not too bad.
They only threaten when it is worth doing so. Even like that, many cases where no such things move forward. Also, I'm not in the US. Around my place your allowed to call a cow a "cow" along with some attributes you consider necessary. Adsense is a good friend of mine but not my main asset.