Hi guys,
I’m trying to figure out how to reach out to another google guide. I’d like to back him up on something he posted about a company I have extensive experience with. Can anyone please tell me how to do this?
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Hi @PaytLynn
I am sorry, but, for privacy reasons, Google do not give information about Local Guides
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@ErmesT thank you, I wasn’t wanting someones personal info, but thought maybe there was a way to connect with another google guide via google. I was just wanting to know if we had some form of chat or way to communicate with other reviewers via google guide. but thank you!
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Not yet @PaytLynn
In the future, who knows?
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Hi @PaytLynn you can click the username in the reviewand this should open the profile account that should contain a list of all the reviews that person wrote.
You can get the Google+ profile, that is different than the Local Guides profile,using Contributions profile on Maps to find the Google+ profile.
Google uses the same 21-digit unique numeric string to identify the Contributions profile on Maps and the Google+ profile.
Find the contributions profile and then copy the 21digit numeric id.
Add it to the end of this URL to find the Google+ profile.
https://plus.google.com/
From the Google+ profile you could be able to start an hangout with the user.
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I am assuming from your description of the situation that you already now the screen name of the local guide.
If that is the case you could try to send them a private message or even " friend " them.
You won’t see much mention of these facilities on Local Connect 2.0 since it has been deliberately engineered to reduce the amount of interaction between local guides.
If you were a Local Guide before August 2018 you will probably remember that we were able to “like” each other’s comments in discussion threads freely so as to show our support for particular postings.
All that has been gone and a once interactive forum has now turned us all into a captive audience.
If you want a detailed and honest response your best bet is to connect with one of the Local Guides who are Level 8 or above since they have the most relevant experience and will not put you down in the process.
That is what has always worked for me and it still does and - in most cases - they are extraordinarily friendly.
To contact another Local Guide just click on their name and scroll down to the part of the screen which offers you the option to send them a private message and to friend them.
I attach a screenshot which shows what this looks like :
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That is the best strategy.@LucioV
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@LucioV where is the 21-digit unique numeric id that you mentioned in the Google Maps contributions profile? I couldn’t see it on my partner’s Google Maps contribution profile 
As @ermest mentioned earlier that there is no way to connect or contact [yet] with other LG due to the privacy reasons.
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Check my contributions link, is in my signature, and shows the 21 digit I’d
https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/114353918960699000354/
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I have just been contacted by a Local Guide from Spain who has simply clicked on my name in a message and has then selected the option to contact me via private message.
Unfortunately it may take me a bit of time to get back to him as my Spanish is very rusty but I was at least able to ascertain that he was asking for a bit of help to find out my some of his edits were " no se aplica" (“not applied”).
When someone contacts you via a Local Connect PM the subject line will say :
Those who have been appointed to “help” our fellow Local Guides may not be entirely familiar with all of the functionality of the Local Connect System and so please be patient with those who genuinely try to advise without any of the canned responses or snark that it becoming so commonplace since the roll-out of Connect 2.0.
A lot of the information that could be posted publicly has not been or in some cases has even been secretly removed.
That is why I have had to archive some of the detailed postings of my own that have been deleted without warning (and entirely without my knowledge or consent) to an external blog where they are beyond the reach of censors working behind the scenes.
If you follow some of the comments in the threads about the “NOT APPLIED” issue and see the way in which Local Guides are being treated you will see why it is even more important for us to be able to contact each other for help since there is very little evidence of that coming from “official channels” anymore.
There are one or two moderators who are exceptions to this but - as the evidence of some of the threads makes clear - they too can find themselves coming under attack from the same moderators that are giving this forum a very bad name.
How long the various VPs are prepared to stand back and allow this kind of unwarranted and counter-productive behaviour to continue is anybody’s guess …
Not all of us are kiddults who can be so easily pacified by an offer of free ice cream.
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Contact via message
How to message him?
Hi, since Google plus is discontinued now, is there any other way to contact other local guides,
thanks
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This is still not possible. But you could check the profile text. Some of us leave hints on how others can contact us. Or you can check if the user is using the same username on other platforms like Instagram or Facebook.
Cheers
Morten
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I wish that future would arrive ASAP! It’s 2023!