Bye Bye Blogger
Well, well, well. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Magically, my posting privileges at Blogger are back. Blogger sent me this email:
Hi there,
On behalf of the Blogger Team, I want to apologize for the recent trouble you’ve had with your locked blog. Automated spam detection is not yet a perfect science, and although we are constantly working to improve our tools, it appears that our filters have caused some Blogger accounts to mistakenly be blocked from creating new posts.While we are still investigating, we believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the “Just Say No Deal” network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam.
Regardless, we have restored posting rights to your blog, and it is very important to us that Blogger remain a tool for political debate and free expression.
So once again, we apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience as we looked into the problem.
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
Automated spam detection is not yet a perfect science
Huh. Well, don’t you think your system should be able to tell a blog with nearly 700 posts and that’s been around for oh, say, THREE YEARS, from a “spam” blog???? Let’s work on that, shall we? And in the absence of that sort of flagging on YOUR end, how’s about a little benefit of the doubt for the next set of bloggers that get caught in your “automated spam detection” maze?
“…we believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the “Just Say No Deal” network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam…”
Sorry, but no. Not buying it. Whenever the JSND coalition sends out an email, it does not list all of the blogs, but merely directs people to the web site where we are all listed. If there was any spamming going on, it wasn’t from Just Say No Deal.
And furthermore, how many flags does it take for a blog to get shut down? One? Five? Twenty? A hundred?
In the meantime, I’m happily settled in over at WordPress. Loving the new blog smell.
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Democrat in Exile, now registered Non-Partisan, who loves her country and is appalled at what we have become.
I believe in not shying away from truth, no matter how much it rattles my preconceived notions about the world.
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Cindy Trigg for NV-02
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I do not need a god to be good. And you?
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What is the difference between sending blog addresses as part of email versus directing users to a website where all the blogs are listed. Zip. Nada. Zero. A spam is a spam is a spam. I think google did the right thing. DEAL WITH IT.
You do know what SPAM email is don’t you? JSND doesn’t SPAM, nor do I.
Just wanted you to know I think it is a disgrace and have posted on it..Last I heard this was still America and we still have free speech.
Our political preferences do not matter…what matters is ethics and common decency.. Of which you were not afforded.
Good luck
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I think you may have good cause to be skeptical.
In any event, their taking action before checking out
the blogs is the wrong policy and practice.
Here’s the “invisible ink” in the email they just sent
you:
“Dear CS, we saw the publicity on this and realize
we have been snookered by bogus complaints.”
LOL!!
WordPress is a better host, anyhow. Looks better, works better. Dust yourself off and carry on…
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