So, apparently, I'm spam.
I logged onto Blogger.com to do a little post – about what, I'm sure I've forgotten – and discovered that the service had automatically locked my blog. I'm suspected of running a Spam Blog.
No shit.
What the eff, one wonders, is a spam blog? Well, according to the nice folks at Blogger:
Nice, huh?
Talk about the ultimate in editorial commentary. Blogger thinks my posts are "irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site."
Ouch.
Certainly it would never occur to them that the site I'm pointing to so much is my own Flickr account, and the only reason I use it is 'cuz – as someone who has a passing familiarity with HTML code – I find it quicker and easier to simply hard code images into my posts rather than using their ever-so-fabulous-for-neophytes-but-unnecessarily -complicated-for-me image import tool.
So here I sit, with a locked blog. It's about 11 p.m. on Wednesday night, and I'm told I have to wait up to two business days for Blogger to look at my blog and decide if I'm a spammer or not.
Let the countdown begin!
I'm not angry that Blogger locked my blog and I have to wait a couple days to get it unlocked.
I'm angry that their fucking spam detector judged me an inadequately sensical writer.
I logged onto Blogger.com to do a little post – about what, I'm sure I've forgotten – and discovered that the service had automatically locked my blog. I'm suspected of running a Spam Blog.
No shit.
What the eff, one wonders, is a spam blog? Well, according to the nice folks at Blogger:
As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating web pages with Blogger has made it particularly prone to a form of behavior known as link spamming. Blogs engaged in this behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.
Spam blogs cause various problems, beyond simply wasting a few seconds of your time when you happen to come across one. They can clog up search engines, making it difficult to find real content on the subjects that interest you. They may scrape content from other sites on the web, using other people's writing to make it look as though they have useful information of their own. And if an automated system is creating spam posts at an extremely high rate, it can impact the speed and quality of the service for other, legitimate users.
Nice, huh?
Talk about the ultimate in editorial commentary. Blogger thinks my posts are "irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site."
Ouch.
Certainly it would never occur to them that the site I'm pointing to so much is my own Flickr account, and the only reason I use it is 'cuz – as someone who has a passing familiarity with HTML code – I find it quicker and easier to simply hard code images into my posts rather than using their ever-so-fabulous-for-neophytes-but-unnecessarily -complicated-for-me image import tool.
So here I sit, with a locked blog. It's about 11 p.m. on Wednesday night, and I'm told I have to wait up to two business days for Blogger to look at my blog and decide if I'm a spammer or not.
Let the countdown begin!
I'm not angry that Blogger locked my blog and I have to wait a couple days to get it unlocked.
I'm angry that their fucking spam detector judged me an inadequately sensical writer.
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