Sunday, March 4, 2007

Not a spam blog - really

Now that I'm finally well enough to start doing things worthy of posting, I can't post! Saturday, when I tried to write, I got this message:

WARNING

This blog has been locked by Blogger's spam-prevention robots. You will not be able to publish your posts, but you will be able to save them as drafts.

Save your post as a draft or click here for more about what's going on and how to get your blog unlocked.


So, of course I clicked:


Blogger's spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What's a spam blog?) Since you're an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.

We received your unlock request on March 4, 2007. On behalf of the robots, we apologize for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam.

Find out more about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs.


And clicked again:

What Are Spam Blogs?

As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating webpages 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.


So, that's it, I guess I'm "irrelevant, repetitive and nonsensical". And that was before I posted "Garden Love Rock". Oh, and I have a large number of links all pointing to one site. Yeah, uhh, that would be my photo hosting site. Of course blogger should know that though since they are set up to use that site.

2 comments:

Petrarchan Lover said...

Maybe it's nonsensical because you don't post anything cool like a car accident or drama.

Actually, drama and car accidents would suck, so don't post things about those. :)

agnes koltay said...

I always knew you were uncool. That means nonsensical. :P