Comments on: Google Blogger Meltdown? You Have Been Identified As A Potential Spam Blog

By: catsgoround

catsgoround — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:21:53 +0000

Tough world it seems.

By: csseyah

csseyah — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:01:16 +0000

Me too why they do that?? why they call my blog a potential spam blog??? I didn’t do wrong..

By: Prism2U

Prism2U — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:14:37 +0000

I’m a brand new blogger–I only have two posts. They’re about essential oils and herbal tea. If you’re trying to educate people about these things, naturally most information will NOT be new and may be on other sites. I have no links. What a shock to be a potential spam blogger!
I agree with Matron–”how could this be spam?”

By: Matron

Matron — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:36:33 +0000

I had an email yesterday that my blog would be blocked as a potential spam blog. I write about growing vegetables down on my allotment! How on earth could that be spam? Annoying and crazy!

By: SirMarjAlot

SirMarjAlot — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:19:38 +0000

Yes im peeved off too. Lucky for me iv back up my blog to my local hardrive im now in the process of porting to wordpress and with my own domain through GoDaddy. Big mistake using blogger in the first place.

By: djysrv

djysrv — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:48:31 +0000

Unblocked sometime today (Fri 8/1) between 10 AM and 1 PM mountain time. Success with new post at 1:30 PM. Hopefully, I’ll never have to go through something like this again.

I added up the cost of moving content, ads, and RSS feeds, plus the widgets, to new hosting service. It was overwhelming. Like Desi said to Lucy, “Blogger, you’ve got some explaining to do.”

By: DavidDust

DavidDust — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:27:16 +0000

I have been locked out as well. And Joe.My.God - one of NYC’s top gay bloggers is locked out also.

This is bullshit.

By: Superfecta

Superfecta — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:15:53 +0000

It’s not just politics - it’s everything. I blog about horse racing and have been down since last night. I also added a widget to send users over to a less-interesting version I backed up on Wordpress and re-directed my main URL.

By: Lugosi

Lugosi — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:51:02 +0000

Well, I’m glad I’m not the only effected by this. Mine is locked as well.

By: Amanda Fazani

Amanda Fazani — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:33:48 +0000

I’ve had several emails from readers of my blog today asking for help with this issue. It is upsetting and frustrating (to say the least), so I’m writing up some tips which I hope may help people affected by this problem.

This increased focus on locking suspected spam blogs may well be linked to recent news that Blogger is the leading host for spam and malware. Of course Google/Blogger doesn’t want to be associated with such a bad reputation, but I really feel for those caught in the crossfire

At least the outcome will be that Blogger hosts far fewer spam blogs!

In the meantime, follow the steps Blogger has set out for your blog to be reviewed, post in the Blogger help group (attention from an Employee may help you get your blog restored more quickly), and be aware that you can still post widgets to leave a message for readers until you are able to post again.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:25:10 +0000

I’m totally sure the cause lies in your Spam to outer Mongolia series last year. I’m so sorry to be the cause of so much trouble. mea culpa. However, thanks to your efforts and the work of spam fans worldwide, there is now spam available all over Mongolia. Bayaralla, Simon

By: Simon Barrett

Simon Barrett — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:39:30 +0000

Well I can say that I am ticked!!!!!!

I was a big fan of the concept of ‘Cloud Computing’, unfortunately the cloud seems to have turned somewhat black and right now looks more like a thunderstorm.

Simon

By: djysrv

djysrv — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:23:35 +0000

Like many, many others my blog has been blocked as “spam” by Blogger. I run a blog on nuclear energy which has been operational since January 2006.

The Blogger Help discussion groups are filled with pleadings and tears from many frustrated users who have had no response from Blogger. There are several posts which claim this has happened before and that it takes days or weeks for Blogger to respond to “unblock” requests. On Wednesday there was evidence Blogger was responded to “false positives” based on message traffic in these same forums. However, as of this morning, Friday Aug 1, it appears that the number of blogs affected has gone from a trickle to a raging river. Something is seriously wrong with Blogger and no one knows when or if it will be fixed.

By: ford

ford — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:27:13 +0000

I’m block as well this morning. Have you been unblocked as of yet? I left the request but they give no idea as to how long the “review” process takes.

ford

By: Idiot/Savant

Idiot/Savant — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:01:55 +0000

It’s taken me down as well.

(Though actually I’m just posting this to provide an email address to the article author)

By: Nancy Reyes

Nancy Reyes — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:05:07 +0000

You must have upset the Obamamaniacs.

A lot of pro Hillary blogs were similarly shut down. LINK