Monday, September 10, 2007

possible Blogger Terms of Service violations

"E-B Ipo" sent me an IM asking what had happened to my blog? Since I just came back from my workout, I have no clue. Fine, I will just go to my blog and see what had happened. To my surprise, I got this message:

"This blog is under review due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations and is currently unpublished. You can view your blog's posts here in Blogger, but you may not make any changes."

Then we started trouble shooting:
1) PORNOGRAPHY AND OBSCENITY: If you guys found any pornographic stuff on my blog, please let me know. I am going to start charging you guys for viewing.
2) HATEFUL CONTENT: Was it the choice of word that I used? I believe we have seen something more hateful than my MOAB post.
3) VIOLENT CONTENT: yeah, pine cone maybe a little too prickly but I didn’t create it.
4) COPYRIGHT: All I can say is so far, no copyright infringement yet. All of the photos are original.
5) IMPERSONATION:……….

So, I contacted The Blogger Team. I wanted to find out what I have done that would put me in a position of possible violation of Terms of Service. After the email, I walked away from my blog and went to get something to eat. You bet I was hungry after my workout and kinda angry too after finding out my blog is under review. 15 Minutes later, I rechecked my blog and it was working again, and I received an email in my gmail inbox that said:

Your blog has been reviewed, verified, and cleared for regular use so that it will no longer appear as potential spam. If you sign out of Blogger and sign back in again, you should be able to post as normal. Thanks for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

Sincerely,
The Blogger Team

I am speechless………..I think they can do better than locking up my blog.

2 comments:

TZ said...

Dude, this the root cause "@$#%$sfdxxx#@$xgs##%$......" of your blog got suspended ... :-p

Anyway, thanks for dropping by my blog.

Anonymous said...

LOL, that didn't sound a tad too offensive to me, weren't our favourite 'lao fu zhi' comic does that all the time and it is still allowed for kids.

And my lecturer is swearing in class more than ten times a day - even the f-word, no one was offended since they way he did it was kinda funny. And he's teaching People Management, "Baldy Scotsman" is what he always joke about himself.

Agree blogger.com needs to do better than that before they pisses everyone off.