Dear Blogger user,
Your blog, at http://nyy15.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. For an explanation of what spam blogs are, please see Blogger Help: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42577 You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog. To request a review, please fill out the form found here: http://www.blogger.com/unlock-blog.g?lockedBlogID=8497336674291753235 We will take a look at your blog and unlock it within four business days. Please note that if we do not hear from you within 20 days, we will remove your blog. If this blog does not belong to you, then you do not have to do anything. Any other blogs you may have will not be affected. Since you are an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not spam. We find spam by using an automated classifier. Automatic spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and occasionally a blog is flagged incorrectly. We sincerely apologize for this erroneous result. By using this kind of system, however, we can dedicate more storage, bandwidth, and engineering resources to users like you instead of to spammers. Thank you for your understanding and for your help in our spam-fighting efforts.
Sincerely, The Blogger Team
I responded to the e-mail and it took one full week for them to "Review" my blog and unlock it. In the mean time, anyone who entered my web address got a page that indicated in big letters that THIS BLOG IS IN VIOLATION OF THE TERMS OF SERVICE. One full week to resolve something (or should I say nothing) that some Google robot misidentified in the first 24 hours of my blogs creation. Once they did finally decide that my mere thoughts were harmless, they didn't even send out a follow-up e-mail to let me know! I did some searching and it turns out that "blog locking" is a regular practice for Google:
I am so tired of all the crap on the internet. Proving that I am not a spammer is just my latest rant. I hate having to weed through all the junk mail that bombards my inbox, I can't stand having to watch a 30-second commercial just to see a 10-second sports highlight clip, and if I am asked one more time if I want to install the Google Toolbar I think I am going to lose it. And what about all those far-too-complicated, cryptic words and phrases that you have to enter just to try to by a baseball ticket on Ticketmaster?
I am just a guy trying to write a blog... leave me alone already! It is bad enough that the Yankees have been batting like little leaguers lately and haven't stolen one base yet this season. It pains me to watch everytime number 48 comes up to the mound. I know that I am probably only preaching to crickets out there anyway so please, Google, just let me keep my blog.
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