Unfairness Doctrine?

A message from Baron at Gates of Vienna:

I just attempted to post at Gates of Vienna, and was told by an automatic message that our blog is suspected of being a spam blog, and has been blocked by Blogger.

The full text of the message:

“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.”

And here’s what Blogger says about what we are suspected of:

“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.”

I followed Blogger’s instructions, typed in the visible letters to prove that I was not a bot, and am now awaiting a response from the Powers That Be.

In the meantime, I can’t even post a notice at Gates of Vienna bout what is going on.

If you don’t think Gates of Vienna is a spam blog (and assuming that your blog has not also been blocked by Blogger), please post a notice about what has happened. If you know of a way to contact Blogger or Google, please let them know that Gates of Vienna is *not* a spam blog, regardless of how politically incorrect it is.

That’s:

Thank you.

Nobody who has read Gates of Vienna is going to mistake it for a spam blog. My guess it is kos kids, or similar, reporting the blog as spam because they don't like the message and don't have an argument to counter it.

Blogger makes it very hard to find an e-mail address for the admin team, so I'm writing to support@blogger.com. I'll post a better address if I can find one. It wouldn't hurt to let blogger know how you feel. They should be concerned by this kind of screw-up because there are certainly alternative hosting sites out there.

Note:

Baron will be posting at The Vigilant Freedom/910 group blog if this goes on for any length of time. Also, so far mail to support@blogger.com hasn't bounced.