Last Thursday morning, shortly after The Report had been released and our bloggers were preparing to comment, we received the following message from Blogger:
"Your blog at: http://www.progressive-economy.ie/ has been identified as a potential spam blog. To correct this, please request a review by filling out this form. Your blog will be deleted in 20 days if it isn't reviewed, and your readers will see a warning page during this time. After we receive your request, we'll review your blog and unlock it within two business days."
The e-mail included a link to a page informing us that:
"spam blogs [...] can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site"
After some head-scratching - not to mention several frantic e-mails requesting that the site be unlocked so we could continue blogging The Report - we realised what the problem was: Sli Eile's first post on The Report was entitled Bord Snip Nua = Gearr siar-agus-doigh. And Blogger's robots, not programmed to recognise Irish, immediately flagged PE as spam ....
Thankfully, Blogger responded to our pleas and unlocked the site within a couple of hours ...
1 comment:
Yet another example of global capitalism (!) - like the Holiday inn 'Expect no surprises'. Standardise, quantify and submit to the market! They call it 'perfect competition' in the textbooks and it gives us 'natural unemployment'
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