Keeping the Blogosphere Spam-free
September 17th, 2008 by Todd Van Hoosear
Kudos to Blogger.com for keeping an eye out for nasty splogs!
In testing an RSS news feed for press release for one of our clients (why don’t all the wire services do this, by the way?), we created a dummy blog and pasted in some press releases yesterday. Today, we got this note. Well done! (But please don’t delete our blog!)
Hello,
Your blog at [it's not quite ready yet so I'm gonna hide it] has been identified as a potential spam blog. To correct this, please request a review by filling out the form at [this URL].
Your blog will be deleted within 20 days if it isn’t reviewed, and you’ll be unable to publish posts during this time. After we receive your request, we’ll review your blog and unlock it within two business days. If this blog doesn’t belong to you, you don’t have to do anything, and any other blogs you may have won’t be affected.
We find spam by using an automated classifier. Automatic spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and occasionally a blog like yours is flagged incorrectly. We sincerely apologize for this error. By using this kind of system, however, we can dedicate more storage, bandwidth, and engineering resources to bloggers like you instead of to spammers. For more information, please see Blogger Help: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42577
Thank you for your understanding and for your help with our spam-fighting efforts.
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
P.S. Just one more reminder: Unless you request a review, you won’t be able to use your blog. Click this link to request the review
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