Lost and Found

It was a few weeks away from blogging and I was back, full of energy for further writing. The dashboard pleasantly announced that I was welcome to create a blog since I did not have one of my own. Poor thing, must not have ' realized' who I was, was my initial reaction. It was the very same tool, which had helped create a blog some days ago and share a couple of thoughts. Typed out the URL directly, only to be told that such a blog does not exist and if I were the owner I could login. Oh ok, it needs another login here? We keep logging in and out of sites and servers several times a day, one more does not really matter. Providing the credentials, unfortunately did not resolve the situation. Overworking and under pressure, the software might have been 'fatigued' so as to not connect the login credentials with my blog? Two decades plus of software experience (not that it is required!) negated such outrageous thinking. A few repeat attempts did not take me anywhere. Then that sinking feeling that something is more wrong than expected set in. Not to be outdone by such events, I latched on to the ever dependable process of Googling. After an hour of intense read, courtesy the links furnished below, I learnt quite a few things - most importantly that my blog would have been marked as spam by a fuzzy logic engine! Splogs, scraping, payloads, detection, deletion .....Hmm ..... would have been an interesting read at other times. Putting aside the frustration and desperation, I executed the couple of steps that were remedial and started waiting (praying?) for restoration. A week after this, ah here I am, back to continue by blogging pursuits!

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1) Blog disappeared from dashboard and web

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=11493dc0a8511b08&hl=en

2) Blog locked or deleted - Cannot request review because no request review form is provided

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=1faa14d04fd8e5f4&hl=en

3) Why it happens?

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2010/12/recent-problem-with-spam-classification.html

4) The attack of the clones

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/11/attack-of-clones.html

5) Something is broken (A forum)

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/label?lid=0271191b4249689a&hl=en

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