i was hopeful for a minute

after seeing this guy's blog online, i thought that he had been lucky and got it restored within a week.

after reading this entire entry, my heart began to sink
he did get his content up and running again,
but ah...

it was on Wordpress now!

* sigh *

An Open Letter to Blogger / Blogspot

By another user who's just as fed up with the just-delete-it-without-tellin-em-and-it's-okay-to-treat-them-like-shit spree as i am:

Blogger/Blogspot,

I, a Blogger Publisher together with those who will support me, kindly request Blogger/Blogspot to increase your efforts to improve your services, particularly the Blogger Help and Support Team. This is in relation to blogs that are locked due to possible errors of your "spam detection bots" that classified some Blogger/Blogspot blogs as spam blogs.

I do not discourage your continuous attempts to fight spam blogs, and I understand that your spam detection system is not perfect. However, I and those who are victims of this erroneous lock-up, asked you to please act swiftly and fulfill your promise of (4 business days) waiting period for our blogs to get reviewed and reactivated.

After I've read some complaints posted in the Blogger Help Group, about blogs that were locked for almost "two months" already, I became very concerned. I visited those said blogs and found out that they were definitely not some spam blogs. What's worse is that those posted complaints didn't even get a response from anyone in the Blogger Support Team.

I consider myself somewhat fortunate that my main blog, which is where I'm posting right now, was not affected. Although, I fear that someday those buggy spam detection bots will also take down this blog by accident, and Blogger/Blogspot will let me wait in vain, again. Still, I want my locked blog to be reactivated as soon as possible as with others who are also tired of waiting and wishing to get their blogs back.

I ask all Blogger Publishers, whether you are affected by the lock-up or not, to support this open letter by leaving a comment here. Let's hope against all hope that someone from Blogger/Blogspot will get to read this letter and will take necessary actions.


Sincerely,
Blogger/Blogspot Publisher

Source: Tech Source from Bohol


Well, you might be pissed already by Blogger's support (or lack of), but at least you got an email allowing you to file a review request!! Look what i got... nothing. No mail, no message, no explanation. And it's been half a month.

Some are luckier than others...

寄件者： krish_trouble
日期： Tue, 4 Mar 2008 18:37:51 -0800 (PST)
當地時間： 2008年3月5日(星期三) 上午10時37分
主旨： Re: Mr Gatsby, pls help!

Dear Mr. Gatsby,
You said my blogs were deleted because of Malware. How come I was not informed of it, warned of it, like "justanotherfan"? How come my blogs were just automatically deleted? How come I am not given the opportunity that you are giving 'justanotherfan'- that is the opportunity to clean up my blogs?

Please Mr. Gatsby give me the same opportunity. The same issue is involved here. Malware!

Justanotherfan's blog has malware- his blog was not deleted, he was warned of TOS violation, and he was given the opportunity to clean his blog. My Blog has malware like you said= but my blogs were deleted, I was not warned of any violation, and worse I was not given opportunity to clean my blogs and restore them.

The same circumstances, the same issues, how come we are treated differently? His not deleted, mine got deleted. For now You are the only person I know who can help me like how you've helped me before. I hope you will reconsider my blogs.

Respectfully,
Krish

寄件者： krish_trouble
日期： Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:30:40 -0800 (PST)
當地時間： 2008年3月6日(星期四) 下午1時30分
主旨： Re: Mr Gatsby, pls help!

I have started a thread about his, in fact quite a few. Many bloggers with deleted blogs started their own threads and some were lucky to get a response some were not. A few of my blog were restored by Gatsby before, but these blogs so mentioned above were not restored. Yes Gatsby responded in some of the threads I made, and thus he knew very well of the problem. All he replied was that there was a malware. I tried to ask for a reconsideration that the blogs be restored and not deleted as what they did (deleted my blogs without warnings!) but this time around, Gatsby never responded. I made another thread asking for help, no one from the Blogger team helped.

Sorry to squeeze my own problem in your thread but I know Gatsby is keeping his eye on this thread so I am hoping that he will see my post.

You are lucky your blog was not automatically deleted. Mine were deleted and others too were deleted. You were lucky to get warned, i was not warned, others were not warned. You are lucky, Gatsby helped you, I am not (but I am hopeful) others were ignored.

It's painful to see your blogs gone. You really won't feel the pain until you experience it yourself. I hope you understand.

http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-loginissues/browse_thread/thread/a0743de90a9bee2b/080068b9531fe05b

Gosh, i feel you krish, so bad...

I guess some people are just luckier than others. Am I lucky? Judging from the fact that i've recently

1. heard nothing in the past few weeks


2. lost my purse on the public trasport system somewhere in Taipei


3. went to the dentist and found out that one of my teeth has rotten to the core


4. spilt coffee all over my electronic gadgets


5. failed to ever 對中統一發票


6. broke the power cable to my stereo system (yes, it's actually break-able... i pulled it apart)


7. tried to organize my room, but instead boxes crashed to the floor and scattered all over the place

... I'm not getting any luckier.

Where's Linsay Lohan when i need her? Did i just say Linsay Lohan? i don't want her when she's drunk or on crack, i want her from "Just My Luck!"