One Blog Unlocked by Blogger

So a while back, I blogged that my blog was locked by blogger. It was unlocked today. I had filled out the form that was emailed to me with the recaptcha image. Of course more of my blogs were locked today as well. And those were empty too. So no spam. No comments spam.

So I took one step forward and many steps backward. I filled out the captcha image form, so hopefully, it will take a short while to unlock the blog. The blog that was unlocked today was locked 4 days ago on March 4th, so it took 4 days to unlock, including two weekend days.

I think blogger has some definite work to do with their "intelligent" spam bot. Locking an empty blog is pretty dumb.

Multiple Empty, Blank Blogs Locked on Blogger

So I went a little blogger crazy the last few days and registered more than a handful of blogspot names on blogger. Most of the blogs are empty, and are awaiting content. Well, Blogger's spam-detection bot just locked many of the blogs I registered, identifying them as spam. Except they are empty ... completely blank! What gives?

I know blogger (more likely Google) has to work to avoid spamming blogs. I've actually found a few spam blogs just from doing some searches on google's blogsearch, nobody wants to see the internet filled with spam, especially not Google, since it makes it hard for their search algorithms. But it seems like empty blogs that were recently started should not set off any flags. There's no SPAM, they are empty!

I wasn't going to post onto the locked blogs for a while, so it's not a huge inconvenience, but it's definitely annoying.

Empty Blog Locked

So my blog was locked down by Blogger today. Not this one, another. I confess that I got blog greedy after my first blog yesterday, registering quite a few new blog addresses. I know I'm not the only one that has done this, because a lot of the blog names I wanted to try were taken, and the blogs were completely blank.

So I have no idea why my blog was locked. The message I got said

Dear Blogger user,

This is a message from the Blogger team.

Your blog, at http://xxxxx.blogspot.com/, has been identified as a potential spam blog. For an explanation of what spam blogs are, please see Blogger Help: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42577

You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog. To request a review, please fill out the form found here: http://www.blogger.com/unlock-blog.g?lockedBlogID=xxxxx

It is not against the terms to register multiple blogs. The blog is completely nakedly empty. I haven't blogged a single post! Go figure. Now I can't put up new postings, change settings, delete the blog, or anything. I have to wait for the blogger staff to review the blog (should be easy, since it's empty) to make sure that I am not spam robot. Oh well, I wasn't going to get around to get that started for a while, but it still drives me a little neurotic. Anyone else had this problem?

I did some searches on how long it takes to get blog unlocked, and have heard anything from 4 days to weeks. So it could be a while. If you've ever had this happen to you, talk about frustrating.