Well, if you did, it wasn’t because you lost your keys.

One of my banner customers and many others this morning discovered their Blogger blog LOCKED! Ouch!!! What a fiasco!

This is what the dreaded Blogger message says:

Your blog is locked

Blogger’s spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What’s a spam blog?) Since you’re an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.

We received your unlock request on August 1, 2008. On behalf of the robots, we apologize for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam.

Find out more about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs.

I found out more information about Blogger locking blogs. Evidently Blogger has a robot that goes around and checks blogs and locks ‘em if they suspect a spam blog. But the dang thing appears to not work very well (or too well?)

The robot will sometimes come by if someone clicks on the "Flag Blog" in the blog bar at the top.

I guess recently lots of McCain supporters clicked on the Flag Blog button on Obama’s supporter’s blogs and the Obama supporters’ blogs got locked. But the robot can come by whether or not the "Flag Blog" was checked. The only way to fix it is to click on "Request Unlock Review" and it takes them 24 hours to respond.

Argh!

This isn’t the best time to be dealing with locked blogs - just when the Stampin’ Up! convention is underway. I don’t have any good advice for a quick fix. Sorry. I guess this is a good reason for some Blogger customers to find another Blogging service.

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