Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Double oops

It seemed yesterday multiple post from Journeyman Journeys have affected Blogger.

The usual thing is that whenever I post to Posterous, Blogger will also be updated. This morning, I've posted two entries.

It appeared in Wordpress.com and not in Blogger.






The two post are:

Check Posterous Autopost setting and it shows:

Failed
Updates from Journeyman
Reason: request error 400: Blog has exceeded rate limit or otherwise requires word verification for new post
Next attempt in about 4 hours

Failed
Evolution of Gaming
Reason: request error 400: Blog has exceeded rate limit or otherwise requires word verification for new post
Next attempt in 8 minutes

Saw the word verification at the bottom of Blogger editor.
If you make a large number of posts in a single day, you will be required to complete word verification. After 24 hours, the word verification will automatically be removed.
I guess this morning multiple blog posting triggered Blogger anti-spam measures. I just have to wait 24 hours. It sucks. My hosted Wordpress blog is unaffected.

Anyway, Blogger was notorious for spam blogs or splogs. Some people created multiple blogs, just to take advantage of Adsense.

Initially, they did gained some money, then Google wised up. Its good that Google is cleaning up its act.

Even today, there are some people who believe that the can create multiple blogs and pump in stolen content, in the hope that people will read (Splogs) and click on the advertisement. And they say they are sharing the knowledge.

Splogs are like Junk mail and must be first thrown in the rubbish.



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