One more time

Okay, just had to request one more time that Blogger.com un-spam this blog. Here's the message I get after I submit and fumble through the word verification to even send the request:


Request Received

We have received your request for a review to verify that your blog is not a spam blog. Someone will look over your blog and respond to hbp at earth dot net
Find out more about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs.

Do you think it will work this time? Has this blog gotten totally lame or what? Six requests now. It's official. Doesn't anyone out there know a human being at Blogger.com? Is there anyone I can contact who can get this blog reviewed? I've left numerous messages at their forum, but they seem to ignore those, too. What is wrong with Blogger.com?

Now off to type in my word verification several times so I can publish this.

Still no luck

Here's the notification I still get on September 10:


Your blog requires word verification

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 September 4, 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.


So if they don't unlock it in the next day or so, I'll have to request again for the sixth time. That means this blog has been on "false positive" for six weeks.

What do you all think of this? It doesn't seem to help posting on their forum.

Blogger.com

I've just sent in my 5th request to have my blog reviewed by Blogger.com and word verification removed. That means it's been five weeks since I've been categorized this way. Here's the message I receive:

Your blog requires word verification

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.

Before we can turn off mandatory word verification on your posts we'll need to have a human review your blog and verify that it is not a spam blog. Please fill out the form below to get a review.

Find out more about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs.
Remove word verification from postsWord Verification: Type the characters you see in the picture below.

Yes, folks, five weeks of this. See anything here that looks like spam? See any reason I shouldn't be treated right? Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue? I've left messages at their forum more than once. Nothing has changed. Are there any humans at Blogger.com who can review this blog? I could use some good advice. Please leave me a suggestion!

Day 26 of the August Blogging Challenge

For every day of this challenge, and for many days in July, this blog has required word verification to publish its posts. Why? Because Blogger.com has tagged it as a potential spam blog. How can I get that reviewed and changed? By requesting via their link that a real person look at my blog. I have done that four times, with a week's mandatory wait in between. Still no word from them. Still the annoying requirement to word verify every single time I post or edit a blog. Being somewhat sight-impaired, this is not a convenient step, since I usually must repeat two or three times to get the letters right.

I've asked for help on various blogging forums. Nada.

I've asked for help on Blogger.com's own forum in several threads. Nada.

I'm stuck with Blogger.com because many of my newbie blogging authors have this platform and because WordPress doesn't allow me to upload photos on a dial-up line and Blogger.com does. I've reached the point that the inconvience of switching to another platform is no longer a hurdle, at least not psychologically. Blogger.com has made me that angry with their lack of service. I'd switch in a second if I had a faster service.

What would you do in this situation? Do you have any better ideas on how I can get a real person to look at this blog and deem it as worthy, useful, and definitely NOT spam? I ask you.