Biting the hand that feeds

The Bigger Brother with his Great Monitoring SoftWare

I won’t even dignify this deletion with any begging. It was a really, really small blog – 5 posts or so – an intended backup of an unreliable salon 503 blog.  Below are some comments regarding the establishment of it.

This 5 posts blog was completely abandoned for over a year and had a very few visitors.

Then came pistachio. I am not saying, that pistachio deleted my blog – it was only a coincidence ;).  That isn’t my point.

What really reminds me Big Brother is this part of a TOS:

We do not contact you first to ask that content be modified or removed.
You may NOT have that blog name back.
You may NOT have the blog content back.
We take our Terms of Service very seriously and act on each and every feedback we get in order to investigate potential breaches. Our terms are enforced on a daily basis.
We want WordPress.com to be a pleasant and safe environment for all of our valued users.”

So, your blog disapeared. You will never know why. To add an insult to injury you are cut off from your account. Most likely by a glitch in a monitoring software.
Linking to anything at WordPress becomes a risky business.

Collective responsibility in case of deletion is quite orwellian as well – if you happened to be a team blog member then your user account will be suspended as well even if you didn’t use this blog for years, because entire team is punished. If you use RSS widget which one day may show a forbidden word “sex” or viagra spam on your usenet group – you may kiss your blog goodbye altough you will newer know why. The list of forbidden words is kept secret of course. Never ever mention SEO – it is the biggest no-no. Play stupid instead – talk about cheap popularity or something like that.

Now if mr Rolex account is suspended, then we have an orphan blog as well. I wonder how many orphans are around WordPress. As a newbie Rolex will never figure out where to contact support.

Just like by Old Berlin Wall – you are shot by unmanned automatic machine gun – there is no murderer. Or is there?

Don’t you lose any sleep over it – just export frequently i start new WPs every now and then or better yet keep a mirror at blogger.

Now the best part

How to get rid of a blogger A. Its really simple: You add him by email to your blog and then use forbidden words – Blogger A will be suspended automatically with your blog and he would never know why, because it is beyond mercy of any monitoring software to notify you about a reason of your delinquency or at very least point out to the post in question.

That’s exactly how Polish Secret Service got rid of a coauthor of my WordPress blog. And I was in dark about it until today.

  • Don’t link.
  • Don’t RSS anything.
  • Don’t backtrack nobody.
  • Don’t help any beginners.
    Do not invite anybody to your blog and deny any invitations from other bloggers, which won’t help you anyway, because they know your email already and will eliminate you easily.
  • Set your blog to “no comments” to avoid any viagra URL. Much safer place for any discussion is at Usenet

    Google Groups
    Polonia bez granic
    Visit this group


Buy yourself a sharp pencil and a piece of paper instead.

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Ziomal,
Gdybyś chociaż był we właściwej strefie – no to jeszcze by jakoś uszło ;)
Comment przez Pan Tarej — 12 luty, 2008 @ 16:27 UTC
  1. jestem
    Comment przez Rolex — 18 luty, 2008 @ 20:57 UTC
  2. Przepraszam, czy to zwierciadło będzie działać automatycznie?
    Comment przez Rolex — 18 luty, 2008 @ 20:58 UTC
  3. Automatycznie z Blogspota.
    Do blogspota trzeba będzie ręcznie niestety :roll:
    Comment przez Timex — 18 luty, 2008 @ 21:38 UTC
  4. Dobra, to jak mam ręcznie na tego blogspota?
    Comment przez Rolex — 19 luty, 2008 @ 10:56 UTC
  5. trommelmann.wordpress.com/02/18/#comment-4
    NO dobra, Rolex, teraz niniejszy blog jest oficjalny besides http://trommelmann.blogspot.com/
    Wskazówki masz w http://rolex24.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=12 – tzn możesz Sobie tam rzucić okiem w wolnej chwili i nic przez najbliższe kilka tygodni nie musisz robić z tymi blogami oprócz starego s24
    A za kilka tygodni się zobaczy, co z tego wychodzi. Gutta cavat lapidem
    Nie zapomnij pozmieniać swojego hasła.
    Nie zapomnij usunąć swojego emajla z s24 albo zapisz go z przerwą przed i po małpie @
    ze względu na pajączki z wajagrom.
    Sloncha 8)
    Jak już się wystarczająco oswoisz z tymi blogami, to mnie zwyczjnie wywalisz i będziesz na swoim. Na nic innego nie liczę. Podobnej pomocy udzieliłem niedawno innemu wybitnemu literatowi – teraz radzi sobie sam wyśmienicie.
    One more thing, jak mawiał Columbo: czy będziesz trzymał http://trommelmann.wordpress.com/ czy też mam usunąć?
    Comment przez Timex — 19 luty, 2008 @ 12:03 UTC
  6. Majkel,
    masz tu system:

    Kopiując ręcznie z salonu 24 do własnego blogspota kliknąć raz na tydzień automatyczny import

    Skomentuj na Blogspocie, żebym wiedział, że jesteś.
    Muszę lecieć
    Bye
    Comment przez Timex — 20 luty, 2008 @ 17:23 UTC
Szanowny Panie Rolexie

To jest brudnopis i nie ukaże się na blogu dopóki nie przyciśnie Pan “Publish”. Nawet po przyciśnięciu “Publish” potencjalny czytelnik będzie musiał znać hasło.

W ciągu najbliższych kilku tygodni w wolnych chwilach i o ile się Panu zechce może się Pan Sobie zabawiać jednym i tylko jednym guziczkiem. http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7337208983416859187
albo drugim guziczkiem http://rolex24.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php

  1. Mistrz na wyrost. Oczywiście, będę tagował; zawsze słucham się rad fachowców, zwłaszcza w dziedzinach, o których nie mam pojecia.
    Pozdrawiam i jeszcze raz dziekuje
    p.s.
    zaraz tam “zmyślony” :-)
    Comment przez Rolex — 29 luty, 2008 @ 13:21 UTC
  2. W czsie łykędu może Pan spróbować dopisek « Rolex
    Comment przez Timex — 29 luty, 2008 @ 16:04 UTC

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  1. How to frame up any blogger

    As a matter of fact it is very easy to get rid of any blogger especially if he is a newbie. White and red ghosts explains the scheme.

    Several of my coauthors were eliminated from WordPress in some very mysterious way. Since January 2009 I was wondering, what may happened and I didn’t have a finest idea until yesterday.

    Never mind a deleted blog – wouldn’t you just rehabilitate several of my team bloggers, please ❓
    They all are newbies in blogging and they can NOT ask for it by themselves.

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