Blogger is locking some if its blog sites that are passing some sort of automated litmus test checking to see if the blog is being used as a “spam blog” being used to create link spam. One of the blogs I maintain for another podcast was locked today, this is the message that was presented:
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.
You won’t be able to publish posts to your blog until one of our humans reviews it and verifies that it is not a spam blog. Please fill out the form below to get a review. We’ll take a look at your blog and unlock it in less than a business day.
If we don’t hear from you, though, we will remove your blog from Blog*Spot within 10 days.
More info about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs is available. I have noticed lately more spam posts to my blog that are not being caught by my WordPress spam plugin Spam Karma 2. Too bad spammers have moved into the blogosphere. 🙁
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