Obviously, I’m not affiliated with the tools at dumbasses.blogspot.blogger.com. If I was, if I had a blog hosted there, I’d be complaining right now…just on principle.

I guess that would be a hint.

Updated 1406 EST: It would appear The Pens Blog (and I’ll spell it any frigging way I want, thanks) has fallen victim to a new anti-spamming deal Google/Blogger recently instituted.

Here’s a new one for this week that is likely going to have the feathers of many Google Bloggers ruffled… Bloggers essentially have 20 days to save their blogs or else!!

I got a weird email message last night that I first thought was junk, then I realized it was actually legit! Google has some new automated system that is flagging potential spam blogs (whatever that is) and locking out blog owners. Email message from Google follows:

Your blog has been identified as a potential spam blog. To correct this, please request a review by filling out the form at ...

Your blog will be deleted within 20 days if it isn’t reviewed, and you’ll be unable to publish posts during this time. After we receive your request, we’ll review your blog and unlock it within two business days. If this blog doesn’t belong to you, you don’t have to do anything, and any other blogs you may have won’t be affected.

We find spam by using an automated classifier. Automatic spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and occasionally a blog like yours is flagged incorrectly. We sincerely apologize for this error. By using this kind of system, however, we can dedicate more storage, bandwidth, and engineering resources to bloggers like you instead of to spammers. For more information, please see Blogger Help: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42577

Thank you for your understanding and for your help with our spam-fighting efforts.

Sincerely,

The Blogger Team

I’m sure plenty of people are “understanding”.