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Buddies,

Like many a Blogger blog, The Joey Polanski Show was recently “lockd up” by th BloggerBots on suspision o bein a SPAM BLOGski.  Aftr I publishd my YIV post back on July 14, I dint evn log onta Blogger fer about eight days.  And then, aftr that, I dint log on again until I publishd my Dear Maffia … post on July 30.  Since there hant been a single munt since th inception o th Polanski Show where there aint been at least three posts publishd, I loggd on again late on July 31 to publish anothr post; and it was then that I learnt that I was undr arrest.  Thats hows come July 2008 dint see at least three posts publishd at JPS.  Publickation wunt possible again until July had awready passd inta August.

But evn tho my little stretch in th Blogger Brig had this material effeckt on my blovd JPS, I aint nearly as bent outta shape by it as othrs whov been “bustd” seem to have been.  Fer one thing, I was awready familyer wit th deal: a blog startd a lil while back by th Man Bhind th Curtain was rathr quickly “lockd up” and then rleasd aftr a few days.  To have a three-year-old blog like th JPS treatd similarly was rathr shockin, I guessski; but, HECK, I dont know how a BloggerBot woud hafta go about sniffin out spam blogskis; and, t tell ya da trufe, Im kinda GLAD that Blogger IS tryin to sniff out spam blogskis.

Way I see it, this sorta thing is probly happnin bcause (a) Blogger is probly THE mos popular free bloghost aroun and (b) there probly aint no way to prevent th CREATION o spam blogskis.  That means that th freedom to create spam blogs needs t be “checkd” by some measure that prevents fokes from MAINTAININ em.  A spam-bloggr probly nevr knows his / her spam blogski was lockd until it gets dleted by th BloggerBots; and if a spam-bloggr is swift enough to notice th lock, his / her rquest fer rview & rlease woud likely get him / her exposd as a spam-bloggr and th spam blogski woud probly get dletd anyhowski.  Such a swift bloggr migt jus srrendr th ol spam blogski & try startin a new one — tho that might rquire th hassle o creatin a whole new Google account, and migt eventualy bcome impossible if Google / Blogger keeps lookin out fer such attemps to beat th latest mousetrap by buildin a bettr mouse.  And, trufe be tolt, I think its far more likly that th spam blogski will get dletd bfore th spam-bloggr knows whats happmd.

So I prsonaly applaud Blogger fer sendin out th Bots.  In fackt, you woudnt hear me bitchin if Blogger somhow institutd a periodick full-sweep — once, or evn sevral times pr year.  Nfackt, I probly woudnt bitch a whole heckuva lot if Blogger launchd bots thatd lock up & dlete all em friggin diary blogs & baby-photo blogs out there.  Well … not until somone, like, GUILTd me inta bitchin about it anyhow.

My initial negative reacktion was largely a fit o egotism.  Yknow, like: “How DARE you do this to ME!  Im Charles friggin Fostr KANE!”  But, HECK, it wunt like Blogger was atchualy SUSPECKTIN or ACKUSIN me o bein a spam-bloggr; nfackt, it was esplaind t me, in th lock-out notice, that th Bots is fallible and that mishapsll be cleard up lickety-splitski.  And, as I awready sorta hintd bfore, I sorta gets th feelin that, while Blogger aint gonna admit to it, EVRYONEs gonna get Bottd & lockd.  Yeah, there was a little inconvenience — especialy since it helpd causd that unprecedentd low in Polanski Show histry — but th inconvenience was, like, minor.

One things fer sure: It certainly wunt enough to incline me to leave Blogger fer WordPress.  Its been ovr a year since I startd Joey’s Hole here at WordPress, and durin that time WordPress has improvd drammatickly.  That is, its becomin more and more like Blogger alla timeski.  But its FREE bloghostin still pales in cmparison to Bloggers; and by th time it reachs Bloggers quality itll probly need to launch anti-spam blog-lockin bots thatll have all th WordPressrs lookin to jump to the next haff-assd blog-hostin srvice.  I blieve my WordPress pals who tell me that WordPress is far superior to Blogger when one is runnin a blog on a independent site — and thatll be good t know if & when The Joey Polanski Show goes full-bore www — but till that happms, its exackly th othr way round.  Blogger is WAY bettr, and th JPS is stickin wif it.