Jim's recent post about Chicago's new policy appears to have violated Blogger Guidelines.
I had a notice to that effect with a link to the guidelines.
The post now appears as a "draft" including the comments.
I am not sure the offending item or items are in the post or comments.
Interesting. I did not get a message about the post/comments. Can you ask the messenger to be more specific? Jim, did you get a similar message? Anyone else?
ReplyDeleteVery puzzling, I didn't see anything that violated the guidelines, unless it could somehow be construed as "hate speech".
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that with the election being today, people are on hyper alert to avoid anything problematic.
I don't have admin access, so assume this is visible only to those of you who start threads?
ReplyDeleteCorrect. Hopefully David and/or Jim got more information than Katherine and I got.
DeleteJean, do you have the orange icon at the upper left corner?
DeleteNo.
DeleteOff topic - Jack, I just wanted to let you know that I’ve been praying some of the Daily Office most days. Not singing, and not all of the prayers. But compline every night. I really like compline. Occasionally midday or evening. I’ve downloaded an app that uses the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. I’m a bit confused by your site, but will try it again.
ReplyDeleteBelow is the text of the message I received. I have no idea why the original post was considered "spam."
ReplyDeleteHello,
As you may know, our Community Guidelines
(https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy) describe the boundaries for what we allow-- and don't allow-- on Blogger. Your post titled "The Chicago
Archdiocese now reporting sex abuse by multiple categories of clergy" was flagged to us for review. We have determined that it violates our
guidelines and have unpublished the URL
http://newgathering.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-chicago-archdiocese-now-reporting.html, making it unavailable to blog readers.
Why was your blog post unpublished?
Your content has violated our Spam policy. Please visit our Community Guidelines page linked in this email to learn more.
If you are interested in republishing the post, please update the
content to adhere to Blogger's Community Guidelines. Once the content is updated, you may republish it at
https://www.blogger.com/go/appeal-post?blogId=1315362208709650810&postId=4860033940412242594.
This will trigger a review of the post.
For more information, please review the following resources:
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Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
The "Spam" section reads:
ReplyDeleteDo not spam. This may include unwanted promotional or commercial content, unwanted content that is created by an automated program, unwanted repetitive content, nonsensical content, or anything that appears to be a mass solicitation.
Anne in the next to last comment has eight links with very few comments about each. Perhaps that triggered the spam police.
You are probably right, Jack. That possibility crossed my mind too. Too many urls. But I didn’t realize that they would be called spam or that anything was monitoring the comments that closely. A computer program. Sorry, Jim!
ReplyDeleteYes, an evil artificial intelligence quite possibly. I thought we had a nice, comfy, secluded niche here.
DeleteIt may be an evil artificial intelligence employed to detect other evil artificial intelligences that produce spam.
DeleteThis is the first I've heard of it. Pretty sure the post itself wouldn't qualify as spam. Not sure how much I should care.
ReplyDeleteI think that we should care because there is another possibility.
DeleteFrom https://www.blogger.com/report
We rely on blog readers to report content that they find inconsistent with Blogger's Community Guidelines. When something is reported, it's not automatically removed. Reported content is reviewed by human reviewers to verify it violates those Community Guidelines. If it does, it is removed from Blogger. The author won't know who made the initial report.
Somebody might have come across this post and been sophisticated enough to know how to make a report. So humans (the reporter, and a blogger representative) may have been involved.
If my comment was the problem, why didn’t I get a message? How many of us got the message? Jean wouldn’t, but the rest of us should have I would think. I certainly didn’t see anything offensive in Jack’s comments. Katherine, did you get the message? Stanley ?
DeleteGood results in the Fetterman v Oz race at least, Stanley. Since it’s the senate, good for the country too we hope.
No, I didn't get any messages. Unless I'm not seeing it?
DeleteIn spite of having to wear a boot now because of a fractured fibula, I felt happy today because of Fetterman's win. Now Oz can return to NJ or even Turkei, where he is a citizen.
DeleteOuch! Go easy on the gin, Stanley!
DeleteOh, no, Stanley! A friend in California is wearing a boot too because someone backed out of their garage while she was on the sidewalk and hit her. Prayers for both of you!
DeleteOoh, sorry about the broken bone, Stanley!
DeleteThanks, everybody. It's not bad. Not displaced, at the lower end. Hopefully I'll switch to something less clunky in two weeks. Just happy to be able to trundle around. Caught the fall on nestcam and edited out the language.
DeleteIf there is a way I can object to my post having been flagged for violating content policy, I haven't been able to find it. David or Jack, if either of you have a way of sending a message to the blogger.com team that reviews and makes these decisions, could you let them know that I would like an explanation for why it was flagged, and an opportunity to respond?
ReplyDeleteIf it was flagged because their bot misinterpreted the content, they certainly should be made aware of that (and they should correct the error).
If it was flagged because someone made a complaint, I should be given an opportunity to address the complaint. If there is something objectionable about the post, I'd be willing to consider correcting it. But as it stands now, I have no ideas what even could be objectionable about it.
Jim,
ReplyDeleteI suspect your post was (mis)classified as spam by some automated process. If you check the post (which you can still see as a draft), there should be an orange and white label reading "Request Review" in the upper right corner. If you click on that, it will trigger a review of the post by an actual human being. Hopefully that will result in the post being restored.