Dec 15, 2008
Banned on Technorati!
Apparently my blogging is an evil that shan’t be unleashed upon the world, or so say the folks at Technorati.
Why have my insane ramblings been banned? I know not why.
I first noticed something was up when I logged in to Technorati to update a few items in my profile. For some reason my blog claim was gone!? I looked around to see if I could spot a reason why, but there was nothing there indicating the reason why my little patch of cyberspace had disappeared.
Oh well, no problem, I figured I’d just reclaim my blog, as I’m not one of those evil “Authority” wranglers who does things to specifically increase their ranking, and frankly didn’t care if I had to start afresh with my ranking. Truly, I don’t care much about my ranking on Technorati, but I do like being listed.
You can imagine my surprise when I was greeted by the above message! I’VE been flagged!? Good heavens, why?
Surfing on over the the Blog Quality Guidelines yields a fairly benign list of DO’s and DON’Ts that I believe I am absolutely in compliance with. My use of WordPress covers most of the technical requirements, so the easily drawn conclusion is that they somehow dislike my content, style or topics?
I don’t over-tag, post spam or over-link. I don’t post with commercial intent. I don’t belong to even a single affiliate system. In short, I don’t do ANYTHING to try to game their damn system. Yet, I’m banned.
So, I figured it was a simple case of misunderstanding. As their “Troubleshooting” section advises, I filled out their support contact form and have waited for a response. A month has gone by and I haven’t heard a thing. Google can respond within a day to issues, despite being used by 10 bazillion times the number of people. In fact, they sometimes respond within minutes. Technorati? Not within a month.
Well Technorati, you can take your haughty attitude and stick it up your ass, right next to your head.
Consider yourselves BANNED TOO! Never will a Technorati tag be used on this site again. HA! Take that you arrogant bastards!
And, if YOU have a complaint, you can use MY complaint form below.
Hell , if my webpage can (and does) past muster with Technorati, yours surely can. Probably some automated script somewhere got a hair up its nether regions and did something creative – hopefully your support ticket will smack it back into place.
Thanks bud! I don’t imagine that I’ll EVER hear from them. If they can’t get back to me within a month, I doubt they care very much at all. Maybe I’ll try submitting another ticket, but I’m not hopeful.
Oh well…