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The Disappearing Blogs
As i type this,my feelings range from disbelief, frustration,confusion and just downright anger.And i've been feeling this way for more than a week now. If you ever had the following happen to you,you would know exactly what i mean. On Feb 7th,on or about 12:30 pm ,I went to my Blogger account to check on my blogs, as i customarily do every day. All seemed fine, as i checked on each one and looked around a bit. I then left the Blogger site, looking around for any new things to add to my blogs and once i found what i was looking for, which took maybe a half hour or so, i returned to Blogger so i could add a post or 2 to them. Much to my surprise, shock and disbelief, ALL 3 of my blogs were gone from my dashboard, totally gone!All that was left was the "Create a Blog" link.
you can only imagine, the state of panic , i found myself in. "What happened to my blogs?"(Let me add here that in the 9 months my blogs have been online, nothing like this has ever happened to me before.) To make a "very" long story short,I extensively searched the Blogger website, looking for any kind of support i could find in order to rectify this issue. Anything i subsequently found, such as log in issues, blogs missing from dashboard(which you would imagine would supply the answer to my problem) was of no help whatsoever.I then clicked on a link to the Blogger help groups, where Google Bloggers post threads about the different problems and issues they may be having with their blogs,much to my utter surprise and to be truthful, a little bit of relief, I found dozens and dozens of Blogger account holders,complaining about the exact same issue as myself, their blogs were "missing" as well, disappeared, gone from their dashboard, with no explanation, nothing. Some complained of multiple blogs, as many as 10 to 15 disappearing at once and some on the same date I found mine to be gone. Dates ranging from Dec 2007 to the present day, with some having their blogs restored, but many with no resolution and no word from any Google employee as to how or why this could have happened.they've filled out forms, complained to the various Blogger support groups, posted messages(as i did as well)and received little or nothing in return.Oh, Yeah , a Google employee (no names mentioned here) happened to be reading the threads and suggested and i stress "suggested" that the problem may be a "possible" TOS(Terms of Service violation) You can imagine what that response incurred.While that may be a possible answer as to why some blogs have been deleted, it is insulting,unfair and completely unwarranted, for anyone to suggest that this was the possible cause for dozens and dozens of blogs to suddenly go missing, especially blogs that have been online for any length of time, as mine were and have never been given even a suggestion that we violated any terms of service.And while i fully understand that Blogger is a free service and you get what you "don't" pay for, one would think they could and should be far more supportive of their members , many such as myself, who've worked long and hard on our blogs,just to have them suddenly disappear without warning, or even a viable explanation. UPDATE:After more than a week , 2 of my blogs have been restored,no word as to why they disappeared in the first place, or how i got them back.but of course my main blog, my marketing and resources blog, the one i worked the hardest on is still MISSING,Guess all i can do is wait, Thanks Blogger.Update: My blog has been restored! Thank you , Google employee, your help was much appreciated.
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Hope this doesn't happen to you!
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This intel was contributed by mari610
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