That's right. "The Rise of the Machines" is upon us. Our former happy little blog (lavenderdreamstoo.blogspot.com) was suddenly terminated.
Why and how was it done? It wasn't
someone reporting us. It was Google's automated piece of software (a
bot) that roams the Blogger world looking for pre-programmed words of
woe. Once it detects something it kills the whole blog without warning.
Without any notification about these supposed offending words. Without
an opportunity to fix anything. Just ZAP ... your digital life is
deleted. Everything is gone!
Ten years of blogging, thousands of
posts, many thousands of photos, over ten thousand comments and a
hundred thousand heart-felt words all gone in an instant. Devastating!
Be warned all you innocents in blogland.
The blog was actually removed twice,
for "phishing". Which, as you all know, is absurd. We have never asked
for your personal, private information. The Appeals process reinstated
the blog the first time then the Google Bot zapped us again the next
day. But the second time we were locked out of the Appeals process. We
tried sending Feedback. Never got a answer. Tried to post to the Blogger
Help Community. They never published the post. Located twenty phone
numbers for Google. The numbers are all automated and only a couple
allowed you to leave a message. We left messages. Never got a callback.
Google/Blogger pronounces you guilty
using an "automated system" (their words) and gives you little or no
opportunity to prove otherwise. It's been a nightmare. (for more details
see the timeline post below)
So what choice do we have now that
Google/Blogger has burned down our blog? Like the Phoenix from Greek
mythology we shall rise from the ashes with this new blog. We will start
over and hope that our many friends and followers will be able to find
us and that they will never ever have to suffer the same fate.
Mr. Lavender D.
You
can imagine how devastating this has been to me. I appreciate my sweet
hubby taking the time to help me start a new blog. But can I ask all of
you to do me a favor? Will you please put a sentence or two in your next
post to let people know where I am and what has happened to me? You can
say that my blog was unfairly removed by Blogger and we are trying our
best to get it back, but for now I will post updates on the process
here:
lavenderdreamsnew.blogspot.com
And
also a plea to Blogger to bring back lavenderdreamstoo. We're a
supportive community! Maybe they will listen if we all voice our
consternation together!
You
have our permission to copy and paste any part or all of this post to
your social media. At the very least please post a few lines on your own
blog about what's happened to Lavender Dreams and include our new blog
address. Thanks. MrLD
