Friday, December 7, 2007

Whitelist won't save you now

From this help article, descriptively titled: Why do I have word verification on my posting form?

Potential Spam

In this case, word verification is applied to certain potential spam blogs by an automated system. Because this is automated there will necessarily be some false positives, though we're continually working on improving our algorithms to avoid these. If your blog is one of the false positives, we apologize. Having the word verification on your posting form does not prevent you from publishing and does not mean that your blog will be deleted or otherwise punished if it is not actually in violation of our policies.

To avoid further inconveniences when publishing, click the "?" (question mark) icon next to the word verification on your posting form

The funny thing is that the link of this help article IS THE QUESTION MARK LINK. They are one and the same. Morning Star, Evening Star. That's some heavy self-referencing going on. Meaning, that they NEVER actually tell you the link where you can go in order to WHITELIST yourself clean of any suspicion.

But even if there was such a link, whitelisting isn't all it cracked up to be. Reading on:

High Posting Rate

If you make a large number of posts in a single day, you will be required to complete a word verification for each one, independent of whether your blog has been cleared as a potential spam or not. If this happens to you, simply complete the word verification for each post, or wait 24 hours, at which point it will be removed automatically.

This restriction is in place as much to control the load on our servers as to prevent explicit spam. Therefore, there is not a whitelisting review process to exempt individual blogs.

So the server is getting tired, I see. Poor server.

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