Having had an uplifting breakfast, split between my intention to get to the bottom of the WV situation and my intention to just start an alternative blog where I'd post when the other one is quarantined / crippled, thereby surviving the 24 hour buffer. So I come back, edit the previous post by pasting the relevant quote (in case the link to the discussion goes south somehow) and start looking for some further guidance specifically on google groups (here's my search query: site:groups.google.com "solving a captcha" ). Naturally, blogger help group proved to be most helpful, fetching me the following thread. Same Mishka OP posts:
Go to your blog and try to post to it from the blogger interface. IfI was getting ready to diligently follow said instructions, when OH MY - Google beat me to it! - the word verification was REMOVED. Just gone. The drafts were autosaving again. The sun came out. The children were laughing. Pure jubilance.
you have a captcha required before posting, then you blog is blocked
by the spam bot because you have been posting enough in one day to
trigger it. You'll need to click on the question mark near the captcha
(hold the control key down when you do this) and request a review to
get your blog unlocked...
Some questions that remain:
- It is still unclear why the algorithm for a whitelisting procedure is left essentially unexplained.
- Also, it is truly a Christmas mystery as to what happened to make WV rightfully unwelcome. It couldn't have been the 24 hour limit, no matter how you count, because WV only kicked in at around 7:09pm yesterday, 17 (12+5) hours or so ago. Some must have manually intervened, somewhere, somehow. But, yes, it is happily non-existent -- at least for this post.
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