Although I felt too burned out late yesterday afternoon to care to endure creating even a short post here, there was another reason for not blogging: discouragement.
The afternoon had been sunny and hot, and I had spent well over an hour out in the backyard sunning while wearing naught but a pair of swimming trunks.
When I later came into the house and got around to visiting my webmail Inbox, I found two message that had arrived from ─ believe it or not ─ this very Blogger platform itself.
The first message had arrived at 3:45 p.m.:
Hello, As you may know, our community guidelines (https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy) describe the boundaries
for what we allow – and don't allow – on Blogger. Your post
entitled 'My Wife's Garden Hatchet-Job' was flagged to us
for review. We have determined that it violates our
guidelines and deleted the post, previously at http://siamlongingsunfulfilled.blogspot.com/2021/03/
my-wifes-garden-hatchet-job.html. Why was your blog post deleted? Your content has violated our malware and viruses policy.
Please follow the community guidelines link in this email to
learn more. We encourage you to review the full content of your blog
posts to make sure that they are in line with our standards as
additional violations could result in the termination of your blog. For more information, please review the following resources: Terms of Service: https://www.blogger.com/go/terms Blogger community guidelines: https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy Yours sincerely, The Blogger Team
The second message had arrived two minutes later:
Hello, As you may know, our community guidelines (https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy) describe the boundaries
for what we allow – and don't allow – on Blogger. Your post
entitled 'I Was a Victim of Facebook's "Fact Checkers"' was
flagged to us for review. We have determined that it violates
our guidelines and deleted the post, previously at http://siamlongingsunfulfilled.blogspot.com/2021/03/
i-was-victim-of-facebooks-fact-checkers.html. Why was your blog post deleted? Your content has violated our malware and viruses policy.
Please follow the community guidelines link in this email to
learn more. We encourage you to review the full content of your blog
posts to make sure that they are in line with our standards as
additional violations could result in the termination of your blog. For more information, please review the following resources: Terms of Service: https://www.blogger.com/go/terms Blogger community guidelines: https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy Yours sincerely, The Blogger Team
Both posts had been "flagged" for review, and Blogger had subsequently determined that the two posts violated their guidelines, so they had deleted them.
Did that mean that some visitor to my blog had anonymously complained about the two posts?
I was then chastised without any clear explanation of what I had done wrong, except that: "Your content has violated our malware and viruses policy."
Malware and viruses? What did that have to do with anything on my two posts?
If somehow there was an infection of malware and / or viruses, my entire blog would have been involved ─ not just two posts which, after being surgically removed, would render the rest of my blog healthy once more.
So what in blazes was going on? Tell me what exactly was so criminal about the two posts!
This completely deflated me, and I had no resolve remaining to make a blog that day. After all, how many more of my posts were going to be summarily deleted for no explained reason?
Well, overnight I received two more messages ─ one at 2:52 a.m., and the other at 2:56 a.m., essentially reporting the following:
Hello, We have re-evaluated the post[s] against community guidelines https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy. Upon review, the post[s] [have]
been reinstated. You may access the post[s]. Yours sincerely, The Blogger team
So had somebody ─ a visitor ─ lodged a malicious complaint about the posts, and Blogger then immediately deleted them without even bothering to first check them out? A complainer wins out over a Blogger of many years standing?
Yes, this blog was only begun in January 2019, but I have a private blog that has been in existence since 2008. It used to be public until January 2019, but I was obliged to render it private during that month and thus started up this anonymous blog as the original's public replacement.
So some jerk complained out of malicious intent, and Blogger immediately deleted the posts without first verifying that there was any substance to the complaint?
Then after someone finally did look at the two posts, they were reinstated a little more than 11 hours later. The complaint had been deemed false.
I felt such offence over the unwarranted censorship that I began checking into migrating my blog to a hosted website where I would have full control of what my content was about. I even sent off an enquiry to webhost Porkbun asking them pointedly if they would react in similar fashion if someone or some monitoring anti-free speech entity approached them to have my posts deleted, or maybe even seek to have my website shut down?
As yet I have not received a response.
I had downloaded a copy of this blog just in case more posts were deleted, for it is my understanding that it is indeed possible to migrate an entire Blogger blog to a hosted website that is using the Wordpress website-building or management system.
I already have two hosted websites on one account at Porkbun, so I figured that I would set up a distinct third website on a separate account with them.
I still may well do that.
But what I will definitely do for now is download my Blogger blog each time that I publish a new post just in case this affrontery does happen again, and the deleted material does not thereafter get reinstated. If a post is deleted by Blogger, it is forever lost. So at least I will have any such post in its entirety as part of the blog download that I will have made beforehand.
I think that the only other topic I care to venture upon today is mention of the most interesting Odessa Orlewicz video that my younger brother and I watched late yesterday morning on T.V. via our Android TV Box. She had live-streamed the video on Thursday: May 13th- I Interview Nova Scotian Ex Mason Joe Hazelton Who Left Masonry And Turned To God.
The interview video was not much under two hours in duration, but definitely interesting, as I said. My brother and I do look forward to any follow-ups with the gent.
I have two photo that I want to present now that I took during the latter noon hour today while my younger brother was in the front yard doing some weed-whacking. At the same time, my eldest (26 years old) stepson was getting set to ride off on his Harley-Davidson with some friend who had ridden his own bike here and was stationed out at the mouth of the driveway:
The pair of photos were candid shots that I took through our living room window. Unfortunately, I failed to recognize that the amount of zoom I used with the second photo was too unsubstantial.
However, if I had zoomed much more with that second photo, I would have been unable to get both my brother and the bikers in the same photo.
My brother never did seek a nap after that chore before he headed away for the afternoon to resume his daily drinking somewhere. My youngest stepson (23 years old) was at work, so when my photo subjects both left me home alone, I went out into the backyard awhile later and again put in over an hour of sunning commencing at 2:45 p.m.
And I think that's enough of a report for today. I would like to have a can of strong (8% beer) beer and watch some T.V. now that my evening is underway.
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