We see some people, posting in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, who have problems with blogs under team ownership, and abuse classification.
In most cases, when a Blogger account or blog is deleted or locked, the owner of the account or blogs affected should see an online notification, and / or receive email informing of the action taken.
There are several reasons why notification - email or online - may not always be provided.
The team blog ownership relationship appears to provide one more reason for lack of notification.
Both Blogger accounts deleted for non repentant abusive activity, and Blogger accounts locked when suspicious / unusual activity is detected, appear to present this complication, with blogs under team ownership.
When a Blogger account is deleted after the owner repeatedly produces TOS violations, all blogs owned by the account are apparently deleted. It's possible that, when a blog is deleted, team ownership issues are overlooked in the blog deletion process - and the blog simply disappears from the dashboards of the other team members. It's also possible that this is a predictable group action - comparable to affiliate network detection.
When a Blogger account is locked after suspicious / unusual activity is detected, all owned blogs simply disappear from the dashboard of the owner. Blogs owned by a locked account are under automatic security review, with no appeal by the owner being possible. Team administrators are unlikely to have any alternative appeal opportunity, for a blog under review when an owning account is locked.
The latter two scenarios represent two reasons why, if we see the complaint in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken
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My blog was deleted as spam but I don't spam! BTW, one of the other administrators of my blog recently had his Google account blocked.We've observed, a few times, that team blog relationships create interesting complications, with various Blogger issues - and this appears to represent yet one more complication.
In most cases, when a Blogger account or blog is deleted or locked, the owner of the account or blogs affected should see an online notification, and / or receive email informing of the action taken.
There are several reasons why notification - email or online - may not always be provided.
- Blogger accounts, based on bogus or inactive email addresses, will not provide email notification.
- A person who uses multiple Blogger accounts, accidentally or intentionally, will only see the dashboard for the account currently logged in.
- An owner of a Blogger account, recently unlocked after detected suspicious / unusual activity, will see only an empty dashboard, when logging in.
The team blog ownership relationship appears to provide one more reason for lack of notification.
- Administrators of blogs under team ownership may not see notification, when one of the team members has a Blogger account deleted or locked.
Both Blogger accounts deleted for non repentant abusive activity, and Blogger accounts locked when suspicious / unusual activity is detected, appear to present this complication, with blogs under team ownership.
When a Blogger account is deleted after the owner repeatedly produces TOS violations, all blogs owned by the account are apparently deleted. It's possible that, when a blog is deleted, team ownership issues are overlooked in the blog deletion process - and the blog simply disappears from the dashboards of the other team members. It's also possible that this is a predictable group action - comparable to affiliate network detection.
When a Blogger account is locked after suspicious / unusual activity is detected, all owned blogs simply disappear from the dashboard of the owner. Blogs owned by a locked account are under automatic security review, with no appeal by the owner being possible. Team administrators are unlikely to have any alternative appeal opportunity, for a blog under review when an owning account is locked.
The latter two scenarios represent two reasons why, if we see the complaint in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken
My blog has disappeared from my dashboard, and is not online!One initial question should be
Was the blog under team ownership?
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