The Real Blogger Status

One problem that we're seeing in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken involves blog owners, who recently discovered their blogs deleted or locked, by Blogger - and without any notice received. In other cases, people waiting for blog membership invitations - either as readers of a private blog, or members in a team blog - may wait, in vain. Account actions may be required with a blog deleted for a suspected TOS Violation, such as hosting malware, porn, or spam - or locked because of "suspicious activity" on the Blogger account. Why was my blog deleted? I never got proper notice! Too many people depend upon email notification - and may not receive proper notification, in all cases.

A few bloggers, recently, are trying to add a Feed gadget to one of their blogs, and as they do so, the "Configure Feed" wizard shows a mythical "Net-Temps Job Search Feed". This typically happens when the feed in question has not been activated. If you're seeing the "Net-Temps Job Search Feed" when trying to "Configure Feed", you'll find The Save button will be non responsive. You can't publish a Feed gadget configured for a non existent feed. As soon as you correct the problem Activate the feed for your blog (when the feed is for your blog). Hit "Change Feed URL" from the "Configure Feed" display with "Net-Temps Job Search Feed" displayed. Hit "Continue". you'll see the feed for your blog in the "Configure Feed" gadget window. And, you'll be able to publish the new Feed gadget. Before you can do step #2, though, you may experience a small amount of panic OMG, my b...