A SPAM Blog, according to Blogger Help:

Blogs engaged in this behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.

Spam blogs cause various problems, beyond simply wasting a few seconds of your time when you happen to come across one. They can clog up search engines, making it difficult to find real content on the subjects that interest you. They may scrape content from other sites on the web, using other people's writing to make it look as though they have useful information of their own. And if an automated system is creating spam posts at an extremely high rate, it can impact the speed and quality of the service for other, legitimate users.

The reason why I haven't been posting the past few days is that my blog was marked as "SPAM" and I was unable to publish anything.

I searched on Blogger Help Group for advice and all the affected Blogger customers said to me in unison that all I could do is "wait".

Wait you say? According to the "warning" email I got from them, they said "We'll take a look at your blog and unlock it in less than a business day" Dumbass bitches. I thought I liked Google but not as much anymore.

Now hear this. Supposedly the reason why they didn't respond sooner was because there are too many complaint emails such as mine for them to go through so it could take more than a day. If that's the case, then read this other sentence they gave me in the email:

Please note, if we don't hear from you, we will remove your blog within 20 days.

So basically, let me rephrase it for you, if you don't get to the response email from the customers in time, you'll remove their blog?

Tell me if that's fair.

Now all the people who got their blogs marked spam, most of the blogs were journal blogs like this one. But guess what? I didn't only get this one marked, my Dog Lovers' Club one, a charity, a Dog Rescue blog, got marked as spam also.

How infuriating is that?

In my Oh See blog case, I understand that their spambots might have made some mistakes because I have lots of links and it's a big blog with lots of contents so it's easy to make mistakes.

But for the Dog Blog, I know exactly why it got marked.

See the NavBar up there? The black one with the search and this button called "Flag".

It's compulsory for all free Blogger users to have it and that flag button is one of their ways of fighting spam blogs.

What that button is for is that if someone sees that a blog is a potential spam blog with 'objectionable' content, they can click that button and info will be sent to Blogger.

So now you ask why the Dog Blog got marked?

You know who's behind the project right?

Thais always judge the book by its cover. They don't care if the blog is for a good cause. They don't care about all the starving puppies and the two old ladies who have to sacrifice their lives for the animals. They don't care about the goodness the project brings and how it can improve so many lives.

They see the name of the person who runs it, and like I said, they never care about what the person does, they only care about themselves and how they think of the person. So if they don't like the person, everything else related to that person shouldn't be treated objectively.

They see the blog, see the name, the Thai thinking sets in, skip the content and head for that flag button.

I know Blogger installed that NavBar with good intentions but people do not always have that.

Here's my dilema.

It is possible to remove the NavBar with some form of code but, being such a good service that they are, they don't say whether the removal of that bar will result in any punishment. So if the removal means deletion, they I shouldn't do it. But if keeping the bar means getting blacklisted, I should do it.

What to do?