Last Tuesday 27Apr21, I received an email from blogger.com informing me that this blog, "mybiblereadinglog.blogspot.com" had been removed because it violated Blogger's Community Policy for SPAM.
This came as a shock to me because I use this blog only to keep a log of my daily reading of Bible passages. I have been maintaining this blog since 14May2020, and over these twelve months, I have painstakingly built up a long record of my progress, including summary pages of start and finish dates for each book of the bible that I have finished reading.
I have immediately filed a request for a review on the same day 27Apr21, but I did not receive any reply from Blogger.
I decided to search for online help, and managed to stumble on Blogger's Help Community where I noticed several other bloggers were similarly locked out of their blogs and were wrongly accused of violating Blogger Community Policy on SPAM: all on the same day 27Apr21! Like me, they were also looking for someone who could help them out of their predicament.
So I posted a call for help on the Community on Sat 01May21, and was glad to get a reply from a Platinum Product Expert named travler, who asked for the url of this blog.
The next day on Sun 02May21, I logged in to blogger to check the status and to my surprise, my earlier request for review on 27Apr21 had been removed / ignored. A warning message under "Info" said that my blog has been locked and will be removed in 84 days. However, a "Request for Review" button was available below the Info. I proceeded to click on the button, after which the Info displayed the following message:
Note: this blog has been locked
We received the request for a review on May 2, 2021.
Blogger will re-evaluate the blog to verify it is not in violation of Community Guidelines.
I promptly informed Platinum Product Expert travler about my second request for review. Travler replied that he / she would also file a request on my behalf too.
Happily, and thankfully, I received an email from Blogger yesterday Tue 04May21, informing me that this blog had beeen reinstated. Since this is a personal blog of my own Bible reading progress, I have decided to change the reader visibility to "authors only" for the time being as a precaution against being wrongly reported for SPAM again by bots prowling around on the web looking for its next victim.
As an added precaution against being wrongly identified as a SPAM blog, I will be posting all future entries of my bible reading progress as a narrative in paragraph form, and no longer as a list of bible chapters and verses I read for the day. I will also change the title of each post from merely stating the day and date of my entry to a short title indicating the nature / circumstances / extent / occasion of my devotional reading for that day.
I will release the reader access visibility back to Public access in a few days' time.
