fanpop Article: UNIVERSAL WARNING -- PLEASE READ

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posted by malloy

For reasons as of yet unknown, fanpop seems to have something against the website b l o g s p o t . c o m -- posting enlaces from this site will cause tu to get temporarily suspended.
We first noticed this when I tried to link a blog from that site with my 'main' account, lucius_malloy, and got temporarily suspended. Later this happened with a total of six other accounts: luciusmalloy (my first back-up account), harrypotterbest, Accio_Pandorica, lumiss, Gemonkus and germany123.
We have contacted fanpop about this issue and are hoping for a reply soon, but in the mean time, we are warning tu against posting enlaces from the site-that-shall-not-be-named for fear of suspension. Feel free to test out this theory if tu want, but it is advised tu do it with a separate account created for this purpose. If tu do get banned because of this o have at some point gotten banned because of this, please inform me por either commenting on this articulo o escritura on my muro so we can add tu to the lista of banned users.
Today is 4/2/2011. I sent fanpop a letter yesterday, 3/2/2011, in which I explained the problem and asked for a response. If I have not gotten one por 6/2/2011, I will post that letter as an articulo in this spot and others, and possibly write a new one.
Thank you, and stay safe!
Emma
a.k.a. lucius_malloy o malloy

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misanthrope86 Thanks cassie, you got more information outta her than I did! Detail is key when trying to work out a problem like this. SO, you were posting those links within a FORUM, not the links section? You didn't say that before. But I think you have your answer write there: spam filter. If you tried posting the same link repeatedly within a forum, I think the spam filter would for sure have picked that up as spam. Like cassie said, knowing what was posted (I know you said a couple of blogs, but you didn't say anything about the content, like I asked) and if you had said that these links were posted in a forum right from the start, that would have made things even clearer even quicker. Details, details, details. Thanks cassie and germany for backing me up on this, because I was starting to think I had gone insane.

Italktosnakes Well, I don't know about the others, but I just wrote blog spot (dot) com (All in full, obviously), and I wrote it on my own personal wall. :) x

malloy THANK YOU, Accio. Now could some one tell me why a link would get caught in the spam filter if it's posted in a forum? I've posted plenty of links in forums before. And if you really think it'll make a difference, here's the links I posted: - ilostthegame dot blog spot dot com (posted twice) - stellaandy dot blog spot dot com (posted once) Then I mentioned my suspicions on that very same forum, and asked whether someone would be willing to test is. harrypotterbest tried and got suspended, as did later lumiss, Accio_Pandorica and Gemonkus.

MissKnowItAll I just wrote \\b/l/o/g/s/p/o/t/./c/o/m// (in full) on a comment and the comment was deleted and my account suspended.

misanthrope86 Spam-like comments are also picked up by the spam filter, not just spam links. If you post the same thing multiple times, Fanpop interprets that as spam. And since all that happened in the same forum, I am 99% certain that you and your friends got trapped in the spam filter. Whether you believe that or not is up to you.

malloy I don't believe it for a freaking reason, okay? That forum has seen pages filled with posts saying simply "SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM", which is why I'm finding it exceedingly hard to believe that posting a link got me banned the very first time I ever did it.

cassie-1-2-3 I don't think the spam filters would detect the actual word "spam". If that were the case, it would be against the rules to talk about canned meat as well. Legit spammers wouldn't post "spam spam spam" repeatedly, so there's no reason to go after that. Perhaps posting "spam spam..." at rapid speed over and over again (a.k.a. copy/paste) would do it. That forum is over 1000 pages long and filled with random conversation. I would guess with confidence that blogspot links have been posted 100+ times there. As I'm not sure about spam filters and timing, perhaps it has reached it's quota? I don't know, it's a random guess. As for the individual users, perhaps you guys have also posted blogspot links and the detectors are following you? Since they appear to be random links not posted in the links section.

cassie-1-2-3 Maybe a person who doesn't constantly post blogspot links should try it. Someone with a different IP

malloy I've been on that forum since page 115 or so, and as far as I can remember, there's never been any BS links posted. and maybe not the word spam, but an entire page filled with separate posts saying spam? some filters.

Italktosnakes I didn't post mine in the forum, and I still got suspened :L x And I didn't even know what blogspot was before this. Also, my sister (who never goes on this and has a different IP) tried it on a Justin Bieber Forum (I don't know which one) and she's suspended. I don't really care whether it's to do with it or not. All I care about is that if it ism it can be sorted out, so either everyone knows, or it's fixed :L x

youknowit101 from what i read, the filters are sort of new

germany123 this is making my head hurt

germany123 tell me what to post and i will! send it to me in a message with instructions! i wanna get banned

GerleyStinson YAY first ban EVAR! i lost my banginity okay NOOOOOW i get it. you really do just need to type "blogspot. com" on your wall and it gets you! how odd..this needs to be fixed! now i get it and now i believe you, lol

caramelmilk ^XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD GERMS

GerleyStinson i iz banned! my life is over!!!!! OMG diz is so UNFAIR TEH FANPOOP SUXX!!! my medals are lost...or...SOMETHING SOMETHING BLIND RAGE!!!

caramelmilk Do not be afraid! The Dasm and I are already working on a plan to get you back!!! (XDDD)

malloy no worries - it'll come back in three days, always assuming it follows the pattern.

caramelmilk ^It will come back? Meh and I thought we finally found the answer to the question "How do I delete my account?"

Cinders Now this begs the question, is it just blogspot or is it other sites as well?

GerleyStinson i was planning to ask papa that AS SOON AS i get my account back. they better revise those spam filters

misanthrope86 Wow. I was wrong. Sorry about that malloy. Sounded too insane to be true. Still sounds too insane to be true. But it is for sure a glitch in the Fanpop system.

malloy ah, it's fine. but hey, I just got a response from Dave - apparently, there's been some problems with spammers using Blogger sites, which is why the links got caught in the spam filters. so technically, I was kinda wrong too... but it's all good now. the banned accounts should come back (except for germany123, I dunno about that one, since it wasn't in the original letter).

cassie-1-2-3 If you really want to share a blogspot link, you can try and put it through a url changer before posting it, such as tinyurl.com or shorturl.com

courtster769 do not read soz. [ exept the 1s on my keyboard ... ha ha ha ]

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Kathiria82

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Anecdote One
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