Trent

But here in the USA such type of intimidation is shocking.

PS: I wasn't the one incriminating anyone and I always claim responsability for what I say. It was another real estate agent in Miami blogging his own opinions.

I’ve just read that a fellow real estate agent in Miami, also a blogger, was sued for $25 million for an opinion he wrote on his blog.

He allegedly said that a developer was facing a hard time with his new building, and had a previous bankruptcy in the 80’s. The developer is suing him for $25 millions, and he was then fired from his company right away.

You have the article there (and this is just a link, so the newspaper is free to move the information whenever they want): http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/397182.html

So after all having my blog suspended doesn’t appear that bad finally. But I feel bad for my colleague here. It seems that blogging starts to be a really dangerous business.

I felt I was like banned for bad behavior !!

Sounds familiar.

I am surprised also that they didn't answer me. I felt I was like banned for bad behavior !!

Thanks. Regards.

I wonder if their mail to you might have been sucked into your bulk/spam bin by error? You should check that... make sure their address is whitelisted and will get through to you. Many people think that can't happen to them, but I get a fair amount of mail from my readers, and some people end up in the spam bin for reasons I just can't imagine. I've just become used to having a quick look through that bin before I delete it.

Hope that helps.

FYI even crediting the source, you still can't take the whole thing. You can LINK to the whole thing, if the original source keeps it up, and take a snippet; this is extremely common.

I was kind of surprised that they didn't answer me at all.

I will let you know. As of the copyright problem, I always post the source of the article and the provenance. I do not pose as the writer, it will just be impossible to pretend that.

Actually, instead of posting my own opinion as a so called "expert", I wanted to show my sources, what I was reading, so people could read also and make their own opinions.

OK, I will let you know as soon as I know myself.

Thanks for your help. It feels good to have you guys reacting, I was kind of desperate.

Best regards.

PP

http://wordpress.com/contact-support/ (Mon-Fri 8am-4pm Pacific time) or using the "support" button in the upper right of your dashboard.

You need to ask staff directly via the Support button on your dashboard tomorrow during office hours.

I am enjoying the services of WordPress since more than one year now.

My blog http://realestatemiamifl.wordpress.com/ is now off since one month. I think it is for a violation of the Terms of Service but I don't know which one.

I put a lot of work for this year in this blog, where I store press articles related to the real estate market in Miami and the USA.

I started that because when I was sending press articles to clients, after sometime the original newspaper website will just suppress them and then the information just disappear. I wanted to start a blog where later everybody could consult an archive of real estate press articles.

I've sent a few emails to the support with no answer at all. I just wanted to know what I did wrong and correct it. At least have a chance to explain myself, and then correct what was bad in my behavior.

I know that many contributors here have access to the power in place at WordPress. Maybe they can tell me what I did wrong. And actually maybe others will also learn from my mistakes and don't do what I did wrong. It will serve as an example.

Well I hope this work at least, I had around 400 readers every day and I am not happy to see this work disappearing.

Thanks to anybody who can help. Best regards.

PP

There is no point in this thread continuing.

I have already contacted the support many times with no results.
I have already read the TOS and the other links about WordPress rules.
Google cache does not contain my deleted blog and I cannot retrieve my data from there.

Thank you for your help anyway.

I have a right to my opinion just as you have a right to yours.

(1) As volunteers can be of no service to bloggers with suspended blogs other than to provide these links and to direct the affected party to contact the staff member that suspended their blog ie. Mark.
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/my-blog-has-been-suspended/
http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/12/08/adsense/
http://wordpress.com/tos/

(2) And as there are 3 ways to contact staff: support button on the top right hand corner of any admin side blog page; support buttons at the top and bottom of the forum that link to http://wordpress.com/contact-support/ and, email support[at]wordpress[dot]com

(3) Then there is no useful purpose served by volunteers posting to such threads after the links have been provided. Mark will contact you either sooner or later and no amount of posting to the forum will expedite his response.

(4) If you had invested as much time and energy into retrieving your data from the Google cache as you have devoted to posting to this forum, then you would already have all the data that you lost back.

I have a right to my opinion just as you have a right to yours.

(1) As volunteers can be of no service to bloggers with suspended blogs other than to provide these links and to direct the affected party to contact the staff member that suspended their blog ie. Mark.http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/my-blog-has-been-suspended/
http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/12/08/adsense/
http://wordpress.com/tos/

(2) There are 3 ways to contact staff: support button on the top right hand corner of any admin side blog page; support buttons at the top and bottom of the forum that link to http://wordpress.com/contact-support/ and, email support[at]wordpress[dot]com

(3) There is no useful purpose served by volunteers posting to such threads after the links have been provided. Mark will contact you either sooner or later and no amount of posting to the forum will expedite his response.

(4) If you had invested as much time and energy into retrieving your data from the Google cache as you have devoted to posting to this forum, then you would already have all the data that you lost back.

If support is closed, then their only way of asking why their blog was suspended is posting on the forum. A couple of weeks ago several bloggers had their blogs suspended because of a glitch. Support could be closed and so how would the administrators know what's going on in order to fix the problem, TOS violation or not?

If support is closed, then their only way of asking why their blog was suspended is posting on the forum. You know that this is absolutely untrue. You know this because you yourself have given out the email address posted above.

@timethief
What do you think about shooting or hanging immediately the people who are suspected to violate the TOS? :-)

I only learned from this bad experience that WordPress in not the right place to create a blog.

But as you point out and as pointed out somewhere else there are always genuine errors which could've let to this. And I'm all for second chances and so on.

Again though: We are pretty much all volunteers who have no access and it's much easier getting hold of support via email/support form/etc.

How do you even know that wordpress didnt make a mistake? As another individual blogger i think roscre deserves the benefit of the doubt.

I'm strongly in favor of these people have their ability to post to this forum "disabled" at the same time as their blogs are suspended.

If support is closed, then their only way of asking why their blog was suspended is posting on the forum. A couple of weeks ago several bloggers had their blogs suspended because of a glitch. Support could be closed and so how would the administrators know what's going on in order to fix the problem, TOS violation or not?

I'm scatching my head in wonderment and wondering if there isn't some kind of cultural gap here. So what's the real issue? A blog scraping thief wants his ill gotten gains back. My answer is: no way!

(1) His data is stolen blog posts and he expects to get the stolen goods back. Get real!
(2) Worse still some seem to expect Mark to sort and sift through "data" and retain and restore only the data which was not stolen.
(3) So what if he paid for css editing. He can have the css editing applied to another blog.

I'm strongly in favor of these people have their ability to post to this forum "disabled" at the same time as their blogs are suspended.

Trent

besides WP, there are quite a few of other freeware toys on the yard. just pick up which one that has more value for you.

> That means that i'm all by myself right? Like no big company controls me i'm making the blog on my own.

before buying a service, check up the ToS of your web hosting provider and ask all the potential questions, search their support forums and certainly other references (forums could be policed and folks hanging in there may be way too fanboy-ish and mislead you).

Thats kind of scary they can just erase you like that with no warning or anything. I've been thinking about getting a wordpress.org thing too. That means that i'm all by myself right? Like no big company controls me i'm making the blog on my own.

And that.. for those who don't know me, isn't a flame. It's how I present such dilemnas to my teens. Life is about learning from your mistakes. Take responsibility for them, learn and move on.

it doesn't look like the OP said he needs any of that moral teaching, or like this forum is supposed to be a boot camp. so why don't just one save that jaws (360 words) for the teens of their own?

what the OP did say, in fact, is that he just wants to get his own data back.