Blog is blocked

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  eyeinform · Member · Jan 19, 2011 at 3:57 am

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  My blog has been blocked by WordPress.com. There is a warning on the top of the dashboard to contact support. I did a number of times and so far there is no reply.

  I have 16 articles and have no idea what part of the content they are referring to. There is no information in the warning about what exactly I need to do to unblock my blog.

  Any information or suggestion to get a hold of support to resolve this would be much appreciated.

  Thank you.

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 19, 2011 at 4:36 am

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  Hi. We forum volunteers have no authority over that. It’s between you and staff so you should contact them directly by following the link on the warning message. If for any reason you are unable to access that link, click below:

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 19, 2011 at 5:10 am

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  That’s pretty easy to explain.

  From a quick look at your Googlecache, it seems the blog was entirely designed to send people to your website to purchase the eyewear you retail. Blogs whose entire purpose is to send traffic to an external website are not allowed here, nor is retailing something that you, yourself, didn’t make. That means fine artists, craftspeople, and authors are allowed to sell the things they make. Things that you have someone manufacture? Not allowed.

  I’m not staff, but I’ve been here many years and those are always going to get you in trouble. You’ll be much better off to get an export file of the blog and buy some external webspace in which to run WordPress software from WordPress.org. Then you don’t have those Terms of Service restrictions at all.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 19, 2011 at 5:15 am

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  Terms of Service, #2, 5th bullet point.

  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

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  sl1k · Member · Jan 19, 2011 at 7:14 am

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  [Closing thread due to forum policy]

  Thanks in advance.
  S^K