Blog Ownership Transfer needed

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    Her answer is very good because she does explain the policy of wordpress.com very clearly.

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    tutoro · Member ·

    I have to assume that you guys cannot understand what you read from me…
    Again so that you understand (hopefully), I have followed the instructions given by timethief.
    BUT I did not get any answer from WP, my email account works correctly, so it is not likely that an email from WP could have gotten lost.

    timethief was smart, she may have registered her own family name for a blog on WP and then deleted it. But imagine if she would live in a small country and she is known to work with WP and someone else registers her family name for a WP blog and writes a hate sentence in the blog header and the blog would have no other content for many years, it would not have been used for almost six years. Is it far fetched to ask WP for deletion of that SPAM blog? Yes, it is spam if someone registers a blog with a person’s name, put a hate sentence in the header of the blog and doesn’t add any content. Such a site cannot be regarded as a blog anymore, but as a SPAM. Or do you call a wall sprayed with grafiti hate sentence as art and would you regard it as legitimate?

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    tutoro · Member ·

    @ notawoodpecker:
    SPAM starts with one blog. Then the Spammer registers further blogs with person names and writes a hate sentence in the header and adds no further content for almost six years.
    If you want to be smart and use another word for Spam, then feel free to do that, BUT it doesn’t change anything in the matter, do you get it??!
    I am not interested in a definition battle of a word. I bring forward a case that should be very impoirtant to WP. I like WP, that’s why I recommend WP to all people. So this thread should be regarded as a very valuable hint to take action against all such Spam site (you call it ‘blog’ just because it runs on WP…).
    What do you thing if many people register a WP blog with a person’s name and writes a hate sentence in the header and adds no further content for almost six years? Don’t you think it is against WP’s TOS? Or do you think that if only a few percent of all members do that, it would be okay?

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    notawoodpecker · Member ·

    Or do you call a wall sprayed with grafiti hate sentence as art

    Would you call graffiti on the back wall of an abandoned building Spam?

    Would you call attention to it after six years of no one noticing?

    How do you know this is directed at you?

    How do you know that whoever posted it so long ago even knew you existed then?

    You’ve been advised of site policy. WP is not obligated to act on your request. You are free to get a lawyer and seek a court order for removal.

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    1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    This post has discussed the options open to the original poster:
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-ownership-transfer-needed?replies=24#post-990066

    The only way to transfer ownership of a blog is with permission of the owner.

    If the blog in question is spam and/or is doing something against the TOS, then the original poster needs to report it as such. The blog will not be transferred if it is determined to be in violation of TOS: it will be suspended and not viewable by the public.

    The original poster can register a blog with a similar name.

    The original poster can register a domain name and use domain mapping.

    Further discussion about definitions of spam are irrelevant to the options available to the original poster.

    Therefore I will close this thread.

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