retiringboomer.wordpress.com is no longer available.
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Why is my site retiringboomer.wordpress.com is no longer available?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Someone at WordPress Corp. believes you broke the WordPress TOS. There’s nothing anyone in the Forum can do to help you, you’ll have to contact WordPress support directly — there should be a link on your dashboard asking you to do just that. If there was a miscommunication they can have your site up and running again soon.
Good luck.
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Thanks
I have read the terms of service that was highlighted and there is no way I have violated there terms of service. Unless linking back to my website and guest bloggers linking back to their websites is considered a violation? -
This i sthe portion that was highlighted
the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
Does not make sense
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If you can go to the dashboard there, contact staff from the link they gave you. It will take awhile for them to get back to you. And yes, in some circumstances linking as you say COULD be a violation. They might also say “we did the wrong thing” and open your site back up.
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But why i slinking to my own site a violation? I write articles on financial planning for the benefit of my clients Am I not permitted to provide a link back to my site?I di dsubmit my request to them a few hours ago.
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We can’t answer. Staff can. You need to deal directly with them via your Dashboard.
If it’s encouraging, I’ve been suspended more than once and I challenged it and in all cases they said, “Sorry, we’re reinstating you.”
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Well that is somewhat encouraging. It would be helpful if I have done something wrong for them to notify first me so I can correct it instead of freaking me out in the middle of posting my latest article.
Am I stuck until Monday before hearing from them?
Thanks
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TOS never sleeps – but we in the Forum have know way of knowing what their schedule or backlog is.
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Thanks everyone for your comments. I will just have to wait until I hear back from them.
It is rather ironic that this just happened as yesterday I hired a web designer to design a new website and they highly recommended I move my blog to their hosted service as they pointed out that WordPress will shut down blogs without notice. I did not take their comment seriously until tonight. I guess I will have to take them up on their offer. Can’t take the risk of having this happen on a regular basis or even have the fear that it might happen without notice. -
Even if there is something wrong, they generally give you a chance to correct it. Hopefully they will get back to you shortly.
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It must be said: independent consultants ALWAYS pressure you to move to a platform they can make more money. I’m not saying this is their modus operandi, but I have seen it.
WP.com will indeed shut down blogs without notice if they are in violation of the Terms of Service they agreed to at the beginning. Review those if you’re worried.
I’vve been suspended. I appealed. They were like “oops, sorry, all good” and I’ve had four million hits since then.
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Also, it must be said, other web hosts will shut sites down without notice too. Hell, I shut a couple down each week.
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…some kind of WordPress TOS security level between “okay” and “terminate” would be a good idea.
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I have seen a few cases where they suspended the ability to Post to a blog but left the blog up while they did a final determination –
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From a client relations perspective I would rather see that they give notice of a violation and give a reasonable frame to correct the violation if there is any or a chance to argue one’s case before shutting someone down. This is too harsh as this leaves me and others wondering what we have done wrong if anything. It is just good client service.
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