Why was I shut down?

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  patrickries · Member · Jun 14, 2011 at 9:46 pm

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  I was making a blog for an Australian Rap Battle league, and I came on this morning after hours of work on it last night and it said it was shut down for breach of terms of service. I had a look at the terms of service and three passages were highlighted (see bottom). If it was for copyright issues with the videos, I would like you too know that I had the express permission to make the Blog from the president of “Got Beef?”. Could you get back to me on this as soon as possible, with a reason as to why the blog was shutdown, or even reinstate the blog.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 14, 2011 at 9:50 pm

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  If you contacted us through the “click here to contact us” link in the notice on your Dashboard, our ToS department definitely received your request, and they’ll be getting back to you ASAP.

  As a policy, please refrain from discussing ToS issues on the public forums.

  Thank you for your patience!