FYI/FWIW: Jon Chiappetta's Fedora/ARM blog @ Wordpress suspended for TOS violation (WTF?)

[Fernando Cassia]

Sorry to post it here, it would be more appropiate on the Fedora/ARM list,
but since Fedora is Fedora is Fedora, I'm posting it here. ;-)

Any idea as to why Wordpress might have decided to suspect Jon Chiappetta's
blog where he posted about Fedora/ARM among other FOSS things?

The blog's about page, still in Google's Cache (not for long I suspect)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ffossjon....

Short URL: http://goo.gl/6RqRs

His Fedora 18/ARM announcement last May
http://goo.gl/UIjdL

It currently displays:
"fossjon.wordpress.com is no longer available.

This blog has been archived or suspended for a violation of our Terms of
Service http://wordpress.com/tos/.
For more information and to contact us please read this support
documenthttp://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
."

Screenshot of the error message:
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4577/zab7.png

Really, what gives?? I can't think how a FOSS blog can violate the
Wordpress TOS...

The blog was featured today in the Fedora Planet blogroll and Fedora home
page, to boot, that's what got me to click and find the error message...

http://imageshack.us/a/img89/9045/9bmp.png

Unfortunately I don't have Jon's email address at hand right now to ask him
about it. Whatever it is, -hoping for an automated flagging gone wrong- I
hope it's fixed soon.

FC

[sankarshan]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Fernando Cassia  wrote:
> It currently displays:
> "fossjon.wordpress.com is no longer available.
>
> This blog has been archived or suspended for a violation of our Terms of
> Service.
> For more information and to contact us please read this support document."

Contacting WP and, explaining that this may be an error usually works.

--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

[Fernando Cassia]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:05 AM, sankarshan wrote:
> Contacting WP and, explaining that this may be an error usually works.

Thanks. Will try to find out the right contact venue for Wordpress
complaints.

As Jon's blog was in Planet Fedora's blogroll, I thought you guys might
want to know.

FC

[Fernando Cassia]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:05 AM, sankarshan wrote:
> Contacting WP and, explaining that this may be an error usually works.

All the links here
http://en.support.wordpress.com/disputes/
Seem to be to report "bad guys". Nothing I can see to report UNFAIR
shutdown of legit blogs.

Bed time for me. So I leave the assignement to someone else..
:-/

FC

[Chris Tyler]

On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 02:35 -0400, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:05 AM, sankarshan
>  wrote:
>         Contacting WP and, explaining that this may be an error
>         usually works.

Jon's already trying to talk to Wordpress about it. He says the shutdown
happened right after he uploaded a series of pictures entitled
'armNN.jpg' so it seems that a rather simplistic ruleset might have
tripped.

-Chris