Banned by Slashdot - The RSS Blog</title

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:19:48 GMT

Every few months, I get the following or similar email.

I have just received a message via RSS that my headline reader has been banned [by Slashdot].

I investigated and found that this RSS reader is also subscribed to some of my feeds. It seems well behaved. Couldn't figure why it would be banned. I'm not personally subscribed to Slashdot, I find its content trivial, predictable and often immature, so I've never experienced a ban myself. That said, I think our friends at Slashdot need to get off their high horses. Also, while investigating, I found the following HTML on their homepage.

Obviously, a lame attempt at RSS auto-discovery. Hopefully somebody at Slashdot.org will read this and fix their behavioral and HTML issues.

Categories: feedstate

Reader Comments

Sat, 21 May 2005 17:15:59 GMT

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yeah, I can't get your blog to load either. Also I tried to create a blog on their site, and got sent a confirm link that doesn't work

Sat, 21 May 2005 20:47:34 GMT

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Oops! Myblogsite seems to be having a problem - I started a blog there yesterday and now I can't get it or any other Myblogsite blog to work. Their main homepage wont load either...

Mon, 23 May 2005 16:15:46 GMT

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Yeah, having same problem for past 3 days. I can post and edit but can't view. Anyone know what is up with them? It's was working great til then. I started mine in April.

Mon, 23 May 2005 23:50:49 GMT

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Confirmed, myblogsite.com seems to have adopted some Blogger.com behaviors.

ERROR: You have accessed this program via an invalid url: www.myblogsite.com

Randy

Tue, 24 May 2005 17:30:47 GMT

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myblogsite is back up again. TG.