Weblogs com opposes circumcision!

Having one weblog with ’sex’ within the name and another with those three deadly letters in the path I’ve bitched that weblogs.com won’t accept my pings without my indulging in shenanigans.

For my sexuality weblog, which has the offending, string in its path I ping referencing a subdomain. For the one with s-e-x in the name I often make up whatever name amuses me. Today I was posting a satire of Christian opposition to gay marriage that was rephrased in terms of a defense of circumcision. On a whim I put circumcision as part of the weblog name. Weblogs.com returned “access denied.”

I’m getting ready to simply stop doing the manual pings. Bloglines and many other services send their bot around. If your blogrolling service doesn’t check blo.gs then I guess you’ll have to trust your luck (this might sound arrogant but one of my weblogs is currently receiving 15K unique visitors a day, mostly from search engines but it is reasonably well blogrolled).

In refusing certain sexually themed keywords weblogs.com is playing a losing game. None of the ping spammers I’m aware of them use them. They are too canny. Being smarter than whoever is managing weblogs.com they all hit it repeatedly without ever having their access denied.

Originally posted 2004-04-21 10:27:01. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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