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Those who are engaging in active blogging and have a heavily loaded blogs should be careful regarding what they share on their blogs. It is good to create a buzz to draw your share of attention to your blogs by posting some exciting content but you should be careful not to draw upon yourself the wrath of Google. The latest story that was out on the web was one such classic example.

Scamp is one of the most popular blogs of the UK ad industry and this blog is managed by Simon Veksner who works in the advertising field. This blog which is hosted in Google has been blocked by Google after it was found to have some “hate speech” in its comments on Friday. After I came to know about this I went to Scamp to check what kind of blog it was out of curiosity and to my surprise it is a PR5 blog. The man’s heart must have sunk when he realized that his PR5 blog was blocked by Google.

Google blocked this blog after someone complained to Google’s hate crimes division. This is something new again, not many bloggers like us are aware of; you cannot post any blogs or comments on blogs that elicits hate feelings towards a particular group or country. Google unblocked the blog today after the removal of those comments from the Scamp blog. Since Friday up until today, those who visited this blog only saw a note that read that the blog has violated the Blogger terms of service.

The owner of the blog Veksner reported that he has not been informed by Google regarding which blog exactly elicited this action from Google. As per his speculation he presumes that there were some comments relating to the Sauce Poll could have been the reason. He presumes that the comments to the following poll question must have caused this, “Who in an ad agency you would prefer to date?” He reported to the media that he has deleted all the comments which he thought were offensive and as per his policy he does not normally delete comments unless they are intended to be offensive. Some of the comments that are intended to be witty can be interpreted to be offensive. Since Google’s Blogger platform is a free one, lot of bloggers prefer to use Blogger including Veksner.

We just need to be little more cautious about our own posts and the comments that we get for our posts. While moderating the comments, blog owners have to make sure that they stick to the terms of service of the blogging platform that they use. It is a great eye opener for many of us who just click the accept button when we get the terms of service page while signing up for free blogs. We would save ourselves from lot of trouble by paying attention to details; at times our ignorance can be really expensive though it may not have been ignorance in the case of Scamp.