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I’m in WordPress Jail

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WordPress automation 

Gave me a bad reputation

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I “like”, subscribe, and comment too much 

They feel I’m using that as a crutch

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Truly Fair or is it not 

They say I’m like a BOT

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So since I’m classified as slime 

I cannot “like or subscribe at this time”

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I hope that you won’t leave me

As they will not reprieve me 

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I love the words we write and share 

This mutual respect is beyond compare

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I feel very disappointed and angered, a bit

This treatment of me makes me want to quit

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But worry not, I won’t, I’ll continue to write

The words that come to me day and night 

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I’ll comment much and share my love

Which is truly all I’m made of.

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Just please take this with a grain of salt 

If I don’t “like” your works it’s not my fault 

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Thank you for reading, allowing my vent

And appreciating  all the time we’ve spent

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This, my mild protest, not too exciting 

But even if they tie my arms, I’ll keep on writing…

-AAA 10/30/2024

49 thoughts on “I’m in WordPress Jail”

    • I think they’re suppressing my numbers too. I’m almost positive.

      I’m pretty upset. I’ve really put my heart and soul that it’s blog and worked so hard at it and they’re punishing me for it and it seems like they’re messing with me.

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  3. That sucks so much but I went through the exact same thing so I know how you feel. WordPress’s system is messed up and can’t properly differentiate between bots and real people and instead of fixing the issue they make our lives harder. If this causes too much issue for you, just transfer your blog from this WP account to another one (make another WP account and transfer there). Your likes will come back. That’s what I had to do.

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    • Yeah, I may have to do that. Thank you so much for your advice. I may need more of it. I promise I’m not cheating or lying or doing anything deceptive or dishonest to your blogging. Just trying to build up subscription so people will read what I write and I of course try to return the favor to all that subscribed to me because I feel it’s a courtesy.

      And I try to like where I can and read and comment where I can as are a large number of blogs I’m subscribed to.

      You make me smile to tell me this. Thank you. I needed this today. 😊😊😊

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      • Oh yeah, I totally understand. It’s a problem on WP’s side but they refuse to admit it. Feel free to reach out if you need any help with it or any more advice. I’ve been through the same thing so I really understand how frustrating it is 💕

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  4. That’s just ridiculous! I could understand if it was an account that just liked and subscribed, but you publish so much content, and comment on others’ posts. Especially when WordPress encourages the subscriptions and likes. And they should also see how many people interact with your content. I, for one, look forward to seeing your name in my notifications.

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    • Oh thank you so much for saying that that really made my day, Lynn!! You always have such kind things to say about my writing too. It really touches my heart every time. Thank you for being my friend and a cop writer on this great journey here. 😊

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  5. This is ridiculous! I get that red tape can be for the better of the community. I own a shooting school, and it makes sense that we have to vet certain people and potentially cut off others. The rules from us as well as the government in this case keep us all safe. But for WordPress to shut you down like this? Who is this rule actually protecting? Is it just their bottom line? If so, shame on them. Just seems crazy on their end.

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    • Thank you for saying so my friend it does seem pretty ridiculous. I admit that subscribing to other blogs and liking lots of other posts is part of blogging. If you have a lot more subscriptions, you have a lot more post to like in view. I was doing a lot and I guess they thought I was artificial even though I proved I wasn’t they don’t care they’re gonna punish me anyway. I’ll just keep writing and hoping for the best here. 😊

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    • Thank you 😊 Like I said, they can tie my arms, but they can’t stop me from writing. Me and my blog with her and die or maybe it’ll grow on its merits which I believe is why it’s grown. One can only help. 😊

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    • It’s like don’t hate the player. Hate the game, right? It’s all good. I’m gonna keep going and doing my best here and I’ll just do it with what I have and what I can work with and I will definitely read and support others here like I do now and continue to on whatever level WordPress will allow me to.

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    • I’m just using the metaphor of jail. They just cut off my ability to subscribe or like anything for the foreseeable future. I call that jail. It isn’t really jail. It just limits what I can do here.

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    • It’s not so much for liking commenting. It’s for the subscribing a subscribe to many other blogs to build up readers, or I just subscribe to other people who subscribed to me as a courtesy.

      Apparently, that was not a good choice by me and I’m paying for it now.

      And try to like everything everybody writes to at least provide them with some positive feedback apparently it is also not a good practice.

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    • I can comment, but I can’t even like my own posts now. And they essentially told me I need to spend more money if I wanna get more readers. And of course, the obvious you need to create content and Meta tags and such.

      The thing is, I write a lot and in the beginning of my blog I wrote so much in a day you wouldn’t believe 20+ post a day at times. That’s truly why I grew.

      Yeah, I have a lot of subscribers, and I have subscribed to many other blogs and I feel that reciprocity kind of thing in some ways part of the blogging thing and the liking of other people’s writings too, but to just take all that away from me and tell me that for the foreseeable future, I won’t have it back it’s just ridiculous.

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        • No, you don’t have to pay. I’m sorry if I didn’t word that right. I just mean that I subscribed to a lot of other blogs to gain subscribers as a mutual thing. And I guess that’s frowned upon. I thought everybody kind of did it but maybe they don’t.

          They basically inferred that the numbers I had in the likes I had was making were more like a BOT than a human being.

          And they told me they weren’t gonna let me like or subscribe for the foreseeable future and then they provided me a list of things I could do as an alternative to gain subscribers. Like upgrading my WordPress site which cost more money, blaze campaigns, which cost money, and the common sense things like setting me tags and things which I always do in my writing anyway.

          Thing is I already pay for most of those other things anyway so I was a little frustrated.

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          • Ohhhhh! I read a blog a while back that said you could get frozen or something if you “liked” or followed to many things too quickly. I wonder if I can find it again. I guess that’s what this is. So what is “the foreseeable future”? Would be nice if they said “30 days” or something like that.

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            • Thank you, Kay. You’re so kind and great friend and co-writer out here. I guess I just have to back off on anything other than writing and just liking what’s already there when I’m able to like again if I’m ever able to like again.

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            • Awwe… thank you :). You’ve helped me out before, so you’ve certainly paved the way for kindness :).

              Well, I hope it doesn’t last too long. Maybe it’s just like a time-out. Try again in a couple of days? Just keep doing you 🙂

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            • Thank you, Kay, it’s very kind and means a lot to me. I’ll just keep doing me. Doing my best to share the love with all the writer community out here and writing as much as I can and continuing to do so.

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