After being told off by WordPress earlier, (see previous post) it has occured to me that they might well cancel my blog without warning. It’s not as if they need my money, and they do consider me to be in contravention of their guidelines.
So if I disappear, that will be why.
With that worst case scenario in mind, I would just like to say it has been a great pleasure getting to know all of you, and of course considering many of you to be my good friends.
(And if you email me, I will tell you how the current serial ends. But only if they ban me. 🙂 )
petejohnson50@yahoo.com
Pete. x
I don’t think that will happen. Better not! I couldn’t bear not to have you as a fellow blogger.
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I am still here, Jennie. Hopefully, they have forgotten about me. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hooray! 😀
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Congrats, Pete! They will not fight against a real British citizen. They need the London Stock Exchange. 😉 Michael
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I think I am just too small to bother about, Michael. 🙂
Best wishes, pete.
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:-)) Have a nice day, Pete! I hope you can enjoy sunny weather. Michael
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You little rebel, Pete….fingers crossed it won’t happen we would miss you 🙂
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I have always been a ‘fighter’, Carol. 20 years as a union steward taught me to never give up.
Best wishes, Pete.
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And you shouldn’t but I am guessing you are not the first to do that or similar and I would thought they would issue a warning rather than just do it …Take care 🙂 x
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I hope it doesn’t get to that but I have your e-mail saved nonetheless. Remember to save all the blog content, just in case. Take care.
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I don’t have enough time to save all my blog content, Olga. I am up to 3551 posts now, and saving all that to a portable hard drive would take forever. As I am still here, I am hoping they have forgotten about me by now!
Best wishes, Pete.
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i don’t think they’ll go that far, Pete. you are here to stay. 🙂 🙂
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I’m hoping they have forgotten me, Wilma. Still here this afternoon. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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😯😯Well, if they ban your blog(worst case scenario) we’ll follow you to whichever site you move on to. I trust that they won’t though.
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They seem to have forgotten about me this morning, but thanks for the kind words. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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You will be safe……we will come to your aid if need be chuq
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Thanks, chuq. Looks like they have already forgotten me. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hi Pete, I hope the fact that I have the old system back means wordpress took your complaints to heart. I shall stay as long as it lasts because I can’t fathom the blocks.
I did wonder if the fact that I have a free blog meant they didn’t care what happened to me but I hope it means I don’t have to change.
I wasn’t sure where to go if I left wordpress and how to take all my friends with me.
Best Wishes.
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Thanks, Julie. I’m not sure if they listened to me, but I am glad to hear that you can continue with the old system for now.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I have started following you very recently and I enjoy your blog. Why on earth they want to ban your blog? Hope they don’t
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I doubt they will, Kavita. However, after they removed a page of my blog content that criticised WordPress, and issued me with an email warning, I had to consider it as a possibility. Luckily, I am still here this morning!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thats great
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I’m rather reluctant to be identified by Big Brother at WordPress, but just this once here’s an idea. Like you WordPress hosts my site, but can ‘The Powers That Be’ interrogate a self-hosted WordPress site. And if not, you could make a copy of BeetleyPete and become an outlaw in the hinterlands of Norfolk.
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It’s a thought, David. However, I fear they are big enough to interfere with self-hosted sites too, as they would need to be passed through WP to reach the same followers.
Best wishes, Pet.
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And there’s me thinking it was only Google’s Blogger that sucked up information about you!
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It’s as easy as this, once you are logged on and live online.
Keystroke logging
Keystroke logging, often referred to as keylogging or keyboard capturing, is the action of recording the keys struck on a keyboard, typically covertly, so that person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored. Data can then be retrieved by the person operating the logging program. Wikipedia
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I think you will be safe Pete, the backlash would be too much for WordPress 🙂
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’60 million blogs
WordPress has about 60 million blogs. Blogging has grown by 12% since 2015. At this moment, there are roughly 1.9 billion web pages.’
Cheers, Eduardo. Given the above stats, I doubt they would notice. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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According to Ollie, WordPress’s bark is worse than their bite.
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According to Ollie, Pete is a trooper, even taking him out for walks in the rain.
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Pete this is terrible, I really hope this does not happen to you because I love your blog. See If there is a way that WordPress can let you keep your blog because you always make any day special with your thoughts.
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Thanks, John. I was only speculating on a possible ban, but I am still here today, so maybe they have moved on from my gripes.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yikes! I hope you don’t disappear from the blogosphere! I remember your block editor post but I don’t remember there being an email posted that would become an issue. Hang in there, and if worse comes to worse move to a different platform and we’ll follow you there! But I’m hopeful it won’t come to that. 🙂
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Thanks, Susanne. I’m still here this morning! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m glad that apparently they don’t want to force the issue. Hang in there.
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Thanks, Ron. I’m still not giving up complaining though. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Hey Pete! Don’t worry. You are quite popular but not enough to be banned for voicing your opinions! 😋😋😋 You will have to become a politician or a grade one cricketer for that!
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Thanks, Shaily. I doubt they will ban me, but you never know with WP. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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It might be worthwhile for all of us to have a look at WP’s Terms of Service, just so we know where the line is that we must not cross. Of course ToS documents are deadly dull and labyrinthine, maybe deliberately so, to keep people from reading them.
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Thanks, Audrey. I am sure they can change the rules as they see fit. I doubt they expected such a reaction to the Block Editor, and hoped we would all ‘go quietly’. Bullies hate to be proved wrong.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I hope they don’t remove your blog, Pete. I’m sure if they were going to they’d have done it by now – unless they are just watching to see what other naughtiness you get up to!
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Thanks, Mary. Well I won’t stop complaining about them, that’s for sure!
Best wishes, Pete.
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If that happens I will cry. I consider you a friend and I am certainly a fan. love Michele
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Thanks, Michele. Hopefully, I will still be around. But after getting that warning, I felt I had better post something about it in case my blog had disappeared tomorrow. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
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you have my email-
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Oh Pete I hope not. Surely if you’ve apologised and don’t do it again that should be good enough
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I haven’t apologised, Sarada, and will definitely not be doing so at any stage. They just removed my blog post content and replaced it with their own comment. I think it’s disgraceful that we have no possibility of direct contact with WP outside of the so-called ‘Happiness Engineers’. To just remove my content without consulting me, when it was not offensive, was unacceptable to me, whether or not it upset their guidelines. They could have just taken the email address away if they considered that a step too far, or allowed me the option to edit my own post accordingly.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh I misunderstood. I thought they’d just removed the address of the editor. I agree, that’s not good
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Wow. How intrusive!
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Yes, censorship is the ultimate power, and they used it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh, goodness, I do hope that doesn’t happen, Pete….we would SO miss you
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Thanks very much, Sue. I doubt it will, but then they said the Titanic couldn’t sink… 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Well, we will all be hoping it doesn’t happen
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As I recall, you bought a subscription for their service. If they a ban you, I suspect they will have to make good on what you paid for. Warmest regards, Theo
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Yes, but that refund will be so small, I suspect they have that in change on the desk, Theo. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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You’ll get a “gift card” that can be redeemed for services – like in class action lawsuits? HAHA
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Not if you ask for everything back that you paid in to compensate for having to rebuild your following 🙂 Warmest regards, Theo
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A campaign for a full refund? That might be worth considering, Theo. 🙂
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I think they will not do that, so long as you stop posting their email addresses 🤣
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Yes, that’s probably true.
But we should have a direct contact email, especially those bloggers who pay extra for plans.
So there, WordPress! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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There are other blogging platforms Pete! Don’t give up!
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Not giving up. Like I said, it’s a just in case post.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Good grief. Big Brother comes to WordPress.
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In this case, Big Editor, Elizabeth. 🙂 They were able to remove the content on my blog post, and replace it with their own statement. Makes me wonder what else they have been replacing.
Best wishes, Pete.
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This is very concerning – Big Brother Editor indeed
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Wow. I had no idea they could even do that.
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I hope this doesn’t happen to you.
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Probably won’t, V. But you never know…
Cheers mate, Pete.
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Hang in there. Why would they cancel your blog?
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I have been campaigning against the Block Editor being forced on people, and I passed on the email address of a WordPress employee responsible for it so people could complain directly to him at work. They removed the wording on my original blog post, and replaced it with a statement.
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Oh I see. Hang in there.
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If that’s going to happen I’m going to start a petition and reaching out to each and every blogger I know to bring you back. I’m just hoping it’s not going to happen at all. I remember that they once banished Dani for some weird reason, and she came back as well. But well, as I said I hope it’s not going to happen period. Just know that if that worst case scenario does come to pass, I’m going to fight for you! Blogging wil simply not be the same if you aren’t here. I really mean that!😊
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Thanks very much for your kind words, Michel. But if they did ban me, I’m not so sure I would even want to come back. Nonetheless, it’s great to know I have your support my friend.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Well…let’s hope it won’t happen at all, and we don’t have to face that scenario. I really mean it, if you would be gone from wordpress I know I speak for a lot of people here, you would be sorely missed😔 So yeah…let’s hope that this scenario doesn’t come to pass😊
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If this happens I will join Michel in organizing a petition. I reblogged your original post not thinking anything of the employee’s email address because it was a work address. Give me a break. 🙄
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Exactly, it was not a personal email. But WP is so ‘mighty’, we are not allowed to contact them directly. Shows what they really think of their ‘customers’.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Lol! Well I just hope it won’t happen, but I’m glad you will join me…and so true…it’s insane isn’t it?😩
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Argh! “Happiness Engineers!”😡
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Hi Pete! Just a quick comment to say have you thought about self hosting? I’m so glad I no longer give WordPress my money!
If it’s something you’re interested in I’d recommend Lyrical Host – they’re UK based and have amazing support ☺️
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Thanks very much, Liz. If it comes to that, I will certainly explore your suggestion.
(I have bookmarked their website)
Best wishes as always, Pete. x
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Oh no, I hope this doesn’t ever happen, you would be dearly missed! C
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Thanks, Cheryl. Think of it as an obituary while I am still alive. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Now that’s classy – and so defining of this byte-ing era
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