Legalectric

Huh… It seems I’ve been booted off the northfield.org aggregator (aggravator?) list because I’ve violated their guidelines by using an expletive undeleted in the headline of a prior post! That’s verboten in their guidelines! Guidelines? What guidelines? I didn’t get any guidelines when I got the blog on April 9, 2005, I wasn’t ever sent guidelines or referred to guidelines. I never signed any agreement of any sort. I never requested to be aggregated on terms that included guidelines and for sure never requested to be aggravated! Turns out they’re posted on the northfield.org site, under the headline of “Submit a blog to our Blogosphere” in the “Submit News or Pictures” section, and that was posted a couple of months ago. Apparently this wasn’t the first time I’d violated their “guidelines” and I wasn’t told then… oh, did I mention, my blog was removed without a word to me or explanation of why! No warning, no communication at all! WTF? I guess it’s “Northfield Nice” and they don’t want to know what I might have to say, might not want to be reminded that no one had ever told me that there were guidelines or where to find them. When I started, I got a blog in a short email from Griff, the site and a password, zero instruction, answers to I think three questions total, until they discontinued “hosting” blogs a couple months ago and I switched. No terms of service, no contract, no nothing…

Is this any way to run a blogosphere?