Google Idiots.

Dear Ryan C,

We've determined that your photos have repeatedly or egregiously violated our User Content and Conduct Policy.


Your access to Google+ will be limited for two weeks. If you continue to violate our policies, your access to Google+ and Google's other social services, such as Hangouts, may be suspended permanently. Learn more
Please review our policies to avoid violating them in the future. If you believe this decision was made in error, please submit an appeal. Learn more
We understand that these policies may not be for everyone. If you choose to leave, you can make a copy of your Google+ data first. If you like, you can also disable Google+ entirely.

Sincerely,
The Google+ team
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I don't have a Google + account.  I checked, just to be sure.

How fucking stupid can you be, Google?  You don't even know who has Google +? 

I submitted my "appeal", explaining that I didn't, you know, HAVE Google+.  They didn't actually read it--they just denied my appeal.

So I wrote back and explained AGAIN how I didn't have Google+ and I'm waiting to hear them issue me the same statement about how I'm in violation of their policies for Google+, even though I don't have it.

Yes, Google.  I'm sooooooooooo into Hangout and all your other social services that suspending me from them will really bother me.....

Unreal.

Oh, Okay, Nevermind!

After wasting more than a few hours transferring my naughty pictures to another site, today I open my email and get this (italics mine):

Dear Blogger User,

This week, you received an email telling you about some changes we were 
making to the Blogger Content Policy. In that email, we announced a change 
to Blogger's porn policy stating that blogs that distributed sexually 
explicit images or graphic nudity would be made private.

We've received lots of feedback about making a policy change that impacts 
longstanding blogs and the negative impact on individuals who post sexually 
explicit content to express their identities.

We appreciate the feedback. Instead of making this change, we will be 
maintaining our existing policies (http://www.blogger.com/content.g).

What this means for your blog:
Commercial porn will continue to be prohibited.
If you have pornographic or sexually explicit content on your blog, you 
must turn on the adult content setting 
(https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/86944?hl=en) so a warning will 
show.

If you don't have sexually explicit content on your blog and you're 
following the rest of the Blogger Content Policy 
(http://www.blogger.com/content.g), you don't need to make any changes to 
your blog.

Thank you for your continued feedback,

The Blogger Team

You didn't realize this before you tried to change your policies, Google?

'Sup-sup?

Greetings, Poacher Nation!

So recently, I decided to get on my ass--as in on a chair--and start posting some more entries.

I have a usual routine:  go out to my storage area, dig through my files, find my pics and notes on a particular poachette, read through the notes to jog my addled brain, and then get to writing.  The notes usually come in an outline, highlighting the various, uh, highlights of my affairs with the poachette in question.

So I grabbed a couple of files and started working on the entries and scanning in some pics and all that.  I was making some nice headway on a couple of entries.....and....well.....

Today, I opened an email from blogger:

"Dear Blogger User,

We're writing to tell you about an upcoming change to the Blogger Content 
Policy that may affect your account.

In the coming weeks, we'll no longer allow blogs that contain sexually 
explicit or graphic nude images or video. We'll still allow nudity 
presented in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts, or 
where there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking 
action on the content.

The new policy will go into effect on the 23rd of March 2015. After this 
policy goes into effect, Google will restrict access to any blog identified 
as being in violation of our revised policy. No content will be deleted, 
but only blog authors and those with whom they have expressly shared the 
blog will be able to see the content we've made private.

Our records indicate that your account may be affected by this policy 
change. Please refrain from creating new content that would violate this 
policy. Also, we ask that you make any necessary changes to your existing 
blog to comply as soon as possible, so that you won't experience any 
interruptions in service."  

So no naughty pictures unless it's for art (I'm sure Google will decide what is and isn't art), science, or educational (personally, I think pics on poaching are quite educational, but oh well).

I went in search of other adult blog hosting sites, and really couldn't find anything to my liking.

So I'm staying here (well, until they decide that they don't want any adult content at all--but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it).  It's just easier.

Of course, this new policy will affect the appearance of the blog.  The slideshows will be gone.  However,
I did find a site to host the pictures, I can just provide a link after each entry and you can go give them a look.

Also, I'll have to change most of the pics you see at the top of the entries, as well as the ones that are embedded into each post.  No big deal.

I did find another adult blogging site that intrigued me.  I figured that I could start a picture blog there, then put a link in each entry so you could just go over and check them out--or even move the whole blog over.  But it's powered by Wordpress, and I'm no fan of their platform.  I could do a multi-pic upload, but would have to put each pic in one at a time--and I couldn't figure out how to create a slideshow.

So I found a barebones image hosting site, imgbox.com.  So here's how each poachette's picture gallery will look.  Cue up Ashley!

The blog will be looking a bit different.  I have to get this done in a month (thanks for the ton of notice, Google).

Groan.