I am very sad to report that we have been hit by a major disaster.
As you will be aware JockSpank was originally set up as a Blogger blog which is a part of Google. As a result, for many years large numbers of the images were posted via my Google account. When this new site was set up, the images were transported across from Google, as embedded images.
This week, without warning, Google deleted my account, alleging they had found “Harmful content”. They have not told me what that “Harmful Content” is, but I can only assume it is something which was posted to JockSpank, as that was really all I used the account for.
The result is that huge sections of our archive, representing many hundreds of hours of work and personal effort have vanished. Most of what what was posted prior to 2016 and some more recent images has been lost
This is a huge personal blow, and very damaging to JockSpank as a Historical archive.
I have, of course, appealed, but Google are not famous for responding in these circumstances.
This is further evidence, if we needed it of how fragile and vulnerable our online existence is when using technology and social media.
I will keep you informed
This is terrible news. So very sad.
Thank you. I just hope I can make Google see sense
In the brave new world of the future perhaps putting more than two lumps of sugar in your coffee will be classed as harmful content. 🤣
Sadly not surprising. Personally I stopped using Google for everything but search ever since they decided reading private e-mails to better service ads was a good idea. If Google will not restore your content, you might try checking out https://web.archive.org and running a search on the site URL. With luck you may be able to salvage some older material that they have archived.
I didn’t know Google read people’s emails, that is shocking. I hope it wasn’t something I said in an email which upset them. However, I am guessing it was something I posted to the old JockSpank blog a few years back.