Pingoat is Sick - I’m not a spammer.
I found out today that Pingoat is not accepting any pings from blogs for a while. you must now visit the site and fill in the information. Service issues are coming up and it’s just not working well right now.
So I went over and put in my info and it said I was blacklisted for being a spammer!! Umm… last time I checked my blog is pretty darn original. So I submitted myself to their form and waited to get a response.
Then I read that even Google’s blog is blacklisted. Oops. I think the goat is having a few problems. I tried to ping myself this afternoon and it said I may be blacklisted but I could enter in a special code and I’d be safe. So I did and it said I was Whitelisted!
Yea, so I go to ping and it says I’m blacklisted and need to enter a code. Do you see and endless circle yet?
So the goat, Pingoat, is sick today. I think they are trying to stop spam and are stuck updating the live site and causing lots of end user frustrations.
I say give it a day or two and it’ll be OK again. Good news is that Pingomatic is working.
Yea, it finally works. I’ve successfully PINGed again!
- Thomas May 18th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 - Mac OS X
You are mistaken dear friend. There’s been a few glitches in the Pingoat system lately that caused a mass-blacklist.
If you were banned accidentally, you can revert your status easily. Please read http://www.pingoat.com/goatlog/post/index/51/Important-Pingoat-becomes-user-friendly
Regards,
Kailash Nadh
- Kailash Nadh May 19th, 2006 at 10:25 am
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 - Windows XP
Thank Kaliash, I did read you post and I’m whitelisted again. I’m still happy with Pingoat and think it’s a GREAT service, even with a few bugs from time to time.
- Thomas May 19th, 2006 at 10:46 am
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 - Mac OS X