
Jun 30, 2010
Yesterday evening the gremlins were partying on Squidoo.
When I was updating a couple of lenses yesterday afternoon (UK time about 4 hours ahead of EST), it seemed that Squidoo was barely crawling and so I gave up. I don’t have the patience to wait several minutes for a page to load.
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Apr 4, 2010

No Spam Here
Squidoo makes great efforts to stop spam, plagiarism, and other rule breaking lenses.
Inevitably, some do get through, though. Squidoo only has a small HQ staff and it’s impossible for them to catch all of these pages.
There certainly aren’t enough paid staff to check through all published lenses so they use filters to catch abusive language, spam, spambait, and pornographic subject matter. This is a less than perfect system and, of course, false positives do happen which then require review by a real person.
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