You could complain...but it is free

Blogspot had a major crash last night. Some blogs have been down since yesterday. Some are fine. My other blog Liberal Common Sense is one of the ones that is down but Glass City (as you can see) was luckily not a part of the bad filer that according to Blogspot "the server will be replaced then shot".

What I have learned though is that some people don't bother to read the help board. They come in and post "HELP" where if they just took one quick look at allllll of the other posts they would see "Gee, it's not just my blog". I've also spotted several different "types" of bloggers.

Relieved - they are happy it's not just them or something they personally messed up.

Addicted - they want it fixed now and the mere idea of not being able to access their blog has them emailing CNN because it's that important.

Angry - they want everyone to know that blogger sucks and are going elsewhere.

Irritated - they are unhappy with the lack of information on the outage but remind everyone that the service is free.

Gloaters - they aren't experiencing the outage and want you to visit their blog, which not to be mean or anything, it's easy to see why some of them don't get many visitors. I saw several blogs last night that were huge pages of personal rants with no paragraph breaks where it seemed the smart thing to do was to quietly back out of the blog rather than comment.

Panic - these are mainly newbies who post HELP without reading the forum and have messed with their blog for hours probably deleting half of it in their panic to "fix" it.

Twisted - They joke around about Blogger selectively picking blogs to create some sort of "Blog Survivor" to see who will still stick it out. (It did get a few laughs.) So did the idea of it being some sort of "Blog Twilight Zone", from another one of the also twisted among us.

Of course some of us are combinations of the above, I don't like it of course, but there's not much I can do about it. I've thought about moving my blogs to their own domain but most of the time blogspot works fine. You do get what you pay for and in this case? It is a free service....and yes, I am irritated yet slightly twisted.

I also have to add I find this error message funny:

If you believe you should be able to view this directory or page, please try to contact the Web site by using any e-mail address or phone number that may be listed on the liberalcommonsense.blogspot.com home page.

Everytime I see it, I think "HELLO, no one can access the page to see if there is an email or phone number, duh...."

:-)