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If a reader points out a broken link to you, do you seek to update/replace it?
dg writes: No, not unless it's gone gribbly.
David | 10.08.22 - 7:13 a.m. | #
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Considering the huge archive of content on Blogger in general and the long-standing issue of linkrot, it's surprising that Blogger's approach is to contact blogs to tick them off about a decade-old article.
Would have been much better for them to add an option to the admin menu to automatically remove links from articles where a problem is encountered.
Ian | 10.08.22 - 7:28 a.m. | #
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I’d second Ian’s idea… Alternatively, they could flag them as Gribbly.
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 10.08.22 - 7:46 a.m. | #
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*shakes fist at the Badfort crowd for nobbling the Uncle site*
D9000 | 10.08.22 - 7:55 a.m. | #
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I knew Penny, so clicked on the link for her in the article, and it has been replaced by a defunct sex link. There are many levels of irony in that.
The Banbury Man | Homepage | 10.08.22 - 7:58 a.m. | #
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This looks harmless as it appears as though one of Google's bots is going after dodgy links rather than content or a hostile attack.
Over on another part of Google at YouTube it's routine now to get suspensions because a video from over a year ago has violated some policy, except in this case it can be as a result of an attack by a PR firm or an interest group looking for things to flag.
Still Anon | 10.08.22 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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One of the drawbacks of putting external links in blog articles, unfortunately.
Adrian | 10.08.22 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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The only "safe" option to archive preservation would be to deblogger it onto your own website (and maybe freeze the layout to PDF). Should be possible to automate the transition.
My wife got onto Big Brother, but not in the way that you might be thinking think (2005 Tudor Tasks). I almost did as well as part of the same event, but I couldn't get off work for the shoot days, so one of my friends did it instead. I got the consolation prize of sitting in the Tesco car park next door to the house in Elstree while waiting to pick up my wife after the shoot at the end of the work day
MilesT | 10.08.22 - 11:01 a.m. | #
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How annoying!
I hope your articles don't slowly wither away. It would be the modern equivalent of water damage getting into Samuel Pepys diary!
Cornish Cockney | 10.08.22 - 11:08 a.m. | #
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I suppose the alternative is to no longer include links in your posts, which would be a shame. Or allow anyone to add links in the comments too, I suppose!
Cornish Cockney | 10.08.22 - 11:18 a.m. | #
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To put this in context, thus far it’s affected less than 0.05% of posts (which generally nobody’s reading anyway).
diamond geezer | Homepage | 10.08.22 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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'I don't like gaps in my archive...'
We love you DG.
Gazza M | 10.08.22 - 11:35 a.m. | #
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Another way to keep information is use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at https://archive.org
When you make a link as you write a blog ask the IA to take a snapshot of the page. For maximun keeping of links you could then use the link in archive.org and that won't go away. But that is slow and so best just use the normal link as you do now but when Blogger finds a dead link you can replace it by the archive link.
Mark | 10.08.22 - 11:47 a.m. | #
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Was gribbly a word before today?
Sarah | 10.08.22 - 12:15 p.m. | #
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A salutary post for those of us who are tempted to see our comments on the Net as ephemeral. A teenage colleague, supposedly tech-savvy, was taken aback to see a photo he had posted on social media pasted into our manager's leaving-card. Like other things we see as disposable, our words and actions may linger somewhere and boomerang back to us when we least expect it.
cau1khead | 10.08.22 - 12:43 p.m. | #
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I suggest no Googling ‘gribbly’. For me, Google suggests a rather unhelpful and NSFW definition from Urban Dictionary as the top hit.
Little Mix | 10.08.22 - 1:09 p.m. | #
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Another issue might be your non existing, freely invented, links in some posts. One might be tempted to register them...
MK | 10.08.22 - 1:22 p.m. | #
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I look forward to reading your unblocked posts. Even the mundane observations can be quite fascinating.
Victoria | 10.08.22 - 3:01 p.m. | #
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gribbly
gribbly | 10.08.22 - 8:20 p.m. | #
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I sometimes use a random number generator to randomly select an old DG post to read. Interesting how there is much more mention of pop culture / football etc in the earlier days
Tom | 10.08.22 - 8:36 p.m. | #
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There was a computer game on the Commodore 64 from the mid-'80s called Gribbly's Day Out, and I feel that in this post, that title reflects exactly what has been had.
Chris | 10.08.22 - 9:08 p.m. | #
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Adele could probably justifiably say that you marked her down as failed a bit too early.
Messiah | 10.08.22 - 10:41 p.m. | #
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Mark -- I believe DG has said before the British Library archived his blog at some point as part of some sort of cultural project.
dg writes: see 'risk log' link in post.
anonymous | 11.08.22 - 2:31 p.m. | #
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The unpublishingbot has reached April 2012 and an innocuous post about Hastings.
It stayed unpublished for just 10 minutes.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 11.08.22 - 5:52 p.m. | #
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I had a blog post from 2009 flagged for the same last month. I can’t be bothered to go check, so it will remain unpublished now.
As always I admire your dedication to your blog. Long may it continue
Jon Allen | 13.08.22 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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(no further problems since)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 26.08.22 - 10:46 p.m. | #
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