In most cases, account suspensions are used by the Abuse team as a last resort. However, accounts suspended for violating Blurty's age policy (see http://www.blurty.com/legal/tos.bml), especially those that violate COPPA (http://www.blurty.com/legal/coppa.bml) will be suspended with minimal notification and cannot be reinstated.
In most cases, the Abuse team only suspends journals when we cannot work with the user to resolve a violation of the Terms of Service. (Immediate suspensions are done for certain reasons, including but not limited to Denial of Service attacks, account break-ins, and journals created solely to abuse.)
If your journal has been suspended, you should check your email to see if you've received a warning or an explanation, or view this entry (http://www.blurty.com/talkread.bml?journal=abuse&itemid=198819) from the abuse community to see if you can figure out why you were suspended. If you haven't, or if you have questions, open a request by going to the support area (http://www.blurty.com/support/submit.bml) and selecting the "Abuse" category. Be sure to include your username. The Abuse team will respond as quickly as possible, though in some cases it may be several days. Please do not open up multiple requests, as this will only serve to delay the process.
In some cases, suspended journals will not be reinstated. These cases include but are not limited to journals created solely for abuse, journals belonging to users with an extensive history of abuse, journals created to circumvent directives of the Abuse team, and journals belonging to users under the age of 18. Last Updated:
bertho, 2003-11-14
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