I mentioned that Pingoat would be one of the blog pinging services to watch. Well, over the last couple of days, numerous people have been infuriated as they learned that they were blacklisted from the Pingoat service.
Apparently, Pingoat has been improving it’s splogg/spam detection and has created a number of false positives. Or at least, their automated filter works a little too good.
Pingoat Whitelist
Today, they released their second-tier whitelist. If you’re blacklisted, you have three chances to prove them wrong. If you pass the test of entering the captcha verification code, you’re whitelisted.
I know this is yet another hoop to jump through for automated pinging, but so far they’ve got the job done. I am still holding on to my good ol’ desktop blog software, though.
What do you think? Is Pingoat’s system overkill or necessary?
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