Why Enforce Using The Key?

(Last updated on 2009-11-27)

The reasons are simple,

1. I want to prevent some people keep duplicate blogs with same template.
2. I want to prevent pre-installed template, not every blog owner wants Related Posts.
3. I want to make sure you have the chance to read the Blocking Policy.
   

The new key is easier to install, you only put ?key=[YOURKEY] into the previous code. You can get the key and the instruction here.

One key can only be used for one specific blog and this is the point to stop those badass bloggers (They don't deserve that title). They have to manually get the key for each blog. If you are a normal blog, this will not take you much effort because you should only have one or a few blogs.

This change will only affect unaccepted blogs. If you do not see a message to ask you to add this new key, then it means your blog is accepted.

If you have more questions, please post at discussion group.

Updated on 2009-11-27 11:15 pm UTC

I made few change to the code and without checking. So you may have see "Loading..." and no more on your blog. It should be resolved and "Loading..." has nothing to do with being blocked or being (un)accepted. It's just a code getting stuck, it's an error on server side.

And you have not updated your installation code and saw "Could not find the key...," please use your browser refresh button to make sure you get the latest client-side JavaScript. If your blog is accepted, it should load the related list without the key specified, or you will be asked to go to obtain a key.

The problem should be gone as you read this update, sorry for the inconvenience.

And this is for record, the completed requests:

I have no idea why 8pm UTC could still have those request completed. Anyway BRPS would be having very light server load for a long time. :-)

Blocking Policy

(Last updated on 1/6/2010)

BRPS is a free service, it uses free quota of what Google App Engine provided. It wasn't planned to charge, however the quota is limited and lots of blog using BRPS, therefore some blogs may not be using BRPS.

Any blog is having the following

• Copyright infringement (If your blogs have links to any illegal downloads, directly or indirectly, upload by youself or not, please DO NOT use BRPS. Otherwise, your blogs will be BLOCKED for sure),
• Hate against a protected group,
• Adult or pornographic images,
• Promotion of dangerous and illegal activity,
• Content facilitating phishing or account hijacking,
• Impersonated user identity, or
• Abuse this service.

will definitely be blocked.

There are more could be used as blocking reasons:

• Similar contents — There are few blogger (useless content creator) creating lots of blogs with very similar content in each of their blogs. Those contents are useless, the primary purpose is to expose their blogs and get revenues.
• Referral contents ­— Almost all posts have link to Amazon or some online stores with their referral code. Those blogs are just created to make money.
• Few posts — BRPS automatically block blogs only have less than 20 posts. There is no much benefit of using BRPS. Please don't waste server resources. If you got blocked, request a unblocking review once your blog post count reaches 20. (Added on 10/18/2009, updated on 11/17/2009)
  
• Test blog—If you are testing BRPS on your sandbox blog, that blog will be blocked. (Added on 10/18/2009)
• Failed installation/script removed blogs — Script installed without key or incomplete installation. Blogs have removed the script. (Added on 1/6/2010)

The reasons above are not the only ones, your blogs could be blocked for any reason.

If your blogs are blocked and you believe your blogs shouldn't be deserved for that, please report with your blog URL.

You can still host your own BRPS on Google App Engine, you can grab the code and run on your own. Please DO NOT ask for help about self hosting!

Special note to template developer: Please DO NOT activate BRPS if you add it into your template creations. Comment out the script! And write a instruction to guide your user to activate it.Not everyone needs Related Posts in their blog. (Added on 10/18/2009) (Removed on 1/6/2010)