I probably do a “Jay Oberski” google search every 6 months or so unless Monica or any of the other folks looking out for our community reach out with an update. Otherwise, I don’t think about this stuff on a day to day basis. I have way to many other things to focus on. The site is out there doing it’s job and that’s that. But today, I did a quick search and this site wasn’t in the #1 google result like it normally was, it was way down at the bottom and for some reason, those links weren’t going anywhere. After a bit of research, it looks like Blogger had disabled the site due to concerns about online harassment. I don’t know how long it was down. I also couldn’t log in to get at any of the content that had been posted. So, that sucked.

When I looked at Bloggers TOC, there were certainly some guidelines about targeting individuals that could be interpreted as a violation. While I see this site is a public service to warn folks about an abuser and predator in our community, it does target an individual and did post public information about the WF Psych program. So, guilty as charged. Jack found a way to take the site down for a sec. Good for him. I also wonder if he was filing complaints the whole time but Google updated their moderation guidelines given this new world order we find ourselves in.

Luckily for me, I was able to spin up a privately hosted blog pretty quickly and all the content was archived on the internet archive. So, I was able to get all the content back up, improve the design of the site slightly and get all the old links redirected to their counterparts on the new site. Took me about 3 hours, but we should be back in business. If you notice any broken links or images not loading, drop a comment and let me know so I can fix it. Hopefully, the search rankings will come back in the next few weeks as well.

This will cost me a little more to run now, about $6/month + the $10/year for the domain, but I figure it’s worth it to help vulnerable people avoid getting caught in his web.