I woke up this morning to the devastating e-mail from blogger that my blog at ninjareflection.com has been deleted by them. For the last several weeks, some jerk has been systematically submitting complaints to blogger about my site. The complaints has no grounds, and when I finally realized this is not just some innocent complainer mistaking my site as an illegal streaming site I filed a counter complaint to blogger which blogger quickly reinstated some of my posts. Unfortunately I foolishly thought blogger’s system would figure out that the complaints were malicious in nature since they had obviously agreed my counter complaint were valid. What happened instead was that blogger or rather the system automatically assumed since someone had been complaining about my site (at the rate of 2 random posts every two days) it must mean my site needed to be deleted.
As you can imagine I am pretty upset that over two years of countless hours of work has been wiped out. In fact, I was depressed enough that I contemplated just giving up drama blogging all together. I thought to myself “Think of all the time you would free up!” I can’t speak for other drama blogs, but as far as my little wee blog was concerned the small amount of advertising dollars I received barely covered the upkeep of the blog so money was never the reason why I had stuck with website. I had started writing a drama blog on a whim and it had surprisingly been my saving grace when I went through some hard time in my personal life. Now that I have calmed down some, I realize the last thing I want is to quit drama writing because of some faceless jerk. (Plus I have to finish recapping that darn last four episode of Blow Breeze for the 10 people that had stuck with me this long!) It has been a pleasure to write and share my passion with others so as sad as it is that I probably lost all of my readers who were my driving force to continue blogging, I am ready to keep going with the hope that they will find me again…ironically probably thru google.
So up date… I got an e-mail (forwarded by Blogger no less) from the said jerk. Turns out the guy (still a jerk in my book by the way) was working for some company that tries to shut down illegal streaming sites, had put in all these complaints about my website without obviously once bothering to actually visit my blog.
Here is what his e-mail said: Korean dramas are some of the most pirated media on the planet. Sorry for the issue, I will get the domain white listed.
That e-mail came on the day Blogger deleted my blog. Where is my shake fist at the heavens emoji?
ps. I am in the process of trying to move some of my old posts (Thanks again, Rachel! Your comment really saved me!) to this new blog, so excuse the mess for a while.
That is so awful! I’m so sorry that happened. 🙁 I can ‘t even imagine how devastating that must be after all the work you put in, but I’m glad you decided to keep blogging. I don’t think I had seen your old blog, but I am glad I am around for the new one. Hopefully things get better from here!
I am so glad I found you! I am in the middle of watching “someone like you” and I went to your blog for a recap only to find google saying “site could not be found”. I’ve tried and tried, until I decided to put in the search engine “ninja reflection” and it brought up the site. Don’t give up on the blog, there are people like me out there That look for recaps on dramas all the time that the big sites ( like drama beans) don’t cover, especially Chinese dramas. Most out there cover k-dramas only. Keep up the good work. Fighting!
Yeah I found you;)
Even though I normally don’t write comments, I am glad that you want to continue aat least for now. thanks to you I found some really interesting dramas I would have passed.
But that sounds like a bad expirience….
I’ve been going to your site to read recaps on dramas that I would catch from time to time on tv but couldn’t readily find online (usually the 25+ episode dramas) I was looking forward to your latest Blow Breeze recap and thought it was just some odd glitch but can’t believe they deleted your page 🙁
Happy to have found your new page and I”m sure there are lots of people like me who enjoyed the hard work you put into your recaps but were too shy to comment.
Hope you’re able to retrieve your past posts somehow and thank you for all of the recaps.
Hoping others find you like I did.
I was a regular reader at your previous location, and was very sad when you disappeared. I’m so happy to have found you again!
Also, the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) will probably have some, if not all, of your previous work archived.
Oh, THANK YOU Rachel. You have just SAVED me! I had tried to convince myself that I am okay with losing all my hard work but I am truly ecstatic right now.
Yay!
I would not have been okay with losing all of my work that way. I’m so glad one of my bits of random knowledge was helpful.
Yes, I just found you through Google :–) And I’m sooooo happy, I was worried about you…. and I missed your blog of course!!! Especially the Friday’s summaries of what you are watching.
Please don’t give up because of some jerk (I just don’t understand those people…why are they doing this???).
Hwaiting!!! (And many kisses and support from Europe!)
I found you too! I had to fiddle with my search words on Google, but finally got lucky. I’m so sorry that happened to you. That’s ridiculous that Blogger defaults on deleting the material.
I’m glad you decided to persevere, though! I (also) am mostly a lurker on your site, but I love reading the Friday updates so I can decide if a show is worth watching or not. Thank you, and keep on keeping on!
Was quite sad when the former domain suddenly stopped working.
So happy to have found your new site! Yay! Please keep posting about dramas. I’m a loyal reader. 🙂
So pleased to find your blog! I’m glad you have continued to write in spite of this!
Is there any way for us readers to appeal the decision st all?
I don’t think so. Thanks for the thought though! I appealed a week ago has yet heard anything from Blogger and of course it is just impossible to talk to a human.
Thank you so much for coming back !! I was so used to check faithfully your blog to pick my dramas to watch that I felt very lost this week before finding this new blog.
I am a silent visitor for a year now and I am very grateful and very happy each time I see a new post from you that may lead to another wonderful drama experience for me. Thanks again !
Ninja,
So sorry to hear about what happened. I have never posted , but faithfully visit your site every Friday for the round up. I’m glad I found your new site. I appreciate your hard work and love of dramas. Please keep up the great work!
Yay! Thank God I found your new site and thank YOU for still continuing! Ever since your blog was taken down, I have been trying to look for your new blog by any chance. I am also one of your silent readers for a long time now. I always love to read your recaps and weekly round ups especially those of the Taiwanese and Chinese dramas. It may sound selfish but I hope you won’t ever quit writing drama blog posts. They also really save other people. hehe. Please keep up the good work! 加油! 😀
happy to see you on and saddened by what happened. That is insane. what the heck!!! its a blog that is purely the product of your mind and they deleted it without even checking whether there is truth to it or not. Insanity.
Im happy it hasn’t stopped you. Thank you
Insane! Im happy you’re back, i wrote more things but then logging in erased everything lol. Anyway I love reading your blog and I’m happy this huge stone thrown at you didn’t stop you.
Fighting!
So so happy I found your blog again! I really missed your recaps and Drama Roundup. When you went dark, I felt like I had lost a friend. Thanks for starting again.
I am so glad I found you! I am a silent reader of your blog and sorely missed it for the past few days.
So sorry you had to go through this 🙁
so glad that I finally found your new website. Keep up the good and hard work.
I always check your friday round up to see what it is that your watching and your views on it.
There are lots of dramas i would never even know about if it wasn’t for you mentioning it.
For those of you who hasn’t seen it, I recommend Love In Time its a Hong Kong 9 episode drama with Damson Tang as a vampire it’s good.
Memory Lost is very good too, eve though i could only find the first 3 episode being subbed only with the other 33 episode in raw but you get the gist of the drama and the OTP are cool in this.
there isn’t any Kdrama at the moment that has gripped me, which is a first, not watching any kdrama !!!
its old, and its a thai version of the ituaza n kiss alled Kiss me so good, it really show the main guys feelings much better than all the others.
Glad your back Ninja.
I have to comment because I’ve been looking for your blog for over a week now. Glad you didn’t give up. I like your blog because you often cover family dramas that I don’t, can’t, or wouldn’t watch but want to know how it turns out. Don’t know if I was counted among the 10 buy I’ve been a mostly silent reader for a while (over the years).
Finally i found you..
Glad you’re back. I always depend on your review especially for T-drama and C-drama.
Yeah I found !!you I’m so glad because I was so depressed not having your comments on my favorite dramas.
You are my favorite blog and I have searched you everywere and I found you by chance (I was searching firt impression about father us weird and yahoo you’re here !!) please don’t disapear again we missed you. Fighting !
Blardy hell. Dem it. Thank gawd.
You were missed.
I found you!!!!
Yay!
You are hands down my favourite asian drama blogger… I tried moving on, thinking that perhaps you had found something better to occupy your life with but I couldn’t let go. You set the standard too high!
Heartfelt thanks for all the posts I’ve read, and recommendations for dramas that I would have past by otherwise. I’m just so happy right now. You were truly missed!
Yay!! So glad that I finally found your new blog. I was wondering what had happen to your old blog. Sorry that you had to go through such a terrible ordeal. Thank you for keeping the faith to continue blogging! Just know that you have many fans including myself who read your blog religiously 😉
I’ve found NR after previous failures at google!fu. Love your blogging voice. Found you via a link on BlogHer.
Along with WayBack Machine, Google also cached pages from your previous URL.
OMG I finally found your new blog!! I’m one of those faithful (but usually silent readers) that had been keeping up with the Blow Breeze recaps and was wondering why on earth it kept giving me an error one day. Never did I imagine I’d be able to find your new blog! Wasn’t sure if you had a twitter before that would maybe have an update.. Note to self: add “new blog” to google search if this ever happens again.
I’m so sorry to hear about the crazy situation – stupid people are everywhere – if you’re going to complain about something, for f’s sake do some research first before you accuse people of things!!
Glad to see you’re back though!! One of the blogs I got to for my chinese/taiwanese/daily drama fixes!!
I finally found you!!! I’m so glad I did I missed you ninja!
Also a silent reader – glad to see you’re still here 🙂 Thank you for your blog posts and recaps; they are fun to read!
I’m glad that i find you! Even I never comment…. I’m totally a fan of ninja and your master recaps! Please go on …. We never lost you!
Found you!. Miss your recap a lot. i was worry when your blog was removed. Cheers up!!
i finally found you , only took me forever and a day lol. the only site i go to for recaps. weird thing is i dont even watch most of the shows you recap i just enjoy reading it from your point of view
p.s. excuse the poor grammar very last googling happened here
I finally found you. I keep checking back at your blog every so often and finally did a google search 🙂
Sorry to hear that such a ridiculous reason got your blog deleted but I am glad that you are still keeping at it. I have saved this new location in my favorites and will continue to follow your posts.
Ninja you’re back!!!! I was really upset when you suddenly disappeared like that before. I have only commented like once or twice maybe before.. But that’s because I am usually satisfied just reading your posts and others comments. But this time I need to comment because I want to say that I really missed you!!! I tried so many times and almost gave up hope to ever see your blog again. But thank goodness! You’re back! And I want to take this chance to let you know that I love your blog! I only read like 3 drama blogs and yours is one if them, and it’s not something that can be easily replaced because your style of writing hits closer to my heart than the other two. So I am so glad that you’re back! Fighting!
Sorry that happened to you but Im happy i decided to revisit hoping that you were up again and you were yay!
Finally,I found your blog…I thought you don’t write anymore..i’m one of your recap readers…happy to have you back
Hi!
So glad I found you!
Sorry to hear what you went through but ‘m glad you decided to continue with your blog!
I MISSED UR SITE I was so upset when it was deleted I’m so glad you’re back now!! <3
Glad to have found you again!! I wondered what had happened to you! I’m so sorry you had to go through that, but I am so happy you’re back!
OMG How awful! I’ve missed your blogging. I mean I stopped watching Asian dramas after I couldn’t find you anywhere. I’m glad you’re okay. What happened sounds awful, what a super lazy jerk (I could call him worse words). It’s nice to have you back on the scene. I’m so happy you’re up and running again.
glad find you again….caiyooo….
Found you! I looked and looked and even googled, but it finally came up. Love your recaps!
ninja, finally a ninja comeback like your name!!!we missed you a lot😢 am quite very very late to find your blog, but better late than never right😁
karma always come around!!!
We love you stay blessed n happy blogging😘😘
Hi, I finally found you. Kept trying your site. Hai… never thought to google earlier. Missed your blogging.
Glad to see that your site is back! I really enjoyed your blog as you introduced me to T and C dramas I typically wouldn’t have watched but tried based on your reviews. When I couldn’t find your blog I was so bummed, and worried that something might have happened. Glad I tried googling you again just now!
Yes I found you. All of a sudden I had lost you and was bit lost. I could say was bit down not able to open my bookmarked fav site.. I would search and search and finally gave up.
Now look at this…with sheer luck I stumble upon you. Through Chinese drama Surgeons.
I am glad that you got all sort out.
Keep up the great work.
That is absolutely awful.
Makes me want to find this guy and reciprocate.
Hope your mood improves soon and not let the dirtbag get to you too much.
Have a nice day.
I love your recaps. So grateful you decided to keep blogging. Thank you Ninja!
So that’s why I couldn’t open your old blog D:
It must have been absolutely horrible, but I’m glad we still get to see your blog^^
Thank you for not giving up!! I love and enjoy reading your recaps!
Another one comes out of lurkdom to let u know you were sorely missed.
You are the one of the rare reviewers who talks about shows that are non kdrama related spanning Taiwan, China and Japan dramas. I missed your blog very much to say the least.
Thank you for not giving up because of that faceless prick who deserves a medal for being a sabotageur of the highest order.
Looking forward to catching up to where I last left off reading your blog.
Ninja, it has been a looong time since i visited your blog.
Your recaps on Bromance and Go Princesss Go were the highlight of my days. I really really loved reading your posts and i followed most of your recommendations as they mirrorred my taste. After a while, life caught up with me and i forgot about recaps.
A few days ago, i stumbled on this and was pleasantly surprised to find you again. Because of your recaps, i decided to give Lost Love in Times a second chance(i disliked the first half of the drama). And i totally loved the acting, the story and the actors. I fell in love with Chen Weiting and Liu Shi Shi. That guy is so sexy!!! And that lady, when she smiles, her face becomes so mischievous, i love her! I even found myself rooting for everyone. One of the best fantasy drama in my book.
And now, i am not frustrated by the raws of Oh My General. Because i just come to your blog and read some summaries and that’s enough.
Please continue pouring your heart and mind in this blog… because i am a fan of yours.
Opss, i wanted to say “i disliked the first half hour of the first episode” 😊
Glad I found your blog again today as I read this blog regularly before it vanished into the thin air. Can’t imagine your devastation. Jiayou, Ninja!!