This lens is for those of you who probably didn't mean to do any harm! Or maybe we made a mistake. Maybe your lens really is full of genuine, good, unspammy content. And is categorized in the right place, and labelled correctly, and more.

So, below are the top 5 reasons lenses get locked. If you're on this list, your lens will probably stay locked.

If you don't believe you've done anything on this list (and if you've read this far!), please drop us a note (locked at squidoo.com) and explain the situation. We'll be happy to re-review your lens and account.

1. It has Adult, mature, or explicit content and is not rated X or R. Squidoo reserves the right to re-rate your lenses without asking, but we'd rather you do it. If your lens has Adult content and is rated G, chances are your lens will get locked. Make sure you know about our Rating Policy.

2. Spam, the noun. Spam the noun is content on your lens that looks like spam. Examples: reappropriated and uncredited content from other sites or lenses; cut and pasted, uncurated content; tag stuffing--jamming a bunch of tags into a module or title, hoping to trick search engines; and more.
They are also: Lenses that autoredirect surfers to another site. (No iframes, no other hacks, nada). Lenses that are egregiously irrelevant to the Squidoo category they're posted in. Anything else that smells spammy to Squidoo official and the Squidoo community. Be sure to read up on topics that Squidoo just doesn't allow lenses on, like gambling lenses, pharmaceutical sales and more. Read more here.

3. Spamming, the verb. This is an aggressive act of forcing your lens on someone without permission. Perhaps you've been reported for spamming a Squidoo Group, Guestbook, lensmaster, or someone off the site, like a blogger. If your lens is only locked, you're lucky. We usually delete those accounts entirely. Read up on Squidoo's Zero Tolerance policy.

4. Yikes! Someone has reported your lens for having illegal content, for plagiarizing, or for violating a copyright. Squidoo is a fair harbor platform that doesn't check or endorse the content that is put on lenses. As the lensmaster, you're responsible for the content.

5. Another TOS violation. Getting featured on Squidoo, in search results, and to our community is a privilege. If you abuse anything in our Terms of Service, you'll probably have your account deleted instead.

Thanks for reading about our locking policy. Squidoo relies on our community of members and volunteers to help us keep it a clean well-lighted place.

We hope your lens didn't get locked in error, but if it did, and you sent us a note, chances are we'll unlock it swiftly. We hope you'll understand that we'd rather have a handful of false positives than a siteful of bad stuff.